Fever( Biology revisited )

Now a days I am having a preiodic doses of normal fever. So what happens when there is fever? Or let me put it this way. What is fever?
Anybody temperature elevation above 100 degrees Farenheit.
How do we get fever?
There is an organ in our body called Hypothalamus which is located in the brain is the one which controls the temperature. Its like the thermostat of the body. So, when the thermostat is set to a higher temperature i.e above 100 degrees Farenheit,then the condition is known as Fever. High metabolism, rush of blood to the cooler parts that is to the skin, shivering of muscles to generate heat are the effects.
How do we control fever?
Just say to the hypothalamus to reset to normal temperature. That is by some chemical messenger like aspirin or paracetamol( more famous in US as Tylenol )
When you dont have these just try the bark of willow tree which has salicin which is a crude form of Salicylic acid. Well aspirin is Acetytl Salicylic acid. It is also used to save patients from minor strokes.
Coming to paracetamol or tylenol, chemically p- acetylamino phenol.
What they do is just resets hypothalamus to a lower temperature. For best results take paracetamol 6hourly. Take two more tablets even after fever is gone.
Warning!! Take care of the intake of aspirin. It can be dangerous.

Coming to the malarial fever caused by plasmodium malariae ( in which case fever is periodic with a period of approximately 72hrs ) or plasmodium vivax take dose of quinine. Or crudely from the bark Cinchona ( Cinchona Officinalis ) which has this alkaloid quinine.
Ok! thats it. I know this much only....