Ayurvedic Medicine

Where Did It Come From?

With its origins dating back to India more than 5,000 years ago, Ayurvedic Medicine (also known as Ayurveda) is one of the world’s oldest and most detailed healing systems. Its holistic nature deems it more than a way of healing disease and illness, but an approach to life that stimulates total wellness, energy and vitality.

The term Ayurveda translates to life (Ayu) science (Veda) in the Sanskrit language. Essentially, it means ‘the wisdom of life’ or ‘the science of longevity’. It is the science that determines how life is understood and a discipline that provides us with a way to live a happy and healthy life. The healing system is based on the ancient laws of nature referred to as the Vedas; also the basis of yoga, meditation and numerous other philosophies from the East.

Ayurvedic Medicine explores the diet, medicinal and lifestyle behaviours that are advantageous to life and consciousness as well as those that might be detrimental. It provides you with the essential tools and knowledge to achieve total health and wellness over a long and happy life.

Those that follow Ayurveda see the human being as part of nature – that we are deeply connected to the world around us. We are comprised of the same elements (air, space, fire, water and earth) as the natural world that surrounds us. These elements make up everything in the universe: organic and inorganic; animate and inanimate; nature, food, stars, planets, animals and us humans.

What we can therefore deduce from this knowledge is that when our environment or the foods we eat experience specific changes, so too are we likely to experience changes in our body. Ayurvedic medicine informs us how to live a life that is connected with nature. It’s when we become one with nature’s flow that we experience perfect health.

Ayurvedic medicine believes that health is not simply the absence of disease, but the harmonic connection between mind, body, spirit and the world around us. This view is such a strong contrast to the biochemical model of modern medicine that views the body in a deconstructed chemical and mechanical way. Ayurveda endeavours to create a healthy body, peaceful mind, vital spirit, and a balance in the 3 vital forces in the body and mind, known as the doshas – Vata, Pitta and Kapha.

Ayurveda is a natural medicine, therefore it uses foods, herbal remedies, body treatments such as massage and scrubs, and lifestyle practices like yoga, meditation and purification programs to restore vitality and balance.

Ayurveda is more than just a system of healing and repair; it is a way of life. It provides knowing insight into how we can live in harmony every day for optimal health and disease prevention, and gives us tools and insights to reconnect with our true self and the world around us.

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