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# Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of brain
# Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of brain
== Preventive measures ==
Ayurveda advocates several preventive measures to maintain the health of shiras:
<ul style="text-align:justify; list-style-type:none;"><li style="font-weight: bold;">Nasya - <span style="font-weight: normal;">The administration of medicated oil or substances through the nasal passage, is recommended during specific seasons to prevent shiro roga. It helps prevent hair fall, stiffness of the neck, headaches, and facial paralysis. [Cha. Sa. Sutra Sthana 5/60]<br/>Anointing the head with oil is called Murdha taila. It is of four kinds: pouring oil down on the head (parisheka) smearing oil and mild massage (abhyanga), keeping cloth soaked in oil (picu) and basti or sirobasti, each successive type being more effective than the former.
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<li style="font-weight: bold;">Shiro-abhyanga - <span style="font-weight: normal;">Smearing oil and application of mild massage is abhyanga. In cases of dryness, itching and dirtiness can be treated by oil application.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;">Parisheka - <span style="font-weight: normal;">Pouring of oil is parisheka. In the case of ulcerations of the scalp, headache, burning sensation, wounds, and suppurations of the scalp is helped by oil application.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;">Shiropichu - <span style="font-weight: normal;">Oil-soaked cloth (Pichu) could be applied to stop falling hair, cracking of the skin and feeling of burning sensation as well as in cases of blocked vision.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;">Shiro basti - <span style="font-weight: normal;">Oil application on the head is basti. In the case of loss of sensation of the scalp, facial palsy, loss of sleep, dryness of the nose and mouth, blindness and diseases of the head, is helped by basti. [Ash. hr. Sutra sthana 22/23-26]</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;">Shirodhara - <span style="font-weight: normal;">Shirodhara is an ancient healing procedure that incvolves pouring liquid on the forehead from a definite height for a specific period allowing the liquid to run through the scalp and into the hair. This is a subtype of murdhataila along with shiro abhyanga, pichu, and shiro basti. </span></li></ul>
== Standard treatment protocol ==
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