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^12 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. (Chap. VI
Vrihati, Ams'umati and Sthird (Kdkoli), and with
Trivrit, Tila, yi?«n/^ (Gulancha), Chakra, Sarpa-gandhd,
(black) earth* (of an ant-hill) and the barks of Kapittha
and Dddima as Kalka. The whole should be duly cooked
over a gentle fire. The Ghrita thus prepared would
destroy the poison of the five kinds of rats viz., Aruna,
etc. As an alternative, clarified butter duly cooked
with the expressed juice of Kdkddani and Kdka-mdchi
should be given to the patient in such cases. A wise
physician shall have recourse to bleeding or venesection
in these cases and the system of the patient should be
cleansed by purgatives and emetics, 3.
General Treatment: —The general measures
to be adopted in the case of a bite by a rat of whatsoever
class are as follows : — The seat of the bite
should be first cauterized (with boiling clarified butter),
and blood-letting should be resorted to (by opening
the veins of the patient). The seat of the bite should
then be marked with superficial incisions and a plaster of
S'irisha, Rajani, Kushtha, Kumkuma and Amrita (Gula-
ncha) should be applied. The patient should be made
to vomit with the decoction of Jdlini or with that of
S'ukdkhyd and Amkotha boiled together. The (powdered)
roots of S'ukdkhya, Kos'dvati, Madana fruits and Deva-
ddli hu'its should be administered with curd for the
elimination by vomiting the (internal) poison (if any).
The patient should be made to take (with curd) the
compound consisting of Phala (Madana), Vacha, Deva-
ddli and Kushtha pasted with the urine of a cow (as
an emetic). This remedy neutralises the effects of the
poison of all species of venomous rats. 4.-A.
A compound composed of Trivrit, Danti and Tri-
* In place of "^xtjt^ ^^jf^^" some reads "^?7p^^*j,r^th i
while Jejjata reads