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Symptom
Excessive sweating (atisveda)
अतिस्वेद (अधिक पसीना) · अतिस्वेद
Much sweating is among the signs of aggravated pitta.
Condition
Excessive sweating therapy
स्वेद का अतियोग · स्वेदातियोग
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…
Topic
Results of proper and excessive sweating
स्वेद के योग और अतियोग का फल · स्वेद का योग व अतियोग का फल
Properly used (yoga), sweating destroys or pacifies many diseases; overdone (atiyoga), it produces many kinds of disease. Hence the correct method of sweating is described next.
Topic
Signs of excessive sweating
स्वेद के अतियोग के लक्षण · स्वेद के अतियोग का लक्षण
Sweating applied too intensely aggravates pitta and blood and quickly causes blisters, giddiness, mada, fever, burning and fainting; the skilled physician then applies very cooling measures.
Condition
Kushtha (chronic skin diseases)
कुष्ठ (त्वचा रोग) · कुष्ठ
Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…
Topic
After-care: warm bath and light liquid food
उष्ण जल स्नान और लघु द्रव अन्न · स्वेद का गुण
Despite its printed heading, this verse gives after-care: a patient overcome by mada and burning whose body has been continually troubled by cold water drops is bathed with warm water and,…
Symptom
Blisters (visphota)
फफोले · विस्फोट
Blisters; listed in this chapter among the effects of excessive sweating therapy.
Condition
Complications of purification therapies
भैषज्य कर्म के उपद्रव · भेषजकर्मोपद्रव
The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.
Condition
Fever (jvara)
ज्वर (बुखार) · ज्वर
Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…
Symptom
Intoxicated, clouded state (mada)
मद (नशे जैसी अवस्था) · मद
An intoxicated, clouded state; in this chapter it is named among the effects of too much ghee and of excessive sweating.
Principle
Pitta dosha
पित्त दोष · पित्त
Taking digestion as the example, the introduction says the pācaka pitta in the āmāśaya, pakvāśaya and similar organs is gross and can be seen directly, with qualities such as a raw smell…
Topic
Prodromal signs of kushtha
कुष्ठ के पूर्वरूप · कुष्ठ का पूर्वरूप
Excessive sweating or no sweating at all, horripilation, loss of touch sensation, blackening of the blood, great heaviness of the body, itching, roughness and tremor are the prodromal signs…
Topic
Signs of kushtha in the blood and flesh
रक्त और मांस में गए कुष्ठ के लक्षण · रक्तमांसगत कुष्ठ लक्षण
Excessive sweating, numbness of the limbs, deformity and swelling are the signs of kushtha seated in the blood; in strong kushtha that has reached the flesh, severe discharging blisters…
Procedure
Warm bath and light liquid food after cooling treatment
शीतोपचार के बाद उष्ण जल स्नान और लघु द्रव अन्न
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,…
Topic
Announcement of the method of emesis and purgation
वमन-विरेचन विधि के वर्णन की प्रतिज्ञा · वमन विरेचन विधि वर्णन प्रतिज्ञा
Having described sweating, the author will now set out the great diseases that arise from excessive and wrong use (atiyoga, mithyayoga) of purification by emesis and purgation, their…
Topic
Announcement of the method of sweating
स्वेदविधि के वर्णन की प्रतिज्ञा · स्वेदविधि वर्णन प्रतिज्ञा
Having described the treatment of disorders from excessive oleation, the author turns to sweating and the disorders from its improper use. Sweating is almost always most beneficial for the…
Topic
Special signs of imminent death
मरण का विशेष लक्षण
Visual confusion, darkness before the eyes, twitching of the eyes with heavy tears, much sweating of the face, stillness of the life-bearing vessels, excessive appearance of hair on the…