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The central Ayurvedic tenet is that health is a state of balance of life forces, the tridoshas - vata, pitta and kapha. The tridoshas, which govern all psychological and physiological activities of the human body, are various combinations of the five great elements, the panchamahabhutas, namely earth, water, fire, air and space. The combination of the doshas in each individual is unique and determines his prakriti.
Ayurvedic treatment is geared towards
assessing an individual's personality, diagnosing the imbalance and bringing
the imbalanced tridoshas back to their normal state of balance.
Treatment
consists of four basic forms:
Medicine or drug therapy, dietary regime, regulation of life style and Panchakarma (purfication therapy)
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Panchakarma, the five purificatory therapies, help to flush out toxins from the body through natural outlets - the mouth, the nostrils, the intestines, the blood and the skin. Panchakarma treatment includes Emesis ( Vamana), Purgation (Virechana), Enema (Vasthi), Nasal administration (Nasya) and bloodletting (Raktha Moksha). All types of chronic diseases are being treated by specialists at Caritas Ayurvedic Hospital. Panchakarma and its upakarma such as snehana, swedana and others and also other reputed Kerala treatments like Dhara, Pizhichil, Navarakizhi, Thalam etc are carried out here by experts. |