The Compendium of Caraka 2.1.28

2.1.28

Due to irregular eating, fasting, change of diet, vitiation of the seasons, smelling unsuitable odors, consuming poisoned water, slow poisons, proximity to mountains, improper administration of unction, fomentation, emesis, purgation, non-unctuous enema, unctuous enema, and head evacuation, or faulty post-therapeutic regimens, and in women due to abnormal childbirth and improper care after delivery, as well as due to a combination of the aforementioned causes, either any one pair of doshas or all three doshas simultaneously become aggravated according to their etiologies; being aggravated, they produce fever following that very same sequence.