An Understanding of Shat Kriyakaal

The phenomenon of disease has been conceived as a process which moves in consecutive steps or stages of evolutive development. The importance of the scheme of kriyakala in early diagnosis and for adopting preventive and curative measures can be appreciated better by taking into consideration some of the recent trends in modern medicine relating to the pathogenesis of disease. It may be noted in advance that except for the different nomenclatures used in the modern schemes to describe various evolutive steps and stages of disease, their general outlook bears a striking resemblance to the ancient Ayurvedic scheme of kriyakala.