Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

On the day of approach of the fever, the patient should drink, after he has been treated considerately with oils and ‘swedana’, the decoction of Nilini ( Indigofera tinctorial, Ajagandha ( Ocimum gratissi~ mum, syn., Seseli Indicum). Trivrit ( Convolvulus Turpethum ), and Katurohini ( Picrorrhiza Kurroa).*

Or, causing him to drink a large dose of ghee, the patient should be made to vomit. Or, causing him to take a copious quantity of both food and drink, he should be made to vomit.

Or, on the day of approach of the fever, the patient should sleep after taking a copious measure of wine along with food. Or, in Intermittent fever, the physician should administer enemata (oily or dry) or that variety of it which is called ‘yapana.’

Or, the patient should drink, on the day of approach of the fever, the excreta of the cat, mixed with milk. Or, the excreta of the ox, mixed with whey, or with wine and Saindhava’ salt, may be taken.f

The administration, in Intermittent fever, is beneficial, of Pippali (fruit of Piper longuni), of the three myrobalans, of curds, of whey, of the ghee called ‘Panchagavya,’ and of milk.

In Intermittent fevers, the eating of Laguna (garlics) with (sesame) oil, before meals, is beneficial. The eating is also beneficial of the meat, that is of heating virtues, of all kinds of animals that are clean.

The fat of the tiger, mixed with an equal measure of Hingu (assafcetida) and of ‘Saindhava’ salt, should be used as an errhine ; •or, old ghee} the fat of the lion, and ‘Saindhava’ salt, (taken in equal measures and mixed together), should be used in the same way, in Intermittent fevers.

‘Saindhava’ salt, the seeds of Pippali (Pipe* longuni), and Manahgilfi (realgar), 299-300 2reduced to paste along with the aid of (sesame) oil, is beneficial In Intermittent fever, if used as collyrium for the eye.

PalankashS (Balsamodandron Agallocha ), the leaves of Nimva ( Melia Azadirachta), VachS ( Acorus Calamus ), Kushtha ( Aplotaxis auriculata), Haritaki (chebulic myrobalans), mustard seeds (of the white variety),

* These four should be boiled together for obtaining their decoction.— T. + The excreta, in both cases, should be dried and reduced t« powder. — T.

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Yava (barley), and ghee, reduced to paste and then made into sticks, are beneficial in Intermittent fever, if their smoke is inhaled.

Those kinds of smoke, that kind of fumigation, that kind of errhine, and that kind of collyrium, 3°°-3n which have been laid down in diseases of the mind ( viz .. Insanity, epilepsy, &c.,) should be administered in Intermittent fevers.

The wearing of such gems as are auspicious, or of such herbs as are so, or of poisons, as also the use of such medicines as have been classed as ‘Agadas’ (destructive of poisons), checks Intermittent fevers.

By worshipping, with devotion, the supreme deity, Mahadeva, with (his spouse) Uma and his attendants (viz., Nandi and others) as also the class of female deities called the Mstris (or mothers, viz., Brahmi, Mahejwari, Vaishnavi, Aindri, Varahi, Kaumari, Kauveri, and Charchika), one is speedily freed from Intermittent fever.

By chanting for his praise the thousand names of Vishnu who is possessed of a thousand heads, who is lord of all creatures mobile and immobile, and who is endued with omnipotence, all kinds of fever become alleviated.