treatments
Bringing people closer to their optimal state of health and happiness is our ultimate mission. Utilizing the time-tested methods of Ayurvedic healing, Poonthottam Ayurvedashram both heals ailments and educates patients as to preventative measures of effective self-care in-order to bring them back to a state of blissful balance. Unlike other Ayurvedic centers, physicians directly perform the treatments here.

" We strongly feel that the physician has to actively involve in therapeutic procedures like oil treatments. This helps a physician to go into depth of a patient's suffering. He/she should not be a mere spectator or supervisor"

Different rheumatic conditions, arthritic conditions, asthma and other respiratory conditions, spondylosis (both lumbar ad cervical), disc prolapse, frozen shoulder, skin diseases of different kinds (including conditions like psoriasis), psychiatric conditions like anxiety disorders and depression, wounds, epilepsy, infertility, piles, fistula, duodenal and peptic ulcer, migraine and other types of headaches, paralytic conditions, diabetes, hypertension are a few conditions which the center treats effectively. Neuro-muscular disorders, gangrenes, motor neuron disease, Parkinson's syndrome, cancers are some of the rare and complicated conditions seek palliative help at the center.

Panchakarma

Panchakarma forms one of the major treatment methods at the center. Preparatory treatments for panchakarma like snehana (oil treatments),  svedana (fomentation), panchakarma treatments like emesis, purgation, medicated enemas, nasal medication are done as per each individual patient's requirements. The center has special interest in rasayana (rejuvenation therapy). Different Kerala special treatments like takradhara, thalapothichil, and navarakizhi are also performed as per patients' needs.

" Ayurvedic profession is becoming highly commercialized. Ayurveda has been commoditized in the name of tourism. Massage centers and Ayurvedic centers have become synonymous. Ayurvedic practice has become distorted and diluted. Revitalizing the classical traditions is inevitable"