Part 9 - Diet in nava-jvara

(a) During fever and temporary remission.

Meat juice is good for fever due to exhaustion, fasting, and excess of wind. Juice of mudga is beneficial in fever due to excess of phlegm. The same juice should be taken cooled and mixed with sugar in fever duo to excess of pitta. Fresh parched paddy, devoid of husk, its powder or paste made out of it, with sugar or sugar candy, should be given in fever due to excess of pitta. The same diet is commended in diseases due to excessive drinking of wine, for habitual drunker, in summer, and in hematemesis. The same parched paddy, or its paste, mixed with sugar, rock-salt, and powdered dry ginger, should be given in fever due to excess of phlegm and pitta.

Give parched paddy or its paste, mixed with a little of rock salt, dry ginger, and sugar, in fever due to excess of phlegm and wind. Essence of the root of shathi (curcuma zerumbet) made into a paste by being boiled is good for fever due to excess of phlegm and wind. Juice got from boiling together grapes, a malaki and mudga, mixed with sugar, produces good effect in fever due to excess of wind and pitta. It clears the bowels and pacifies an excess of phlegm, wind, and thirst with burning sensation. It relaxes exhaustion, removes intoxication and fainting, and has a cooling effect on the system. Give juice of gram in case of excessive burning sensation in fever. Give only posset water (the watery portion of hot milk curdled by means of some mild and harmless acid like lemon juice) or green cocoanut water to satisfy appetite and thirsts in diarrhoea with fever and fever with flatulence. In case of excessive thirst, give water cooled after boiling to drink in small quantities,

(b) After the remission of nava-jvcara.

Paste, prepared from boiled shall rice, broad (hand-made bread prepared from flour without fermenting it or mixing it with any acid), boiled rice of shali or sasti paddy,—patola, papita, alabu, chichinda, koshataki, udumbara, mulaka (raddish), red sweet potato, tuber of barahi, mahakoshataki, shurana, gopa-karkati, tubers of mana, and panehamukhi.