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because of the increase in mosquitoes. At least one person in
every household would contract it. The inflicted person would
become bed-ridden and lie on the cot outside his home with fever
and other symptoms common to malaria. The fever due to malaria,
is the fever of pitta (the forces that stimulate bile production) and
not that of kapha or vayu (excessive mucus or gas respectively.
Pitta, kapha and vayu are Ayurvedic terms, which denotes the
three main bio-physiologic compositions of human beings.) During
a bout of malaria, one produces an excessive amount of