Abstract

"RASAYANA" WAY OF REJUVENATION AND LONGEVITY

*Dr. Preetesh Kumar Agnihotri, Dr. Pawan Kirar, Dr. Srinarayan Tiwari and Dr. Omprakash Shukla

Abstract

Ayurveda is the ancient system of medicine in the world. It has two aims i.e. prevention and promotion of health and secondly cure from the diseases. rasayana may be employed for fulfilling both of them i.e. protection and promotion of health and curing diseases. It is the path of rejuvenation and a science of revitalisation. After birth, growth and senility ultimately leading to death are inevitable processes. It is correctly stated that aging before birth and continues throughout life at different rates, in different races for different individuals and for different tissues of the body. It involves two opposite process that simultaneously come into operation i.e. growth and atrophy. Aging represent structural and functional changes of an organism over its entire life span. Rasayana therapy has been described in ayurveda as a systematic and scientific medical discipline. Rasayana drugs are those medicines which are capable of imparting superior rasas and dhatus to the body and toning up the system of healthy person. Rasayana essentially means nutrition at all levels from macro to micro cellular level. Rasayan therapy replenishes the vital fluids of the body, boost the ojas (vital force of life) and the immune system, thus keeping away from diseases and prevents against ill effects of advance age.

Keywords: rasayana, health, rasas, immune system, aging, prevention.