Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Pachana means ‘to digest’ or ‘to cook dinner’.
Pachana is a crucial remedy precept and likewise a remedy in Ayurveda. By default, Pachana means ‘Ama Pachana’.
Pachana medicines are supposed to digest ama. Ama is an intermediate product of digestion. It’s fashioned as a result of motion of weak digestive hearth on the meals, which ends up in improper digestion of meals or indigestion. The meals which is undigested turns into ama. This ama is a sticky substance, of the character of kapha, and tends to dam the channels of the physique.
Sama Doshas, Dhatus and Malas
Ama additionally mixes up with the doshas and makes them follow the partitions of the channels and tissues. That is known as as sama doshas.
Likewise, affiliation of dhatus with ama results in sama dhatus. This may result in depletion of tissue capabilities and gradual destruction of the identical. Malas – excreta related to ama can’t be excreted correctly and types endo-toxins in the long term. Ama additionally weakens the metabolism – agni – at intestine and mobile stage. The physique is deceived by vitamin and the physique turns into weak and drained.
Pachana medicines assist in digestion of this ama. This helps to free the doshas, dhatus and malas from their affiliation with ama. Dissolution of ama will allow the morbid doshas to return from the tissues the place they had been adhering to the tissue partitions, to the intestine, from the place they are often simply faraway from the intestine by administering shodhana – vamana or virechana relying on the dosha.
As a rule, sama doshas shouldn’t be faraway from the physique till ama has been separated from them.
This exhibits the significance of Pachana Chikitsa within the preparation of the affected person for shodhana additionally and is the truth is an essential and obligatory step within the purvakarma i.e. pre-operative procedures of shodhana.
Why is Pachana a kind of Shamana?
Pachana is included in Shamana as a result of it fulfils the standards of Shamana Chikitsa i.e.
– It helps within the strategy of elimination of elevated / morbid doshas however won’t remove the doshas by itself and therefore it’s shamana.
– It is going to additionally not improve the opposite doshas that are in a state of steadiness.
– Whereas satisfying the above mentioned situations, Shamana is able to bringing the irregular doshas to a state of normalcy.
Why is Pachana included underneath Langhana?
Pachana has additionally been included underneath Langhana Chikitsa because it brings about lightness of the physique as per definition of langhana. Acharya Charaka offers particular indications for administration of Pachana.
What are the indications for Pachana?
येषां मध्यबला रोगाः कफपित्तसमुत्थिताः| वम्यतीसारहृद्रोगविसूच्यलसकज्वराः||२०||
विबन्धगौरवोद्गारहृल्लासारोचकादयः| पाचनैस्तान् भिषक् प्राज्ञः प्रायेणादावुपाचरेत्||२१||
Pachana must be administered in sufferers affected by Madhya Bala Roas i.e. illnesses having reasonable energy and of kapha-pitta in origin, just like the beneath talked about ones –
– Vami – vomiting
– Atisara – diarrhea
– Hrdroga – coronary heart illnesses
– Visuchika – cholera
– Alasaka – sluggishness of intestines
– Jwara – fevers
– Vibandha – constipation,
– Gaurava – heaviness of the physique,
– Udgara – belching
– Hrllasa – nausea
– Arochaka – tastelessness, anorexia and so on.
An clever doctor ought to first deal with the above mentioned situations with pachana chikitsa.
What are the examples of herbs which result in Pachana?
Under talked about are among the essential Pachana Dravyas –
– Shunti – Zingiber officinale, Ginger
– Maricha – Piper nigrum, Black pepper
– Pippalimula – Roots of Piper longum (Lengthy pepper)
– Dhanyaka – Coriandrum sativum, Coriander
– Musta – Cyperus rotundus
– Lavanga – Syzygium aromaticum, Clove
– Mulaka – Raphanus sativus, Radish
– Haritaki – Terminalia chebula
– Bibhitaki – Terminalia bellirica
– Amalaki – Emblica officinalis, Indian gooseberry
– Haridra – Curcuma longa, turmeric
– Daruharidra – Berberis aristata
– Kushta – Sausurea lappa
– Vacha – Acorus calamus
– Katuki – Picrorrhiza kurroa
– Nagakesara – Messua ferrea
– Patha – Cissampelos pareira
– Chitraka – Plumbago zeylanica
– Guduchi – Tinospora cordifolia
– Dashamula – ten roots of Bilva – Aegle marmelos and so on herbs
– Patola – Trichosanthes dioica, pointed gourd
– Bhallataka – Semicarpus anacardium
– Kiratatikta – Swertia chirayata
– Karavellaka – Momordica charantia, bitter gourd
– Shigru – Moringa oliefera, Drumstick
– Atasi – Linum usitatissimum, Flax
