The Compendium of Bheḷa 1.22

Mixed, stone-slab, pouring, / tube, trough, waters, / water-chamber, and cottage: they know sudation to be of eight kinds.

Stones, ashes, sand, chaff, dust, and straw; / dung of goats, sheep, and cattle; cloaks, wind-screens;

Milks, sours, grains, and those common to the mountains; / all wines, meats, and likewise salts;

Besmeared with yellow sandalwood and aguru, the physician should apply these methodically in sudation, / having observed the strength and weakness of the strong and the weak.

Having covered men with painted cloths, blankets, silks, / woven mats, deerskins, and the like, / with cloths made from cocoon-silk and sheep's wool, one should foment them.

Pleasantness of touch, absence of discoloration, sweating, softness in the limbs, / and the departure of cold: these are the signs of one properly fomented.

Aggravation of pitta, burning sensation, thirst, fainting, exhaustion, / aversion to heat, and redness of the limbs: these are the signs of one excessively fomented.

Cramping, stiffness, heaviness, rigidity of the limbs, / and non-appearance of sweat: these are the signs of one not fomented.

Having performed unction on the unfomented person, one should then treat him with sudations; / for sudation applied after unction overcomes vāta.

For even dry pieces of wood, through the application of unction and sudation, / bend properly—how much more so living men?

In one excessively fomented, one should especially perform cooling treatment; / or else one should sprinkle him with cool milks or with ghee.

Who would treat with sudations a thirsty person, or one without strength, / a pregnant woman, a woman suffering from abdominal disease, and all pitta-born diseases?

Hear also one by one of those sudations that were previously mentioned: / bilva, agnimantha, śyonāka, kāśmarī, and pāṭalā,

Barley, horsegram, and jujube fruits—having poured them into a pot, one should boil them. / Knowing that the barley is cooked, one should take them down comfortably warm.

Then, over the body or a part of the body of the person to be fomented, / who has been properly anointed, one should slowly cover it with [the preparations] comfortably warm.

Then one should cover him further with silks, deerskins, and blankets. / This is to be known as mixed [sudation]; it is called the foremost of sudations.

These and other substances for sudation the physician should collect.

Having scattered them on a bed, one should have the well-anointed patient lie down / covered with a blanket; one should designate this as stone-slab sudation.

With comfortably warm muscle fat, oil, ghee, milk, urine, curd water, sour gruel, and kāñjika, / one should sprinkle the person to be fomented; that is proclaimed as pouring [sudation].

A tube shaped like an elephant's trunk, three cubits long and suitable, / having connected it to a vessel filled with the liquid of fermented grain water, one should seal it.

Taking that three-cubit-long [tube], for a person whose limbs are well anointed, / the physician should open that tube toward his covered body.

This is described as tube sudation, [applied] until sweating occurs. / Immersion up to the neck, without leaks, of equal length and even,

Having filled a trough with pāyasa, decoction, kṛsarā, and milk, / and making it comfortably warm, [having placed] in it the well-anointed patient suffering from vāta,

One should immerse him, knowing [the measure], until sweating arises; / or else with heated water in vessels or with pure water, the physician,

For one whose limbs are well anointed, should then administer water sudation. / With just such waters in a cauldron filled halfway,

Having made the person to be fomented enter and fomenting him, this is proclaimed as the water-chamber. / One should construct a cottage well plastered, with its door closed and secured,

Measuring the size of a small room, pleasing, with its floor paved with stone slabs, firm; / and two hearths should be made for it below, enclosed at the sides.

Having placed two cooking pots there, one should bank [the fires] all around. / When the two pots and also the cottage become heated by that heat, then

A man suffering from disease in his whole body should then enter that cottage, / with his limbs well anointed, thoroughly fomented, with his eyes covered with linen.

Then one should bring inside there a fine jar of cold water; / exhausted, he should obtain comfort of touch there with the cold water.

This is to be known as cottage sudation, which dispels diseases immediately. / Sudation without fire: hunger, thirst, fear, anger, and combat,

A windless place, exercise, heat, and heavy covering. / Those to be fomented are those born of vāta and kapha, born of vāta, and born of kapha.

Among them, diseases born of vāta are to be fomented with hot, salty, unctuous, and sour [substances]; / those of the nature of kapha with dry dung, straw, stones, steam, and charcoal embers; / but they are to be fomented with unctuous or dry [means], knowing the relative strength of the disease. / Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the twenty-second chapter in Bheḷa. // Chapter Twenty-Three // Now we shall explain the [chapter on] hardened feces; thus said the venerable Ātreya: