Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy
author: Pulak Kanti Kar
edition: 2013, Chaukhamba Sanskrit Pratishthan
pages: 1445
Topic: Ayurveda
Panchakarma Resort
This chapter describes Panchakarma Resort located on page 141 from volume Volume 3 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 3 deals with the mechanism of Panchakarma and its module of Investigation:—The utensils and instruments, which were used in ancient period, are mentioned here along with their modulated form which can be used in the sophisticated set up.
This book fully covers every detail related to Panchakarma (methods for eliminating toxic elements from the body). For example, this chapter describes Panchakarma Resort. 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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Charaka Samhita (English translation) [by Shree Gulabkunverba Ayurvedic Society]
The Fivefold Purificatory Therapy (panchakarma-siddhi). 1. We shall now expound the chapter entitled “The Success in Treatment through the Quinary Procedures—Fivefold Purificatory Therapy [pancakarma—panchakarma-siddhi]. ” 2. Thus declared the worshipful Atreya. 3. In whom, O, Agnivesha! and for what reason the quinary purificatory therapy [pancakarma—panchakarma] is contra-indicated and in whom it is indicated—all this, will now be described....
Read full contents: Chapter 2 - The Fivefold Purificatory Therapy (panchakarma-siddhi)
Atharvaveda and Charaka Samhita [by Laxmi Maji]
This is only disease where pancakarma is contradicted. Kapha associated with medas afflicts vayu and pitta to cause spasticity of the thighs characterized by their stiffness and coldness because of which the ailment is called Urustambha. The symptoms of Urustambha are as follows: stiffness and coldness of thighs, lassitude of thighs, and incapability to move....
Read full contents: Urustambha (spasticity of thigh) according to Caraka
Sushruta Samhita, volume 1: Sutrasthana [by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna]
(Panca-Karma), usually ends in death. A case of piles attended with thirst, aversion to food, colic pain, excessive hemorrhage, anasarca (Shopha) of the locality, and dysentery is soon relieved by death. A patient suffering from an attack of fistula in ano, characterised by an emission of flatus (Vayu), urine, fecal matter, worms and semen through the ulcerated locality, should be given up as lost....
Read full contents: Chapter XXXIII - Fatal Signs of Diseases
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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)]