Abstract

ROLE OF PANCHAKARMA IN MANAGEMENT OF VARIOUS MANOVIKAR

Surabhi Virendra Verma*, Gyan Prakash Sharma, Mahesh Kumar Sharma and Meenakshi Sharma

Abstract

Mental health is an indiscernible part of health and is more than the absence of mental illnesses. It refers to a broad array of activities directly or indirectly related to the mental well-being including not only individual attributes such as the ability to manage one's thoughts, emotions, behaviors and interactions with others, but also social, cultural, economic, political, addictive behaviors and environmental factors. According to Charaka, mind (Manas) and body (Sharira) along with the senses (Indriyas) are the place or basis (Adhisthana) of diseases (Vedana). In this context Manasvikara are known as causing factors of psychosomatic disorder. An attempt is made to project at one place the available Ayurvedic material on ManoVikara and their Panchakarma treatment in an orderly manner which would be both easy to understand and rewarding in the field of treatment, by describing the definition and causes of Mano Roga, classification, symptoms and examination of various Mano Vikara and their Panchakarma treatment and other important aspects.

Keywords: Manovikara, Panchakarma treatment, Manah Pariksha.