Stroke is known as pakshaghat in Ayurveda. This is a condition in which certain parts of the brain become dead when blood supply is cut off. A patient may get paralysis after a stroke. After treatment patients need rehabilitation to regain key skills such as cognition speech mobility and body coordination. Certain skills are lost after a stroke because the brain assigns particular skills to a certain location. Amazingly the human brain can reassign those old skills to new locations. This is known as neuroplasticity. How successfully a stroke patient relearns the skills varies from one person to another. “Ayurveda
