Veda Vyasa, the famous sage seems to be the first person, who had written Ayurveda in black and white. As Vyasa had been renowned as an avatar of Vishnu, his writings had focused much more on spiritual healing.
People of the ancient age used to believe that every individual has got his own spiritual power and any could recover by the supplement of additional spiritual power, internally or externally.
If we find an analogy in Quigong, the ancient healing methodology of China, we will find
Quigong Master can send the additional forces to the diseased person even without touching him.
When Ayurveda had started its journey, then the world was not so crowded and people used to believe in spiritual power. Perhaps Ayurveda is the only philosophy, which directly deals with both body and mind (spirit).
Spirit is the aura of individuals which actually interacts with nature and can earn energy from nature. We should not forget that the base of Ayurvedic treatment and medicines lies in water, fire and air.
May be because of compulsion and ego, the sages hardly used to go out for collecting pulps and fruits to prepare a medicine for the ailing person, rather they tried to believe more on spiritual power and ethics for recovery. Remember we are not talking of the day when the world has not become so small to everybody and the visit from one corner to the other required significant time frame. Moreover so many preservatives had not been discovered at that period of time.
The recognition of Ayurveda had been through the treatment methodology of Paracelsus in the sixteenth century, as he has taken a lot from the traditional Indian system, Ayrveda.
In fact Paracelsus, vouched strongly for the theory that the remedy and cause of any diseases remain same.
The father of modern medicine even tried to diminish some the then practices of medications like pills and others and started focusing more on energy of people for remedy. If we want to find out about the belief of Paracelsus, history witnesses that he used to obey the philosophy of self discovery.
If we just go to the root of Ayurveda, we will find the sages used to stress upon spiritual power which comes through self analysis and self realization.
Ideally most of the religions follow the process of self realization as the practice gives you the clear idea about what a person should do and what not.
The meditation process, which as per the old sages, is the way of reaching God through self discovery as the first step to approach to the eternal world.
We are aware that the diagnosis of Ayurveda greatly depends upon the pulse beat of a person. The key focus on pulse bit aims at finding the harmony of the organs at that stage, which largely reflects the lifestyle, he leads. The appropriate sensation of pulse requires a lot of practice and concentration which comes only through a calm and quiet mind set of the physician. The Ayurveda practitioners try to find out the malfunction and applies medicines to the patient to earn that additional power, which he requires to reestablish the synchronization between his body and mind with the external world.
In quigong also the physicians try to analyze the internal imbalance and try to supply medicine to find out a balance between the modes and meridians. The reader must take a note that Ayurveda and Quigong are of same age group and they both originated from the same part of the world, which is eastern Asia. This is needless to remind that the dawn of civilization had haunted this part of the world much ahead of the most aritrocrate countries of today’s modern world.
The very name Ayurved comes from Ayra, which means Life and Veda, which is spell as Science.
So, why not to focus on ayurveda, the five thousand years old healing philosophy, rather than practiced medicines, which have shown the positive result of side effects?
Pizza and Burger may reach the street corners of Indian suburbs, but ayurved has been always insisting on local and natural food habit. Local food are fresh by default while others are generally stored away with preservatives to retain their natural ingredients. A lot of food is prepared by extracting only the active substances from plants, but according to ayurved such filtration is unhealthy.
We must remember that our food habit must not lead to excess storage of toxic acid in our body as well as we need to look at the digestive system of individuals before fixing up the menu. No ayurved physician has opposed to the idea, variety is the spice of life. Rather Ayurved insists on food habit which is changeable as per climate condition and taste. Generally cold stores take away a level of natural particles of the fresh vegetables.
Frozen, canned food inside a zazzy bottle may start watering your mouth, but its better to rely on the seasonal vegetables as well as various food available at such diversified plants.
Never forget water intake in sufficient quantity is a must for keeping a sound health and mind
Every mother cajoles her kid with the myth, sun shines in the east and there starts the environmental education of a kid, mostly unknowingly.
We live in a world, where change is the only constant factor in all aspects of life starting from technological fronts and ending with the economic scenario, but still Sun shines in the east only!
The unanimous love and affection of a mother to her son can be compared with the ever-filial blessings from the Sun to the inhabitants of the planet. Whether Shane Warne declares his retirement or paparazzi hound Princess Diana, the Sun shines and radiates its energy irrespective of the environment and political dilemma.
The greedy mind of human beings lured by instant gain, at times create obstacles in the stratosphere to restrain us from getting the direct rays from the Sun, as a result, the energy level of the inhabitants’ decreases.
Scientifically, it has been proved that the rays of Sun energize the cells of the body. Irrespective of the biological jargons like Vitamin D or A, we realize that Sun generates heat energy.
Even Science has never opposed the spontaneous natural source of energy gifted by nature in the form of Sun, Wind and Water. People at different times have admired the value of the Sun. Like someone enthusiastic travel expert has said, “Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.”
The modernization and rat race competitions have forced people to use artificial ways of energizing body and mind in the form of vitamin tonic or erotic story/ gossips.
One must be apprehensive about the sudden boost in energy level (like Alcohol) which has got a wide spread detrimental effect in the long run.
Polluted Environment, more importantly a diverted mindset triggered by the lucrative glamorous world mostly diverts the young mind from its root objective.
The Vedic civilization used to define different stages of life with stringent criteria namely Brahmacharya, Garhasthya, Banaprashtha, Sannyas, where every walk of life has been predefined having an underlying meaning.
The undoubted fact of life is that in this modern age, its just next to impossible to follow them holistically as the world changes fast and there is no point of staying aloof from the world and its surroundings. Rather a contemporary methodology needs to be devised.
However, Sun shines and remains as a tireless warehouse of energy.
If you observe more closely you will find it’s surrounding hallo as shown in the pictures of the Holy ones. Primitive ways of treatment used to believe in aura, the similar energy levels of every human being. The imbalance between the aura of a human being and the nature causes diseases and the recovery procedure is to draw the deficit energy from Sun to reestablish the balance again.
The world of Prana, Chi or Qee primarily emphasizes on the balancing factor and the doctor takes the challenge of channel sing the external energy to the human body to reestablish the synchronization.
The question however remains as to how to gain energy directly from the Sun, when even to glance at it is so difficult with the naked eye.
A simple procedure is perhaps to form a shape of a convex lens just by your fingers and throw a glance and immediately after that close your eyes to store and channelise the gained energy through the meridians to several energy points of the body, to keep a balance between Yin and Yang, the two opposite energies residing in the body.
To conclude lets quote Anna Lee, “Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.”
A treatment procedure which emphasizes on natural healing and applies medicine to reestablish the balance of the body by inducting energy level from the nature directly like Sun as well as from the natural substances.
Ayurved Medicines primarily works on three prime factors of nature namely Vata, Pita, Kapha.
Ayurved treatment methodology believes that every living being also contains these three factors inside the body and the cause of any diseases is the disproportionate distribution of these 3 basic elements due to some factors. Vata, which means The air helps the body mechanism in maintaining the proper flow of air (Oxygen & Carbon Dioxide) inside the body. Pita, means the Fire, helps us to keep the spirit and the main action ingredients and Kapha (The Water) helps the flow and proportionate mix of water in the metabolism of the body.
The point to be noticed that Ayurvedic physicians try to diagnose on the basis of the pulse beat. They believe that any anomaly is reflected in the pulse beat and the root cause of the diseases can be traced by noticing the pulse beat very carefully.
Basically Ayurvedic Medicines are pure herbal medicines prepared from bulbs, pulps, roots, leaves etc with natural ingredients. The safest medicine as of now, because side effects have not been discovered as yet. The ayurved medicines are prepared by different clinical methods.
Is Ayurved a Philosophy or a Treatment?
We would rather like to state that Ayurved is a philosophy which has been continuing for more than five thousand years. Ayurved is a herbal based treatment used for the healing process and health care, perhaps the alternative medicine/ therapy which does not have any side effect. Ayurved has also found its resurgence at the age of alternative medicines, where a lot of research work is going on in most advanced countries, which started its journey in the Asian subcontinent thousands of years back.
Why not that popular?
Ayurved ailment procedure is a completely different methodology, which does not depend upon the external behavior of the body, rather establishes a strong cohesion between the external world and the internal world of a body. Any Ayurved treatment excepting the Skin Care kind of common medicines deserves a profound study of all the materials and their movements inside the body which is reflected in the pulse beat. It also finds the synchronization between the natural elements like Fire, Air, Water inside the body and goes by the spirit of life, rather than the chemical substances, used in many treatments.
The Key focus of Ayurved
Ayurved finds a strong relation between the energy of Sun and the life forces of the living beings.
Basically Ayurvedic Medicines are pure herbal medicines prepared from bulbs, pulps, roots, leaves etc with natural ingredients. The safest medicine as of now, because side effects have not been discovered as yet. The ayurved medicines are prepared by different clinical methods.