Ayurveda, which literally means the Science of life. Ayur means life Veda means science or Knowledge. Ayurveda is the traditional healing system of India. Often called the mother of all healing, it originated in India over 5000 years ago.
Ayurvedic medicines are made of various herbal extracts like plants, roots, tree’s etc. Your inner nature is called your constitution or prakruti and is an individual blend of the three doshas, Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. The unique balance of these three keeps a person healthy. It is their imbalance which causes disease. The disease is caused because of toxins created in the body over a period of time because of imbalanced diet, environment pollution etc.
This five-fold purification therapy which aims at correcting the imbalance of the body’s Doshas or bio energies (Vata, Pitta and Kapha) in order to maintain their inherent equilibrium and Ama, which forms as a result. Panchakarma treatments has three main stages: Poorvakarma, Pradhanakarma
Poorvakarma , the first stage, comprises essential preliminary procedures for preparing the body to unload stored toxins. The Panchakarma treatments help to loosen Ama (toxins) and move it out to the deep structures into the gastro-intestinal tract, where Panchakarma’s cleaning therapies can then eliminate it.
Pradhanakarma is the second stage and includes the main cleansing therapies. which involves procedures like Vamana, Virechana, Nasyam, Vasthi
Paschatakarma is the final stage and describes the measures employed after the main treatment, such as diet, medicines and daily routine.
