Arya Vaidya Sala,Kottakkal, (AVS) is an 120 years old Charitable Institution engaged in the practice

and propagation of Ayurveda, the ancient health care science of India. AVS offers classical Ayurvedic
medicines and authentic Ayurvedic treatments and therapies to patients from all over India and
abroad.

The treatment duration is one hour.

And all these treatments are done with the below products are included to make oils -

Arya Vaidya Sala Manufactures more than 530 classical formulations which fall in the nine categories:
ARISHTA / ASAVA (FERMENTED FORMULATION) / BHASMA (CALICINATED DRUG) / CHURNA
(POWDERED HERB) / GHRITA (GHEE BASED) / GULIKA (PILL) / KASHAYA (DECOCTION) / LEHA
(ELECTUARY) / RASAKRIYA (COLLERIUM) / KUZHAMPU (OIL BASED).

TREATMENTS - Many special treatments prescribed in the ancient medical classics for some of the
most distressing diseases are currently practised only in Kerala. And they have been effectively
administered in the manner matching with the needs of modern patients at all the Ayurvedic Hospital
& Researh Centres of Arya Vaidya Sala.

DHARA - The patient is advised to lie on a special wooden droni with his neck and head comfortably
placed. Then a non-stop continuous stream of the prescribed liquid medicine is gently poured on his
forehead from a prescribed height through a specially devised apparatus called Dhara Chatti for a
period of one to one and a half hours. Dhara is occassionally administered on whole body in special
cases.

Dhara is considered to be effective for several diseases like stress related disorders, sleeplessness
and many degenerated brain disorders. Different liquid mediums are used in Dhara for different
diseases. Medicated oils, milk, tender coconut water and decoctions of herb extracts are some of the
fluids used.

NAVARAKIZHI -Medicated oil is first applied liberally over the patient’s body. Then the body is
massaged with small linen bags filled with cooked

Navara rice. The rice is cooked by boiling it in cow’s milk along with suitable. The linen bags filled with
rice are dipped in the same mixture kept boiling over a gentle flame and applied by masseurs at a
comfortable temperature over the whole body of the patient.

Navarakkizhi is a special massage , which rejuvenates the body. It is very effective in degenerative
muscle diseases like poliomyelitis muscular atrophy etc. It is more effective when done immediately
after Pizhichil treatment . The course of treatment can last for 14 or 21 days.

SIROVASTI -The treatment consists of keeping the prescribed medicated oil at a bearable
temperature in a leather cap fitted around the head of the patient.The oil is filled in the cap up to a
level of one finger above the crown of the head.The duration of treatment is between one and one
and half hours.

Sirovasti is an important procedure which is found to be very effective in trigiminal neuralgia,

hemicrania, optic atrophy, otalgia, deafness, facial paralysis and in all diseases affecting cranial
nerves. Generally the course of treatment is only seven days at a stretch.

PIZHICHIL -The patient is made to lie on a wooden Droni (a specially designed wooden plank). Then
pieces of linen dipped in comfortably warm medicated oil are squeezed over the patient’s body from a
specific height. When the warm oil flows and spreads over the body, four masseurs sitting on either
side give the patient a gentle massage . This is effective in diseases connected with the Vata Dosha
and its allied manifestations like spondylosis, hemiplegia, Arhtritis, back pain, muscular dystrophy etc..
This is done only on the body below the neck and the duration can be fixed from one to one and a half
hours depending upon the strength of the patient.

NASYAM-These treatments are specially effective in paralysis, rheumatism, arthritis, spondylosis, and
other psychosomatic diseases. The classical therapies are also made use of, for devising new
treatment modalities to deal with several serious ailments of the modern man such as parkinsonism,
motor neuron diseases, cancer etc. The major treatments provided at the hospital are: Snehapanam
Dhara

(Oordhwanga Dhara & Sarvanga Dhara), Pizhichil, Navarakkizhi, Sirovasti, Pichu and Sirolepa.
Besides these specialised methods, the hospital offers Panchakarma treatments like Kashayavasthy,
Snehavasthy, Nasyam, Virechanam and Raktamoksham.

THARPANAM -These treatments are specially effective in paralysis, rheumatism, arthritis,

spondylosis, and other psychosomatic diseases. The classical therapies are also made use of, for
devising new treatment modalities to deal with several serious ailments of the modern man such as
parkinsonism, motor neuron diseases, cancer etc. The major treatments provided at the hospital are:
Snehapanam Dhara

(Oordhwanga Dhara & Sarvanga Dhara), Pizhichil, Navarakkizhi, Sirovasti, Pichu and Sirolepa.
Besides these specialised methods, the hospital offers Panchakarma treatments like Kashayavasthy,
Snehavasthy, Nasyam, Virechanam and Raktamoksham.