Namaste,

This is more of a guideline to follow based on Ayurveda if you are feeling fever. Try to follow these in the early stages itself. Some of the ideas discussed may be new to you, and may not feel rational, but understand that what has been discussed here is based on century-old practices, there is nothing new. The only thing is you are not aware of it or ignored it over time.

We are going through tough times in the history of mankind. It is time to rethink, rethink about our health as a society. Why are we all getting badly infected by diseases? Why are so many people dying just because of fever? Why modern methods of health care can’t help you?

In our country, we are enriched with so many health care systems, not just modern medicine. Ayurveda is one among those. Before getting an ayurvedic treatment it is important that you understand the basic idea.

Your body’s innate response to fever is with temperature. It’s a bad idea to try to reduce the temperature and think that it will root out your fever. Our body is a very complex and powerful machinery, which knows how to take care of an infection. All that we need to do is create an environment inside and outside of our body so that we can aid its processes. So in Ayurveda, we are not fighting against fever, but we are aiding the body to fight.

How to support our body, for that you need an idea of our health. The support could be in the form of actions, medicine, and mostly the food we take.

Follow the below guidelines and you will be safe. Try to get in touch with a practitioner if your health is in a very bad condition or you’re anxious.

Now let’s see how we can handle fever at home. If you are feeling feverish, what you should changes/avoid in your daily routines? that we will look into.

Don’t strain your body and mind. This is the most important, don’t engage your body in activities and waste your energy, the body needs energy to work on the disease. So avoid exercises, sex, even watching television.

Don’t sleep during day time. It will weaken digestive fire and will cause heaviness of body and indigestion.

Don’t take a bath. Avoid taking bath till the symptoms subside. Even avoid sponging your body and all. When the body tries to increase its temperature and we try to reduce it will result in more effort from the body.

Now let’s look into food. Food is your first and foremost medicine, which is equally important to the medications you may take. Also, you have to understand that the body utilizes lots of energy to process food. During a disease, you have to understand the body’s needs and act accordingly.

Eat when you are really hungry, otherwise don’t eat. As the digestive fire is very weak, the body can’t digest the food properly and may end up in indigestion and body producing toxins (called ama)

Drink only boiled water. Boil water with dry ginger and coriander and take it small quantities repeatedly.

Avoid fruits, juices, tender coconut water, milk, dairy products

Avoid fermented food like dosa, idli, bread, rusk etc

Eat Kanji and Green Gram. We should stick to easily digestible food like rice or wheat gruel (Kanji), kitchadi, green gram soup and boiled vegetables without masala ( add cumin, pepper, salt ).

Additionally, you could try the following to have when in fever

Puffed rice/ popped rice boiled with dry ginger, coriander, long pepper with rock salt is good for fever and to increase digestion.

Barley boiled with long pepper and gooseberry is good for fever with constipation

Popped rice boiled with coriander, dry ginger, green gram is good for fever with vomiting

There are more things to keep in mind.

Avoid exposure to wind. It will increase Vata in you and will cause dryness and pain in your body.

Steam inhalation – If you have a blocked, runny nose, this will help you get relief. Boil 2 cups of water with tulsi/karpoorvalli leaves. Cover the pot with a proper lid while boiling. After two minutes inhale the steam.

Avoid Anger – It will increase pitta in you and you will be emotionally weak.

Now we will look at a few preventive measure which you can easily practice at home.

Dhoopanam (fumigation) – Burn Coconut shell or wood and add 2-3 grams of the below ingredients into the hot ember which will produce thick fumes.

Small onion outer skin

Garlic outer skin

Mustard

Crystal salt

Neem Leaves

*You could just spread neem leaves on top of ember. Do fumigation of entire house 1 or 2 times every day

Nasyam & Oil pulling as a preventive measures ( don’t do when you have fever), both practices are so good to keep you healthy, Follow the below instructions

Nasyam – 2 drops of Anu-thailam/ sesame oil in each nostril everyday morning preferable after brushing your teeth. You could put two drops in your little finger and insert the finger gently into your nostril, or use a dropper to put it directly into the nostril while lying down.

Oil pulling – After brushing take a tablespoon of coconut oil /sesame oil in the mouth and gargle mouth for a few minutes then spit. This is good for the oral and throat cavity.

* Anyone above 5 years can practice these