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To create balance in your menstrual cycle and hormones, it’s essential that we look at how doshic imbalances that affect your reproductive system. Vata Dosha: If you recognize that you have scanty menses, cramping at menstruation, or your cycle is irregular or if you are experiencing infertility, you want to …
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Make Yourself a Mood Calendar
If you are experiencing any level of distress during the menstrual cycle, the first thing that you should do is to make a mood calendar. If your cycle has a degree of regularity then your hormones also may have a good degree of regularity. This won’t show up with a …
Read More »Stress, Menopause & Hormones
Stress can play a huge role and interfere with hormonal levels because stress can create digestion disturbances, liver irregularities as well as causing weight gain that excess fat that disturbs our oestrogen levels. Often times in the endocrine system, it may begin with cramp that is hyper producing this hormone …
Read More »Oestrogen, Progesterone & Reproductive Health
Endocrine system plays a very important role in women’s reproductive system in terms of cycle regularity as well as hormonal imbalance that we might see with PMS. A hormone is released into the bloodstream and travels throughout the body until it reaches what is called target tissue. The target tissue …
Read More »Stress Levels & Dosha
Vata dosha creates the stress by having too many thing going at one time. Too many things to keep track of. The outset, vata dosha likes the variety having so many things going on. Over time though that will deplete the system. Vata dosha when under stress has overwhelming response …
Read More »Suffering From Stress?
In Ayurveda there are specific guidelines about how to incorporate conscious dining as a part of your routine. When we eat in the car, or at our work desk, or standing in the kitchen, or with the refrigerator door open, we create imbalance. When we do not pay attention to …
Read More »What Causes Hormonal Imbalance?
Other than the three doshas, vata, pitta and kapha, hormonal changes can be triggered by your lifestyle choices. Factors like poor digestion and stress go a long way in affecting our hormones. Hormones are largely influenced by ama. ‘ama’ is the toxicity the end result of poor digestion. Ama is …
Read More »Your Hormones & Your Health
Reproductive health is largely influenced by our hormones. Vata effects on the hormones of the body is what leads to irregularity in hormone production. Vata dosha being like the wind sometimes creates a lot of movement that is going to end up with high hormones level and at other times …
Read More »Medo Dhatu & Dosha
The quality of the medo dhatus, the fats of the cells of the tissues, underlying layer of fat over the abdomen helps us to retain heat around the abdominal pelvic cavity. Vata dosha tends to dry up medo dhatu. This leads to low levels of body fat which could lead …
Read More »Shukra Dhatu & Reproductive Health
Shukra dhatu, is reflective of the quality of the egg and the fluids that travel with it. This dhatu plays a greater role in fertility than in monthly menstruation. Vata dosha imbalance results in drying out of the shukra. It becomes non-viable, which means that the egg will not produce …
Read More »Menstrual Symptoms & Doshas
Menstrual symptoms are directly correlated to that quality of rasa dhatu in our body. Vata Dosha Imbalance This means that the rasa dhatu is deficient in the body and, this may result in scanty period. This imbalance results in systemic dryness that means they may have dry skin, may lack …
Read More »Causes of PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome)
The biggest factor driving PMS is the same as what causes irregular cycle, stress, ‘ama’ and liver dysfunction. The irregular cycle is often linked with premenstrual syndrome. Every woman may experience premenstrual syndromes differently. Some may feel anxious, others may experience anger while some would be left dealing with depression. …
Read More »3 Causes of Irregular Menstrual Cycle
Health in Ayurveda is having a symptom free body and, a happy and content state of mind. Many women struggle with a lack of happy and content state of mind prior to menstruation. Balanced menstruation occurs when the cycle is regular and predictable, you notice no comfort before, during or …
Read More »Effect of Oestrogen Dominance
Kapha dosha over produces medo dhatu. Usually excess fats in the body is a result of kapha dosha imbalance. In the physical body fats can produce oestrogen. When we have too much oestrogen in the system in relationship to progesterone we can have a a lot of female reproductive challenges. …
Read More »Kapha Dosha & Reproductive Health
Kapha dosha overproduces rasa dhatu. The rasa dhatu is reflected in the quality of the endometrium or the lining of the uterus. Kapha dosha is comprised of earth and water, the water component of kapha brings a great amount of fluidity to rasa. On the other hand, the earth gives …
Read More »Pitta Dosha & Reproductive Health
Pitta dosha brings excess heat in your reproductive system, with heat there is a risk of drying out the tissues. So pitta initially heats up the rasa dhatu in the reproductive system, which is actually the endometrium – lining of the uterus that we slough off every month. Because of …
Read More »Vata Dosha & Reproductive Health
We know that vata dosha creates deficiency in tissue, vata dosha being air and ether cannot create quality tissue, it can only deplete tissue. So what happens when vata under produces rasa? The endometrium is the lining of the uterus that we look at as menstrual flow. When vata under …
Read More »How Hormones Affect Your Health?
Our hormones – oestrogen and progesterone play a huge role in the body. They stimulate the dhatu Agni. The dhatu, the tissues are built in response to what we call the dhatu Agni or the digestive fire. The hormones drive the formation of dhatu. When you release oestrogen into the …
Read More »Does your dosha affect fertility?
When dosha gets involved it can interfere with the rasa dhatu formation. The egg is shukra, shukra dhatu is built as the result of healthy dhatu layers all the way down. If the egg is viable and the egg is prepared to be fertilized and to provide for healthy offspring, …
Read More »Ayurvedic Approach to Menstrual Health
During the childbearing years we have two different factors that we can look at to observe how is the dosha affecting the health of female reproductive system? We can look at the menstrual cycle and we can look at fertility. Both of these will allow us to reflect on how …
Read More »AYURVEDIC ANTENATAL CARE
Pregnancy is not merely a physiological process. It is a great responsibility given by nature to us. Both, the father and the mother should be aware of this responsibility; and they should be prepared, physically and psychologically, to carry it. But, still, as the mother has to carry the baby in …
Read More »Lower Breast Cancer Risk With Flax Seeds
“Whenever flax seeds become a regular food among the people, there will be better health.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi Flax seeds provide the richest dietary source of phytoestrogens called lignans. Those can cause the body to produce less active forms of estrogen, which may contribute to lowering the breast cancer risk. Flax seeds …
Read More »5 Ways To Care For Your Breasts + Free Printable Massage Ritual
Our breasts represent so much—from love, fertility, sex, and pleasure, to our primal need for motherly love, support, security, care, and nourishment.¹ For many women, they represent beauty and our identity as a woman. Because they are so much more than just organs for nourishment to newborns, they hold a huge energetic role …
Read More »Ayurvedic Breast Massage
Melanie Sachs, Ayurvedic beauty specialist takes you through the best points for breast health in marma therapy. Marma points are like little eyes, watching out for your health from head to toe and communicate to your system regarding what needs to be done. Its like waking up your system to …
Read More »Ayurvedic Way To Deal With Stress During Menopause
Quick tips to help you nurture yourself. Incorporating these little suggestions like eating optimally, drinking enough water and having a slow working day will make the stress and pain much more bearable.
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