Mental disorders can be broadly placed into two categories: neurosis and psychosis. The first category is the milder form in which the general emotional tone of anxiety or fear: patients are afraid to open letters that convey the content of bad news, and the same reason, they are afraid of a telegram. People suffering from mild indisposition also be interpreted as a symptom of a deadly disease. Exophthalimic goiter, which is sometimes accompanied by mental symptoms, may be included in this group. Neurasthenia, hysteria, and various obsessions including symptoms such irrepressible thoughts and impulses belong to the group of psychoneuroses.
of other categories of mental disorder, namely, psychoses, including mania, melancholia, manic-depressive psychosis, paranoia, schizophrenia or dementia praecox, and a certain confusional states in which there is more than disorientation from any serious illness. There May be senile dementia, and general paralysis of insane, which in most cases, the result of syphilis in the nervous system.
Ayurveda recognizes the great variety of cases of insanity. causative factors are, of course, a perversion of the three doshas, sudden strike-mental or physical, the weakness of the nervous system, ingestion of certain toxins or the formation of certain toxic substances in the body due to certain diseases.
Medicine and recipes: old masters have recommended psychological treatment during the earlier stages: for example, a patient who is depressed state of mind should entertain his mind and asked to be diverted from its imaginary problem. If madness is the prophetic origin, which, if due to a perversion of Vata dosha, some preparations ghee-Siddha-Ghritas should be administered. If insanity is a pitta origin, purgatives can be applied in case of kapha is at the root of illness, vomiting should be induced.
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