Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy
author: Pulak Kanti Kar
edition: 2013, Chaukhamba Sanskrit Pratishthan
pages: 1445
Topic: Ayurveda
Lepa
This chapter describes Lepa located on page 118 from volume Volume 4 in the book Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy compiled by Pulak Kanti Kar. This book presents a Comprehensive view of Panchakarma and includes therapeutic modules and references for the Ayurvedic practitioners. Panchakarma registers the mechanism of the action of Ayurvedic drug..
Volume 4 deals with the principles and Practice of Panchakarma:—The subject is presented in such a way that Ayurvedic people can realise the matter with a ration vision and can perform the therapy in daily practice.
This book fully covers every detail related to Panchakarma (methods for eliminating toxic elements from the body). For example, this chapter describes Lepa. The five methods are known as Vamana (‘emesis’), Virecana (‘purgation’), Asthapana (‘non-unctuous enema’), Anuvasana (‘unctuous enema’) and Shiro-Virechana (‘head-evacuation’ or ‘snuffing’).
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Lepa” according to 11 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Atharvaveda and Charaka Samhita [by Laxmi Maji]
The general treatment of Shiroroga includes Mayura Ghrita, Mahamayura Ghrita, Baladi lepa and Rasnadi lepa etc. Mouth disease is four types. Arocaka or Anorexia is caused by Aggravated Vayu, etc. , mental factors like grief fear, excessive greed, anger etc. there are five types of Arocaka. Ear disease caused by the simultaneous aggravation of all the three doshas. Ear diseases are four types. Eye disease caused by the simultaneous aggravation of all the three doshas....
Read full contents: Trimarmiya (conditions of the bladder, heart and head)
The Markandeya Purana [by Frederick Eden Pargiter]
And those who are related by the lepa are said to be the three others reckoning upwards from the grandfather s grandfather: and the celebrant is the seventh among them. Such have Munis declared this seven-ancestral relationship tobe, reckoning from the celebrant upwards. And there-above are those beyond participation in the lepa....
Read full contents: Canto XXXI - Description of the Parvana Shraddha
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 1: Initiation, Mercury and Laboratory [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
Transformation of metals are of various kinds, viz, (1) lepa, (2) kshepa, (3) kunta, (4) dhuma, (5) shabda, and (6) sparsha....
Read full contents: Part 20 - Mercurial operations (18): Transformation of base metals into gold by mercury (bedhana)
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[Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy: index]
[About the Author (Pulak Kanti Kar)]
[Introduction vol 1 (essentials of Panchakarma)]
[Introduction vol 2 (applied Instruments in Panchakarma)]
[Introduction vol 3 (mechanism of Panchakarma)]
[Introduction vol 4 (practice of Panchakarma)]