Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Panchakarma, an Ayurvedic Healing Retreat - The Eye of Revelation

Ayurveda is the world's oldest holistic health science. The Panchakarma Therapy is Ayurveda's accumulated experience of millennia. Ayurveda emphasizes preventative and healing therapies along with various methods of purification and rejuvenation. Ayurveda is more than a mere healing system, it is a science and art of appropriate living which helps to achieve longevity. It can also guide every individual in the prevention of disease and long term maintenance of health.

To achieve this balanced state of body, mind and consciousness, Ayurveda prescribes Panchkarma Therapy for the cleansing of body toxins. In today's day and age, with increased pollution and extreme stress conditions, our systems are packed with harmful toxins and we seem to age faster.The Panchkarma therapy helps in expelling the accumulated toxins, thus supporting metabolic restoration and acuity. Panchakarma therapy is both preventative for healthy people and curative
for those experiencing disease.

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Panchakarma means "five purification process". Ayurveda believes that due to certain reasons like season & weather change certain toxins are generated in the form of tissue waste accumulated in our body systems, which negate the functioning of the system. This is root cause of all type of disorders. Ayurvedic healing treatment give more emphasis on prevention than cure. Afterall, prevention is better than cure.

This detoxification, in effect occurs in three stages -


1. Purvakarma - Purvakarma is preparatory actions performed before the detoxification processes, such as dietary adjustments, pre-oleation and oil massage. It is a preliminary detoxification process that lossens the toxins in the tissues and drives them towards the center of the body to eliminate during Panchakarma program. Its extremely beneficial for health maintenance.

2. Panchakarma - the main detoxifying actions, which are five in number (basti, virechan, vaman, rakta moksha, nasya). The practitioner can chose any of these detoxifying methods according to the disease, the current state of the humors and psychological preparedness.

3. Rasayana - Rasayana treatment involves restorative, rejuvenating measures including diet, supplements and lifestyle choices implemented following the detoxification process.

During the three phases of Panchakarma, there are strict restrictions to be observed, which include -

  • Avoid cold exposure, stress, daytime sleeping,being awake at night after 10 pm -among other conditions.
  • A strict diet and lifestyle is to be followed throughout these three stages of treatment. 

Thus, the Panchakarma therapy, indirectly, instills a sense of discipline and order in addition to the holistic healing. During the rejuvenation phase, the digestive power is brought back to normalcy. Medicines are administered to rejuvenate the body or to treat the disease.

One therapy of Panchakarma require 7 to 10 days.Total Panchakarma needs near about 3 months. 

Despite all the information, this therapy may still be dismissed as jargon if there aren't any viable results to uphold its fantastic claims. 

Some of the recently conducted studies on the Panchkarma therapy yielded the following results:


  • Within two weeks the overall level of cholesterol dropped on average from 203.5mg% to 179.5mg% in 130 people undergoing Panchakarma, while the level of LDL - cholesterol fell by 8.7%. This reduces the risk of heart attack or heart problems by 17.8%
  • Within 12 days, Panchkarma eliminated fat soluble environmental toxins from the body : 17 toxicants, including 9 polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners and 8 pesticides and metabolites. By itself the body would need 25 years for the same amount of detoxification.
  • A standardized ageing test found that people who over a period of ten months underwent various kinds of preventive methods of Ayurveda, including a ten-day Panchkarma treatment, showed, on average, a reduction of biological age of 4.8 years.

To all the Panchakarma doubters out there- The statistics speak for themselves.

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