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<li style="font-weight:bold">Impulse: <span style="font-weight:normal">A sudden desire to do something without external stimuli or thinking about the result. usually this character is seen in dementia, epilepsy etc </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Impulse: <span style="font-weight:normal">A sudden desire to do something without external stimuli or thinking about the result. usually this character is seen in dementia, epilepsy etc </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Obsession: <span style="font-weight:normal">Excessive thoughts, ideas, or emotions that cannot be eliminated logically</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Obsession: <span style="font-weight:normal">Excessive thoughts, ideas, or emotions that cannot be eliminated logically</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Lucid internal: <span style="font-weight:normal">It is the period at which all signs and symptoms of insanity are not visible, and the person's behavior looks healthy.<ref name="ref5">Gautam Biswas,Review of forensic medicine and toxicology , 2nd edition chapter 29 page number 353-35. Jaypee brothers medical publishers (p) limited.</ref>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Lucid internal: <span style="font-weight:normal">It is the period at which all signs and symptoms of insanity are not visible, and the person's behavior looks healthy.<ref name="ref5">Gautam Biswas,Review of forensic medicine and toxicology , 2nd edition chapter 29 page number 353-35. Jaypee brothers medical publishers (p) limited.</ref></div>
== General principles of treatment ==
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Maintaining nutritional status, prevention & cure of mental illness needs proper living conditions & environment that promotes mental health. Following are principles for the prevention and treatment of pacifying tamas relating disorders.
* Intake of a balanced diet
* Following rules and regulations for the preparation & intake of food (ashthaaharavidhivisheshayatana) and dietary guidelines (aharavidhi)
* Daily regimen (dinacharya)
* Night regimen (ratricharya)
* Seasonal regimen (ritucharya)
=== Specific treatments of tamas dominant disorders ===
<div style='text-align:justify;'><ol><li style="font-weight:bold">Restraining psychological urges (manasikavega dharana): <span style="font-weight:normal">Psychological urges like greed (lobha), grief (shoka), fear (bhaya), jealousy (irshya), dislike (dwesha), infatuation (raga), arrogance (ahankara), shameless (nirlajja) etc. shall be controlled. [Cha. Sa. Sutra Sharira 7/25-29] </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Spiritual therapy (daivavyapashrayachikitsa): <span style="font-weight:normal">It includes chanting & listening to mantras, homa , fasting (upavasa), aushadhi, wearing of mani, auspicious ceremony (mangala), gifts (upahara) following of auspicious & spiritual rules (niyama), respect of almighty (pranipata) are an integral part of daivayapashrayachikitsa. This leads to activating the normal functioning of sattva and removes excessive tamas & rajas.<ref name="ref6">Sudha IshwarlalLokhande, Sudarshan Hande. Manasatattava and its chikitsasiddhanta, explained in Ayurveda.</ref></span></li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Rational therapy (yuktivyapashrayachikitsa): <span style="font-weight:normal">Aimed at rational use of medicines (internal & external or both) and food (Ahara). Which are further classified into two types:<ref name="ref7">https://www.planetayurveda.com/manas-chikitsa-in-ayurveda/</ref></span></li>
== References ==
== References ==