Monday, December 7, 2009

Salient features of Ayurveda

Totally Safe: It’s Natural and all medicines are herbal.
It’s deep: Works at the roots and not just to suppress the external symptoms
It’s complete: special diet, yoga, breathings, meditation for a complete restoration.
It’s Clean: detoxify the body from the years of toxins and tensions.
Both preventive as well as curative treatments

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What should I expect from an Ayurvedic treatment?

Ayurvedic treatment focuses on restoring the natural harmony of your body and mind. On your first visit, our doctor will ask for your medical history, check your pulse, palpate your abdomen, examine your tongue, eyes, nails, and skin, and listen to the tone of your voice. Our doctor will also ask you questions about your general state of health with special focus on your lifestyle, diet, habits, and environmental surroundings. Based on this assessment, our doctor will then make recommendations on how to restore your natural balance, which always includes the changes in lifestyle, particular diet and the following practices:

Pranayama -- breathing exercises. Practicing pranayama generates more energy.
Abhyanga -- rubbing the skin with herbal oil to increase blood circulation and draw toxins out of the body through the skin.
Rasayana -- using mantras (repeated words or phrases) during meditation combined with specific herbs to rejuvenate a person.
Yoga -- combining pranayama, movement, and meditation. It has been shown to improve circulation and digestion, and to reduce blood pressure, cholesterol levels, anxiety, and chronic pain.
Pancha karma -- cleansing the body of toxins to purify the body and reduce cholesterol. Practitioners use methods to induce sweat, bowel movements, and even vomit in an effort to cleanse the body of toxins.
Herbal medicines -- prescribing herbs to restore dosha balance.


Ayurveda

Ayurveda, India's Ancient System of Herbal Medicine:
Ayurveda, the oldest form of health care in the world, is originated in India over 5000 years ago, and continued to thrive throughout these centuries and it’s getting better than every last year. The very uniqueness of Ayurveda is that it doesn’t fight with the body to control the diseases, but teaches us to harmonize our body-mind with the universal laws of nature – thereby removing the very roots of all the diseases.
In Sanskrit, Ayurveda (Ayur-Veda) means the "Science of Life," and based on the one fundamental principle that health is the natural state of an individual as long his/her body-mind are in harmony with nature (environment) and Disease is outcome of the disharmony. Ayurveda is different from other system in a way that it places emphasis on prevention at the root causes, instead working with symptoms, and it employs right diet, yoga, pranayama, meditation, herbal medication along with the cleansing, rejuvenation and detoxification of both body and mind.