IMPORTANCE OF VAMAN KARMA W.S.R. BIOPURIFICATION – PREVENTION OVER INTERVENTION

Abstract

Today’s modern era life style is famous for its unhealthy lifestyle, improper sleep pattern, stressful life and so on, the reasons are uncountable so as the diseases, creating a high profile lifestyle with significant nega-tive shift in health status which creates even more serious reasons to combat the pathology behind. Ayurve-da is an age old time-tested system of traditional medicine that comes with even more deep rooted three fold fundamental approach Nidan Parivarjana (avoidance of causative factors), Shodhan (biocleansing treatment modality) and Shaman (palliative treatment). Shodhan mainly comes under the broader terminol-ogy Panchakarma, may seem quite simple in its application yet creates effects that are powerful and long-lasting, very famous for its approach for various ailments, especially chronic disorders. As the name sug-gests Panchakarma comprises five therapeutic procedures namely Vamana, Virechana, Nasya, Basti and Raktamokshana. It acts as a bio servicing mechanism for the human body just like the regular servicing of the transport vehicle. In the present piece of work, Vaman Karma has been described w.s.r. to its im-portance as a therapeutic regime to eliminate toxins, acting as a biopurificatory technique to maintain and obtain health; and to remove ailments, a concept of prevention over intervention. Some concepts like mode of action, importance of Shodhanarth Sneh, etc; has also been discussed deeply to understand the working action behind them.