Living a healthy balanced lifestyle includes pleasure. The pleasure of enjoying a tasty meal, the fragrance of flowers, the beauty of a sunset and the sensual sensations and pleasures of touch. Pleasure increases your physical and emotional wellbeing and in Ayurvedic terms, your ojas. “It is the Ojas which keeps …
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Why Ice Cold Water Is Bad For Your Health
According to Ayurveda, a 5,000 year old holistic healing system, drinking pure water provides the simplest solution to many health issues. However, the healing benefits of water depend on how we drink it. Should you drink cold water, hot water or room temperature water? How much water should you drink? …
Read More »Turmeric: Gold In Your Kitchen
Herbs and spices promote health in your entire body, not just in a particular area. Due to their nutrient-dense status, they promote your overall well-being with rich antioxidants much more potent than many fruits and vegetables. Turmeric is one of the most potent spices and staple in every day cooking. …
Read More »The Science of Longevity
Health is promotive like a child is born, a child has to be nourished. And, when the child grows up then this nourishment has to continue. If the nourishment is good one remains healthy and young, otherwise we start growing old. Have you ever wondered why do we grow old? …
Read More »Neem, Ayurveda’s Favorite Remedy For Inflammation
Herbs are like people in that they have unique personalities that can be understood through dravyaguna. Dravyaguna is the system of Ayurvedic pharmacology that was developed thousands of years ago before chromatography and mass spectrometry and so it relies on qualities deciphered through taste. This is the herb monograph for Neem. …
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