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Vamana Karma: Medical Emesis or Medical Vomiting

Vamana in its Sanskrit iteration means to relieve Doshas (toxic) through the oral route. It is the first among the hailed Panchakarma and the first step in your total body health and well-being. In getting a Vamana you don’t directly go in the trance of getting an...

Pradhankarma: The Main Procedure of Panchakarma

The term pradhankarma encapsulates and embodies a generalized and broad concept of panchakarma. The term pradhankarma is organized up from two words “Pradhan” meaning key and karma meaning “methods of treatments”. The therapeutics or treatment, however, varies on...

Purvakarma: Preparatory Procedures of Panchakarma

The whole of panchakarma involves the complex and stepwise measures of prepping (called purvakarma), main procedure (called pradhankarma), and after procedures (called paschatkarma). The preparatory procedures are used to increase the effectiveness of panchakarma...

Panchakarma: The Therapeutic Approach To Diseases

The basic tenet of Ayurveda involves treating the patient in two way – Sodhana (Purification) and Samana (Pacification). The Sodhana involves relieving the body of various aggravated Dosha by dismissing them through body orifices, Samana involves intake of herbs,...

Panchamahabhut: Five Basic Elements of Body

The five basic – or rather great – elements (Panchamahabhut) are not elements at all; in fact, they are even the minutiae forms of the elements that constitute this universe. Thus Panchamahabhut makes up the atoms, elements, molecules, and everything tangential or...

Mala: The Waste

MMala in an unadulterated sense means wastes. The wastes from the body are the Pureesha (feces), Sveda (sweat) and Mutra (urine). Effective elimination is important for health and vigor. Certain tissues produce their own respective Malas. Rasa produces Kapha (Phlegm)...