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<li style="font-weight:bold">Chakshushya basti<br/><span style="font-weight:normal">Erandmauladi decoction, yashtyahva (Glycyrrhiza glabra) as the medicinal paste, and honey, rock salt, and oil are the ingredients of chakshushya basti. [A. Hri.Kalpa Sthana 4/27-29]<ref name="ref6">Vagbhata. Ashtanga Hridaya. With Commentaries SarvangaSundari of Arunadatta and Ayurvedarasayana of Hemadri.Varanasi; Chaukambha Sanskrit Sansthan; 2012.</ref></span></li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Chakshushya basti<br/><span style="font-weight:normal">Erandmauladi decoction, yashtyahva (Glycyrrhiza glabra) as the medicinal paste, and honey, rock salt, and oil are the ingredients of chakshushya basti. [A. Hri.Kalpa Sthana 4/27-29]<ref name="ref6">Vagbhata. Ashtanga Hridaya. With Commentaries SarvangaSundari of Arunadatta and Ayurvedarasayana of Hemadri.Varanasi; Chaukambha Sanskrit Sansthan; 2012.</ref></span></li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Churna basti <br/><span style="font-weight:normal">Churnabasti has pain relieving (shulaghna) properties with hot water as a liquid component (dravadravya) instead of decoction. The medicinal paste of rasna (Pluchea lanceolata), vacha (Acorus calamus), bilva (Aegle marmelos), shatahva (Anethum sowa), ela (Eletteria cardamomum), putika (Holoptelia integrifolia), krishna (Piper longum), daru (Cedrus deodara) and kushdha (Saussuria lappa C. B Clarke) is used. [Cha.Sa. Siddhi Sthana 10/13-14]<ref name="ref1" /></span></li></ol>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Churna basti <br/><span style="font-weight:normal">Churnabasti has pain relieving (shulaghna) properties with hot water as a liquid component (dravadravya) instead of decoction. The medicinal paste of rasna (Pluchea lanceolata), vacha (Acorus calamus), bilva (Aegle marmelos), shatahva (Anethum sowa), ela (Eletteria cardamomum), putika (Holoptelia integrifolia), krishna (Piper longum), daru (Cedrus deodara) and kushdha (Saussuria lappa C. B Clarke) is used. [Cha.Sa. Siddhi Sthana 10/13-14]<ref name="ref1" /></span></li></ol>
== Importance in the preservation of health and prevention ==
<p style="text-align:justify;">Therapeutic enema is advised in healthy individuals during the rainy season where there is vitiation of all three doshas [A. Hri. Sutra Sthana 3/42]<ref name="ref6" />, after the administration of vamana (therapeutic emesis) and virechana (therapeutic purgation). [A. Hri. Sutra Sthana 3/45]<ref name="ref6" /></p>
== Importance in the management of diseases ==
<ul style="text-align:justify;"><li>Basti (therapeutic enema) therapy (asthapana and anuvasana) is the most important among the therapies for treating vata dosha disorders. It enters the intestine (pakvashaya) after the administration cuts the root of aggravation of vata and thereby it pacifies vata all over the body. Its effect is like cutting the root of a tree (disease) will destroy the whole tree (disease). [Cha.Sa. Sutra Sthana 20/13]<ref name="ref1" /></li>
<li>Basti (therapeutic enema), in general, is helpful in the prevention of aging, and it produces health, strength, proper digestion, intelligence, voice, and complexion.</li>
<li>It is recommended for both children and old age as it effectively cures diseases without causing complications.</li>
<li>It removes the vit (stool), shleshma, pitta and vata dosha from the body.</li>
<li>It provides compactness to the body and strength to shukra dhatu (the 6<sup>th</sup> basic structural element of the body).</li>
<li>It removes doshas from the body’s channels and thus pacifies all diseases. [Cha.Sa. Siddhi Sthana 1/27]<ref name="ref1" /></li>
<li>Administration of niruha basti (therapeutic decoction enema) before anuvasana basti (therapeutic unctuous enema) clears the channels.. It helps properly transport unctuous substance (sneha) like the pipe which carries water when the impurities causing obstruction are removed. [Su.Sa. Chikitsa Sthana 38/84]<ref name="ref3" /></li>
<li>Basti (asthapana and anuvasana) is important as it is the prime treatment for vata. Vata is the reason for the diseases originating in peripheral tissues (shakha), visceral organs (koshtha), vital points of the body (marma), upper part of the body (urdhva), entire body (sarvavayava) and individual parts of the body (anga). The same vata is responsible for separating and combining stool, urine, pitta, etc. at their sites. As basti is supreme in managing vata, it is said to be half of the entire therapeutics. [Cha.Sa. Siddhi Sthana 1/38-40]<ref name="ref1" /></li></ul>