Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy
author: Pulak Kanti Kar
edition: 2013, Chaukhamba Sanskrit Pratishthan
pages: 1445
Topic: Ayurveda
Snehadhara
This chapter describes Snehadhara located on page 23 from volume Volume 1 in the book Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy compiled by Pulak Kanti Kar. This book presents a Comprehensive view of Panchakarma and includes therapeutic modules and references for the Ayurvedic practitioners. Panchakarma registers the mechanism of the action of Ayurvedic drug..
Volume 1 deals with the essentials of Panchakarma Therapy:—Comprehensive view of Panchkarma has been presented in this book with sequential illustrations.
This book fully covers every detail related to Panchakarma (methods for eliminating toxic elements from the body). For example, this chapter describes Snehadhara. The five methods are known as Vamana (‘emesis’), Virecana (‘purgation’), Asthapana (‘non-unctuous enema’), Anuvasana (‘unctuous enema’) and Shiro-Virechana (‘head-evacuation’ or ‘snuffing’).
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[Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy: index]
[About the Author (Pulak Kanti Kar)]
[Introduction vol 1 (essentials of Panchakarma)]
[Introduction vol 2 (applied Instruments in Panchakarma)]
[Introduction vol 3 (mechanism of Panchakarma)]
[Introduction vol 4 (practice of Panchakarma)]