Tapsia

This is mountain rue gum, and its taste sometimes seems to be the same as the taste of basil. This is a pungent poison, and whoever drinks it will experience constipation of everything that comes out in both ways, and a swollen tongue. Tapsia causes rumbling and bloating, burning in the throat and stomach, bulging eyes and redness of the face. Sometimes the body becomes covered with a red rash due to its severity, and poisoning with it often leads to fainting and decreased breathing.

It consists of inducing vomiting as quickly as possible, and then giving milk, ghee, cream and barley water. The patient gargles with rose oil and fresh milk, and is given sikanjubin to drink. and infusion of bitter wormwood. Among the remedies known to doctors as an antidote to tapsia are wormwood seeds, turpentine tree resin, asafoetida root and satara decoction, as well as, they say, beaver stream with thickened vinegar or honey. This probably acts by virtue of a special property or by expelling poison by dissolution, but if based on apparent necessity, then cooling will be better