Panchakarma(five actions) is a cleansing and rejuvenating program for the body, mind and consciousness. It is known for its beneficial effects on overall health, wellness and self-healing.        

According to Ayurveda, our natural state is one of health, happiness and an inner sense of well-being. Health is defined as the body being clear of toxins, the mind is at peace, emotions are calm and happy, wastes are efficiently eliminated and organs are functioning normally. In a busy, stressful and toxic world, our physical and mental systems accumulate toxins causing deterioration in bodily functioning. This eventually weakens our systems, which opens the door for chronic, degenerative, and non-specific diseases to develop. These can evolve into serious specific diseases, ultimately damaging an individual’s health and wellness.

Panchakarma can help by reversing these negative effects of daily living. It can restore your natural state of health and wellness by cleansing your body of toxins, bringing balance into your system and improving bodily function. It can also help you sustain this process by making positive changes in lifestyle.

The Panchakarma therapeutic process appears quite simple in its application. However, its effects are powerful and effective. Panchakarma is a unique, natural, holistic, health-giving series of therapeutic treatments that cleanse the body’s deep tissues of toxins, open the subtle channels, and bring life-enhancing energy thereby increasing vitality, inner peace, confidence and well-being.

Panchakarma is always performed in three stages :  Purva Karma (pre-treatment), Pradhana Karma (primary treatment) and Paschat Karma (post-treatment). The patient who opts for any one of the five therapies must invariably undergo all three stages.

1. Purva Karmas(pre-treatment): 

Pre-treatment consists of oil therapy, massage and fomentation therapy.

Snehana (oil therapy) and Swedana (sudation) two Purva Karma procedures are the most important preparatory measures to have Panchakarma.

Snehana is given in the early morning for a maximum of seven days. Snehana is said to help the doshas or toxins to move into the alimentary tract from the extremities for easy evacuation (vilayana and uthkleshana of doshas). If snehana is not given before panchakarma, the body is understood to bend like a thin dry stick through the effect of five karmas.

2. Pradhana Karma(Primary Treatment) :

The pancha karmas are ………

1. Therapeutic vomiting (vamana) promotes elimination from the stomach and thoracic cavity.
2. Purging  (virechana) promotes elimination from the small intestine.
3. Therapeutic enema (basti) works on the colon to eliminate toxins and strengthens the tissues.
4. Nose drops (nasya) cleanse toxins from the head and sinuses.
5.  Raktamokshana as bloodletting involves medical Venesection, it is no longer popular, very few places this treatment is available these days, however, is still practiced.

3. Paschat karma (Post Treatment): Dietary regimens, restricted bodily exertion and the intake of herbs believed to promote health come under the Paschat Karma (post-treatment). Paschatkarma is administering required food for the body after the purification of the body, to intensify the agni (digestion power) which will subside after Panchakarma. During the treatments, food is given according to the degree of purification intended for the body.

Benefits :

1. Eliminate toxins and toxic conditions from your body and mind.

2. Restore your constitutional balance improving health and wellness
3. Strengthen your immune system and
become more resistant to illness
4. Reverse the negative effects of stress on your body and mind thereby slowing the aging process
5. Enhance your self-reliance, strength, energy, vitality and mental clarity
6. Bring about deep relaxation and sense of well-being

Namaste Ji,

Yogi Manu.