the principal cure for all types of fever due to (Santarpana) over-eating etc., provided the patient be found to possess sufficient strength. 58.
Diet: — Diluted barley gruel (Yavágu) should be given to a patient constantly feeling thirsty and with impaired digestion. Powdered parched corn (paddy) mixed with honey and water should be given in copious quantity to a patient suffering from the after-effect of liquor, and afflicted with vomiting, thirst, burning or perspiration and it should be followed, when duly digested, by meals of rice-soup and meat-soup, A diet consisting of boiled rice mixed with meat-soup should be given to a patient suffering from an attack of fever marked by the preponderance of the bodily Váyu, as well as in a mild type *[1] of fever due to fasting or over-fatiguing physical labour. The diet in a case of Kaphaja fever should consist of boiled rice and of Mudga pulse. In a case of Pittaja fever it should consist of boiled rice and a soup of Mudga pulse and be taken, when cold, with the admixture of sugar. In a case marked by the concerted action of the deranged Váyu and Pitta, the diet should consist of Mudga soup mixed with (the expressed juice of) Ámalaka or Dádima. In a case of Váta-śleshmá fever the diet should be prescribed to be taken with the soup of tender radish, while in one of Kapha-pitta type it should consist of the soup of the leaves of Nimba and Patola. 59 — 60.
Lája-tarpana — powdered parched corn (paddy) mixed with a copious quantity of water and with honey (and sugar) — should be given, instead of any other diet (e.g
- ↑ * This passage is quoted by S'reekantha Datta in his commentary on Chakra-datta wherein he does not read ' ' (mild type), and his reading appears to be the better one, it being supported by Charaka as well.
