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Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- स्वेदनस्वेदकर्म
- Hindi
- स्वेदनसेंकपसीना दिलानाभाप
- English
- Sudation therapysudationsweating therapyfomentation
- Romanized
- svedana
What the text says
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Definition2
Bringing out sweat from the body by any means is called sudation.
When sweating is properly applied, good sweating comes on quickly and the patient comes to desire cold things.
Classification1
Sweating is said to be of four kinds: heat sweating (tapa), steam sweating (ushma), poultice sweating (bandhana or upanaha) and liquid sweating (drava).
Properties3
Sudation is said to make the digestive fire keen, the body soft and glowing, and to create a taste for food; every part then works properly, the body becomes light, vata moves downward so that stool and urine pass properly, and disturbed sleep goes away.
Sweating is said to be almost always most beneficial for sick people.
Sweating is said always to increase the digestive fire and to destroy great diseases of kapha and vata.
Indications1
According to the commentary, heat and steam sweating chiefly destroy or pacify kapha, poultice sweating destroys vata, and liquid sweating is beneficial in vata or kapha mixed with raktapitta.
Cautions2
Properly applied sweating (yoga) is said to destroy or pacify many diseases, while its excess (atiyoga) produces many kinds of disease.
Sweating is said to be beneficial only on an oleated body, so it should be done after massage with oil or other unctuous substances; applied to a dry body it burns the body.
Contraindications2
Sudation is not to be given to those suffering from injury (kshata) or heat, the thirsty, patients with pandu or prameha, those who have fasted, patients with raktapitta, diarrhoea, ascites, poisoning or fainting, pregnant women and people of pitta constitution.
The verse also names children among those who should not be sweated.
Physiology1
The doshas that always reside in the tissues and have been loosened by oleation into the channels are said to liquefy through proper sweating, reach the abdomen step by step and, once expelled (by emesis or purgation, as the commentary adds), return to health and to their proper places.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 90 times on 61 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 96Chapter 7… भावार्थ : द्रव्य, क्षेत्र, काल और भाव का अनुसरण करके यथायोग्य स्नेहन, स्वेदन, वमन विरेचन आदि कमोँ को तथा छेदन-भेदन आदि के योग्य रोगों में छेदन, भे …
- Book page 112Chapter 8×3… े स्नेहन1 कराकर) कुधान्य,वालु आदि से व उष्ण(कम्बल आदि) शयन में सुलाकर स्वेदन करें। तत्पश्चात् वमन कराने के लिए, गरम पानी में सैंधा नमक भिगोकर पिला …
- Book page 113Chapter 8×4… यह घृत नहीं पिलाना चाहिए अर्थात् ऐसे मनुष्य स्नेहन के लिए अपात्र हैं। स्वेदन का फल अथाग्निरभिवद्र्दते मुदुतरं सुवर्णोजवलं। शरीरमशने रुचिं निभृतगात …
- Book page 114Chapter 8×2कल्याणकारके / वातरोगाधिकार: 114 प्रकृति वाले को, स्वेदन नहीं करना चाहिए। वमनविधि ततस्सलवणोग्रमागधिककल्कमिश्रै:शुभै:। फलैस्त्र …
- Book page 116Chapter 8… को सिद्ध करना चाहिए। वात को नाश करने वाले इस विरेचन घृत को, स्नेहन व स्वेदन से जिसका शरीर पहले ही संस्कृत किया गया हो, ऐसे मनुष्य को सुखोष्ण (गुन …
- Book page 117Chapter 8… , अजीर्ण, रक्तातिसार से युक्त, बाल, वृद्ध, गर्भिणी, मद्यपायी, स्वेहन, स्वेदन आदि से असंस्कृत शरीर वाले इत्यादि प्रकार के लोगों को विरेचन नहीं देना …
- Book page 123Chapter 8… षधियों के लेप करना, नागरमोथा, कडवी तुरई, धनिया इन औषधियों द्वारा उष्ण स्वेदन देना विधिपूर्वक उपनाह(पुलटिश) करना, योग्य शिरोबस्ति व रक्तमोक्षण करना …
- Book page 149Chapter 10… ुलथी व मूंग का यूष, कटुक रस युक्त मटर व अरहर का पानी (पेया आदि) तीव्र स्वेदन, उपवास, तिल तैल से मर्दन, मैथुन सेवन एवं कडुवा, चरपरा, कषाय रस, रूक्ष …
- Book page 152Chapter 10… ेद सरसों, सरसों, कालीमिरच, पीपल, सोंठ सेंजन का जड इनके कवलधारण गणडूष, सेंक और लेप से, कफ प्रकोप का शमन होता है। एलादि चूर्ण एलात्वडं्नागपुष्पोषण …
- Book page 154Chapter 10… समझाकर रोगियों के हित के लिए उन पदाथोँ को पान, अमयंग, पुल्टिष, आहार, सेंक, अवगाहन, आदि क्रियाओं में प्रयोग करना चाहिए। पित्तनाशक गण बबिींनबिेंद …
- Book page 182Chapter 11… ोगों, औषधि के कल्क व कषायों से पक्व घृत वा तेल प्रतिनित्य अमयंग, पान, सेंक व शिरोविरोचन आदि काम में उपयोग करने से शीघ्र कुष्ठ दूर होता है। खदिर …
- Book page 186Chapter 11… ुमूलै। स्सुसिद्धदुग्धादिकभोजनं च॥ 145॥ भावार्थ : वातज महोदर में सदा स्वेदन (पसीना लाना) भी कराना चाहिए एवं उसे सदा सोंठ, सैंधानमक, सेंजन के …
Questions and answers
Into which two kinds does the text divide treatment, and what does external treatment consist of?
Internal treatment, which is dharma, and external treatment, which is only an auxiliary cause; external treatment means oleation, sudation, emesis, purgation and, where suitable, excision and incision, chosen according to substance, place, time and condition.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhat are the four kinds of sudation described in chapter 12, and which suit vata joined with kapha?
Heat (tapa), binding (upanaha), steam (ushma) and liquid (drava); heat, binding and steam sudation suit vata joined with kapha.
Detailed answer and sourcesHow does the text contrast insect poison with other poisons in treatment?
Other poisons are very hot and sharp and get cooling measures, while insect poison is cold, increases kapha and causes vomiting, and gets hot measures.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhat are the four kinds of sweating described, and what is each said to suit?
Heat (tapa), steam (ushma), poultice (bandhana or upanaha) and liquid (drava) sweating; tapa and ushma chiefly pacify kapha, the poultice destroys vata, and liquid sweating suits vata or kapha mixed with raktapitta.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Therapy
- Categories
- Purification prep
- Source pages with records
- 4
- Pages naming it
- 61
- Chapters
- Chapter 8Chapter 22
- Extraction tasks
- T05, T24
- Record id
- method_svedana