Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Shuddha = pure, correctly executed, efficient
Chikitsa = therapy
A therapy executed in pure kind and correctly executed in such a approach that its impact is sweet by way of establishing good well being, within the individual to whom the therapy has been executed known as as Shuddha Chikitsa.
For a therapy to be deliberate and executed successfully a whole lot of issues have to be thought of. All of the 4 limbs of therapy i.e. chikitsa chatushpada need to 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 employees, the position of all these is necessary. Other than this, the doctor is an important member of the chatushpada i.e., the 4 limbs talked about above. It’s his accountability to plan and execute therapy. He has to totally study the illness and the diseased and are available to a correct analysis. Then he must chart out the very best therapies, medicines, way of life modifications and weight loss program for the given affected person in a given situation. He has to observe 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 therapy. The medicines and weight loss program needs to be apt for the illness and succesful sufficient to interrupt the pathogenesis. The caregivers have to be on their heels and assist the affected person conquer his illness. If all these items work out in favor of the doctor, he’ll discover success and such a therapy which is nicely deliberate and nicely executed and nicely adopted up would be the finest one.
This may be thought of as a pure type of therapy whose objective shall be to treatment the illness and set up well being within the ailing people.
This isn’t all.
Other than this, there are specific standards for a therapy to be known as Shuddha Chikitsa or pure therapy.
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 therapy
प्रयोगः शमयेद्व्याधिमेकं योऽन्यमुदीरयेत्।
नाऽसौ विशुद्धः शुद्धस्तुशमयेद्यो न कोपयेत्॥१६॥
Shuddha Chikitsa or pure therapy is that which cures one illness however doesn’t give rise to a different illness. This can be a crucial facet of therapy.
Then again, the therapy which cures one illness however provides rise to one more illness, in the end will not be thought of as Shuddha chikitsa i.e. it isn’t a pure or acceptable therapy. It’s because, although it cures one illness, it might trigger one more illness or complication, which isn’t the objective of fine therapy.
Abstract
A brand new illness or complication arising out of a therapy course of can’t be accepted. This exhibits the therapy was both not correctly deliberate or executed or a mixture of each.
This may occasionally occur on account of completely different causes –
– Failure of the doctor in diagnosing the illness or planning the therapy or implementing the therapy or mixture of all these elements
– Failure of medicines to supply the specified impression or incorrect alternative of medicines or side-effects / issues produced by medicines
– Improper observe 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 employees or caregivers at residence
– Lack of coordination between the 4 limbs of therapy
– Extreme therapy given in weak illness or affected person or Deficit / insufficient therapy given in a powerful illness which incorporates palliative and purificatory medicines and therapies
So, the therapy shall be deliberate after fully contemplating numerous sides of the illness and illness adopted by thorough examination of each and correct analysis of the illness.
A Shuddha chikitsa won’t ever fail and can yield good treatment and set up well being within the ailing people. Then again, if the chikitsa will not be Shuddha, it is not going to treatment the illness however would produce some extra ailments and issues.