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Choices
the first 42 days to 3 months after childbirth influence a mother's health
and ability to mother and partner well for the next 42 years, according to
Ayurvedic Medicine. Avoid the all too common colic, depression, lactation,
digestive and elimination problems after childbirth. Ayurveda and A...
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Published:
Sunday 25 May, 2008
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Ayurveda
emphasizes preventative and healing therapies along with various methods of
purification and rejuvenation. Ayurveda is more than a mere healing system;
it is a science and an art of appropriate living that helps to achieve
longevity. It can guide every individual in the proper choice of di...
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Published:
Thursday 25 October, 2007
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Banned
PCBs and Agrochemicals in Blood Reduced 50 Percent By Centuries-Old Detoxification
Procedure, Study Shows
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Published:
Tuesday 23 October, 2007
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Choosing
a safe dental restorative substance.
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Published:
Monday 25 June, 2007
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Ayurveda
has focused on the various aspects of herbs and their practice in our
day-to-day life. Specific emphasis is given on the preparation and storage
of herbs followed since ancient time. Each Indian herb has a distinct
quality and each of them is used for different purposes. There are mainly
th...
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Published:
Tuesday 13 March, 2007
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Ayurveda
puts special emphasis on the diet of the mother during pregnancy. It’s
ancient sages specified certain foods to be emphasized during various
months of pregnancy. This will help nourish a healthy and intelligent
child.
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Published:
Wednesday 07 March, 2007
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A
guide to discover your Ayurvedic constitution
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Published:
Saturday 30 December, 2006
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Ayurveda
is considered by many scholars to be the oldest healing science. In
Sanskrit, Ayurveda means “The Science of Life.” Ayurvedic knowledge
originated in India more than 5,000 years ago and is often called the
“Mother of All Healing.”
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Published:
Saturday 30 December, 2006
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Ahaar
(Diet) has its own importance for good health. No one can expect to maintain
his health in an excellent state unless he adopts the scientific way of
intake of suitable and nutritious food. In a way diet in itself can serve
the purpose of medicine. If we know properly the science of nutrition a...
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Published:
Saturday 09 December, 2006
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There’s
a rising trend of Diabetes in India that is taking the country completely
by storm. As I travel around the country almost everyone I meet in the 40+
age group or someone they know, a relative or close friend has some form of
Diabetes. If I look at the modern Indian diet, there are a few cle...
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Published:
Saturday 09 December, 2006
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If
Panchakarma is not possible, fasting can be a highly effective alternative.
It balances the doshas, rectifies agni (digestive fire), clears shrotas
(channels) and strengthens all dhatus (tissues). It removes aam (toxic
accumulations) from body, mind and emotions, and helps to reduce excess
weight...
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Published:
Wednesday 22 November, 2006
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Over
the past years a number of independent studies have shown the health
hazards of cell phone usage, especially long term usage.
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Published:
Friday 10 November, 2006
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Ayurveda
speaks a great deal about establishing one’s innate constitution, known in
Ayurveda as Prakriti. Prakriti means “nature.” Nature has created each
person as a unique expression of Cosmic Consciousness. No two people are
exactly alike. Prakriti, therefore, reveals a person’s inborn psycho...
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Published:
Thursday 09 November, 2006
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In
Vaidya Mishra’s Shaka Vansya tradition of shudh or pure Ayurved, the first
important step we can take towards healing ourselves consists in
re-aligning our physiologies with the rhythms of the universe.
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Published:
Thursday 09 November, 2006
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In
my earlier article I presented a strong case against Garlic. I consistently
restrict people from Onion, Garlic, Soy and Nightshades. Many of you have
argued (especially those new to Shudh Ayurved) What else can one eat if we
stop eating all of the aforementioned foods? No worries, there are foods...
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Published:
Thursday 09 November, 2006
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In
Ayurveda, the woman is considered to be “Shakti”; the Mother and Source of
creation, in whose lap all of civilization is cradled. When we speak about
“women’s health” we understand that this encompasses many different issues
during the different stages of her life.
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Published:
Tuesday 31 October, 2006
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In
recent years shatavari has become a popular herb world-wide. Women in the
West have been using it ever since studies showed that it contains
phyto-estrogens, the precursors of estrogen. This finding made it popular
all over the world.
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Published:
Tuesday 31 October, 2006
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Autism
is the end result of systematic toxins such as Mercury in the body causing
this tridoshic disease which is especially a gross imbalance of vata and
particularly prana vata which is the vata seated in the mind controlling
all mental functions such as speech, concentration, memory, learning and...
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Published:
Monday 23 October, 2006
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To
change something we must alter the energy which creates it. This fact is
true in the practice of Yoga. To bring about positive changes in body and
mind we must understand the energy through which they work. This is called
Prana in Sanskrit, meaning primary energy. It is sometimes translated as
br...
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Published:
Wednesday 11 October, 2006
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The
role of fire is well known in traditional systems of medicine, which use
the great elements of nature for healing purposes. However, one system in
particular is built around a profound understanding of our biological
fires. This is ‘Ayurveda’, the traditional natural healing system of India,
the...
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Published:
Wednesday 11 October, 2006
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Ayurveda
is inherently a psychological as much as it is a physical system of
medicine. Its scope of practice includes both physical (sharirika) and
mental (manasika) diseases. Therefore, we cannot really understand Ayurveda
without looking at its view of the mind and consciousness.
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Published:
Tuesday 10 October, 2006
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Children's
bodies develop at a fast pace and are more likely to be influenced and show
the effects of genetically modified (GM) foods. That is why independent scientists
used young adolescent rats in their GM feeding studies. The rats showed
significant health damage after only 10 days, including da...
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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Margarine,
in addition to its hydrogenation, has other objectionable features that
make it an artificial product. An artificial butter like flavour and odour
are achieved with Diacetyl. To ensure enjoyment of these these qualities,
isopropyl or stearyl citrates are added.These additives are euphemis...
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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A
look at some of the poisonous ingredients found in common foods.
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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What
constitutes nutrition? Certainly the common thought that food and nutrition
are the same thing is a fallacy that needs to be discarded. It is one thing
to eat an abundance of good food, it is quite another thing to have good
nutrition. Food is one of the materials with which the processes of nu...
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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1.The
Building Diet 2.The Mature Diet - The diet of maintenance – adulthood 3 The
Curative Diet-The diet of elimination
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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Foods
have been defined as oxidizable substances. Oxidation is the union of
oxygen with another element. Oxidation may take place slowly or rapidly.
Rapid oxidation is the process known as burning. Oxidation of foods takes
place more rapidly at a high temperature, as in cooking, and more slowly at
l...
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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It
has long been known that fasting results in a rapid blood regeneration in
anemia.
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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Space
elements in foods convert to energy while the Time elements in foods
convert to substance. Sodium is the most Time of the elements used in
nutrition, while Potassium is the most Space of the elements used in
nutrition.
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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The
food that we normally eat can slowly kill us or heal us. How? The
devastating effects of improper food combinations (different categories of
foods eaten at the same meal) can ruin your health and vitality.Many
diseases that will catch up with us in the future can be kept away by
understanding...
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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"For
28 years I suffered with a skin affliction known as psoriasis. My entire
body, from the top of my head to the soles of my feet, was covered with
large blotches, which were covered with scale like formation. I consulted
many doctors, and in this way spent much money, but my condition grew
steadi...
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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What
happens to healthy men when they are fed on a diet consisting of bread and
butter, meat and mashed potatoes, eggs and milk, salt and vinegar, tea and
coffee, sugar and condensed milk?
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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How
the body is affected by the quality of food ingested? The most amazing and remarkable
health and vitality of the Himalayan people of Hunza
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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It
has long been known that primitive people, prior to their contacts with
civilisation, had excellent teeth. It also has been established that teeth
are a valuable indicator of general physical condition: excellent teeth and
excellent general physique go hand in hand. Unfortunately, the converse
of...
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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Discover
your Ayurvedic Constitution
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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If
you are overweight and suffer from all or most of the following symptoms,
you urgently need to reduce your poundage (under professional competent
guidance): Pendulous belly, breasts and buttocks; Puffing and panting for
breath even on mild exertion; Profuse perspiration even when it is not
hot...
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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Although
meat is mandated in Ayurveda for debilitated patients, for warriors
(Kshatriyas) and for those who overexert themselves, it is very heavy for
digestion, putrefies faster than other foods and produces Ama (internal
toxins) quickly. Unless you exercise strenuously, regular meat eating will
in...
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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Yudhishthira
said: Alas, those cruel men, who, discarding diverse kinds of food, covet
only flesh, are really like great Rakshasas (demons)! Alas, they do not
relish diverse kinds of cakes and diverse sorts of potherbs and various
species of Khanda with juicy flavour so much as they do flesh! My und...
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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(Sattwic,
Rajasic and Tamasic). All foods have different properties. Different foods
exercise different effects on different compartments of the brain or the
mind. A confection of sparrow, meat, fish, eggs, onion and garlic excites
passion. Fruits, barley, etc. render the mind calm and serene. The n...
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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A
list of Vedic references to food.
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Published:
Wednesday 27 September, 2006
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Garlic
certainly has many health related benefits, but it is not good for
Spiritual health, and here is why.
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Published:
Tuesday 19 September, 2006
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Rasayana
(literally, "the Path of Juice"), involves replenishing both the
quality and the quantity of the body's fluids.
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Published:
Monday 18 September, 2006
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Life
requires of each of us a judicious stride, a step that causes every
particle of our being to reverberate with rapport. Some of us find our
stride without much effort; a few of us are even born ready to canter. But
lots of us stumble along from day to day like we had two left feet, trying
in vai...
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Published:
Monday 18 September, 2006
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An
aranyaka is an ancient Vedic text that was composed in, and meant to be
studied in, a forest. Though the texts of classical Ayurveda were written
with urbanites in mind, they are verily aranyakas in spirit, for they carry
to city dwellers an urgent "back to Nature" message. To better
access that ...
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Published:
Monday 18 September, 2006
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Understanding
the position of Ayurveda in the contemporary health system.
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Published:
Monday 18 September, 2006
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The
main objective of Ayurveda is to maintain a disease free state. Ayurveda
shows us two approaches how to obtain this state – by maintaining the
status of a healthy person, and by managing the unhealthy (diseased)
condition of an ailing person. If, regardless of the cause, a person falls
ill, this...
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Published:
Saturday 02 September, 2006
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Our
life expectancy and health depend on three pillars. Charaka Samhita, the
cient authoritative text of Ayurveda has given due importance to them.
Proper care of these is essential to support life and health. Charaka has
equated human body with a building. For making any building stable, role of
pi...
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Published:
Saturday 02 September, 2006
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Ayurveda
categories herbs according to the Dhatus or tissues upon which they work.
It also contains a knowledge of special herbs and substances (minerals and
metals) that work on the subtler tissues, including the nerve and
reproductive tissues.
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Published:
Saturday 02 September, 2006
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The
pulse is an important tool for understanding the mind body of an individual
as the pulse changes with age, sex, constitution, time of day, season,
activity, meals, and the state of mind of the individual. In modern
science, the pulse is called the mirror or index of the heart, whereas
Ayurvedic ...
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Published:
Saturday 02 September, 2006
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How
to eat for health, vitality and longevity. A guide to the foods to avoid
and enjoy along with a general guideline on how to eat.
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Published:
Thursday 31 August, 2006
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One
of the topics I came to research was the subject of dentistry which I felt
had been much neglected in the field of Ayurveda. I was confident that
treatments were present but this seemed to be nearly forgotten in practical
application. I was inspired upon this road by doing a study earlier last
y...
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Published:
Thursday 03 February, 2005
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Marma
is one of the lesser known methods used in Ayurveda, Sushruta refers to it
in some detail as well as other texts, but in truth it is a traditional
knowledge that needs to be handed down from guru to disciple, from heart to
heart. The basis is the use of various points on the body which are all...
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Published:
Thursday 03 February, 2005
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In
1999 I began to personally study Ayurveda with a brilliant teacher and
friend who had been introduced to this science many years before, in India,
under the guidance of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who has done wonders to bring
the best of Ayurveda to the West since the 1980's. As I dived deeper and
dis...
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Published:
Thursday 03 February, 2005
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In
1989 I was attending a conference on Yoga and medicine in Mumbai.There were
a number of Indian medical doctors on the panel but, strangely as a
Westerner, I was the only Ayurvedic speaker. After my talk promoting
Ayurveda, someone in the audience remarked, "We in India believe in
something only o...
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Published:
Tuesday 04 May, 2004
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