Damaruvata, Ḍamaruvāta, Damaru-vata: 1 definition

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Ayurveda (science of life)

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Source: Ancient Science of Life: Vaidyavallabha: An Authoritative Work on Ayurveda Therapeutics

Ḍamaruvāta (डमरुवात) or Tāṅḍavaroga refers to Vyaṅga (Facial melanosis) and is dealt with in the 17th-century Vaidyavallabha written by Hastiruci.—The Vaidyavallabha is a work which deals with the treatment and useful for all 8 branches of Ayurveda. The text Vaidyavallabha has been designed based on the need of the period of the author, availability of drugs during that time, disease manifesting [viz., ḍamaruvāta] in that era, socio-economical-cultural-familial-spiritual-aspects of that period Vaidyavallabha.

In this [ḍamaru-vāta] disease, tremors starts from right upper limb and gradually move towards left side. Later it shifts to both lower limbs and at the end, tremor of whole body occurs. The manifestation is similar to dance of Lord Śiva with the instrument Ḍamaru. It is also called as tāṇḍava-roga. May be correlated to Tremors or Parkinson's disease

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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