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Ayurveda is the most ancient therapy, all across the world. It literally means science of life. The word Ayurveda is the combination of two words of the Sanskrit Language, Ayu and Veda. AYU MEANS LIFE AND VEDA MEANS KNOWLEDGE WHOSE aim is to provide guidance regarding food and lifestyle, so that healthy people may remain healthy and challenge to those who suffer from any problem to get rid of disease by taking herbal drugs. Herbal drugs are given by nature. Ayurveda is not only limited to those who wish to become Ayurvedic physicians, but is applicable for all those who wish to attain health, happiness and peace of mind. Ayurveda teaches us to live in harmony with nature. Modern life often ignores the principles of natural livings. |
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How Ayurveda Cures ?? Ayurveda gives us a model to look at each individual as a unique makeup of the three doshas and thereby design treatment protocols that specifically addresses a personnel's health challenges. When any of the doshas (Vata, Pitta or Kapha) become accumulated, Ayurveda will suggest specific lifestyle and nutritional guidelines to assist the individual in reducing the doshas that has become excessive. We may also suggest certain herbal supplements to hasten the healing process. If toxins in the body are abundant, then a cleansing process known as Panchkarma is recommended to eliminate these unwanted toxins. Traditional Herbal Rejuvenates to Keep You Youthful and correct imbalances in body and mind. |
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The Five Elements:-
Everything in the universe is made up of combinations of the Five Elements (Pancha Mahabhutas). This includes the human being, which also acquires a soul or spirit. These five elements are known as:
![]() These five elements, it should be understood, derive from and are expressions of an unmanifest and undifferentiated Creative Principle, which is One. These five elements are to be understood in a material sense as well as a subtle sense. By earth we are to understand not only the terrain of our planet or the iron in our red blood cells and spleen, but also the quality of steadfastness of mind, strength of one's moral fiber, one's slow and quiet undeterred advancement towards a goal, and the resistance to the manifestations of others. By water we mean to imply the cohesive aspects of reality, which flows into and holds things together, perfectly and simply witnessed in the ubiquitous H20 molecule. And the other elements too were intended by the ancient vaidyas (physicians) to communicate the essential universal principle inherent in a particular element. By fire we mean the universal force in nature that produces heat and radiates light; it is our passion to pursue despite obstacles and delays; it is what burns away the cloak of ignorance (avidya) and allows the Truth to shine with brilliance. Fire removes doubt from the mother-substance of human heart and replaces it with joy. Air is that transparent, rarefied, and kinetic force which sets the universe in motion; it moves the blood through the vessels, wastes from the body, thoughts through the mind; it moves the birds to warmer climates in winter, it moves the planets around their suns. Space is the subtlest of all elements, which is everywhere and touches everything; in the mind it is the vessel, which receives all impressions, in the heart space accepts love; space is receptivity and non-resistance to what is true. Thus these Five Subtle Elements (Pancha Mahabhutas) form the basis for all things found in the material creation, from a grain of sand to the complex physiology of every human being. Balancing these elements in just the right way for each unique individual is the key to maintaining health and treating disease should it arise, whether it is physical, mental, or spiritual. |
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The Tridosha:- The five elements can be seen to exist in the material universe at all scales both organic and inorganic, from peas to planets. When they enter into the biology of a living organism, man for example, they acquire a biological form. This means that the five elements are coded into three biological forces, which govern all life processes. These three forces are known as the three doshas, or simply the tridosha. The tridosha regulates every physiological and psychological process in the living organism. The interplay among them determines the qualities and conditions of the individual. A harmonious state of the three doshas creates balance and health; an imbalance, which might be an excess (vriddhi) or deficiency (ksaya), manifests as a sign or symptom of disease. The three doshas are known as vata, pitta and kapha One can think of these three doshas as fundamental biological energies, which regulate all the life processes of an individual. And as we will discuss later, although all individuals are made up of these same three energies, we all have them in unique proportions. Each of the three doshas is composed of two elements as shown here | ||||||
| Vata - Akash, Vayu | |
| Pitta - Tejas, Apa | |
| Kapha - Apa , Prithvi | |
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Thus, Vata is composed of space and air, Pitta of fire and water, and Kapha of water and earth. Vata dosha has the mobility and quickness of space and air; Pitta dosha the metabolic qualities of fire and water; Kapha dosha the stability and solidity of water and earth. Interestingly, the Sanskrit entomology of the word dosha gives it the meaning of blemish, that, which darkens. This alerts us to the fact that when in balance these forces are life-suppuration. |
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