Patra Potli Swedana is a type of Swedana therapy in ayurveda in which herbal leaves are used for fomenting the body. With its powerful healing properties, it offers various benefits to the recipient such as reducing body pain, fatigue, stress, and lazy-ness. Patra Potli Swedana provide solutions to arthritis, spondylosis, and other joint related problems. This treatment helps in reducing pain and providing healthy & strong joints.
Patra Potli Swedana is useful for developing immunity in body. Apart from treatment of body pain, you can expect this ayurvedic therapy to give you healthy and strong muscles. It relaxes the body joints as well as muscles.
The leaves of medicinal plants are used to prepare a good herbal steam treatment. Before fomentation, these leaves are heated well and fried in oil. solution is made from these herbal leaves. It is then tied in a clean cloth; the temperature is maintained to be kept over the affected part of the body. The procedure lasts for about 30-60 minutes as is followed by cleaning the treated part with lukewarm saltwater.
Some of the effective medicinal oils to fry herbal leaves are mahanarayana tailam, ksheerbala tailam, vishgarbha tailam, balaswaganddhadi tailam etc.
This special Swedana therapy can do wonders when done properly by an ayurvedic doctor. There are numerous benefits of Patra Potli Swedana and most of them are mentioned above!
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