Disease and limbs of Ayurveda Flashcards
What are the Ashtanga Ayurveda (8 limbs of Ayurveda)?
Kaya chikitsa (Internal Medicine) Shalya tantra (Surgery) Shlakya tantra (Opthamology & ENT) Kaurmarbhritya / Bala roga (Pediatrics) Bhuta vidya (Psychiatry) Agad tantra / Danshtra (Toxicology) Rasayana tantra (Geriatrics) Vajkarana tantra (Science of fertility & verility)
Kaya Chikitsa
Internal medicine - treatment of body through use of ayurvedic medicines internally or externally
Shalya Tantra
Surgery - management of diseases caused by shalya (harmful foreign particles)
Shalakya Tantra
Opthamology & ENT - Treatment of most diseases of eyes, ear, nose and throat
Bhuta Vidya
Psychiatry - Diseases acquired/inherited from unknown causes
Agad Tantra / Danshtra
Toxicology - Knowledge of toxins posionous animals and management of toxicological problems
Rasayana Tantra
Geriatrics - Any medicine, material or behavior which enhance longevity and slows down the process of aging ; deals with prevantative heal care
Vajikarana Tantra
Science of fertility & virility - management and treatment of sexual disorders
What is the natural cycle of the doshas?
Sanchaya - Prakopa - Prashama
Accumulation - Aggravation - Palliation
Source of disease in Ayurveda including subfactors
Sahaja (karmaja): Beyond our control
Apathya: Improper diet/lifestyle
- Parinama (kala): Time (season, time of day, age)
- Prajna Paradha (buddhi): Intellect
- Asatma indriya artha samyog: senses/faulty sense perception/sensorial stress
Sahaja
(karmaja) - Cause of disease that is:
- Beyond our control
- Genetic/karmic/inherent
- Includes disabilities/ differently-abled
- Our birth situation
* Can be managed but not cured
Apathya
Cause of disease that is:
- Due to improper diet/lifestyle according to our dosha
- These types of diseases are curable
- 3 factors/causes of apathya - hetu-traya:
- Parinama (kala)
- Prajna Paradha (buddhi)
- Asatmya indriya artha samyoga
Parinama (kala)
One of three hetu-traya (3 causes) that affect apathya and cause disease.
- Time (season, time of day, age, weather)
- Ecological stress
Prajna Paradha
One of three hetu-traya (3 causes) that affect apathya and cause disease.
- Crime against wisdom/mistaken intellect
- Doing something you know is not good for you
- Cognitive stress
Asatma indriya artha samyoga
One of three hetu-traya (3 causes) that affect apathya and cause disease.
- Sensorial stress
- Imbalance of sensory perception/object
- Ways senses get imbalanced:
- Ayog/Heen - Under use, no input/not enough
- Atiyog - Excess use, too much input
- Mittyayog - Improper use, wrong type of input
6 stages of disease as outline by Ayurveda
Sanchaya - Accumulation of doshas Prakopa - Vitiation/aggravation Prasara - Overflow/spreading Stana samsraya - Localization Vyakti - Manifestation Bedha - Complications/ diversification/ disease becomes chronic
Sanchaya
Accumulation of doshas - 1st stage of disease
- Doshas still in home site
- Happens when demands of system are higher than normal biological functions can handle
- Affects agni, can lower/raise body heat, slows circulation, and causes accumultion of doshas (ie gas in vata, hyperacidity in pitta, more muchs in kapha)
- Easily resolved through diet/lifestyle/fasting
Prakopa
Aggravation/vitiation - 2nd stage of disease
- Doshas still in home site, but the quality of accumulated dosha changes and symptoms start showing up
- Dryer/denser stools in Vata
- Looser stools in Pitta
- Congestion in Kapha
- Still easy to resolve through diet/lifestyle/fasting
Prasara
Overflow/spreading - 3rd stage of disease
- Dosha leaves it’s own site and spreads to new location
Ex: Burning symptoms of pitta in feet/hands , Drying action of excess vata as dry skin
*Possible to reolve by diet/lifestyle/fasting & simple herbal remedies, agni promotion/adjustment
Stana samsraya
Localization - 4th stage of disease
- Makes home in the body by lodging in a specific spot
- Stage when disease process starts
- Doshas/ama have moved into the dhatus and a new material has been formed
- The new material moves into weak areas of the body - more obvious symptoms begin to appear
- Resultion of disease at this point takes more dedication & sophisticated herbal remedies
Vyakti
Manifestation/Expression - 5th stage of disease
- Full form of disease starts to show up
- Consiered by Ayurveda as late in the disease cycle
- Diagnosis can now be made in allopathic medicine
- Disease is more difficult to treat at this stage stage, but is still possible w/ sophisticated practices
Bedha
Diversification - 6th stage of disease
- Bursting into complications (upadrava)
- Disease becomes chronic
Ex: Diabetes is the vyakti stage, but it becomes bedha when it eventually affects the kidneys, eyes, skin, etc.
*Becomes nearly impossible to cure at this stage - the focus is now on symptom management
