Agni, Ama and Allegies - Dr. Shubhamangala Acharya
Allergy is an exaggerated immune response to inert substances. The usual symptoms - pruritus, rash, urticaria, angioedema, vomiting, abdominal cramping, dyspnea, bronchospasm, stridor, and syncope. Ayurveda believes that impaired digestion leads to imbalanced doshas which cause allergies. The Agni attains vishamavasta due to the vishamaashana or viruddha ahara which forms ama. Accumulation of ama is the main cause for the allergies to develop. By assessing the saama dosha and treating with ama pachana dravyas, later balancing niraama dosha and at the end improving the immunity by rasayana and advising healthy ahara vihara to the individual one can cure the allergies.
Dr. Shubhamangala Acharya has been an Ayurveda practitioner since 1999. She has her own Panchakarma center in Uttarahalli, Bengaluru, and specializes in Garbha Samskar. She is involved in research on Thalassemia patients. She has presented a paper on rasaoushadhi during pregnancy in Sri Lanka and a research paper at CAR (Council for Ayurveda Research) in USA on behalf of Dr Hitesh Jani about COVID 19 prevention using Dry ginger powder. Dr. Acharya is treating patients from around 15 countries and has been a prolific writer and speaker on Ayurvedic lifestyles.