गर्मियोंमें बचिए डिहाइड्रेशन और सनस्ट्रोक से - Prevention from dehydration and sunstroke (Hindi)

दिवाळीतील अभ्यंगाचे महत्व. कसे करावे अभ्यंग?

दिवाळी म्हंटली कि सगळयांना एक वेगळाच उत्साह संचारतो. आकाशदिवे, रांगोळ्या, फटाके, फराळ, पुरणपोळी, इत्यादींची रेलचेल सुरु होते. पण या सर्व धामधुमीमध्ये एका गोष्टीचा लहान मुलांना फार कंटाळा असतो आणि ते म्हणजे पहाटेचे "अभ्यंगस्नान". फक्त लहानच काय तर आजकालची तरुणपिढीदेखील अभ्यंगस्नानास सासुरवास अशा नजरेने बघतात. का बरे आपल्या पूर्वजांनी पहाटेच्या गारठ्यात  उठून अंगाला तेल उटणे लावून स्नान करण्याचा हा प्रघात घालून ठेवला असेल?

चला तर या अभ्यंगस्नानाचे वैज्ञानिकदृष्ट्या असणारे महत्व जे आयुर्वेदाने हजारो वर्षांपूर्वी ओळखून सांगून ठेवले आहे ते जाणून घेऊयात.

दिवाळी हा सण हिवाळ्यात (http://www.ayurbeej.in/2016/04/diet-and-lifestyle-as-per-ayurveda-in.html ) येतो. यावेळी वातावरणातील शीतता (थंडपणा) वाढून त्वचा रुक्ष व कोरडी होते. यावेळी भेगा पडणे, त्वचा काळवंडणे, खाज सुटणे, इत्यादी तक्रारी सुरु होतात. शरीरातील वात दोषाचे (वातदोषhttp://www.ayurbeej.in/2015/12/vata-dosha-leader-of-tridosha.html)  प्राबल्य वाढू लागते, म्हणून या ऋतूत दिवाळी सणांतील अभ्यंगस्नानास अत्यंत महत्व आहे.

Coriander (Dhaniya) - Ayurveda straight from granny’s kitchen

Uses of coriander are astonishing when it comes for health. Lets take a look at it.

Ayurveda Preventives for Summer dehydration and sunstroke.

70% of our body is consists of water. In summer high intensity of heat and dryness of weather causes water loss in large quantities through sweating. Hence in this season we  need to maintain optimum water level to maintain normal physiology of our body, otherwise due to loss of nutrients and electrolytes from persistent sweating  , body may get dehydrated and if ignored may worsen the health of individual. Water also plays an important role in regulation of body temperature. If an individual has been exposed to heat for long during work , exercising, or simply sitting in hot environment which leads to continuous perspiration, where water loss is more, body loses the ability to maintain the correct temperature and it becomes dangerously high which we call heat stroke or sun stroke. So here ayurveda gives you some simple and easy recipes of traditional drinks which help you to keep your body hydrated and which will definitely help you to beat dehydration and sunstroke this and all coming summers.

Diet & lifestyle as per Ayurveda for Spring Season (Vasanta Ritucharya)

Vasant ritu ( Spring ) is the second season of northern solstice (Uttarayana). It starts mid February ends in mid April. In uttarayana days are longer than night.

Also this season is of flowering of trees wherein trees grow new leaves and  start to bloom. Along with this sun heat increases leading to melting of snow . Similarly warm weather melts the deposited kapha dosha*(http://www.ayurbeej.in/2016/02/kapha-dosha-tridosha-sidhhanta_10.htm) which had accumulated in winter season thus leading to aggravation of kapha dosha.

Ama - The Root Cause of All illnesses

These days our body and mind are affected by all types of toxins, which includes environmental, emotional, physiological factors. If a person is not eating according to his appetite or consumes incompatible foods knowingly or unknowingly or time of having lunch or dinner are irregular and coupled with other factor may lead to a stressed, overburdened stomach and which may over time impacts the natural capacity of digestion. Hence food if not digested in proper manner leads to production of “Ama”

Pitta dosha - Tridosha sidhhanta

Our universe is consist of 5 elements, namely air, water, earth, fire and eather(sky). The inspiration of all the movements is air or Vaayu mahabhuta. But along with movements all the living things in universe change their forms, and for this transformation fire element or Agni Mahabhuta is mainly responsible. For e.g. the ripening of a fruit ,heat is necessary similarly for hatching of an egg also requires heat. So we note that transformation is mainly due to fire(Agni Tatwa).

Likewise in human body these transformations occur with the help of Pitta dosha, second principle of Tridosh sidhhanta. In human body, digestion, aging, anger, fear, etc all these physiological and emotional transformations controlled by pitta .

So in this article we will see details about Pitta dosha.