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DETAILS

According to Ayurveda, for a healthy life, proper disciplined life is essential to balance the three elements of the body i.e. vatta, pitta and kaphfa. Due to unhealthy life style and inappropriate diet, the immune system of our body weakens that leads to fats infections of any disease and organism.

Yellow fever is an acute viral infection. This disease is caused by yellow fever virus and spreads through the bite of an infected female mosquito. Infections mostly occur in the human, primates and other species of mosquito. The virus responsible for yellow fever is RNA virus of the genus Flavivirus.

Symptoms of yellow fever

Yellow fever shows its symptoms quickly within 5 to 6 days after exposure. The initial symptoms is very similar to the influenza but the most common symptoms observed until now are-

• Headaches

• Joint muscle aches

• Fever with chills

• Sneezing

• High fever

In an initial phase, yellow fever may not show severe conditions, but acute phase lasts for 4 to 5 days and common symptoms includes-

• Backaches

• Acute fever

• Joint aches

• Flushing

• Loss of appetite

• Headaches

• High fever

• Too much pain in the body

After acute phase, most of the symptoms disappear and a person may become cure from yellow fever, but sometimes-acute phase is converted into toxic phase. In the toxic phase, the symptoms of acute phase may disappear but it relapses after 24 hours with more severity. These include:

• Bleeding from nose, moth and eyes

• Heart rhythm problems

• Seizures

• Decreased urination

• Abdominal problems

• Vomiting ( sometimes with blood )

Cause of Yellow Fever ( Pitta Jawara )

Flavivirus is the main cause of yellow fever. It is transmitted when an infected mosquito bites a person contaminating the blood of the person. This is not an infectious disease and do not spread from one person to another.

The mosquito of yellow fever breeds in the humid, and semi humid environments, tropical rain forests and around bodies of still water.

Ayurvedic Treatment of Yellow Fever

Godanti bhasma 500mg

Mrutunjaya rasa- 500mg b.i.d. daily

In kidney-

Chandra kala rasa(500mg bd)

Sauphagya vati 

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YELLOW FEVER

Yellow fever is a hemorrhagic condition that can lead to a high fever, bleeding into the skin, and cell death in the liver and kidneys. If enough liver cells die, liver damage occurs, leading to jaundice, a condition in which the skin takes on a yellowish color.

It is an acute, systemic disease, meaning that it starts suddenly, and it affects the whole body. The Flavivirus causes yellow fever.

The virus is transmitted by mosquitos, mainly the Aedes and Haemogogus species.

INCUBATION PERIOD- 1-3 DAYS

Signs and symptoms are categorized into two stages:

In the early, acute stage, the individual may experience:

- aching muscles, particularly the back and knees

- a high fever

- dizziness

- a headache

- loss of appetite

- nausea

- shivers, or chills

- vomiting

These symptoms usually disappear within 7 to 10 days.

These symptoms usually improve after a few days, but around 15 percent of people enter a second stage, or toxic stage. The symptoms are more severe, and they may be life-threatening.

These include:

- recurring fever

- abdominal pain

- vomiting, sometimes with blood

- tiredness, sluggishness, lethargy

- jaundice, which gives the skin and whites of the eyes a yellow tinge

- kidney failure

- liver failure

- hemorrhage

- delirium, seizures, and sometimes coma

- arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats

- bleeding from the nose, mouth, and eyes

Between 20 percent and 50 percent of people who develop toxic stage symptoms die within two weeks.

Within 7 to 10 days, yellow fever is fatal in around half of all people who enter the toxic phase.

Those who recover do not generally have any organ damage and are immune for life.

Causes and risk factors-

A flavivirus causes yellow fever.

It is transmitted by mosquito bite, usually the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The mosquito becomes infected by biting an infected human or a monkey. An infected mosquito is a source of infection for the rest of its life.

Diagnosis-

Diagnosis will be confirmed after the doctor detects the signs and symptoms and carries out a blood test.

A blood test is necessary because other diseases have similar signs and symptoms.

These include:

- dengue fever

- leptospirosis

- malaria

- Poisoning

- typhoid

- viral hepatitis

- some other viral hemorrhagic fevers

A blood test may reveal the virus, or it may detect antibodies that the body produces when the virus enters the body. A blood test may also reveal a drop in white blood cells, or leucopenia, another sign of infection.

The blood tests used are an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

Test results may take several days.

Treatment-

There is no effective antiviral medication to treat yellow fever, so treatment consists of supportive care in a hospital.

This includes providing fluids, oxygen, making sure blood pressure is adequate, replacing lost blood, kidney dialysis if there is kidney failure, and treating any secondary infections.

Some patients may be given plasma transfusion to replace proteins that help with clotting.

The patient should be kept away from mosquitoes. If a mosquito bites the patient, they will become infected and then pass the disease on to other people.

They should not use aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) because of the risk of bleeding. 

PATHYA-

- Purana Sali, Mudga, Masoor, Parval, Karela, Sahijan, Choulai, Gaduchi, Jeevanti, Makoya, Manukka, Anar, Laghu Ahar, Yavagu, Peya, Vilepi, Yava, Lajamanda, Daliya

APATHYA-

- Guru, vidahi, vistambhi, dushita jala sevana, ankurita anna, tilkuta, sweet, chole, lassi, chana dal

- Vegadharana, vyayama, divasvapna, sanana, adhyasana

NISHEDHJA-

- Nava jvar me divasvapna, snana, abhyanga, maithuna, krodha, dhimi hava   

RASODHI/BHASMA/PISTI-(120-250MG WITH MADHU/USHNODAKA)

- Tribhuvan kirti rasa-(hingula,vatsanabh,trikatu,tankan)

- Hinguleshver rasa-(vatsanabh,pippali,hungula)

- Swarnbasant malti rasa-(swarna,muktapisti,hingula,maricha)

- Kasturi bhairav rasa-(javitri,jayphala,marich,pippali,kasturi)

- Mritunjaya rasa-(vatsanabh,hingula,gandhak,tankan,pippali,marich)

- Jwar keshri rasa-(parad,gandhak,triphala,trikatu,vatsanabh,jayphaala)

- Jwar sanhar rasa-(rasasindura,trikatu,kuth,mustak,tankan,katuki)

- Godanti bhasma-(godanti)

- Shringa bhasma-(mrigshringa)

- Jaharmora pisti-(jaharmohra)

- Laxmivilas rasa-(swarn,rajat,abhrak,tamra,nagabhasma)

- Praval pisti

- Kaphaketu rasa-(vatsanabh,tankan,sankh,pippali)

VATI-(250-500MG WITH USHNA JALA)

- Sanjeevani vati-(vidang,nagar,pippali,abhaya,vibhitaki,vacha,guduchi,bhallataka,visha)

- Shoubhagya vati-(rasasindura,dvikshar,trilavan,loha,trikatu,triphala)

- Sansamani vati-(guduchi)

- Vishatindukadi vati-(kuchala,mustak,parpat,triphala)

- Jayavati-(suddha visha,trikatu,motha,haridra,nimbapatra,bidanga)

- Amrita satva-(guduchi)

- Karanjadi vati-(karanj beej,parpat,atish,guduchi,patol,kutki)

CURNA-(3-6GM WITH MADHU/USHNODAKA)

- Sudarshan curna-(triphala,trimada,atish,chirayata)

- Panchkol curna-(pippali,pippalimula,chavya,chitrak,sunthi)

- Sitophaladi curna-(dalchini,ela,pippali,vanshlochan,mishri)

- Talisadi curna-(talisa,marich,sunthi,pippali,vanshlochan,mishri)

- Lavangadi curna-(lavanga,sheetal chini,khas,sveta chandana,tagar,bhringraja,motha)

- Drakshadi curna-(draksha,harad,mustak,kutki,amaltas,parpat)

KAVATH/ASAV/ARISHTA-(20-40ML WITH SAMABHAG WATER)

- Kiratiktadi kvatha-9chiryata,motha,minbachal,guduchi,kantkari)

- Dasamula kvatha-(brihat & laghu panchmula)

- Brihat panchmuadi kvatha-(bilva,agnimatha,shayonak)

- Bhunimbadi kvatha-(chirayata,motha,guduchi,brihati,kantakari,pushkar mula)

- Satpuspadi kvatha-(sounf,sunth,vacha,kuth,khas,mustak)

GHRITA(20-30ML WITH USHNODAKA)

- Panchtikta ghrita-(patol,saptaparna,nimba,vasa,guduchi)

- Amritadhya ghrita-9guduchi,mulethi,draksha)

- Shatpalak ghrita-(pippali,pippali mula, chavya,chitrak,sunthi,saindhav)

- Chandanadi ghrita-(svetachandan,vasa,karanj)

AVLEHA-(20-30 GM WITH DUGDHA)

- Drakshavaleha-(draksha,madhur varga aushadhiya)

- Chyavanprash-(amla,trikatu,jeevaniyagana)