Salina abdulmajid manek, a 3rd year student of BAMS, summarizes the symptoms and treatment of Dushi Visha (latent poison) according to Ayurvedic texts such as the Charaka Samhita. Dushi Visha can manifest due to deranged seasons, polluted land, toxic food, or excessive daytime sleep. It causes symptoms depending on the aggravated dosha (humor), such as chest pain for vata, sensory loss for pitta, and vomiting for kapha. Treatment involves detoxification therapies followed by ingesting anti-toxic herbs like pippali, lodhra, and chandana daily. Dushi Visha is generally curable

1. Salina abdulmajid manek,
3rd profession student of BAMS.

2. दुषितं देशकालान्नददवास्वप्रैरभीक्ष्णश:।
यस्माद्दुियते धातु तस्माददूिीषविं स्मृतम्।।
सु.क. 2/33
 Dushi visha is so called as it vitiateds dhatus frequently on being excited it self
by place, time, food and frequent day sleep.
 सु.क.2/26
 A poison either in animate/ vegetable or artificial origin is called as dushivisha.
In following conditions:
1. These types of poison if not eliminated from body or
2. Poison which is old ( shore for longtime) or
3. Attendance by anti poisonous remedies or
4. Dried in forest fire, wind and the sun or
5. Naturally deficient in properties.
It is not fatal due to mild potency and being covered with alpha, it stays in body
for a number of years

3. पूवव शृणु तत्र रूपम ्।।
ननद्रा गुरूत्वं च षवजुम्भणं च षवश्र्लिेहवाथाअड़गमवद ।।
सु.क.2/29-30
 Excessive sleep,
 heaviness,
 excessive yawning,
 looseness,
 harripilation, and
 body ache.
PRE MONITORY SYMTOMS

4. The person troubled by this will develop
diarrhea, discoloration of skin, becomes patient of
vitiated blood, suffers from thirst, anorexia, fainting,
vomiting, stammering speech, delusion, and
accompanied with symtoms of dusyaodar

5.  : सु.क. 2/ 27 29
 Liquid stool of abnormal color, has foul smell and
restlessness in mouth, thirst, fainting, vomiting, muffled
voice and symptoms of toxicity and dushyodara.
 If it is located in stomach (amasaya), the patient suffera
from disorder of kapha and vata and if it is located in
intestine (pittaasya), he becomes a victim of the disorder
caused by vaat pitta.
 In these cases, hairs fall off and limbs drop down and the
person becomes like a bird with severed wings situated in
rasa etc it produced respwctive disorder of dhatus as
mentioned. It aggravates quickly by cold wind and in bad
weather .

6. There after upper in intoxication after taking food, indigestion, anorexia,
patches, allergic, rashes,mental confusion, depletion of dhatus, ode.a in
feel, hands and face, axites, vomiting,diarrhea,discoloration, fainting
intermittent fever or sever throat, some cause insanity,other cause
hardness of bowels,other diminishes semen,other causes kostya and
respective disorders of various type.

7.  Vitiation of each humor (Dosha) produces specific
clinical
 features and these are described in Charaka Samhita
[7]. The
 predominance of humor (Dosha) in latent poison
(Dushi
 Visha) can be ascertained by the respective symptoms

8. DOSHA SYMTOMS
VATA Chest pain (Hrtpeeda), belching (Urdhwanila), stiffness
(Sthambha), pain in the bones (Asthiruk), joint pain
(Parvaruk), binding pain (Udveshtana), Lassitude
(Gatrasada)
PITTA sensory loss (Sanjnanasha), warm expiration
(Ushnanishwasa), chest burn (Hrtdaha), pungent taste in the
mouth (Katukasyata), edema (Sopha)
KAPHA Vomiting (Chardi), anorexia (Arochaka), heart burn
(Hrillasa), salivation
(Praseka), heaviness of the body (Gourava), coldness
(Shaitya), sweet taste (Mukhamadhurya)

9. Polluted land (Dooshitadesha), deranged seasons (Kala),
toxic
food (Anna) and daytime sleep (Diwaswapna) are factors that
aggravate latent poison (Dushi Visha). Existing latent poison
(Dushi Visha) can aggravate in the presence of these factors.
Commentator Dalhana has explained these symptoms in
detail
[5].
Polluted land: Polluted land (Dushita Desha) can be
considered as wet, watery or humid land (Anupa Desha)
where
excess wind, cold weather and increased rainfalls are present.

10.  Complications of Dushi Visha:
Complications like pyrexia, burning
sensation, hiccough, distension of abdomen,
impotence, edema, diarrhea, fainting, cardiac
disorders, abdominal enlargement, insanity, tremors,
and similar other complications should be treated with
the respective remedial measures for the aforesaid
diseases by the use of anti-poisonous drugs [8].
 Prognosis of Dushi Visha:
Dushi Visha in the prudent and in early
cases of poisoning is curable, cases of one year’s
standing become relievable, while even this type of
poisoning in an enfeebled and imprudent patient, who
is taking unwholesome food should be considered to
be incurable

11.  A patient afflicted with the effect of Dushi Visha
inherent in
 the system should be first done Swedana and follow
the
 Vamana and Virechana Karma (detoxifying
procedures)
 according to Dosha predominance. After Kaya
Shodhana
 (purificatory therapies), daily Agadapana (anti-toxic
drugs)

12.  1. Pippali: Piper longum Linn.
 2. Dhyamaka: Cymbopogon martinii (Roxb.) Wats.
 3. Jatamamsi :Nardostachys jatamamsi (D.Don) DC.
 4. Lodhra: Symplococus racemosa Roxb.
 5. Ela :Elettaria cardamomum Maton.
 6. Suvarchika: Tribulus terrestris L.
 7. Kutannatum: Oroxylum indicum (L.) Benth. ex Kurz
 8. Natam :Valeriana wallichi
 9. Kusta :Saussurea lappa DC. ]
 10. Yastimadhu :Glycyrrhiza glabra L.
 11. Chandana :Santalum album L.
 12. Gairika: Red ochre