Smoke for good health
Medicated smoke has an important role in Ayurveda. It can be used to fumigate a room or it can carry to an individual the essence of herbs. Incense thus has healing properties. The smoke with its gandha or aroma activates the...
How to Match Your Food
In Ayurveda, there is an important concept called Viruddhaahara. This term referrers to the incompatibility of certain food articles when consumed together. The concept of Viruddhaahara has important practical implications because incompatibility causes a lot of...
Baby Talk – Dr G G Gangadharan
Children are the epitome of purity and divinity. An uncontaminated mind and an unprejudiced intellect make the child really divine. The child grows through the societal interaction he or she receives from peers and seniors. Kashyapa divides the child’s life into three...
Forms of Water
For modern science water is just H2O. t is either potable or contaminated. But Ayurveda has a lot to say about water, and its effect on health. The qualities of water, based on its source, time of collection and so on, are explained in great detail. The purest water,...
Three Pillars Of Health
Ayurveda touches all aspects of life – the mundane and those beyond physical existence. It perceives the gross and subtle at different junctures and proffers advice according to one’s propensity to align with them. To the seeker, Ayurveda makes available a...
Kerala Ayurveda Treatment
Kerala Ayurveda treatment came into existence around 5000 years ago. Ayurveda, the science of life and longevity is the oldest form of health science. Ayurveda is practised across India and abroad with the common aim of providing a holistic healthcare care system by...
Ayurvedic Home Remedies
Due to seasonal changes, low immunity, unhygienic and erratic food habits several conditions like cold, fever, loss of appetite, indigestion, diarrhoea, dysentery, vomiting, abdominal pain and cramps, headache, constipation, hair fall, etc. may be commonly seen in the...
Ayurveda Seasonal Regimen in Summer- Grishma Ritucharya
Ritu means season and charya is the regimen to be followed during that particular season. Ayurveda has explained the systematic regimen for every season. Grishma Ritu is the last season of Aadaan kaala (period of Uttarayana) which lasts from May to July, when the sun...
Ritucharya- Seasonal Regime
The word Ritucharya comprises of two words: Ritu means Season and charya refers to the seasonal regime i.e. the Do’s and don’ts to be followed during the season. Ritucharya means the seasonal regime which should be followed to avoid different diseases and remain...
Home Remedies for Cold
Home Remedies for Cold , If you treat a cold, it will be treated within a week. If you leave it alone, it will disappear in seven days. This is a popular belief on cold. Sometimes cold can be severe and chronic. It can lead to sinusitis and upper respiratory...