Ayurvedic Remedies For Seasonal Allergies

Ayurvedic Remedies For Seasonal Allergies

As the allergic conditions advance or if they are suppressed with synthetic drugs they become all the more tough to handle. For instance, they may take form of grave diseases like –

• asthma,
• urticaria,
• skin eczema,
• ulcers,
• heart disease
• and even diabetes. 

Ayurveda View

Ayurveda believes that other than the external factors, ‘ahara’ or the diet and ‘vihara’ or the lifestyle are surely the precipitating factors when you succumb to an allergic condition. Moreover, lowering of the resistance power makes you easy target to environmental allergies. Although, whenever an allergic reaction is produced, it is because of vitiation in one or all the three doshas or body humors viz. –

1. Vata or the air,
2. Pitta or the fire
3. and Kapha or phlegm.

 Try Some Herbal Remedies

• Start immediately with saline water gargles at the slightest perception of throat irritation.
• Gargles with alum mixed in water acts as an antiseptic for the throat.
• After that, in case of dry cough, it is essential to provide lubrication to the throat. For this, you can take a glass of milk with a teaspoon of ghee or 5 to 10 drops of ‘Badam-rogan’ or Almond oil drops added to it.

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Dr Sonica Krishan is Author and Speaker in the areas of Healthy and Joyous Living through Ayurveda, Meditation, Yoga and other Contemplative practices. She is a leading Ayurveda Professional in India. She is also Health Writer, Columnist, Editor, Ayurveda Consultant and Holistic Healing Coach. Dr Sonica is open for National as well as International Collaborations with interested people / institutions in fields of Ayurveda, Meditation and Yoga

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What Is Your Prakriti Or The Innate Personality?

What Is Your Prakriti  Or The Innate Personality?

The Prakriti (innate Personality) of a person may be defined as the totality comprising of his physical attributes, his mental characteristics, and his innate nature. The Prakriti, or the basic constitution and temperament, of an individual is believed to be innate and more or less remains the same throughout his or her life span.

According to Ayurveda philosophy, every living body in the universe is believed to be a combination of the three body humors viz. vata or the air, pitta or the fire and kapha, or the phlegm. The human prakriti can broadly be categorized into three distinct types. These are Vata type, Pitta type and Kapha type.

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Dr Sonica Krishan is Author and Speaker in the areas of Healthy and Joyous Living through Ayurveda, Meditation, Yoga and other Contemplative practices. She is a leading Ayurveda Professional in India. She is also Health Writer, Columnist, Editor, Ayurveda Consultant and Holistic Healing Coach. Dr Sonica is open for National as well as International Collaborations with interested people / institutions in fields of Ayurveda, Meditation and Yoga.

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Want Health? Take Care Of Your Roots!

As per the philosophy and health insight of Ayurveda, the science of life, our body has its roots in three basic aspects –

1.    The Doshas - Vata, Pitta and Kapha or the body humors viz.Air, Fire and Phlegm.

2.    The Dhatus - Rasa, Rakta, Mansa, Meda, Asthi, Majja and Shukra; or the Body tissues viz. Juice / Plasma, Blood, Muscle, Fat, Bone, Bone-Marrow and Semen.

3.    The Malas - Mootra, Pureesha and Sweda ie. the body wastes i.e. Urine, Faeces and Sweat.

How These Matter?

All these 3 – Dosha, Dhatu and Mala – together make the roots of the entire body. It has been specified that an upsurge as well as deterioration of the tree depends mainly on the roots that make it; similar experience is undergone by the body. Not only this, the influence of healthiness as well as losing wellness also exclusively depends on roots or the original support system of the tree; alike it is with the human body.

Ancient Shloka

“Dosh Dhatu Mala Moolam Hi Shareeram”

This ancient shloka indicated in Ayurveda text regards the Doshas, Dhatus and Malas as roots of the Body. And therefore, it is implicit that our health as well as losing of it, along with our bodily development as well as debility, reasons primarily into the status of our own integral roots (the body humors, body tissues and the body wastes (Video)).

About the Author:

Dr Sonica Krishan is Author and Speaker in the areas of Healthy and Joyous Living through Ayurveda, Meditation, Yoga and other Contemplative practices. She is a leading Ayurveda Professional in India. She is also Health Writer, Columnist, Editor, Ayurveda Consultant and Holistic Healing Coach. Dr Sonica is open for National as well as International Collaborations with interested people / institutions in fields of Ayurveda, Meditation and Yoga.

Website: www.drsonicakrishan.com 

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How Doshas Get Disturbed (Imbalanced) And Cause Diseases?

Although the three doshas or body humors, vata, pitta and kapha are present in the entire body, yet these primarily exist or reside within the Koshtha or the body cavities. Here, in the hollow organ/s and hollow space or cavities of the body, the dosha/s is susceptible to imbalance and vitiation as it moves to and gets entrapped in the Dhatus or body tissues. There are a few activities mentioned in Ayurveda which proclaim of development of the disease as the dosha moves into the body tissues. These are ..

• ·         Taking to more exercise.
• ·    When the Agni or the gastric fire which normally aids in digestion, goes intense and extremely fortified.
• ·      When the individual is unable to follow moral conduct and goes into diet and lifestyle discrepancies.

Why Doshas Gets Affected?

Vata or the air body humor naturally has the tendency to be erratic, fast and on the go. This fast movement of the dosha sources swift action and reaction and furthermore propels its access into the body tissues or Dhatus, the skin, bones as well as in the marmas or the minute energy pathways which are the vital points in the body where the life force energy is focused.  

How These Travel Further?

When the minute channels or pores in the body called as Srotas in Ayurveda (which are responsible for the active inner transport) are actually clear and uncluttered, or when the doshas get aggravated beyond their normal limits, Abhishyandana or accumulation of morbid secretions in the body channels and as Vata or the air becomes forcibly controlled or inert, also as ripening sets in; at first the vitiated and imbalanced doshas move into the koshtha from the shakha or extremities of the body relating to the body tissues.

Further Wait

After this, once the vitiated doshas get settled into the Koshtha, these simply lie there and wait for the appropriate reasons needed for eruption of the disease. This is because without the interim factors, the imbalanced doshas are not themselves sufficient to cause disease eruption.

Eruption Of The Disease

Consequently, when factors like the right place and time or other grounds of disease formation are achieved, these doshas (already vitiated) tend to either stabilize and aggravate in their own abode, or even in the locations of other dosha/s. For example the Vata dosha, tends to either stabilize and aggravate in its own place or may travel further and aggravate in the confinements of Pitta or Kapha doshas, and vice-versa. This is how and when the disease essentially shows up.

So How To Cure?

Now, the imbalanced dosha needs to be brought back to balance so as to find cure and relieve the disease which has become obvious with its array of signs and symptoms. At this time Ayurveda focuses on the deranged doshas. This can be managed in two ways..

1.    In one scenario, it could be the case when the vitiated dosha which is foreign or extrinsic, that has traveled and stabilized itself is tougher and more powerful than the dosha that naturally has its place there. In this case, first and foremost the extrinsic and imbalanced dosha needs to be worked upon and brought back to balance. On the other hand if the extrinsic dosha is less strong than the dosha that is already dwelling in its position, in this case, the Vaidya would need to first cure the static dosha that is imbalanced.

2.    Another case is when the traveled extrinsic dosha has the similar strength as the dosha which is also imbalanced, but in its own place. It this case, it is suggested that the inhabitant imbalanced dosha needs to be brought back to balance prior to curing the extrinsic traveled dosha.