[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt) › 1.147 # Garudapurana 1.147 English (machine translation) 1.147 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.147.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.86) — 1 part ### [1.147.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.1) The glorious Garuḍapurāṇa — 147 / Dhanvantari said: / I will proclaim the diagnosis of fever for the full understanding of all fevers. / Fever is the king of diseases, evil, the lord of death, the devourer, the end-maker, / born from the upper eye of Rudra when he was angry and destroyed the sacrifice of Dakṣa. ### [1.147.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.2) Its heat consists of delusion, having the nature of heat, born of improper conduct. / Fierce under various names, it exists in diverse wombs: ### [1.147.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.3) pākala in elephants; abhitāpa in horses; rabies in dogs; / indramada in clouds; nīlikā in water; blighting light in plants; and on earth it is called ūṣara. ### [1.147.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.4) Nausea, vomiting, cough, stiffness, coldness in the skin and other parts, / and boils arisen on the limbs occur in the fever born of phlegm. ### [1.147.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.5) The onset or increase of all occurs at their own respective time. / What is stated in the aetiology is unwholesome, while the opposite serves as the therapeutic test. ### [1.147.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.6) Loss of appetite, indigestion, stiffness, languor, / burning sensation in the chest, improper digestion, drowsiness, sluggishness, / pressing pain in the bladder, and non-elimination of the doṣas, ### [1.147.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.7) salivation, nausea, loss of hunger, bad taste in the mouth, / clarity, heat and heaviness of the limbs, excessive urination, / absence of digestion, and lack of exhaustion: these are the signs of raw fever. ### [1.147.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.8) Hunger, emaciation, lightness of the limbs, mildness of the fever, / and the movement of the doṣas after eight days: these are the signs of fever free from raw humours. ### [1.147.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.9) According to the respective symptoms in combination, fever also arises from a combination \[of doshas\]: / Headache, fainting, vomiting, burning of the body, dryness of the throat and mouth, anorexia, pain in the joints, / sleeplessness, delirium, horripilation, yawning, and excessive talkativeness arise from wind combined with bile. ### [1.147.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.10) Loss of heat, anorexia, joint and head pain, spitting, dyspnea, cough, pallor, / coldness, stiffness, dim vision, giddiness, and torpor are the symptoms of fever caused by phlegm and wind. ### [1.147.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.11) Cold, rigidity, sweating, burning, instability, thirst, cough, discharge of phlegm and bile, / confusion, torpor, and a coated, bitter mouth are to be recognized as the form of phlegm-bile fever. ### [1.147.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.12) Fever caused by all three \[doshas\] exhibits all symptoms, and in this case, there is burning again and again; / then intense cold, deep sleep by day, sleeplessness by night, ### [1.147.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.13) or constant sleep, or no sleep at all; profuse sweating or none at all; / singing, dancing, laughter, and so forth, or abnormal bodily movements. ### [1.147.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.14) The eyes are tearful, turbid, bloodshot, crooked, and have disordered eyelashes; / there is pain in the calves, flanks, head, small joints, and bones, as well as dizziness; ### [1.147.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.15) the ears have ringing and pain, or are excessively cold, or not at all; / the tongue is scorched and rough; the joints of the limbs are heavy and lax; ### [1.147.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.16) spitting of blood and bile; tossing of the head; excessive thirst; / and the appearance of circular patches on the trunk that are dark and red; ### [1.147.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.17) cardiac distress, elimination of feces, or evacuations that are scanty or excessive; / an oily mouth, loss of strength, weakness of voice, and delirium; ### [1.147.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.18) slow maturation of the doshas, torpor, continuous rattling in the throat— / one should declare that to be abhinyāsa-type sannipāta, in which the vital energy is destroyed. ### [1.147.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.19) When bile is severely compressed inside by wind blocked in the throat, / then, because of its diffusive and relaxing nature, it takes an outward path; / on account of that, yellowness of the eyes occurs in fever arising from sannipāta. ### [1.147.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.20) When the doshas are excessively aggravated, the digestive fire is destroyed, and all the symptoms are fully present, / the sannipāta fever is incurable; otherwise, it is curable with difficulty. ### [1.147.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.21) In another variety of fever arising from sannipāta where bile resides apart, / it produces burning in the skin or the trunk, either first or afterward. ### [1.147.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.22) Similarly, wind and phlegm \[produce\] cold; among these, the burning-preceded type is difficult to overcome. / In the cold-preceded type, when the phlegm is liquefied and dried up by the bile, ### [1.147.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.23) and then the bile subsides, fainting, intoxication, and thirst arise; / but in the burning-preceded type, at the end, torpor, indolence, and vomiting occur in succession. ### [1.147.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.24) Exogenous \[fever\] is of four kinds, resulting from injury, possession, a curse, and black-magic sorcery. / Sweating occurs in all four; that born of injury begins with burning and the like, ### [1.147.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.25) and by exertion; in it, wind, mostly vitiating the blood, / produces fever accompanied by distress, sorrow, discolouration, and pain. ### [1.147.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.26) \[Exogenous fever is\] born of spirit possession, herbs, poison, anger, fear, sorrow, and passion. ### [1.147.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.27) In that caused by possession, there is seizure, and laughing or crying without cause. / In that caused by the smell of herbs, there is fainting, headache, vomiting, and sneezing. ### [1.147.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.28) From poison, there is fainting, diarrhea, darkness of skin, sensation of burning, and dizziness. / From anger, there is trembling and headache; from fear and sorrow, delirium. ### [1.147.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.29) From passion, there is dizziness, anorexia, burning, and loss of shame, sleep, intellect, and courage. / In spirit possession and the like, the symptoms of sannipāta appear; in the other two, the signs of wind appear first. ### [1.147.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.30) Even when bile is excited by anger, those fevers that arise from curses and sorcery / are considered to be dreadful sannipāta fevers, the most intolerable of all. ### [1.147.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.31) Tormented by the sorcery spells of the Tantras, the body is consumed with heat; / first this and that happens, and then from eruptions and spatial disorientation, ### [1.147.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.32) and afflicted by burning and fainting, the fever increases day by day. / Thus fever is observed to be of eight kinds, but in brief it is twofold: ### [1.147.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.33) bodily and mental, mild and acute, internal and external, / seasonal and unseasonal, curable and incurable, unripe and ripe. ### [1.147.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.34) Heat appears first in the body in bodily \[fever\], and in the mind in mental \[fever\]. / Because of wind's capability to take on properties, there is cold when it is combined with phlegm; ### [1.147.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.35) there is burning when combined with bile; and mixed \[symptoms\] when combined with both. Furthermore, when fever resides internally, / the abnormalities are intense: internal agitation and retention of waste. ### [1.147.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.36) When the force is external, the heat is only external, and that \[fever\] is easily cured. / In the rainy season, autumn, and spring, it is seasonal from wind and the others, respectively. ### [1.147.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.37) The other is unseasonal and difficult to cure; and seasonal fever is mostly from wind. / In the rainy season, the vitiated wind produces fever accompanied by bile and phlegm, ### [1.147.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.38) and bile produces it in autumn, with phlegm as its follower; / by that nature and by the natural emission \[season\], there is no fear from fasting in that case. ### [1.147.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.39) Phlegm \[produces fever\] in spring, and wind and bile follow it. / Fever is curable and devoid of complications in strong patients when the doshas are slight. ### [1.147.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.40) When all signs of morbidity are recognized, it was previously stated to be incurable. / Sharpness of complications of fever, sluggish digestive fire, excessive urination, ### [1.147.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.41) no evacuation, lack of digestion, and no hunger are the form of unripe fever. / The force of fever is intense, with thirst, delirium, dyspnea, and dizziness; ### [1.147.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.42) evacuation of waste and nausea are the symptoms of fever undergoing digestion. / Because of the absence of reversal in chronic stage, fasting for seven nights is prescribed. ### [1.147.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.43) Fever is said to be of five types according to the strength and weakness of the wastes and the time; / it is mostly taught to occur through sannipāta among the abundant \[doshas\]: ### [1.147.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.44) continuous, remittent, quotidian, tertian, and quartan. / The wastes pervading the channels carrying tissue-elements, urine, and feces, ### [1.147.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.45) tormenting the entire body, aggravated by matching seasons and the like, / strong and heavy, particularly residing in the plasma, ### [1.147.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.46) produce a continuous and most intolerable fever without opposition. / It quickly destroys the waste, the fever-heat, or the tissues thereafter. ### [1.147.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.47) In every way, by the purification or non-purification of the plasma and other tissues in order, / \[the fever\] through wind, bile, and phlegm, after seven, ten, and twelve days, ### [1.147.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.48) generally reaches the critical period either for release or for death. / Such is the doctrine of Agniveśa; while the traditional view of Hārīta is: ### [1.147.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.49) Double the seventh \[i.e. the fourteenth\], and likewise the ninth and the eleventh; / this is the critical period of the three doshas either for release or for death. ### [1.147.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.50) Depending on purification or non-purification, the fever continues here even for a long time. / In emaciated persons, in those afflicted with diseases, and in those who indulge in improper diet and habits, ### [1.147.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.51) even a slight dosha, having obtained strength from corruption and the like through one or another cause, / becomes an adversary and, because it is accompanied by waxing and waning, becomes irregular. ### [1.147.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.52) With irregular onset, it produces fever characterised by irregular decrease and increase. / The dosha of these patients becomes active at its own time, powerful, causing fever, ### [1.147.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.53) and then it subsides again, \[its power fluctuating\] according to the strength or weakness of the opposing forces. / When its dosha is weakened, the subtle fever merges into the plasma and other tissues. ### [1.147.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.54) Because of its merged state, it causes emaciation, discolouration, dullness, and the like, / since the channels carrying plasma have their openings nearly disordered. ### [1.147.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.55) The morbidity does not quickly pervade the whole body; / therefore, it is continuous (satata); its opposite is so from the contrary reason. ### [1.147.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.56) An irregular fever has an irregular onset and is associated with the period of night. / The morbid humor residing mostly in the blood produces continuous (santata) fever. ### [1.147.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.57) It occurs once at the junction of day and night, residing \[in the blood\] as quotidian (anyedyuṣka); / in the third-day \[tertian fever\] the channel carrying flesh and the channel carrying fat \[are affected\]. ### [1.147.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.58) Seizing the head from bile and wind, the sacrum from phlegm and bile, / and the back from wind and phlegm, it is known as alternate-day \[tertian\] fever. ### [1.147.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.59) The quartan \[fever\] resides through the wastes in either fat, marrow, or bone; / residing in the marrow alone, another one displays its specific power. ### [1.147.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.60) It is twofold: from phlegm through the shanks, and from wind beginning with the head; / when gone to bone and marrow, it is the reverse quartan fever. ### [1.147.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.61) It causes fever in three ways for three days, but releases for one day, / by the strength or weakness of the morbid humors arising from other activities and factors. ### [1.147.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.62) Due to no inversion of what is digested, one should fast for seven nights; / fever may likewise arise from the mind and from past action at various times. ### [1.147.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.63) Because it moves in deep tissues, arises from a combination of all three humors, / and has an equal elevation of the humors, quartan fever is difficult to cure. ### [1.147.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.64) Because the humor moves from subtle to subtler fevers, far and further still, / in the channels of blood and so forth, slowly, slightly, and over a long time, ### [1.147.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.65) it pervades the entire body and therefore produces burning heat and the like; / its course broken with effort, the fever is observed with burning heat. ### [1.147.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.66) Irregular \[fever\] has an irregular onset and follows the time of night; / it has a progressively slower motion and weaker power according to circumstances. ### [1.147.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.67) In time it reaches similar \[tissues\] such as the chyle and so forth in various manners; / the provoked humor produces fever after a long time and after an even longer time. ### [1.147.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.68) Just as a seed resting in the soil and watered with water / does not wait long to sprout, so it is with the seed of the morbid humor. ### [1.147.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.69) Just as poison, after having produced an impulse, brings its strength into its receptacle, / and having attained strength is provoked again, so it is with the poison of the humor and time. ### [1.147.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.70) Thus the irregular fevers, continuous (satata) and the rest, proceed. / Nausea, heaviness, dejection, breaking pain in the limbs, yawning, ### [1.147.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.71) anorexia, vomiting, and breathlessness occur in all fevers residing in the chyle. / Spitting of blood, thirst, dryness and heat, and the eruption of boils, ### [1.147.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.72) burning sensation, redness, giddiness, intoxication, and delirium occur when it resides in the blood. / Thirst, languor, passed stool, internal burning, giddiness, fainting, ### [1.147.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.73) foul odor, and tossing of the limbs occur when residing in the flesh; when residing in the fat, / sweating, excessive thirst, vomiting, foul odor, or forbearance \[occur\]. ### [1.147.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.74) Delirium, languor, and anorexia occur; but when residing in the bone, breaking pain in the bones, / movement of morbid humors, waking, breathlessness, tossing of limbs, and groaning. ### [1.147.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.75) Internal burning, external coldness, breathlessness, and hiccup occur when residing in the marrow; / vision of darkness, cutting pain in vital spots, and rigidity of the penis. ### [1.147.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.76) Upon the emission of semen, death surely occurs when it resides in semen; / the other five are progressively difficult to cure, and in the reverse case \[incurable\]. ### [1.147.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.77) Smearing the limbs as it were with phlegm and heaviness, / with mild fever, delirium, and chills, it is the smearing fever (pralepaka). ### [1.147.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.78) Always accompanied by mild fever, dryness, and chills, passing with difficulty, / with stiffened limbs and an abundance of phlegm, it is the limb-destroying fever (aṅgabalāśaka). ### [1.147.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.79) Possessing the luster and color of a variety of turmeric, and urinating a similar coating, / that indeed is called the turmeric fever (hāridraka), a variety of fever known as the bringer of death. ### [1.147.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.80) Where phlegm and wind are equal in a person whose bile is deficient, / a nocturnal fever arises, sharp or mild during the day. ### [1.147.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.81) When the body has had its strength depleted by the sun and has been dried out by exercise, / fever in the first part of the night surely arises from wind. ### [1.147.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.82) When wind resides in the stomach, and phlegm and bile reside below, / then half of the body becomes cold and half becomes hot. ### [1.147.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.83) When bile is situated in the body and phlegm is settled at the extremities, / thereby heat of the body and coldness of the hands and feet occur. ### [1.147.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.84) Residing in the chyle and blood it is curable, as well as that gone to the flesh and fat; / gone to the bone and marrow it is difficult to cure, its luster destroyed in those various bodily limbs. ### [1.147.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.85) Senseless, afflicted by the force of fever, he looks as if in anger; / he constantly and forcefully expels hot stool accompanied by morbidity. ### [1.147.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.86) A light body, fatigue, delusion, and burning heat departed, suppurating in the mouth, fitness of the sense organs, freedom from distress, / sweating, sneezing, mind returning to its normal state, desire for food, and itching on the head: these are the signs of a departed fever. ### [1.147.86.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147.86.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and forty-seventh chapter, named “Diagnosis of Fever and the Like,” in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part in the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.147.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.147) · Pramāṇa