Abstract

Himanshu Sharma* and Pushpinder Singh

ABSTRACT

The Samshodhana Chikitsa of Ayurveda, which includes Panchkarma treatment, basically intends to eliminate the morbid Doshas from the body and thereby enhances the immunity of the body. The group of five purification measures comprising of Vamana, Virechana, Basti, Nasya, Raktmokshana. Purification is given more importance because disease once cured by pacification may circumstantially be provoked again, where as it cannot ever do so once it is totally expelled by biopurification method. Shodhana is necessary because without this any palliative treatment do not work properly Among the Panchkarma therapy by Virechana, Pitta Dosha clears not only from the Amashaya but from all over the body i.e., from cellular level. It is worth mentioning that Virechana Karma, unlike the modern purgatives, is not merely an act to clean the bowel, but it is a complete therapeutic measure which has systemic as well as local effects.