The Compendium of Caraka 2.1.21

2.1.21

Its signs are as follows: irregular onset and relief; irregularity of temperature; instability of fever between mild and intense states; arrival or increase of fever at the end of digestion, at the end of day, at the end of night, or at the end of summer; especially a rough, reddish-brown discoloration and excessive emaciation of nails, eyes, face, urine, feces, and skin; various types of shifting pains in various body parts, such as: numbness in the feet, cramps in the calves, a sense of dislocation in the knees and in all joints, fatigue in the thighs, and a feeling as if broken, aching, crushed, churned, cracked, torn, and compressed in the waist, flanks, back, shoulders, arms, scapulae, and chest; stiffness of the jaws; ringing in the ears; piercing pain in the temples; astringent taste in the mouth or tastelessness; dryness of the mouth, palate, and throat; thirst; tightness in the chest; dry vomiting; dry cough; suppression of sneezing and belching; aversion to the taste of food; excessive salivation, anorexia, and indigestion; dejection, yawning, bending of the body, trembling, exhaustion, giddiness, delirium, sleeplessness, horripilation, and teeth-chattering; desire for warmth; unsuitability of things mentioned in the etiology and suitability of their opposites—these are the signs of vāta fever.