{"title":"SIGNIFICANCE OF SHARIR RACHANA (ANATOMY) IN POSITION OF GIVING BASTI AND NASYA","authors":"Jyoti Gangwal, Sanjay Kholiya","doi":"10.46607/iamj1508122020","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Ayurveda, the science of life which deals with the maintenance of physical, mental and spiritual well-being of an individual has its origin thousands of years ago from Vedic period. Among the four Vedas, Atharva Veda contributes more to Ayurveda. Ayurveda is also considered as fifth Veda or Upaveda. Ayurveda is divided into eight main branches for the convenience in clinical practice. They are Shalya Tantra, Shala-kya Tantra, Kaya Chikitsa, Kumarabritya, Bhuta Vidhya, Agada Tantra, Rasayana and Vajikarana Tantra. In Kaya Chikitsa there are some therapeutic procedures included which was mentioned by ancient Achar-ya. They are five in number. Nowadays these procedures have their separate branch, known as Pan-chaKarma. Present article only based on position of giving Basti and Nasya. Correct position during these procedures helps in benefits of therapy. According to Acharya Charak Vaman, Virechana, Niruha Basti (Asthapana Basti), Anuvasana Basti, Nasya are the five procedures of PanchaKarma. He mentioned fur-ther types of Basti and Nasya in Chikitsa Sthan.","PeriodicalId":20643,"journal":{"name":"Proposed for presentation at the 2020 Virtual MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit held November 27 - December 4, 2020.","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proposed for presentation at the 2020 Virtual MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit held November 27 - December 4, 2020.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.46607/iamj1508122020","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ayurveda, the science of life which deals with the maintenance of physical, mental and spiritual well-being of an individual has its origin thousands of years ago from Vedic period. Among the four Vedas, Atharva Veda contributes more to Ayurveda. Ayurveda is also considered as fifth Veda or Upaveda. Ayurveda is divided into eight main branches for the convenience in clinical practice. They are Shalya Tantra, Shala-kya Tantra, Kaya Chikitsa, Kumarabritya, Bhuta Vidhya, Agada Tantra, Rasayana and Vajikarana Tantra. In Kaya Chikitsa there are some therapeutic procedures included which was mentioned by ancient Achar-ya. They are five in number. Nowadays these procedures have their separate branch, known as Pan-chaKarma. Present article only based on position of giving Basti and Nasya. Correct position during these procedures helps in benefits of therapy. According to Acharya Charak Vaman, Virechana, Niruha Basti (Asthapana Basti), Anuvasana Basti, Nasya are the five procedures of PanchaKarma. He mentioned fur-ther types of Basti and Nasya in Chikitsa Sthan.