IS PARKINSON'S DISEASE OR KAMPAVATA CAN BE TREATED SUCCESSFULLY IN AYURVEDA LINE OF TREATMENT :


 

Parkinson’s disease is most commonly called Kampavata in Ayurveda texts. “…involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened muscular power, in parts not in action and even when supported; with a propensity to bend the trunk forward, and to pass from a walking to a running pace,  the senses and intellects being uninjured.”  It is difficult to precisely interpret and  correlate the Ayurvedic understanding of disease with modern diseases.It is nevertheless apparent and important to realize that what we today call Parkinson’s ;disease  been known for millennia in Ayurvedic medicine as evidenced by the symptoms and treatments recorded in the ancient literature.    Parkinson’s Disease gets its name from an essay written in 1817 by a British pharmacist James Parkinson entitled “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy”. In the essay he describes six patients with what he called paralysis agitans (“shaking palsy”) characterized by: 
“…involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened muscular power, in parts not in action and even when supported; with a propensity to bend the trunk forward, and to pass from a walking to a running pace: the senses and intellects being uninjured.”                                                                 In Ayurveda the following are the key observed symptoms of kampavata  :                            Kampa (Tremor)                                          Sthambha (Rigidity)                                               'Chestasanga (Slowness Of Movement)                Vak Vikriti (Speech Disorder)                        Avanamana (Flexion Posture )                    Kshinamati (Dementia)                            Smritihani (Loss Of Memory)                                                                                                                 Vibandha (Constipation)                              Kampa (tremor) is described to occur many parts of body including Shirakampa (tremor of the head), Oshtakampa (lip tremor), Hastakampa (tremor of the hands), Padakampa (tremor of the legs).

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by both motor and nonmotor features. The motor symptoms of PD [resting tremor, bradykinesia (slow movements), and muscular rigidity] are attributed to the loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons, although the presence of non-motor symptoms (sleep disorders, depression, and cognitive changes) which almost always precede the classical motor symptoms supports neuronal loss in non-dopaminergic areas as well.
Modern medicine has only recently acknowledged that these preceding preclinical non-motor symptoms represent the beginning of the PD disease process, these symptoms and many more and even more subtle are documented in the Ayurvedic description of the purvarupas (lit. “preceding form”) of this disease. In fact, the ancient observations of the beginning of Parkinson’s Disease goes far deeper than the physical realm, or even the mental realm, and ultimately focuses on the earliest changes of the innermost fundamental energies at the core of our being.            Ayurvedic Etiopathogenesis of Parkinson’s Disease 

Etiopathogenesis means knowledge of how a disease process begins and then proceeds. Ayurveda has a sophisticated method of understanding how every disease forms and identifies the six stages of advancement of any disease. This method is known as samprapti.
The current conventional medical understanding of the “cause” of PD is that it is the loss of function and number of specialized cells in the substantia nigra compacta region of the brain stem. These cells produce the neurotransmitter dopamine. So, PD has become known as a disease mediated by a deficiency of dopamine in the brain.  Environmental factors, or a combination of both environment and epigenetic susceptibility, are the most likely causative factors. Many studies point to the role of a long list of both endogenously produced and environmentally-introduced toxins as causative. It is unlikely that any of these are the cause of PD but rather undoubtedly serve to “unmask” latent PD by accelerating neuronal loss in the substantia nigra compacta due to ageing, epigenetic, and other factors. No doubt that the removal of these toxic substances from the body will have both protective and therapeutic effects as described in Ancient Ayurveda.     
Vata dosha which initially accumulated in the pakvashaya (colon) entering or if Vata relocates into Majja Dhatu it can cause dysfunction of the sensitive homeostatic centers in the brain and brainstem. In Parkinson’s disease we know that there is damage to the extrapyramidal nerve tracts whose neurons originate in the medulla and pontine regions and regulate fine motor movements.
While predominantly a Vata disease, kampavata (PD) also involves varying degree of Pitta and Kapha dosha vitiation as well in different individuals. The initial site of Parkinson’s Disease may very well be the lower gastrointestinal tract—which just happens to also be the site of Vata vishesha sthana, where Ayurveda declares this condition originates.

Ayurvedic Treatment (Chikitsa)
Ayurvedic treatment for this condition centers around the treatment of vata disturbance. 

Ayurveda teaches that a holistic treatment regimen offers the greatest chance of success with Parkinson’s patients.

kapikachhu,  ashwagandha, Jatamansi, Guduchi and Shankhpushpi may be used in general. Meditation and yoga also be supportively  helpful. Ayurvedic philosophy teaches us that the harmonious individual with a purely sattvic nature, does not experience disease.         Specific action of drugs has been explained in Ayurveda. There are certain medicines that said to act for this, which i am sure will act soon to be trialled. Ayurveda has answer for health, needs a logical approach with  specfic active drug and interacing body     


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