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What is Ayurveda?

Ayurveda is a traditional system of medicine that originated in ancient India over 5,000 years ago. It is a holistic approach to health and well-being, focusing on the balance and harmony of the mind, body, and spirit.

It describe how to promote positive health, how to improve natural healing power of the body by following natural food, herbs and drinks according to the biorhythm of the body and according to rythem of Mother Nature.

The word “Ayu:” denote genesis(beginning) Of universe ,the existence and dissolution of the Universe. And salvation of above cycle. Ayurveda based on sankaya and visashika Philosophies. Those philosophies describe how the basic matters(Panchabooth) formed by energies And how the basic matters create materials and living beings in the universe.

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Ayurveda Based on

Pancha Bootha Theory

  • Patavi-hardness
  • Aapo -liquidity
  • Theja -Fire (warmness or heat)
  • Vayu-Air (gaseous or wavering)
  • Aakasha-Emptiness (Eather-vibration)

All the matterials and living beings (Animals and plants) made out of above five basic matters.

Tri Dosa Theory – The three functional factors of the body

  • Vata -Like electricity. Controlling all the movements and activities of the body
  • Pitha -Like fire.All the chemical component and their activities in the body(In the cell)
  • Kapa-Liquidity or binding factor of the body.All the liquid inside the cell belongs to kapa.

These three factors should be in natural balance to maintain healthy life.

Saptha dhathu Theory

Sevenfold structural components (sevenfold building factors of the body).

  1. Rasa dhathu -nutritional factor of the food after digest
  2. Raktha dhathu-blood tissue
  3. Mansa dhathu-muscular tissues
  4. Medhade dhathu-adipose tissues
  5. Asthi dhathu-skeletal tissues(bones)
  6. Asthi majja dhathu- marrow(bone marrow)
  7. Shukra dhathu-reproductive elements

(Above English meanings are just to get an idea only)

Agni concept

Agni can be interpreted as the biological fire or the internal fire that transformes ingested food into the form assimilable buy the tissue elements for the purpose of their nourishment ,growth and repair.

Agni is innate in Pitha and control the entire metabolic process in the body.

There are 13 types of Agni in the body according to Ayurveda.