Treatments
Fourteen therapies, and a table that tells you which.
Sreehareeyam publishes its own Panchakarma indications. Most clinics do not. Below it is searchable — pick a condition or a dosha and see what the table actually says.
Dosha & condition finder
What is indicated, and how long it takes.
These five are the Sodhana or Panchakarma procedures — supervised eliminative therapies. The conditions listed are the clinic’s own published samples, not a complete list, and nothing here replaces assessment by the vaidya.
Every therapy
All fourteen, and what each one physically involves.
These are descriptions of procedure, not promises of outcome. Which therapy suits a person, at what stage, and for how long, is decided after assessment.
External therapies
Oil, heat and herb applied to the body. Used on their own for pacification, and as the preparatory phase before Panchakarma.
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Abhyangam
Systematic application of warm medicated oil over the body, applied along the direction of the tissues.
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Navarakkizhi
Fomentation using boluses of navara rice cooked in milk and herbal decoction, applied warm in cloth pouches.
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Udvartanam
Massage with dry or oiled herbal powders, worked against the direction of the hair follicles.
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Siro Dhara
A continuous, steady stream of warm medicated liquid poured over the forehead from a fixed height.
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Pizhicchal
Warm medicated oil squeezed over the body from cloth soaked in it, applied in a sustained rhythm.
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Kati vasti
Warm medicated oil retained over the lower back within a dough ring, held for a set period.
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Janu vasti
The same retention technique applied over the knee joint.
Panchakarma — the five
The eliminative procedures. Each is specific to a dosha, so no patient receives all five.
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Vamanam · Vamana
Supervised, medically induced emesis, preceded by days of internal and external preparation.
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Virechanam · Virecana
Supervised, medically induced purgation, following a preparatory phase.
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Vasti
Supervised medicated enemas, given in defined courses of 7, 14 or 21 days.
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Nasyam · Nasya
Supervised medicated errhines — medicine instilled through the nasal passage.
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Rakta mokshanam · Rakta mokshana
Controlled removal of diseased blood.
Therapies of the eye
Local applications to the eye, retained under supervision.
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Anjanam
Application of medicated collyrium to the eye.
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Netra vasti
Warm medicated ghee retained over the eye within a dough ring.
Before anything begins
The assessment is the treatment decision.
“The said treatments are performed based on the condition and stage of the disease after proper assessment by the vaidya.” That sentence is on the clinic’s own treatments page, and it is the whole logic of the place. In each disease only specific doshas rise. Every procedure is specific to a dosha. So the question is never which therapy sounds right — it is which dosha has risen, and how far.