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Post chemotherapy fever and dehydration management-Shadangpaniya

Chemotherapy often leads to decrease in white blood cells also called neutopenia due to which patient has to suffer through various common  infections. High grade fever, diarrhoea, vomiting after chemo administration often land the patient into dehydration and iv fluids becomes the requirement of the day. Shadang paniya is an ayurvedic decoction of 6 Ayurvedic herbs as the name says water prepared with 6 herbs has been found very effective in this condition. It's an authentic ayurvedic formulation found in Classical Ayurvedic books. 6 herbs : Mustak, usher,chandan, parpat, nagar(ginger), udeechya How to prepare Take above herbs in equal part in powder form , mix them all and put the powder in a glass jar. Take 1 tsp out of that powder and put in 400ml water. Boil the water till it remains half. It's ready to drink. In case of fever, you can drink after every 2 hours,  30 to 40ml. It will normalize the fever preventing dehydration due to fever,vomiting and diarrhoea.