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AN AYURVEDIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE:

COVID VACCINE

Vaccination in Ayurveda is literally uses immune-enhancing herbs,

thousands of years old. One of the best with centuries of proven benefit.
examples was written about 5,000 years Suvarnaprashan, which is gold powder

ago in the Mahabharata in the war between rubbed with honey and ghee is given
the Kauravas and Pandavas. The wicked to newborns to lick and serves as
Duryodhana mixed snake poison with the baby’s first vaccination. Other

food in an attempt to kill his cousin- ‘Lehana’ (licking medicines) made
brother, Bhima. After losing consciousness, of herbal powders (kustha, vacha,

Duryodhana tied Bhima up and threw brahmi, shankhpushpi, etc.) are also
him into a nearby pond, where he was mixed with gold, ghee and honey to
bitten by hordes of snakes living at the fortify the immunity of children. Not

bottom. Though his body was filled with only is honey considered safe, it is a
the terrible venom, Bhima miraculously potent anti-microbial agent that also

survived. To Duryodhana’s dismay, the improves intelligence and digestive
poison he fed Bhima earlier neutralized the fire in infants. Panchagavya prashana
venom of the snake bites. In this way, the is another type of vaccine given for

seed of inoculation grew into the concept disease resistance; it means ‘five parts
of modern-day vaccination. of the cow’ and is made of fresh cow

dung, milk, urine, curd, and ghee.
While allopathic vaccines are biologic It’s often given with ashwagandha
preparations made in the lab, Ayurveda adjuvantly to enhance its effects.

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