Parasmal Duggad
Sinus Mudra
Nowadays cold is being considered as a very common ailment. Every person suffers from this ailment at some point of their life. There are various symptoms of cold. People suffers from cold get sneezing, feel shivering, reddening and watering of the eyes, running nose, headache and pain in throat. Generally, people consider this a normal ailment and do not pay much attention on it and it becomes older, deeper and acute sinus. It also reduces person's capacity of smell and taste. In case of acute cold people also suffer from other disease of nose, throat and chest i.e. bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, etc. In case of acute sinus people may sometime also feel pain in the upper jaw. Many times, people also get their teeth removed mistakenly due to unbearable pain. Sinus is the vacuum place between the bones of head, which is filled with the air. All the sinus opened into the nasal cavities. There are various types of Sinus i.e. superior sinus, straight sinus, transverse sinus, occipital sinus and sigmoid sinus.
Two important functions of Sinus are
- Sinus provides resonance to our voice. Hence people who suffer from sinus from long time, their voice get deteriorate and unclear. They also face difficulty in speaking.
- Second main function of Sinus is to keep weight of skull bones balanced. It keeps the weight of the skull light and bearable. Due to this our neck doesn't feel weight of head. If it had not been this way then our head would always keep falling on one side or other side. When one gets the disease of Sinus, the place of air is taken over by liquid. Hence people may feel heaviness and imbalance in the head. With the practice of Sinus Mudra, we can get benefited with the sinus disease.
Procedure: In the acupressure therapy there are seven pressure points for sinus. Three points are on both the sides of the nose, three points surrounding the eyes and final point on the forehead. To perform this Mudra, take Index finger and Middle finger of both the hands and place them on the side of nose. Move these fingers in a circular manner, starting from the side of nose, towards the cheekbones and then moving towards temple and then over the eyebrows and forehead then bring back on the side of the nose. This completes one clockwise circle. We should make 5 to 10 circles of this Mudra. This should be done carefully, with little pressure.
Now we should do reverse circle with the thumb. For this we have to interlock our fingers and place both the thumbs on the center of the forehead. Now move both the thumbs towards the temple and further downward and circulate around cheek bones and move towards side of nose. Now apply pressure on both the side of nose with the thumbs and jerk with the thumbs at this point. Now move ahead, apply pressure just below the bones of the nose and again give a jerk with your thumb. This completes one anti-clock wise circle. We should make 5 to 10 circles of this Mudra. This should be done carefully with little pressure.
Caution: Finger nails should be cut properly. Pressure should be done with the tip of the finger and thumb only. This should be very carefully and with patience practiced.
Benefits:
- With this Mudra we can get benefits in the cold and sneezing.
- lf nose blocked and any difficulty in the breathing then we get benefit with this Mudra.
- It reduces heaviness of the head and person feels light and fresh.
- With regular practice of this Mudra we can get relief in the sinus.
- If Aditi Mudra is done along with this Mudra then it is more beneficial.
Cervical Mudra
In today’s modern word, most of the work is done on the computer. Too much of sitting in front of the computer causes problems like cervical, spondylitis and back-pain etc. These Generally all over the world people, after the age of 30 years, faces backache, neck pain or shoulder pain. In developed countries, 80% of people experience backache at least once in their lifetime. Even in India 15-25% of the people above the age of 30 years are affected by the disease of spinal cord.
There can be various reasons for these pains:
- Being obese or overweight puts additional weight on the spinal cord which the bones and muscles can’t bear. Scientists believe that if your weight is 25-30 kg more than your ideal weight, it means you are daily carrying 25-30 kg more weight on your body which can cause these problems.
- Any type of disorder or disease in the spinal cord like cancer, tuberculosis or tumor in any part of spinal cord can cause these problems.
- Due to irregularity of menstruation cycle in the women can cause these problems.
- Due to problem in the urinary tract, swelling in the Prostate Gland of males, Piles, disease of stomach and intestines can also cause these problems.
Apart from above reasons there are many other reasons also for neck, shoulder and back pain but these are most common and simple which a person can understand, remember and easily take care. Thus help himself from cervical and backache.
The Cervical mudra is such a technique which will help a person to get rid of this problem and if practiced for a long time then a Person can get rid of the neck belt also.
Procedure: As shown in the figure place tips of fingers of both the hands over each other and lock them like a hook.
Figure one: Keep right hand on upper side and left hand on lower side and pull both the hands in direction like pulling
a rope. Here the right-hand elbow should be pulled upwards and the left-hand elbow should be pulled downwards.
Figure two: Keep the hands locked, breathe in and take the left elbow above your head and place them behind the neck. Hold your breath for minimum 30 seconds in this position and pull hands in the opposite direction.
Figure three: Bring both the hands back in front, with exhaling, by keeping left hand on upper side and right hand on lower the side.
Figure four: Now come back in the position as shown in the figure one by keeping hands loose. This completes one cycle. We should repeat this cycle 5-10 times.
Now we have to do this cycle anti clock wise for 5-10 times. In anti clock direction we have to keep left hand on upper side.
Time Limit: This Mudra should be practiced for 5-10 times in both directions i.e. clock wise and anti-clock wise, two to three times a day, as per individual’s capacity.
Caution: If any person is facing problem of Cervical vertebrae, then he should not do any bending down exercise or Mudra.
Benefits:
- With practicing this Mudra regularly, we can get relief in the neck pain.
- After practicing this Mudra if we practice Upaddhyay Mudra and Vayu Mudra then we get more benefits.
- With regular practice of the Mudra we can get relief in the Vertebrae of Cervical.
- People who do this mudra on regular basis, can get rid of their neck belt also.
