REVIEW OF SUTIKA PARICHARYA AND ITS CLINICAL IMPORTANCE
Dr. Dipti Diliprao Kawade* and Dr. Ashwini N. Karandikar
ABSTRACT
The transformation of female, from a woman to mother is the happiest lifetime event, but this happiness is gained only after undergoing tremendous physical exertion during labour, so old people used to term labour & as women & rebirth. The women become extremely debilitated physically & mentally,after the delivery & there are more incidences of backache, feeling weakness etc. After delivery of baby, after the placenta is expelled then woman is termed as Sutika & the care is termed as Sutika Paricharya.Mithyaachara during this period definitely results in incurable diseases or diseases which are difficult to cure. After following proper Sutikaopacharya (puerperal regimen) woman regains all the lost things and reaches pre-pregnancy status. The mode of Paricharya includes important therapies, nutritional diet & swasthavrithapalana. The main achievements through Sutika Paricharya are Garbhashayashuddhi, Dhatu-paripurnata, sthanya- vriddhi, punarnavekarana to destabilization of physical, mental and physiological wellbeing. So the present study has been selected to review sutika paricharya & its clinical importance.
Keywords: Sutika , Sutika paricharya,Pathya and apathy in sutika paricharya.
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