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# The Compendium of Bheḷa 1.22

Bheḷasaṃhitā 1.22

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.22.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.1)

saṃkaraṃ prastaraṃ sekaṃnāḍīṃ droṇiṃ jalāni ca | udakoṣṭhaṃ kuṭiṃ caiva svedamaṣṭavidhaṃ viduḥ ||

> Mixed, stone-slab, pouring, / tube, trough, waters, / water-chamber, and cottage: they know sudation to be of eight kinds.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.2)

pāṣāṇabhasmasikatātuṣapāṃsubusāni ca | ajāvigopurīṣāṇiprāvārāṇi pravātikāḥ ||

> Stones, ashes, sand, chaff, dust, and straw; / dung of goats, sheep, and cattle; cloaks, wind-screens;  
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### [1.22.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.3)

payāṃsyamlānidhānyāni girisādhāraṇānica | sarvāṇi madyamāṃsāni lavaṇāni tathaiva ca ||

> Milks, sours, grains, and those common to the mountains; / all wines, meats, and likewise salts;  
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### [1.22.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.4)

vidhivadyojayetsvedekāleyāgarurūṣitān | bhiṣag balābalaṃ dṛṣṭvā balinodurbalānapi ||

> 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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.5)

kuthakambalakauśeyaiḥ praveṇyajinakādibhiḥ | kiṭijairāvijairvastraiḥ pracchādya svedayennarān ||

> 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.  
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### [1.22.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.6)

sparśasaukhyamavaivarṇyaṃ svedo ' ṅgeṣu ca mārdavam | śītābhinirgamaś caiva samyak svinnasya lakṣaṇam ||

> Pleasantness of touch, absence of discoloration, sweating, softness in the limbs, / and the departure of cold: these are the signs of one properly fomented.  
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### [1.22.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.7)

pittaprakopodāhaś ca tṛṣṇā mūrchā vilāyanam | svedadveṣo ' ṅgarāgaścetyatisvinnasya lakṣaṇam ||

> Aggravation of pitta, burning sensation, thirst, fainting, exhaustion, / aversion to heat, and redness of the limbs: these are the signs of one excessively fomented.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.8)

udveṣṭanaṃ dāruṇatā gurutvaṃ stabdhagātratā | marutaś cāprasiddhiś ca na tatsvinnasya lakṣaṇam ||

> Cramping, stiffness, heaviness, rigidity of the limbs, / and non-appearance of sweat: these are the signs of one not fomented.  
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### [1.22.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.9)

asvinne snehanaṃ kṛtvā tataḥ svedair upācaret | snehapūrvaprayukto hi svedo jayati mārutam ||

> Having performed unction on the unfomented person, one should then treat him with sudations; / for sudation applied after unction overcomes vāta.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.10)

śuṣkāṇy api hi kāṣṭhāni snehasvedopapādanaiḥ | namayanti yathānyāyaṃ kiṃ punarjīvato narān ||

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

### [1.22.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.11)

atisvinne viśeṣeṇa kārayecchītalāṃ kriyām | athavā śītalair vātha kṣīraiḥ siṃced ghṛtena vā ||

> In one excessively fomented, one should especially perform cooling treatment; / or else one should sprinkle him with cool milks or with ghee.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.12)

pipāsuṃ vā na śaktaṃ ca garbhiṇīṃ kukṣirogiṇīm | sarvāṃś ca pittajān vyādhīnkaḥ svedaiḥ samupācaret ||

> 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?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.13)

ye svedāḥ pūrvamuddiṣṭāstānapyekaikaśaḥ śṛṇu | bilvāgnimanthaśyonākaṃ kāśmarīṃ pāṭalāṃ tathā ||

> Hear also one by one of those sudations that were previously mentioned: / bilva, agnimantha, śyonāka, kāśmarī, and pāṭalā,  
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### [1.22.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.14)

yavān kulutthān kolāni sthālyāmāsicya sādhayet | yavapākāni vijñāya sukhoṣmāṇyavatārayet ||

> 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.  
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### [1.22.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.15)

tato ' bhyaktasya vidhivatsvedanīyasya dehinaḥ | gātraṃ gātraikadeśaṃ vāsukhoṣṇaiśchādayecchanaiḥ ||

> 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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.16)

tataḥ pracchādayed bhūyaḥ kauśeyājinakāmbalaiḥ | saṅkaras tv eṣa vijñeyaḥ svedānāmagrya ucyate ||

> 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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.17)

etānyanyāni ca bhiṣak svedadravyāṇi saṃharet ||

> These and other substances for sudation the physician should collect.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.18)

prakīrya tāni śayane kalbalenāvaguṇṭhitam | svabhyaktaṃ śāyayejjantuṃ svedaṃ prastaramādiśet ||

> 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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.19)

vasātailaghṛtakṣīramūtramastvamlakāñjikaiḥ | sukhauṣṇaiḥsecayetsvedyaṃsekaḥ sa parikīrtitaḥ ||

> 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 \[sudation\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.20)

nāḍīṃ gajakarākārāṃ trihastāṃ tādṛśīṃ tathā | dhānyāmladravapūrṇāyāṃ dhānyāṃ sandhāya lepayet ||

> 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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.21)

tāṃ trihastāṃ samāhṛtya svabhyaktāṅgasya dehinaḥ | pracchannagātrasya tu tāṃ nāḍīmudghāṭayed bhiṣak ||

> Taking that three-cubit-long \[tube\], for a person whose limbs are well anointed, / the physician should open that tube toward his covered body.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.22)

nāḍīsvedaḥ samākhyātaḥ yāvatprasvedanāditi | kaṇṭhāvagāhāmacchidrāṃ tāvadevāyatāṃ samām ||

> This is described as tube sudation, \[applied\] until sweating occurs. / Immersion up to the neck, without leaks, of equal length and even,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.23)

droṇiṃ pāyasaniṣkvāthakṛsarakṣīrapūritām | kṛtvā tasyāṃ sukhoṣṇāyāṃ svabhyaktaṃ vātarogiṇam ||

> 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,  
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### [1.22.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.24)

jñātvāvagāhayet tāvad yāvat svedodgamo bhavet | taptaiḥ pātrayutair vāpi śuddhair vā salilairbhiṣak ||

> One should immerse him, knowing \[the measure\], until sweating arises; / or else with heated water in vessels or with pure water, the physician,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.25)

svamyaktagātrasya tataḥsalilasvedamācaret | īdṛśair eva salilaiḥ kaṭāhe cārdhapūrite ||

> For one whose limbs are well anointed, should then administer water sudation. / With just such waters in a cauldron filled halfway,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.26)

praveśya svedayetsvedyamudakoṣṭhaḥ prakīrtitaḥ | suliptāṃ saṃvṛtadvārāṃyantritāṃ kārayetkuṭim ||

> 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,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.27)

hrasvāgāramitāṃ hṛdyāṃ śilāstīrṇatalāṃ dṛḍhām | tāsyāścullyau ca kartavye adhastātpārśvasaṃvṛte ||

> 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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.28)

tatra sthālyau pratiṣṭhāpya sarvataḥ paribṛṃhayet | sthālyau tapte kuṭiś cāpi yadā tenoṣmaṇā tadā ||

> 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  
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### [1.22.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.29)

sarvāṅgarogipuruṣaḥ praviśetsa kuṭiṃ tataḥ | svabhyaktagātraḥ susvinnaḥ kṣaumaprāvṛtalocanaḥ ||

> 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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.30)

tataḥ praveśayet tatra śītāmbumaṇikāṃ śubhām | klāntaḥ śītāmvunā tatra sparśasaukhyam avāpnuyāt ||

> Then one should bring inside there a fine jar of cold water; / exhausted, he should obtain comfort of touch there with the cold water.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.31)

kuṭisveda iti jñeyaḥ sadyo roganivartakaḥ | svedo ' gnihīnaḥkṣuttṛṣṇābhayaṃ krodhastathāhavaḥ ||

> This is to be known as cottage sudation, which dispels diseases immediately. / Sudation without fire: hunger, thirst, fear, anger, and combat,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.22.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.32)

nivātamadhvasantāpau guruprāvaraṇaṃ tathā | svedyās tu vātakaphajā vātajāḥ kaphajās tathā ||

> 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.  
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### [1.22.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.22.33)

rogāstatroṣṇalavaṇasnigdhāmlair eva vātajāḥ | karīṣabusapāṣāṇabāṣpāṅgāraiḥkaphātmakāḥ | svedyās tu snigdharūkṣābhyāṃ jñātvā vyādhibalābalam || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele dvāviṃśo ' dhyāyaḥ || || trayoviṃśo ' dhyāyaḥ || athāto gāḍhapurīṣīyaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ |

> 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:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.1.22.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.1.14.5) — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit

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