THE CONCEPT OF IMMUNITY POWER IN AYURVEDA
By Dr. S.N.OJHA
Many Kinds Of Bacterium, Viruses, Protozoan And Many Other Living Entities, Which Are Notorious As Origins Of Many Diseases, Are Very Enclosed To Us. We Live With Them, We Eat With Them, And We Sleep With Them. We Invite Them, When We Inhale In Unhygienic Air, When We Go Across Or Through A Passageway Covered In Grunge. They Can Be Intruder Through The Infected Syringes, Having Sex With Infected Partner, And Many More Ways Are There For The Invasion Into The Body Of Those Pathogenic Microorganisms Causing Many Diseases Or Contaminations.
When A Widespread Outbreak Of An Infectious Disease Comes Into Being, Many People Turn Out To Be Infected At The Same Time, But Some Of Them Remain Healthy! Why? That Is Because Of A Resistance Power Against The Causes Of Illnesses Within Them, Or The State Of Not Being Susceptible Or Ill. This Is Known As Immunity In Modern Medicine And VYADHI-KSHAMATVA In Ayurveda.
VYADHI-KSHAMATVAM-VYADHIBALVIRODHITVAM-VYADHYUTPAD-
PRATIBANDHAKTVAMITI-YAVAT.
(CHAKRAPANI, The First Narrator Of Charak Sanhita)
Means: -
The Immunity (VYADHI-KSHAMATVAM) Is An Excellence Within All Of Us That Resists The Causes Of Diseases And Their Furiousness As Well As Their Collisions.
In The Ancient Literatures Of Ayurveda There Qualities Have Been Described.
A. Increases The Working And Exertion Capacity.
B. Increases The Resistant Power Against The Disease.
C. The Power That Can Provide Capacity To Adjust The Body According To The Forcefulness (VEERYA) Of Medicine.
How It Could Be Possible In Our Daily Life? Many Scientific Tits And Bits Are Being Suggested So Far But The Ayurveda Has A Distinguished Observation For This. Ayurveda Postulates That This Is Possible Only Due To AUJ Or OJ As Well As BAL (A Powerful Effect Or Influence).
It Doesn't Matter That The BAL May Be Either SHARIRIK (physical) Or MANSIK (The Healthy Psychological State Of Someone With Good Judgment), But It Always Exists As The Cause Of Our Wellness And Re-establishment Of Fitness After The Infirmity.
Depiction Of BAL Or OJ: -
RASADEENAM-SHUKRANTANAM-&8230; KHALVOJSTADEVA BALAMITI-
UCHCHATEY.
(Sushrut Sutras Than XV\19)
The BAL Or OJ Is Ultimate Product Of All DHATUS. This OJ Or BAL Exists In Each And Every Cell Of Body And This OJ Or BAL Provides Stamina, Immunity Against The Illness And Malaises. Apart From It The Physiologic KAPHA Or SHLESHMA Is Also Supposed To Be Resistance Contributor.
PRAKRITASTU-BALAM-SHLESHMA,
BALAM HYALAM NIGRAHAI DOSHSANAM.
(Charak)
THE CLASSIFICATION OF IMMUNITY IN AYURVEDA: -
I. SAHAJ Or PRAKRIT BAL: -
This Is Congenital (SAHAJ Or PRAKRIT) Immunity. It Becomes Developed At Birth But Not Necessarily Hereditary Or Acquired During Fetal Development.
II. KALAJ BAL: -
This Is The Immunity That Acquired By Us At The Different Types Of Weather In Life Or It Happens At The Appropriate Or Proper Time. For Example In Cold We Stay Healthy And In Rainy Weather We Suffers With Many Problems Related Digestion And Metabolism. Some Diseases Always Attack In Childhood But They Never Appear In Elder Age As Polio Mellitus. Some Diseases Occur Once In Whole Life Like Measles, Chicken Pox. The Mean To Say Is That KALAJ Immunity Is That Immunity That Is Acquire By Us With The Time. KAL Is Time And KALAJ Means Born With The Time.
III. YUKTI-KRIT Or Artificial BAL: -
YUKTI Stands For Wisdom, Devise Or Mechanism And KRIT Is Standing For Made By Or To Give Certain Properties To Something. Therefore The YUKTI-KRIT Immunity Is The Artificial Immunity. Vaccinations Are The Best Example. We Can Augment Our Immunity With Some Different YUKTIs Like Vyayam And Herbs.
AUGMENTING OF IMMUNITY: -
Is It Possible With Ayurveda And Yoga? It Curiosity Can Appear In Anybody&8217;s Mind. Yes It Possible. Increasing Or Having The Power To Increase The Immunity, Ayurvedic Drugs Are Reasonably Proficient For This. Such Formulations Are Called As RASAYANA In Ayurveda.
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What Are The RASAYANA? This Will Be Revealed In Next Articles. There Fore Stay Connected.
Editor--JAY
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