As the name suggest, Panchkarma means Pancha Karma i.e. Five Methods or Five Operation in Ayurvedic Medicinal System. These are:

Nasya Karma

Virechan nasya

Virechan nasya or seerssha virechan is useful in shirh shool (head ache), abhishyandi (conjunctivitis), kanth roga (disease of throat), mukh shoof (swelling of the face), Krimi (worms), granthi (enlargement of the glands), kushth (leprosy), apasmaara (epilepsy), peenus (nasal disease in which smell sensation is lost).

Following are the herbs used in giving virechan nasya.

1. Garlic juice mixed with mustard oil or medicated sprits with also a addition of marich (black pepper).
   

1. Apamarg seeds, pipilli (piper longum), marich (black pepper), vidang, siguru seeds, mustard oils, tamburu (tobacco), ajeern (indigestion), ajagandha, peelu, ela (cardamoms), herenuka, prithweeka, tulsi (holy basil), kutheraa, phanijjaka, saindhav lavan (rock salt), souvarchal lavan, haridra (turmeric), daru haridra, jyotish mati, and sunthi.

These herbs are used in performing nasya of vairechanika type. Virechan is thus of two types

• Avapeed
• Pradhamana
  
  

Avapeed nasya

Pradhamana nasya

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