Importance of rasayana therapy in present era

Authors

  • Pravin Prabhakar Patil Assistant Professor, Ayurved Samhita Siddhant Department, Ayurved College, Sion, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India- 400022
  • Arun Shankarrao Dudhamal
  • Sailee Sanjay Mallar

Keywords:

Rasayana, immunity, longevity ,ageing, naimitika, kamya, vatatapika

Abstract

Rasayana therapy is one of the eight specialties of Ayurveda. Aim of Ayurveda is to provide complete health- physical, social and spiritual. Rasayana therapy ensures the same by promoting health, immunity and in turn longevity. The main purpose of rasayana therapy is to maintain the health of healthy individual and cure the diseases of diseased one.1 Rasayana acts at the level of cellular metabolism and hence improves the metabolic activities of the body. Rasayana therapy consists of certain drugs which aim at-

  1. Preserve and promote the health of healthy individual.
  2. Improves the status of dhatus
  3. Management of diseases
  4. Prevents ageing and provides longevity
  5. Boost immunity
  6. Rejuvenate the system

It is not only a single drug treatment but also a specialized therapeutic procedure practiced as a major specialty in Ayurvedic medicine. Properly and timely use of rasayana drugs promotes youthfulness, memory, intelligence, complexion, body glow and best physical strength. Rasayana dravyas acts at various level i.e. rasa-dhatu, agni, and srotas.

Various research works is done in the field rasayana so here an effort is made to review all classical knowledge and its implementation to achieve the goal of ayurveda “Swasthasya swastha rakshanam aaturasya vikar prasamanamch”.

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Author Biography

Arun Shankarrao Dudhamal

HOD and Associate Professor, Rognidan Dept., Ayurved College, Sion, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India- 400022

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2018-10-16

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Patil, P. P., Dudhamal, A. S., & Mallar, S. S. (2018). Importance of rasayana therapy in present era. Ayurline: International Journal of Research in Indian Medicine, 2(06). Retrieved from https://ayurline.in/index.php/ayurline/article/view/168

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