[Cold application and bathing] The blood (containing poison) which has remained inside (even after venesection), undergoing dissolution by the heat of the poison, should be prevented from spreading by very cold, frequent applications and bathing.
If the blood has not clotted (at the site of the bite) due to the effect of poison, fainting, toxicity and palpitation in the heart occur; these should be controlled by cold therapies, he should be fanned (exposed to cold air) till he develops horripilation.
Sarpadasta Chikitsa: Treatment of the person bitten by snake, If the blood clots, the effects of poison subsides immediately. [Hridayavarana: Protecting the heart] Because of penetrating action, poison weakens the heart;
in order to protect it, the patient should drink either ghee, a mixture of ghee and honey or an anti poisonous recipe mixed with ghee; by Hridayavarana, Kapha gets increased in the heart.
When feeling of heaviness, salivation, nausea (excess of) appears, he should be made to vomit using liquid emetics avoiding fermented gruel, soup of horse gram, oil, wine and which are anti- poisonous.