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Chap. I.] KALPA-STHANAM. 679
over with froth and bubbles. Shadows are not reflected
in such (poisoned) liquids and if they ever are, they look
doubled, net-like (porous) thin and distorted. 16.
Preparations of potherbs, soups, boiled rice and
cooked meat are instantaneously decomposed, and
become putrid, tasteless and omit little odour when in
contact with poison. All kinds of food become tasteless,
smellless and colourless when in contact with poison.
Ripe fruit, under such conditions, is speedily decomposed
and the unripe ones are found to get prematurely
ripe. 17—18.
If the tooth-twig be anyway charged with poison its
brush-like end is withered and shattered and if used
gives rise to a swelling of the lips and the tongue and
about the gums. In such a case, the swollen part should
be first rubbed (with any leaf of rough fibre) and then
gently rubbed with a plaster composed of Dhdtaki
flowers Pathyd, stones of Jamhuline (black-berry) and
honey pasted together. As an alternative, the pait
should be gently rubbed and dusted over with a plaster
of powdered Amkotha roots or Sapt a-chchada bark or
seeds of S'irisha, pasted together with honey. The
same remedies should be applied in the cases of affec-
tions due to the use of a poisoned tongue-cleanser or a
poisoned gargle (Kavala). 12 — 20.
Poisoned articles for Abhyanga '^oils and unguent.s)
look thick, slimy or discoloured and produce, when
used, eruptions on the skin which suppurate and exude
a characteristic secretion attended with pain, perspira-
tion, fever and bursting of the flesh. The remedy in
such a case consists in sprinkling cold water over the
body of the patient and in applying a plaster of sandal
wood, Tagara, Kushtha, Us'ira, Venu-patrikd {\Q3iVe?, of
bamboo), Soma-valli, Atnritd, S'vetapaihna (lotus),