
Some substances have different properties
at the time of eating, but their properties get changed in the digestive
process. These facts are kept in mind at the time of treatment and prescribing
medicines and food.


Bile is produced between stomach and longer
intestines. It maintains the temperature of the body. Bile is responsible for
digesting the food and produces rasa. Bile plays an important role in
maintaining eyesight, colour of skin, pulsation, activity of liver, kidneys and
also extracts useful substances from food.
Wind or gas, as the name suggests, help in
physical activities. It helps in taking out the toxic elements from the body,
breathing, taking the food from the mouth to the stomach and then taking the
faecal matter up to the anus. Gas is of five different kind. They are known by
different names as they reside in different parts of the body. The excess or
shortage of phlegm, bile and gas gives rise to diseases.
Ayurveda believes that is it not necessary
for disease to strike to make one stick. It can also be due circumstances that
make the germs of disease attack the body successfully and induce illness. Some
symptoms of a particular disease are prominent while many remains dormant.
This factor also helps in identifying the
disease and getting at it cause. The deformities of the body are carefully analysed.
It is seen as to which extent the disease has spread into body. Information
regarding the history of patient and his disease is gathered. If necessary,
information regarding diseases from which, parent, grand-parents or even
maternal grand- parents have suffered is gathered for correct diagnosis. The
pulse as well as stool and urine is also examined.
METHOD
OF TREATMENT
The ailments born out of imbalances in
phlegm, bile and gas are treated by diet control, medicines and regulated life.
Ayurvedic medicines are also prepared from plants and animals. Pills,
discoctions, syrups, powders, jam, ash, medicated edible oils and butter are
prescribed as medicines.
According to Ayurveda, medicines affect the
body through the digestive system. The Ayurvedic physician keeps in mind which
medicines will affect, and in which way, and treats accordingly. Food is
strictly regulated and controlled during Ayurvedic treatment.
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