Raktamokshana
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Raktamokshana
Raktamokshana, or bloodletting, it is an important part of the clinical therapeutic use of Panchakarma in the management of several important disease conditions.
Raktamokshana is an effective blood purification therapy, in which carefully controlled removal of small quantities of impure blood is conducted to neutralise accumulated toxins.
when excess toxicity of rakta and pitta has occurred so much so that it cannot be cured by herbs or any other procedure, raktamokshan comes to rescue.
Procedure Raktamokshana Therapy :
Raktamokshana is the most limited of the five major procedures, it provides a rapid and sometimes dramatic reduction of symptoms in certain acute disorders where there is no time for the various phases of Panchakarma like Purvakarma (Preparation for Panchakarma), etc. Raktamokshana can be helpful.
- Therapeutic Phlebotomy: Puncturing the veins or arteries to treat certain ailments.
- Cupping therapy (wet): Drawing the blood with the help of specialized cup like structures especially to reduce pain.
- Medicinal leech therapy: Application of leeches to remove blood from particular sites.
Precautions for leech therapy:
- Proper selection of leeches is very important.
- Healthy, non poisonous leech must be used for therapy.
- The leech should be preserved at ideal conditions. The container should be clean and water should be changed periodically.
- Once used leech should never be used before the stipulated time.
- Leech used for a patient with contagious disease should never be used again.