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Based on age of person: Unction therapy can be administered from age of one year to old age.[A.H.SutraStana 16/5] <ref name=Hridaya>Vagbhata. Ashtanga Hridayam. Edited by Harishastri Paradkar Vaidya. 1st ed. Varanasi: Krishnadas Academy;2000.</ref> The growth and development is more during the early stages of life. Unction therapy supports this process in childhood. In the old age, there is degeneration of body tissues. Unction therapy prevents this degeneration and helps to maintain quality of body tissues.  
 
Based on age of person: Unction therapy can be administered from age of one year to old age.[A.H.SutraStana 16/5] <ref name=Hridaya>Vagbhata. Ashtanga Hridayam. Edited by Harishastri Paradkar Vaidya. 1st ed. Varanasi: Krishnadas Academy;2000.</ref> The growth and development is more during the early stages of life. Unction therapy supports this process in childhood. In the old age, there is degeneration of body tissues. Unction therapy prevents this degeneration and helps to maintain quality of body tissues.  
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Based on daily activities: Unction therapy is indicated for those who indulge in dailyphysical and mental activities like exercises, sexual intercourse, intellectual activities etc. It is also indicated in alcoholics to prevent its adverse effects. [Cha.Sa.[[Sutra Sthana]] 13/52] Unction therapy helps to reduce vatadosha aggravated due to these activities.
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Based on daily activities: Unction therapy is indicated for those who indulge in daily physical and mental activities like exercises, sexual intercourse, intellectual activities etc. It is also indicated in alcoholics to prevent its adverse effects. [Cha.Sa.[[Sutra Sthana]] 13/52] Unction therapy helps to reduce vatadosha aggravated due to these activities.
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Based on the body constitution:Unction therapy is indicated for individuals with vata dominant body constitution and those who are weak, possess lean body frame, dryskin etc. [A.H. Sutra Sthana 16/5]<ref name=Hridaya/> Unction therapy increases strength of body, removes dryness and nourishes the body tissues.  
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Based on the body constitution:Unction therapy is indicated for individuals with vata dominant body constitution and those who are weak, possess lean body frame, dry skin etc. [A.H. Sutra Sthana 16/5]<ref name=Hridaya/> Unction therapy increases strength of body, removes dryness and nourishes the body tissues.  
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As a preparatory procedure: Unction therapy is indicated as prerequisite to all the purification therapies. It aids free movement of doshathrough body channels. Unction therapy followed by sudation therapy liquefies morbid dosha and brings them to gut from the peripheral parts of body. Then, these morbidities can be easily evacuated by following purification therapies like therapeutic emesis, purgation etc.
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As a preparatory procedure: Unction therapy is indicated as prerequisite to all the purification therapies. It aids free movement of dosha through body channels. Unction therapy followed by sudation therapy liquefies morbid dosha and brings them to gut from the peripheral parts of body. Then, these morbidities can be easily evacuated by following purification therapies like therapeutic emesis, purgation etc.  
As the principle treatment:In diseases caused by vatadosha, unction therapy itself acts as principle treatment.  
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As the principle treatment:In diseases caused by vatadosha, unction therapy itself acts as principle treatment.  
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As the principle treatment:In diseases caused by vatadosha, unction therapy itself acts as principle treatment.
    
==Contraindication of unction therapy==
 
==Contraindication of unction therapy==
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