Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.15

c12.15

The fever is called "bodily" (*śārīra*) or "mental" (*mānasa* : typhus ?) according as it first affects the body or the mind. It is called "internal" (*antarvega*) if there is severe internal heat, "external" (*bahirvega*) if there is excessive heat in the skin. Cold fever is called *śitajvara*. The fever is "natural" (*prākṛta*) if it comes in rainy season, in autumn or in spring and is caused by the doṣas belonging to these seasons. It is "unnatural" (*vaikṛta*) if it comes at other times or does not proceed from the corresponding doṣas. It is called "unripe" (*āma, sāma*) in the following symptoms : salivation, nausea, fatigue, sleepiness, bad taste in the mouth, loss of appetite, passing of plenty urine, stiffness, constipation or undigested stools, acute fever with delirium etc. The signs of "ripening" fever (*pacyamānasya*) are : excessive chilliness, thirst, delirium, breathlessness, giddiness, laxity, and nausea. The fever may be considered as "resolved" (*nirāma*) by the following signs : hunger, lightness of limbs, relaxing of the fever, completion of period of first seven days. There is also another division of fever based on three different stages : navajvara, taruṇajvara upto 7 days, madhyajvara upto 14 days, jīrṇa or purāṇajvara of or less than 21 days. To the seven elements of the body correspond the seven kinds of fever residing in them. The fever residing in marrow or bones is dangerous, that residing in sperm which is characterized by erections and loss of sperm is fatal (Car 6.3.32-51; AS 3.2.263 f.; AHr 3.2.46-56; MN 48 ff.; Bhav 2.1.120-2).