Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy
author: Pulak Kanti Kar
edition: 2013, Chaukhamba Sanskrit Pratishthan
pages: 1445
Topic: Ayurveda
Ushma sveda
This chapter describes Ushma sveda located on page 289 from volume Volume 4 in the book Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy compiled by Pulak Kanti Kar. This book presents a Comprehensive view of Panchakarma and includes therapeutic modules and references for the Ayurvedic practitioners. Panchakarma registers the mechanism of the action of Ayurvedic drug..
Volume 4 deals with the principles and Practice of Panchakarma:—The subject is presented in such a way that Ayurvedic people can realise the matter with a ration vision and can perform the therapy in daily practice.
This book fully covers every detail related to Panchakarma (methods for eliminating toxic elements from the body). For example, this chapter describes Ushma sveda. The five methods are known as Vamana (‘emesis’), Virecana (‘purgation’), Asthapana (‘non-unctuous enema’), Anuvasana (‘unctuous enema’) and Shiro-Virechana (‘head-evacuation’ or ‘snuffing’).
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Ushma sveda” according to 34 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Sushruta Samhita, volume 4: Cikitsasthana [by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna]
Description of Sveda (fomentation, calorification, etc.). Now we shall discourse on the medical treatment by measures of fomentations, diaphoretic measures, etc. (Sveda-vacaranìya). 1. Sveda (calorification, fomentation, diaphoretic measures, etc.) may be divided into four groups such as, the application of direct heat (Tapa-sveda), fomentation (Ushma-sveda), poulticing (Upanaha sveda) and the application of heated fluids (Drava-sveda)....
Read full contents: Chapter XXXII - Description of Sveda (fomentation, calorification, etc.)
Shrimad Bhagavad-gita [by Narayana Gosvami]
Here the word ushma-pah means ‘the forefathers who accept offerings of hot food ....
Read full contents: Verse 11.22
Brahma Sutras (Shankara Bhashya) [by Swami Vireshwarananda]
asyaiva ca-upapatteh-esha ushma || 11 || asya eva—To this (fine body) alone; ca—and; upapatteh—because of possibility; eshah—this; ushma—(bodily) heat. 11. And to this (fine body) alone does this (bodily) heat belong, because this (only) is possible. The bodily beat observed in living animals belongs to this subtle body and not to the gross body, for the heat is felt so long as there is life and not after that....
Read full contents: Chapter IV, Section II, Adhikarana V
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[Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy: index]
[About the Author (Pulak Kanti Kar)]
[Introduction vol 1 (essentials of Panchakarma)]
[Introduction vol 2 (applied Instruments in Panchakarma)]
[Introduction vol 3 (mechanism of Panchakarma)]
[Introduction vol 4 (practice of Panchakarma)]