Sweatpants

Sometimes the body, with very strong sweating, with insufficient ablution or insufficient rubbing during ablution, becomes covered with awl-shaped pimples, which seem to consist of matter, which, due to its heaviness, is slow to follow the perspiration and, due to the fluid of its substance, is released abundantly, it gets stuck on the surface of the skin and seems to be a sediment of sweat that cannot be percolated. Sometimes heat rash does not break out in the form of obvious pimples, but causes roughness.

The formation of heat rash matter, if there is a lot of it in the body, is suppressed by bloodletting and laxation; therefore, a person who often suffers from heat rash should, as a precaution, constantly remove hot juices from himself. One of the means to prevent and eliminate prickly heat is bathing and cleanliness, as well as using cold water for bathing. It is useful for such people, after sweating, to rub in a bath with melon pulp with lentil flour and then, after that, with shakhisfaram, as well as pulp with lentil and bean flour.

As for sandalwood, it prevents prickly heat, causing itching, but if sandalwood is with camphor, then it does not act that way. Henna, if its coloring effect is not pleasant, also helps against prickly heat, as does taking something like the juice of pomegranate, sorrel, lentils, plums, tamarind. They also use anything that prevents the secretion of sweat, for example, a decoction of myrtle, roses or coriander juice; they say that water heated in the sun helps against prickly heat. Sometimes prickly heat is prevented by all sorts of waters in which astringents were boiled, as well as by refusal to move, staying away from hot places that cause perspiration, striving for cool places, fanning with many fans at once and washing with cold water. This also includes rubbing, for example, with myrtle oil or rose oil; butter has a remarkable, strong property in this regard, especially with tragacanth and gum. Rubbing with substances that have the power of lead oxide, scale and especially tutia, as well as the ash of myrtle leaves is also useful, powder of myrtle leaves, fresh laurel leaves, rue, crushed incense.

Sometimes fish glue dissolved in water helps against prickly heat, but often with severe prickly heat, larkspur, incense and sulfur are needed.

As for prickly heat, which has ulcerated, it is treated with celandine, galls, Armenian clay and lead white with vinegar; a plaster with lead white is very good for this. Often ulcers reach an enormous degree of destruction, and then they are treated with remedies for fire burns, and if they harden, then with remedies for safa.