ATHARBA VEDA 01.25

Kanda 1/Sukta 25 (Fever Cure)

Agni Devata, Bhrgvangira Rshi

1.     Yadagniråpo adahatpravisya yatråkrnvandhar- madhrto namåmsi.

Tatra ta åhuh paramam janitram sa nah samvidvånpari vrNgdhi takman.

O Takman, painful fever, where the sustainers of the body, three humors of the body: vata, pitta and cough (wind, bile and phlegm), and seven constituents of physique: rasa or chyle, rakta or blood, mansa or flesh, meda or fat, asthi or bone, majja or marrow and virya or semen, hold their centre in the heart and in the navel and perform their function for the system, there they say is the seat of your origin. There you enter and arise and heat up and burn the fluids of the body system. O knowledgeable physician, uproot and throw out the fever.

2.     Yadyarciryadi våísi socih sakalyesi yadi vå te janitram.

HruDurnåmåsi haritasya deva sa nah samvidvånpari vrNgdhi takman.

O fever, whether you are burning as flame of fire, or you are drying and scorching the body, or your presence spreads through every part of the body system with shivers all over, your name is Hrudu, power and fire of fever, malaria, typhoid, cause of pallor and anaemia. Let the knowledgeable physician uproot and throw out the fever from us.

3.     Yadi soko yadi våbhiísoko yadi vå råjno varuna- syåsi putrah.

HruDurnåmåsi haritasya deva sa nah samvidvånpari vrNgdhi takman.

O fever, whether you glow as a flame in a part of the body or burn all over intensely with pain, or you are caused by stagnant waters in the realm of Varuna, water element of nature in the body or in the environment, you are Hrudu by name, a version of anaemia, pallor of jaundice. Let the knowledgeable physician uproot and throw you out of the body and the environment.

4.     Namah sitåya takmane namo ruråya socise krnomi.

Yo anyedyurubhayadyurabhyeti trtiya- kåya namo astu takmane.

Homage of recognition with food and medication for the patient who suffers from fever with cold and shivers, for hrudu, fever with heat and burning, fever which persists every day, which comes on alternate days, which comes on after every two days, or which comes after every three days. Homage and good bye to all of them.