Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Shuddha = pure, correctly finished, efficient
Chikitsa = therapy
A therapy finished in pure type and correctly executed in such a approach that its impact is sweet by way of establishing good well being, within the particular person to whom the therapy has been finished is known as as Shuddha Chikitsa.
For a therapy to be deliberate and executed successfully a number of issues must be thought-about. All of the 4 limbs of therapy i.e. chikitsa chatushpada should fall in place and the mix ought to work in a devoted and built-in loop.
The doctor, the affected person, the medication and the caregivers / nursing employees, the position of all these is necessary. Other than this, the doctor is a very powerful member of the chatushpada i.e., the 4 limbs talked about above. It’s his accountability to plan and execute therapy. He has to totally study the illness and the diseased and are available to a correct analysis. Then he must chart out the absolute best therapies, medicines, life-style modifications and food regimen for the given affected person in a given situation. He has to observe the affected person and the illness till he makes certain that the pathology has been destroyed and normalcy has been established.
The affected person must be submissive and obedient and volunteer himself within the therapy. The medicines and food regimen must be apt for the illness and succesful sufficient to interrupt the pathogenesis. The caregivers must be on their heels and assist the affected person conquer his illness. If all these items work out in favor of the doctor, he’ll discover success and such a therapy which is effectively deliberate and effectively executed and effectively adopted up would be the greatest one.
This may be thought-about as a pure type of therapy whose purpose might be to treatment the illness and set up well being within the ailing people.
This isn’t all.
Other than this, there are specific standards for a therapy to be known as Shuddha Chikitsa or pure therapy.
Allow us to see what Acharya Vagbhata has to say about Shuddha Chikitsa on this context.
Ref – A.Hr.13/13-16
Shuddha Chikitsa: Definition of pure / good therapy
प्रयोगः शमयेद्व्याधिमेकं योऽन्यमुदीरयेत्।
नाऽसौ विशुद्धः शुद्धस्तुशमयेद्यो न कोपयेत्॥१६॥
Shuddha Chikitsa or pure therapy is that which cures one illness however doesn’t give rise to a different illness. This can be a essential side of therapy.
Alternatively, the therapy which cures one illness however provides rise to yet one more illness, ultimately is just not thought-about as Shuddha chikitsa i.e. it isn’t a pure or applicable therapy. It’s because, although it cures one illness, it might trigger yet one more illness or complication, which isn’t the purpose of fine therapy.
Abstract
A brand new illness or complication arising out of a therapy course of can’t be accepted. This reveals the therapy was both not correctly deliberate or executed or a mix of each.
This will occur as a result of totally different causes –
– Failure of the doctor in diagnosing the illness or planning the therapy or implementing the therapy or mixture of all these components
– Failure of medicines to supply the specified affect or fallacious selection of medicines or side-effects / issues produced by medicines
– Improper observe up by the affected person and never following the directions of the physician, like not taking the medicines and therapies correctly on time or not following the dietetic restrictions
– The illness and diseased not taken care of correctly by the nursing employees or caregivers at house
– Lack of coordination between the 4 limbs of therapy
– Extreme therapy given in weak illness or affected person or Deficit / insufficient therapy given in a powerful illness which incorporates palliative and purificatory medicines and therapies
So, the therapy shall be deliberate after utterly contemplating numerous aspects of the illness and illness adopted by thorough examination of each and correct analysis of the illness.
A Shuddha chikitsa won’t ever fail and can yield good treatment and set up well being within the ailing people. Alternatively, if the chikitsa is just not Shuddha, it is not going to treatment the illness however would produce some extra ailments and issues.
