Ayurveda - The Eternal Principles of Healthy Living - Bodykind.com

Ayurveda has developed in India over at least the last 4000 years. It is a blend of herbal medicine, spiritual insight, practical experience, scientific analysis and artistic creativity.

(PRWEB) January 16, 2005 -- Ayurveda is simply translated as "science of life" and more comprehensively as "the knowledge that teaches us which substances, life-styles and activities are beneficial or harmful to life". It is the knowledge of wholesome and righteous living according to our unique and individual constitutional make up.

Ayurveda has developed in India over at least the last 4000 years. It has now spread all over the world. It is a blend of herbal medicine, spiritual insight, practical experience, scientific analysis and artistic creativity. It uses medicinal plants, foods, massage, meditation, surgery and judicious living as part of its "life-style" and methodology.

There are three constitutions in Ayurveda, Vata, Pitta and Kapha. They are combinations of the essential elements of nature- Space, Air, Fire, Water, Earth. Comparing this idea to our modern world view and the Elemental Table, we could say that light molecules such as Hydrogen relate to the Ayurvedic concept of Space, denser molecules such as Oxygen for Air, reactive molecules such as Phosphorus or Magnesium for Fire, liquid elements such as Mercury represent fluid Water and dense molecules such as Carbon or Gold make up the solid building-blocks of Earth. These all combine to make up our natural world- outer and inner.

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