Diseases of Vata Imbalance
Meet the leader of many illnesses
Though Vata imbalance diseases are innumerable, the following eighty diseases are the most commonly manifested ones:
Though Vata imbalance diseases are innumerable, the following eighty diseases are the most commonly manifested ones:
Eighty diseases caused by Vata alone –
- Pada shoola (pain in foot)
- Nakhabheda (cracking of nails)
- Gulpha Graha (stiff ankle)
- Pada Suptata (numbness of foot)
- Januvishlesha (Genu valgum) – Knock Knee
- Gridhrasi (sciatica)
- Urusada (pain in the thigh)
- Guda Bhramsa (prolapsed rectum)
- Vankshana anaha (tension of groin)
- Khanjatva (lameness)
- Vidheda (diarrhea)
- Prsistagraha (stiffness of back)
- Vrushanakshepa (pain in scrotum)
- Udaraveshta (Gripping pain in abdomen)
- Hrit Drava (tachycardia)
- Vamanatava(dwarfism)
- Vaksha- Uparodha (impairment of thoracic movement)
- Bahu Shosha (atrophy of arm)
- Manyastambha (torticollis)
- Hanu Bheda (pain in jaw)
- Akshi Bheda (pain in eye)
- Danta Shaithilya (looseness of tooth)
- Vak Sanga(stalling speech)
- Mukha shosha (dryness of mouth)
- Ghrana Nasha(anosmia) – loss of smell function
- Ashabda Shravana (tinnitus)
- Badhirya (deafness)
- Vartma Samkocha (entropies)
- Akshi Shoola (pinching pain in eye)
- Kesha bhumi sphutana (dandruff)
- Lalata Bheda (pain in frontal region)
- Ekanga Roga (monoplegia)
- Bhru Vyudasa (ptosis of eye brow)
- Pakshavaha (hemiplegia)
- Anavasthita chittatva (unstable mind)
- Dandaka (tonic convulsion)
- Bhrama (giddiness, dizziness)
- Jrumbha (yawning)
- Vishaada(asthenia) – weakness, depression
- Shyava Arunaava Bhasata (dusky red appearance)
- Raukshya (dryness)
- Urustambha( stiffness of thigh)
- Vata khuddata (club foot)
- Vipadika (cracking of feet)
- Janu Bheda (Genu varum)- Bow leggedness, bandiness
- Pangulya (paraplegia)
- Pada Bhramsha (foot Drop)
- Gudarti (Tenasmus)
- Hrit Moha (braby cardia)
- Pindikodveshtana (cramps in calf muscle)
- Shepha Stambha (stiffness of penis)
- Shroni Bheda (pain around the pelvic girdle)
- Parshva Marda (pain in chest)
- Udavarta (bloating)
- Danta Bheda (toothache)
- Kubjatva (kyphosis)
- Trikagraha (stiffness of sacro-iliac joint)
- Vaksha- Udgharsha (rubbing pain in chest)
- Vakshastoda (stabbing pain in chest)
- Greeva Stambha (stiffness of the neck)
- Ostha Bheda (pain in lips)
- Mookatva (aphasia / dumbness)
- Kashaya asyata (astringent taste in mouth)
- Timira(amaurosis) – a type of vision loss
- Kanthoddhvamsa(hoarseness of voice)
- Arasajnata(ageusia) – loss of taste function
- Karna Shoola (ear ache)
- Ucchaih Shruti (hard hearing)
- Vepathu (tremor)
- Vartma Stambha (Ptosis of eye lid)
- Akshi Vyudasa (Ptosis of eye ball)
- Shankha Bheda (pain in temporal region)
- Shiro Ruk (headache)
- Asvapna (sleeplessness)
- Ardita(facial paralysis)
- Sarvanga Roga (polyplegia)
- Akshepaka (convulsion)
- Tama (fainting)
- Ati Pralapa (delirium) – excessive irrelevant talk
- Parushya (hardness)
- Hikka (hiccup)
General causative elements for vata unevenness
Vayu (vata) gets irritated or expanded from over guilty pleasure in off-base food sources for example Light, dry, unpleasant, severe, sharp and astringent, and exercises for example A lot running, hopping, conveying significant burdens and so forth. Which causes exhaustion of the tissues. Vata then, at that point, tops off the vacant channels left by the consumption of the tissues and moves or courses significantly considerably more than typical, and can become encompassed by the other doshas for example Pitta and kapha which have likewise occupied the vacant spaces brought about by exhaustion of the tissues.
There are two manners by which vata can be irritated :
1. By possessing the channels brought about by the exhaustion of tissues and creating expanded working in the channels so
involved.
2. By becoming involved or encompassed by other doshas which have aggregated in the channels and delivering sickness and loss of working of the channels so impacted. In the primary kind vata is the just dosha delivering the outcome and is subsequently exceptionally strong. In the second sort vata is related with at least one of the other doshas and is viewed as not generally so strong as the main kind.
2. By becoming involved or encompassed by other doshas which have aggregated in the channels and delivering sickness and loss of working of the channels so impacted. In the primary kind vata is the just dosha delivering the outcome and is subsequently exceptionally strong. In the second sort vata is related with at least one of the other doshas and is viewed as not generally so strong as the main kind.
General standards of treatment of Vata issues:
Madhura, Amla Lavana Snigdha Ushna Upakrama – The vitiated Vata ought to be treated by drugs having sweet harsh and saline taste and unctuous and hot characteristics
Snehana – oleation,
Sveda – fomentation, perspiring treatment
Asthapana – decoction douche
Anuvasana – oil douche
Nasyakarma – nasal instillation of drops,
Bhojana – sound eating regimen,
Abhyanga – knead,
Utsadana – unction,
Parisheka – sprinkling of oil/fluid containing materials having against Vata properties.
This is to be finished with due respect to the dose and the season.
Significance of Basti treatment in Vata issues -
Of the multitude of medicines expressed over, the Asthapana (decoction douche) and Anuvasana (oil purification) are the treatment second to none for the fix of Vatik sicknesses, in light of the fact that following entering the colon, they strike at the actual foundation of the vitiated Vata and when Vata is defeated in the colon, even the whole vitiated Vata staying in different pieces of the body is consequently reduced.