Poison

[DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA]

At 03:36 PM 1/21/98 PST, you wrote:
>Hi there Indologists,
>
>I was wondering if any of you savants in the field of Ayurveda and
rasAyanazAstra would be familiar with any of the following terms, all of
which are supposedly poisons:
>
>(1) amiras, Amirasa
>(2) isvarya ras, IzvarIya rasa
>(3) kulkarn, kunkAn
>
>All of these words were heard orally and are thus likely incorrectly
spelt. Any information to any reasonable approximation to any of these
terms would be helpful.
>
>Thanking you sincerely,
>
>Jan Brzezinski
>
>

IzvarIya ras. Izvari is a plant,the root of which is supposed to couteract
snake venom.

regards,

sarma.