Ayurveda Medicine

Ayurveda is the oldest form of natural medicine and has been practised in India for over 5,000 years.
Its a holistic system that seeks to treat the whole person, by examining -

• Your entire lifestyle
• The ways you express your self
• Your nature
• Hereditary
• Environmental factors

Ayurveda strongly emphasizes the connection between the individual and nature. It aims not only to treat the disease and improve your general quality of life, but also bring you into harmony with nature.
Treatment methods include -

• Diet and nutritional changes
• Herbal remedies
• Exercise
• Meditation
• Aromatherapy
• Internal cleansing and detoxifying etc

Which all help restore balance and bring about a sense of well being.
It seeks to create harmony by balancing the 5 elements from which the entire material world is composed - in the doshas = the bodily 'humours'.
There are 3 forms of dosha - metabolic types

1 Vata = air + ether
2 Pitta = fire + water
3 Kapha = water + earth

Each individual has there own mix of the 3 (prakruti), although most of us have 1 or 2 dominant doshas.
Internal and external change may throw your doshas off balance and restoring this balance is the aim of ayurveda.

The Vata dosha -
Combination of ether and air elements.
People with the Vata physique tend to have -
Dry hair & skin
Light frames
Little boy fat - often underweight
Active metabolism
May have bad circulation and prefer warm weather.

When out of balance -

• Iritability and in extreme cases, nervous exhaustion.
• Bloating
• Constipation
• Fatigue
• Stiff and painful joints
• Heart palpation's and fainting spells.

Vata governs motion and movement.
Its responsible for breathing, the swallowing of food, the circulation of the blood and the health of the heart. Also involved with the flow of nerve impulses to and from the brain.
Vata people are quick witted and creative with lots of ideas, they are often restless.

The Pitta Dosha -
Combination of fire and water elements
Medium frame
Soft, warm and often fair, pink or red freckly skin
Have strong appetite
Possess a sharp mind and quick wit
They are busy and like to achieve alot
They are usually very intelligent and love knowledge and reading.

A Pitta imbalance can lead to -

• Fitful sleep
• Diarrhoea
• Hot flushes
• Skin rashes and acne
• Fevers and sweats
• Blood shot eyes
• They can be angry, judgemental and fiery.

Pitta maintains the body's temperature, helps in memory function and intellect, and controls our vision, converting external images into optic nerve impulses.

The Kapha Dosha -

Its elements are earth and water,
They are steady and solid by nature and are the heaviest of the 3 doshas.
Provides the body's structure and lubrication.
It controls fluid balance
Governs the production of phlegm and mucus.
They have well developed bodies.
Vital almost elemental strength
Steady sexual appetite
Thick and lustrous hair and big eyes
They move slowly and calmly and see no reason to rush
The don't like change.

A Kapha imbalance can lead to :

• Weight gain
• Loss of sex drive
• Tired and sluggish
• Poor digestion
• Possessive and jealous
• Fluid retention

Balanced Kaphas are loyal, caring, courageous.
They should avoid cold, damp weather, oversleeping and rich heavy foods

To see what dosha you are copy and paste on the link below

http://www.holisticonline.com/ayurveda/w_ayurveda-dtest1.htm

The natual way

This blog is all about health and wellness, in its natural form. I am studying to be a natural path and i feel that all the things im learning should be shared. So each blog will be about different form of natural medicine, health foods, different types of healing.
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