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Ayurveda
(Devanagari: आयुर्वेद ) or ayurvedic medicine is a form of alternative medicine in use primarily in the Indian subcontinent. The word "Ayurveda" is a tatpurusha compound of āyus "life" and veda "knowledge", and would roughly translate as the "Science of Life". Ayurveda deals with the measures of healthy living, along with therapeutic measures that relate to physical, mental, social and spiritual harmony. Ayurveda is also one among the few traditional systems of medicine involving surgery.

Ayurveda was first described by Agnivesha, in his book Agnivesh tantra. The book was later revised by Charaka, and renamed to Charaka Samhitā. Another early text of Ayurveda is the Sushruta Samhitā, which in addition to the Charaka Samhitā, served as the textual material in the ancient Universities of Takshashila and Nalanda. These texts are believed to have been written around the beginning of the Common Era, and is based on a holistic approach rooted in earlier Vedic culture. Its conspicuous use of the word veda, or knowledge, reveals its role in early Hinduism and explains its popularity in India. The origin of Ayurvedic medical sciences is claimed to come from a divine revelation from Lord Brahma.


Below is a list of articles with the most recent ones listed first.
Shankapushpi – The Ayurvedic flower tonic of Auroville by Martin Gluckman Topic: Ayurveda
Published: Friday 17 April, 2009
An Ethical Diet for Peace and Plenty by RP Jain Topic: Ayurveda
In india, the land of ahimsa, or nonviolence, people have traditionally been vegetarian. Hailing from a family of staunch vegetarians, i consider myself fortunate to be living in harmony with the principles of nature. as a Jain follower, i strongly advocate a vegetarian diet, which I find superi...
Published: Tuesday 14 April, 2009
Vaidya Mishra Prana as Medicine Course - March 2009 Topic: Ayurveda
Published: Friday 27 March, 2009
The basics of staying healthy with Ayurveda by Dr. Sachin Dua Topic: Ayurveda
From a correct and disciplined daily regime to the correct personal diet, here are a few tips on getting and staying healthy according to ayurvedic principles.
Published: Saturday 29 November, 2008
The Five Elements by Dr. Sachin Dua Topic: Ayurveda
Ayurveda states that everything in this universe, including the human body is composed of five basic elements.
Published: Friday 05 September, 2008
Postpartum Energy by Dr. Jessie Mercay Topic: Ayurveda
Regaining Engery After Child Birth
Published: Sunday 25 May, 2008
Perinatal Nutrition and Ayurveda by Dr. Jessie Mercay Topic: Ayurveda
Childbearing is a celebration of Love and uncovers for us Ma Nature's many ways to expand it! She of course does most of the work. Students of Ayurveda must remember that she offers her often simple guidance in cross cultural terms. Parents experience many turning points in the childbearing year ...
Published: Sunday 25 May, 2008
Ayurvedic Care After Childbirth by Dr. Jessie Mercay Topic: Ayurveda
Choices the first 42 days to 3 months after childbirth influence a mother's health and ability to mother and partner well for the next 42 years, according to Ayurvedic Medicine. Avoid the all too common colic, depression, lactation, digestive and elimination problems after childbirth. Ayurveda and...
Published: Sunday 25 May, 2008
Staying Healthy with the knowledge of Ayurveda in Summer by Martin Gluckman Topic: Ayurveda
Staying Healthy with the knowledge of Ayurveda in Summer
Published: Sunday 25 May, 2008
Out of the Mercury (Frying Pan) Into the Floride (Fire!) by Martin Gluckman Topic: Ayurveda
Choosing a safe dental restorative substance.
Published: Monday 25 June, 2007
Ayurveda Rejuvenation Therapy - Rasayanas by Dr. Sachin Dua Topic: Ayurveda
Rasayana or rejuvenation therapy helps to promote and preserve health and longevity in the healthy, and to cure disease in the sick. The therapy enhances one's energy and is even known to have cured the sick.
Published: Sunday 25 March, 2007
Ayurvedic herbs Topic: Ayurveda
Ayurveda has focused on the various aspects of herbs and their practice in our day-to-day life. Specific emphasis is given on the preparation and storage of herbs followed since ancient time. Each Indian herb has a distinct quality and each of them is used for different purposes. There are mainly th...
Published: Tuesday 13 March, 2007
Ayurvedic Diet for Pregnancy by Martin Gluckman Topic: Ayurveda
Ayurveda puts special emphasis on the diet of the mother during pregnancy. It’s ancient sages specified certain foods to be emphasized during various months of pregnancy. This will help nourish a healthy and intelligent child.
Published: Wednesday 07 March, 2007
Guidelines For Determining Your Constitution Topic: Ayurveda
A guide to discover your Ayurvedic constitution
Published: Saturday 30 December, 2006
A Brief Introduction to Ayurveda Topic: Ayurveda
Ayurveda is considered by many scholars to be the oldest healing science. In Sanskrit, Ayurveda means “The Science of Life.” Ayurvedic knowledge originated in India more than 5,000 years ago and is often called the “Mother of All Healing.”
Published: Saturday 30 December, 2006
Ayurveda - Food and Diet by Chakrapani Ayurveda Clinic & Res Topic: Ayurveda
Ahaar (Diet) has its own importance for good health. No one can expect to maintain his health in an excellent state unless he adopts the scientific way of intake of suitable and nutritious food. In a way diet in itself can serve the purpose of medicine. If we know properly the science of nutrition a...
Published: Saturday 09 December, 2006
A Guide to Stopping the Diabetes Tide in India and the World by Martin Gluckman Topic: Ayurveda
There’s a rising trend of Diabetes in India that is taking the country completely by storm. As I travel around the country almost everyone I meet in the 40+ age group or someone they know, a relative or close friend has some form of Diabetes. If I look at the modern Indian diet, there are a few cle...
Published: Saturday 09 December, 2006
10 DAY - Ayurvedic Balancing & Detoxing Fast Topic: Ayurveda
If Panchakarma is not possible, fasting can be a highly effective alternative. It balances the doshas, rectifies agni (digestive fire), clears shrotas (channels) and strengthens all dhatus (tissues). It removes aam (toxic accumulations) from body, mind and emotions, and helps to reduce excess weight...
Published: Wednesday 22 November, 2006
Saturn: Deliverance from Life's Lessons by Vaughn Paul Manley Topic: Ayurveda
It’s no secret that in the celestial pantheon Saturn is the dreaded Lord of Karma – deliverer of life’s hardest lessons. The title is not without justification
Published: Monday 13 November, 2006
Saving your Mind – A Guide to Cell Phone Safety by Martin Gluckman Topic: Ayurveda
Over the past years a number of independent studies have shown the health hazards of cell phone usage, especially long term usage.
Published: Friday 10 November, 2006
PRAKRIT™ - Sutra to Science by Dr. Vaidya Mishra Topic: Ayurveda
Ayurveda speaks a great deal about establishing one’s innate constitution, known in Ayurveda as Prakriti. Prakriti means “nature.” Nature has created each person as a unique expression of Cosmic Consciousness. No two people are exactly alike. Prakriti, therefore, reveals a person’s inborn psycho...
Published: Thursday 09 November, 2006
In-sync transitions with Shudh Ayurved by Dr. Vaidya Mishra Topic: Ayurveda
In Vaidya Mishra’s Shaka Vansya tradition of shudh or pure Ayurved, the first important step we can take towards healing ourselves consists in re-aligning our physiologies with the rhythms of the universe.
Published: Thursday 09 November, 2006
Beware of the Nightshades by Dr. Vaidya Mishra Topic: Ayurveda
In my earlier article I presented a strong case against Garlic. I consistently restrict people from Onion, Garlic, Soy and Nightshades. Many of you have argued (especially those new to Shudh Ayurved) What else can one eat if we stop eating all of the aforementioned foods? No worries, there are foods...
Published: Thursday 09 November, 2006
An Ayurvedic Perspective on Women’s Health by Dr. Sarita Shrestha Topic: Ayurveda
In Ayurveda, the woman is considered to be “Shakti”; the Mother and Source of creation, in whose lap all of civilization is cradled. When we speak about “women’s health” we understand that this encompasses many different issues during the different stages of her life.
Published: Tuesday 31 October, 2006
The Herb called Shatavari: A Gift for Women by Dr. Sarita Shrestha Topic: Ayurveda
In recent years shatavari has become a popular herb world-wide. Women in the West have been using it ever since studies showed that it contains phyto-estrogens, the precursors of estrogen. This finding made it popular all over the world.
Published: Tuesday 31 October, 2006
Protocol for Autism based on Ayurvedic Healing by Martin Gluckman Topic: Ayurveda
Autism is the end result of systematic toxins such as Mercury in the body causing this tridoshic disease which is especially a gross imbalance of vata and particularly prana vata which is the vata seated in the mind controlling all mental functions such as speech, concentration, memory, learning and...
Published: Monday 23 October, 2006
Secrets of the Five Pranas by Dr. David Frawley Topic: Ayurveda
To change something we must alter the energy which creates it. This fact is true in the practice of Yoga. To bring about positive changes in body and mind we must understand the energy through which they work. This is called Prana in Sanskrit, meaning primary energy. It is sometimes translated as br...
Published: Wednesday 11 October, 2006
Agni Ayurveda by Dr. David Frawley Topic: Ayurveda
The role of fire is well known in traditional systems of medicine, which use the great elements of nature for healing purposes. However, one system in particular is built around a profound understanding of our biological fires. This is ‘Ayurveda’, the traditional natural healing system of India, the...
Published: Wednesday 11 October, 2006
Ayurveda and the Mind: An Overview by Dr. David Frawley Topic: Ayurveda
Ayurveda is inherently a psychological as much as it is a physical system of medicine. Its scope of practice includes both physical (sharirika) and mental (manasika) diseases. Therefore, we cannot really understand Ayurveda without looking at its view of the mind and consciousness.
Published: Tuesday 10 October, 2006
Your Ayurvedic Constitution by Dr. Robert Svoboda Topic: Ayurveda
Discover your Ayurvedic Constitution
Published: Wednesday 27 September, 2006
Obesity-Losing weight by Dr. Robert Svoboda Topic: Ayurveda
If you are overweight and suffer from all or most of the following symptoms, you urgently need to reduce your poundage (under professional competent guidance): Pendulous belly, breasts and buttocks; Puffing and panting for breath even on mild exertion; Profuse perspiration even when it is not hot...
Published: Wednesday 27 September, 2006
Why Garlic is not good for your for Spiritual health by Dr. Vaidya Mishra Topic: Ayurveda
Garlic certainly has many health related benefits, but it is not good for Spiritual health, and here is why.
Published: Tuesday 19 September, 2006
Rasayana by Dr. Robert Svoboda Topic: Ayurveda
Rasayana (literally, "the Path of Juice"), involves replenishing both the quality and the quantity of the body's fluids.
Published: Monday 18 September, 2006
Cultivating Prana by Dr. Robert Svoboda Topic: Ayurveda
Life requires of each of us a judicious stride, a step that causes every particle of our being to reverberate with rapport. Some of us find our stride without much effort; a few of us are even born ready to canter. But lots of us stumble along from day to day like we had two left feet, trying in vai...
Published: Monday 18 September, 2006
Ayurveda Under Cultivation by Dr. Robert Svoboda Topic: Ayurveda
An aranyaka is an ancient Vedic text that was composed in, and meant to be studied in, a forest. Though the texts of classical Ayurveda were written with urbanites in mind, they are verily aranyakas in spirit, for they carry to city dwellers an urgent "back to Nature" message. To better access that ...
Published: Monday 18 September, 2006
Ayurveda: An Alternative or Compementary Medicine? by Dr. Robert Svoboda Topic: Ayurveda
Understanding the position of Ayurveda in the contemporary health system.
Published: Monday 18 September, 2006
Elements of a healthy person Topic: Ayurveda
The main objective of Ayurveda is to maintain a disease free state. Ayurveda shows us two approaches how to obtain this state – by maintaining the status of a healthy person, and by managing the unhealthy (diseased) condition of an ailing person. If, regardless of the cause, a person falls ill, this...
Published: Saturday 02 September, 2006
Regulated sex as a supporting pillar of life Topic: Ayurveda
Our life expectancy and health depend on three pillars. Charaka Samhita, the cient authoritative text of Ayurveda has given due importance to them. Proper care of these is essential to support life and health. Charaka has equated human body with a building. For making any building stable, role of pi...
Published: Saturday 02 September, 2006
The Seven Dhatus and Ojas Topic: Ayurveda
Ayurveda categories herbs according to the Dhatus or tissues upon which they work. It also contains a knowledge of special herbs and substances (minerals and metals) that work on the subtler tissues, including the nerve and reproductive tissues.
Published: Saturday 02 September, 2006
The Ancient Indian Art of Ayurvedic Pulse Technique Topic: Ayurveda
The pulse is an important tool for understanding the mind body of an individual as the pulse changes with age, sex, constitution, time of day, season, activity, meals, and the state of mind of the individual. In modern science, the pulse is called the mirror or index of the heart, whereas Ayurvedic ...
Published: Saturday 02 September, 2006
How To Eat Topic: Ayurveda
How to eat for health, vitality and longevity. A guide to the foods to avoid and enjoy along with a general guideline on how to eat.
Published: Thursday 31 August, 2006
Cosmic Rendezvous by RP Jain Topic: Ayurveda
To bring the ancient Wisdom of Bharat into the modern age, a penetrating research and enquiry into the philosophical, scientific, spiritual and cultural heritage of India is an absolute necessity. Without such an extensive examination, deeper insights are virtually impossible and this great heritage...
Published: Tuesday 22 February, 2005
Ayurvedic Dentistry by Martin Gluckman Topic: Ayurveda
One of the topics I came to research was the subject of dentistry which I felt had been much neglected in the field of Ayurveda. I was confident that treatments were present but this seemed to be nearly forgotten in practical application. I was inspired upon this road by doing a study earlier last y...
Published: Thursday 03 February, 2005
Marma - The Magic of Touch by Martin Gluckman Topic: Ayurveda
Marma is one of the lesser known methods used in Ayurveda, Sushruta refers to it in some detail as well as other texts, but in truth it is a traditional knowledge that needs to be handed down from guru to disciple, from heart to heart. The basis is the use of various points on the body which are all...
Published: Thursday 03 February, 2005
Ayurveda - Nature's Health Secrets by Martin Gluckman Topic: Ayurveda
In 1999 I began to personally study Ayurveda with a brilliant teacher and friend who had been introduced to this science many years before, in India, under the guidance of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who has done wonders to bring the best of Ayurveda to the West since the 1980's. As I dived deeper and dis...
Published: Thursday 03 February, 2005
Ayurveda, the World’s Medicine for the Next Millennium by Dr. David Frawley Topic: Ayurveda
In 1989 I was attending a conference on Yoga and medicine in Mumbai.There were a number of Indian medical doctors on the panel but, strangely as a Westerner, I was the only Ayurvedic speaker. After my talk promoting Ayurveda, someone in the audience remarked, "We in India believe in something only o...
Published: Tuesday 04 May, 2004
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