Discussion about chills, cold, goose bumps and weakness

Goose bumps are a condition where the body alternates between feeling cold and tingling in the skin and muscles. Goose bumps are preceded by irritation; brokenness is like a weak degree of goose bumps.

As for the cold, the patient feels pure cold in his organs and in the substance of his muscles, and chills consist in the fact that a person cannot keep his limbs from trembling, shuddering and involuntary movements that arise in them. Sometimes there is severe cold and no severe chills, as with mucous and quartan fevers. One of the reasons for the increase in chills is the magnitude of the expelling force located in the muscles; therefore the chill is stronger the more sticky the chill-producing substance is. During chills, the blood moves deeper into the body.

Know that cold juice is usually stationary, and the organ in which it is located gets used to it and, constantly experiencing its influence, no longer feels its coldness. When the juice begins to move and is dispersed to a large or small extent throughout the body due to some reason - heat separating matter or something else, then the organ that did not come into contact with it is exposed to its influence and feels cold due to the disagreement of nature. You have already learned this from the general principles of the science of healing.

From the glassy mucus spreading throughout the body, chills often occur, but do not lead to fever; it is often characterized by periodicity, and its strength is not the same as the strength of chills leading to fever. Matter that causes exhaustion in its small quantity produces chills when there is a lot of it before it decays, and if it does not putrefy, it does not lead to fever. Coldness and chills sometimes appear as a result of the withdrawal of warmth into the depths due to bad food or something similar to this. Cold and chilliness precede fever for the reason that the cold juice first flows into the muscles and irritates them, being cold in comparison with the muscles; then, as the sap begins to rot, it gets hotter. And sometimes chills precede fevers due to burning juice and significant strength in the muscles; for example, a person shudders when very hot water is poured on his skin, especially if the water is salty. Often, irritation from the burning juice causes the innate warmth to escape inside, and the cold overcomes; then, along with the burning heat, there is a sensation of cold, and the cold seems to cover the whole body, and a burning sensation of heat is felt at the shell of the insides. Chills also occur due to the escape of feverish heat into the body, as occurs with internal tumors.

Sometimes chills and goosebumps are a sign of recovery in persistent fevers, for they indicate that matter has been released from the vessels and has come out. However, if the chill is not accompanied by maturity and does not occur during a Crisis, and is not followed by relief, this indicates that the release of matter in such quantities is not due to the victory of natural force, but to the fact that there is a lot of matter and it comes out due to its abundance. There is also a chill that serves as a sign of imminent death, namely, if it follows a weakening of strength, a decline in innate warmth and drying out of the body. As for goose bumps, it occurs from causes less significant than the causes of chills. Feelings of excitement, dazedness and dizziness herald an attack of fever |. Old people have fevers that seem to be buried. Sometimes the cause of long-lasting fever is thickening in the viscera. Such a feverish person should lie on his back and stretch out his nakedness, and let the doctor probe his insides. And if a feverish person’s tongue turns black, with a mild degree of fever, it means that his fever is buried.

It happens that fever is accompanied by paralysis and then the fever is treated first. One of the remedies suitable for such patients is sikanjubin mixed with julanjubin, as well as a decoction of chickpeas with olive oil, if the fever allows it. Shaving the head is one of the remedies that thickens the skin, causing the vapors to turn inward and the fever to increase.