Ayurvedic treatment is a multidisciplinary approach, unlike Allopathic treatment where the main stress is on medicines.
Ayurveda: Benefits of Fasting
For many philosophers, scientists and physicians, fasting is an essential part of life and the healing process needed to maintain good health. Intellectuals like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Charaka and others used and believed in fasting therapy. Ayurveda discourages long-term fasting because the sense of deprivation created by a long-term fasting encourages the person to follow it up with a spell of indulgence in overeating.
Ayurveda: Urine Therapy
Most people are horrified when they first hear about the medical uses of urine. But then, do you know that you have already reused and re-ingested your urine, that too large amount of it for a long period of time, and it’s one of the reasons you’re alive today? Yes! Urine is the main component of the amniotic fluid that bathes the human foetus, according to latest medical researchers.
Ayurveda: Facts and Fallacies of Urine Therapy
Fallacy: Urine is a biological waste, which contains a host of micro-organisms.
Fact: Urine is only a derivative of the blood. It is a fluid, which has tremendous variations of composition. These excess elements from the circulating blood are filtered and collected within the kidney in the form of a purified, sterile, watery solution called urine. This is almost free from all kinds of microorganisms like bacteria.
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Ayurveda: Urine Therapy Procedures
Urine therapy is simple, but remember that these instructions are not given as medical guidance, but are simply to be taken into account as general information.
Ayurveda: Rejuvenation Therapy
A person, who takes suitable diet and practises self-control, lives a full span of 100 years of 36,000 nights, without illness, says Ayurveda. The idea is to add life to years, not merely years to life. This concept is embodied in ‘Rasaayana (rejuvenation) and Vaajeekarna (Verilization) of Ayurveda. Charaka Samhita, the ancient ayurvedic classic claims that it is possible by a special course of rejuvenation of six months duration, to transform entirely an aged and diseased body into a fresh and youthful one.
Ayurveda: Aphrodisiac Therapy
Next to the need for food, water and sleep, the sexual urge is the most powerful biological drive. This dominant sex instinct, so essential to the survival of the species, is one of the main springs of human motivation, and its fulfilment or frustration is closely bound up with human happiness or misery. The importance of this aspect of human life is duly recognised by Charaka, the ancient ayurvedic scholar by assigning a complete section of the Charaka Samhita to vaajeekarana or virilification.
According to Charaka, “It is a fherapy which enables one to approach women in an unrestricted manner, endowing him with great strength and robustness, like that of a stallion, makes one greatly endearing to women, increases one’s proportions and strength, causes the seminal secretion even in the aging to remain vmdiminished and fertile, and enables a man to have excellent offsprings.”
Ayurveda: Golden Rules for Good Health
For a sound health both psyche and physique should be normal and also in equilibrium. For maintaining physical health, Ayurveda has laid stress on natural urges that should not be suppressed. On the other hand, for perfect mental health, one needs to suppress urges relating to rash behaviour.
Ayurveda: Side Effects of Herbs
In the last few years, traditional systems of medicine are being looked upon with more acceptance in the Western world. Current estimates suggest that a large proportion of the population relies heavily on traditional practitioners and medicinal plants to meet primary health care needs.
Ayurveda: Remedy for Hyperacidity
Excessive secretion of acid leads to hyperacidity. Inside the stomach, nutrients are broken into small units for the purpose of assimilation. The stomach can digest things similar to its own structure and composition—like a piece of meat. But, then how come the stomach does not digest itself? The process of digestion takes place because of many different gastric secretions, which are highly acidic. What prevent the stomach from digesting itself are the cells, which form its inner lining? These cells have a special permeability barrier, which does not let anything permeate. If this is challenged with certain foods like too much tea, coffee, alcohol or certain chemical drugs, especially some pain-relieving and anti-arthritic drugs, then this will be weakened or damaged.