List of Diseases and the different hatha Yoga Asanas to cure.

 

Yoga is a universal health booster we have heard and seen around. It comprises of Yogic Kriyas, Asanas, and Pranayama. Yoga connects our inner soul to the universal soul. Regular practice of yoga promotes circulation and also energizing and stimulating endocrine glands. We all know that yoga is helpful to maintain our body and enhancing our health. Thus, optimizing our physical and psychological health. Yoga therapy also known as yoga-chikitsa is a treatment with yogic exercise, practices, and diet. Yoga therapy heals and rejuvenates human body and mind as a whole. Yoga therapy treats many physical and mental diseases. The main practices in yoga therapy are Kriyas, Asanas, Pranayama, and Massage. Alongside, few dietary and lifestyle measures are a compulsion.

Kriya

Kriyas are a series of techniques which cleanse inner body and mind. Kriyas remove the toxins and the blockages in physical and mental levels. These ultimately open the routes of heart, nerves, body, energy and mind.

Kriyas In Yoga Therapy

•  Basti: Digestion disorders, augments skin complexion.
• Jalaneti: Cold, cough, headaches, migraines, nasal issues and sinusitis.
• Kapalabhati: Asthma, bronchitis, enhances inhalation, blood purification, pleurisy, tuberculosis, strengthens nerves and brain.
• Nauli: Controls diabetes, improves immune system and eliminates lethargy
• Vamana Dhouti or Kunjal: cleansing stomach for excessive bile, constipation, and gastric troubles. Relieves headaches, nervous weakness, chronic cold, and asthma. Constipation, chronic bronchitis, gastric problems, headaches, nervous weakness, and stomach illness.

Kriya cleanses a lot of regular impurities that are accumulated in the body. These cleanse our body, there upon enhancing the digestive system, physical and mental energy levels.

Yoga Asanas 

Asanas are yoga poses that stretch and strengthen the physical body. These poses also enhance and open the chakras in the body.

Major Asanas In Yoga Therapy

• Ardhamatsyendrasana: Treats obesity, dyspepsia, asthma, diabetes and also helps in the abdominal organs.
• Bhujangasana: Removes weakness of abdomen and reproductive system in women. Treats asthma, cervical spondylitis, bronchitis and eosinophilia.
• Chakrsana: increases lung capacity, strengthens arms, knees, and shoulders.
• Shavasana: Soothes nervous system and controls blood pressure.
• Shirasana:  Augments circulatory, digestive, excretory, endocrine, nervous and respiratory systems.
•  Sarvangasana: Treats bronchitis, dyspepsia and digestion issues.
• Padmasana: Treats digestive and heart disorders.
• Halasana: Treats Arthritis, asthma, myalgia, rheumatism, lumbago, tensions in back, spinal & neck.
• Makarasana: Relives from hypertension, mental disorders, and heart diseases.
•  Pavanamuktasana: Strengthens abdominal muscles, stomach, spleen, and pancreases.

Practicing Asanas relax the body and connects to a deeper state of mind. The augmented physical and mental benefits reflect in our daily life.

Pranayama

Pranayama is all about inhalation and exhalation in concentrated and regulated manner, thereupon enhancing the flow of energy in our body. A person becomes conscious and is active in the present movement with the regular practice of pranayama. By improving the flow of energy, Pranayama removes blockages, purify and prevents disorders.

 

Major Pranayama’s  In  Yoga Therapy

• Anuloma-viloma: Cures asthma, cold, cough, chronic headache, and insomnia. Strengthens lungs and calms the nerves.
• Bhramari: Good for ears, eyes, nose, mouth and enhances the complexion.
• Bhastrika: Good for abdominal viscera and lungs.
• Sheetali: Cools body and mind. Enhances digestion, circulation and body temperature.
• Ujjayi:  Clears nasal passage. Improves functioning of thyroid gland and respiratory organs.

Pranayama is practiced in lotus pose or any other comfortable pose with back and head kept straight. It should be practiced on a regular basis. Pranayama takes less time and also enhances the breathing and brings oneself into the present. Pranayama is also known to release stress and tensions in an instance. It would be difficult to find too many people who never had any sickness in their life. In fact, the number of people who are “really healthy” in today’s world would be very insignificant. Most of us are however sustaining our life somehow by consuming huge quantities of drugs. Ironically, even so-called healthy people are also consumers of drugs and tonics to build and maintain good health.

 

We have become so drug conscious, thanks to the huge publicity by the drug manufactures that even at the slightest headache we gulb a number of tablets to get quick relief.We have many systems of medicine in our country, but the allopathic system is the most predominant among all these. It is also the most commonly practised system iun the world. It has many antibiotics like pencillin, terramycin, streptomycin, chloromycetin, sulpha drugs etc.. used to kill bacteria or germs which attack us and cause diseases of several kinds. But as they kill germs of a disease inside out body, they also destroy some vital tissues and red blood corpuscles because they are potent poisons.

 

They can sometimes kill germs of a disease inside our body. They also destroy some vital tissues and red blood corpuscles because they are potent posons. They can sometimes kill a patient instantly insteda of saving him. But most of them do cause what are called “side-effects” i.e while they kill a certain type of bacteria, they at the same time weaken or damage some of our delicate internal organs.Main Features of Yoga TherapyThe world is actually suffering from over-drugging.

 

 

Can man escape drugs? Yoga can prove to be a great saviour of mankind if its practic e is popularised in the length and breadth of the world, because yoga has the capacity to keep the body free from most types of sickness and thus to make the unnecessary use of drugs. It is easy to find thousands of allopathic drugs. Yoga not only advises to avoid drugs but it also helps an individual to get rid of drugs. Another plus point of yoga is that it operates not only on the physical level but also on the mental and spiritual planes .So fas as the malfunctioning of glands is concerned, no medical system has really achieved any breakthrough. Here also, it is yoga which can restore the normal functioning of glands by corrective yogic practices. At the same time it is the best preventive system, the regular practitioner of which can escape the agony of illness.

 

This system comprises three types of activities or exercises: the yogasana, the mudras and the pranayama. While the yogasanas invigorate our internal organs, the mudras ensure healthy functioning of the glands and the pranayama, besides purifying our blood, soothens our nervous system, So, this trinity of yoga system is capable of restoring and ensuring normal health for us without the neccessity of drugs.Diet ControlYoga will help more when we have diet control also. If we dump all sorts of poisons in our stomach, yoga will not be able to clear that debris like a magic wand. It is scientific system based upon the minute and deep knowledge of human physiology.

 

 

It can therefore operate effectively if we take balance and controled diet. The principles of which have been discussed earlier. Yoga as a curative is therefore firmly linked with diet control. We know that in any system of treatment, the medical expert also prescribes the diet system prescribed is most essential.So, while describing common diseases and yogasanas that help cure them are given below for the denefit of readers. But in acute cases, personal guidance of an expert is very essential. Moreover, it is beyond the scope of this post to give exhaustive knowledge of all diseases.So, we have only mentioned the name of the yogasanas against the disases in which they are useful. Complete yoga therapy is the subject of a complete book or a yoga hospital.Start with Clean StomachBut before the above mentioned list is given, it is considered most essential to point out that yogasanas, mudras and pranayama should always be performed in empty stomach and clean body, preferably after taking bath. Yoga is for purification of body. mind and spirit, so, one must start with clean body and clean mind. Clean bowels is actually the very first and the most essential condition of yogic practices.

 

Those who do not have their bowel clean in a natural way should therefore first perform those exercises which help in this. Bastrika described in chapter on “Six Types of Yogic Purification practices” is prescribed by ancient acharyas for complete evacuation. But experience shows that common people cannot and do not practice such yogic kriyas because it is more natural. Realising the diufficulty of performing Bastrikya, a simpler practice of easy evacuation has been devised ehich is as effective as original Bastrikriya. The following paragraph describes this useful practice, which can be performed by the sick as well as healthy people. It is very beneficial practice for constipation patients also.

 

 

Conclusion Now you all have understood the aspects and benefits of yoga therapy. Yoga therapy calms down the mind relax the body and enhance our spirits. These things would lead you to do great work in your daily life. Practice and spread, let the world understand and enjoy the yoga therapy.