Arsenic (As, Number : 33), White Arsenic (As2O3), Yellow Arsenic (As2S3).
SYNONYMS
Somal, Mal, Arsenic, Yellow Arsenic, White Arsenic
ABOUT
Arsenic was first written about by Albertus Magnus (Germany) in 1250. This is a notoriously poisonous metalloid that has many allotropic forms. The most important compounds of Arsenic are
Shwet Mal, White Arsenic (Arsenic (III) oxide,As2O3). White Arsenic is also known as Sankhya- Mal and is preffered as medicine
Mal, Yellow Arsenic(As2S3). Yellow - Arsenic is considered fatal and not preffered for use in Ayurveda.