Ayurvedic Therapies & Panchakarma

11 classical therapeutic procedures — from the five Panchakarma purification therapies to daily practices like Abhyanga and Nasya. Each therapy page covers indications, procedure, benefits, and classical references.

Abhyanga

Ayurvedic oil massage that serves as one pathway to communicate with pithara agni at the cellular level.

Basti

Medicated enema; one of the five panchakarma procedures, primarily used to eliminate excess vata via the colon.

Nasya

Panchakarma

Ayurvedic cleansing therapies including snehana (oil massage), svedana (sweating), and basti that stimulate pilu and pithara agni to burn cellular ama.

Raktamokshana

Shirodhara

Snehana

Internal and external oil application that precedes and accompanies panchakarma

Swedana

Udvartana

Vamana

Virechana