Belena

The one who drinks it relaxes all the limbs, the tongue swells, foam comes out of the mouth and the eyes turn red. He experiences dizziness, blurred vision, shortness of breath, deafness, itching in the body and tongue, intoxication and confusion of mind, and is often struck by epilepsy. Often such patients make various sounds, sometimes they bray like a donkey, sometimes they neigh, sometimes they coo, and sometimes they croak.

You should quickly give the poisoned person water with honey or cow's milk, or goat's milk, or sheep's milk to drink - also with or without honey, also give ghee, pine nuts boiled with olive oil, pine kernels or fig decoction, sweet wine in large quantities or fried onions or give them radish seeds, mustard seeds, watercress, nettle seeds and everything that burns and takes away juices, or give a decoction of onions, garlic, radishes and their seeds, but there is nothing better than mithridat, teryak, shajazaniyi and the like, or teryak from opium. Such patients are also treated by inducing vomiting.