One of the four kinds of sudation: sweat is brought out by warming the body with heated things such as a bundle of sand, the palm, cloth or bricks. With binding and steam sudation it is given for vata joined with kapha.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- तापस्वेद
- Hindi
- तापस्वेद
- English
- Heat sudation (tapa sveda)
Ingredients and preparation
External applicationChapter 12 · p. 194 · v. 6
How it is used
Dry heat applied to the body with heated objects.
तापस्वेद - बालु की पोटली हथेली, वस्त्र, इँट आदि को गरम कर के इनसे, शरीर को
Indicated for, as the text says
- Vata disorders (vatavyadhi)(कफयुताद्धुतवात / कफयुक्र वात)
Therapies involvedSudation therapy (svedana)स्वेदन (सेंक)
तापबंधनमहोष्मनिजारुयै:। स्वेदनै: कफयुताद्धुतवातम्॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 12 · p. 194 · v. 6.Questions and answers
What 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 sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- Described in the commentary's explanation of verse 6 (layer bhavartha).
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
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- Chapters
- Chapter 12
- Extraction tasks
- T10
- Record id
- method_tapa_sveda_p266