Abstract

CONCEPT OF RASAYANA WRT. SPECIFIC PRAKRITI AND AGE OF AN INDIVIDUAL

*Dr. Jeetika Duggal and Prof. Dr. Manu Bhai Gaur

Abstract

To keep up with ever changing, ever growing field of research in modern medical science, the Ayurvedic concepts need to be analyzed and updated. Updating is better affected by critical comparison of Ayurveda concepts with that of modern medical science. Hence literary research gains importance in Ayurveda. Acharya Charak has advocated both outdoor as well as indoor regime of rasayana chikitsa including single drugs or herbo-mineral compounds; Here, we will mainly understand about the use of single drug therapy as rasayana according to different age as well as prakriti[constitution] of an individual.

Keywords: Prakriti, Rasayana, Sapta-Dhatus, Rejuvenation.