Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy
author: Pulak Kanti Kar
edition: 2013, Chaukhamba Sanskrit Pratishthan
pages: 1445
Topic: Ayurveda
List of common sneha dravya
This chapter describes List of common sneha dravya located on page 33 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 List of common sneha dravya. 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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Philosophy of Charaka-samhita [by Asokan. G]
When the paradigunas are common to all substances irrespective of whether they are spiritual or physical, the attributes in the gurvadi list are common to the physical substances only. So the gurvadi gunas can be treated as general physical qualities. (* 1) ruparasagandhasparshah samkhya parimanani prithaktvam samyogavibhagau paratvaparatve buddhayah sukhadukhe icchadveshau praytnashca gunah....
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Nyaya-Vaisheshika categories (Study) [by Diptimani Goswami]
Qualities (14): Sneha (Viscidity). The next quality in the list of twenty-four qualities is sneha (viscidity). This quality is the special quality as it is found only in one substance. According to Prashastapada sneha is oiliness and it is the special quality of ap (water). This quality is nitya in atoms of ap and anitya in composite ones. This quality is regarded as the cause of forming lump of powdered objects....
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Yoga-sutras (Ancient and Modern Interpretations) [by Makarand Gopal Newalkar]
These are— Colour (rupa) Taste (rasa) Smell (gandha) Touch (sparsha) Number (sankhya) Measures (parimana) Separateness (prithakatva) Conjunction (samyoga) Disconjunction (vibhaga) Remoteness (paravatva) Proximity (aparatva) Cognition (buddhi) Pleasure (sukha) Pain (duhkha) Desire (iccha) Aversion (dvesha) Effort (prayatna) Heaviness (gurutva) Fluidity (dravatva) Viscidity (sneha) Faculty (samskara) Merit (dharma) Demerit (adharma) Word (shabda) Some of the above qualities are common (samanya) and some...
Read full contents: Part 3b - Astika Darshana (2): Vaisheshika School
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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)]