Abstract

AN AYURVEDIC CONCEPT OF SUTIKA PARICHARYA AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE OF SAMANYA PARICHARYA – A REVIEW

Dr. Soniya and Dr. Meenakshi Pandey*

Abstract

The transformation of female, from a woman to mother is the happiest lifetime event, but this happiness is gained only after undergoing tremendous physical exertion during labour, so old people used to term 'labour' as women's rebirth. The women become extremely debilitated physically & mentally, after the delivery & there are more incidences of backache, feeling weakness etc. Motherhood is all about loving, sharing, sacrificing & struggling. Ayurveda emphasizes much importance of the care of women especially in the prenatal & postnatal period. After delivery of baby, after the placenta is expelled then woman is termed as Sutika & the care is termed as Sutika-Paricharya. Mithyaachara during this period definitely results in incurable diseases or diseases which are difficult to cure. After following proper Sutikopacharya (puerperal regimen) woman regains all the lost things and reaches pre- pregnancy status. The mode of Paricharya includes important therapies, nutritional diet & swasthavrithapalana. The main achievements through Sutika-Paricharya are Garbhashayashuddhi, Dhatu-paripurnata, sthanya- vriddhi, punarnavekarana. So the present study has been selected to review sutika-paricharya & its clinical importance.

Keywords: Sutika, Sutika Paricharya, Sutika Paricharya, Mithyaachara