Ayurveda Rejuvenation in India
¤ Age-Old Science of Medicines‘Harmony is health’, is what Ayurveda
preaches. This is India’s age-old science of
medicine which illumined many, like the early Greeks and Arabs who were so awed that they went ahead and borrowed from it.
According to World Health Organization, Health is not only
physical well being or absence of disease, it is rather physical and metal well being. And Ayurveda deals with mental, physical and social well being of an individual; making it different from other form of medicinal therapies. Derived from the Sanskrit word, Ayurveda is divided into two words - ''Ayur'' which means life and Veda - which means knowledge.
Ayurveda in India was at its glorious best in the age of rishis (Hindu ascetics) and rajas (kings). Our ancient masters and physicians knew exactly how to be hale and hearty till a ripe age, which would be nothing less than a century! Traces of the science have filtered down the centuries, and are being revived in a big way these days. But most people tend to think of Ayurveda as an alternative system of medicine, which it is not. It is a way of life.
We tend to ignore that the human body does react to nature’s ever-changing moods and that human life is but only a link in the great web of Life. Medication today has been reduced to curative or system-regulating medicines; preventive medicine has hardly made much progress except for a handful of vaccines. Ayurveda or ‘the knowledge of life’ will tell you that there’s much more to ‘medication’ than that. Ayurveda is based on sound observational concepts which have stood the test of time for thousands of years.
Quick bytes Ayurveda : Science of Life.
Ayurvedic Treatments : Pizhichil, Sirodhara, Udwarthanam, Tarpanam, Abhyangasnanam, Dhanyamaladhara.
Ayurveda Principle : Rejuvneation of mind, body and soul.
Ideal Destination in India : Kanjany, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad, Kovalam, Kumarakom.
¤ Ayurveda - An Extension of AtharvaAyurveda in India is an extension of the Atharva
Veda one of the early Vedic compositions dealing with science, art and philosophy. Charaka’s (the grand old man of medicine) treatise is the oldest known ayurvedic text. It is a holistic science, looking at all things which make for a bouncy life, where life means the body, mind and spirit.
The starting point of Ayurveda in India is the theory of the three doshas (humours) – vata (wind), pitta (bile) and kapha (phlegm). From this evolves the concept of the doshas (controlling forces) which act on the dhatus (tissues), giving rise to the various malas (metabolic products or wastes).
The character of these are governed by what we eat, when we eat, how we live and in which environment, and our mental state, of course. and so, even a slight change in any of these can make us ‘unwell’, not necessarily diseased. As an extension, if we remain unwell for too long our tissues can lose their strength and become susceptible to diseases.