Ayurveda for Living

 

Ayurveda for Living

Ayurveda is more than the oil massage in the wellness hotel!
 
Ayurveda has a centuries-old tradition and is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a traditional cure. An Ayurveda doctor in India has to complete a five-year course of study, although – as in Western medicine – there are also different disciplines in Ayurveda.
 
What is the difference to Western medicine?
 
This starts with the fact that Ayurveda is more likely to ask "How does health arise?" rather than "How does illness arise?"
 
Of course, the relief of discomfort is also in the foreground in Ayurvedic treatment, but the means used for this purpose are based on the disease and the individual constitution of the patient. 

In other words, in a Western physician, Patient A and Patient B receive the drug X for stomach pain, in Ayurveda Patient A could be prescribed the drug Y and Patient B the drug Z, although both have the same symptoms, but just a different individual constitution. The first cause of stomach pain can be gastritis in both patients, but the deeper cause of why the patient developed gastritis in the first place can be very different.
 
A disease is understood as disharmony and the path of recovery leads through the restoration of this "harmony", which is individual for each person. This does not only take into account the physical level, because health is understood as a dynamic balance of physical, mental and mental forces.
 
Please note: Ayurveda is a very differentiated system and every short description – as we make it here – is always a very shortened representation that cannot do justice to the subject.
 
Why is nutrition so important in Ayurveda?
 
Our body constantly forms new cells and needs energy for movement, digestion and much more.
 
The diet is the "raw material" for this. The healing of wounds, the growth of hair, the renewal of skin and all other cells of the body can only happen because we supply the body with the raw material for this through food. In short, you are what you eat.
 
A healthy and balanced diet is, therefore, the cornerstone of the enabling of good health. But - what is the use of the best diet if the body is not able to use the individual components of the food for itself and convert it into energy and cell growth?
 
The general principle "you are what you eat" must, therefore, be more precise: "You are what you are spoiling". In Ayurveda, digestion has an essential and central importance. Here, numerous factors play an essential role: one digests at noon differently than in the evening, in summer differently than in winter, in adolescence different from old age, and last but not least, every person has his own constitutionally-induced digestion.

An Ayurvedic diet takes these factors into account and can thus help to provide the body with optimal nutrients to create the basis for stable health and general well-being.