Health & Ayurveda
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How To Dry Brush Your Skin in 10 Easy Steps
You may not know this, but dry brushing the skin has long been a part of Ayurveda's cleansing philosophies. Ayurveda believes that your skin is an organ of elimination, just like your kidneys, liver, and colon, especially because it is so porous.
Easy Ways to Detox in a Toxic World
In daily life, we rarely ever stop to think of our organs, especially the liver. It's good to be reminded every now and again. Your liver works extremely hard to keep you healthy.
Fight Stubborn Fat- Ayurvedic Home Remedies For Weight Loss
Stubborn fats are stored fats that are extremely difficult to lose, like the pockets of fat around the stomach, hips and thighs. Also, as we grow older, it can be extremely challenging to lose fat just through diet and exercise.
The Five Elements of Ayurveda
In Ayurveda, the five elements are discussed but are more like philosophical concepts rather than elements in the scientific sense. They are the basic principles of the universe and therefore represent the primary components of all living things.
Top 3 Ayurvedic Food Principles
1. Eat the food nature provides you with, naturally. This may sound simple, but if you walk into an ordinary grocery store you will be hard-pressed to find real food, i.e. food that is grown by the forces of sun, soil, wind, and water.
How to Get Rid of Headaches the Ayurvedic Way
Headaches are no fun! The symptoms of a headache can range from dull to sharp, from debilitating to mild, from long-lasting to short lived. With the help of Ayurvedic philosophy, we look to understand the nature of the beast by classifying headaches in 3 broad categories.
The Golden Key to Health
We're not exaggerating when we say we know what the golden key to unlocking your ultimate health is. It's turmeric . . . hand's down. Turmeric has made its way into the mass media because of its amazing health benefits. We can understand why.
How to Heighten Your Healthy Gut-Brain Connection
The gut-brain connection is at the core of our overall well-being . . . when there's stress at one end, there will be stress at the opposite end as well. Your gut is totally in cahoots with your brain. There truly is a gut-brain connection.
3 Best Tested Super Herbs to Improve Your Overall Health
There are powerful, ancient herbs and spices used in Ayurvedic medicine for ultimate health and overall well-being. Today's modern world doesn't exactly help us stay free of toxins. We may start off with the best of intentions to eat well, exercise, and detox. But life gets in the way.
Ashwagandha: How the "Smell of a Horse" Can Heal You
In Sanskrit, ashwagandha means "the smell of a horse", indicating that the herb holds the strength of a stallion, and has traditionally been prescribed in ancient Ayurveda to help people strengthen their immune system after an illness.
How This Ancient Treatment Can Cure Your Insomnia
Imagine how amazing it would feel for a warm steady flow of oil flowing onto your forehead as you relax. This is what Shirodhara is. Dated back 5,000 years, this treatment is derived from Ayurveda, an ancient Indian healing system.
Incorporate a True Yoga Based Diet into Your Practice
When we think of yoga, we generally envision a room full of multicolored yoga mats and people inverted in downward facing dog pose, but we rarely think of what yogis eat. Yoga from the ancient Vedas, is translated as "union." It is derived from the Sanskrit root "yuj" (pronounced "yug").
Your Introductory Guide to Ayurvedic Herbal Medicine
Very broadly defined, medicine can be anything from a spice in your kitchen cabinet to the antiperspirant deodorant in your bathroom drawer. A medicine is an agent capable of producing biological responses within the body. Responses may be desirable or undesirable.
Juicing According To Your Body Type/Doshas
Ayurveda is based on individualization and not a generalization. What works for one person may not necessarily work for another.
How to Have a Happy, Healthy Kapha Season
Kapha season is the perfect time to revitalize and get super healthy. Here are some recommendations for those of you who may feel a little heavy, out of sorts, and / or unmotivated to spring into action. Are you naturally calm, thoughtful, and loving?
How to Keep Your Cool this Summer
During the summer season, the elements of Fire and Water (and the Pitta dosha) run high.
Ways to Keep the Miracles of Your Mind Alive
By keeping the physical brain nourished, we are able to better understand the mind and who we really are: a magnificent machine full of vigor, vitality, love, consciousness, and pure awareness. Your brain is a crazy boss of an organ.
Kitchari: the Best Ayurvedic Detox Food
Kitchari is Ayurveda's age-old, signature detox dish. The word "kitchari" (pronounced kitch-a-ree) in India means mixture of two or more grains. In India, this versatile dish is eaten any time of the day, even for breakfast to kick start the day!
Let's Talk Inflammation
The four fundamental signs of inflammation: pain, swelling, redness, and heat Sound familiar? At some point or another you've probably experienced all of these symptoms. A sprained ankle, a bug bite, some poison ivy. Inflammation is the body's protective mechanism, it is our natural defense system.
Miracle Poppy Seed Sleep Aid
This Ayurvedic remedy is an amazing sleep aid Poppy seeds are extremely rich in minerals and oils and are known to restore the body. Ayurveda regards them as a tonifier, since poppy seeds contain moisturizing oils, adding them into your diet will nourish and tone your skin.
A Natural Approach To Sciatica
"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind.
Here Are the Natural Ways to Balance Your Hormones
Ready to think outside the pillbox and balance your hormones naturally? When your lifestyle is balanced, your body chemistry will also have balance. To summarize my best advice for balancing hormones, take this prescription: eat well, move your body, and let go of stress.
Turmeric: Not Just for Your Curry Tonight
As you may have heard . . . curcumin is the magical substance, which gives turmeric its golden color that will most definitely stain your favorite white shirt if you spill. Curcumin is responsible for turmeric's many health benefits.
5 Reasons Why You Want To Use Asafoetida
According to Ayurveda, "Asafoetida is a grounding herb that can therefore balance an overactive, over emotional, turbulent system." Asafoetida is botanically known as Ferula assa-foetida.