EMERGENCY MEASURES:

Fire

If your clothes catch fire, get out of them and run. Or roll on the floor or otherwise smother the fire on you with a heavy blanket. Don’t pour water; that is very dangerous. If any part of the body is burned, soothe it by:

1) painting the place with pure honey,

2) painting the place with potato juice,

3) painting the place with lime-water and cocoanut oil mixed,

4) smearing on the juice of the kernel of the banana stem,

5) smearing on ghee with fried margosa leaves,

6) applying spirit or petrol,

7) applying Baharer Nani or Sadhana Malam.

Sore Burn

Treat the sore with Charma Rogantak. Baharer Nani and Sadhana Malam also good.

Bleeding

Blood may spurt out from a sudden hurt. Don’t try to check the bleeding with coal dust, mud or other things that may make the cut septic and endanger life. Use very cold water or ice or just bearable hot water to stop the bleeding. Extract of cynodon dactylon, marigold leaves, green bananas, raw pomegranate, or fig leaves are good applications for small cuts. Keep the cut covered with a piece of clean cloth.

Nose-Bleeding

Inhale cold water up the nose, or snuffle Sarabindu Taila.

Food-Poisoning

Bring on vomiting at once by putting your fingers down the throat, or swallowing a pound of water mixed with an ounce of salt or mustard cake, or drinking hot water and copper sulphate ( 4 annas by weight). If opium is used, you must see to it that the patient does not sleep in the next 24 hours.

Snake-Bite

Tightly bind the limb with a strong cord two or three inches from the bite. Cut the bite open with a clean blade, and put permanganate of potash on the cut. You will see a dark spot on the bitten place. Now loosen the cord. Give Saribadi Salsa or Saribadi Bati by mouth.

Mad Dog Bite

Treatment for dog or fox bite is same as for snake bite. Lacerate the skin in the bitten place, and put nitric or carbolic acid on the wound. The effect of mad dog bite appears within three or four weeks; the bitten man dies of hydrophobia. Saribadi Salsa, Saribadi Bati should be taken, and Sadhana Malam should be used to heal the wound.

Insect Bite

If the bee, hornet, or scorpion sting, bring out the stinger with a knife, and put pure mustard oil or tarpin oil on the spot. First mix the oil with fresh cowdung or hydro-cotyle leaves. The juice of arum plant is good for scorpion bite. For mosquito and bug bites apply a little lemon or lime juice. Saribadi Salsa and Saribadi Bati may be taken internally, and Sadhana Malam applied externally.

Hemorrhage

Rasanjan Churna (1.875 grains) and Lakhma Churna (1.875 grains) with rice-washed water and honey are to taken. The extract of eupatorium ayapana (5 grams) and sugar (4 annas, by weight) are to be mixed and taken to stop blood-vomiting.

Swooning

Lay the patient on the ground so that the head is lower than the feet. Sprinkle cold water on the face, hands, eyes, neck, and stomach, and fan. If he does not come to his senses, put pepper dust in his nostrils. Don’t allow crowds to press around him. Santi Bati is good for him.

Sprain

The sprained place becomes inflamed and pained. The patient must not move about. Bandage the sprained area with heated lime, ground saffron, and salt bandage. This should be done twice or thrice daily. Sadhana Balm is advisable.

Drowning

If it is a baby, hold him up by the feet and shake him slowly. Allow someone to squeeze the stomach gently so that the water may run out. If it is an adult, lay him on his side and press the stomach and chest gently, now and then turning him on his stomach so that the water may run out. Then give artificial respiration. Makaradhwaja (1.875 grains) and half that weight of Kasturi ground on mortar stone should be taken four or five times daily with betel leaf juice and honey.