Use ‘Panchkarma’ to cure diseases, docs told

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 17

Dayanand Ayurvedic College, is hosting a week-long national-level Continued Medical Education (CME) for ‘Panchkarma’ teachers. It will be started from March 15 to 20. The event is sponsored by the Rashitriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth, New Delhi.

Principal Dr Sanjeev Sood welcomed the chief guest Dr Sanjeev Goyal, Registrar Guru Ravidas Ayurveda University, Hoshiarpur, along with guest of honour Vaid Jagjit Singh, Chairman Ayurvedic & Unani Board, Punjab and Vaid. Anil Bhardwaj, Secretary All-India Ayurved Congress, Chandigarh.

Briefing about the importance of ‘Panchkarma’ as purification method, Sood stressed the Ayurvedic doctors to use ‘Panchkarma’ therapy to cure skin diseases, neurological, joint problems, abdominal disorders and many other chronic diseases of the body. He said thousands of patients were cured in the state-of-art panchkarma centre of Dayanand Ayurvedic College, Jalandhar, in which different types of Keralite massage, steam bath therapy, emesis therapy, purgation therapy and enema therapy is routinely done. He also gave a guest lecture on ‘Virechana karma’ and its clinical applications in various diseases.

Dr Santosh Bhater, a resource person from the All Indian Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi, delivered a lecture on Snehan Karma and its benefits in different diseases, which was informative. He briefed about the role of different types of medicated oils and ghee in healthy state of human being and in different diseases suffered by humanity now a days.

Dr Parveen kumar, coordinator of the programme, said 30 teachers of ‘’Panchkarma’’ from various Ayurvedic colleges from all over India are participating in the CME.

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Calling 'Panchkarma' a purification method, Dr Sanjeev Sood asked Ayurvedic doctors to use 'Panchkarma' therapy to cure skin diseases, neurological, joint problems, abdominal disorders and many other chronic diseases of the body. He said thousands of patients were cured in the state-of-art panchkarma centre of Dayanand Ayurvedic College, Jalandhar, in which different types of Keralite massage, steam bath therapy, emesis therapy, purgation and enema therapy is routinely done.