ISSN: 2576-4772
Authors: Rajurkar S*, Rajurkar N and Gadgil D
The digestive, metabolic factor has been a vital criterion through various aspects of health and healing in any medicinal system. Ayurveda termed this factor as ‘Agni.’ Ayurveda is one of the oldest Systems of Medicine (TSMs) originating from India. All the eight branches of Ayurveda incorporate a fundamental line of treatment known as ‘Kayachikitsa’ (Internal Medicine), which literally means “treatment of Agni” (Kaya means Agni, ‘Chikitsa’ translated as ‘treatment’). Each Classical text from Ayurvedic Greater Trilogy specified symptoms associated with Agni by precise terminology, and with its reference, described its ‘state’, role in primordial stage, accompanying symptoms, disease prognosis, manifestation, differentiation, disease-stage-wise Agni’s treatment, measures, e.g., nutrition, lifestyle, etc., markers for agni’s recovery and Agni related disease recovery, etc. Evidence of similarities and variances in classical terminology pertaining to relevant outcome criteria bring in the need to refer to all classics since they did not use one and the same term in the same context of some symptoms associated with Agni as a standard protocol. This topic is meticulously researched and published by ‘The Study of Symptoms Associated with ‘Agni.’ with Special Emphasis on Durbalatwa, Sada, Nasha on the Basis of Brihattrayee in Context of Lakshankaosha’. Therefore, it is essential to analyze conclusions drawn on Classical Terminology by this work for Clinical relevance of each classic’s terminology. Which may reveal sequence or correlation of one terminology used by the one, two or each classic for similar or variable symptoms associated with Agni, strategic plan for Agni’s diagnosis within various diseases, its causes, its role as a causative factor, acute-short term effects, recovery markers, early signals of potential underlying long-term sequelae leading to lifelong traces and treatment.
Keywords: Ayurveda; Ayurveda; Agni; Health; Disease; Kayachikitsa; Bala; Digestion; Nidra-Sleep; Food; Disease; Panchakarma; Water; Nutrition; Diagnosis; Diet; Weak; Dosha
