Lubricant / चिकनाई

Pour a few drops of oil in naval

Just as a cloth absorbs water and releases the excess, a lubricant is absorbed by  the body and the excess discarded.

Introduction

Ill health indicates the perturbation of doshas and the breakdown, in greater or lesser degree of their equilibrium. The treatment is of ill health consist of setting the  perturbed doshas by measures such as Fasting, physical activity and medication for improving digestive power. In more severe ill health, elimination of the perturbed doshas, would be mandatory. Lubricant have an important role in setting perturbed doshas, their role as a perspective step to eliminative therapy is no less important. When doshas are perturbed, lubricant in the correct form, dose and time dislodge accumulated doshas from the tissues (dhatus) and body channels transform them into central canal (koshta) from where they are eliminated by procedure such as emesis and purgation. If administered correctly, lubricant therapy restores strength, reestablishes flow through the body channels and renews the Vigour of the senses and the mind.

Lubricant exist in different forms. Pure lubricant (acchapana) needs to be distinguished from lubricants administered through the medium of other substance (vicaranas). Both may have their sources in plants or animals. Starting with sesame / Tula and ending with Drumstick/ Sigru, there are 18 plant sources, and the corresponding groups among animals including

fish, birds,, with supply of milk and milk products, meat, muscle fat and marrow.

Meat

Paya Soup/ Or Marrow

Varieties Of Action

Bone Broth

Lubricants differ in qualities action. Among vegetable products sesame oil excels as it provides strength and ameliorates vata.

Flax Seed

Castor oil, on other hand is a purgative and an antidote to vata and kapha. disturbances.

The range of animal products includes ghee, and other dairy products.

meat, muscle fat , bone marrow, each having its qualities action and specific application. Of all lubricants, ghee, oil, muscle fat and morrow tops the list. Ghee is the foremost  because apart, from alleviating pitta and vata, it cools and softens the body improves voice and complexion and enhances the output of semen.

It has a special merit of  not loosing its qualities while imbibing the qualities of  vegetable substances with which it is cooked.

Oil settles vata disturbances, enhances the strength and suppleness of the skin and has a cleansing effect on the female genital tract.

Bone Marrow has a positive effect in strength, semen, fat, and kapha. It strengthens the bone.

Muscle fat is useful in  treating intestinal perforation, fracture, uterine prolapse, earache, and headache and promotes the virility and strength of those whose level of physical activity is high. 

Seasons

There are times and seasons when a lubricant is specially beneficial..

Ghee should be taken in Autumn. 

Muscle fat and marrow in spring 

Oil in early part of rainy season. 

In extrema of cold and hot whether are not suitable for taking lubricant.

In general, lubricants should be taken during the day, but there are exceptions.. In the heat or summer and when vata or pitta are disturbed day time is preferable. If the appropriateness of season is ignored the administration of lubricants may cause many disorders including colic, constipation, fainting, jaundice, and delirium due to their improper digestion and assimilation. After taking ghee, oil, muscle fat or marrow, A drink of hot water is mandatory to stimulate gastric digestion. There are 24 medias (vicaranas) such as meat soup

milk, gruel, sesame paste, wine and enema fluid, through which a lubricant could be administered.

                                     

Rice Gruel

Candidate For Therapy

The following persons need lubricant therapy : 

• Those who need fomentation and evacuative therapy, 
• Who are habituated to wine and women
• Who perform hard physical and mental work.

The inborn disposition of body  should be taken into account when choosing the lubricating agent.

Those with Vatala -Pittal constitution, and those who desire intellectual power, clear vision, strength, long life, good voice and color and offspring would benefit from ghee. Ghee is also beneficial for those who have suffered burns and other injuries., and women and children.

Those with excess of kapha are  prone to obesity which may be particularly marked in the regions of neck and abdomen they are susceptible to vata disorders and seek to reduce obesity, gain lightness and improve firmness of the body and limbs and smoothness of the skin. They would benefit from taking oil in cold season. Those suffering from worms and severe constipation  are also candidates for oil therapy.

Those who suffer from Vata disorders and toil in sun and wind weakened by carrying weight, have reduce blood and semen and are shorn of kapha and fat, are assailed by disease of  bone and joints, belly and body parts.. Given their strong power of digestion they should be given muscle fat. Lastly individuals who enjoy a ravenous appetite, habitually take fatty food, suffer from vata disorders and constipation should be treated with bone marrow therapy.

Administration

Oil and other lubricants are often applied locally on the body head, or ear but local applications are excluded from the present discussion which relates to internal administration. This can take two forms. In small doses, lubricants like ghee and oil can be missed with other substance and given orally, when tolerated  well, larger doses are admissible in pure form. Although lubricant is , the six taste can lead to 63 possible combinations. The addition of lubricant would raise the total medium 64.

 The substance which can be mixed with lubricants which include items of  diet such as rice

gruel,  milk,

Or meat soup.

The choice of a given type of administration and life style of individual, season and the nature of illness.

Basis of doses

There are three doses which are prescribed according to the digestive power of the individual.  The digestion of maximum dose spans a  day and night, medium dose takes a day, and minimum claims half a day. Higher doses should be prescribed only after a smaller test dose has been given. Medium or maximum doses are employed as a prelude to evacuative therapy.

Those with good physical strength who enjoy excellent digestive power, withstand hunger and thirst and are use to oil rich food can take a maximum dose which is beneficial. This can be used for a variety of conditions such as gaseous distension of abdomen, snake poisoning, cellulitis, urinary obstruction, epilepsy and severe constipation.

Individual who have average strength consume a modest quantity of food, have easy movement of bowels and suffer from boils, skin conditions including leprosy urinary complaints and vata rakta disorders can take a medium dose, this seldom causes complications. The infirm and old children, those with weak digestion or suffering from diarrhea, cough and chronic fever should be given the minimum dose. This may be continued indefinitely without complications. 

Lubricant therapy is inadvisable for those, who have accumulated fat and kapha, who need roughening or drying up., have excess secretion of saliva and rectal mucus, lack good digestion and appetite, suffer from vomiting, abdominal distention, food poisoning and severe weakness and in those who are depressed. The duration of lubricant therapy generally ranges from  3-7 nights  or until the evidence of proper lubrication becomes apparent. This includes good digestion and appetite, smooth passage of stools, suppleness of limbs, feeling of lightness,  aversion to fatty food and clarity of sense perception.

Method of Administrating Therapy

On the day of administration of lubricant substance in pure form as well as the day before and after, the subject should take warm, liquid and non-fatty food in moderate quantity. A regimen should also be observed consisting of the use of hot water, observance of celibacy, avoiding physical exertion, travel on foot, in vehicles, sleep during day time and suppression of urges, If the therapy is aimed at quelling disturbed doshas the lubricant preparation should be given when the person is hungry and during the course of meal. If the purpose is to eliminate disturbed doshas, the lubricant substance should be taken after the night meal is digested. The dosage also has to be adjusted.

The duration of therapy is determined by  the bowel habits of the individual. For those with easy bowel movement and soft stools, a single lubricant substance is administered for three days while for those with hard stool the administration last for seven days. After the therapy has produced signs of adequate lubrication those with soft bowel should be purged. This can be readily affected by  several items including jaggery, cane juice, buttermilk, rice cooked in milk, grapes, wine, triphala or even hot water. Purgation is easy because their intestine contains excited pitta, a little kapha and slow moving vata. The response of those with hard stools is less prompt because their intestine contains aggravated vata.

If the level of pitta in the intestine is high, and power of digestion is good, the lubricant dose may be digested quickly, and the digestive fire may attack ojas and give rise to severe thirst which must be quenched with  copious drinks of cold water.. If the thirst is less severe and associated with poor digestion, cold water should be given followed by emesis. Giving ghee alone is risky when pitta is in excess lest it should cause systemic disturbances including loss of conciousness.. If the therapy is incorrect, a variety of signs and symptoms would appear include nausea, constipation, dwawsines, itching fever, skin disorder, abdominal distention and loss of conciousness. These complications should be  delt with  by fomentation, emesis and purgation.  Buttermilk, fomented drinks and triphala may also be beneficial.

Once the sign of lubrication become evident after therapy, an emetic should be administered after a day and  a purgative after three days to eliminate the prescribed doshas which has been transported to the gut by lubricant therapy.

Some individuals tolerate pure lubricant poorly, they have soft stools, take alcoholic drinks and avoid physical activity. For such people the lubricant should be administered in a medium (combining small doses of lubricant with other substances). These include meat soups , and a mixture of soups with jaggery, sugar, pomegranate,, curd, long and long and black pepper and ginger. The lubricant therapy of those affected by roughness should consist of jaggery, ginger and oil with wine. There are many other agents for media which should be designed to suit the individual constitution, specific disturbance of doshas and the presence of disorders. The lubricant produces a quicker effect in the presence of salt which act as an adjuvant in so far as it is fluid binding, penetrating, quickly absorbed and not rough. As a cloth absorbs water and releases the excess, a lubricant is absorbed by the body and the excess discarded.

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