Eight branches of Ayurveda

JAY SHREE POOJYASHREE SHREE AMMA
JAY MAHAN BRAHMASHREE GOPALAVALLIDASAR
JAY SHREE RADHEKRISHNA SATHSANG

Dear Readers,
Radhekrishna to all!

We hope that our readers have maintained their respective new year resolutions taken with tons of enthusiasm. We also hope that our readers have started devoting a small portion of time every day for doing Namajapam.

Coming to our articles, you have known the eight specialties of Ayurveda in the last article. In this post, we will describe those eight specialties in detail.

1. Kaya Chikitsa: Kaya means the living human body, which includes body and mind both. It includes both, the visible body as well as the subtle body. Kayachikitsa is that medicinal branch which includes all the diseases situated in the body like fever.

2. Sala – Saalaakyam (Urdhvanga Chikitsa): Urdhvanga means the organs situated above the neck and the treatment of eyes, ears, nose, throat and head is Urdhvanga chikitsa or shalakya.

3. Salya + apa + hartrkam (Shalya Chikitsa): Shalya Chikitsa is the branch of ancient Indian surgery that describes in detail about the pre-operative procedures, general procedures, post-operative procedures, marma’s (vital points) and also about anesthesia. The description of the types of bandages, shastra (sharp instruments), yantras (blunt instruments), and sutures (stitches) has been described in this branch.

4. Visha + gara + vairodhika + pra + samanam (Damastra Chikitsa): Damastra chikitsa is the branch which includes the science of poison.

…. to be continued

Section II : Information about Indian herbs

Coming to our section on Indian herbs, the herb we will tell you about is named Machhechi Booti (Hindi).

· It’s a small spreading herb growing in ponds when they start drying up in the summer heat.

· It’s a good remedy for piles

· It is also used in prescriptions for salves and ointments for drying up wounds

That concludes the post for this forth night.

Sarvam Guruvaarpanam