Abstract

A REVIEW ARTICLE ON SHATKARMA

*Dr. Himanshu, Dr. Sunayana Sharma and Dr. Chavan Ramdas Dhanji

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Abstract

Shatkarma or Shatkriya are a set of six yogic cleansing techniques described in the Hatha Yoga texts. They have several health benefits as mentioned in ancient yogic texts. These practices helps in cleansing of our body internally and and remove toxins stored in body. In Modern world due to improper food habits and pollution in environment causes increase toxins and carciogenic elements in our body and these causes short term illness and long term problems. Shatkarma also deals with toxins which enter into our body due to emotional factors and lack of physical activities. Principle of this alternative system of medicines is to heal the issues from root, if the root cause of most issues is accumulated toxins then healing process can start from removing the root cause. here in this article we will learn about Six yogic kriyas which are collectively called as Shatkarma.

Keywords: Shatkarma, Alternative Medical treatment, Toxins.