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Chap. I.] KALPA-STHANAM. 683
with that due to the use of poisoned unguents
(Abhyanga). 31-32.
General Treatment :—The symptoms
which characterise cases of poisoning commencing with
''poisoning through poisoned smoke" and ending with
that due to the use of "poisoned ornaments" should be
remedied with an eye to each of the specific and charac-
teristic indications, and the medicine known as the
Maha-sugandhi Agada to be described hereafter should
be administered as drink, unguent, snuff and Anjana.
Purgatives or emetics should be exhibited and even
strong venesection should be speedily resorted to in
cases where bleeding would be beneficial. 33-34.
The drugs known as Mushikd and Ajaruhd should
be tied round the wrists of a king as prophylactics to
guard against the effects of poisoned food, since either
of these two drugs (in virtue of their specific properties)
tends to neutralise the operativeness of the poison. A
king surrounded by his devoted friends shall cover his
chest (with drugs of heart-protecting virtues) and shall
drink those preparations of clarified butter, which
are respectively known as the Ajeya and the Amrita
Ghritas*. He should drink regularly every day such
wholesome cordials as honey, clarified butter, curd,
milk and cold water and use in his food the meat and
soup of the flesh of a peacock, mungoose, Godhd (a
species of lizard), or Prishata deer. 35—A.
The mode of preparing the Soup :—
The flesh of a Godha, mungoose, or deer should be
cooked and spiced with pasted Pdlindi (Trivrit), Yashtimadhu
and sugar. The flesh of a peacock should be
similarly cooked and spiced with sugar, Ativishd
* See Kalpa-Slhana, Chapter II. Para 27, and Chapter VII.
para 5, respectively.