Wherever we are on this earth at this
moment, we can see and feel how bad the impact of modern life is
damaging the natural environment and our lives. As modern humans we also
have an understanding that the quality of our health is affected by the
negative impacts, such as air pollution, water, food and lifestyle is
not healthy.
In
the search for balance of life discourse, there is the health
contribution to the balance of the mind. Apparently this has very
important role. People in unhealthy physical conditions usually think
negatively too much, feel distracted, be reluctant or lazy to do
anything due to their conditions.
Ayurveda
is a holistic lifestyle system that teaches the practical details of
the arrangement of food, body work, rest periods, and work, which aims
to achieve balance of body, mind, and soul.
Thus,
Ayurveda is not just medicine but a healthy lifestyle. The basic
principle of ayurveda is to prevent diseases by balancing body, mind,
soul and environment.
Ayurvedic
health concept has been covering the entire system of human life that
makes ayurveda as a system of treatment and comprehensive health care in
the world. Many medications commonly used by us today come from plants.
According to various sources, at least one of the basic ingredients of
plant material forms part of several prescription drugs available in the
world.
Specifically,
ayurveda uses plants to fix the imbalance that occurs in the human body
before they become disease. By combining several kinds of plants or
herbs to get benefit of the drug or therapeutic value, it is commonly
known as herbal medicine, Ayurveda has been proven capable of overcoming
various health problems that occurred in the human body.
Humans
have been known ayurvedic herbal medicine based on health since ancient
times. Early primitive men discovered many things which not only
provide remedy, but also food, shelter and clothing.
Ayurveda
is a health science concept or recorded in the "veda", the book of the
world's oldest literature. Ayurveda is the science of life that has been
applied since 1000 BC by the rishi (wise man, sage) India to maintain
health. In Sanskrit, “Ayur” means life and the “Veda” means knowledge,
so that "ayurvedic" literally means Science of Life.
Ayurvedic
principles, or power of life or dosha is divided into three; pitta,
kapha, and vata. Dosha is in the material universe, including humans.
The term dosha indicates the human body's metabolic type and the type of
mind-body (the mind and body). In ayurvedic medicine, the determination
of the type of dosha is the most important stage. To determine the type
of person, ayurvedic practitioners typically conduct observations and
provide a few questions, then just do the stages of therapy.
Kapha,
pitta and vata are in every human being with a different level. Usually
people have one dominant dosha and one accompanist dosha. Differences
combination makes every individual dosha has a personality and a
different health.
Dosha
imbalance is the first sign that the mind and body is not perfectly
coordinated. When disturbed dosha balance, the body will become
vulnerable to pressure from outside, such as viruses, bacteria,
pollution, and stress. Therefore, ayurvedic treatment focused on methods
to balance dosha.
Today,
ayurveda has been widely used in modern medicine systems. This was
triggered by a number of research-conducted scientific research and has
proved how effective the role of plants or herbs on human health.
Probably,
ayurveda is the only science where blood cancers or leukemia are cured,
without side effects. Pediatric leukemia is recovering amazingly
faster, often few weeks time for perfect control. Advanced nations are
spending billions of dollars in research for a cure. However, recurrence
of most types of cancers is a general phenomenon. Scientists can
research how ayurvedic acts selectively, inducing cell death in only the
malignant cells and not affecting neighboring healthy cells.
According
to the World Health Organization, almost 80 percent of the world's
population, or 4 billion people now use some aspects of herbal medicine
in their health care process. Common elements in the American Indian
medicine are traditional oriental medicine, naturopathy, homeopathy and
ayurvedic medicine herbs.
Nowadays,
most commercial drugs using substances derived from plants for the
treatment of high blood pressure, heart disease, asthma, pain, and other
problems,. Ephedrine is used to treat the symptoms of asthma and other
respiratory problems. It is the active ingredient in ephedrine, a
traditional Chinese herb.
The
foxglove plant is another example pointing to the use of modern
medicine herbal extraction. The leaf of this plant is powdered digitalis
to stimulate the heart and provide assistance to a large number of
heart patients.
Some
of the herbs used in ayurveda successful in reducing diabetes and
cholesterol. In recent years, there is growth in the use of herbal
medicines because of the success stories which replaced Prozac for
treating mild depression. In the United States, the popularity of
Ginseng and Ginkgo Biloba increases due to the healing effect.
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