Ayurveda recommends Varsha Ritucharya to counter the detrimental imbalances brought about by climatic changes during monsoons. During monsoons the digestive fire (agni) is weak. Throughout summer, Vata dosha accumulates in the body and vitiates agni even further affecting the digestive
Ashwagandha and Guduchi are the two most sought after Ayurvedic herbs these days. Let’s have some details again. In Ayurveda, Asvagandha, which means “smelling like a horse or mare” in Sanskrit, was used as an aphrodisiac and geriatric tonic and
Breeding for bigger, faster-growing chickens is probably tied to the emergence of wooden breast, says food scientist Massimiliano Petracci of Italy’s University of Bologna. “It’s not the final weight so much as it is how fast the bird gets there,”
Ayurveda is imbibed and integrated in Indian life and most of us do not know it as ‘Ayurveda’ but as just the way life is supposed to be lead. Earlier and in some parts of India even now, Vaidyas were
Charaka said The root cause of the derangement of all is unrighteousness or adharmsa. That arises from misdeeds from a previous life or this life, but the source of both is pragya aparadha (intellectual error) [unrighteousness]… When the heads of
Kama was born first, Neither gods nor ancestors, nor humans can equal him. Oh Kama ! You are immense as you reside in all living beings. I bow to you…. You are a higher deity than the sun, moon, wind
There are words in our tradition which are not translatable into English or other European languages. Sukh cannot be translated as happiness. The famous Shloka of the Bhagavad Gita: Sukh-dukhe samekritva, labhalabho jai jayo; cannot be translated as ‘Be unperturbed
During this century, there was a large spread of Ayurvedic treatments for sensuous appeasement directed towards leisure and holidays. This however is not the spread of authentic wisdom of Ayurveda in its multidimensional form. With the popularity of Ayurveda during
Taking a cue from the many traditions that liken human life to fabric, I started knitting a COVID-19 death-toll blanket. When I was 20, I received word that my friend from high school summer camp had died. For weeks, I
How people can ease some of that anxiety and gain a better sense of being in control during a public health crisis. Public health crises can create mass panic and fear, which have a tendency to gain a momentum of
