Oil massage

• Hair is the index of the health of an individual. The head is to be oiled daily with seasame or coconut oil. This prevents hair fall, greying, balding, headache, drying of scalp etc. Oiling strengthens the head, forehead, eyes, ears and other sensory organs. The quality of hair and the quality of sleep gets improved.
• One more simple way to keep the hair healthy is to rub their roots at the time of taking bath. The process is to pour some water on the head and rub with finger tips at the roots of the hair till a warming up effect is felt. After rubbing for a minute or so, pour plenty of water on the head. Then dry the water from the head with a clean and dry towel. Comb the hair. Stand in the tender sun for 10 minutes. Hair will grow thick.
• Comb the hair twice or thrice a day by giving a pull to the opposite, i.e., from top to down, down to top, left to right, right to left. By this combing process, the hair would be stronger and would be prevented from falling. New hair would soon begin to grow.
• Ayurveda talks highly about the oil massage to the body. Vayu is one of the pancha maha bhootas. Being light and mobile, vayu is all over the world and within the body through respiration. Vayu is responsible for movements of the body as well as movements in the body.
• Vayu is called Prana,udana,samana,apana and vyana as per its location and function in the body. All sense organs and motor organs work efficiently through vayu.
• When vayu gets aggravated, it leads to dryness, roughness and stiff body organs and causes pain.
• Skin is the organ where vayu is accumulated. So oiling the body is considered to be the best mode of pacifying vayu diseases.
• Just as water poured at the roots of the tree helps the tree to grow strong with thick foliage, flowers and fruits and gives happiness to all, like wise, oil massage on the body helps the tissue to be strong with the warmth of theoil massage. At least once a week oil massage of the body is good.
• Oil massage of the feet and putting few drops of oil in the nose and ears helps many disorders to get cured.
• Nose is considered to be entrance to the head. All medicinal preparations poured into the nostrils can reach every nook and corner of the head.
• The head should be hungback on a chair and a few drops of warm oil should be put into each nostril using a dropper and then to be inhaled. This is called nasya. While pouring drops of oil into one nostril, close the other one. Any secretion during 'nasya' should be spat out. Then the other nostril should be oiled. After nasya one must lie on the back till the count of 100 without falling asleep.

1. The above mentioned information is added from the book called "MUDRAS & HEALTH PERSPECTIVES" by "SUMAN.K.CHIPLUNKAR".