The term rejuvenation implies a restoration of what had
become faded or disintegrated, a return to the original state, a renewing by
cleansing, repairing, rebuilding or a restoration of youthful vigour, vitality
and appearance of the individual. In
Ayurveda rejuvenative
medicine intends to improve the quality of life for patients as well as normal
people. Since time immemorial traditional approaches to
medicine and healthcare have been highly successful in developing treatments
for many acute and chronic disease and disorders. With these discoveries also
came scientific advances in understanding the underlying mechanisms of disease,
leading to innovative therapies that focus on addressing the causes of the
disease instead of just treating symptoms.
There has been a wide acceptance to rejuvenation therapies worldwide with the intention of preventing disease process to great
extent. Anyhow rejuvenation
requires a pre detoxification of body to eliminate the toxins accumulated over
the years in the system. The systems cannot be rejuvenated properly unless it
is detoxified properly
Every day you are exposed to
toxins that find their way into the air you breathe, the water you drink, and
the food you eat. Your body works hard, trying to process and eliminate these
dangerous substances by transforming and then excreting them through your
lungs, liver, kidneys, skin, and bowels. Unfortunately, many times these toxins
do not exit your body effectively. They circulate back into your bloodstream
and body tissues and often become stored in our fat tissues and cause hazardous
diseases. Detoxification otherwise body cleansing aims
to rid the body toxins that allegedly exert undesirable effects on human
health. Ayurveda reiterates the prime importance of Panchakarma (cleansing
therapies) which focuses on solely the cleansing and detoxification of the
systems .In fact these procedures largely help the body’s own detoxification
mechanisms evolved in itself by birth and the current life styles and
environment do a great deterioration in the normal human biological processes
in this regard.
The future of medicine lies in
understanding how the body creates itself out of a single cell and the
mechanisms by which it renews itself throughout life. In view of this new
trend, recently quiet a number of research institutes have been established
worldwide to work on the cell biology and genomics to study the mechanism of detoxification
and rejuvenation in detail. Ayurveda which has been in the field of medicine in
India since 3000 yrs, has already found the ways and means to the above problem
in an effective manner.
Ayurveda elaborates the sodhana
therapy (purification /detoxification) in the name of Panchakarma ie five procedures
viz 1)vamana(therapeutic
emesis),2)virechana(therapeuticpurgation), 3)vasthi(medicated enemas)
4)nasya(nasal errhines), 5)raktha moksha(blood letting)..These procedures help
eliminate the impurities (vitiated doshas) and accelerates the acceptability to
further rejuvenation procedures in Ayurveda.
Yoga also plays a vital role in
detoxification and rejuvenation which has been originated in India and later
got much acceptability worldwide. In fact this creates a mental purification
which is badly in need in the current health scenario. Hence Ayurveda and yoga
create a synergy of psycho-somatic purity of the systems to great extent..
Due to the current life style our
mind also expose to much more negative thoughts and feelings which in turn
cause various health problems in psychic levels also .The shad kriyas in yoga
(sudhikriyas-purification)not only corrects the mental plane but it also
purifies the various systems of human systems .More over the Hata yoga
emphasises 8 steps to achieve the ecstasy and salvation in life according to
Yoga .
In short at Namami we have
intelligently combined the Ayurveda and yoga for detoxification and rejuvenation
with its full spirits to achieve the goal of perfect health.
Dr. K. Sasidharan
Sr. Advisor Ayurveda & Chief Consultant Specialty Clinics of Namami
Principal, Ayurveda
Medical College, Kothamangalam