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    Takra dhara is a type of shirodhara treatment where medicated buttermilk is poured in a continuous stream over the forehead. The buttermilk is prepared by boiling milk with herbs like mustard, diluting it, and allowing it to ferment overnight. It is then churned with a herb called amalaki. The buttermilk stream is poured from a steady height onto the forehead for 45 minutes to 1 hour daily for 7-14 days, depending on the condition being treated. After, the head is washed and a healing powder is applied. Rarely, patients may feel cold and the treatment would stop with warming therapies instead.

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    Takra dhara is a type of shirodhara treatment where medicated buttermilk is poured in a continuous stream over the forehead. The buttermilk is prepared by boiling milk with herbs like mustard, diluting it, and allowing it to ferment overnight. It is then churned with a herb called amalaki. The buttermilk stream is poured from a steady height onto the forehead for 45 minutes to 1 hour daily for 7-14 days, depending on the condition being treated. After, the head is washed and a healing powder is applied. Rarely, patients may feel cold and the treatment would stop with warming therapies instead.

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    Takra dhara is a type of shirodhara treatment where medicated buttermilk is poured in a continuous stream over the forehead. The buttermilk is prepared by boiling milk with herbs like mustard, diluting it, and allowing it to ferment overnight. It is then churned with a herb called amalaki. The buttermilk stream is poured from a steady height onto the forehead for 45 minutes to 1 hour daily for 7-14 days, depending on the condition being treated. After, the head is washed and a healing powder is applied. Rarely, patients may feel cold and the treatment would stop with warming therapies instead.

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    Takra Dara

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    Swagath N
    Takra dhara is a type of shirodhara treatment where medicated buttermilk is poured in a continuous stream over the forehead. The buttermilk is prepared by boiling milk with herbs like mustard, diluting it, and allowing it to ferment overnight. It is then churned with a herb called amalaki. The buttermilk stream is poured from a steady height onto the forehead for 45 minutes to 1 hour daily for 7-14 days, depending on the condition being treated. After, the head is washed and a healing powder is applied. Rarely, patients may feel cold and the treatment would stop with warming therapies instead.

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    TAKRA DHARA

    Takra dhara is a variety of shirodhara, in which medicated buttermilk is poured in


    a continuous stream over the forehead, in a specified manner.

    MATERIALS REQUIRED:
    1. Shirodhara device -1
    2. Vessels-3 (To prepare takra; to prepare Amalaki kwatha; to take out takra from
    droni)
    3. Towels: 3
    4. Cotton plugs: 2
    5. Gauze piece(60 cm): 2
    6. Amalaki Choorna: 200g
    7. Milk: 1.5 litres
    8. Musta: 100g
    9. Oil for Talam: 10 ml
    10. Rasnadi Choorna: 5 g
    11. Attendents-2

    PREPARATION OF THE MEDICINE:


    a) Takra: 1.5 litres of milk diluted with 4 times water is boiled with 100g of skinned
    and crushed Musta tied in a muslin bag, and is reduced to the original quantity of milk.
    The bag of medicament is taken out and squeezed well. When cooled, this prepared milk
    is fermented by the addition of a little sour buttermilk over night. Next morning the
    fermented medicated curd is churned by adding 500ml of Amalaki kwatha. The butter is
    removed completely and this mixture is used for dhara after filtering.
    b) Amalaki kwatha: 200g of dried Amalaki fruit boiled with 8 litres of water and
    reduced to 2 litres.1.5 litres of Amalaki kwatha is used to mix with buttermilk & 500ml
    of that is used to wash the head after the procedure.

    PRE-OPERATIVE MEASURES:
    Since it is done as a shamana therapy no poorvakarma is needed. The application
    of oil on head and body is usually done as a practise. Suitable oils according to roga are
    selected by the physician for this purpose. The eyes should be covered with eye pads and
    gauze should be tied around the head above the eyebrows. The ear should be plugged
    with two cotton pieces.

    PROCEDURE:
    The patient should lie in supine position on the droni. A small pillow should be
    placed under the neck. The dhara pot should be kept in such a way as to allow steady
    flowing of the liquid, poured into it, over the forehead of the patient. The tip of dharavarti
    should be 4-5 cm above the forehead of the patient and total wick length should be 8-
    10cm. The takra falling should be poured again into the vessel after collecting it from the
    droni. The vessel should always be kept oscillating so that the takra will fall into the
    patient’s entire forehead without interruption.

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    In short all the procedures are same as shirodhara, but takra should not be heated
    or reused.
    TIME TO PERFORM THE PROCEDURE:
    Generally the treatment is done in the morning hours, between 7-10 am. If
    necessary, it can be done between 4-6 pm.
    DURATION:
    The process should be done daily for a period of 7 to 14 days. The duration of
    treatment as well as the time period is according to the nature of the disease and the
    physical condition of the patient. It is done usually for a fixed time (45minutes to 1 hour).
    POST-OPERATIVE PROCEDURE:
    After the dhara, the head is washed with Amalaki kwatha. Then head should be
    wiped with towel and Rasnadi choorna is applied. Patient is advised to take rest for a
    period same as the period of the procedure, then to take bath.
    COMPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT:
    Shivering is observed in some patients due to excess sheeta. In such case the
    procedure is stopped immediately and the patient is managed with ushnopachara.

    Dr.M.Rathod
    Ph D (Scholar)
    NIA, Jaipur
    [email protected]

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