Drying therapy in Ayurveda
April 9th, 2008 in Ayurveda
Drying therapy involves the intake of pungent, bitter and astringent substances like cakes made of mustard and sesame, as also honey. Sexual indulgence is prescribed. This therapy is recommended for patients suffering from diseases where the channels of circulation are obstructed and there is an excessive dominance of the aggravated dosha which is manifested in the vital organs of the body through spasticity of the thighs, gout and serves urinary disorders.
Ayurvedic Medicine - Headache (causes)
April 8th, 2008 in Ayurveda
Ayurveda considers headache to be of various kinds depending on the predominance of the dosha involved in the pathogenesis of this disease. The causative factors can be both physical and psychological. Defective eye-sight, inflammation of the sinus, high blood pressure, sleeplessness, brain tumor, prolonged overwork, emotional strain, exposure to excessive heat, indigestion, constipation and several other factors can cause headache. Headache is a symptom of many other diseases like fever, influenza and bronchitis.
Ayurvedic Medicine Characteristics (Vegetables)
April 8th, 2008 in Alternative medicine, Ayurveda, Herbal medicine
Therapeutic use is made of drugs of vegetable origin, animal products and metals, minerals, gems and semi-precious stones. They are processed only in order to render them non-toxic, palatable and therapeutically more potent. No synthetic additives are used in these processes. The processes themselves have been carefully designed of the medicines’ ingredients.
Yoga–asanas (a short note)
March 26th, 2008 in Ayurveda
Asanas are not merely physical movements. They have a far reaching impact on growing child. It improves circulation vital to the proper functioning of the body. Yoga asanas increases the supply of fresh blood to the brain thus enchanting the mental capacity. Asanas check excessive aggression and excitability through the regulation of the adrenal glands. Yoga helps a child to ride the tide of advancing puberty and thereafter to direct and channel the energy youth.
Stone Massage
March 21st, 2008 in Ayurveda, Massage
The concept of stone massage has become widely valued and accepted in the health care industry today and a few years back. This stone massage became the range of therapeutic centers, spas, salons and clinics all over the universe. The origin of this stone massage’s is nearly about 5000 years to India, basically from the ancient healing tradition of Ayurveda. The stone massage, also known as heated stone or la stone massage, is said to be a perfect unique sort of connection that people experience with nature.
Importance of Ayurvedic Herbal Massage
March 20th, 2008 in Ayurveda, Herbal medicine, Massage
The Food is a necessary one for the organism from birth to death, like that is the massage is one for the human organism. Generally food provides nourishment from external sources to the organism, whereas massage excites the internal resources and clearly provides great nourishment in the form of glucose, proteins and other chemicals, which are with in the system.
Panchakarma - the body cleansing
March 19th, 2008 in Ayurveda
Physical clogging of the body, as the dust on the mirror, plays the major role in hiding our true nature from us. This pollution is much more than dust, and provides not only the physical effects: pain and suffering can change the whole psychology.
Panchakarma value is that it offers a holistic method of body cleansing and removing toxins from every cell, using the body’s natural way of self-healing: sweat glands, blood vessels, bowel and urinary tract.
The Psychological Importance of Yoga-asana for Adolescents
March 18th, 2008 in Ayurveda
Create predisposition towards Yogic principles of yama and niyama so developing a child’s moral-ethical character.
Help a child to become self-controlled and less prone to extremes of behavior by regulating endocrine functions.
Build up self-confidence. Remove shyness and self-consciousness.
Direct the new found energy into creative outlets.
Check excessive aggression and excitability through the regulation of the adrenal glands.
Check laziness and lethargy which sometimes characterizes this phase.
Control the arousal of the emerging sexual urge.