Ayurveda

The Concept of Ayurveda

Health is a state of harmony between the body and the mind. Any disturbance in this state of harmony results in disease, which is expressed in the form of signs and symptoms. In each and every case of a disease, a person exhibits two types of symptoms: Common and Uncommon. Common symptoms are those which are found in most cases of a particular disease, whereas uncommon symptoms vary from one individual to another. This forms the basis for the individual research that is done to treat each patient in the practice of ayurveda.

Each organ has no separate existence in the body. Medical research studies show that the entire organ system is interdependent. When a particular organ does not function the way it is expected to, this chain of harmony breaks, resulting in disease. In ayurveda, a holistic approach is used to treat the patient in the entirety of the problem rather than merely addressing the symptoms of the disease.

For example, in maxillary sinusitis, the pus formed in the sinuses puts pressure on the gums, thereby spreading bacteria that cause gum and tooth infections. In this case, since there is a single cause for both the problems (both sinusitis and the gum infection or genguitis), there should also be a single remedy to address both problems A cure refers to the complete elimination of signs and symptoms, including the tendency to be repeatedly afflicted with the disease. This restores good health and the only approach that ensure this is treating the patients using a natural and logical form of treatment that employs the minimal and diluted dosage of medicine that has no side effects whatsoever. The mind and the emotions are also considered while treating the patient in ayurveda. At the end of the treatment, not only do the symptoms disappear, but the mind also becomes calm and peaceful. Modern medicine has recently started accepting the fact that many diseases (for example: migraine, acidity, ulcer, hypertension, and diabetes) are psychosomatic, whereas ayurveda has deemed this to be true over the last two centuries.

To treat disease, the body needs a little stimulus to trigger its own healing process. Administered medicine is not required to directly fight the disease. Rather, the body must fight the disease by improving its general resistance that reduces the probability of developing new diseases.