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: Ancient Heritage in the Age of Globalisation
alone. But for a common Ayurvedic doctor he needs to
observe all the factors like pulse, urine, feces, tongue,
voice, touch, eyes and also the structure of the patient.
For treatment there are 4 components. This is a
picture representation of Susruta doing the surgery and
you can find the patient lying on the bed, the physician, a
lady standing there with a bowl of medicine and two
attenders holding on to the patient. There were no
anesthesia at that time it required attenders to hold on to
thepatientwho is undergoing the surgery. So thephysician,
the medicine, the physician assistant or the therapist and
the patient constitute the four components of Ayurvedic
treatment. A treatment is complete only when this four
components combine together logically. That’s why until
recently there were no over-the-counter products in
Ayurveda. All medicines were described by a physician.
Treatments are of three types: Yuktivyapaasraya,
sattvaavajaya, daiva vyapaasraya. Yukti means the logic
of the physician with which he judiciously combines other
involved factors. Sattvaavajaya is the responsibility more
with the patient that he/she is needed to gain control the
mind. The third is to address the factors which are out of
normal human control.
Yuktivyapaasraya is broadly classified into
palliative and curative/ cleansing treatments known as
samana and sodhana.
