Disorder from sweating applied too intensely: the text says it aggravates pitta and blood and causes blisters, giddiness, mada, fever, burning and fainting, and is treated with very cooling measures followed by a warm bath and light liquid food.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- स्वेदातियोग
- Hindi
- स्वेद का अतियोगअधिक स्वेदन
- English
- Excessive sweating therapy
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
How it develops1
Sweating applied too intensely (too much sweat drawn out) is said to aggravate pitta and blood and quickly to produce blisters, giddiness, mada, fever, burning and fainting.
Treatment principle2
In that state the wise physician is told to apply very cooling measures.
A patient overcome by mada and burning whose body has been continually troubled by cold water drops is bathed with warm water and, once his digestive fire is seen to be kindled, fed light, fire-kindling, mostly liquid food.
Other1
A footnote signed by the editor says two or three manuscripts read पानातिपात (excess drinking) in verse 29, but in this section on sweating प्राणातिपात (a life-threatening state) fits better, meaning what to do when the disorders of excessive sweating become life-threatening; the variant may be a scribal slip.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 1 times on 1 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
Questions and answers
What does the text say happens when sweating is overdone, and what is done about it?
It aggravates pitta and blood and quickly causes blisters, giddiness, mada, fever, burning and fainting; very cooling measures are applied.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 1
- Chapters
- Chapter 22
- Extraction tasks
- T24
- Record id
- condition_sveda_atiyoga