A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.512.2

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according to others, it is incurable (39.41cd); 477 a saṃnipāta fever associated with sleepiness should be known as abhinyāsa, associated with decrease (of bodily constituents) as hataujas, and associated with inertia of the limbs (saṃnyastagātra) as saṃnyāsa (39.42); 478 the symptomatology of a fever characterized by an obstruction (nirodha) to ojas, caused by aggravation of pitta and vāta (39.43–45ab); 479 (a saṃnipāta fever) aggravates again on the seventh, tenth, or twelfth day, followed by a favourable turn (praśama) or death (39.45cd–46ab); 480 the symptoms of fevers due to the combined action of two doṣas: 481 vāta and pitta, vāta and kapha, pitta and kapha (39.46cd–50); 482 even a very small amount of a doṣa may increase in patients, released from fever and still weak, when they indulge in unwholesome diet and behaviour; this doṣa, reaching the seats (of kapha) successively, staying at each seat for one day and night, and ultimately arriving at the āmāśaya, causes the fevers called satata, anyedyuṣka (quotidian), tryākhya (tertian), cāturtha (quartan), and pralepaka (39.51–53); 483 the slow fever called pralepaka, which leads to desiccation of the elements of the body; it is very troublesome and extremely difficult to cure (39.54); 484 reversed types of irregular (viṣama) 485 fevers arise when the doṣa 486 stays in two, three, or four seats of kapha; 487 these fevers are difficult to cure (39.55);