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Treatment: the patient should be kept in a room where there is not much of breeze and preliminary sweating should be done. After a light meal in the morning, medicated vomiting is done and medicated smoking and gargling remove the vitiated kapha. The patient's head should be covered with a cloth. The diet should be of sour and salty task and should be consumed hot. A light near is always preferable, after this purification regimen, depending on the patient's constitution, appropriate medicines are to be given. These are generally medicines, which increase resistance to diseases. Khasa (cough) Sometimes one disease leads to another. The several reasons causing cold can also lead to cough. The kapha gets dried up in the throat by the combined effect of pitas heat and vatas dryness and this causes irritation and the patient starts coughing. In allopathy this is called infection. Cough is of five types according to Ayurveda - Vatya, pittaya, Kaphaja, Rshathaya and Kshayaja coughs depending on the disturbance of the doshas. The first three can be easily cured which the last two are difficult.
Treatment: When the cough is due to the predominance of rataosha, the patient should be given ghee with Vata destroying medicines and should be make to sweat. Then he should be make to iitate medicated smoke and given only betas. In cough instanced by pettadosha, the patient should be treated with ghee medicated using sweet medicines. If there is too much of kapha Vomiting should be encouraged. In kapha-dominated cough, oily purgation is to be given. All types of cough should thus be treated with suitable palliatives.
Asthma: When cough increases it may lead to asthma. In addition, consuming fried eatables, stat land spoilt good, foodstuffs not easily digestible and those which instigate 'vayee' dry sticky and cold food, cool water, living in a cold place, control with dust, smoke and light, too much of exercise, work and walk, suppressing the natural urges, prolonged fasting, sudden shocks, all these can aggravate the 'doshas and may lead to cough, hiccups and asthma. According to the climate, the 'dohas' have a natural tendency towards accumulation, vitiation and normalization. Then the 'doshas come in contact with similar qualities of the particular climate, they get increased and vitiated. These vitiated 'doshas' tend to move out of its path and reach different organ systems and cause diseases such as respiration disorders, digestive disorders, rectal disorders etc. Asthma is produced when the 'pranavayee' one of the 'panchavayee' gets out of its path and being obstructed by 'kapha moves upwards in stead of going downwards.
Treatment: The patient should be given fomentation after applying oily a salty substances. Then the hardened kapha in the channels melt ad reaches the stomach. This cleans the way for the free movement of air. Then he is to be fed with oily food and using honey, long pepper and rock salt should resort to mild vomiting. Then the channels become clear. Those who have constipation and gas problem should be given purgation. In this manner detoxification is to be done which has to be followed by suitable palliative treatment.
The explanations given above indicate that all the complaints like sneezing, cold, cough and asthma are cause by the same conditions. When the power of resistance decreases such people find it difficult to adjust to change in climate and environment and the maladjustments manifest in the form of cold, cough etc. Allergic reactions are thus caused by the eternal factors of place and climate but appear only in people whose 'tridoshas' is no in normal condition and do not appear in those who have maintained a balance of the 'doshas'. So it goes without saying that allergy is caused primarily by the imbalance and aggravation of the 'doshas'.
Since these ailments are 'kapha' and 'vata' dominated the treatment is in the direction of cleansing the 'kapha' and reducing 'vata'. In the palliative process, the patient is treated with tonics. Such systematic treatment has cured many patients. But these days the helplessness of the patients is exploited by the practitioners who give symptomatic treatment and provide temporary relief using some mixture of drugs and such practice have harmed the Ayurvedic science.
The allergic disease was rare in the olden days, but area very common problem now, and they are not getting the proper treatment. Since such patients receive only symptomatic treatment and temporary relief, they believe there is no cure for allergy. The invaluable Ayurvedic medicine I being ridiculed by many as fit only for old people. Since there is no fundamental difference in the body structure, of the young and old, and their dependence on food and sleep, the onset of diseases also does not discriminate between them. There may be some illnesses more prevalent among the elderly but there is no age limit for diseases. So there can be no difference in the treatment, except the dosage, which will vary. So therefore, what is good for the old people should be good for the young too. Ayurvedic treatment follows certain principles and procedures and if at every stage this is followed, the patients are sure to benefit and get cured completely. Ayurvedic medicines have the great quality of increasing body resistance and they act basically by bringing back normally in the aggravated' doshas' in the system. Ayurveda can successfully treat patients of all ages suffering from allergies and cause no harm. Ayurveda - the ancient and unique medical system aims at helping healthy people to maintain their health and sick people to get rid of their diseases, and more important is that it is relevant even today.
