History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c22.s3.36

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*Svedana* (*Sudation*): After the oleation therapy, application of sudation is done. These may be unctuous, for example with ghee, oils, vapour bath, or dry with heated sand, hot bricks, husks of cereals, sun-bath etc. Forms of sweating without the employment of heat (Niragni) that is by exercise, warm clothing, hunger, popultice bring out sweat which is an internal secreta of the body, and this liquifies or melts the doṣas held in the subtle channels of the body and also the waste products of metabolism (CS. Sū. 14; CS. Si. 1.7)