According to Ayurveda, Agnikarma is a superior para surgical procedure. This procedure aims at management of various afflictions by inflicting burns on the tissue surface directly by using different materials known as ‘Dahanopakaranas’(tools of cauterization).
How Agnikarma(cauterization) helps to relieve the pain?
Here the heat, which is transferred to skin acts by removing the obstruction in the Srotas(minute channels) and increases the blood circulation to the affected site. The rate of any metabolic activity is increased by a rise in temperature. From the therapeutic point of view with an appropriate rise in temperature, all cell activity increases, including dilatation of vessels, cell motility, synthesis and release of chemical mediators. More blood circulation, flushes away the inflammation and patient gets relief from the symptoms. Afferent nerves stimulated by heat is having an analgesic effect by acting on the gate control mechanism.
What are all the conditions treated with Agnikarma?
- Painful conditions of bones and joints.
- Joint stiffness
- Muscle spasm
- Tennis elbow
- Calcaneal spur
- Plantar fasciitis
- Osteoarthritis
- Headache
- Sciatica
- To remove the wart
- To excise the corn from the heel
- To excise the external piles
- Disc prolapse
- Low back ache
- To excise some extra growths of skin and muscle
