A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c13.43

v1.c13.43

The types mentioned are described. A somatic fever starts in the body, a mental fever in the mind; the signs of mental heat are enumerated; bodily heat affects the organs of sense too (3.36–37ab). A fever predominant in vāta and pitta leads to a desire for cold and cooling things, a fever predominant in vāta and kapha to a desire for warmth and heating things (3.37cd–38ab);97 vāta is characterized as a synergist (yogavāha), producing heat in combination with pitta, coldness in combination with kapha (3.38cd–39ab).