@article{PastorEscartín:57504,
author = "Pastor Escartín, Irene and Bernal Ruiz, Mª Luisa",
title = "{Medicina Ayurveda. Tratamiento Panchakarma en la
Obesidad}",
year = "2016",
note = "History: Ayurveda is a science acknowledged to be the
world´s oldest system of health. Only in the last 5.000
years was it written down. The word comes from the Sanskrit
roots ayu and veda, or “life” and “knowledge”, thus
in this name we find its essential purpose. This science
aims to establish the ability to live every aspect of life
to its fullest, a state referred to as enlightment. It
offers a comprehensive conception of life and health which
takes into account all parts of human existence; the
tangible and also the non- material, like the mind, soul,
spirit and senses. This is what a general practitioner
would call: to have psychosomatic origins. Its principles
are intimately tied to how nature functions everywhere in
creation. The specific intelligences, space, air, fire,
water and earth that are responsible for orchestrating the
natural world, also guide all physiological processes
within us. The theory of the three doshas: It explains how
these five elements combine to control the human
physiology. The three functional capacities are called:
vata, which governs all motion or movement; pitta, which
controls all transforming processes; and kapha which is
responsible for cohesion, growth and liquefaction.
Pakruti: constitutional type. This principle recognizes
that each human being is born with a unique combination of
three doshas, and that this natural balance is what is
responsible for the physical, mental and emotional
differences among people. By identifying and maintaining an
individual´s prakruti, Ayurveda can help each person to
create his or her own state of ideal health. Panchakarma:
the science of rejuvenation. However, when doshic imbalance
and weakened digestive capacity allows toxic impurities to
form, this natural capacity of the body of healing itself,
gets blocked. To remedy this, Ayurveda offers Panchakarma,
the body is purified of the degenerating influence of these
foreign substances, thus freeing it to naturally exercise
in its inherent regenerating abilities. We will make
special emphasis in obesity, as a common disease, which
affects our society nowadays, and its treatment. Main
purpose: to bring up alternative approaches into health and
healing, coming from other cultures. By comparing two
groups of similar patients treated with both ayurvedic and
western systems of medicine. Finally arriving to some
conclusions, which may lead us into having a broader point
of view, which will hopefully nourish and inspire us in our
present and future dedication into medicine and the human
being.",
}