Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.11

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At the approach of these signs and at the beginning of fever, light food or fasts are recommended, because the fever takes its origin in the stomach. Decoctions, ointments, fomenting remedy, plaster, bath, emetic, purgative, nasal remedy, fumigation etc. are then to be applied according to the condition. At the outbreak of fever the symptoms change according to its kind. Thus the fever proceeding from deranged vāta is characterized by the following signs : disproportionate coming and staying of the temperature and pain in different parts of body, numbness and stiffness of the feet, cramp in the calf of the leg, the joints as if torn, pain in the hips, pricking in the chest, the bones—particularly in the back as if cut down, violent pain in the arms, shoulders and temples, inability of the jaws to chew, noise in the ear, bad astringent taste in the mouth, yawning, dryness of the mouth, throat, palate and skin, thirst, constipation and hard stools, flatulence, dry cough etc. Symptoms of the fever caused by pitta : simultaneous coming and increasing of feverish appearances on the whole body, particularly during digestion, by midday and midnight or in the autumn, inflammation in the nose, mouth, throat, lips and palate, bitter taste in mouth, heavy temperature, thirst and desire for cold, yellow colour of nails, eyes, face, urine, faeces and the skin (jaundice) etc. Symptoms of the fever caused by kapha : simultaneous occurrence of fever-symptoms on the whole body, particularly after eating, before midday, in the first half of the night or in spring, a feeling of heaviness in the body, loss of appetite, nausea, excessive sleepiness and dullness, cold, salivation, cough and heavy breathing, sweet taste in the mouth, feeling of slight chill and desire for warmth, white colour of nails, eyes, face, urine, faeces and the skin, urticarial rash on the body, subdued pain, stiffness etc. ( Car 2.1.15-22; Su 6.39.25-34; AS 3.2.261 f.; AHr 3.2.6-22; MN 30 ff. ).