The Secrets To Elakizhi Ayurvedic Treatment

The word elakizhi is a malyalam word is a combination of two words that is

“ELA” meaning leaves and “KIZHI” means bundles.

Elakizhi refers to the sudation performed by specially prepared bundle of medicinal leaves.
Charak” grouped that under “ Sankar Sweda”.It is a highly rejuvenating treatment similar to Navarkizhi, except herbs are used in place of rice. Fresh leaves of anti Vata plants, such as Eranda (Ricinus communis), Arka (Calotropis Procera), Nirgundi (Vitex negundo), Rasna (Pluchea lanceolata), Coconut leaves, lemon and curcumin are fried with herbal ingredients and tied into cloth boluses.

Pre-Operative Measures :

• The patient are seated with leg extended over the Droni facing to the east direction.
• Abhyangam is performed with prescribed medicated oil all over the body for about 10 min.
• Talam with suitable oil / Choornam is applied.

Procedure :

The prepared Kizhi is  heated with suitable oil in a hot iron pan up to 40-45’c.
It is applied after checking the Temperature, throughout the body with mild pressure in seven prescribed position by two Attendant standing on both sides of the Droni.
Care is to maintain the temperature throughout  the procedure by reheating the the Kizhi.

Indication:

• Relieves body pain
• Arthritis problems
• Osteoarthritis
• Osteomyelitis
• Problems in lower back area
• Stiff joints
• Generalized body pain
• Spondilitis
• Paralysis
• Slipped Disc
• Gout
• Sciatica
• Reducing obesity
• Dryness of the skin
• Curative & Rejuvnative effect
• Improves muscles strength
• Numbness of legs
• improves the Blood circulation
• Improves the skin complexion & rejuvenates the body

Other Points :

• It can be done in a perfectly healthy person to enhance his / her immunity , vitality and longevity of life.
• it is powerful anti inflammatory treatment for muscular and joint inflammation
• Can promote better circulation within the affected area thereby promoting increased perspiration , which helps the skin to eliminate wastes .it is also helps to tone the skin (revitalization ) and can be superbly relaxing.
• Massage stimulates the nerves and helps to reduce pain.
• Treatment timing and intervals are assessed on the basis of the patient’s condition.

Uro Pichu Treatment

 Uro Pichu Treatment

Uras’ is the term that refers to the chest region. In this procedure medicated oil is retained in the chest region for a particular period of time. The completely sealed wall boundary is made with the paste of black gram powder or wheat powder in the uro (chest) region. The medicated oil is heated till it becomes lukewarm. This lukewarm medicated oil is then poured in to the space inside the walled boundary in a constant and continuous stream. It is retained there for a particular period of time. The medicated oil is soaked up, heated to become lukewarm and poured back again by adding fresh oil in it. This repeated during the whole procedure.

 This Treatment helps in maintaining strong muscles and connective tissues. It helps in preventing muscular chest pain. It is effective in certain inflammatory condition and muscular spasms related to the chest region. The duration of the treatment varies from 30 to 40 minutes depending up on the condition of the individual. Dhanwantaram tailam, sahacharadi tailam, bala tailam ect are some of the medicated oils used for uro pichu.

Benefits:
 
1) Uro pichu is a warming procedure of the chest area and the heart. This type of warming is used in the treatment of respiratory disease (disease of bronchii and lungs ), weakness of the cardiac muscles (myocardial dystropy).


2) Uro pichu improves the circulation and breathing functions.

3) Kundalini Yoga: It energizes the Anahata Chakra seated in the heart and thus gives positive influence on the heart and mind energizing the whole body.

4) Relieves stress and anxiety.

Indication: 
 
Coronary heart diseases
Angina
Bronchiectasis
Ischemic heart diseases
Cardiomayopathy
Asthma and other respiratory disorders

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What Kativasti is?

Kativasti is a highly effective treatment for back pain and spinal disorders in which warm medicated oil is retained inside an herbal paste boundary over the lower back.

How it is done?

First the patient is made to lie face down on the Droni or massage table. A rectangular or circular reservoir made of black gram dough is built up on the lower back, around the lumbo-sacral area. After ensuring that this is leak-proof, a lukewarm medicinal oilis slowly poured into it. The oil and the receptacle are kept on for about half an hour. During that period the oil is kept warm. After that the oil and the dough are both removed and the affected area may be gently massaged with the same oil. The therapy takes 45 minutes to 1 hour.

What diseases Kati Vasti helps to cure?

Chronic and acute backaches, Prolapsed disc, Lumbar Spondylosis, Osteoporosis, Sciatica.

What are the benefits of Kati Vasti beside direct treatment?

The treatment helps  to increase the blood circulation, strengthens muscle and connective tissues and lubricates the joints keeping them flexible and pain free.It stimulates and nourishes nerves relieving pain and numbness. Also it strengthens back muscles which maintain normal curvature of the spine.

Griva Basti Therapay

Griva Basti Therapay


Quite similar to the katibasti the procedure of applying heat to the cervical region by retaining warm medicated oil with in a specially formed frame on this area is known by the name Grivabasti. This basti is indicated in painful conditions of the cervical region like cervical spondylosis, spondylolisthesis, disc prolapse, ankylosing-pond it is, rheumatoid arthritis etc. The prescription of medicated oil for the therapy is similar to the katibasti

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To carry out the procedure of grivabasti the client is made to sit on a knee high stool, with his arm and head resting on a chest high table kept in front of him. In this position the trunk is slightly bent forwards, the neck is flexed and the forehead is resting on the table. This position of the client is most ideal for the grivabasti as the cervical region remains almost horizontal.GrivaBasti


 Therapay Griva Basti 

A frame of black gram paste is made around the painful cervical region. The junction between the frame and skin is sealed to make it leak proof. Warm medicated oil is poured into this frame. This warm oil heats the affected area inducing perspiration. This is followed by massage and fomentation to this part of the body. This is the procedure of grivabasti and is similar to the procedure of katibasti.

Janu Basti Therapy

How Janu Basti Therapy works?

Like in other hot oil therapy of Ayurvedic Tradition Janu Basti is also provided to the patient only by administering medicated oil rich with herbal extracts and so it should not be considered as something that can be practiced just in your convenience at home only by knowing the procedure involved to retain the oil on the surface of the knee in touching the skin.

The Ayurvedic therapist prepares the dough with special ingredients and with it a small dam shaped circumference is installed on the knees with an opening in the middle and through the wide opening of this dam warm medicated oil is poured on the knees and retained for some time as prescribed by the physician. Normally a typical Janu Basti Treatment prescribes a 30 minute to 45 minutes of time for retaining the oil preparation on the surface of the knee. Remember the oil touching the skin of the knee and nourishing deep inside the joints to relieve pain is the key element of this treatment and central to our consideration of health benefits of medicated Janu Basti.

Healing Consequences of Janu Basti Therapy

Immediate healing consequences of Janu Basti or long term health benefits of medicated Janu Basti are numerous. Apart from great relief from regular joint pain in the knee Janu Basti eases your body movement as a whole. After Janu Basti as you are relieved from aching pain in your knees your body movements would increase substantially and that again can result in numerous good effects on the body. Janu Basti is a must do remedy for chronic arthritis, joint pains, and orthopedic problems.

Amavata and Ayurveda

Amavata- means accumulation of Ama (apakwa rasa) in joints leads to the disease called as Amavata.
 
This is very painful condition of arthritis.
Ama- Viated dosha causes agnimandya (sluggish diagestion).Due to agnimandya the diagestive juice which was formed was Apakwa (unproperly diagested/immature). This apakwa rasa goes through the circulation in all over tissue and body organs. As it is immature tissue can take it but can not metabolise it .Therefore it remains as it is in cell.This Ama was sticky in nature.It blocked the all small channels in the body due to this body cells and tissues  do not get proper nutrition. And this leads to the multiple damage of organs and tissues.

Causes-
Viruddha ahar sevan
Ati guru ahar sevan-Heavy food
Atibhojan/Ajirnashana- Intake of food in very much quantity or intake of food befor its diagestion
Mandagni-sluggish diagestion
Avyayama-Lack of exersice
Nischala-sedentory life style
Snigdha,madhur bhojanam-intake of oily food and sweet things
Diwaswap-Day sleeping
Intake of fermented food

Pathogenesis-
Due to all mentioned causes ama is formed in body.The viated Vata pushes this ama to all over the body through blood circulation.This viated vata pushes this ama mainly in to the shleshma sthana(kapha Pradesh) i.e in joints and muscles.This viated vata and kapha was combined with morbid pitta which cause the further corrosing of ama .This corrosive ama destroys any tissue and organs with which it comes in to contact.

Pre dormal Signs And Symptoms(Purvaroopa)

• Angamarda-Fatigue
• Aruchi-tastelessness,lack of appetite
• Trishna-excessive thirst
• Aalasya-loss of energy,lethargy
• Jwar-fever
• Gaurava-body heaviness
• Shunyata-swelling over joints
• Muscle and joint aches

Main Signs and symptoms-
Saruja shopha-Painful swelling over the all joints
Vrishikadanshavata vedana-Pricking sensation injoints
Praseka-excessive salivation
Aruchi
Gourav
Utsaha hani-lack of enthusiasm
Daaha-burning sensation in joints
Bahumutrata-increased frequency of urine
Shool-pain in all over body
Kukshi kathinya—Hardness of abdomen
Bhrama-giddiness
Murchha-Faintaing
Anaha-Flatulence

• Stiffness of joints, especially during morning hours (morning stiffness)

Also, during flares joints becomes warm, red and swollen. The small joints of both hands and wrists are usually involved.
Tests-
Blood tests-ESR
RA Factor
X-ray of Joint
Management Of RA With Ayurveda
Modern science has no known cure for rheumatoid arthritis. The role of treatment in RA is to reduce joint inflammation and pain, maximize joint function and prevent joint destruction and deformity.
Physical therapy has no curative effect for arthritis nor does it alter the course of the disease process. The objectives of physical therapy are analgesia, maintenance of normal ranges of motion in involved joints, maintenance of normal power in muscles involved, protection of joints against additional trauma that might result in further structural deterioration / deformity.
Amavata: The Ayurvedic Correlation To Rheumatoid Arthritis
In Ayurveda, the clinical correlation of RA is Amavata. The following line of treatment is explained in the classical Ayurvedic texts for Amavata.

1. Langhana (Fasting)
2. Shodhana chikitsa (purification of the body)-Done by Panchkarma
3. Shamana chikitsa (treatment to reduce symptoms)-Done with Using medicines

Panchakarma-
Swedan-By valuka pottali,or patrapottali

4. Virechana-purgation by medicines like shunthi siddha eranda tail,abhayadi modaka
5. Vasti-Medicated oil’s enema

Generally vaitaran basti or kshar basti or dashmula eranda basti is used in Amavata

6. Dhanyamla dhara
7. Upnaha-Poultices
8. Lepanam-Application of medicated paste on affected part
9. Raktamokshana-Jalukavacharana- withdrawl of blood with the help of Leech

Shaman-
Tikta ,katu dravya sevan-deepaniya dravyasevan-which promotes the diagestion
Mdicines like
Sunthyadi kwath
Pippalyadi kwath
Guduchyadi kwath
Eranda tail
Panchkola churna
Sihnaad guggul
Triphala guggul
Amrutadi guggul
Maharasnadi guggula
Mahayograj guggul
Rasnaerandadi kashayam
Amritarishtham
Amavatari Rasa

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RA Diet And Lifestyle Regimen

• Avoid curd, fish, milk, urad dal and jaggery
• Exposure to cold and clumsy weather should be avoided
• Fermented products should be avoided
• Avoid use of curd
• Consume horse gram, ginger, bitter gourd and drumsticks
• Intake of garlic is advised
• Avoid day time sleep
• Evacuate bowels regularly
• Always use warm water to drink and for taking a bath
• Reduce stress by practicing yoga and meditation
• Weight should be controlled, avoid a high fat diet