A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c13.42

v1.c13.42

Fevers are classified in various ways:95 somatic (śārīra) and psychic (mānasa), saumya and āgneya, antarvega and bahirvega, prākṛta and vaikṛta, curable and incurable; they are of five types according to the strength or weakness of the doṣas in relation to time: saṃtata, satata, anyedyuṣka, tṛtīyaka and caturthaka; they are of seven types according to their location in the elements of the body; they are of eight types according to their causes (i.e., the doṣas) (3.32–35).96