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Your Total Health Introduction to Ayurveda |
By Rob McLean |
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In Sanskrit, Ayurveda means The Science of Life. Ayurvedic Medicine is a comprehensive system of medicine combining natural therapies with a highly personalized approach to the treatment of disease. Yet it is not only the ancient Indian science of preventative health and healing, it is also a philosophy of living. Ayurvedic Medicine rarely treats the symptoms. Rather it cures by removing the cause of the disease. Ayurvedic practitioners often say, "One should be more interested in what kind of patient has the symptoms than in what kind of symptoms the patient has." The oldest healing art on the planet, Ayurveda has been practiced in India for the past five thousand years. It is rooted in India's most cherished scriptures known as the Vedas. Placing equal emphasis on body, mind, and spirit (AKA physical, astral, and causal, Ayurveda endeavors to restore the innate harmony of the individual with the primary goals of prevention and longevity. Ayurvada teaches that transgressions against the laws of nature or against our own inner wisdom cause all diseases. |
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According to Ayurvedic medicine, each person has a
particular pattern of energy—an individual combination of physical, mental and
emotional characteristics—which comprises his/her own constitution. This constitution
is determined at conception by a number of factors and remains the same throughout
one’s life. Ayurveda identifies three basic types of energy or functional principles that are present in everyone by the original Sanskrit words vata, pitta, and kapha. |
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Within the body there is a constant interaction between order and disorder but by understanding the nature and structure of disorder, one can re-establish order and health. Balance and health are the natural order; imbalance and disease are disorder. |
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