Chikitsa Clinic, Narayan Peth

Chikitsa Clinic is an Ayurvedic clinic at Narayan Peth in central Pune, on Kelkar Road. It offers Ayurvedic consultation and a full range of Panchakarma therapies.Panchakarma, the classical Ayurvedic purification programme, is the clinic's main line of treatment. The therapies offered include basti, the medicated enema also recorded as vasthi; shirodhara, in which warm medicated oil is poured in a steady stream over the forehead; pizhichil, a whole-body oil bath; njavarakizhi, a massage using boluses of medicinal rice; thalapothichil, a herbal paste application to the scalp; and udwarthanam, a dry powder massage.These treatments are given as a supervised course rather than as single sittings, with the therapy selected at consultation.Outpatient consultation runs from the late morning to the early afternoon.Chikitsa Clinic is located at 544, Narayan Peth, Pune, near Kelkar Road. Narayan Peth is one of the old walled-city peths at the heart of Pune, a short walk from Shaniwar Wada and the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, and the clinic is within reach of Sadashiv Peth, Shaniwar Peth, Kasba Peth and Deccan Gymkhana. Pune has a long-standing Ayurvedic practice in these older neighbourhoods, where Panchakarma centres have run alongside family physicians for generations.