Sutikopakrama key for Healthy Mother and Healthy Child

Abstract

Ayurveda elucidate due importance for the care of women at every phase of her life, especially when it comes to antenatal and postnatal care. Post natal is a period flowing child birth which can be certainly co-related with Sutika Paricharya explained in Ayurveda.  In this stage mother should be educated to take care of herself and the new born baby as the health of the mother affects directly over the newborn.  After delivery woman becomes weedy, also empty bodied (Shoonya Shareera)^[1] due to physical and mental stress and debility at the level of reproductive organs.  It is essential for a mother to deepen and gain the mental, emotional and spiritual resources needed to carry her though all the demands of family life, without feeling depleted.  In this article highlights on various major components of Sutika Paricharya such as Ashwasana (Psychological Reassurance), Vihara and Aahara (Normal diet in puerperium) etc., Ayurveda prescribes numerous herbs to establish healthy status of the woman after delivery.  Ayurveda has executed the post-natal care (Sutika Paricharya) in a meticulous fashion focusing on every aspect required to nurture and replenish the health of woman and avoid postpartum complications.