Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Acharya Vagbhata has talked about ‘Buddhi Prasadam’ amongst the 5 main advantages of Shodhana.
Ref – Ashtanga Hridaya Sutra Sthana, Chapter 18, verse 60 (A.Hr.Su.18/60)
Buddhi Prasadam means ‘supplies readability and quietness / pleasantness to the mind’.
Buddhi is the driving pressure – behind all our bodily, psychological and emotional actions and actions carried out on daily basis, all through life. It’s an entity, which determines how we reside and the way we plan and execute our life on a day-to-day foundation.
Buddhi is the essential intelligence that we now have, derived from our mind. Buddhi must be sane and wholesome for us to take all choices pertaining to all our actions. Our evolution as people and in sync with the evolution of the world round us is completely depending on our mind.
The thought course of, our planning, our choices, execution of our choices, actions taken on the idea of our choices, the braveness that we’d like for doing something – all mental features and their patterns are ruled by our buddhi.
Prajnaparadha – All info and data which is enter via the indriyas, cross into our system being scanned by our buddhi. A sane and wholesome buddhi additionally prevents us from committing ‘mental errors’ – prajnaparadha, which is likely one of the major causes of the illnesses.
Doshas and Buddhi – We frequently really feel our buddhi to be clogged once we undergo from doshic imbalances, be it vata, pitta and kapha or rajas and tamas. So, all the mental system fails right here and so do all our actions and responses. Shodhana expels the morbidity clogging our buddhi and helps in its restoration.
Hridaya is taken into account to be the seat of Buddhi. Hridaya right here factors in direction of the shirogata hrdaya – mind. On the identical time, the Urogata hrdaya i.e. coronary heart may also be thought-about.
Within the pathogenesis of Unmada – madness / lunacy, Acharya Charaka says that the aggravated doshas afflict the Hridaya (mind) which is a seat of Buddhi, in a weak-minded particular person and on occupying and vitiating the manovaha srotas – channels related to the thoughts and causes derangement of the thoughts rapidly, inflicting unmada. Shodhana is a crucial intervention administered in Unmada. Shodhana helps in cleaning the hrdaya and correcting the derangement of thoughts and mind in order to determine their well being, normalcy and pleasantness therein.
Within the pathogenesis of Apasmara – Equally, in one other dysfunction referred to as Apasmara – the primary pathological occasion, which additionally turns into a symptom later, is ‘Dhee Sattva Samplava’ i.e. destruction or deviation of mind and thoughts. Even on this illness, shodhana is run for expelling the morbid doshas. This may assist in restoration of buddhi and set up pleasantness in it.
Within the pathogenesis of Atattvabhinivesha – In one more associated situation which has been defined in the identical chapter of Apasmara, often known as ‘Atattvabhinivesha’, the necessary occasion within the pathogenesis is the doshas afflicting the channels of buddhi and manas. This illness additionally receives the identical remedy as that of apasmara and unmada and consists of shodhana. By cleaning the doshas on this occasion, shodhana would clear the channels of buddhi and manas, establishing normalcy and pleasantness therein.
Peeping into Buddhi Prasadanam – The impact of shodhana appears to be encompassing the therapeutic and rejuvenation of the nervous and endocrine system. So, Shodhana may be very a lot useful for combating neurological problems and endocrine problems and dysfunctions. This additionally means establishing the peaceable functioning of prana vayu, sadhaka pitta and tarpaka kapha.
Buddhi prasadanam additionally consists of therapeutic of the center in an prolonged understanding.
