Health Sciences

Your skin is a reflection of who you are and how you’re doing; it’s your outermost boundary. A brief look at someone’s skin can even tell you a lot about that person’s personality. For example, very sensitive skin indicates a highly sensitive soul, while excessively sweaty flesh suggests someone with a nervous disposition. A tough,… Continue reading Healthy Skin and Hair

Female Reproductive Tract (Yonivyaapat) Causes: Twenty disorders of the female reproductive tract exist, caused by poor diet and lifestyle, imbalanced menstrual flow, defective ovum and ovary, and past karma. This results in an inability to conceive and other health concerns (e.g., tumors, hemorrhoids, menorrhagia). Specific Causes, Development, and Symptoms: 1. Vaayu: Causes include excessive ingesting… Continue reading Healthy Reproductive System

No one passes through life without physical pain or strain of some kind, at some point. The lucky among us get only minor issues of the muscles and skeleton, such as simple stiffness in the morning. Others deal with more serious and even debilitating issues like arthritis. Exercise and stability strategies can help address some… Continue reading Healthy Musculoskeletal System

How your lungs function is paramount to your overall health. The way you feel about your life manifests in the way you breathe: your breathing is shallow and rapid when you’re agitated, and is slow and deep when you’re feeling relaxed and serene. Pranayama and the Benefits of Breathing Pranayama is controlled breathing techniques that… Continue reading Healthy Respiratory System

Anorexia (Arochaka) Causes: There are 5 causes for loss of appetite, taste, or anorexia: Vayu, Pitta, Kapha, Tridosha, and mental (e.g., grief, fear, anger). An excess of the doshas (individually or combined) or an apathetic mental state tends to block the heart region and the channels (srotas) that carry food (e.g., esophagus). This causes aversion… Continue reading Healthy Digestive System

When you’re young, you have about 10,000 taste buds, but this reduces to around 2,000 by the time you reach 80 years old. Guard what you have with the best quality food. Corruption of the sense of taste can lead people to poor food choices that not only disrupt the sense of taste but also… Continue reading Ayurveda Right Diet for Your Body Type

Ayurveda purports that all your senses react to food. Flavours, therefore, are part of a sophisticated system that yields chemical and emotional effects throughout your mind and body. Rasa: Discovering the Six Essential Flavours RaSa divides into two parts: ✓ Ra means ‘to feel, perceive, taste, relish, love, and desire’ ✓ Sa means ‘to encompass’… Continue reading Stimulating the Palate

Pancha Karma Ayurveda offers unique therapeutic measures that heal mild and chronic diseases. Even diseases that are believed to be incurable by modern medicine have been healed. Stories abound of people being carried into panchakarma centers, and a few weeks later, walking out on their own two feet, healthy and rejuvenated. ayurveda is not based… Continue reading Pancha Karma Treatment

The external world changes with the seasons, so you need to keep your internal systems in alignment with the external world. Understand the profound effect that the shifting seasons have on the body. the more intrinsic rhythms of the body follow the seasons to keep your system running smoothly in every season. Adapting your living… Continue reading Diet for the Seasons

Prana means, variously, ‘breath of life’, ‘vital energy’. Prana is where Ayurveda meets yoga because the yoga postures activate prana to work harmoniously throughout your body. The following list explains the five major winds or energies and how they act on the body. These forces which activate your system are divided into five types: ✓… Continue reading Yoga as per your Body Type