Treatment of Hṛdayāmaya (Heart disease)

Heart disease is mentioned in Ṛgveda and Atharvaveda. The term heart disease refers to the Hṛdayāmaya, Hṛddyota and Hṛddyotana. Heartburn, tremors and pain are called heart disease or Hṛdayāmaya. According to Ācārya Suśruta, if the velocity of excrement is stopped, a person indulges in excessive consumption of hot and dry food, there is adhyaśana, indigestion, then perverted defects enter the heart, contaminates the blood and causes obstruction in the heart, which is called heart disease^[1]. The Ṛgveda and the Atharvaveda speak of natural remedies for heart disease by treatment of the blood and obstruction of the heart using the following methods of treatment-Sunrays' treatment, Moon rays' treatment and Hydrotherapy. The short rule of sunrays treatment is that a person with heart disease and pāṇḍu roga should be sitting in front of the rising sun for at least fifteen minutes every morning. Take off your clothes in summer and light clothes in winter so that the rays of the sun fall directly on the chest and at that time Ouṃ or Gāyatrī will chant the mantra. This eliminates the deformity of the heart. Fill the bottle with water wrapped in orange paper and leave it in the sun for at least six hours, drinking that water four to five times a day. Even if you take sun rays on your chest with orange coloured glass, it benefits the heart. Chandrakiraṇa also has provisions for treatment in this way^[2]. In Chandrakiraṇa treatment, water, milk and ointment are kept overnight and then applied. Under the influence of the moon's rays, that water or coating removes all the defects in the body and eliminates heart disease.

The Atharvaveda also provides for hydrotherapy in the same way. The Atharvaveda says that water is the best medicine. Drink at least 2-3 litres of water every morning. One should wake up in the morning and drink a glass of water before defecation which keeps the stomach clean. Drink warm water in case of the disease. śuddha Gaṅgā water and flowing river water is more beneficial. With eight to ten basil leaves in water then heated and then drunk, all diseases are eliminated. In the Atharvaveda, the deer's horn is said to be a destroyer of genetic heart disease. Because deer antlers have medicinal properties.