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Panchakarma in India |
09/18/2008 2:24 pm   |
Blog contributor and tour leader Buzzy Gordon shares his journey to health
I first learned about Ayurveda at a weekend seminar sponsored by Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Mark Victor Hansen. The speaker was Dr. Pankaj Naram, founder of the Ayushakti Clinic in Mumbai. It was an eye-opening presentation, and I arranged to go to his center for a 5-week detoxification regimen known as Panchakarma (literally, “five acts” of cleansing).
It was a transformational experience. After the main purge, it was like being reborn: my eyes had a new, glowing brightness; my mood was elevated along with a new-found physical energy. The end results spoke for themselves: I was off my oral medications for diabetes and cholesterol, I had lost 22 pounds and never felt better.
I also learned a great deal about India’s ancient, holistic system of medicine, Ayurveda (literally, the science of life). I observed Dr. Naram as he saw hundreds of patients a day, needing only a few seconds to diagnose their ills using pulse reading, an art practiced throughout the Orient, yet mastered by few. He prescribed herbal medicines that, while effective, carried none of the side effects that we are constantly warned about in allopathic (Western) medicine.
I also saw him minister to patients with chronic illnesses, treating them with marma, the technology of pressure point medicine. Pulse diagnosis and marma were techniques that spread throughout Asia along with the expansion of Buddhism, which, of course, also originated in India; in China, marma became acupuncture.
Fast forward to the present. After two years, Buzzy was ready and, as he says –overdue, for another round of Panchakarma.
More on Buzzy're re-entry into the world of ayuerveda.
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