Ayurveda

Ayurvedic medicine is one of the world's oldest medical systems and remains one of India's traditional health care systems. Ayurvedic treatment combines products (mainly derived from plants, but may also include animal, metal, and mineral), diet, exercise, and lifestyle.

Panchakarma is a method of cleansing the body of all the unwanted waste after lubricating it. Panchakarma are 5 (five) in number; hence the term PANCHA (five) – KARMA (procedures).

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Ayurveda has long used diet as a principal means of creating health within the body and mind.“Let food be thy medicine,”. Ayurveda teaches how Food selection, meal timing, and state of awareness during meals either increases ojas (vitality) or ama (toxicity). Follow mindful eating habits. 

To be, or to become calm and stop worrying. To make someone less nervous or upset. Things and places which make people relaxed. Ways of telling someone not to worry or be upset.

Referred to as 'akasha' in Sanskrit, ether is the element that comes first in yogic and Ayurvedic thinking. The space element is directly connected to the throat chakra or ‘Vishuddha’, ‘place of purification’ and is the most expansive and subtle of all elements. It has the qualities of being cold, light, dry, and mobile. It is defined as space and is the space the other elements fill. In the body, it relates to the hollow or empty spaces in the body, like nose, stomach, and the ears that perceive sound. It connects everything. Without form or boundaries, Ether is the space of unlimited possibilities.

The element air, called “vayu” in Sanskrit, is the second of the five great elements (pancha mahabhutus).  It comes second because it evolves from ether. As the potential inherent within space becomes active, the result is air. The element of air represents the capacity for motion or kinetic energy. Air represents all forces and the movement that transpires as a result of those forces.  In our physical body, Air is the movement of oxygen and nutrients to the cell and waste out of the cell, the air we breathe, nerve impulses, circulation, and movement of our joints. Air supports our energy, prana or vital life force and in the mind it supports the movement and coordination of our thoughts.

Ayurveda has described an important factor of digestion and metabolism in our body as Agni (Fire). Ingested food is to be digested, absorbed and assimilated, which is unavoidable for the maintenance of life, and is performed by Agni. In Ayurveda, the term “Agni” is used in the sense of digestion of food and metabolic products. Agni(Fire) converts food in the form of energy, which is responsible for all the vital functions of our body. Therefore, Ayurveda considers that Dehagni is the cause of life, complexion, strength, health, nourishment, lusture, oja, teja (energy) and prana (life energy).Fire, agni, represents light, heat, and transformation.  Fire is carried throughout the body in the blood and plasma as heat and in our mind support the strength of our intellect, discrimination, and perception.

The element of water, apas (Jal) represents fluidic matter and the cohesive principle of physics. Water is the protector of the body. It provides the body with its most basic nourishment. Water protects against the dissolution of the ether element, the roughness and motion of the air element and the heat of the fire element.Water, apas, is cohesion and holds everything together. It has the qualities of being cold and heavy. It supports fluidity so that we can move slowly and gracefully. Water is Sweat, urine, our lymphatic system, and how subtle molecules are carried from one part of the body to the other. Water is responsible for emotions such as unconditional love, compassion, empathy, deep feelings, and attachment.

The element earth, called “prithvi” in Sanskrit, is the fifth of the five great elements (pancha mahabhutus). It comes fifth because it evolves out of each of the other four elements (ether, air, fire and water), containing the essence of these elements within it. Ether provides earth the space to exist within.Earth, pruthivi, is stability and the building block of nature. Earth makes up the structures within us; bones, cartilage, hair, skin, nails, teeth, muscles, and organs. In the mind, the earth gives stability, contentment, and structure to thoughts and ideas. Earth expresses its nature of continuity as well.