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Rejuvenation Therapy in Ashtang Hridayam

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Rejuvenation Therapy in Ashtang Hridayam  Rejuvenation therapy  is an ancient healing practice rooted in the holistic principles of Ayurveda. This massage therapy focuses on restoring body, mind, and spirit balance by using warm herbal oils tailored to individual doshas (body types). The gentle, rhythmic strokes and specific techniques helps in relaxing the muscles and stimulate the body’s natural healing processes, detoxifying the system and rejuvenating the skin. Whether you seek to alleviate stress, improve circulation, or experience deep relaxation, Ayurveda rejuvenation massage offers a profound sense of renewal and well-being. It emphasizes balance within the body through diet, herbs, massage, and yoga. It rejuvenates the body to restore and sustain health. Long life (good), memory, (great ) intellegence, (perfact) health, youthfulness, (bright) complexion and colour, (bold) voice and magnanimity, increase of strength of the body and the sense organs, perfection in speec...

Ayurvedic Treatment of Spiders (Luta) Bite in Ashtan Hridayam

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 Ayurvedic Treatment of Spiders (Luta) Bite in Ashtan Hridayam In Ayurvedic terms, spider bites, or Luta Visha, are treated primarily with  Shamana (soothing) and Shodhana (cleansing) therapies , focusing on pacifying the aggravated doshas and eliminating the venom.  Treatment often includes specific medications like Dushivishari Agad and external applications of Shatdhaut Ghrita.   Luta (spider) are more dreadful than kita (insects) and are said to be sixteen kinds; somed others say they are of twenty-eight kinds; some that they are innumerable; yet others say that they are the retinue of the sun and of thousands of kinds; since they produce many diseases (by their venomous bite) they are of one kind only viz poisonuos. 45-46.  Very Knowing/distinguishing them by their name is difficult since they are heterogeneous, there is no specificity regarding their habitat, hence they are described only on the dosa (predominent following the bite ). 47 Aggravation of eac...

Ayurvedic Treatment Poisonous Crab (Uccitiga) Bite in Ashtang Hirdayam

 Ayurvedic Treatment P oisonous Crab ( Uccitiga ) Bite in Ashtang Hirdayam Uccitinga (crab) bites by this its mouth which causes severe pain, curable easily than the bite of scorpion, produces loss of movement/rigidity of the penis, horripilation and the person bitten pours cold water on the site of the bite. It (crab) is also known as ustradhuma and also as ratrika since it prowls only at nights. Visa dosa relationship. 13-14. Kita visa has predominance of vata pitta, that of kanabha (wasp) and undura (mouse) has predominance of slesma (kapha), that of vrscika (scorpion) and ustradhumaka (crab) probably has predominance of vata. 15.  The dosa, which soever presents, more nuber of symptoms should be assessed and treatment done for it, with drugs possessing opposite qualities. 16 Pain in the region of the heart, stoppage of movement of anila (vata) in the upward direction (expiration), engorgement, dilation or formation of net work of veins, pain in the bones and joints; rollin...

Scorpion bite (Vrischika dansa) and it Treatment in Ashtanda Hridyam of Vaghbhatt

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 Scorpion bite (Vrischika dansa) and it Treatment in Ashtanda Hridyam of Vaghbhatt A scorpion bite, known as Vrischika dansa in Ayurveda, can cause a range of symptoms, from localized pain and swelling to systemic effects like difficulty swallowing.  Treatment focuses on alleviating symptoms and preventing complications .  In severe cases, antivenom may be necessary, while mild cases may benefit from local treatments and over-the-counter pain relievers.   Scorpion bite The poison of the scorpion is penetrating, causes burning sensation in the beginning just like fire, spreads upwards quickly and then gets stabilised at the site of the bite; there is severe pain. blue colour, pricking and bursting pain at the site. 6-7a. They (scorpions) are born from the putrified dung of cow etc. cadaver of animals killed by poisoned arrow and cadaver of snakes and are of three kinds, viz manda visa (of mild poison), madhyavisa (of moderate poison) and mahavisa (of powerful poison)....

Treatment of Snake Bite Poison (Sarpavisa Pratisedha) in Ashtang Hridyam

Treatment of Snake Bite Poison (Sarpavisa Pratisedha) We will now expound the chapter– Sarpavisa Pratisedha (treatment of snake poisoning); thus said Atreya and other great sages. Snakes living on earth are, in brief, of three kinds viz. Darvikara (those having a hood) ; Mandalina (those having patches on their body) and Rajimanta (those having lines on their body); considered species-wise they are of many kinds, which are not described in detail here since it is not useful (for ayurveda). 1-2a.  Dry (non-unctuous, viscid) and pungent, sour and hot, sweet and cold are the qualities respectively, of poison especially of darvikara, etc. these cause aggravation of vata etc. 2b-3a. respectively.  Notes: The poison of hooded snake is dry, pungent and aggravates vata; that of the snake with patches is sour, hot in potency and aggravates pitta; that of the snake with stripes is sweet, cold in potency and aggravates kapha; these qualities have been inferred by the symptoms, appearing ...

Yoni Vyapat (disorders of the vagina) in Ashtanga Hridayam

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 Yoni Vyapat (disorders of the vagina) in Ashtanga Hridayam "Yoni Vyapat Chikitsa" translates to "treatment of vaginal disorders" in Ayurveda, a traditional Indian system of medicine. It encompasses a range of Ayurvedic therapies and practices aimed at addressing various gynecological conditions.  Twenty diseases of the vagina arise because of consuming bad food. 27b. Vatiki: Improper postures during lieing/sleeping, excess of sexual intercourse, vitiation of the menstrual flow, use of bad materials (as substitutes for the phallus), disorders of the seed (ovum) and effects of actions of previous lives-by these causes vata gets aggravated and produces pain, pricking and dilating types of pain, loss of sensation, feeling of ants crawling, loss of movement, roughness and noise (gas coming out with noise) and discharge of menstrual blood which is frothy, slight reddish black, thin and dry (non unctuous) drooping of groins and flanks, discomfort and gradual development o...

Causes of Diseases of Genital Organs in Ashtanga Hridyam

 Causes of Diseases of Genital Organs (Penis)  Indulging in copulation suddenly (for the second time) immediately after retiring from the first, copulating with women having their menstrual tract (vaging) vitiated by the dosas, congested, contaminated and greatly narrowed, copulating with the other vagina (of animals); with the woman who is unwilling, who is forbidden, who has just delevered; touching (washing the penis in) dirty water, not washing it at all after copulation, applying strong acting pastes (of drugs etc.) on the penis desiring its increase in size ; (penis) getting injured (bruised) from assault by the fist, teeth, nails and application of paste of poisonous insects, suppression of the urges, long contect with very rough materials, hit or blow (by accident)-by these causes the dosas become aggravated, get localised in the genital organ (penis) and produce 23 diseases such as upadamsa etc. 1-4.  Upadamsa Upadamsa is of five kinds; one from each dosa seperat...