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Ayurveda

Prime Treatments in Ayurveda

DHARA

Dhara or Sirassekam is also a special treatment practiced in Kerala. Medicated oil, medicated butter milk , cows milk or human

breast milk are allowed to freely flow over the upper part of the fore head continuously for specific periods.

The patient will be lying on the Dharapathi and the fluid flows out of a hole in a vessel hung at a prescribed height. The fluid is selected on a diagnosis of the patient’s ailment.
Indications of Thakradhara are premature graying of hair, fatigue, headache, lack of vitality, rheumatic complaints, diabetes, dislocation of joints, anorexia, dyspepsia, diseases of eye, ear, nose and throat. Sthanyadhara is indicated in Hyperpyrexia. Tailadhara is done for sinusitis, headache and paralysis. e.g. Bell’s Palsy, Hemiplegia etc.

VASTHI

Certain herbal oils, herbal extracts etc. are applied throughout the rectum daily for a period of 5 to 25 days. This treatments is for Arthritis, Paralysis, Hemipllegia, Numbness, Gastric complaints associated with Rheumatism and constant Constipation.

SIROVASTHI

In Sirovasti, medicated oil is made to stand on the patient’s head for specific periods. The oil is contained in a close-fitting leather cap, made leak proof with black-gram powder. Constant temperature conditions are maintained throughout.
This treatment is indicated for loss of tactile sensation, facial paralysis, sleeplessness, dryness of nostrils and throat, increased intracular pressure, severe chronic headache etc.

UDVARTHANAM

This is a typical massage with herbal powders for about 30 minutes daily for a period of 14 to 28 days. This treatment is for the diseases like hemiplegia, paralysis, obesity (excess fat) and certain rheumatic ailments.

ABHYANGAM

Special type of oil massage in which strokes are given according to the diseases for 45 minutes per day for 14 days. This treatment is very useful for Obesity, especially for Diabetic gangerene (a condition due to lack of blood circulation in the extremities of the body) etc.