Hello Readers and My Dear Patients,
In most of the Ayurveda prescriptions will
have the Laxative medication either in medicated oil, ghee or Powder form.
Ayurveda believes the principle “prevention is
better than cure” and in general all the illnesses is treating with the
cleansing therapy mostly.
In Ayurveda, cleansing and rejuvenating the system in order to attain the balanced state of the three life forces and maintains
the healthy state of mind and body.
The Importance of laxatives in Ayurveda treatment;
basically classified into two, Pacifying
and Cleansing.
After the Cleansing therapy Pacifying medication will be
continuing till attain the perfect health.
And also in cases where the illness is not that severe and do not
affected the system deeply,here directly going for the Pacifying medications.
The Cleansing therapy is involving five steps,five fold cleansing therapy called ‘Panchakarma’ therapy.
They are Vomiting (Vamanam), Purgation (Virechanam),
Medicated enema (vasthi), Medication through Nostrils (Nasyam) and the blood
letting (Rakthamoksham).
The Physician will fix the suitable methods upon the
need of the condition of patient.
The Purgation (Virechanam) can be two forms either as the part of cleansing therapy or mild cleansing (mrudhu virechanam).
How the purgative medicine works?
In a diseased stage, the body contaminated
in blocked channels all along the body (Srothas).
That is happening in two ways:
1.
When the wind element (Vatha
Dosha)aggravates, drying up the lubricating agents in each and every tissues.
2.
When the Earth and Water
elements (Kapha Dosha) aggravates there also the blockages occurring due to the
fat accumulation excessively.
In both of the
above cases,we have to take effort to clear the blockages by various methods.
Purgation with laxative medicines is one among them.
When we take the mild
laxatives regularly it digesting and clearing the blocks and taking the
impurities to the stomach then draining out.
It promotes the better circulation
of body fluids and proper functioning of the nervous system.
And also the absorption of food and eliminating the
waste through sweat ,urine
and feces will happen properly.
Then we apply the
medication to rejuvenate the system simultaneously, hence we get rid of the
illnesses.
Hope you got a
brief idea,your comments will be appreciated.
Thank you for
reading and sharing my blogs.
DR.T.L.XAVIER B.A.M.S
