Friday, November 20, 2015

Leech Therapy (Jalukavacharan) - Miracle of Ayurveda

    Leech Therapy is known as Jalaukavacharan in Ayurveda. The first description of leech therapy for blood letting was described in Ayurvedic text of Sushrut Samhita. He described total 12 types of leeches.Out of 12 , Six are non poisonous and use for blood letting in human and animals.
    From ancient time leeches was used to remove impure blood from body and mainly use in skin diseases.
   Morphology-
      The length of leeches vary from 10-20 cm. They are generally green, brown, blackish in colours. They have 2 suckers at both end. Anterior sucker have about 100 sharp teeth's where  as posterior one use for holding a position. They leave a Y shaped incision mark on skin. Generally one leech suck about 5-10 ml blood.
    Mode of Action-
       After piercing the skin they inject anticoagulant (hirudin). Their saliva contain anaesthetic substance hence leech bite is not painful. According to Ayurveda they suck impure blood from body.
    Uses-
1. Skin diseases like eczema, psoriasis etc.
2. Alopecia ,hair loss
3. Varicose vein
4. Diabetic foot
5. Arthritis and other inflammatory conditions.

Friday, November 13, 2015

Weight Loss Management -90 days plan

currently obesity becomes a big problem all over the world. Lots of people try different type of diet, exercise to reduce weight but nothing can help. Here I discuss a diet and exercise plan with you which generally I  use in my patient.

1.  First change your eating habits.
Take your lunch between 10-11 am and your dinner before 8 pm
2.  Avoid to eat anything between lunch and dinner.
If you become hungry at afternoon take a little food or fruits.
3.  Avoid high calorie diet, fast food, cold drinks etc.
4.  Avoid spicy and oily food.
5.  Avoid papad, non veg, pickle, jam fermented food.
6.  Dont sleep at afternoon and just after dinner.
7.  Morning walk at least 5 km daily
8.  Surya namskar
(sun salutation) at least 5/ day. Try to increase number day by day.
9.  If possible avoid dinner instead of that take oats or daliya.
10. Ayurvedic medicines such as guggul and panchakarma can also better help.
11. Follow the whole plan for 90 days to see the result.


Note- If you have suffered from any disease please take advice of your doctor before follow this plan.