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)).

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9 Striking Ayurvedic Interpretations Of Medicine

In the Science of Ayurveda, medicine is referred to as Bheshaja which means overcoming the fear stipulated by illness which can mainly be corrected essentially by intervention of medicine. Here are the 9 synonyms of medicine as portrayed in Ayurveda.  

1.    Chikitsata - That what relieves the illness.

2.    Vyadhihara - That what conquers or overpowers the disease.

3.    Pathya - That what fortifies wellness and is beneficial for the minute channels of the body.

4.   Sadhana - That what the Vaidya (Ayurvedic physician) uses to amplify healthiness.

5.    Aushadha - That what is useful and valuable in case of disease.

6.  Prayashchita - In case the sufferer or the diseased one wants to get rid of the disease that has intervened his system, owing to diet and lifestyle discrepancies that had been undertaken by him; at this time the aid that comes to his rescue.

7.    Prashamana - The practice that is undertaken so as to pacify the bodily ailments or imbalanced doshas.

8.  Prakriti-sthapana - The practice that helps to balance the imbalanced Doshas (vata, pitta and kapha), Dhatus (Body tissues) and Mala (Body wastes) and brings them back to their normal form and place.

9.  Hita - That what is essentially supportive and beneficial for the one who has attained a body in this lifetime.