HEALING PLANET

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...

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 ...