A Textbook of Rasasastra
author: Ravindra Angadi
edition: 2014, Chaukhamba Surbharati Prakashan
pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9789383712184
Topic: Rasashastra
Chapter 24 - Visopavisa (Poison and Sub-poisons)
This page describes Visopavisa (Poison and Sub-poisons) which is the twenty-fourth chapter located on pages 536-579 in A Textbook of Rasasastra (Iatro-Chemistry and Ayurveda Pharmaceutics) composed by Ravindra Angadi. This book details the origins and history of Rasashastra (medicinal alchemy) as well as the medicinal applications of metals, minerals and previous stones. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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Yajnavalkya-smriti with Mitakshara and Viramitrodaya [by J. R. Gharpure]
Also by Narada : “Purified poison, as well as poison which has been distilled, similarly, scented and mixed poison, as also the Kalakuta and the Alabu poison, should be carefully avoided. ” The time also has been mentioned by Narada: “Having weighed the poison which is intended (to be given), it should be administered at a time when the winter has set in....
Read full contents: Verses 2.110-111
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 3: Metals, Gems and other substances [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
Asthma and cough are cured, if poison is taken with rasona, viranga, triphala, deva-daru, trikatu, padma wood, and guruchi. Asthma and hiccough are cured, if poison is taken with sugar, mercury, milk, ashes of pravala (coral), and jasti-madhu. Poison cures nausea, if taken with milk, ushira, madhu, java-kshara, haridra, and bark of kutaja. It cures phthisis, if taken with chyavana prasa (a well-known medicine to be described in a subsequent volume)....
Read full contents: Part 24 - Usage of poisons
Charaka Samhita (English translation) [by Shree Gulabkunverba Ayurvedic Society]
If a patient is of Kapha habitus and the poison affects the seat of Kapha, there will be marked symptoms of Kapha and only slight symptoms of Vata and Pitta. They are dyspnea, spasm of the throat, pruritus, salivation and vomiting etc 31. The artificial poison vitiating the blood, causes ulcers and killoids, and the poison, vitiating gradually one another of the body-elements, kills the man ultimately. 32....
Read full contents: Chapter 23 - The therapeutics of Toxicosis (visha-cikitsa)
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[A Textbook of Rasasastra: index]
[About the Author (Ravindra Angadi)]
[Preface]
