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AYURVEDA
TREATMENTS |
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basic therapeutic approach is, 'that alone is
the right treatment which makes for health and
he alone is the best doctor who frees one from
disease'. This sums up the principal objectives
of Ayurveda, i.e. maintenance and promotion of
health, prevention of disease and cure of sickness.
Treatment of the disease consists in avoiding
causative factors responsible for disequilibria
of the body matrix or of any of its constituent
parts through the use of Panchkarma procedures,
medicines, suitable diet, activity and regimen
for restoring the balance and strengthening the
body mechanisms to prevent or minimize future
occurrence of the disease.
Normally treatment measures involve use of medicines,
specific diet and prescribed activity routine.
Use of these three measures antagonize the disease
by counteracting the etiological factors and various
manifestations of the disease.
For successful administration of a treatment four
things are essential. These are
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The
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The
Patient |
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The physician comes first
in order of importance. He must possess technical
skill, scientific knowledge, purity and human
understanding. The physician should use his knowledge
with humility, wisdom and in the service of humanity.
Next in importance comes food and drugs. These
are supposed to be of high quality, wide application,
grown and prepared following approved procedures
and should be available adequately. The third
component of every successful treatment is the
role of nursing personnel who should have good
knowledge of nursing, must know the skills of
their art and be affectionate, sympathetic, intelligent,
neat & clean and resourceful. The fourth component
is the patient himself who should be cooperative
and obedient to follow instructions of the physician,
able to describe ailments and ready to provide
all that may be needed for treatment.
Preventive
Treatment & The Concepts of Aetio-Pathogenesis
Ayurveda has developed a very vivid analytical
description of the stages and events that take
place since the causative factors commence to
operate till the final manifestation of disease.
This gives this system an additional advantage
of knowing that possible onset of disease much
before the latent symptoms become apparent. This
very much enhances the preventive role of this
system of medicine by making it possible to take
proper and effective steps in advance, to arrest
further progress in pathogenesis or to take suitable
therapeutic measures to curb the disease in its
earliest stage of onset.
Types of Treatments
The treatment of disease can broadly
be classified as
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Shodhana
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Shamana
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Pathya
Vyavastha |
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of Diet and Activity) |
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Nidana
Parivarjanam |
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of Disease causing and Aggravating
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Satvavajaya |
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Rasayana
therapy |
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of Immunomodulators and
Rejuvenation Medicines) |
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