AYURVEDA
Ayurveda is a traditional medicine system of India. It is a scientific art to live a healthy life. ‘Ayu’- means life, veda means knowledge. That is science or Knowledge about healthy life.
According to Hindu mythological beliefs, the founder of universe god Brahma who first taught Ayurveda to Daksha Prajapati & then in turn he taught to the twin Physician cum gods Aswin Kumars, then it passed to Lord of heaven Indra and finally it passed to different sages.
Ayurveda is based on the prime theory of five Elemental theory and three dosha principles.
Everything in the universe as well as the human body is comprised by the five elements- called as Panchabhoota.
They are :-
1 | Aakasha | Space |
2 | Vayu | Air |
3 | Agni | Fire |
4 | Jala | Water |
5 | Prithivi | Earth |
The three Dosha are biological humors or psycho physiological energies which governs our body .
Vata, Pitta, Kapha
All three Doshas are present throughout the body, with each one predominating at certain sites and performing specific functions. They are represented as the whole metabolism which is going on in our body.
Vata is like kinetic force which is related to movements and compared to catabolic process. Kapha is like potential force which is related to supporting, lodging and can compare to anabolic process.
Pitta is like stimulant – which stimulate either vata or Kapha. It can compare to metabolic process.These Vata, Pitta, Kapha are maintaining the health of an individual in Equilibrium State. When they are not in Equilibrium it may cause Diseases.
Ayurveda defines the intelligent Co ordination of the four Parts of life.
Atma | Soul |
Manas | Mind |
Indriyas | Senses |
Sharira | Body |
Each of these have specific functions and maintaining Balance and any imbalance leads to various ailments.
Seven Dhatus
Dhatus which denote structural components of our body named as Saptdha Dhatus
1 | Rasa | Plasma fluid |
2 | Rakta | Blood |
3 | Mamsa | Muscle |
4 | Meda | Adipose tissue /Fat |
5 | Asti | Bone & Cartilage |
6 | Majja | Bone marrow |
7 | Shukra | Semen/ Ovam/ Reproductory fluids |
Food Consumption – nourished our body through the particular fashion of seven steps one by one. Finally reached semen or ovam of our Reproductive system.
These seven Dhatus hold up our body in a balanced state and provide strength of life. When they are not in Balance, it may cause Disease.
Pancha Karma is a unique Procedure to detoxify, and to bring normal position of imbalanced Doshas. They have five Procedures.
Vamana | Therapeutic Vomiting |
Virechana | Therapeutic Purgation |
Niruhavasti | Cleansing enemas/ Non oily enemas |
Anuvasana Vasti | Oleation enemas |
Nasya | Administration of medicines through nasal route |
Some other Procedures for detoxification and to cure diseases are:
1 | Kativasti | Warm medicated oil is kept in lower back region of the body with the help of thick black gram paste encircled as boundary over the Low Back region when the Patient lies in prone position. This is effective for ailment related to Back bone and disc. |
2 | Meruvasti | Medicated oil is kept on whole the back bone. This is ffective for ailment related to back bone and disc |
3 | Januvansti | Medicated oil is kept over knee Joint with the help of black gram paste as boundary. This is effective for degenerative diseases of Knee Joint. |
4 | Hrudyavasti | Medicated oil is kept over chest with black gram paste boundary. This is effective for Heart diseases, asthma and muscle pain of chest. |
5 | Nabhee Vasti | Medicated oil is kept over umbilicus with the help of black gram paste Boundary. This is effective for ailments related to digestive system. |
6 | Sirovasti | Warm medicated oil is retained on the head for a particular period with the help of suitable cap around the head. This is effective for cervical Spondylosis, Hemiplegia, Facial palsy and ailments related to Head. |
7 | Navarakizhi | Massage the body with cooked Navara rice, Cow’s milk, Herbal decoction mixture which is packed by linen cloth. This is effective for ailments related to muscle atrophy, Hemiplegia and Rheumatism. |
8 | Pizhichal | A type of fomentation therapy in which warm oil is squeezed / poured all over the body/ Specific part for a stipulated period in a Specific manner along with simple massage. It is effective in Neurological problems, ankylosing spondilitis, Rheumatoid arthritis etc. |
9 | Sarvang dhara | Warm herbal decoction or oil poured all over the body in a rhythmic way using special vessels/ Dhara pots. This is effective for ailments related to Hemiplegia and rheumatism etc. |
10 | Shirodara | Luke warm oil/ Herbal decoction/ medicated milk is continuously poured on the fore head by using special apparatus. This is effective in Head ache, Migrane, Insomnia, Neurological disorders revitalization of body and mind. |
11 | Akshi Tarpana | Medicated ghee is retained via cavity made over eyes with the help of black gram paste. This is effective for stress, eye strain and improves eye sight. |
12 | Karna Poornam | Medicated oil or ghee/ Herbal juice is poured into the ear. This is effective for the ailments related to inflammatory & degenerative ear disorders, difficulty in hearing and Head ache etc. |
13 | Gandoosa | Medicated oil or dection is kept in mouth. This is used for glowing face, wringed check and disorders of teeth, mouth and throat. |
14 | Utsadana | Medicated oil is poured entire body and specific massage carried on. This is used for ailments related to muscle pain arthritis etc. |
15 | Sirolepa | It is a method of application of certain medicinal herbs paste to the head. This is used for ailments related to head & eye diseases, insomnia and psychological disorders. |
Ashtang Ayurvedha
Which comprises all Ayurvedic medical knowledge in eight division. For easy understanding.
Kaya Chikitsa | General medicine |
Kaumar Bjaritya | Treatment related to pregnant women and babies. |
Bhoot Vidya | Demonology and Psychiatric medicine |
Shalakya Chikitsa | Diseases- deals with supraclavicular region, ENT & Eye |
Shalya Chikitsa | Extraction of Foreign bodies. |
Agad- tantra | Allevation of Poision, by using antagonising medicines |
Rasayana | Rejuvenation/ Geriatrics |
Bajikarna | Related to treatment and management of sexual disorders. |
SIDDHA
Many more traditional systems were followed throughout the world as their own specificated climates and environment depending upon the culture of them. Among those most of them were disappeared gradually in pass time. Some of them are being steadily. In those systems the very best system that has been followed still now is siddha. It is not proud, and is true, why because the human race which has started its life from the continent of “Lemuria” the united part of Asia, Africa and Australia. The people belong to this continent wandering here and there for the daily prey as animals. And this wandering flow of life, which has taught more and more knowledge about the nature and its hidden secretes that embedded in an each part of it, and from this knowledge it had produced some stalwarts also. They were called as Arivar, Aranar, Munivar at that time, the centuries passed they were called as siddhas. They had fixed principles about life and movements within the nature. The life devoted by them is also purely nature. The meaning of siddham is clear mind, pure intelligent and pure knowledge. The siddhars means the true person of nature having tremendous power with great intelligence, knowledge and intellectual mind.
They had got tremendous transcendental knowledge from meditation. They discovered and invented more and more amazed things by intuition with the help of blissful light illuminated in to them.
Names of Siddhas:
Number of eminent and efficient siddhars has been found out in various records at various periods. Among those siddhars “Sivan” is considered as the earliest siddhar of the known records. The records about the siddhars lived before him were not available. He collected all the experienced and intuited knowledge before him to serve the humanity. On the basis he had made disciples to develop this to our ancestors. Followed by him many more siddhars formed.
The siddhars had lived as socialist, Physicist, Chemist, Astronomies and as Psychiatrist. They had furnished their knowledge through vocal manuscripts by the selection of appropriate disciples after undergoing various examinations. They had flourished their knowledge as rhymes of their own etymological words. The ordinary meaning does not give the inner value of their knowledge. The experts and the traditional only could understand the original meaning their rhymes. The each and every word that they have given by the siddhars are embedded more and more scientific facts that they were not still find out by the modern scientist. The scientific facts found out by the siddhars in unspecilitated period make the scientist to keep their fingers on the nose. (The scientists are getting surprise).
Siddha Medicine:
It is one of the ancient system of medicines, having very cutes principles. The medicines are prepared from Herbal, Metal, Minerals, Animal and its products.
A group of familiar siddhars are called as Navanatha Siddhars and Pathinen Siddhars. The names of pathinen siddhars are getting vary from records to records, but the first siddhar of all treatise is Agastiar.
Agathiyar Pulathiyar Thirumoolar Nanthi devar Idaikadar Bhogar Punnakkeesar Pulikkesar Konnar Alukanni Paampatti Kuthambai Karuvurar Agapai Theraiyar Chattaimuni Poonaikannan Kaalangi | Agathiya Idaikadar Rama devar Kamala muni Kuthambai Konganavar Korakkar Sundarananthar Chattai muni Macha muni Pathanchali Pampaddeesar Bhogar Potha guru Dhanvanthiri Thirumoolar Nantheesar Valmeegi | Agathiyar Thirumoolar Kaalangi Bhogar Pulippani Chattaimuni Machamuni Ramadevar Kamala muni Romarizi Karuvurar Idaikadar Sundarananthar Agapei Paampatti Theraiyar Yugimuni Yakkobu | Kalasamuni Pulathiyar Kagapusandar Bhogar Korakkar Machamuni Thanvanthiri Rama devar Siva vakkiyar Sundarananthar Kadaipillai Pulippani Kamala muni Pirama rizi Karunananthar Uroma rizi Paavendar Kaakkeyar -Kurugulam Textbook |
18 Siddhar
- Agathiyar
- Bhogar
- Korakkar
- Kailasa nathar
- Chattaimuni
- Thirumoolar
- Nanthi
- Koonkannar
- Konganar
- Machamuni
- Vaasamuni
- Koormamuni
- Kamalamuni
- Idaikadar
- Punnakkeesar
- Sundarananthar
- Uromarizi
- Piramma muni
- – Abithana sinthamani
The Navanatha Siddhas
- Chathuvanathar
- Chaloganathar
- Athinathar
- Arulinathar
- Mathankanathar
- Matchendranathar
- Kadayendra nathar
- Korakkanathar
- Kukkidanathar
The siddha medical science that had given by them is also very wonderful when we compared with other systems. The arrangements of 32 internal and 32 external medicines are the first impressed thing one to others.
Then the calcinations of high melting pointed metals in simple manner are also is very wonderful. The alchemy system of mercury to gold by the reduction of its atoms from 80 to 79 respectively is one of the amazed thing that when we realized. The meaningful word about this alchemy process is very difficult to understand even still now.
They believed that only the nature and their own body (Physical body). The nature reacts with the physical body, which contains subtle body to react with the natured energy and the vital body to react to both and bound with one another. The very secrets flows from nature are recorded in the vital body and the future deviations will also depending upon it. A man if he protects the physical body with the help of nature he never get die without his own will. This is the major principles of siddhas.
One can live without any detect if he activate the secret flow of energy embedded inside the physical body with the help of pranic energy and mind. The pranic energy reactive centres bring some good and evil effects when they are activated depending upon the activation methods. Hence the science which dealt about the pranic energy reactive is called as “Varma science”. The meaning is it brings something good (or) evil things.
The very most fundamental principles that followed by siddhas are no things that can create without existing materials.
“One from the exits another one they never get destroys but changed to another form”.
The universe formed from pure unknown substances. The substances react with one another to form more and more pressure increased they were getting changes and while a great sound will evolve with light. Then the substances scattered with the sound and light by bombarding outwardly getting stability and they become gets the characteristic properties of its stabled nature. And the living organisms were formed with the mattering tendency to produce itself to their offspring of its own peculiar nature of characteristic features. This principle is known as Siva thathuvam the most famous known siddhar of ancient. He had started to teach all the exist knowledge, that he knew to the disciples (or) to published all this secret of natural to the development of the future generation. Hence the fundamental principle was known a Siva Thathuvam. He becomes worshipped as Lord siva.
But lord siva who followed sivam principles. The siva principles were pure natured in the unknown time. “This means pure light and pure love”. If one who takes efforts to find out this light with pure love (mind) without any confusion can achieve the vision of true nature through his physical body.
The physical body has more and more efficient to the eminent physical reactive centres to show all the secrets hidden inside the nature with our will body.
Siddha system of medicine which has a unique diagnosis method to identify diseases without using modern techniques. They are eight in numbers called as Envagai Thervu (Eight type of testing methods).
- Tongue – Colour of tongue which reveals the type and condition of the diseases.
- Colour and shining of face and body – According to this method siddhars judged the fatality condition with time limitation.
- Speech -With the help of tone and type of speech. Siddhars diagnosed the diseases and found out duration of
- Eye – Through colour of eye lid, eye, tear and vision. Siddhars diagnosis the diseases.
- Touch sensation – Temperature variation, Soften and harden of sensitive areas of the body which reveals the curability and fatality.
- Motion – Colour and consistency of motion which shows the diseases.
- Urine – Colour, Smell, Foam, Sedimentation of urine which indicate the disease and curability. Urine test is done by pouring a drop of gingily oil in a vessel containing urine in which spreading pattern of oil reveals the disease condition curability and fatality.
- Nadi – Pulse is a specific method to identify diseases.
Index finger indicate vatham
Middle finger indicate pitham
Ring finger indicate kabam in the Ratio of 1: ½:1/4 impulse volume.
Any variation in this vatham, pitham, kabam, impulse volume which indicates diseases and can find out curability and fatality.
Siddhars compile the all matters dealing with body and soul in to 96 principles called as “Thathuvam -96”.
They are:-
1 | POOTHAM – Ìî‹ (Grosser elements) – Five in number | Man (ñ‡) – Earth Neer (c˜) – Water Thee (b) – Fire Vayu (õ£») – Air Aagayam (Ýè£ò‹) – Space |
2 | PORI – ªð£P (Sensory organs) – Five in number | Kan (è‡) – Eye Kathu (裶) – Ear Na (ï£) – Tongue Mooku (Í‚°) – Nose Thol («î£™) – Skin |
3 | PULAN- ¹ô¡ (Functions of the sensory organs) – Five in number | Parthal (𣘈î™) – Vision Keetal («è†ì™) – Hearing Rusithal (¼Cˆî™) – Taste Nugarthal (¸è˜î™) – Smell Thoduthal (ªî£´î™) – Touch |
4 | KANMENTHIRIYAM – è¡«ñ‰FKò‹ (motororgans) – Five in number | Kai (¬è) – Hand Kal (裙) – Leg Vai (õ£Œ) – Mouth Eruvai (â¼õ£Œ) – Anus Karuvai (è¼õ£Œ) – Reproductive organ |
5 | KANMENTHIRIYA VIDAYAM – è¡«ñ‰FKò Mìò‹ (Functions of the motororgan) – Five in number | Koduthal, cheithal (ªè£´ˆî™, ªêŒî™) – Giving,doing Nadathal (ïìˆî™) – Walking Pesuthal («ð²î™) – Speaking Malam Kazhithal (ñô‹ èNˆî™) – Defecation Inaperukkam cheithal (ÞùŠªð¼‚è‹ ªêŒî™) – Reproduction |
6 | ANTHA KARANAM – ܉îè˜í‹ (Intelectual faculties) – Four in number | Manam (ñù‹) – Mind Puthi (¹ˆF) – Intelect Angaram (Üèƒè£ó‹) – Egotism Siddhi (CˆF) – Volition |
7 | ARIVU – ÜP¾ (Wisdom) – One in number | NA |
8 | Nadi –  (Subtle air routes) – Ten in number | Idakalai nadi (Þìè¬ô ) Pinkalai nadi (Hƒè¬ô ) Suzhimunai nadi (²¿º¬ù ) Kanthari nadi (裉î£K ) Puruda nadi (¹¼ì¡ ) Singuvai nadi (Cƒ°¬õ ) Atthi nadi (܈F ) Alampudai nadi (Üô‹¹¬ì ) Sankini nadi (êƒAQ ) Kugu nadi (°° ) |
9 | Vayu – (Subtle airs) – Ten in number | Piranan (Hó£í¡) Viyanan (Mò£ù¡) Udhanan (àî£ù¡) Abanan (Üð£ù¡) Samanan (êñ£ù¡) Nagan (ï£è¡) Koorman (Øñ¡) Kirukaran (A¼èó¡) Devathathan («îõîˆî¡) Thananjayan (îù…ªêò¡) |
10 | Asayam – Ýêò‹ (Internal receptacle) – Five in number | Amar vasayam (Üñ˜õ£êò‹) – Stomach Pagarvasayam(ðè˜õ£êò‹) – Intestinte Jalavasayam (üô£õ£êò‹) – Urinary bladder Malavasayam (ñôõ£êò‹) – Rectum Sukkilavasayam (²‚Aô£õ£êò‹) – Spermary |
11 | Kosangal – «è£êƒèœ (Systems) – Five in number | Annamaya kosam (Ü¡ùñò «è£ê‹) – Digestive system Pranamaya kosam (Hó£íñò «è£ê‹) – Respiratory system Manomaya kosam (ñ«ù£ñò «è£ê‹) – Psychiatric system Vingnana maya kosam (M…ë£ùñò «è£ê‹) – Nervous system Anantha maya kosam (Ýù‰îñò «è£ê‹) – Reproductive system |
12 | Atharam – Ýî£ó‹ (Psychic centres) – Six in number | Moolatharam (Íô£î£ó‹) – between external genitalia and anus Suvathistanam (²õ£Fvì£ù‹) – Lower abdomen Manipuragam (ñEÌóè‹) – Naval Anagatham (Üù£èî‹) – Chest Visuthi (M²ˆF) – Throat Agnai (Ý‚¬ë) – Frontal head |
13 | Mandalam – ñ‡ìô‹ (Regions of body) – Three in number | Agni mandalam (Ü‚AQ ñ‡ìô‹) – Fire region Gnayiru mandalam (ë£JÁ ñ‡ìô‹) – Sun region Thingal mandalam (Fƒèœ ñ‡ìô‹) – Moon region |
14 | Malam – ñô‹ (Moral evils) – Three in number | Anavam (Ýíõ‹) – Pride Kanmam (è¡ñ‹) – Retribution Mayai (ñ£¬ò) – Confusion of mind |
15 | Thathu –  (Humours) – Three in number | Vatham (õ£î‹) Pitham (Hˆî‹) Kabam (èð‹) |
16 | Edanai – ãì¬í (Goals) – three in number | Porul pattu (ªð£¼œ ðŸÁ) – Desire of wealth Puthalvar pattu (¹î™õ˜ ðŸÁ) – Desire of off spring Ulaga pattu (àôè ðŸÁ) – Desire of social duties |
17 | Gunam – °í‹ (Specific characters) – Three in number | Sathuva gunam (ꈶõ °í‹) – Goodness Rajo gunam (ó«ü£ °í‹) – Courage Thamo gunam (î«ñ£ °í‹) – Evil |
18 | Vinai – M¬ù (Deed) – Two in number | Nal vinai (ï™M¬ù) – Good deeds Thee vinai (bM¬ù) – Bad deeds |
19 | 19. Ragam- ó£è‹ (Mind variations) – Eight in number | Kanmam (è£ñ‹) Kurotham (°«ó£î‹) Ulopam (à«ô£ð‹) Mogam («ñ£è‹) Matham (ñî‹) Marchariam (ñ£˜„êKò‹) Edumpai (Þ´‹¬ð) Agankaram (Üèƒè£ó‹) |
20 | Avathai – Üõˆ¬î (State of mind) – Five in number | Sachiram (ꣂAó‹) – Vigilance Soppanam (ªê£Šðù‹) – Dreaming Urakkam (àø‚è‹) – Deep sleep Perurakkam («ð¼¼ø‚è‹) – Insensibility Uyirpadakkam (àJ˜ðì‚è‹) – Death |