SWASTHAVRUTHAM - Sukha chikitsa

The shortest, Surest way to better health.

Very few things survived the test of time, Ayurveda has!

Of obscure origin traced even as far back as the time of the Indus-Valley civilization of 4500BC or before, this science of life, popularly known as Ayurveda got its footing through the Vedic period of the Rig and the Atharva Veda.

Structured as a medical system to practice by Charaka and Susrutha, this oldest life science is also the foremost one in defining specialties, a thing happened an awesome 2000 years before to the rudimentary development of the specialization spectra in modern medicine.

One of the greatest contributions of the Indian Civilization to the Mankind, the Ayurveda practices its principles of health & illnesses through two complimentary entities namely Athuravrutha (internal medicine) and Swasthavrutha (Preventive medicine).

The “Swasthavrutha” of Ayurveda has put enormous information regarding preservation and promotion of good health. It talks about Daily regimen, Seasonal regimen, Personality traits and life styles to follow, epidemic prevention, Ageing, degeneration and rejuvenative methods, physical and psychological health and of individual potential, creativity and ways to succeed in life.

The “Swasthavrutha” of Ayurveda in practice is known as “Sukha chikitsa” where the word “Sukha” stands for health and happiness. It is generally believed of the execution of a series of Ayurvedic therapies including the famous “Pancha Karma” of Ayurveda for preventive health care.

In recent times, many institutions in Kerala and elsewhere have come up with a number of health care packages ranging from a few hours of execution to a long period as long as two calendar months! Some of these packages are good to experience but most of them however are a trivial attempt to snatch the money, legally!!

Health care institutions of questionable credentials, some even more mysterious than the most mystic ayurveda itself, can however mesmerize even an Albert Einstein with an armada of well-designed web sites, brochures, comfortable and often lush-green surroundings and silver-tongued business executives.

The “privileged client” who when walks out of the “health resort” after experiencing “an exceptional orchestra of health care” with mud, milk, oil and everything in between, designed of course “exclusively” to help him off money and weight, readily believes every trash could be Ayurveda.

And, this particular species of “Sukha Chikitsa” is everywhere to be seen especially in the months of monsoon and tourism seasons and is about to becoming a cult by itself.

Stung by this blatant abuse of Ayurveda by opportunists, the foremost Ayurvedic institution in India, the Keraleeya Ayurveda Samajam of a century plus experience, expertise and service has for the first time come up with a standardized Health care therapy for the health savvy men and women.

Titled as “Swasthavrutham Sukha Chikitsa”, the programme is not the run- of-the mill variation, nor designed out of the blue moon to earn a fast buck and then fade out, but a package of exceptional health care potential promising long time health benefits.

Somewhat ten years before the Samajam had undertaken a study on the preventive health care principles of Ayurveda, which finally resulted in the fine-tuning of a finest health protection programme under the title “Swasthavrutham Sukha Chikitsa”.

The “Swasthavrutham Sukha Chikitsa” of Samajam has two complimentary components - therapies and life style management. The former is designed for immediate health benefits and the latter is for long-term health benefits.

In this programme the therapies are limited by 10 days in time. Whereas, a person spend just 1½ hrs a day each in which a series of Ayurveda therapies in accordance with the body constitution and that of the Body-Mass-index of the person are employed. These are meant for the Detoxification of the cells and tissues in the body.

By the end of 10 days, the person subsequently gets a set of written instructions which are designed for controlling the existing life style of the person for better and long term health benefits. 

These instructions usually cover food habits, exercise, sleep, yoga, sex, personality, hygiene, prevention of accelerated ageing and degeneration, negating the influences of environmental pollution, Alcoholic or tobacco toxicity if any, prayer and meditation for better psychological frame, harnessing the intellectual and creative potential, strengthening the familial and social ties, and the like to bring out of the best out of each and every individual. This helps the person to live the life optimally and wholesome.

The programme cannot be extended or shortened as it is limited by 10 days. It also includes a life-style management directive that suits every individual in his or her own surroundings, which doesn't jeopardize one's own ambitions or derails one's own responsibilities in life, which can be practiced comfortably at one's own home or work place in Kochi, Kolkatha or Kingston, a thing unheard so far! Further, the programme is not open to all and sundry, as it is meant for the men and non-pregnant women in the 30-60 age group.

The programme aims at improving general health, immunity, complexion, vitality and endurance. It regulates the digestive and metabolic functions of the body. It reduces the environmental toxicity, Alcoholic toxicity, tobacco toxicity, metabolic toxicity, obesity, and raised levels of blood sugar, blood pressure, blood cholesterol, stress, strain & tension, insomnia, chronic fatigue syndrome and mood disturbances.

A pioneering institution in the field of Ayurveda, the Keraleeya Ayurveda Samajam Shoranur, has finally brought out a pioneering preventive health care package, the Swasthavrutham Sukha Chikitsa” for immediate and long-term health benefits.

It is Ayurveda in practice and it has to be experienced to believe. 

It is also hoped that the health resorts will follow and modify the pattern through scientific lines, so as, the innocent “client” shall be beneficed enormously on one hand and the Science of Ayurveda, on the other could become much universal.