Menstrual pain or dysmenorrhea is centered mostly in the lower abdomen and lower back. Here we look at Ayurvedic remedies for menstrual pain along with yoga, dietary, and lifestyle recommendations for menstrual pain relief. Some surveys now estimate that almost 50% of all women experience some degree of painful menstruation. …
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Yoga And Ayurveda For A Healthy Menstrual Cycle
We have varying cultural ideations and practices when it comes to a woman’s menstrual cycle. The menstrual cycle is perceived broadly, among which a female may be seen as undergoing a purification process or could be seen as needing to avoid the public eye as it is recognized as a …
Read More »Scanty Menses Are Not Healthy
If you experience cramping every month, you need to pacify vata because vata is the source of cramps and pain in the body. Now, vata’s might experience cramping but they may have scanty menses at the same time. So what we want to do is to build that healthy endometrium …
Read More »No Coffee, No Cramps
When we lack rasa dhatu, the endometrium is not fully formed and is not moist – this makes it harder for the body to separate that layer. So making sure that you have adequate fluids in the body all month long is important. Caffeine drives you out, depletes the rasa and …
Read More »How to stop menstrual cramps?
Many women experience severe pain and cramps during menstruation, especially in the first few days. What you want to do is to find some way to tell those muscles to relax to take it easy. You also want to warm the system up because that’s going to support the movement …
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 …
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