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with a piece of wet cloth and a little water sprinkled on it occasionally. If the part bitten by a leech itches or is painful, it is a sign that the leech is drawing pure blood and it should be removed from the part. | |
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If from fondness for blood it cannot be readily removed, a little rock-salt should be sprinkled on its head.[1] |
but if you wish that they fall off, sprinkle their heads (mouths) with salts and keep them in a jar.[2] |
There is thus unmistakable evidence here of the use of a chapter of the Susruta or some such work.
Then again several drugs, which are repeatedly mentioned in the Charaka and are almost exclusively Indian products, have been borrowed in the materia medica of Useibiah
