Abstract

AYURVEDA TREATMENT PROTOCOL FOR KHALITHYA & PALITHYA

Noor Fathima* and Dhanush

ABSTRACT

Beautiful long, shiny hairs are among asset of a person. They are to be maintained and protected with utmost care. Keeping hair in a healthy state is so important for human-being, because just like the face, hair is also a mirror of a healthy state of the body. Due to many lifestyle-related changes such as fatigue, anxiety, junk food consumption, and the usage of various hairstyling colouring procedures, the younger generations have began to experience severe hair loss difficulties. Disorders like hair fall, greying of hairs, dandruff are commonest among young adults today, causing stress and inferiority complex among people. Ayurveda which puts preventive measures as first step than curative aspect of a disease which provides excellent methods for hair care. Khalitya, palitya, darunaka can be treated with modalities
like siraveda or prachana, nasya therapy, different lepa application and regular oiling of scalp. Preventive modalities include using rasayana as aahar or drugs to be started early in middle age and use of keshya drugs mentioned in classics.

Keywords: Khalithya, Palithya, Hairfall, Darunaka, Nasya, Prachana, Lepa.