Ayurveda is the authentic way to treat all chronic and acute diseases successfully without having any side effects. Depending upon the Prakriti of the patient, ayurvedic doctors prescribe the best treatment for the patient. Ayurveda is the science which is blessed to us by God Dhanvantari.

1. Ayurveda
• Ayurveda is one of the four Upavedas, and it addresses
all aspects of healing and well-being for body and mind

2. Ayurveda Definition
The word “Ayurveda” is a combination of two words.
1. “Ayur” - means life.
2. “Veda” - means science.
Ayur -
• We want to live healthy life. Mostly and generally, we
were healthy by birth. But due to climatic condition, food,
life style and by some factors, by our mother and father
genes; we engaged with some physical, mental and
anatomical problems. Definitely we want to cure
ourselves, so we try to find solution for a healthy life.

3. • Ayurveda describes each and every thing about healthy
life (mental, physical and anatomical) since thousands of
the years.
Veda –
• Veda means science. According to Ayurvedic philosophy
an individual bundle of ‘spirit’, desirous of expressing
itself, uses subjective consciousness or Satwa to manifest
sense organs and a mind. Spirit and mind then project
themselves into a physical body, created from a five
(Pancha) great (maha) eternal elements (bhutas) - together
called as Panchamahabhutas – which arise from a Tamas.
The sense organs then use the Rajas to project from the
body into the external world to experience their objects.
The body becoming the mind‘s vehicle, its physical
instrument for sense gratification.

4. • The Bhutas combines into “tridoshas” that govern and
determine our healthy or physical condition. While the
three gunas, Rajas (activity), Tamas (inertia) and Satwa
(which balanced the first two) determines our mental and
spiritual health. Hence Ayurveda is a holistic system of
health care that teaches us to balance these energies in
order to achieve optimum health and well being.

5. Panchamahabhutas
• An underlying principle of Ayurveda is that we are both
energy and matter combined. Each of us, as well as
environment, is made up of five great elements: 1.Space
2.Air 3.fire 4.Water 5.Earth. These are the building blocks
of our world. They create our foundation and structure
(earth); movement and circulation (air and space);
transformation, light and metabolism (fire); and
cohesiveness, digestive juices, and secretions (water).

6. The five great elements are found in varying amounts in
every person and the environment. Some people and
places will have more of one element than another. To
help make sense of this, consider how these elements
manifest in the natural world.

7. 1. Earth is cold, heavy, solid, stable, and dry. This
element is exemplified by dirt.
2. Water is cold, mobile, heavy, soft, and liquid Think of
the ocean.
3. Fire is hot, subtle, mobile, dry, and sharp. Its clearest
manifestation in nature is the sun, which provides
warmth to the earth and sky.
4. Space as in the sky, is vast, cold, light, and clear. It
enables all other things to have a place to take form and
exist.
5. Air is dry, cold, rough, and full of motion. To
understand these qualities, think of what it’s like to be
whipped by an aggressive wind.

8. Three Doshas
• The five elements combine in various ways to form three
constitutional principles, known in Ayurveda as doshas.

9. These are:
• Vata - comprised of air and space.
• Pitta - comprised of fire and water.
• Kapha - comprised of earth and water.
To understand these principles at their core, it is useful to
think of the different qualities of the elements that create
them.
Vata –
Composed of air and Space, vata is dry, light, cold,
rough, subtle, mobile, and clear. As such, vata regulates
the principles of movement. Any bodily motion –
chewing, swallowing, nerve impulses, breathing, muscles
movements, thinking, peristalsis, bowel movements,
urination, menstruation – requires balanced vata. When
vata is out of balance, any number of these movements
may be deleteriously affected.

10. Pitta –
Pitta brings forth the qualities of fire and water. It is
sharp, penetrating, hot, light, mobile, and oily. Pitta’s
domain is the principle of transformation. As fire get
transform anywhere it touches, pitta is in play any time
the body converts or processes something. So pitta
oversees digestion, metabolism, temperature,
maintenance, sensory perception, and comprehension.
Imbalanced pitta can lead to sharpness and inflammation
in these areas in particular.

11. Kapha –
Kapha, composed of earth and water, is heavy, cold, dull,
oily, smooth, dense, soft, static, liquid, cloudy, hard, and
gross (in the sense of dense or thick). As a kapha governs
stability and structure, it forms the substance of the
human body, from the skeleton to various organs to the
fatty molecules (lipids) that support the body. An excess
of kapha leads to an overabundance of density, heaviness,
and excess in the body.

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Anandnagar, Ghodunder Road, Thane(w)
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