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=== | === Ritu Haritaki- changes in administration of medicines as per season === | ||
<div style='text-align:justify;'>Here is an illustration of how judicious | <div style='text-align:justify;'>Here is an illustration of how judicious combination of different substances with varied tastes along with haritaki serve the purpose of mitigating ill effect in six seasons. This is one among the many applications of rasa theory in ayurvedic practice. The details are as follows: <br/>The drug is significantly prescribed in therapeutic as well as preventive use and process of restorative or alternative indication (rasayana karma), and it is classically recommended as rituharitaki for using the drug during the course of different seasons viz., | ||
* [[Varsha|Varsha]] (rains) – | * [[Varsha|Varsha]] (rains) – saindhava lavana (rock salt) | ||
* [[Sharad|Sharada]] ritu(autumn) - sharkara (sugar) | * [[Sharad|Sharada]] ritu(autumn) - sharkara (sugar) | ||
* [[Hemanta|Hemanta]] (cold/winter) - [[Shunthi|Shunthi (dry ginger)]] | * [[Hemanta|Hemanta]] (cold/winter) - [[Shunthi|Shunthi (dry ginger)]] | ||
* [[Shishira|Shishira]] ( | * [[Shishira|Shishira]] (late winter early spring)- [[Pippali|pippali(long pepper)]] | ||
* [[Vasanta|Vasanta]] (spring) - madhu (honey) | * [[Vasanta|Vasanta]] (spring) - madhu (honey) | ||
* [[Grishma|Grishma]] (summer)- guda (jaggery)<ref>Ram TS, Bandari S, Ala Narayana. Pragmatic usage of Haritaki (Terminalia chebula retz): an ayurvedic perspective vis-à-vis current practice. Int J Ayurveda Pharma Res. 2013;1(3):72–82.</ref> </div> | * [[Grishma|Grishma]] (summer)- guda (jaggery)<ref>Ram TS, Bandari S, Ala Narayana. Pragmatic usage of Haritaki (Terminalia chebula retz): an ayurvedic perspective vis-à-vis current practice. Int J Ayurveda Pharma Res. 2013;1(3):72–82.</ref> </div> | ||