Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 68

English (machine translation) 68

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68.1

Sudation is desired in conditions of vāta-kapha, vāta, or kapha; / and it is devised as unctuous-dry, unctuous, and dry respectively.

In severe disease, cold weather, and a body of great strength, strong sudation [is indicated]; / in a weak [person], weak sudation; and in a moderate [person], moderate is considered [proper]. .. 2 ..

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When vāta is located in the stomach, and kapha resides in the large intestine, / sudation preceded by unctuousness and sudation preceded by dryness are wholesome, respectively. .. 3 ..

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One should foment the testicles, heart, and eyes mildly or not at all; / the groins moderately; and the remaining limbs and parts as desired. / One should not foment those who are excessively obese, dry, weak, or fainting, .. 4 ..

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those fit for astringent therapy, those emaciated by chest wounds, those suffering from disorders of poison or liquor, / those suffering from timira, abdominal disease, erysipelas, skin disease, phthisis, or ḍhyavāta (gout), .. 5 ..

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those who have drunk milk, curd, unctuous substances, or honey, those who have undergone purgation, / those suffering from prolapsed or burnt rectum, exhaustion, anger, grief, or fear, .. 6 ..

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[those afflicted with] hunger, thirst, jaundice, anaemia, urinary disorders, or pitta afflictions, / a pregnant woman, a menstruating woman, a puerperal woman—except mildly in an emergency disease. .. 7 ..

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Non-thermal sudation is beneficial when vāta is occluded by fat and kapha: / a windless room, physical exertion, heavy covering, fear, .. 8 ..

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poultices, fighting, anger, heavy drinking, hunger, and sunshine; / these ten induce sudation in a person without the nature of fire. .. 9 ..

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Upon the cessation of cold and pain, the control of stiffness and heaviness, / and the emergence of softness and sweating, cessation from sudation is prescribed. .. 10 ..

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Outbreak of eruptions, vitiation of pitta and blood, / intoxication, fainting, giddiness, burning sensation, fatigue, / joint pain in excessive sudation, and thirst— / in such a case, one knowing the rules should perform cooling procedures. .. 11 ..

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One should administer all sudations in fire and vāta conditions and when food is digested; / and for those embodied beings to whom nasal therapy and enema are to be administered. .. 12 ..

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Those who are fit for purification are considered to be fomented beforehand; / but they are to be fomented afterwards when a foreign body is extracted, in obstructed labour, and without complications. .. 13 ..

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A woman who has delivered properly at the right time is to be fomented afterwards by the discerning [physician]; / sudation is both before and after in fistula-in-ano and haemorrhoids. .. 14 ..

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Sudation may be performed with heated sand, hands, bronze, and cloths, or with charcoal; / by paste of vāta-alleviating drugs along with sour substances, salt, and fats, comfortably warm; / likewise by pouring heated milk, water, or decoction that alleviates vāta; / and respectively by stone slabs and the like, heated and producing abundant steam when sprinkled with water. .. 15 ..

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Fomentations begin with thermal, poultice, liquid, and steam types; / of these, the last and the first are for kapha; / the second is for vāta; and in vāta and kapha / affected by pitta, the third is prescribed. .. 16 ..

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