Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Acharya Vagbhata has talked about ‘Chirat Pakam Vayasah’ among the many 5 finest advantages of Shodhana.
Ref – Ashtanga Hridaya Sutra Sthana, Chapter 18, verse 60 (A.Hr.Su.18/60)
Chirat = delayed
Pakam = maturity (on this context)
Vayasah = age
Chirat Pakam Vayasah – means ‘delayed maturity of ageing’. Shodhana brings about delayed ageing i.e. it acts as anti-ageing issue.
Rasayana like anti-ageing motion – Rasayanas when administered would enrich all of the tissues within the physique and in addition hold them energetic and optimum. This affect can also be caused by Shodhana therapies. Due to this fact, Shodhanas bestow ‘Rasayana like motion and advantages’.
Shodhana not solely rejuvenates the complete system of ours but in addition enhances the longevity and functioning of every cell of the physique and therefore acts as Rasayana.
Reboot of the tissues by shodhana – The tissues, organs and organ techniques cleansed commonly by administration of shodhana therapies will get rebooted and rejuvenated and can get contemporary life and vitality in them. It’s like the complete system is taking a rebirth. Their functioning capability multiplies many folds. Right here, we are able to see that shodhana, by detoxifying and purifying the complete system and thru the 4 advantages detailed earlier to this, establishes complete body-mind-sensual well being and thus acts as an anti-ageing course of.
Significance of normal shodhana – Many individuals wouldn’t solely really feel younger and contemporary, however may also look youthful after present process a course of shodhana. That is the best praise and return reward that shodhana would bestow. This additionally exhibits how vital it’s to maintain the physique and thoughts and senses cleansed and pure, to take pleasure in a youthful, match and energetic life. It additionally displays how vital it’s to bear in mind in regards to the significance of normal cleaning from the perspective of gaining complete well being.
Reverse engineering by shodhana – The anti-ageing impact of shodhana displays why some individuals look aged past their organic age. It’s the morbid doshas and malas, the toxicity generated of their cells by these doshas, the blocking of channels of circulation and transportation, the stress in every cell which makes an individual look drained, aged, pathetic and diseased and lack-lustre. All these occasions will be reversed by shodhana.
Peeping into Pakam Vayasah Chirat – It displays the method of Rasayana (and Vajikarana) taking place within the physique, put up shodhana. This profit displays restoration and rehabilitation of the complete system, the proper stability of dosha, dhatu, mala, agni, atma, indriya and manas that the physique has earned placing the particular person able of satisfying the complete standards of swastha purusha – completely wholesome particular person.
In precise phrases there isn’t a delaying or reversing of ageing that occurs. It’s only the one that seems to be youthful compared to his or her age that makes us use the phrase ‘anti-ageing’. It’s common to come back throughout somebody making remarks like ‘He’s wanting so younger, can not consider that he’s 40, however wanting like 25’ or ‘She seems to be so ageless, she has by no means modified a bit’ or ‘He’s gracefully ageing, individuals of his age are wanting 20 years elder to him’ or ‘She is just not wanting like a mom, however a sister to her daughter’.
Anybody would like to look younger and delightful and doesn’t prefer to look aged. We’d have seen even the elders pampering themselves with magnificence therapies.
An individual seems to be good, wholesome, match and younger not by the filters she or he applies to the precise self, however solely when the inside of the physique, thoughts and senses are cleansed of their impurities. Common Shodhana taken by even wholesome people will give a very long time safety towards illnesses by retaining the system wholesome and clear.
