Siddha

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Siddha Treatment

Many traditional systems of medicine were followed throughout the world, shaped by their own climates, environments and cultures. Most have gradually disappeared with time. The very best system that has been followed steadily through it all is Siddha.

The people of this tradition trace back to the ancient continent of Lemuria, the once-united landmass of Asia, Africa and Australia. As life wandered across this land in search of daily sustenance, it gathered knowledge of nature and its hidden secrets, knowledge that, over generations, produced great stalwarts known as Arivar, Aranar and Munivar, and in time, as Siddhas. They lived by fixed principles of life and movement within nature, their way of life devoted purely to it. Siddham means clear mind, pure intelligence and pure knowledge, a Siddhar is one who embodies nature's truth with tremendous power, intelligence and intellect.

They attained profound transcendental knowledge through meditation, discovering and inventing through intuition, guided by an inner, blissful light.

Siddha Medicine

Siddha is one of the most ancient systems of medicine, built on very precise principles. Its medicines are prepared from herbal, metal, mineral and animal sources.

A familiar group of Siddhars are known as the Navanatha Siddhars and the Pathinen Siddhars. The names of the Pathinen Siddhars vary somewhat between records, though Agastiar is recognised as the first Siddhar of all treatises.

The Siddha medical science handed down by them is remarkable when compared with other systems. The arrangement of 32 internal and 32 external medicines is the first thing that impresses newcomers to the tradition, followed by the calcination of high-melting-point metals in a deceptively simple manner, including an alchemy said to reduce mercury toward gold, a process whose full meaning is still difficult to grasp today.

Siddhas held that only nature and one's own physical body truly matter. The body's subtle energies react with nature's own, and the two remain bound together, the secrets of this exchange are recorded in the vital body, shaping future outcomes. A person who protects the physical body through nature, it is said, never dies against their own will. This pranic energy, when activated, can bring good or ill effects depending on the method used, the science of this reactive energy is called Varma Science.

"One thing that exits another never truly gets destroyed, it only changes to another form."

Siddha medicine offers a unique method of diagnosis that identifies disease without modern instruments, eight methods in total, known as Envagai Thervu (the eight types of testing):

1. Tongue – The colour of the tongue reveals the type and condition of disease.
2. Colour and shine of face and body – Used to judge the severity and prognosis of a condition.
3. Speech – Tone and manner of speech help diagnose disease and its likely course.
4. Eye – The colour of the eyelid, eye, tears and vision aid diagnosis.
5. Touch – Temperature variation and the softening or hardening of sensitive areas reveal curability and severity.
6. Motion – The colour and consistency of motion (stool) indicates disease.
7. Urine – Colour, smell, foam and sedimentation of urine indicate disease and curability; a drop of gingelly oil poured into a urine sample reveals further detail through its spreading pattern.
8. Nadi (Pulse) – Pulse is felt at the wrist using three fingers, index, middle and ring, corresponding to vatham, pitham and kabam in a ratio of 1 : ½ : ¼ impulse volume. Variation in this ratio indicates disease and its curability.