Dog Bite
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Ayurvedic concepts of Rabies poison (Alarka Visha)
Causes & Pathogenesis
Due to the poison in the animals like Jackal, dog, wolf, bear, tiger etc, the vata gets vitiated by Kapha which takes the shelter of sensory channels and hampers the consciousness. Due to this drooping of tall, jaw bones and shoulders with copious flow of saliva from the mouth, the animals in such a state becomes intensely blind & deaf, run towards each other in random. When such animals bite in rage leads to sensory loss and profuse bleeding with blackish discolouration takes place from the affected part.
Features of Rabies poison
Ayurveda explains this topic in three stages
- Local symptoms
- General symptoms
- Incurable symptoms
Local symptoms
Vagbhatta explains the local symptoms in two ways
- Poisonous bite features
- Non poisonous bite features
Poisonous bite features: The following are the features
- Itching
- Continues pain
- Discolouration
- Loss of tactile sensation
- Exudation
- Fever
- Giddiness
- Burning sensation in the bitten part & abdomen
- Suppurative
- Swollen
- Formation of vesicles
- Appearance of ring like patches
- Swelling like lotus seed
Non poisonous symptoms: pain for short time and pass away.
General features
- Loss of sensation at the affected site
- Profuse bleeding with dark / blackish discolouration
- Chest pain
- Headache
- Fever
- Rigidity of the body
- Excessive thirst
- Fainting
Incurable features
- The person imitates the voice and activities of animal by which he got bitten
- Slowly the person becomes paralysed
- Person gets frightened by water with out cause
- Death
Management
- The person in whom the poison is spontaneously aggravated has no chance of recovery. Hence the poison should be artificially aggravated and remedied.
- In the case of rabid animal the seat of the bite is profusely bleed, so as to let it out all the blood. It should then be cauterized with boiling ghee followed by the application of anti dotes.
- Ayurveda strongly recommends the purification therapies to clean the system completely. If any residue poison left, it may grow and kill the person instantaneously.
Some of the Anti dotes mentioned in Ayurveda
- A compound pasted Sesamum mixed with its oil treacle and the milk collected from the Arka tree is given internally to eliminate the poison of rabid dog from the system as a gale of wind drives a pack of clouds before it.
- Ayurveda recommends the following medicine for these poisons which takes about 82 days to complete. The north wise directed root of ‘Kanjaram’ is taken and cut into two pieces. The cut end of the root is dipped into the gingili oil which is kept in a bottle and closed tightly. Then kept for 41 days. By then the oil will be absorbed by the root fully. Again it is kept of 41 days. Now, there will be little amount of oil oozing from the root, should be collected. This is highly potential and poisonous. In sure cases of rabies poison 6 drops of this oil is given orally thrice a day for 7 days. The poison will subside.
- The seeds of ‘Datura’ / leaves of ‘Datura’, triturated with milk should be given early morning. Then the patient should be locked in room, after some time he will show the symptoms of madness which will be reduced by after noon. Then he should be allowed to take cold water shower until he shiver. After this treatment he will sleep. When he wakes up the rice with curd administered as diet. If the poison remains in the body then after this food he shows the poisonous symptoms again.
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