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Ayurveda

Ayurveda is a wholistic system of medicine from India that uses a constitutional model. Its aim is to provide guidance regarding food and lifestyle so that healthy people can stay healthy and folks with health challenges can improve their health.

Ayurveda, is the “science of life” with a holistic background which deals with protecting, maintaining and curing health. In sanskrit the word Ayu means ‘Age or Lifetime’ and Veda means ‘Knowledge or know how to use’. Ayurveda, teaches mankind the way to

Protect good health, i.e. Sukha Ayu (Healthy and happy lifetime),
Prevent and Cure bad health i.e. Dukkha Ayu (Diseased & unhappy lifetime),
Enhance positive thinking i.e. Hita Ayu (Productive & positive time of life) and
Avoid diseased and directionless life i.e. Ahita Ayu (Path to a wasted or meaningless lifetime)

Thus Ayurveda is defined as ‘the knowledge of how to lead a healthy, long and happy lifetime to achieve the ultimate goal of life’. It deals with herbs, plants, minerals, anatomy and physiology of the body and principles of disease management.

Ayurveda can be largely classified into eight medical branches namely

Kaya chikita or Internal Medicine,
Shalakya tantra or Opthalmology and ENT,
Shalya tantra or Surgery,
Agada tantra or Toxicology,
Rasayana chikitsa or Rejuvenation or Geriatrics,
Vajeekaran or Fertility and Genital problems,
Kumarya bhyatrya or Paediatrics
Bhuta tantra or Psychology/Psychiatry

Disease Management in Ayurveda can be broadly classified under the following regims:

Shamana Therapy - the use of internal medicines to alleviate/ mitigate the disease and its symptoms.
Shodhana Therapy - elimination of the disease with body purification therapies like Pancha karma etc.
Pathya Vyavastha - dietary regimens with do’s and dont’s in diet.
Nidan Parivarjan - avoidance of disease causing and aggravating factors including lifestyle.
Satvavajaya – Psychotherapy, mind balancing.
Rasayana therapy - use of immune modulators and medicines.

Origin

Ayurveda is an intricate system of healing that originated in India thousands of years ago. We can find historical evidence of Ayurveda in the ancient books of wisdom known as the Vedas. In the Rig Veda, over 60 preparatison were mentioned that could be used to assist an individual in overcoming various ailments. The Rig Veda was written over 6,000 years ago, but really Ayurveda has been around even longer than that. What we see is that A yurveda is more than just a medical system. It is a Science of Life. We are all part and parcel of nature. Just as the animals and plants live in harmony with nature and utilize the Laws of Nature to create health and balance within their beings, we, too, adhere to these very same principles. Therefore, it is fair to say that Ayurveda is a system that helps maintain health in a person by using the inherent principles of nature to bring the individual back i nto equilibrium with their true self. In essence Ayurveda has been in existence since the beginning of time because we have always been governed by nature's laws.

Mind, Body, and Sences

We tend to identify most with our physical bodies; yet, in actuality, there is more to us then what meets the eye. We can see that underlying our physical structure is the mind, which not only controls our thought processes but helps assist us in carrying out day-to-day activities such as respiration, circulation, digestion and elimination. The mind and the body work in conjunction with one another to regulate our physiology. In order for the mind to act appropriately to assist the physical body, we must use our senses as information gatherers. We can think of the mind as a computer and the senses as the data which gets entered into the computer. Smell and taste are two important senses th at aid in the digestive process. When the mind registers that a particular food is entering the gastrointestinal tract, it directs the body to act accordingly by releasing various digestive enzymes. However, if we overindulge the taste buds with too much of a certain taste, such as sweet, we may find that the ability of the mind to perceive the sweet taste is impaired; and thereby the body becomes challenged in its ability to process sweet foods. Maintaining the clarity of our senses is an essential part in allowing the mind and body to integrate their functions and help in keeping us healthy and happy individuals.

SOUL

Ayurveda also sees that before we exist in physical form with the help of the mind and senses that we exist in a more subtle form known as the soul. The ancient seers of India believed tha t we were comprised of a certain energetic essence that precluded the inhabitance of our physical entity. In fact, they hypothesized that we may indeed occupy many physical bodies throughout the course of time but that our underlying self or soul remains unchanged. What we see to help illustrate this concept is what transpires at the time of death. When the individual nears the time to leave the physical body, many of his/her desires will cease to be present. As the soul no longer identifies with the bod y, the desire to eat food or indulge in a particular activity that used to be a great source of satisfaction for that person drops by the wayside. In fact, many individuals have been documented to experience the sensation of being "out of their bodies."

These are just a few examples of how we are made up of these four components that we call life.

Conclusion

This understanding that we are all unique individuals enables Ayurveda to address not only specific health concerns but also offers explanation as to why one person responds differently th an another. We hope that you will continue to explore Ayurveda to enhance your health and to gain further insights into this miracle we call life.