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Chap. VIII.] KALPA STHANA.M. 761
All ca-ses of bites by any insect or by any snake,
and ulcers incidental to those bites should be carefully
treated with measures and remedies laid down in
connection with snake-bites as long as the stage of
inflammation and suppuration would last. The growths
(if any) of pappillae (Karnika) around the seat of the
bite should be removed after the subsidence of the
swelling by the application of a plaster consisting of
Nimha leaves * Trivrit, Danti, Kusumbha flower, Raj uii,
honey, Gugguhi, Saindhava salt, Kinva and the dung of
a pigeon pasted together, and such diet as would not
aggravate the effects of poison should be carefully pre-
scribed. The papillatous growths (Karnika) due to the
poison of any kind should be scratched with a proper
surgical instrument in the event of their being hard and
painless and should then be plastered with a paste of
purifying (Sodhaniya") drugs (such as Nimba leaves, etc.)
mixed with honey. 65.
The specific features and treatment of the bites by
the one hundred and sixty -.seven types of insect are
now described. The subjects mentioned but not included
within these one hundred and twenty chapters (from the
commencement of the book) would be dealt with in
detail in the latter part of the present treatise (Uttara
Tantaral 67 68.
We have not heard of a holier discourse than the
medical science on account of the eternal and imperish-
able character of the Ayurveda (the science of life)
from its tested merit and its beneficial effects upon the
created beings and since it is always worshipped by the
whole human race for the fact of its fully explaining
* Gayad^sa reads "S'ikhi" (Langalaki) and "Vams'a" (scrapings of
bamboo) in place of "Nimba-paira". He also reads "Danta" (toolh of
a cow) in place of "Kinva."
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