Treatment of fevers from excess oleation or excess drying

Fever from excess oleation is treated with a drying regimen of warm peya, vilepi and pulse soups and with emesis and purgation; fever from excess drying is treated with oleation using suitable medicines and with enema therapy.

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Names and synonyms

Hindi: स्नेह व रूक्षोत्थित ज्वर चिकित्सा
English: Treatment of fevers from excess oleation or excess drying

Ingredients and preparation

OtherChapter 9 · p. 142 · v. 78-79

How it is used

Warm gruels and soups by mouth, emesis and purgation for oleation fever; oleation and enemas for drying fever.

स्नेहज जवर में वमन विरेचन देना चाहिए, अैर रू़ाज जवर में बस्तिकार्य करना चाहिए,

Indicated for, as the text says

Fever (jvara)(स्नेहोत्थित, रू़ोत्थित जवर)

Therapies involvedTherapeutic emesis (vamana)वमन कर्म Therapeutic purgation (virechana)विरेचन (जुलाब)Enema therapy (basti)बस्ति कर्म (एनिमा)Oleation therapy (snehana)स्नेहन

स्नेहोद्धवेषु वमनं च विरेचनं स्या। द्रू़ाजवरेषु विदधीत स बस्तिकार्यम्॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 9 · p. 142 · v. 78-79.

Safety

Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.
Caution in the text: In fever from excess oleation the regimen is warm peya, vilepi and pulse soups; in fever from excess drying, oleation with suitable medicines.

Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.

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