Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata, pitta, kapha, dual and sannipata kinds, the incurable signs and complications of sannipata fever, and treatment by purification at the prodromal stage and fasting once it has appeared are described.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- ज्वरज्वरव्याधितापज्वर
- Hindi
- ज्वरबुखारताप
- English
- Feverfeverpyrexiafebrile illness
- Romanized
- jvarajwarabukhar
Types described in the text
Vata fever
वातज ज्वर
Severe pain in heart region, back, body and head, constipation, dryness, yawning, distension, blackish stool and eyes, breathlessness, cough, irregular fever with shivering, stiffness, numbness, dislike of cold, sleeplessness.
Pitta fever
पित्तज ज्वर
Thirst, delirium, intoxication, burning, high fever, fainting, giddiness, bitter mouth, inflamed nose and mouth, blood-stained spittle, craving for cold, anger, diarrhoea, yellow stool, urine and eyes, sweating, foul breath.
Kapha fever
कफज (श्लेष्मज) ज्वर
Sleepiness, loss of taste, heavy head, mild heat, sweet taste in mouth, horripilation, blocked channels, slight pain, vomiting and salivation, white eyes, stool and face, lassitude, indigestion, cough, coryza, phlegm, itching throat.
Fever from two doshas
द्वन्द्वज ज्वर
Signs of two doshas together; cold or burning alternate at the start and end.
Sannipata fever (all three doshas)
सन्निपात ज्वर
The signs of all three doshas together.
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Classification2
When the signs of vata, pitta and kapha fever are found together it is to be known as sannipata fever.
Fever with the signs of two doshas (vata-pitta, vata-kapha or pitta-kapha) is dual-dosha fever; at its start and end cold or burning alternate according to the rise and fall of the doshas.
Causes2
Wrong diet, the arising of various diseases, the course of time, wrong conduct and injury aggravate the doshas, which spread through the whole body and produce fever.
A fever that has left soon returns from cold water, cold seats, very cooling food and drink, excessive exercise, wind, much swimming, injury and self-willed conduct.
Early signs2
Pain all over the body, sneezing, heaviness and horripilation are the prodromes of all fevers.
The verse gives eye trouble, burning and drying as prodromes of pitta fever, yawning of vata fever and loss of taste of kapha fever.
Signs and symptoms1
Stopped sweating, burning heat, a broken feeling in the head and body, a sense of great heat, loss of taste and intense thirst are the signs of fever.
Treatment principle6
Knowing the signs of vata fever, treatment that removes vata should be given promptly.
At the prodromal stage emesis with lukewarm water and purgation with a strong purgative ghee are advised, after which fever is said not to come; once fever has appeared, fasting is the proper course.
After ripening, painful vata fever is treated with unctuous purgation or niruha, and pitta fever with cool emesis or purgation.
In kapha fever emesis is wanted, with nasya, collyrium and purgation by pungent drugs and gargles of bitter drugs.
When the dosha excess is slight, or the patient is weak, a child, old or a woman, treatment is by pacifying preparations; a strong fever patient is treated with strict fasting and with emesis, purgation and the other purifying procedures.
Fever from excess oleation is treated with drying measures, emesis and purgation; fever from excess drying with oleation and enemas, and a chronic severe fever from dryness with milk or ghee with jaggery and long pepper.
Regimen1
Fasting is given when the doshas are strongly aggravated and the body is stiff; warm water is drunk in vata-kapha fever and boiled-and-cooled water in pitta fever.
Cautions1
A returning fever is said to ruin the recovered person as a forest fire burns dry wood, so after recovery the patient must still be protected by proper conduct, food and medicines.
Contraindications1
The verse names the weak (durbala) among those to be treated with pacifying preparations rather than strong fasting and purification.
Prognosis4
A sannipata fever patient with all the signs and complications, a weak voice, deranged eyes, upward breathing, falling to the ground babbling, a cold body with inner burning, lost memory, red eyes, horripilation and colic is to be given up as incurable.
Fainting, pain in the limbs, wasting of tissues, intense thirst, vomiting, breathlessness, colic, retention of stool and urine, burning, hiccup, diarrhoea, dry throat, swelling and cough are the complications of sannipata fever; with this group of complications the fever is incurable.
Being afflicted by intense fever is listed among the signs which, if they appear suddenly together, are said to mean that death is near.
A footnote glosses the intense fever of this sign as fever above 106 degrees.
Other3
When fever has ripened (been digested) the body is light, stool and urine pass naturally, the fever is mild and the abdomen is soft.
Desire for food, lightness of the body, relish for food, a clear mind, senses able to work, an even body temperature, itching, proper passing of stool and a kindled digestive fire mark freedom from fever.
As an example of judging the force of a disease by questioning, the commentary says that in fever the physician asks how far the heat has risen.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 19 times on 15 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 65Chapter 5… ल, (भृष्टखर्पर) विजयसार खैरसार आदिकों से, सुगंध किया गया जल, शीघ्र ही ताप, तृष्णा आदि दोषों को शमन करता है। वर्षाकाल में भूमिस्थ, व आकाशजल के ग …
- Book page 136Chapter 9… वर का पूर्वरूप है। वातरोग का पूर्व रूप जंभाई आना है। अरुचि होना यह कफ ज्वर का पूर्व रूप है। वातजवर का लक्षण ह्त्पृष्ठमात्राशिरसामतिवेदनानि। …
- Book page 138Chapter 9… ाहिए, इस प्रकार शोधित शरीर वाले को जवर बाधा नहीं पहुँचाता है, अर्थात् बुखार आता ही नहीं। जवर प्रकट होने पर लंघन करना ही उचित है। लंघन व जलपान विध …
- Book page 139Chapter 9… ग्य स्नेह (एरणड तैल आदि) विरेचन अथवा निरूहबस्ति देनी चाहिए, यदि पित्त ज्वर हो तो यथा योग्य शीत वमन, वा विरेचन से उपशम करना चाहिए। 1. यदि दोषोद्र …
- Book page 155Chapter 10… ो मिलाकर खाने से यह मनुष्य रक्तपित्त, क्षय, रक्ततृष्णा, श्वास, हिचकी, ज्वर, मद, खाँसी, अरुचि व अत्यन्त दाह आदि अनेक रोगों को जीत लेता है। दोषों …
- Book page 194Chapter 12×2… म्॥ स्वेदयेद्रुधिरपित्तसमेतं। क्षीरवारिघृतकांजिकमिश्रै:॥ 6॥ भावार्थ : ताप, बंधन (उपनाह) ऊष्म और द्रव, इस प्रकार स्वेद के चार भेद हैं। यदि वात …
- Book page 247Chapter 14… प्रकोप से जिस विद्रधि में शवास, कास, हिचकी, अरोचकता अफराना, शूल, जवर, ताप उद्बंधन (बंधा हुआ जैसा) निश्चलता आदि विकार प्रकट होते हैं और ऊपर की अ …
- Book page 248Chapter 14… ्थ : विशोष रूप से जो शोफ कडा रहता है, उसे आमशोफ कहते हैं। जो जवर अधिक ताप (जलन) उष्णता आदियों से पीडित होता है, उसे विदग्ध कहते हैं। (जिस वक्र …
- Book page 252Chapter 14… णों से युक्त होती है अर्थात् त्रिदोषों से उत्पन्न हैं और जिसमें जवर व ताप होता हैं, उसे इरिवल्ली समझाकर उपशामक औषधियों से उसकी चिकित्सा करें। क …
- Book page 384Chapter 18… :॥ 39॥ भावार्थ : जो मसूरिका पीले लाल या काले वर्ण की होती है, अत्यन्त ज्वर, तृष्णा व दाह से युक्त हैं एवं जल्दी पक जाती है और मृदु होती हैं, उनक …
- Book page 385Chapter 18×2… : कफविकार से होने वाली मसूरिका घट्ट (कडा), स्थूल, अतिशीतल, शीत पूर्वक ज्वर से युक्त व देर से पकने वाली होती है। रक्त विकार से उत्पन्न मसूरिका मू …
- Book page 500Chapter 22×3… होते हैं। इसलिए स्वदेन योग की योग्य विधि को अब कहेंगे। स्वेद का भेद व ताप, उष्म स्वेद लक्षण तापोष्मबंधनमहाद्रवभेदतस्तु स्वेदश्चतुर्विध इति …
Questions and answers
In which diseases does the text call lukewarm milk wholesome?
Long-standing diarrhoea, chronic fever, insanity, epilepsy, urinary stone, gulma, abdominal enlargement, liver disorder, vata, breathlessness and cough, spleen enlargement, ashthila, urinary gravel, asrigdara, burning, vertigo, depleted semen and fainting.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
- Chapter 7 · p. 102 · v. 55
- Chapter 9 · p. 136 · v. 50
- Chapter 9 · p. 136 · v. 51
- Chapter 9 · p. 136 · v. 52
- Chapter 9 · p. 136 · v. 53-54
- Chapter 9 · p. 137 · v. 57-58
- Chapter 9 · p. 137 · v. 59
- Chapter 9 · p. 137 · v. 55-56
- Chapter 9 · p. 138 · v. 60-61
- Chapter 9 · p. 138 · v. 62
- Chapter 9 · p. 138 · v. 63
- Chapter 9 · p. 139 · v. 64
- Chapter 9 · p. 139 · v. 67
- Chapter 9 · p. 139 · v. 68
- Chapter 9 · p. 140 · v. 69
- Chapter 9 · p. 140 · v. 70
- Chapter 9 · p. 142 · v. 80
- Chapter 9 · p. 142 · v. 81
- Chapter 9 · p. 142 · v. 78-79
- Chapter 9 · p. 143 · v. 82
- Appendix: Rishta · p. 605 · v. 31
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Categories
- Fevers and infections
- Source pages with records
- 9
- Pages naming it
- 15
- Extraction tasks
- T05, T07, T29
- Record id
- condition_jvara