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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,…

Heat of the body is among the signs of aggravated pitta.

Intermittent fevers (ekantara, santata, satata, anyedyushka, tritiyaka, chaturthaka and others) are treated with dosha-specific medicines and preparations made from them; for those with…

Masurika (pox; called devi, mata or chechak in the commentary) is described as lentil-like eruptions of many colours and shapes, arising mainly from pitta, with dosha and blood types,…

Fasting is prescribed when the doshas are strongly aggravated and the body is stiff. A thirsty patient with vata-kapha fever drinks warm water and one with pitta fever water boiled and then…

Seeing strong aggravation of the doshas and a stiff body, fasting is prescribed; if thirsty, a patient with vata-kapha fever drinks warm water and one with pitta fever water boiled and…

The signs given separately for the vata and other fevers appearing together make sannipata fever. When all of them appear with all the complications, the voice is weak, the eyes are…

Pain all over the body, sneezing, heaviness and horripilation are prodromes of all fevers. The verse gives eye trouble, burning and drying as prodromes of pitta fever, yawning of vata fever…

When the prodromes of fever appear, emesis is induced with lukewarm water and then purgation with a strong purgative ghee; a body so purified is said not to be attacked by fever. Once fever…

After the fever has ripened, a painful vata fever is treated with unctuous purgation, such as castor oil, or a decoction enema, and a pitta fever with cool emesis or purgation, each as…

Opens the section on fever: its causes, signs, prodromes, kinds by dosha, incurable signs and complications, treatment by fasting, digestive decoctions, purification and decoctions for each…

Fever showing the signs of two doshas (vata-pitta, vata-kapha or pitta-kapha) is dual-dosha fever. At the start and end of fever, cold or burning appear in turn according to the rise and…

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…

A hot decoction of bharangi, the three myrobalans and the three pungents digests kapha fever. When fever has ripened (been digested), the body is light, stool and urine pass naturally, the…

In fever from excess oleation emesis and purgation are given, and in fever from excess drying enema therapy; in a long-standing severe fever from dryness, milk or ghee with jaggery and long…

Kapha fever shows excessive sleep, loss of taste, great heaviness of the head, only mild heat, sweetness in the mouth, horripilation, obstruction of the channels, slight pain, fixed eyes,…

When the prodromes of fever appear, emesis is induced with lukewarm water and purgation with a strong purgative ghee; a body so purified is not attacked by fever. Once fever has appeared,…

Once the fever has ripened, a painful vata fever is treated as suitable with unctuous purgatives (castor oil and the like) or with a decoction enema (niruha), and a pitta fever with cool…

Fainting, pain in the limbs, wasting of tissues, intense thirst, vomiting, breathlessness, colic, retention of stool and urine, burning, hiccup, diarrhoea, dryness of the throat, swelling…

In fevers from all the doshas a decoction is drunk of nut grass, turmeric, amla, sandalwood and sariva; or of guduchi, nut grass, bitter patola and haritaki; or of murva, guduchi, nut…

For digesting (pachana) vata fever a lukewarm decoction of bilva, agnimantha, both nightshades and patala is drunk; for pitta fever a cold decoction of kasha grass, sugarcane root,…

Quoted formula from the Nityanātha work, called told by Pūjyapāda: Caṇḍabhānu rasa for fevers. Mercury, with sulphur three times its weight, a measured amount of amṛta, tīkṣṇa, tāla, gagana…

A round, raised throat swelling from intense pitta and blood with burning and high fever; dreadful, life-taking and left untreated as incurable.

Pitta fever shows thirst, delirious talk, intoxication, burning, high fever, fainting, giddiness, bitter taste in the mouth, restlessness, inflammation of nose and mouth, spittle mixed with…