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Garbhini Paricharya — Antenatal Care in Ayurveda
Garbhini paricharya is Ayurveda's antenatal care protocol — month-by-month for 9 months of pregnancy. Each masa has specific diet, lifestyle, and herbal recommendations. Modern obstetrics increasingly recognises overlap with maternal nutrition science.
Lehana Vidhi — Infant Feeding and Nutrition
Lehana is Ayurveda's protocol for stage-by-stage introduction of solids to infants. From exclusive breast milk through suvarnaprashana to mixed feeding, the protocol balances doshic effect with developmental capacity.
Visha Chikitsa — Poison Management Principles
Agada Tantra is Ayurveda's toxicology. Sushruta's 24-step visha chikitsa is the most refined snake-bite treatment in classical medicine. Kerala maintains the world's strongest living visha-chikitsa tradition.
Deergha Jeeviteeya Adhyaya — Longevity Chapter Summary
Charaka opens his Samhita with this chapter on longevity (Sutra 1). The entire system of Ayurveda is set out here: definitions of swastha and roga, the doctrine of ayus and its 4 types, doshic theory, treatment principles. This is the most important single chapter in Ayurveda literature.
Kiyanta Shiraseeya — Classification of Diseases
Sutra Sthana 17 of Charaka — Kiyanta Shiraseeya Adhyaya — gives the systematic classification of diseases. Five major categorisations: by dosha, by location, by aetiology, by chronicity, by curability. This is the conceptual map of all roga in Ayurveda.