June 2009

Shirodhara: an Ayurveda Offering

Ayurveda has a lot to offer. A lot of ayurvedic therapies and medicines are popular world wide. Shirodhara is one of such ayurvedic therapies. Shirodhara was developed by the ayurveda specialist many years back. But now this is a famous therapy all over the world. However, no experience can be as good as Shirodhara in [...]

Ayurveda Massage in Energytic Life

Massage (Abhyanga) is a type of passive exercise. It is especially good for weak people, who are unable to exercise. Regular massage is the key to good health, and is necessary both for prevention and cure of diseases. Ayurvedic massage is an important part of daily life in India. Hippocrates (circa 400 BCE) described massage [...]

Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy, New Hope!

Muscular dystrophy connotes a genetic, muscle disease that causes progressive muscle weakness. Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy is the second most prevalent muscular dystrophy affecting adults men, women and children. The major symptom is gradual weakening and loss of skeletal muscles. The usual location of these weaknesses at onset is the origin of the name: face (facio), [...]

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Weight Loss Tips in Ayurveda

When you think of weight loss and losing weight, the first things that probably come to your mind are either those “lose weight fast ” The idea behind this completely free weight loss diet plan is quite simple… it’s the ANTI-fad diet. It is the complete opposite of every borderline idiotic and completely unnecessary diet [...]

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After Recently Suffering From a Stroke I Finished the Medical Intervention and Sought Ayurveda Care to Heal Myself

For the next few weeks, I’m turning over my articles to my husband, Dr. Craig Thomas, D.C. so that he can post and share with you entries about his month-long journey to India for Ayurvedic treatment. After recently suffering from a stroke and seeking help from Western medicine, Dr. Craig decided that more could be [...]

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Ayurvedic Hair Treatment

Why is it that most individuals from India have such great looking hair ? I have always been able to observe this fact among all my Indian friends and I finally sought the reason behind this mystery . I found out later that part of Indian tradition was to practice hair Ayurveda. I knew that [...]

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