Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of medicine that focuses on balance in the body, mind, and spirit. It views health as a balance between the doshas - Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. Diagnosis involves pulse reading, urine/stool examination, and tongue/skin examination. Treatment includes cleansing, palliation, rejuvenation, and spiritual healing. Panchakarma is an important Ayurvedic detoxification technique that uses therapeutic vomiting, purging, enemas, and other procedures to rid the body of toxins.
Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of medicine that focuses on balance in the body, mind, and spirit. It views health as a balance between the doshas - Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. Diagnosis involves pulse reading, urine/stool examination, and tongue/skin examination. Treatment includes cleansing, palliation, rejuvenation, and spiritual healing. Panchakarma is an important Ayurvedic detoxification technique that uses therapeutic vomiting, purging, enemas, and other procedures to rid the body of toxins.
Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of medicine that focuses on balance in the body, mind, and spirit. It views health as a balance between the doshas - Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. Diagnosis involves pulse reading, urine/stool examination, and tongue/skin examination. Treatment includes cleansing, palliation, rejuvenation, and spiritual healing. Panchakarma is an important Ayurvedic detoxification technique that uses therapeutic vomiting, purging, enemas, and other procedures to rid the body of toxins.
Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of medicine that focuses on balance in the body, mind, and spirit. It views health as a balance between the doshas - Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. Diagnosis involves pulse reading, urine/stool examination, and tongue/skin examination. Treatment includes cleansing, palliation, rejuvenation, and spiritual healing. Panchakarma is an important Ayurvedic detoxification technique that uses therapeutic vomiting, purging, enemas, and other procedures to rid the body of toxins.
Comprehensive system that places equal emphasis on the body, mind and spirit, and it strives to restore the innate harmony of the individual
Ayurveda is the combination of two Sanskrit words
“ayu” meaning long life
“ved” meaning knowledge
“Knowledge or science of life”
System includes internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, surgery, toxicology, geriatrics, and several others.
Diagnosis done by observation, touch, and questioning Four components to disease
management Physician, Drug, Patient
Clinical exam includes
Pulse diagnosis Urine examination Stool examination Tongue examination a whitish tongue indicates a kapha derangement and mucus accumulation a red or yellow-green tongue indicates a pitta derangement a black to brown coloration indicates a vata derangement Examination of body sounds Eye examination Skin examination Assessment of total body appearance
Treatment has four main parts
Shodan – cleansing
Shaman – palliation
Rasayan – rejuvenation Satwajaya – mental nurturing and spiritual healing
A common cleansing treatment is Panchakarma which is composed of procedures that use
purgatives, emetics, enemas, medicated oils
yoga which is part of the palliation treatment as well as a part of improving general health. It is essentially considered the restraint of mental activity.
Rejuvenation treatment is composed of rasayanas which are basically dietary supplements.
Tridosha Theory
Three energies/doshas
Pitta – digestion, metabolism, emotions
Kapha – lubrication, structure, synthesis
Vata – movement, physical and mental function, degeneration
Individualized combination/ratio of the three doshas
Vata is related with all the movement in the nervous system and whole body.
It is associated with the elements ether and air. If vata is balanced, it controls blood flow, breathing, excretion, and mind related functions like creativity, speech, hearing etc. If vata is functioning properly than physiologically mind is in harmony with entire nervous system.
Vata Constitution AAKASH (Ether) + VAYU (Air/Gases) Elements
Ether is the highest element before air. It is very subtle element and also called AKASHA and SPACE. Air is second element after ether. It evolves from the AKASHA (ether). It is also called VAYU.
Main Symptoms related to Vata
Pain, thirst, Depression, Organ contraction, Rough skin, Cheerlessness, The sense of being lost, Paralysis over entire body
Pitta
Pitta is related to elements, fire and water. It controls all the bile that is secreted in the stomach. Hence, for the most part it controls over metabolism. By controlling metabolism, it controls the transformation of over the body during growth.
Fire represents energy and comes after VAYU (Air) element. Generally, it can be felt in the body by warmness. You may have felt warmness in the body a few minutes after taking food and body temperature is slightly increased because metabolic rate increases. This is due to PITTA according to ayurveda.
Main Symptoms related to pitta
Warm, Skinniness, Vision loss, Discoloration
Kapha is related with elements water and earth. It keeps joints lubricated, maintains skin tone, keeps immunity strong, heals wounds, and provides strength to whole body. As it controls joints, it is responsible for the strength of the complete biological structure of the body. It also helps in maintaining memories. Kapha is also related to emotions. If out of balance, it can lead to fatness, lethargy, jealousy, envy and greed.
Our body consists of around 50 to 70% water or fluids. 2/3 of body water is Intracellular fluid present within the cells. One third of body water is extracellular fluid present outside the cells. These fluids represent the JALA manifestation in the body and KAPHA. The massy structures like bones, muscles, solid mass of other organs represent PRITHVI manifestation in the body and KAPHA.
Main Symptoms related with kapha
Heaviness in the body
White patches over the skin
Sweet or salty taste of mouth
Weight gain or obesity
Ayurvedic Detoxification – Panchakarma
Panchakarma (Ayurvedic Detoxification) is a form of Ayurvedic treatment, which involves
procedures such as VAMANA, VASTI, VIRECHANA, RAKTAMOKSHANA, and NASYA. The term, Panchakarma, is derived from a Sanskrit word, which means Five Procedures of Detoxification or Purification VAMANA
In this method, the powdered herbs or a decoction of emetic drugs is consumed orally along with a large quantity of a liquid, which allows the toxins and impurities to be expelled from the body by inducing vomiting.
VIRECHANA
In this procedure, purgation is induced by the oral administration of certain purgative drugs. Before Virechana and Vamana, SNEHA PANA should be done as a preoperative procedure followed by ABHYANGAM and SWEDANAM.
VASTI
Vasti therapy involves the administration of medications in the form of liquids as an enema. Vasti is of two kinds:
NIRUHA (Decoction enema)
ANUVASANA (Oil enema)
ANUVASANA VASTI is administered after the intake of food. It is administrated along with the medicated oils or ghee with the help of specially designed equipment, VASTI YANTRA.
NIROOHA VASTI is given after ANUVASANA VASTI. The mode of administration
of NIROOHA VASTI is the same as that of ANUVASANA VASTI. The indications for ANUVASANA VASTI include the Vata predominant disorders like flatulence, constipation, arthritis, and urinary stone.
Nasya
This method of Panchakarma is employed to correct the DOSHAS from the parts of the body above the clavicle. It involves instilling medicaments in the form of juices, oils, or powders.
Raktamokshana
It is a para-surgical procedure in which JALOUKA (leeches) is used for venipuncture to ensure
