symptoms of a case of Váta-śleshma-fever (due to the action of the deranged Váyu and Kapha). Sensation of cold and heat, aversion to food, numbness, perspi- ration, epileptic fits, unconsciousness, vertigo, cough, lassitude and nausea are the symptoms which charac- terise a case of 'Pitta-śleshma-fever (due to the action of the deranged Pitta and Kapha)[1]. 19 — 21.
Even a small residue of the deranged bodily Doshas in a patient just cured of an attack of fever but still sufferring from weakness and indulging in injudicious regimen of diet and rule of conduct, is apt to be augment- ed and aggravated by the deranged Váyu of the body, and thus begets five different types of fever lodged in any of the five specific locations of Kapha [2]f. These five types are known as the Satata, Anyedyushka, Tritiyaka, Chaturthaka and the Pralepaka [3]:. The (residue of the) deranged Dosha of the body, shifting from one location of Kapha to the next in the course of the entire day
- ↑ Dallana in his commentary has quoted in eight lines with different wordings the symptoms of these kinds of Dwándvaja fever and these lines have been adopted by Mádhava in his Nidána The lines when translated would he thus : — Thirst, unconsciousness, vertigo, burning sensa- tion, somnolence, pain in the head, dryness of the mouth and of the throat, vomiting, horripilation, disrelish for food, giddiness, pain in Ibe joints, and yawning are the symptoms of Vsita-pitta-fever. Sensation of moisture ( f ttif^ f fl ) all over the body, pain in the joints, excessive sleep, heaviness of the limbs, pain in the head, catarrh, cough, scanty perspiration, slight sensation of heat, and pulsation not too quick nor too slow, are the symptoms of V^ta-sleslinia-fever. A bitter taste, a coaling on the mouth, somnolence, unconsciousness, cough, disrelish for food, thirst, alternate and varying sensation of heat and cold are the symptoms of Slesbma-pitta-fever.
- ↑ The five locations of Kapha are the Amas'aya, chest, throat, head and the joints.
- ↑ There is another kind of Vishama Jwara named Santata (cf S'loka 31 of this Chapter) and Dallana remarks that it is begotten when the residue of the deranged Dosha is lodged in all the five seats of Kapha.
