Dueep J. Singh - Introduction to Ayurveda - Keeping Healthy the Ancient Way

Keeping Healthy the Ancient Way

Natural Health Series

Dueep J. Singh

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Why are so many people coming back toalternative medicine now? Alternative medicine has been around formore than 5000 years and that is the reason why Indian, Chinese,Thai, Japanese and other old alternative medicinal sciences whichare going to consist of herbs to cure diseases are coming back intovogue.

It is extremely surprising to see that alarge number of alternative medicine cures are not being used bypeople, just because some research department somewhere decidedthat they had no proof that that medicine worked.

It worked 5000 years ago, but there issomebody, somewhere, would have decided that herbal mumbo-jumbo isdefinitely a heathenish practice not to be used by sophisticatedmodern scientific methods! Sadly, this is true.

But in Asia, many medical practitioners knowthat there are alternative traditional medicines like acupuncture,Ayurveda and other methods, which bring back the body's balanceinto normal healthy state. The idea is that the body, the mind aswell as the spirit have to be in a balanced state, which is goingto keep it in a harmonious healthy condition.

The idea of medicine used 5000 years ago wasthat one did not cure the external manifestations of the disease,but went to the root of the problem. Nowadays, unfortunately, thatpractice is not being followed, because the doctors are under theimpression that an external cure, which is seen visibly is all apatient needs to be declared completely healthy.

Alternative medicine is going to make surethat a patient follows a special lifestyle, self-care, andpreventive measures for keeping healthy, after the doctor has takenaway all the necessary obstacles, which were making him sick. Thus,the patient reaches the stage of complete good health.

Up to the 19th century, people went in forherbal remedies, changes in lifestyle, and laxatives to get rid oftheir problems. Nevertheless, it was only after the Second WorldWar that people decided that all these healing processes weremanifestations of quackery and doctors needed to use insulin,streptomycin, penicillin, and other drugs to cure diseases, reallyfast and who needed the bedside manner? Besides this, they wantedimmediate results. They really did not have the time and thepatience to look for medical methods which would take a littlelonger for them to be cured completely.

That is the reason why, in the 1960s,Ayurveda, Chinese medical methods and other natural remedypractices, which were so en vogue, until that time, began to betermed as Alternative Medicine Practices.

So natural medicinal remedies began to go outof fashion. Slowly and steadily, more and more people began tostart relying on drugs, which gave them quick relief, not wantingto know anything about the harmful potential side effects of drugson a natural system, which could have cured itself, if leftalone.

Thus, there was a slow and steady erosion ofthe natural cure practices and alternative medicine, which meantthat the scientific curing methods took over from dietary advice,psychological manipulation and massage, which had been curingpeople for the last 5000 years.

Only alternative medicine practitioners keptup these practices. Mainstream practitioners call these practicesfraudulent and ineffective. Nevertheless, alternative medicine is apowerful medical field, which still can cure patients,systematically, methodically and naturally.

Healthy eating habits, from childhood isgoing to help a child grow up into an healthy adult

Millenniums ago, an alternative medicinescience based on natural ingredients, began to be practiced in thearea, which is now called the Indian subcontinent. This science wasknown as Ayurveda. The exact Sanskrit meaning of this word meanslife knowledge.

For millenniums, the art of healing knowledgebased on this science has been passed down through the generationsto heal and cure people of the diseases known to man.

More than 5000 years ago, two of these greatwise men, who practiced this science, named Charaka and Susruthamade medical compendiums, which talked about healing procedures,operational procedures, and medicines which would be used to healthe diseases known to man down the ages. These classics written inSanskrit have been considered to be the foundation of the ancientscience of Ayurveda.

At the same time, traditional Chinesemedicine was also making a name for itself, thanks to great medicalpractitioners, who took the help of these compendiums in order todevelop well-known medical systems.

Nowadays, these systems are considered to bealternative and complementary treatments, supporting the moreconventional forms of modern medicine. This science is practiced inthe USA, as a complementary health care licensed practice.

This science is divided into eight parts General medicine, surgery, pediatrics, dentistry/ENT/ophthalmology,toxicology, psychiatric treatments, anti- aging remedies andremedies for bearing healthy children.

So, one can see that even at that time, allthe ills of human beings were studied and remedies hunted for them.Ayurveda is based on curing disease or disorders from the rootlevel. It uses herbs which are 100% natural, and are definitely notgoing to have a detrimental effect upon the body, when you stopusing them.