Critical Review of Swedana Karma w.s.r. to Physical Medicine
Journal Title: International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharmaceutical Chemistry - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
Panchakarma a penta purificatory measure is sub branch of ayurveda. Oldest medicine of health systems in the world widely accepted among large segments of populations. Swedana is major procedure of panchakarma. Due to its versatility it shows its effectiveness in curing almost all systems by causing vasodilatation, improving blood circulation. Swedana comes under shadupakramas. In Swedana different heating modalities are explained, using moist air, steam, poultice etc., in this paper attempt of comparison on basis of the principle of sudation, a correlation is done. In physical medicine, using different physical properties like light, water, etc., treatment is done. In Ayurveda, sudation consists of vapors in different forms that imparts due to its medicinal action, therapeutic action of the Swedana karma
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P. Sushma, Ch. Sadanandam
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