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Ayurvedic therapies address female reproductive health issues and restore the inner feeling of divine grace naturally inherent inside all women.
In today’s hectic lifestyle, balancing career and family prompts a common issue, finding time to prepare healthy foods and snacks for the family. How can you ensure your kids have healthy diets? Ayurvedic meals make eating healthy a reality for adults and children.
Ayurveda employs herbal supplementation and lifestyle changes to reduce the risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) and to help restore balance and health.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a digestive disorder characterized by debilitating episodes of constipation, diarrhea, abdominal cramping, pain, and gas. Ayurvedic medicine is an alternative, holistic approach to healing the body that can be used to manage Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
Ayurvedic Massage Therapy generally employs massage (abhyanga), nurturing the sense of touch, whereas aromatherapy also enriches the sense of smell in its healing method.
When we prepare and cook a healthy repast in Ayurveda, we start with the premise of mindful cooking - that is; we are preparing a healthy meal for God or for God's children – our loved ones.
Lets keep it simple; life is stressful enough without adding more stress learning new ideas...who has time? Spiritual Ayurveda offers simple, free tips to make life less stressed, more peaceful and rewarding.
Panchakarma is the purification therapy used in Ayurvedic medicine. The word panchakarma means five actions and refers to five procedures intended to intensively cleanse and restore balance to the boe....
Color therapy, also known as chromatherapy, is based on the premise that certain colors are infused with healing energies. The therapy uses the seven colors of the rainbow to promote balance and healy....
Triphala, an ancient herbal blend, is one of the most commonly used herbal remedies in the Ayurvedic system of healing. Ayurvedic medicine originated in ancient India, has developed over thousands of (...
Pulse diagnosis is a diagnostic technique used in several healing systems to determine the health conditions and course of treatment for patients.As used in Ayurvedic medicine and traditional Chineses....
Boswellia is the purified resin made from the gum from the or trees. For medicinal purposes, the products of these two trees are used in similar ways. is a moderately large branching tree that grow. ...
Ashwaganda, also spelled ashwagandha, is a member of the pepper family known as . The small evergreen grows in the frost-free drier parts of western India, northern Africa, the Mediterranean, and theg....
Neem is a compound that has a long history of use in both traditional Indian medicine and Ayurveda. Many of the popular herbal treatments in these two systems are still derived from it. Neem is a lar, ...
Chakra balancing is based on the ancient Indian belief in a series of seven , or energy centers. Chakra is the Sanskrit word for wheel. These energy centers are believed to be located at specific poiy....
Gotu kola is an ancient Ayurvedic herb which has traditionally been used to improve memory and mental vigor, support mental functions and the nervous system, and act as an adaptogen. Externally, extracts of the herb are added to preparations to speed the healing of burns, wounds, and eczema and other skin conditions. It also has some application in traditional Ayurvedic medicine for hypothyroidism. This herb should be used fresh as the dried herb rapidly loses its potency. Gotu Kola has a ta
Pranic healing encompasses a broad array of therapeutic approaches, both ancient and modern, based on the notion that illnesses of body or mind involve an imbalance and/or blockage in the flow of vits ...
is a perennial plant, with a strong, camphor-like odor. It is in the mint family. It grows well in warm temperate or subtropical areas. The plant is native to areas of India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Srid....
Also called Malabar tamarind, the herb has a long history of use in Ayurveda for obesity due to its appetite-lowering properties. It is currently being studied for its possible effectiveness in lowering cholesterol and triglyceride levels. In India a decoction of the rind of the fruit is prescribed for rheumatism and bowel ailments, and the dried rind is commonly used to flavor foods in India and Ceylon because of its sour taste. The fruits of garcinia contain HCA, (-)-Hydroxycitric acid, and
Ashwaganda has a long history of use in Ayurvedic medicine as a tonifying herb. It has been used for edema, coughs, skin diseases, and for increasing sperm count. It is indicated in anxiety disorders and in combination with other herbs for osteoarthritis. It is sometimes applied locally as an anti-inflammatory. Ashwaganda shows good immune-tonifying effects in laboratory studies. The herb is becoming a popular adaptogen, which is a substance that brings balance to the immune, hormonal and ner