Ojoskara-Chikitsa Ayurvedam Telugu Magazine

OJOSKARA CHIKITSA
This is intended to improve Ojas in its quality and quantity be combating all the three types of Ojovikriti i.e. Ojovisramsa Ojovyapat and Ojokshaya. Several Ojoskara drugs, both singular and compound are recommended in Ayurvedic classics to improve the Rogibala or Vyadhikshmatwa or vyadhibala virodhitwa or vydhyutpadavibandhakatwa.

Ojoskara: Health promoted line of treatment through administration of Ojoskara drugs which promotes the Ojas and its quality. These are otherwise popularly called as Rasayanas the Immuno Modulators. This specialized treatment methodology is available only in the Ayurvedic system of medicine.

In HIV+ Subjects

Human immune deficiency virus which causes a dreadful disease called AIDS is surrounding the human race all over the world like a wild fire. It also threatens the stability of their families. Many of whom are already living in poverty.

Additional AIDS & HIV related costs combined with the loss of the family breadwinner can often push the families of those affected by the AIDS and HIV into deeper financial crisis. The loss of productive workers due to the AIDS & HIV also threatens the economic stability of their country. AIDS is a disease in which the body immune system breaks down and is unable to fight off certain infection known as opportunistic infections and other illnesses that take advantage of a weakened immune system. When person is infected with HIV, the virus enters the body and lives and multiplies primarily in the W.B.C. these are the immune cells that normally progressive loss of a specific type of immune cells called T-helper or CD4 cells. As the virus grows, it damages or kills these and other cells weakening the immune system and leaving the individual vulnerable to various opportunistic infections and other illnesses ranging from pneumonia to cancer.

HIV-VIRUS

Viruses are tiniest living beings and in contrast to other living organisms including bacteria, posses only one type of nucleic acid, namely Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of Ribonucleic acid (RNA). Having only one nucleic acid, viruses have evolved to use the host cells, which they infect for their living and multiplication. HIV belongs to the family of Retroviridae and sub family Lenti viruses. All the Retro viruses are RNA viruses but are able to convert RNA to DNA, the basic genetic material with the help of an enzyme called reverse Transcriptase. Thus HIV can make copy of its own genome as DNA in host cells such as the human CD4 helper lymphocytes. The viral DNA becomes integrated in the lymphocyte genome and this is the basis for chronic HIV infection. HIV virus is not a single virus. So far two viruses have been identified i.e., HIV- 1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 was first detected and it is prevalent in most of the industrialized western world and also in the countries of Western Africa. It is closely related to retrovirus of monkeys called SIV Simian Immuno Deficiency Virus belonging to lenti viruses. Recently, HIV-2 also has been recorded in many other countries including India.

HIV is very tiny, a thousand times smaller than a hair in its thickness. It looks like a rolled up porcupine, it contains two snake like single strands of Ribos Nucleic Acid (RNA) along with a reverse transcriptase, which lies firmly wrapped up in a core which resemble a cone with a dimple at its base. This cone is protected by an envelope which has a knob-like protein sticking out its surface, giving HIV its characteristic appearance.