Dr. V.P. Mohana Kumari Interview Ohm TV Ayurveda in India Kerala

Dr. V.P. Mohana Kumari walks through an Ayurvedic centre in Kerala, explaining how practitioners diagnose imbalances in vata, pitta, and kapha doshas. The video shows specific treatments like Shirodhara and Udvartanam massage, plus how therapists hand-prepare oils, powders, and decoctions from plants like neem and amlaki.
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Today we received a group from Holland and we are going to give a lot of different types of varieties of Ayurveda packages. Today we have a discussion with the doctor's team. After that they will finalize and check the constitution of their body individually. And after that we are finalizing treatment. What kind of treatment is going to give?
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Yeah. Now you take a tablet. Thyroxine? Yes, one. One a day. How long you taking thyroxine? Think about a year of five, six more. Seven, eight. Eight years.
We get Western patients. Most of them are with many types of diseases are coming here. For example, skin diseases like psoriasis, stress, diabetics, etc. I should surely say that it is the lifestyle, the improper food style that they are following, lack of exercise and over stress that they are taking. Unwanted stress they are taking.
When you have a problem, you see that and you treat that. That's good. But it is not like Ayurveda treatment. Ayurveda think you have this problem now, but that is not from this only. That means your other parts also in trouble. So we give medicine for the whole body, even for the mind to balance. First, Ayurveda is doing treatment with holistic approach. Because most of the time your body can heal yourself. What is happening is we immediately take aspirin or what pills you have, or so much herbs. Immediately you are eating to resist or to stop what has not happened. But it can happen that problem. But that is taking your immunity away, resistance away. So don't take suddenly the medicine for your headache or fever or tiredness, for example. Just wait little hours, at least sometime it go by itself.
Ayurveda is the knowledge of life. And knowledge of life means what is life, what you are, what you are with the universe, the world in which you live, the surroundings in which you live, in the forces of existence. Sense that the cosmos, your relationship with the cosmos, the other living beings of the nature, like the herbs, the trees, the plants and everything you. You maintain a good relationship, a friendly relationship, a Lively relationship with all the existence of the existing forces of nature and also the beings of nature. When you take the product from that you make you. If you are happy with that, you make yourself happy with that. Then you attain Ayurveda which is the longevity of life. The word meaning of Ayurveda is the longevity, the knowledge to keep the longevity of life.
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In this massage, the mass here the therapist will be hanging with the rope and doing the massage with the full body by thinking about 107 marmas. Marmas means the vital points in our body. So the therapist has to be well knowledge about the Marmas. Only these type of treatment therapies are able to do the rejuvenation massage or the Chauvati tiruma. So we don't do this massage for everyone. But we have to see the age for ladies. You have to see with the pregnancy and the person who is having cardiac problems. If a person is having some severe hemorrhage or something like that. We don't do the Chauvati tiram. It's a part. It came to Ayurveda from the martial arts. We can just say as a sports medicine. Also you can use the Chauvatiti Rama or the rejuvenation massage which vitalize the body, mind and soul.
Central in the Ayurvedis philosophy. Start the opfating that the mens are drisorte levis in a shia of Dorshas. Bestad days at DRI Dorshas were the vata pitta and kafr genungt dese leves krachte be pal allerlich hamleke and geselleke fungsis van de Metz.
Vada is air, all kind of air. Pitta is agni fire. So when your bioenergy is not balanced then you get pitta diseases and kapha also the same water. So your whole body if it is not balanced due to different reasons your bioenergies can be they don't get enough balance and then from that you get doshas or wrong constitution.
I am Dr. Mridula. I am from the Somatera Ayurvedic Health Resort. I am working as a medical officer here. And here we are going to explain some of the important medicinal plants.
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MIDDEL BEWERK we are using our medicinal plants for preparing the decoctions. Oil powders, ghee and some in capsules also.
This is the drug which is called as the aloe vera. It is called as kumari in Sanskrit. And the important part we are using here is the plant SAP. It is very important for the female uterine disorders. And we are preparing the decoction out of this plant.
This is the plant neem. Its botanical name is Acedridata indica. It is used for mainly for the home remedies as when there is insect bite. We are just taking the leaf and it is grinding and used for the insect bite and also used for the making oils for the skin diseases.
This is the Parma Yavani. It's also called as the coleus aromaticus. And this is the product which we are taking. The fresh juice we are extracting from it and is mixed with honey given to the young children for the fever.
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Remember we went through the herbal garden and we saw many herbal plants. They were all fresh, you know. Now we have brought it to the drying center. Here there are many sorts of plants which takes about three weeks, one month, maybe more to dry. And where they are thoroughly dried we make. Sometimes we make take the whole plant or just the roots or just the leaves of many of these plants and then we take it to the chopping center to make it into small pieces so that we can go into the next procedure of making oil powder tablets, etc. Now we are at the chopping center. Here they chop the branches of the small herbs into very, very small pieces so that they can be thoroughly pound in the pounding place. Now we are pounding the chopped small products. You know, small parts are chopped here. They make very fine pieces so that we can make a powder out of it. Look, what I am going to do next is I will take these pieces. You can ask me sir. Then I put it like this and we sieve it with a cloth. And this is the cloth that we are using for sieving, you know. So in between the powder will come through this, the small portions inside and then we sieve it like this for many times. Then you get a powder like this. It takes a very long time. It's not a machine, it's done hand by hand.
This powder, where do you use it for?
This is the powder we use for the slimming process, Udvarthanam. So that is for taking off your excess Fat, it's very helpful for your body obesity. For that we use this powder.
In Ayurveda we use only nature products. We are not chemicalizing, we are mixing with oil or water or milk, but everything from the nature. So nature give all these things and in return we have to respect at least this precious nature. So I believe and Ayurveda also believe, without this nature there is no human being.
Now let's have a glimpse about the Udvarthanam. Udvartanam is otherwise called as the powder massage. This powder massage is mainly used for kapha. That means which reduces the kapha as well as the medus, the adipose tissues in your body. The ingredients of these powders are little bit more hot in potency, which is having turmeric in it, which is having mustard in it. And there are different types of medicines which is called as kola, kulatta di churnam, nagaradi churnam. Different types of medicines are there that according to the prakriti of a person, according to the nature of the person, the physician will decide which medicine has to be taken. But all these medicines will be reducing the kapha as well as the medus from the body. This can be done for female as well as for the male. So as you know, usually we do the massages towards down. But always when you do the Udvarthanam or the powder massage, you have to just apply a little bit force and you have to do towards up. And there is no oil used in the powder massage or Udvarthanam.
Ayurveda treatment itself is a treatment for Stola sushma and Karna sharira. Sharira means body. So it help to enter your whole cells to repair. So it is not simple treatment. It is a treatment for the body, mind and soul.
This is the plant shadowy. This name is Asparagus racemosus and it is mainly used for the female problems. And also its rhizome is used nowadays. We are making it with capsules.
Here comes the four ficus varieties. This is Udumbara or difficult racemosus. This is the pipelli or the ficus religiosa. This is the Negro or the ficus bengalensis. And this is the plaxa and the ficus ghibosa. These four together the bark we are taking and we are making oil out of this. And it's called as the Nal Palmara or the oil of the four important trees. And that's used for all the skin disorders.
And this is Brahmi by Kopa Monara and it is used for krida preparation, mainly for the memory disorders.
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Now the powder we made here, that is the powder which is here. We have already the powder the way we prepared with the sieve. Now you put it in the grinding stone and with little water, sometimes it may be a decoction. And then we grind it finely, very finely. He will grind it and then later he will make it into small pellets, you know, small tablets with the hand. And after making into small balls, we dry it in the shade, not raising the shade sun, you always try to dry it in the shade. And the end product is small tablets like this.
Why in the shade and not in the sun?
The whole juice, the essence of it will be evaporated very fast, you know. So we will dry it in the shade.
Shirodhara is one of the treatment what is having a primary importance to the body. So here we always be with the mind and soul and body. So shirodhara helps to rejuvenate your body. It helps you rejuvenate your cells as well as it balance your mind. Shirodha is a very good treatment for insomnia. Treatment like insomnia, stress, anxiety, nervous disorders and for very aged persons also. But shirodhara should not be done whenever it is in a rainy time, or whenever you have a running nose or something like that, it always makes problem to you. And shirodha is always done in the forehead. That's about 45 minutes. That is about. In Ayurveda we say it as a muhurta. So Srivadhara always help for the improvement of sattvic energy in you.
Now this is the next important drug, which is called as the emplica officinalis, which is also called as the amlaki in Sanskrit it's also called as the gooseberry. And the importance of this drug is that this is a constituent of the triphala, that is the combination of the three main fruits, I.e. terminate Chabula and another vibitag is also there. And this one, emblica officinalis. So this is used to extract the powder. We are making the powder out of this and that is being used for the triphala. It's also mixed with curcuma and is used for the diabetes. And it is a very sacred drug which we are using in our continent. It is having various Ayurvedic properties related with its. It can be translated into any form. That means it is used for the decoction, it is used for the churnas, it is used for the tablets, everything. It is a very good antipyretic as well as it is a very good antibacterial. The fresh juice of the tulsi can be applied over the skin disorders. When an insect bite or something is there, it can be used as a first aid. In this way, every drug in this universe is proven important role in our life. It will help us in curing the diseases as well as it helps us in protecting our health.
You, please come here, all of you.
And here, what happens here?
This is a decoration is being made, you know, this is the product. And we have about 400 liters of water in it. 75 kg of this medicine is put in the water. Then we boil it for hours and hours and it is reduced into one fourth of the quantity. And that way you prepare a decaution. The decaution is Vicida cordifolia kurundoti and it's very good for the rheumatic complaints. Again, okay, okay. So this decaution is always can be taken as such, but it can be used for the oil also.
Okay, yeah.
And that, what is that for?
This is the oil with cedar cordifolia. Again, this decoration, it's boiled for a long time and with powdered medicines, herbal medicines are put into it with coconut milk and sesame oil. This preparation takes about seven days. It's a very slow, slow process. First it turns into a muddy appearance. It will come into a muddy appearance. And then slowly, slowly the oil will come out. And then product is oil which can be used for head as well as body. That's also for rheumatic complaints, your body pains, everything. And this will take for sure seven days to be prepared in the proper way. So these are the products that come out of the preparations we have done. And this is a decaution which is used for. We were explaining about rheumatism, which we give for rheumatism. And this is a preparation with tribala. You know, these things are. And this is a different product. And this is an oil, we were chopping medicines for the oil. And this is the oil that is coming, I mean, coming out of those things, you know. And here we have the tripola powder again. This product, you can just open and see this. You feel good. It smells the herbal smell you get.
Okay.
This special preparation, this is used for the rashes, you know, irritation of the skins for beautiful skin. All types of irritation of the skin. This oil is used.
Okay, you mean psoriasis.
Yes, we have special oils for psoriasis. This is actually not for psoriasis, but have. But we have this one, you know, this is. This is what is we use for psoriasis.
Yeah, yeah, Lot of difference.
Yes, general massage is very good for toning the muscles. The proper blood flow flow to be accelerated. And then it's very good for your skin problems. It gives nourishness to the skin. Also. Normally we use l An that is taken out of sesame seeds. That is the basic of all the oils. Plus we add many types of herbs according to the need.
So general massage is used almost for almost all the diseases. And this is for reducing the vata. Vata vitiation can be reduced by general massage. And this always helps to regulate the body as well as to balance the three doshas. So everyone can do general massage every day. General massage is already done with oils. There are different types of oils which can be according to the person, according to the prakriti of the person.
Nowadays many doctors, allopathic doctors want to add Ayurveda in it. But the system of medicine is not same. The birthplace of India never doing that. There is English medicine. We say for allopathy is totally separated from Ayurveda surgery. Ayurveda medicine is not believing much when you have a thorn or something. Or very little things. So in that way, surgery we give to allopathy. Western medicine has much possibilities for surgery. We have to be very proud of that. But at the same time, Ayurveda can be its own way going. That's better. Ayurveda is more focusing on avoiding diseases. Ayurveda medicine also preventing diseases. Giving lot of immunity resistance. By eating, you get lot of resistance and immunity. This Ayurveda medicine so not with chemicalizing.
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