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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What Is Leukorrhea? Leukorrhea is a thick, whitish or yellowish vaginal discharge. Here we take a look at leukorrhea causes, symptoms, and Ayurvedic remedies for leukorrhea. Excessive vaginal discharge associated with itching, burning sensation, and pain with body aches and fatigue is known as Leukorrhea in conventional western medicine and sweta pradara …
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What Is A Bad Knee? Most of us would have come across at least one episode of knee joint pain, sprain, crackling noises in the knee, or swelling. During these times, we usually resort to over-the-counter medications. Let’s take a look at Yoga poses for bad knees along with other …
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What is Amenorrhea? The term amenorrhea means the absence of menstruation. In this article, we’ll be focusing on how Ayurvedic treatments and remedies can help in managing amenorrhea. The term is used to characterize the absence of a menstrual periods/cycle (for 2-3 consecutive months) in women and adolescent girls.1 Types …
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According to Ayurveda, the process of child birth occurs due to the presence of Vata. There will be an increase in Vata post-delivery. The increased Vata can disturb the physical, mental and emotional well being of a new mom. As the first step of Ayurvedic postnatal care, it’s important to …
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Yoni steaming also called vaginal steaming, is a treatment that employs steam from a hot herbal tea mixture that is directed onto the vaginal area. It can easily be done at home on a special stool, or even just a slatted chair, by sitting over a steaming pot of herbs. …
Read More »PMS is a sign of hormonal irregularity and it’s often a problem related to stress. It may manifest in a number of ways. If you are a person who experiences PMS it may be due to vata, pitta or kapha. One way you might want to do this is with …
Read More »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 »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 …
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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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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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For some women menstruation stops quite neatly. For others it is like tidal waves at irregular intervals before dwindling to nothing. The average age when the period stops is 52. However the internal shifts may begin well before that and continue beyond that benchmark. This very individual process depends on …
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