Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Acharya Vagbhata has talked about ‘Buddhi Prasadam’ amongst the 5 main advantages of Shodhana.
Ref – Ashtanga Hridaya Sutra Sthana, Chapter 18, verse 60 (A.Hr.Su.18/60)
Buddhi Prasadam means ‘provides clarity and calmness / pleasantness to the intellect’.
Buddhi is the driving power – behind all our bodily, psychological and emotional actions and actions performed daily, all through life. It’s an entity, which determines how we stay and the way we plan and execute our life on a day-to-day foundation.
Buddhi is the fundamental intelligence that we now have, derived from our mind. Buddhi must be sane and wholesome for us to take all choices pertaining to all our actions. Our evolution as people and in sync with the evolution of the world round us is completely depending on our mind.
The thought course of, our planning, our choices, execution of our choices, actions taken on the premise of our choices, the braveness that we’d like for doing something – all mental capabilities and their patterns are ruled by our buddhi.
Prajnaparadha – All info and information which is enter via the indriyas, go into our system being scanned by our buddhi. A sane and wholesome buddhi additionally prevents us from committing ‘intellectual errors’ – prajnaparadha, which is likely one of the primary causes of the ailments.
Doshas and Buddhi – We frequently really feel our buddhi to be clogged once we undergo from doshic imbalances, be it vata, pitta and kapha or rajas and tamas. So, the whole mental system fails right here and so do all our actions and responses. Shodhana expels the morbidity clogging our buddhi and helps in its restoration.
Hridaya is taken into account to be the seat of Buddhi. Hridaya right here factors in direction of the shirogata hrdaya – mind. On the similar time, the Urogata hrdaya i.e. coronary heart may also be thought-about.
Within the pathogenesis of Unmada – madness / lunacy, Acharya Charaka says that the aggravated doshas afflict the Hridaya (mind) which is a seat of Buddhi, in a weak-minded individual and on occupying and vitiating the manovaha srotas – channels related to the thoughts and causes derangement of the thoughts shortly, inflicting unmada. Shodhana is a vital intervention administered in Unmada. Shodhana helps in cleaning the hrdaya and correcting the derangement of thoughts and mind in order to ascertain their well being, normalcy and pleasantness therein.
Within the pathogenesis of Apasmara – Equally, in one other dysfunction referred to as Apasmara – the principle pathological occasion, which additionally turns into a symptom later, is ‘Dhee Sattva Samplava’ i.e. destruction or deviation of mind and thoughts. Even on this illness, shodhana is run for expelling the morbid doshas. This could assist in restoration of buddhi and set up pleasantness in it.
Within the pathogenesis of Atattvabhinivesha – In one more associated situation which has been defined in the identical chapter of Apasmara, generally known as ‘Atattvabhinivesha’, the essential occasion within the pathogenesis is the doshas afflicting the channels of buddhi and manas. This illness additionally receives the identical remedy as that of apasmara and unmada and contains shodhana. By cleaning the doshas on this occasion, shodhana would clear the channels of buddhi and manas, establishing normalcy and pleasantness therein.
Peeping into Buddhi Prasadanam – The impact of shodhana appears to be encompassing the therapeutic and rejuvenation of the nervous and endocrine system. So, Shodhana may be very a lot helpful for combating neurological problems and endocrine problems and dysfunctions. This additionally means establishing the peaceable functioning of prana vayu, sadhaka pitta and tarpaka kapha.
Buddhi prasadanam additionally contains therapeutic of the center in an prolonged understanding.
