A type of steam treatment with rice boluses. A special variety of rice is cooked with milk and a herbal decoction until it becomes a pudding like
consistency. This mixture is then wrapped into boluses. The boluses are heated and pounded on the body.
A type of steam therapy in which herbal leaves and herbal powers are used to administer steam to the prescribed areas of the body. Leaves of herbs are made into boluses and pounded and managed on the whole or part of the body after dipping in warm herbal oil.
This treatment is usually performed after the body has been anointed with oil by abhyanga. The patient sits in a wooden steam box which covers the body but not the head. The body is exposed to a continuous flow of herbal steam.
Shira means head and dhara means the continuous flow of liquid. In this process herbal oils, decoctions or milks are poured onto the forehead in a rhythmic fashion. This treatment is beneficial for psycho emotional well-being.
Herbal Ghee is poured on the eyes into a little pitch (dam) constructed with lentil flour around the eyes.It is beneficial for weal eyesight, dryness of the eyes, conjuntivitis and other eye diseases.
A specified number of oil or herbal decoction drops are instilled into the nostrils. The face, hands and feet are gently rubbed after nasya to enable full penetration of the oil into the nostrils and maintain body heat. Nasya can be administered daily with 2-3 drops of oil in each nostril (daily nasya) for well-being or therapeutically in larger doses for the treatment of disease.