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What is Ayurveda

Ayurveda is the Vedic system of health care developed in India over 5000 years ago. This ancient ‘science of life’ is health and not disease specific and takes into account the patient's entire being - body, mind soul and spirit.

Though it originated thousands of years ago, Ayurveda could be more appropriate for present-day society, where so many people suffer from stress-related conditions which conventional medicine has been unable to cure. Ayurveda’s logical, commonsense approach to health and living is combined with philosophy, psychology and spiritual guidance.

Ayurveda has an armory of physical treatments from medication to massage, yoga, cleansing and detoxification programs, and remedies for disorders such as diabetes, high BP, infertility, impotence, arthritis, hypertension, gastro-intestinal problems, and a whole barrage of chronic illness and infectious diseases. It offers natural, herbal remedies, which counteract imbalances in thebody and can successfully treat most health problems encountered today. Ayurveda teaches that if humans do not live their lives according to the right principles of the body and mind, there will be an imbalance and both the body and mind causing suffering and disease.

THE DOSHAS

Ayurvedic Medicine is based on the concept of the three doshas - Tridosha. Dosha commonly means 'force' or 'fault, something which can easily go out of balance, leading to a disorder in the body or mind.

The concept of dosha is not unlike the traditional Western idea of three basic body types - ectomorph (lean and delicate), mesomorph (compact and muscular) and endomorph (stocky). Most of us are a combination of two or three types. The Ayurvedic tridosha are known as Vata (the lightest, portrayed by the colour blue), Pitta (medium, red) and Kapha (heaviest, yellow). Somebody with dominant Vata energy tends to be thin, restless and creative; the Pitta mostly conforms to a happy medium; Kapha people tend to be heavy, slow and lethargic.

Ayurveda teaches that everything in the world is made up of a combination of the three doshas, and that the doshas themselves combine two of the five elements; Vata is Ether and Air; Pitta is Fire and Water; Kapha is Water and Earth.

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

A recent addition to Western medicine is psychoneuroimmunity (or PNI). This studies the effects of stress on the immune system and reflects a fact which has always been known to Ayurveda - anything that affects the mind also affects the body and that a compromised immune system is primarily the result of mental imbalance and negativism. Disease attacks when the Tridosha are disturbed.

To strengthen immunity, it is first necessary to improve the spirit. Someone who is depressed, lethargic, angry, unhappy and at a low emotional ebb is vulnerable to attack by pathogens, leaving the system open to invasion by illness and disease.

Ayurveda recommends healthy living, healthy eating, counseling, meditation, yoga, massage, group therapy and natural remedies to help the body and mind find balance.

When the doshas are seriously out of balance, two kinds of external disorders can take hold: krimi roga, which are worm infestations, which commonly afflict children and kshudra jeevi roga, which are parasitic, bacterial and fungal infections, which describes external complaints including infections such as chicken pox, mumps and measles.

Unlike anti-biotic medicine, Ayurveda does not kill these organisms but remedies the problem by restricting their growth and ultimately rid them from the body. The World Health Organization has reported that in fifty years all the organisms, which are currently sensitive to the existing antibiotics, will become resistant. Thus the way of Ayurveda shows wisdom, as it is impossible to have drugs to kill all the harmful organisms, but instead the answer lies in strengthening the immunity of the individual to deal with the problems effectively.