REMITTENT FEVER:

Cause : Change of season, over-exposure to heat or cold, wearing wet clothing, remaining long in the sun, sudden checking of perspiration, irregular discharges of diet from the pores of the skin, irregular diet, strenuous physical or mental labor, physical injury, constipation, and staying awake at night. 

Symptoms: Chilliness in the beginning, later fever and shivering, feeling, alternately hot and cold, burning sensation, dry and rough skin, restlessness, thirst, dry tongue, rapid breathing, scanty and reddish urine, pain in the loins and spine, alternate constipation and diarrhea, brain heaviness, and bad taste in the mouth. This fever never gets complete remission all at once. It goes on recurring in seven day cycles, though its symptoms may quiet down at any time of day or night. If fever continues for more than 3 or 4 days, you may suspect remittent fever. But don’t get nervous, or think that you must cure it all at once. This fever must run its course, and no amount of drugs will bring remission. Just see to it that no complications set in.

Treatment: Sadhana Pachan and Sarbajwara Bati are wonderful for this fever. If either is used timely, medicine is needed. But remittent fever no other sometimes brings on complications in the digestive track, lungs, and brain. If the patient has flatulence and bad diarrhoea, give him Siddha Praneswar with cyperus rotundus and honey; if there is only flatulence, acidity, and loss of appetite, give Ramban Ras with cuminum cyminum powder and honey. If there is constipation and body ache, give the same Ramban Ras with ginger juice and honey. If there is brain fever, give Mahalakshmibilas, and if the brain fever is very serious, give Naradiya Mahalakshmibilas. The juice of ripe jackfruit leaves with honey should accompany these two medicines. When there is cough, employ Chandramrita Ras with the juice of betel leaves and honey. If phlegm is being discharged, give Kafachintamani with ginger juice, pepper powder, and honey. Amritarista may also be used in remittent fever as an antidote of tridosh. Ayurveda speaks highly of this medicine, which has nectar-like properties. Prescriptions of Sadhana Pachan and Sarbajwara Bati or of Amritarista and Sarbajwara Bati are infallible. We say again, don’t be anxious to cure this fever all at once. When it has run its course, it will be off.

Diet: When the temperature is high, allow no food. When the temperature comes down, give curd water, barley, grapes, sugar candy, pomegranate, etc. Pour cold water on the head and then dry the head thoroughly. After full remission of the fever you may allow well-boiled rice (old stock) and un-spiced fresh fish soup. If there is no danger of relapse, allow him to bathe.