298 - The treatment for the poison due to snakes such as the gonasa and others

Agni said: 

1. O Vasishtha! Listen to me! Ishall describe to you the treatment for the poison due to) gonasa and others (snakes). Hrim, hrim oblations to the stainless bird! A charmer would remove the poison due to mandalin (a kind of snake) by eating the betel leaf (after consecrating it with the above mantra). 

2. Garlic, asafoetida, kushtha, agni, dried ginger, pepper and long pepper (are remedies) for poison. The milk of snuhi and clarified butter from the cow would remove the poison due to a class of snakes called ahi, when it is drunk for a fortnight. 

3. When one is bitten by (the snake called) räjila, heshould drink pepper with rock-salt. Clarified butter, honey and cow-dụng water (taken) with puritaki would remove poison. 

4-6a. Thick milk and clarified butter together with peppershould be drunk with honey. Pepper, dried ginger and long pepper, the feather of a peacock, the bone of a cat and the hair of a mongoose in equal partsshould be powdered after soaking with the milk of a goat. Fumigation (with the above powder) would remove all kinds of poisons. The hair (of mongoose), nirgundi, and kola with same proportion of garlic burnt with the leaf of (the plant) muni and boiled with sour gruel (could be used for fumigation to remove poison). 

66-7. Rats are of sixteen kinds. Oneshould drink the juice of cotton together with oil (to remove the poison due to them). The phalini flower will also destroy the affliction due to the rats. Eating of molasses together with nagara would also remove that poison and the loss of appetite. 

8-1la. There are twenty ways of treating (this poison). The group (of remedies) for removing the poison due to a spider etc.: padmaka, påtaali, kustha, ušira, sandal, nirgundi, śärika and selushould be made into a paste and applied for affliction due to the spider. The leaves of guñjä, nirgundi and ankola, dried ginger, the two kinds of turmeric, the kernel of karañja made into a paste and applied (would also remedy that poison). Listen to me! (Ishall describe) the remedy that would remove the poison due to a scorpion. A paste of the mixture of mañjishtha, sandal, dried ginger, pepper, long pepper and the flowers of firisa and the white waterlily used in four ways such as ointment and the like would remove (the poison due to) a scorpion. 

11b-12. Om obeisance to Lord Rudra! Civi! Civi! Cut! cut! Kiri! kiri! Break! Cut with the sword! Pierce with the spear! Severe with the disc! Om hrum phat. When (the herb) is given after the repetition of the (above) mantra, it would destroy the poison due to an ass and others (animals). The three myrobalans, usira, musta water, mamsi, padmaka and sandal being drunk together with goat's milk would remove the poison due to an ass and others(animals). 

13. Five parts of sirisa (together with) dried ginger, pepper and long pepper would remove the venom due to the centipedes. The neck of the sirisa and its kernel would remove the poison due to a rat. 

14-15. The dried ginger, pepper and long pepper together with clarified butter and made into a paste with the root of long pepper would remove the poison. (A mixture of) alkali, dried ginger, pepper and long pepper, vaca, asafoetida, vidanga, rocksalt, ambastha, atibala and kushtha would remove the venom due to all insects. A combination of yashți, dried ginger, pepper and long pepper, treacle and milk would remove the poison due to a dog. 

16-18. Om, obeisance to Subhadrå! Om, obeisance to Suprabha! You have been told by Brahmå that youshould absorb the seed of the herbs which are taken by people without (adhering to the instructions. After having made obeisance to them and the herbs later, the barley grainsshould be scattered with the fist. This mantrashould be repeated ten times. Then obeisanceshould be made to that herb. (Oneshould say) "I lift you, the one looking upwards” and take the herb). 

19-21. "Obeisance to the lion among men (eminent man)! Obeisance to the cowherd! O Krishņa! You yourself have admitted that one (who takes your name) will not be defeated in battle”. May the medicine be successful for me! Obeisance to Vaidurya mother! O Gauri! Protect me therein from all venoms! O Gandhari! O Chāņdáli! O Matangini! Oblations to thc illusive energy of Hari! This is the mantra to be used before (administering) the medicine in the case of a vege table poison. If there is burning sensation after taking a medicine, the patientshould be made to drink cold water together with the root of lotus; ghee and honeyshould be taken if poison persists even then.