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COVID AND ME

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...Covid-19? Well, I end up asking, how dare you enter my body? My body is my body and you are being a thief!. After I started my job in the clinic, a few days later, I found that I was exposed to covid-19 and I tested positive soon after that. And I know I had prepared myself for the battle. Since the first lockdown, I began my preparation. I had to build up my immunity. My brother accompanied me in the first lockdown, it was pretty fun though. But, we did enjoy preparing ourselves. It would be very interesting for you to know that Ayurveda has no concept of viruses and bacteria. Any disease is not described as infection or infestation. The disease is described as an imbalance of doshas /humors. So as the very first strain of covid virus was attacking the respiratory system, we totally focused on building a good respiratory system. We used to drink Tulsi Juice early in the morning followed by taking two pills of Giloy-ghanvati. At the very first, we started to focus on small issues an...
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COUGH AND COLD

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You might have guessed today's topic. So, we are going to look into some common and easily available remedies for cough and cold. These are often childhood problems too. Being common does not mean not effective. According to Ayurveda, cough and cold are produced by excess kapha or imbalance in kapha . Therefore, it is important that you should take kapha reducing diet, remedies and avoid food or climate that increases kapha . These can be related to even allergies that we usually encounter along with the seasonal changes. Cough and cold can be symptoms related to other major problems. But, we are only dealing with primarily these symptoms and not any associated symptoms with it.  Causes: Cold weather, Diet such as ice-cream, sour food, cold drinks etc, Sudden climate changes, Allergies to dust, pollens etc, Sneezing can also be one of the symptoms of allergies. All these problems are related to the respiratory tract. Therefore, when these problems start, we face immense irritation ...
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WHY MEDITATION?

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Here, we are in the new year and I am really happy to tell you that I spent the last 10 days of the last year in Vipassana. I thought I may be of more use if I summarize this thing "Meditation" and the metaphysics before you. There are thousands of books, thousands of gurus, thousands of definitions of what exactly meditation is. Before jumping to the definition, I would like to put forth the types and benefits of meditation. Meditation brings clarity of mind as well as it can fix your some of the problems in that way. Well, as I see meditation is a very natural quality of human beings. If you see the entire creation, you will feel that it is some kind of meditation going on within an existence. It's very significant that your body and mind should be in perfect harmony and in harmony with surroundings. Meditation can happen very naturally. When I see the involvement of my mind and body with an extremely beautiful nature having mountains and lakes, it happens to be meditat...
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REFRESHMENT OF THE SELF !

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Hushhh...at last we come to the end of the 2020. Let's try to start a new year with a resolution of eat, pray and love! As in a relationship, a toxic person is fully capable of ruining the relation and hurting others. When we eat, a toxic diet can also ruin our health. In Ayurvedic language, we say that food is our first medicine. The food that we eat undergo so many processes before and after we have it. In order to convert the food that we eat into flesh, bones and blood, our body works really hard. Human body has different organs that participate in this processing. It starts right inside our mouth wherein there is saliva to help the acceptance of food. Then, different types of foods are processed by different enzymes secreted by different organs. For example, carbohydrate is broken down into glucose by amylase that is a prominent digestive enzyme. The body organs just act like a filter where it absorbs whatever it need and throw out the unwanted component of food. The major org...
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BALANCE OF THE SELF !

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We know the anatomy and physiology of a human body. 'Mind' is a very important part of the body, isn't it? Have we ever thought of the relation between mind and body? Or, have we ever given a thought why the diseases are called to be psychosomatic? It is worth to know the ideas in Ayurveda. According to the concept in Ayurveda, our body is made up of five basic elements that exist in nature or that are the part of the nature. These elements are earth, water, fire, air and space. Air and space definitely refers to separate factors. If Earth is the habitat for us, then it becomes obvious that we all contain the parts of the nature. Yes, we are from Earth! Out of these five elements, Earth as well as water is represented by a humor (subtle force) called as kapha . Fire element is represented by Pitta (second subtle force) and third or the last subtle force is vata i.e. made from air and space. Kapha is responsible for nutrition of body as we see that we eat the food grown on ...
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SAVE YOUR IMMUNITY !

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Immunity of a human body is one of the factor that decides longevity of life. It is up to us how can we secure our immunity to enjoy a healthy life. There are factors that affect positively to boost the immunity of a human body. On the other side, there are factors that affect negatively on a human body. Ayurveda also considers mental reforms such as  sattva, rajas   and   tamas  that keeps the immunity of a human body intact. Immunity is your fighting power against diseases. It determines your stamina, vigor and health. There can be also genetic factors that affects the human immunity. For example, usually the doctors suggest the mother to breast feed a new born baby within an hour soon after the birth. Thus, the colostrum (first milk of the mother) helps an infant to gain the immunity and begin all the normal physiological processes in human body. Colostrum is considered to be very significant for normal growth of a baby as it contains immunoglobulins and growth fa...
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