Ayurveda - Harmony of Body, Mind and Soul

Ayurveda evolved around 600 BC in India. This new system of medicine stressed on the prevention of body ailments in addition to curing them. Followed by the Dravidians and Aryans alike, Ayurveda has been practised ever since. Today, its a unique, indispensable branch of medicine - a complete naturalistic system that depends on the diagnosis of your body's humours - vata, pitta and kapha - to achieve the right balance.

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Ayurveda believes in the treatment of not just the affected part, but the individual as a whole. Making it the natural way to refresh you, eliminate all toxic imbalances from the body and thus regain resistance and good health. Kerala's equable climate, natural abundance of forests (with a wealth of herbs and medicinal plants), and the cool monsoon season (June to July and October to November) are best suited for Ayurveda's curative and restorative packages.

In fact, today, Kerala is the only State in India which practises this system of medicine with absolute dedication. According to Ayurveda every living and non living being in this universe is a combination of five basic eternal elements, called 'Pancha Maha Bhoothas'. Human Body is also constituted by these five eternal elements in various compositions. Hence it can be conceived that every cell of body is possessed with all the properties of life. The only difference of Human Body from the external World is the expression of 'CHAITANYA or consciousness or life spark or spirit or soul. These eternal elements manifest in the Human Body as three basic principles or subtle energies or humours (Thridosha in Sanskrit) The word Dosha literally means that which maintains and controls the body. They are Vatha, Pitha and Kapha. The Pancha Maha Bhoothas and the Thridoshas are not prevalent to the naked eye. But they should be conceived on comprehensive terms in which all physical structures and psychological functions of the body are included.

Monsoon, the ideal time for rejuvenation

 Traditional texts reveal that the monsoon is the best season for rejuvenation programmes. The atmosphere remains dust-free and cool, opening the pores of the body to the maximum, making it most receptive to herbal oils and therapy. Kerala is also home to families that have been using and practicing Ayurveda for more than ten generations: The Ayurveda treatments have been recognized to cure people and so that people are just flowing to Kerala. Fortreating the patients, ayurveda treatment center uses a large variety of natural herbs and their oils to give them access to a healthy life. Today people from very part of the world come here and revitalize themselves in the exiting Ayurveda. In Ayurveda there are different types of treatment at different season or it changes year to year. The Monsoon season August-September) is ideal for almost all treatments because the body will be brighter to the medicines.

Kerala is the well-known destination for Ayurvedic treatments in India because of quite a lot of famous ayurvedic resorts offering world-class services. Apart from infrastructural background the proficient Ayurveda practitioner and availability of ayurvedic medicines and plants make it a hub of Ayurvedic treatments. Herbal treatments have no side effect further Ayurveda treats the root cause of the illness rather than the symptoms which provides lasting effects rather than temporary relief on patients.

More than just a brand or perhaps a unique concept, Harmony lets you unravel an authentic ayurvedic experience. Harmony applies Ayurveda - the ancient science of life, longevity and rejuvenation - in the most modern environ, to refresh the body mind and soul and to let you reinvent yourself.

Harmony presents customized packages of original ayurvedic. therapies that are a unique symphony of pure tradition and Harmony preaches oneness with all that is pure and natural, detoxifies the body of chemicals, cleanses the mind of discordance and conflict and purifies the soul deep within. Every component at Harmony is designed to relax the body soothe the mind and let tranquility descend upon the soul. Each individual is given a personalized regimen of treatment and diet after an in-depth valuation by leading Ayurvedic Physicians. The cleansing massages with fragrant oils and reviving baths at the hands of professionally trained masseurs transform drained and exhausted bodies and psyches into vibrant, refreshed and totally relaxed beings. Harmony also lets you plunge into a voyage of self discovery by helping you reach your inner space to experience a new plane of awareness, vitality and self realization sc that your body mind and soul blossoms with renewed energy and the urge to start life anew.

PRIME TREATMENTS IN AYURVEDA

Pizhichil - It is one among the rare and special treatments of Kerala. In this treatment, lukewarm herbal oils are applied all over the body by two to four trained therapists in a special rhythmic way continuously for about 60 to 90 minutes per day for a period of 7 to 21 days. This treatment is done in a special table made from a single piece of Strychnos Nuxvomica wood. This treatment is very useful for Rheumatic diseases like arthritis, paralysis, hemiplegia, paralysis "C agitanus, sexual weakness, nervous weakness and nervous disorders etc.

Njavarakizhi - It is a type of sudation process in which the whole body or any specific part thereof is made to perspire by the application of certain medicinal puddings externally in the form of boluses tied up in muslin bag. Two to four masseurs apply this for about GO to 90 minutes per day for a period of 14 days. This treatment is for all types of rheumatism, pain in the joints, emaciation of limbs, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and certain kind of skin diseases. Sirodhara means Head and Dhara means the continuous flow of a liquid. In this process some herbal oils, medicated milk, medicated butter milk etc, are poured on the forehead in a special method of about 40 minutes in a day for a period f 7 to 21 days. This treatment is mainly for insomnia, loss of memory, headaches, mental tension and certain skin diseases.

Vasthi - Otherwise known as Medicated Enema. Vasthi is a Therapeutic procedure in which certain herbal oils, herbal extracts, etc are applied through the rectum daily for a period of 5 to 25 days. This treatment is effective for arthritis, paralysis, hemiplegia, numbness, gastric complaints, rheumatism and chronic constipation.

Sirovasthi - Certain lukewarm herbal oils are poured into a cap fitted on the head and held for 15 to 60 minutes per day according to the patient’s conditions for a period of 07 days. This treatment is highly effective for facial paralysis, dryness of nostrils, mouth and throat, severe headaches and other diseases of the head.

Udvarthanam - This treatment is otherwise known as Powder Massage. This is found very effective in the obesity, hemiplegia, paralysis, skin diseases, impaired circulation etc and similar diseases. In this procedure 2 therapists apply certain special Herbal Powders in a peculiar way on the body for about 30 to 40 minutes daily for a period of 14 to 28 days.

Abhyangarn - This is a special type of oil massage in which strokes arte given according to the circulatory channels for 45 minutes per day for 14 days. This treatment is very useful for obesity, loss of skin luster, sleeplessness and fatigue.

Nasyani - Being one among the Panchakarma procedures, Nasyam is a treatment in which herbal juices, medicated oils etc, are applied through nose for 7 to 14 days. This treatment is highly effective for certain kinds of headaches, paralysis mental disorders, some types of skin diseases etc.

Kizhi - Herbal leaves or powders are made in boluses and are applied on the whole body or a part specified after dipping it in warm medicated oils. This is done for 45 minutes daily for a period of 07 to 14 days. This is very effective for osteo arthritis, spondylosis, sports injuries etc.

Sandhi Vatha Chikilsa - Unlike the modern medicine Ayurveda has very effective cures for Arthritic conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, gout, osteo arthritis, ankylosing spondylosis, cervical spondylosis, osteo porosis etc. This programme includes massage, lepanam, and oil application on affected parts, kizhi, steam bath, snehavasthy, kakshaya vasthy, pizhichil, njavarakizhi, snehapanam and internal medicines.

Kerala is equable climate, natural abundance of forests (with a wealth of herbs and medicine plants ), and the cool monsoon season( June - November)are best suited for Ayurveda's curative and restorative programs. In fact, today Kerala is the only state in India, which practices this system of medicine with absolute dedication. Rejuvenate your body, mind and soul by taking Ayurveda treatment at least once in your life time. You can take body rejuvenation treatment for seven days, 14 days or 28 days.

Source: Plaza Times May 2011

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Active Health, Prevents Disease with Ayurveda

Natural versus Artificial Health

Ayurveda, the traditional Indian System of healing and health, delivers multidimensional health. Ayurveda is designed to facilitate deep healing for body, mind and soul, and its science is well equipped to deliver both preventatives as well as palliative care.

In Ayurveda unlike the modern bio-medicine, disease prevention is not a lesser goal, an add-on, or an afterthought. In Ayurveda, preventative health care is the priority and of paramount importance, since there is nothing quite like natural God given, wholesome health that is scientifically and consciously “protected” from birth onwards. In Ayurveda, the Sanskrit term “swasthasya swastharakshanam” refer to the Ayurvedic concept of the “protection of health of the healthy” and this is no less important than the goal of disease reversal “aturasya vikara prashamana cha”.

The well being of body mind, sense and soul that organic health exudes is quite different from the so called “health” of modern medicine. The modern medical concept of health is no more than a fraction of relief, achieved occasionally, from uncomfortable symptoms through use of synthetic or chemical drugs.

Ayurveda Focus on the Root Causes of Disease

Fortunately, Ayurveda is focused on the question of why we manifest disease in the first place. Ayurveda begins with understanding the similarities between living creature and the universe and points out the endogenous and exogenous imbalances that cause disease. Ayurveda also lays down in exquisite detail method to prevent imbalance (science of disease prevention) or restore health (science of disease revolution).

Ayurveda sync with nature

In Synchronization with Natural Laws

All along, from prevention to restoration to the final steps of rejuvenation, it is only within the fold of natural laws that health is conceived in Ayurveda, never outside of nature.

Ayurveda is never war with nature to deliver health; rather, it works with nature. Ayurveda uses nature’s own laws tool box, and abundant medicine chest filled with naturally available medicine and remedies to restore health and vitality in a short time with practically no side effects.

Ayurveda- Science of life

Crafting Health at Home

The Science of Ayurveda has been focusing upon disease prevention in an exhaustive manner forever 5000 years. This preventative focus is just now being entertained in the current era as more and more world governments (including in the U.S.) are promoting the need to actively craft a paradigm shift in health care. This shift is from focusing only on battling disease (with all its related expenses and scale of intervention required) to promoting viable means to prevent disease at the gross root level through healthy choices and timely prevention check up etc.

Ayurveda takes a step further, even beyond the preventive health check up at the local physician’s office, back in to the patient’s home. It is only in the personal life, where scientifically made changes in food, lifestyle, exercise and the use of simple herbs frown in the garden will make a recognizable difference. These comprehensive food and lifestyle changes can drastically reduce the expense and number of doctor visits.

Ayurveda’s sustaining ideology gives hope to humanity that we all have the right to natural wholesome good healthy. We can all learn to do what it takes in our homes, gardens and kitchen to remain ahead of the disease-drug-surgery game.

                                                                                             Article written by:

                                                                                            ‘Shunya’ Pratichi Mathur for Tathaastu magazine

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Hair Problems - Reason and Solution

Reason of Hair Fall

Hair loss and white hairs are measure problems facing by youths and overage person these days. Medically, the hair loss refers to the baldness or alopecia. Generally, losing 50-100 hairs per day can be considered as a normal procedure as all those hairs can be replaced with new growing hairs. Hair loss becomes significant when one starts losing more than that figure of hairs a day.

There may number of reason for hair fall like, excess uses of cosmetics products, improper dieting habits, uses of drugs, genetic reasons, lack of proper diet, pollution, bath with salty water and uncaring.

Remedies for hair loss

Stop uses of hair cosmetic products right now. All cosmetics products like shampoos, conditioners and chemical oils contain chemical ingredients like Sodium laurel sulfate, alkyl amides, Propylene Glycol etc. which is extremely harmful for hairs.

Take a regular healthy diet with all necessary health nutrition. The food should be rich of vitamin E, fibers and proteins as our hair made by proteins.

Wash your hair at least three times in a week with soft water and take a hair massage of some natural oils once in a week. Mustard is the best for hair massage but you can also use the amla oils or coconut oils.

Protect Hair from pollution, direct sharp sunlight and dust. These are measure cause loosens the hair roots.

Reason white hairs

The color of hair depends on the pigments of body.  Basically there are two pigments that are responsible for hair color one is eumelanin that is responsible for black or brown color of hair and another one is Pheomelanin responsible for red hair. The lack of these two pigments cause the white hair, and richness cause dark hair.

A prepared solution for hair problem

If you are facing the problem of hair falls and hair whiteness, and no time for long home remedies. Than here is a prepared solution for your all hair problems and it is completely free from harmful chemical and made by pure natural herbs. I am talking about “Kiarli,s ayurvedic hair products” Kairali have wide range of ayurvedic shampoos and hair oils for complete hair treatment with a reasonable prices. For more information about these products and to purchase products please visit at http://www.kairaliproducts.com

Kiarli is well known brand for accommodation and ayurvedic services. It is making ayurvedic heath product since 1989. Currently it running 35 ayurvedic treatment, spa and massage center  across all over India and. In last 21 years it create a reliability in customer.

 

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Soft Drinks - A Slow Poison

The soft drinks today have a permanent place in our life. An Indian’s day is hardly spend without these drinks. Stylish presentation and its advertisement attract the people. It’s become a passion for the new generation, but ever we think about another part that is too dark and week.

Ever you think that how they made, what are the ingredients and much its healthy or unhealthy for human being?

We Indian easily get empress by colorful water, strange test and its stylish packing. We take it as real when in a advertisement a stupid film actor suggest to drink them whether he used them in real life or not and when a actor jumped over high building to catch a bottle of cold drink, but in real it make you your bone too weak to stand you on your own legs.

Now let's come on the topic. Basically these soft drinks are carbonated water. Carbon die oxide dissolved at a high pressure that gives it bubbles.Regular uses of soft drinks decays your teeth and bones and makes them weaker and easily breakable.

The phosphorus acid also exists in cold drinks, that absorbed by bones. The acid level of a normal soft drinks at pH level is about 3.0 to 3.5 pH that is almost equal to toilet cleaner and slightly higher than battery water, Interesting fact is this that these soft drinks companies have batter pH value in their home countries.

The Artificial sugar content makes them dangerous for the patient of diabetes as well as normal men. It also cause of obesity.

Except all above health disadvantages it also has negative effective on our economy. Millions of dollars are taking away by this way every year. The water level of places where these companies have their plants is getting deeper and deeper. In manufacturing process lots of water is wastes. Do you know three liter of water wastes to prepare one liter cold drinks.

The situation becomes more dangers when we do not take it serious. Today all the parents are aware of effect of wine and tobacco and suggest their children to be away from them, but they completely ignore these cold drinks.

Finally we can say that these damm so called soft drinks have only negative effect on humen health than why we don’t use our traditional health drinks instead these only harmful soft drinks. This is the time for a move against these dangers drinks. Lets through away these killer drinks from our life and make a healthy India.


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Panchakarma - A Complete body purification Treatment

As the name indicates that it relates to panch karma (five actions).It is part of ancient ayurvedic treatment developed in India. It used to purify human body by eliminating toxic waste of body and make balance of Pitta, Kaugha and Vata. Panchakarma enhance the metabolic process by herbal medicine and oil massages. The five action of panchakarma are described below. Before panchkarma, purvakarma (primary action) is done. There are two aspects of purvakarma, Snehanam (Oleation) and Swedanam (sweating).

Vamanam Karma (Vomiting): Vamana Karma is used to avoid Kapha disorders like Bronchitis, Cold, Asthma, Sinus, & Excess mucus. When there is congestion in the lungs causing repeated attacks of bronchitis, cold and cough. Vamanam is administrated to eliminate the Kapha causing the excess mucus.


Virechanam (Purgation): This process is used to cure pitta doshas (disorders) like skin disorders, Acidity, Heart burn, Peptic ulcer, Jaundice, Intestinal parasites. Virechana is induced by administering herbal purgatives given orally which passes through whole gut and eliminate excessive pitta.

Basti Karma (Enema); It is very effective for vatta disorders like Chronic Constipation, bloated stomach, gases, malnourished people, sexual disorders, constipation, backache, Spinal pain. The procedure deals with loosened Vata dosha removal out of the body through the rectum. Medicated oil or decoction is administered through the anus to pacify the aggravated air.

Anuvaasan : In anuvaasan medicated oil used for for anema. It is useful in all vatta aggravated diseases like joint disorders, paralysis, constipation, arthritis. This treatment does not given to patient of asthma, anemia, and obesity.

Nasyam (nasal therapy): In nasya process the herbal medicine are given through nostrils. This therapy is highly effective in curing of disease pertaining to the head because the nose is gateway of head. After performing this process systematically it cleanses and opens the channel of head, thereby it improve the oxygenation.

Diet during the panchakarma : Diet is very important during and after panchkarama during the panchakarma the patient have to stay on Khichri that is prepared by boiling rice with turmeric.

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