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ous leeches bite any person, the bitten parts become swollen and very itchy, and fainting, fever, burning of the body, vomiting, mental derangement and langour occur. In these cases the medicine called Mahāgada should be administered internally, applied externally and used as snuff. The bite of the leech called Indrāyudha is fatal. Such is the dsscription of the poisonous leeches, and their treatment.
Now the non-poisonous leeches. Their names are as follows: Kapilā, Pingalā, Sankumukhī, Mūshikā, Pundarīkamukhī and Sāvarikāa |
in the colour of which there are lines as in blue-spar, bluestone, azure—which often bites: thence will be caused abscess with fainting: with coma and relaxing of the joints: nevertheless of these very leeches there is a good one which is assimilated to the colour of water: |
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Kapilā have their sides of the colour of orpiment |
in which there will be greenness having upon it two lines like arsenic [orpiment] but light red, |
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and their back smooth and of the colour of the pulse called |
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