![]() KEY WORDS: Mukha Lepa, Ayurveda, face pack, beauty care cosmeticsĪnupama Shukla1*, Pankaj Kothari2, Akhilesh Shukla3, CR Yadav4 Overall it can be said that, it is always better to avoid synthetic, chemical based cosmetic products and use the natural substances and products for beautification. For this, the material was collected from the main classical texts and Nighantus of Ayurveda including published scholarly articles. The present article is aimed to provide the details about the concept of Mukha lepa, the drugs useful for improving complexion and for the common skin ailments. There are various kinds of face packs described in Ayurveda based on climatic changes which have nourishing, healing, cleansing, astringent and antiseptic properties. The herbal paste which is applied on face to treat acne, pimple, scars, marks and pigments are known as "Mukha Lepa (face pack)" in Ayurveda. Since centuries the herbal extracts, as a whole or part, have been used for various ailments of the skin, hair and for overall appearance. The concept of using herbs for the beautification is well described in Ayurvedic literature. Some are born beautiful and some are made beautiful. Ayurveda stresses a balance of three elemental energies or humors (tridoshas): Vāyu vāta (air & space – "wind"), pitta (fire & water – "bile") and kapha (water & earth – "phlegm").Īccording to some sources Up to 80% of people in India used to use some form of traditional medicines, a category which includes Ayurveda.Beauty, the quality that gives pleasure to the senses, is perhaps the desire of every human being on earth. The Chyle or plasma (rasa dhātu), blood (rakta dhātu), flesh (māṃsa dhātu), fat (medha dhātu), bone (asthi dhātu), marrow (majja dhātu), and semen or female reproductive tissue (śukra dhātu) are held to be the seven primary constituent elements – saptadhātu of the body. Over the following centuries, ayurvedic practitioners developed a number of medicinal preparations and surgical procedures for the treatment of various ailments.Īt an early period, Ayurveda adopted the physics of the "five elements" Pṛthvī (earth), Jala (water), Agni (fire), Vāyu (air) and Ākāśa (Sky) - that compose the universe, including the human body. The Suśruta Saṃhitā and the Charaka Saṃhitā, encyclopedias of medicine are among the foundational works of Ayurveda. The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India, i.e., in the mid-second millennium BC. Ayurveda is a health care system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine. ![]()
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