World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

SHODHANA CHIKITSA IN COMPARISON WITH STRESS PHYSIOLOGY – A BIOMEDICAL VIEW

Dr. Mahajan Nitin and Dr. Mahajan Deepika*

ABSTRACT

The Shodhana Chikitsa, otherwise popularly known as Panchakarma Chikitsa, has gained much momentum in the past decades. Unfortunately, in spite of its evident therapeutic benefits the changes they stimulate when administered into the human body to bring about the disease cure is hitherto unexplored by biomedical principles. Deeper analysis of the therapeutic action guides to a hypothesis relating to Stress coping mechanism of the body’s physiology. Probably, it may be said, these therapies exhibit their action by stimulating a kind of eustress into the body physiology driving into force the body’s controlling and working systems to work in favour of re-establishing the lost homeostasis, i.e, the state of health. The article specifically highlights Snehapaana in the light of metabolic eustress, Swedana as thermal eustress and other purification processes (Vamana, Virechana and Vasti) as eustress by fluid imbalance. Whenever Sodhana Chikitsa produces Atiyoga, the condition can be termed as medically alarming type of stress and can’t be considered as therapeutics.

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