Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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Observing then the especial kinds of conjunction in which the symptoms laid down above present themselves, the physician should ascertain whether the fever is due to the excitement of any particu¬ lar pair of the faults or to the excitement of all the three faults.j 25
Accidental Fever, with pain as its characteristic, and arising from wounds, companionship of passions and evil spirits, incantations, and curses, is the eighth kind of Fever.1T 26
Accidental fever, after its outbreak, remains as such for sometime. It is then followed by the (excited) faults.
Accidental fevers born of wounds are followed by (excited) wind having vitiated blood for its seat.
Those born of the companionship of passions and evil spirits, are followed by (excited) wind and bile.
Those born of incantations, as also those born of curses, are fol¬ lowed by all the faults (excited simultaneously).
Accidental fevers should be regarded as a variety distinguished
* ‘Dwandwanam anyatama’ implies any one of the couples or pairs, such as wind and bile, wind and phlegm, or bile and phlegm. — T.
t ‘Anupurvya’ (instrumental), implies the successive steps laid down by which the faults, after becoming excited, bring about the fever. It has been explained in the previous aphorsims how the excited fault enters the -amagaya’, mixes itself with the digestive fire, weakens it, and obstructs the ducts, &c., before producing fever.— T.
t /. whether the fever is due to the excitement of wind and bile, or wind and phlegm, or bile and phlegm, or, lastly, to the excitement of all the three faults. — T.
IT The seven other kinds have been already 'spoken of. They are wind-born, bile-born, phlegm-born, born of wind and bile, born of wind and phlegm, born of bile and phlegm, and born of wind, bile, and phlegm.
‘Abhighata’ implies wounds caused by weapons or. clubs or brick-bats, &c.
‘Abhisanga’ has reference to-the passions of lust, wrath, fear, grief, as also the action of evil spirits and witches.
‘Abhichara’ means incantations or Atharvan rites, by which disease, death, and other injuries are brought about.
‘Abhi5apa’ means the curses denounced by BrShmans, preceptors, seniors, and others
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from the seven other varieties of fever, in consequence of their symp¬ toms, treatment, and growth being distinct from those of the others. 2?
Accidental fevers should be treated according to both ways {viz., by administration of drugs as also by having recourse to rites of propitiating the deities, Sic.).*
Thus has the topic been explained of the eight varieties of the nature of Fever. 28
Fever is of one kind, judged by the symptom of (bodily) heat.
Considered from a particular point of view, it is of two kinds, viz., Constitutional and Accidental.
Constitutional fevers, again, are said to be of two, of three, or four, or five, or seven kinds, agreeably to the distinctions of wind and the rest.-j- 29
These are the premonitory symptoms of fever : J
Tastelessness of the mouth ;
Heaviness of the body ;
Disgust (or total absence of desire) for food ;
Turbidness of the eyes ;
* Bodily diseases are treated with medicines founded upon reason and those founded upon acts in respect of the deities. ( Vide . Sutrasthana, Lesson I, p. 6, aphorism 57.) What is said here is that Accidental fevers should be treated by both means. Drugs should be admi¬ nistered, as also should aid be taken of the rites of propitiating the deities, &c. — T, t Fevers may be of two kinds, such as those which arise from mental and- those which arise from physical causes ; or, those which are characterised by heat (fire), and those which are characterised by cold (the moon) ; or those whose intensity is external ; and those whose intensity is not so ; or, those which are curable and. those which are not so ; or, those which accord with the season and those which do not accord with the season. ( Vide Chikitshasthana, Lesson III.).
Fevers may be of three kinds, such as those born of the -.excitement of one fault, those born of the excitement of two faults, and those born of the excitement of three faults. Or, they may be of the nature of fire, of the moon, and of the air.
- Fevers may be classed under four heads thus : curable, incurable, violent, 'and mild ; or as easily curable, curable with difficulty, incurabe but suppressible, and incurable and, there¬ fore, not to be taken up for treatment.
The five heads under which fevers may be classed are 1. continuous or remittent, 2. hav¬ ing exacerbations once or twice a day, 3. breaking out evey other day, 4. breaking out every third day, and 5. breaking out every fourth day.
The seven heads under which fevers may be classed have already been explained. Vide note under aphorism 26 of this Lesson, ante.
Another way of classifying them under seven heads is 1. fevers affecting ‘Rasa’ or foodjuice, 2. those affecting blood, 3. those affecting the flesh, 4. those affecting the adeps, 5. those affecting the bones, 6. those affecting the marrow, and 7, those affecting the semen. — T, t I. e. the symptoms that manifest themselves during the period of incubalioii,— T, g4o
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Appearance of tears ;
Excess of sleep ;
Aversion to every kind of work or exertion ;
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