Most of the people around the world are suffering from different types of fever diseases like Vata Jwar, Malaria, Hit Typhoid, Motijhara (Enteric Fever), St. Influenza (Muscle Fever), Chickenpox (Measles), Erysipelas, Pitta Jwar, Kapha Jwar, Pitta (Cold Bile), Mixed Fever etc. In this article, we are telling about Ayurvedic Turmeric treatment for fever diseases.
1. Vata fever
Cause and symptoms: Due to fever, excessive hard work, stopping the flow of urine and stool, excessive fasting, excessive sexual intercourse, consuming too many cold things, staying awake all night and excessive consumption of things that create gas, the air gets aggravated. As a result of which (Vata fever) occurs.
The body feels tired all the time. Health keeps deteriorating. Frequent yawning, body tremors, dryness in lips, mouth, throat and palate, bad taste in mouth, flatulence and sweet pain in the stomach, pain in the calves, hands, feet and body, late urination, shrinking of skin, pain in waist, back, chest and back etc. symptoms occur.
In this disease, diarrhea is dry. The color of urine becomes black. The tongue becomes cracked and rough. The eyes remain bulging. This fever goes away in seven to eight days. Food should not be left in Vata fever. It causes weakness.
Treatment:
- Grind half a spoon of turmeric, 2 black peppers, four basil leaves in bael syrup and consume it morning and evening for 2 days.
2. Malaria
Cause and symptoms: This is an infectious disease which usually spreads during the rainy season and after that. It spreads due to the bite of a mosquito called 'Anopheles' which lives in pits. In which fever occurs after catching cold. Due to the slowing down of digestion process in the rainy season, this disease spreads rapidly and quickly.
In this disease fever occurs after catching cold. The body starts shivering, hands and feet become cold. Suddenly the body temperature rises to 103°-104°.
In this, sweating subsides the fever. Symptoms like body and headache, nervousness, restlessness, vomiting, diarrhea, lack of appetite, dry mouth etc. are seen. This fever lasts for 15 days and occurs again due to lack of proper treatment.
Treatment:
Mixing half a teaspoon of turmeric, 2 black peppers, 4 neem leaves in apple jam and consuming it definitely gives benefits.
Diet
- Consume fruits like sapodilla, papaya, apple, plum, fig, etc.
- Roasting raisins on a hot pan and consuming them is beneficial.
- Consuming milk, tea is beneficial.
3. Hit typhoid, Motijhara (enteric fever)
Causes and symptoms:This disease has many names like Motijhara, enteric fever, slow fever, pearl fever or periodic fever. This disease occurs in children of 2-3 years to people of 35 years of age. This disease occurs mostly in hot countries. This disease is more severe during summer and autumn seasons.
This fever spreads a special type of germ. This disease is also caused by dirt. The germs that grow in dirt enter the body with water and food. Then they reach the small intestine and cause wounds.
In the beginning of this disease, the body breaks down. There is a slight fever. The health remains weak all the time. There is a difference of 1-12 degrees in the temperature of morning and evening. But after two-three days, the fever rises to 103°-104° degrees. And red rashes appear on the neck, back and chest. Within 24 hours, these rashes get filled with water. Due to filling of water, the rashes start shining like pearls. The rashes gradually dry up. After the water in the rash dries up, the crust comes off and red marks remain. The disease increases in the first week. It remains the same in the second week and gradually subsides in the third week. In Ayurveda, its duration is considered to be 7, 10, 12 and 21 days.
Symptoms like rising fever, slow pulse rate, white and dirty tongue, headache, weakness, loss of appetite, physical weakness, constipation and colic, thin stools etc. are visible. If the disease recurs, then the patient can stay for many days while reciting the seven-day multiplication table.
Treatment:
- Consuming Tulsi leaves, sweet lime juice, two cloves and 4 black cardamom powder mixed together is beneficial.
- Consuming sweet lime juice, tea, coffee, coconut water.
- Fruits like papaya, sapota etc. should be used.
- Boiling water and consuming it is beneficial.
- If the fever does not subside, put ice packs on the forehead.
4. St Influenza (Muscular fever)
Cause and symptoms:In this disease, cold starts and then sudden high fever of 103°, headache, weakness, back and bone pain, burning sensation in throat and mouth, severe dry cough, sneezing, the first symptoms of this disease appear very quickly. A layer of white dirt forms on the tongue and appetite is lost. There is severe pain in the head and back. This is a type of contagious disease which is often contracted by contaminated clothes and air. This disease usually occurs in winter season. It also causes bloody and bile-containing diarrhea, jaundice and arthritis. Till date, no sure medicine for this disease has been discovered in allopathy.
Treatment:
Mixing turmeric and linseed oil in neem oil and massaging the chest and ribs provides relief from this disease. Mixing turmeric in eucalyptus oil and smelling it provides relief. Diet- Wash clothes daily. One should not move around or talk too much. Food should be nutritious but should be consumed in liquid form.
5. Chickenpox (Measles)
Causes and symptoms: The germs of this disease spread through nasal discharge, rashes and breathing. This disease spreads widely in spring and autumn. It usually affects children. In this disease, small rashes appear on the entire body. First of all, these rashes appear on the face, behind the neck, chest and later on the entire body. Along with this, fever also occurs. The rash appears more on the torso. When suffering from this disease, there is swelling inside the ears as well.
In this disease, cold, cough and sneezing start. Water starts flowing from the nose. Eyes become red and water falls in the eyes. There is headache, hoarseness, pain in hands and feet. Along with this, there is loss of appetite, vomiting, constipation or loose stools, inflammation of the windpipe and lungs and a lot of difficulty in breathing. In the absence of proper treatment, diseases like pyelonephritis, pharyngitis and T.B. can also occur. Some patients may suffer from 'diarrhoea' and 'blood dysentery' and their life may be in danger.
Treatment:
- Take turmeric and alcohol in equal quantity and mix them in rose water and make pills of the size of gram. By taking one pill each in the morning, afternoon and evening with cold water in the spring season, Shitala never comes out. If it has come out, then by taking these pills, it will not proceed further. The urge will stop intermittently and calm down soon. It is a harmless proven remedy.
6. Erysipelas
Cause and symptoms:This is a dangerous fever, in which swelling spreads in the skin. The cause of this disease is a germ called 'Strepto coccus pyogenes' which enters the body and causes this disease. In this disease, along with fever, many types of boils come out all over the body. These are also called Surkhbad. In this disease, boils develop under the skin. Germs enter the bloodstream and cause diseases like kidney inflammation etc. due to their toxic effect. Sometimes, the brain and its membranes swell and delirium and delirium develop.
Clusters of red pimples spread on the skin. They also cause severe burning and pain. In the absence of proper treatment, they turn into boils and die.
Treatment:
- Mixing equal quantity of parwal leaves, neem leaves, barley with 1 spoon of turmeric and making a decoction and consuming it gives immediate relief.
- Grinding neem bark in turmeric oil and mixing it with milk and applying it on the whole body gives relief from this disease.
- Grinding padmakh, khus root, sandalwood, liquorice, turmeric, lac, majith, neem bark, lotus flowers in equal quantity and applying it on the whole body cures this disease from its root.
7. Bile fever
Cause and symptoms:By doing more hard work than capacity, staying in front of fire for a long time, walking in heat, getting angry, consuming sour, salty, salty, spicy and constipation causing substances in excess, the amount of bile in the body increases. Due to which bile fever occurs. It is called 'continued fever' in English.
In this, the fever rises rapidly. Thin stools occur and sleep is less. Nausea, sweating, blistering of lips, nose, mouth or throat, bitter taste, yellowing of eyes, discolouration of stool and urine, and talking nonsense in unconscious state are the symptoms of this fever. Fever increases after eating hot and salty things. This disease usually increases in the afternoon and midnight. It is more severe in winter season. The outbreak of bile fever lasts for ten days. The fever starts reducing from the eleventh day.
Treatment:
- Make a decoction of red sandalwood, 1 spoon turmeric, pittapapda, neem, dry ginger, khus in equal quantity and consume it in the morning and evening.
- Make a decoction of 6 grams amla, 6 neem leaves, 6 grams pittapapda, 1 spoon turmeric and consume it. This is definitely beneficial.
- One can get rid of this disease by taking 2 grams of Neem leaf juice, 2 grams of Giloy extract, half a teaspoon of turmeric powder or jaggery.
- One can get relief by taking 3 teaspoons of Neem decoction mixed with 1 teaspoon of turmeric.
Diet
- Do not consume bitter, salty, sweet, constipating food.
- Eat simple and easily digestible food when you feel hungry.
- Eat wheat roti, tinda, bottle gourd, and ridge gourd vegetable.
8. Cough fever
Cause and symptoms: Sleeping during the day and staying awake at night, consuming heavy, sweet, greasy, sour, salty, fibrous and very cold food increases phlegm in the body and fever occurs.
This fever increases gradually. The taste of the mouth deteriorates. The body remains lethargic. The stool and urine are white in colour. One feels cold and the body becomes heavy. The stomach feels full and hunger disappears. One feels more sleepy. Eyes become white and saliva drips from the mouth. Body pain, cold, phlegm in the chest etc. are the symptoms. This disease increases more in the morning and the first part of the night.
Treatment:
- Make a decoction of neem bark, giloy, dry ginger, kachur, kateeri, kutki, adoosa, nutmeg, shatawar, peepal, turmeric, each of 5-5 grams and keep on consuming it, the disease is eradicated from its roots.
- Make a decoction of neem, kutki, atis, trikuta, indrajau, add half a teaspoon of turmeric and keep on consuming it, this disease is cured.
- Make a decoction of chiraita, peepar, kateeri, shatawar, kachur, turmeric, giloy, dry ginger, neem bark in equal quantity and keep on drinking it, this fever is cured.
- Mix some turmeric and honey in neem juice and consume it with lukewarm water, it is beneficial.
9. Hives (cold bile)
Cause and symptoms: In this, there is severe burning sensation, pain and itching in red spots at different places in the body. This disease is caused by excess of bile or heat of the blood. This disease is caused due to digestive problems, feeling cold, or secretion of bile, indigestion, Agnimandaya, constipation, any disease of the uterus, wasps, It is caused by the bites of bees, bedbugs etc. and due to vata diseases. This disease is also caused by red chillies, hot food items, cold-heat, wearing wet clothes etc.
In this, red rashes appear on the body during afternoon and while taking off clothes. They cause itching, burning and pain. These rashes appear at another place when one place is pressed. The patient feels very restless. Many times the patient also gets vomiting and fever.
Treatment:
- This disease is cured by mixing mustard oil,neem oil and turmeric and massaging it on the whole body.
- Neem leaves are boiled in water and turmeric is added to it and then bath is taken.
10. Mixed fever
Causes and symptoms:This fever is caused by consuming substances that increase vata and bile. This fever is caused by eating dry, heavy and cold foods in large quantities and by observing fasts, working too hard and staying awake at night.
In this fever, one feels more thirsty. Confusion occurs and unconsciousness occurs. Burning sensation in stomach, sleeplessness, darkness in front of eyes, joint pain, dryness in throat and mouth are its main symptoms. In this fever, the pulse rate becomes uneven.
Treatment:
- Taking 5-5 leaves of Pittapapda, Nagarmotha, dry ginger, neem, mixing 1 teaspoon turmeric and making a decoction and consuming it gives immediate relief.
- Boil equal quantity of amla, turmeric, neem, silk cotton bark, myrobalan, behada, pulp of golden shower, adhatoda and making a decoction and consuming it gives benefits.
