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# The Compendium of Caraka 6.3.161

Carakasaṃhitā 6.3.161

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.161](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.3.161)

jvaritaṃ ṣaḍahe 'atīte laghvannapratibhojitam/  
stabhyante &na vipacyante kurvanti viṣamajvaram//  
&\`na cyavante ca' iti pā-.  
doṣā baddhāḥ kaṣāyeṇa stambhitvāttaruṇe jvare/  
na tu kalpanamuddiśya kaṣāyaḥ pratiṣidhyate//

> who is feverish when six days have passed, having been fed light food.  
> Bound by an astringent \[taste\], the humors are arrested, do not undergo digestion, and produce intermittent fever,  
> because of \[its\] astringency in acute fever.  
> Decoction is not prohibited with respect to the \[pharmaceutical\] form;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.6.3.161) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Bhāvaprakāśa (another edition)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.bhavaprakasa*alt.3.1.103) — Sanskrit

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