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<div style="text-align:justify;">This chapter provides comprehensive information about herbs and their classification by their specific activity and utility, medicinal preparations for evacuation (or evacuatives), and specific therapeutic regimen such as cleansing regimen (samshodhana) and pacification regimen (samshamana). Ayurveda emphasizes upon removing body impurities, like metabolic waste products, toxins, and undigested foods from various tissues and organs before treating any disease or applying measures for preservation, protection, and rejuvenation of health. There are six hundred preparations used for cleansing the body by therapeutic emesis (vamana) and therapeutic purgation (virechana), five hundred herbs, and fifty groups of herbs with similar activity profile (mahakashaya) used in their preparations. A physician should have complete knowledge of special/selective actions of various preparations meant for removal of impurities from the body. Each of the fifty mahakashaya comprises ten herbs. This chapter also describes six types of plant-based evacuatives (virechana ashraya), their basic sources as per taste (five kashaya yoni), and five medicinal forms like juice, paste, decoction, cold effusion and hot effusion. </div>

<div style="text-align:justify;">This chapter provides comprehensive information about herbs and their classification by their specific activity and utility, medicinal preparations for evacuation (or evacuatives), and specific therapeutic regimen such as cleansing regimen (samshodhana) and pacification regimen (samshamana). [[Ayurveda]] emphasizes upon removing body impurities, like metabolic waste products, toxins, and undigested foods from various tissues and organs before treating any disease or applying measures for preservation, protection, and rejuvenation of health. There are six hundred preparations used for cleansing the body by therapeutic emesis (vamana) and therapeutic purgation (virechana), five hundred herbs, and fifty groups of herbs with similar activity profile (mahakashaya) used in their preparations. A physician should have complete knowledge of special/selective actions of various preparations meant for removal of impurities from the body. Each of the fifty mahakashaya comprises ten herbs. This chapter also describes six types of plant-based evacuatives (virechana ashraya), their basic sources as per taste (five kashaya yoni), and five medicinal forms like juice, paste, decoction, cold effusion and hot effusion. </div>

'''Keywords''': a catalogue of herbs, selective activity profile, pharmaceutical forms of drugs, medicinal juice, paste, decoction, cold infusion, hot infusion.

'''Keywords''': a catalogue of herbs, selective activity profile, pharmaceutical forms of drugs, medicinal juice, paste, decoction, cold infusion, hot infusion.

All the ten drugs in this group are called ''dashamoola'' and they all pacify all the three ''doshas''.

All the ten drugs in this group are called ''dashamoola'' and they all pacify all the three ''doshas''.

#''Jwarahara'' (relieving fever): Increase in heat in the body and the mind are cardinal signs of fever. According to [[http://www.carakasamhitaonline.com/mediawiki-1.32.1/index.php?title=Ayurveda|Ayurveda]] , ''amadosha'' entering the ''amashaya'' causes ''jwara''. The drugs for ''jwara'' have been grouped as follows:

#''Jwarahara'' (relieving fever): Increase in heat in the body and the mind are cardinal signs of fever. According to [[http://www.carakasamhitaonline.com/mediawiki-1.32.1/index.php?title=[[Ayurveda]]|[[Ayurveda]]]] , ''amadosha'' entering the ''amashaya'' causes ''jwara''. The drugs for ''jwara'' have been grouped as follows:

##''Santapahara'' (anti-pyretic)

##''Santapahara'' (anti-pyretic)

##''Amapachana'' (digesting ama)

##''Amapachana'' (digesting ama)

##''Raktastambhaka'' (haemostatic)

##''Raktastambhaka'' (haemostatic)

##''Raktaprosadana'' (blood purification)

##''Raktaprosadana'' (blood purification)

#''Vedanasthapana'' (relieving pain sensations): In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda Ayurveda] , the word ''vedana'' is said to provide a general feeling of sensation. It is of two types – ''sukhatmaka'' (pleasant) and ''dukhatmaka'' (unpleasant) (Cha.Sha. 1.133). As such ''vedanasthapana'' means drugs that stabilize sensory sensations in the body. They are useful in conditions where a sensation is lost or damaged due to various reasons. These drugs also relieve pain and bring body back to normalcy.  

#''Vedanasthapana'' (relieving pain sensations): In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[[Ayurveda]] [[Ayurveda]]] , the word ''vedana'' is said to provide a general feeling of sensation. It is of two types – ''sukhatmaka'' (pleasant) and ''dukhatmaka'' (unpleasant) (Cha.Sha. 1.133). As such ''vedanasthapana'' means drugs that stabilize sensory sensations in the body. They are useful in conditions where a sensation is lost or damaged due to various reasons. These drugs also relieve pain and bring body back to normalcy.  

#''Sanjnasthapana'' (re-establishing consciousness): Drugs that resuscitate or revive the sense of consciousness are called ''sanjnasthapana''. Such drugs overcome the effect of losing consciousness or fainting and help the patient in regaining consciousness.

#''Sanjnasthapana'' (re-establishing consciousness): Drugs that resuscitate or revive the sense of consciousness are called ''sanjnasthapana''. Such drugs overcome the effect of losing consciousness or fainting and help the patient in regaining consciousness.

#''Prajasthapana'' (conception promoting, foetus stabilizing): These drugs promote conception by enhancing the health of the reproductive organs before pregnancy and providing adequate nourishment to the foetus to help nurture it and keep it healthy.   

#''Prajasthapana'' (conception promoting, foetus stabilizing): These drugs promote conception by enhancing the health of the reproductive organs before pregnancy and providing adequate nourishment to the foetus to help nurture it and keep it healthy.