Home Panchakarma
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Preliminaries for Self-Administered Home Pancha Karma:
Review the information provided for contraindications that might apply to you. You alone will be responsible for determining its suitability and appropriateness.
Identify a couple weeks of little or (better) no work or strenuous activity.
Step 1: Internal Oleation
At the beginning of this period take increasing amounts of ghee in liquid form by itself. This means start with 2 tablespoons and increase by 2 tablespoons the amount of ghee taken on each succeeding day. Thus, five days before panchakarma massage begins take 2 tablespoons of ghee. Four days before panchakarma massage begins take 4 tablespoons of ghee. Three days before panchakarma massage begins take 6 tablespoons of ghee. Two days before panchakarma massage begins take 8 tablespoons of ghee. One day before panchakarma massage begins take 8 to 10 tablespoons of ghee. The ghee should be taken in the morning on an empty stomach. It is OK to add 1/8 t mineral salt and 2 pinch trikatu for 2 tablespoons ghee. Follow the ghee with hot water -- this means take sips of bearably hot water throughout the morning. Eat no food following ghee until about noon when and if your appetite has returned. Continue to take ghee in the manner described above on succeeding days until nausea, and/or a sense of calmness and well-being of the senses, oil in stool and urine occur. Minimum of 4 days, maximum of 7 days, of internal oleation with ghee should be taken
Diet for this pre-panchakarma period (before the panchakarma massage) should be warm, freshly cooked food that matches your vikruti (imbalance of vata, pitta, or kapha dosha) with increased amounts of ghee in it.
Step 2: Steam Therapy or Swedana or Sudation
The night of the final day of taking ghee (the night before you begin the actual panchakarma massage), take a bearably hot bath for 20 to 30 minutes (just before bed is fine).
Step 3: Purgative or Virechana
Early in the next morning -- 4 or 5am -- take 2 tablespoons castor oil (eranda tailam) or 1.5 teaspoons of triphala for laxative effect. Neither drink nor eat anything until the laxative effect stops. It is OK to sip small amounts of warm or hot water to keep from dehydrating if there are many bowel movement. It is felt that up to 30 bowel movements is superior purgation -- but don't try for this. Just make a note of how many and let your Ayurvedic practitioner know.
Follow the purgation with light meals. Start with vegetarian soups (such as mung dal of mostly liquid and very small amounts of white basmati rice or kitchari. Add no salt or ghee (or other oil) for the first few meals. Salt and ghee naturally enter the cell so if you eat them elimination of the outbound toxins, etc. will be blocked. The soup may become spicier (cumin, fennel, cardamom, mustard seeds) and thicker by adding more rice as appetite increases. After one day start to add split yellow mung dal beans in small amounts gradually arriving at half dal and half rice (or according to taste) -- this is called kitchari.
During this entire time of taking ghee and for two weeks after you should do self-massage with some oil. For vata imbalance use sesame oil. For pitta imbalance use 50% sesame and sunflower oil (or try adding15-20 drops sandalwood oil per ounce of sesame oil). For kapha imbalance try mustard oil and sesame oil 50% each.
STEP 4: MEDICATED ENEMA--Two or three days after your appetite returns do enema: In evening administer plain warm sesame oil and retain all night (uncting basti). Next AM eliminate bowels and administer another enema herbalized with dashamula tea mixture (eliminating basti) Dashamula for this purpose is available from www.BanyanBotanicals.com. Preparation: Use 8 tablespoons of the herb root mix, 1teaspoon saindhava salt, and 2 quarts of water; simmer gently until half volume (1 Qt.). Strain and administer while bearably warm. OR: For more oleation in case of very dry colon such as chronic dry skin, constipation, cracking joints, etc: Use 4 tablespoons of the herb root mix and 1 quart of water, 1teaspoon saindhava salt; simmer gently until half volume (1 Pt.) add 1 7/8 cup of sesame oil, 1/8 cup castor oil, and administer while bearably warm (NEVER cold). Repeat this program of uncting basti and eliminating basti for two to six more days. Administer eliminating basti made as per above with dashamula and oil on 4 consecutive Saturdays in AM.
_____Regular Massage or Pancha Karma Recommendation: ______ days _____________________________
___ days of ____ tablespoons of internal oleation with _______________ ghee or __________ oil with food
_____Basti (Medicated Herbal Enema): _____Dashamula tea decoction (Vata) _____Guduchi tea decoction (Pitta)
_____Other tea decoction ________________________ _____ ounces of the tea decoction
add _____ ounces of _____sesame oil (Vata) _____sunflower oil (Pitta) to the tea decoction
Snehana (Abhyanga) Soothing Oil Massage: _____At Bedtime _____10-15 minutes before Morning Shower _____Vata Soothing Oil _____Pitta Soothing Oil _____Kapha Soothing Oil _____Bhringaraj Oil on Soles, Crown, Ears _____Ashwagandha - Bala Oil _____Maha Narayan Oil _____Neem Oil (Available from www.BanyanBotanicals.com) _____Amalaki (Amla) Oil (Bazaar of India) _____Bakuchi Oil (Elephant) _____Maha Ganesh Oil (Elephant)
diluted with _____Sesame Oil _____Sunflower Oil _____Other _____________________________________
_____Vata Dusting Powder _____Pitta Dusting Powder _____Kapha Dusting Powder (Available from Elephant) _____Other ____________________________ Directions: Wet Face and/or whole body, Apply power, rinse well
_____Aromatherapy: ________________________ anointing _____crown of the head (scalp) _____ears _____behind ears _____back of wrists _____throat _____sternum (breast bone) _____belly button _____glans penis/clitoris _____coccyx (tail bone)
STEP 5: DONATING BLOOD--One week later IF you have a pitta imbalance and you are not feeling anemic you may give blood to eliminate the excess pitta remaining in the blood and circulatory system.
TAKING HERBS: Generally it is suitable to take triphala, amalaki, sat isobgol, or other similar herb for eliminating excess pitta and for restoring normal movement of wastes out of the body. It is not recommended to take your regular herbal formula or any ras±yana during the period of oleation and period immediately following until your digestion and appetite return to normal.
_____ 1st Herb Dosha Pratyanika: ___________________________ ________________________________
Specific affinities: ____________________________________ VPK Effect: ____V ____P ____K
_____ 2nd Herb Vikruti Pratyanika Herb: _________________________ ____________________________
Specific affinities: ____________________________________ VPK Effect: ____V ____P ____K
_____ 3rd Herb Vyadhi / Dhatu Pratyanika: _______________________ _____________________________
Specific affinities: ____________________________________ VPK Effect: ____V ____P ____K
_____ 4th Herb Organ / Lakshana Pratyanika: _________________________ _________________________
Specific affinities: ____________________________________ VPK Effect: ____V ____P ____K
_____ 5th Herb Manas Pratyanika: __________________________ _________________________________
Specific affinities: ____________________________________ VPK Effect: ____V ____P ____K
_____ 6th Herb Agni Pratyanika: _______________________________ _____________________________
Specific affinities: ____________________________________ VPK Effect: ____V ____P ____K
______ teaspoon ___ times per day (for ____ weeks supply) taken with _____ _____Teaspoons _____Ounces of _____Ghee (VP) _____Sucanat / Rapadura Sugar (VP) Aloe Vera _____Gel _____Juice (VP) _____Raw, Uncooked Honey (K) and ______ ounces of: _____Warm (V) _____Room Temperature (P) _____Hot (K) _____Pure Water (VPK)_____Organic Milk (VP)
CLEANSING AND REJUVENATION: _____Standard Triphala _____Haritaki _____Amalaki _____Bhumyamalaki
_____Customized Triphala: ____Parts of Haritaki (V) ____ Parts of Amalaki (P) ____ Parts of Bibhitaki (K)
___ teaspoon / tabs / caps ~1 hour before bed (empty stomach) and / or ___ teaspoon / tabs / caps upon awakening
RETURNING TO ACTIVITY: The week following your PK (including the optional blood donating) should be a gradual return to your normal activities and exercising. Return to your herbal formula now.
Adapted from Fair Use Source: Michael Dick, Ayurvedic Practitioner Handouts, Home Pancha Karma, 2001: p. 1
Adapted from Fair Use Source: Vaidya Vasant Lad, BAMS, MAsc - Anisha Durve, L.Ac, DOM - Ayurvedic Institute Pancha Karma Seminar 1999-07-09-18, 1999
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