Part 1 - Semi-poison (1): Snuhi

Snuhi is laxative, strong, increaser of hunger, pungent, and heavy. It cures colic, mucus, asthila (growth of a lump of flesh alongside the navel), swelling of the belly by wind, kapha, gulma, wind in the stomach, insanity, spermatorrhoea, leprosy, piles, dropsy, obesity, stone-disease, anemia, boils, fever, enlargement of the spleen, poison, and artificial poison.

The milk of snuhi is warm in effect, soothing, pungent, and light. It is effective for the purpose of moving the bowels to those who suffer from gulma, leprosy, udara-roga, or some other chronic diseases.

Purification of the milk of snuhi.

One tola of the juice of the leaves of chincha, filtered by means of a piece of cloth, is to be mixed with eight tolas of the milk of arka. The liquid is then to be dried by the heat of the sun. Thus dried, the milk of arka becomes purified, and may then be used, where necessary.

Remedy of snuhi poison: First process.

Troubles due to snuhi poison are removed by drinking cold water, mixed with sugar-candy, and by being treated with cooling fan and resorting to a cool and shady place. Tamarind leaves, pestled with water, should also be taken in such cases.

Second process.

Water, mixed with red ochre (see page 146, vol. II), removes troubles due to the poisons of snuhi and arka.

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