Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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The appearance of large round red spots on the body ;
Excessive greenness or yellowness of nails, eyes, face, urine, stools, and skin ;
Violence of the heat of the body ;
Intense burning sensation ; and
Fondness for everything cold.
The incidents mentioned among the ‘Nidana’ (or causes) of this disease, are aggravating circumstances ; while those of an opposite character, are alleviating (or curing) ones. *
Even these are the symptoms of Fevers caused by the excited bile. 21
Through excessive indulgence in food that is oily, or sweet, or heavy, or cool, or slimy, or sour, or saline, or in sleep at day-time, of in practices that make the mind cheerful, or from complete abstention from physical exercises of every kind, the phlegm becomes excited. .
When it becomes excited, it enters the ‘amagaya’ and mingles with the digestive fire, and possessing the ‘Rasa’ (juice) into which the food that is eaten is first transmuted, and obstructing the ducts which bear the juice and the sweat, weakens the digestive fire, and expelling the heat from the place where digestion goes on, spreads itself over the whole body and afflicts it greatly. It is then that fever sets in. 22
The symptoms of that fever are these :
The exacerbation and intensity appear simultaneously in every part of the body.
The time of its appearance is immediately after eating, or the forenoon, or the first part of the night, or the season of spring.
These symptoms show themselves especially, viz,,
Heaviness of the body ;
Disgust or disinclination for food ;
Secretion of mucous matter (from the throat, the nose, &c.) ;
A sweet taste in the mouth ;
Urging to vomit ;
* Thus, indulgence in food that is hot or sour or saline, &c., causes bile-born fevers. When one has got such a fever, one intensifies it by taking such food as produces the disease. Simi¬ larly, abstention from' such food, or indulgence in food of an opposite character, operates to bring about an alleviation or cure of the disease. — T.
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A sensation of the chest being (internally) covered by a wet cloth ;
A sensation of the whole body being covered with a wet sheet of cloth ;
Vomiting ;
Weakness of the digestive fire ;
Excessive sleep ;
Stupefaction of the body (resembling paralysis) ;
Sleepiness ;
Hard and heavy breathing as in asthma ;
Coughing ;
Catarrhal discharges from the nose ;
Whiteness (paleness) of nails, eyes, face, urine, stools, and skin ;
The appearance of such eruptions on the body as have cold for their cause and as are close to one another ;
Fondness for things that are hot ;
The incidents mentioned among the ‘Nidana’ (or causes) of this disease are aggravating circumstances ; while those of an opposite character are alleviating (or curing) ones.
Even these are the symptoms of fevers brought about by the excitement of phlegm. 23
Through improper eating,* or total abstention from food, or inca¬ pacity of the food taken to be transmuted into juice, blood, &c.,f irre¬ gularities of season,J or smelling such odours as are disagreeable, use of poisoned water or of poisons, contiguity to hills and mount¬ ains, If improper administration of oils, sweda (vapours), emetics, pur¬ gatives, dry enemata, oily enemata, and cerebral purgatives, and, as t ‘Annasya aparibarta’ means the inability of the food that is eaten to be transmuted into juice, &c. It has been explained that the food we eat is transmuted into juice, blood, flesh, adeps, &c., under particular circumstances ; that is, during the period of incubation of certain diseases, the food taken is not so transmuted. It remains undigested in the stomach for a long period. — T.
* ‘Vishama’ eating, which I have rendered as ‘improper eating’, includes eating at irre¬ gular hours, eating more or less than what leads to gratification, and eating food that cons ists of inharmonious ingredients.
t ‘Ritu-vyapatti’ means irregularities of season, as cold in summer, warmth in winter, the absence of rain during the rainy season, heavy downpours in the other seasons. These are regarded as the most fruitful causes j>f disease,—' T.
IT ‘UpaQlesha’ means contiguity or nearness. • Here it implies residence or habitation. Residence on mountain^breasts, however beneficial to people accustomed to cold, is fraught with risk to the inhabitants of hot countries.— T.
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regards females, .through improper delivery, or, through injudicious food and drink and’other practices, taken or indulged in after delivery, as also through a conjunction of the causes set forth in the previous aphorisms relating to each of the separate faults, any two of the faults,* or all the three, according as the case may be, become excited. 24
The faults becoming excited, and acting according to the succes¬ sive steps already laid down, bring about the fevers (of which we speak).f
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