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Principle
Ten qualities of poison
विष के दस गुण · विषदशगुण
Poison is said to have ten qualities: dry (rūkṣa), hot (uṣṇa), sharp (tīkṣṇa), quick (āśu), pervasive (vyāpaka or vyavāyī, spreading through the whole body before being digested),…
Question
What are the ten qualities of poison?
विष के दस गुण कौन से हैं?
Dry, hot, sharp, quick, pervasive, indigestible, light, loosening, subtle and clear.
Topic
The ten qualities of poison
विष के दस गुण · विष के दश गुण
Poison has ten qualities: dry, hot, sharp, quick, pervasive (spreading through the body before it is digested), indigestible, light, loosening (slackening the joints), subtle (entering the…
Condition
Animal poisons (jangama visha)
जंगम विष · जङ्गमविष
Animal (jaṅgama) poison is described as very dreadful and of sixteen kinds by its seat in the creature, with the creatures that carry each kind; it has the same ten qualities as immobile…
Principle
Ayurveda (science of life)
आयुर्वेद
The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…
Condition
Compound poisons (garavisha)
गरविष
Here the text describes dūṣīviṣa, latent or weakened poison: how a poison loses strength and lingers in the body, how it is later roused, and the many disorders it then causes.
Condition
Plant and mineral poisons (sthavara visha)
स्थावर विष · स्थावरविष
Immobile (sthāvara) poison is described as tenfold by the part in which it resides, each kind with its own signs; tuber poisons are thirteen, and all are said to kill untimely.
Principle
Principles of treatment (chikitsa sutra)
चिकित्सा सूत्र · चिकित्सासूत्र
The introduction says the secret of treatment is to perform the particular action by which the body's dhātus return to balance (a footnote quotes Caraka Sūtra to this effect); the whole…
Principle
The physician (vaidya)
वैद्य (चिकित्सक) · वैद्य
The editor reports the author's explanation of the word vaidya (chapter 1, verse 18): vidyā is omniscience (kevalajñāna), which reveals the characteristics of the soul (jīva) and all other…
Topic
Account of animal poisons
जंगम विष का वर्णन · अथ जंगमविषवर्णन
Opening line of the account of animal (jaṅgama) poisons, which in this part covers their sixteen seats, the creatures that carry them, their ten qualities, the five kinds of snakes and the…
Topic
The ten qualities in animal poisons
जंगम विष में दस गुण · जंगम विष में दश गुण
Animal poisons have the same ten qualities described for immobile poisons, and so all of them provoke all the doṣas and dhātus of the body.
Formulation
Vamyesha kalpa
वाम्येषा कल्प
A physician who knows poisons carefully selects vamyesha that birds have eaten and that is therefore free of poison, and gives it mixed with milk, ghee and sugar. During the course the…
Topic
Vamyesha kalpa
वाम्येषा कल्प
A physician who knows poisons selects vamyesha (the commentary: kavach seed or talmakhana) that birds have eaten and that is therefore free of poison, and gives it with milk, ghee and…
Topic
What sets tuber poisons apart
कंद विष की विशेषता · कंदजविष की विशेषता
The thirteen tuber poisons described are extremely intense, of fierce potency and harmful; endowed with their ten qualities they kill a person quickly, faster than other poisons according…