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 likewise preserve them energetic and optimum. This affect can also be led to by Shodhana therapies. Due to this fact, Shodhanas bestow ‘Rasayana like motion and advantages’.
Shodhana not solely rejuvenates the complete system of ours but additionally 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 usually 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 will 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 standard 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 present that shodhana would bestow. This additionally reveals how necessary 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 necessary it’s to bear in mind concerning the significance of standard cleaning from the viewpoint 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 may be reversed by shodhana.
Peeping into Pakam Vayasah Chirat – It displays the method of Rasayana (and Vajikarana) occurring within the physique, submit shodhana. This profit displays restoration and rehabilitation of the complete system, the proper steadiness of dosha, dhatu, mala, agni, atma, indriya and manas that the physique has earned placing the particular person ready of satisfying the complete standards of swastha purusha – completely wholesome particular person.
In precise phrases there is no such thing as a delaying or reversing of ageing that occurs. It’s only the one who appears 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 trying so younger, can’t imagine that he’s 40, however trying like 25’ or ‘She appears so ageless, she has by no means modified a bit’ or ‘He’s gracefully ageing, individuals of his age are trying 20 years elder to him’ or ‘She just isn’t trying 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 might have seen even the elders pampering themselves with magnificence therapies.
An individual appears 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 conserving the system wholesome and clear.
