Rasa Shastra is a branch of Ayurveda Science which deals with the preparation of rasa medicine including different forms of medicine. Rasa here gives the meaning of Mercury (Hg). Parad…
Category: Basic Ayurveda
Basics of Ayurveda, General Ayurvedic knowledge to simply change the lifestyle and food for the optimum health. Knowledge from the ancient science.
Accumulation of Dosha (Stage of Sanchaya)
Accumulation stage is first event of pathogenesis (First Kriya kala). Increase of dosha or doshas in their own site is called sanchaya. Aacharya Dalhana defines this as a samhati rupa…
Ksharsutra Technique in Ayurveda
Fistula in ano is a disease, which has been included by Acharya Sushruta in Ayurveda. Even today when the modern surgery is at its peak, fistula in ano is still…
Ayurveda- An Evidence-Based Medicine
An accurate understanding of what evidence-based medicine (EBM) really means might be helpful in understanding the relative role of science and clinical knowledge. EBM, which has become a buzz word…
Vegetarianism and Ayurveda
Authentic Ayurvedic dietary advices are based on a purely vegetarian diet. Although some Ayurvedic physicians advocate meat intake for people with vata constitution (prakriti) but this concept does not have…
Six steps to achieve Balanced Dosha
These days most of the Ayurvedic talks are related with maintaining or balancing the dosha. And yes it is true that if you are able to balance dosha you can…
Ayurvedic concept of Mudhagarbha (false presentations and difficult labour)
This article is totally the Ayurvedic concept of false presentations and difficult labour and also miscarriage. This was the concept of Acharya Shrusuta, who is also known as father of…
Importance of Vata among tridosha
Vata is the most important among tridoshas. Pitta and kapha are less important. The vata carries them to different places. Like in nature, clouds are moved by wind, similarly vata…
Abasthapak, Stage of Digestion
The food we ingest , digest in different stages. Changes in the mahashrotas at different levels are called abasthapak. Abasthapak or the stage of digestion are in 3 stages. Madhura…
Anatomy of Bhagandar (Piles or Hemorrhoid)
The popular Ayurvedic technique kshar sutra is related with the disease bhagandar. In modern science it is referred as piles or Hemorrhoids. Here in this article I have tried to…