Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Shuddha = pure, correctly completed, efficient
Chikitsa = remedy
A remedy completed in pure type and correctly executed in such a means that its impact is sweet when it comes to establishing good well being, within the individual to whom the remedy has been completed known as as Shuddha Chikitsa.
For a remedy to be deliberate and executed successfully loads of issues must be thought of. All of the 4 limbs of remedy i.e. chikitsa chatushpada should fall in place and the mix ought to work in a devoted and built-in loop.
The doctor, the affected person, the drugs and the caregivers / nursing workers, the function of all these is vital. Aside from this, the doctor is a very powerful member of the chatushpada i.e., the 4 limbs talked about above. It’s his duty to plan and execute remedy. He has to completely study the illness and the diseased and are available to a correct prognosis. Then he must chart out the very best therapies, medicines, life-style modifications and weight-reduction plan for the given affected person in a given situation. He has to comply with the affected person and the illness till he makes certain that the pathology has been destroyed and normalcy has been established.
The affected person must be submissive and obedient and volunteer himself within the remedy. The medicines and weight-reduction plan must be apt for the illness and succesful sufficient to interrupt the pathogenesis. The caregivers must be on their heels and assist the affected person conquer his illness. If all this stuff work out in favor of the doctor, he’ll discover success and such a remedy which is nicely deliberate and nicely executed and nicely adopted up would be the greatest one.
This may be thought of as a pure type of remedy whose aim might be to treatment the illness and set up well being within the ailing people.
This isn’t all.
Aside from this, there are specific standards for a remedy to be known as Shuddha Chikitsa or pure remedy.
Allow us to see what Acharya Vagbhata has to say about Shuddha Chikitsa on this context.
Ref – A.Hr.13/13-16
Shuddha Chikitsa: Definition of pure / good remedy
प्रयोगः शमयेद्व्याधिमेकं योऽन्यमुदीरयेत्।
नाऽसौ विशुद्धः शुद्धस्तुशमयेद्यो न कोपयेत्॥१६॥
Shuddha Chikitsa or pure remedy is that which cures one illness however doesn’t give rise to a different illness. It is a essential facet of remedy.
Alternatively, the remedy which cures one illness however offers rise to yet one more illness, in the end just isn’t thought of as Shuddha chikitsa i.e. it’s not a pure or applicable remedy. It’s because, although it cures one illness, it might trigger yet one more illness or complication, which isn’t the aim of fine remedy.
Abstract
A brand new illness or complication arising out of a remedy course of can’t be accepted. This exhibits the remedy was both not correctly deliberate or executed or a mixture of each.
This will likely occur resulting from totally different causes –
– Failure of the doctor in diagnosing the illness or planning the remedy or implementing the remedy or mixture of all these elements
– Failure of medicines to provide the specified affect or flawed selection of medicines or side-effects / problems produced by medicines
– Improper comply with up by the affected person and never following the directions of the physician, like not taking the medicines and therapies correctly on time or not following the dietetic restrictions
– The illness and diseased not taken care of correctly by the nursing workers or caregivers at house
– Lack of coordination between the 4 limbs of remedy
– Extreme remedy given in weak illness or affected person or Deficit / insufficient remedy given in a robust illness which incorporates palliative and purificatory medicines and therapies
So, the remedy shall be deliberate after utterly contemplating varied aspects of the illness and illness adopted by thorough examination of each and correct prognosis of the illness.
A Shuddha chikitsa won’t ever fail and can yield good treatment and set up well being within the ailing people. Alternatively, if the chikitsa just isn’t Shuddha, it won’t treatment the illness however would produce some extra ailments and problems.
