Panchakarma and Panchashodhana in Ayurveda
Panchakrma is very popular word in todays world especially in people who are fond of Ayurveda. Along with that Panchashodhana is simillar sounded word which is moreover confused and intermixed with the base word. In both the term word Pancha is common which means five as per the Sanskrit, so remaining two words karma and shodhana are different. The term Shodhana means which eliminates the morbid dosha (those who manifest the disease) from the body; whereas the term Karma is any procedure to performed to the body with helps of medicine or it can also be assumed as the physical work which not only evacuate the morbid dosha but also imparts many of the good effects to the body. So the basic difference in these two is that Panchakarma has a very wide range of action whereas the Panchashodhana will work on small scale. If we count up the procedure included among them, then we found th...