Bandhana sweating is tying on a poultice of payasa or similar preparations cooked with heating drugs, covered with leaves, cloth and the like. The commentary calls it vata-destroying.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- बंधनस्वेदउपनाहस्वेद
- Hindi
- बंधन (उपनाह) स्वेद
- English
- Poultice sweating (bandhana or upanaha sveda)
Ingredients and preparation
Preparation as described
Payasa and similar preparations are cooked with heating drugs.
उष्ण अैषधियोंे के द्वारा पकाये हुए पायस (पुल्टिश बाँधने योग्य)
How it is used
Bound on the body under a cover of leaves or cloth.
पत्ो, कपडे आदि से ढककर बाँधने को बंधन (उपनहन) स्वेद कहते हैं।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Vata disorders (vatavyadhi)(वातनाशक)
Effect on the doshas, as stated
उष्णैषधैरपि विपाचितपायसाद्यै: पत्रांबरावरणकैरिह बंधनारुय:।Source wording as converted, Chapter 22 · p. 500 · v. 24.Safety
- Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.
Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.
Questions and answers
What 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.
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- Chapter 22
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