Ayurvedic Approach to Chronic Pain

Chronic pain can often be caused by a variety of imbalances that have become deeply embedded in the physiology over years. True healing of these imbalances requires a comprehensive approach, using several healing modalities.

Through its unique assessment of causal imbalances at the basis of a condition and its wide range of time-tested recommendations, SukhAyurveda provides the most comprehensive natural approach for chronic pain available today.

  

The Root Causes of Chronic Pain

According to Ayurveda, the following are the general types of imbalances at the source of most chronic conditions, including chronic pain:

1. Toxins accumulating in tissues and blocking circulation.
2. Poor nutrition.
3. Poor digestion.
4. Imbalance of the nervous system.
5. Accumulation of physical and mental stress.
6. Lowering of natural resistance and immunity.
7. Disruption of natural biological rhythms.

The common modern medical approach that matches drugs to symptoms does not completely address many of these factors. As a result, modern medicine often cannot fully remove the disorder and the condition becomes chronic. Chronic means that the condition persists over time even with the best modern medical treatment.

SukhAyurveda Program for Chronic Pain

SukhAyurveda therapies are not only effective at removing the imbalances at the basis of chronic disorders but also have no significant side-effects. The goal of this Ayurveda approach is to enliven the body's natural healing and self-repair ability not only to help cure chronic pain, but also to prevent disorder and create the highest state of health and well-being.

1) Removing the Buildup of Toxins and Impurities

Most chronic disorders start when toxins accumulate in tissues and begin to disrupt the delicate biochemistry there. Toxin buildup can also obstruct the channels of circulation and elimination. This blockage prevents proper nutrition from reaching the tissues and blocks the processes that cleanse them of impurities.

SukhAyurveda Consultant provides natural recommendations to remove and help prevent toxin accumulation from:

a.     Hard-to-digest food

b.    Poor digestion

c.     Poor elimination

d.    Improper metabolism

e.     Mental and physical stress

SukhAyurveda Rejuvenation Therapies

The most powerful treatments for removing toxins and opening circulation are the SukhAyurveda Rejuvenation Therapy treatments. This treatment program includes of massage, heat treatment and mild herbal enema. These three treatments are given in combination every day for 5 to 21 days create the ideal internal physical environment for healing.

SukhAyurveda Rejuvenation Therapy treatments address the problem of toxin accumulation by systematically:

• Loosening impurities that have become embedded in tissues and helping liquefy them for easy absorption into the circulation and eventual elimination.
• Softening and opening the channels of circulation and elimination so proper nourishment can reach the tissues and impurities can be more easily eliminated from them.
• Activating the elimination process for the most thorough cleansing of the entire physiology.

Ayurvedic Oil Massage

Ayurvedic oil massage is used in treatments to aid the cleansing process. SukhAyurveda Consultant chooses specific Ayurvedic oil that is individually prepared for your condition.

Ayurvedic oil massage provides a deeply soothing and balancing effect for the entire physiology. The motion of massage creates heat and friction which enhance circulation and help cleanse affected tissues of chemical impurities that could be causing symptoms of chronic pain. The oil and herbs cleanse and nourish the tissues to aid in their repair and development.

The various herbs that have been boiled into base oil, and the oil itself, are specifically chosen for their effectiveness in removing the imbalances at the basis of your condition. The oil helps the balancing process by allowing the herbs to more deeply penetrate the affected tissues.

This program involves two types of Ayurvedic massage:

• Abhyanga massage is a gentle yet firm body massage from head to toe using warm blended oils chosen according to your dosha. The oils gently applied over the body as two therapists perform synchronized massage movements to give you a deeply relaxing and rejuvenating experience.

• Hot Herbal Poultice Massage This centuries-old treatment consists of a therapeutic massage using warm poultices filled with healing, fragrant herbs and spices from India. Warm oils are applied over your body. Then, utilizing the poultice, your therapist massages your body in slow rhythmic movements. Indian massage techniques are used to trace the energy pathways, pressure points, and lymphatic drainage. Every touch induces a new level of relaxation and healing. The fragrant therapeutic nature of the oils, poultice, and massage making this a heavenly, sumptuous experience that will leave you feeling rejuvenated, refreshed and wonderfully relaxed.
  
  

2) Proper Nutrition

SukhAyurveda Consultant provides detailed understanding of which foods to favor and avoid for your condition. Avoid foods that are hard-to-digest, clogging to the physiology and aggravating to the functioning modes that are already imbalanced in you. Favor foods that are easy-to-digest, nourishing, cleanse the physiology, strengthen digestion and balance your body's inner intelligence.

One of the great strengths of the Ayurveda dietary approach is that it contains knowledge of how to have a light, easy-to-digest diet that still is both satisfying and nourishing. Many individuals have easily followed this diet and have improved their digestion and energy while also reducing their symptoms.

Ayurveda herbs

Herbs are considered nutritional supplements in Ayurveda. Their purpose is to restore balance to the specific functioning modes whose malfunctioning is causing your condition. SukhAyurveda Consultant selects the appropriate herbal formulas for aiding the healing process; strengthening digestion and helping the body purify itself of toxins and free radicals.

Free radicals are a specific class of chemicals that are highly irritating to the physiology. Scientific research has found that free radicals contribute to a wide variety of disorders. When appropriate, SukhAyurveda Consultants recommend Ayurveda herbs that research has shown contain powerful anti-oxidants and free radical scavengers.

Traditional Ayurveda theory says that herbs are most effective after a person completes an internal cleansing program. The cleansing and rejuvenation treatments are the main focus at SukhAyurveda. Once cleansing program is finished, maximum benefits are achieved from herbal program.

3) Creating Strong Digestion

Our ability to properly digest food is as important as what specific food we eat. Incompletely digested foods create toxins and impurities that are eventually absorbed, travel throughout the physiology, localize in tissues and disrupt their functioning. This process plays a major role in a wide variety of chronic conditions, including chronic pain.

SukhAyurveda Consultant provides recommendations for strengthening digestion including information in the following areas:

• Proper use of spices and cooking oils.
• Herbal preparations for improving digestion.
• Important differences between breakfast, lunch and dinner foods.
• A simple system to determine a balanced diet.
• Digestion-enhancing foods to favor.
• Digestion-depressing foods to reduce.
• Eating behavior for maximum digestion.
• Proper food combinations to avoid indigestion.
• Non-dietary regiments to improve digestive strength including exercise, specific Yoga asanas and breathing techniques.

4) Balancing Nervous System Activity

The nervous system controls most bodily functions, and almost every chronic condition is affected in some way when the nervous system activity becomes imbalanced. According to Ayurveda, the physiological principle at the basis of nervous system stability and activation is called Vata. Because nervous system imbalance contributes to chronic pain, from the Ayurveda perspective Vata imbalance is an underlying cause of the condition and needs to be reversed.

SukhAyurveda contains a wide variety of time-tested Ayurveda recommendations to help restore balance to Vata and remove the symptoms caused by its aggravation. These include specific diets, herbs, cleansing programs, Yoga asanas and Yoga breathing exercises.

5) Stress Management

Excessive mental, emotional and physical stress can worsen the symptoms of many chronic disorders, including chronic pain. This is due to hormonal changes and other biochemical responses to stress that can imbalance the nervous system and depress the healing ability of the body.

Enhancing the body's ability to recover from stress is an integral part of our approach to health and well-being. The following programs help reverse the body's response to stress:

• Ayurveda massage and heat treatments
• Yoga asana postures
• Meditation

6) Lifestyle and Daily Routine

One of the most important factors for maintaining healthy functioning is to have a lifestyle that does not disturb natural bodily rhythms. When we eat, sleep and exercise in constantly fluctuating and disturbing patterns, the body loses its natural balancing cycles and cannot cleanse or heal itself as effectively. Therefore, regularity in our daily routine can be extremely effective in reducing physiological imbalance at the basis of chronic pain.

SukhAyurveda Consultants reviews daily routine and creates a daily schedule that will increase balance in physiology and aid in healing of the body.

7) Exercise and Flexibility Education

SukhAyurveda considers proper stretching and flexibility exercises to have a very positive effect on circulation, nervous system function, the body's healing response and the treatment of many chronic conditions.

We offer Yoga classes every day and teach simple but profound set of postures that you can practice daily to improve circulation and create a healthy flexibility throughout the body. We also instruct you in individualized Yoga breathing practices that create a state of restful alertness in mind and body.

8) Strengthening the Body's Natural Healing and Self-Repair Mechanisms

Ultimately every treatment approach must depend on the body's natural healing ability for a real cure of the condition. SukhAyurveda's approach is not to attack the disorder with something from the outside, like drugs or surgery, but to attempt to enliven the innate healing response of the body.

The healing response is one of the most complex and coordinated activities within the human physiology and often cannot be strengthened significantly without a comprehensive natural approach.

Taken together, all the SukhAyurveda programs described above aim to create the ideal mental, physical and behavioral environment for healing.

Happy Ayurveda!

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RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

                                                                            

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic joint disorder of unknown cause. It involves multiple synovial joints in symmetric fashion mainly of hands and feet. Organs other than joints such as the skin, heart, lungs, and eyes can also be involved. Cervical spine involvement usually affects C1-C2 and may potentially cause serious neurologic consequences. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is the most common form of childhood arthritis.

Ayurvedic View

In ayurveda rheumatoid arthritis is known as Aamvata. When the digestive fire decreases due to various reasons the food remains undigested. This undigested food is called Aam. It travels throughout the body and due to its viscous nature it blocks channels and causes increase of vata dosha. In the favourable conditions when this increased vata occupies joints along-with aam it causes aamvata.

This disease also has a relation with mind. It is commonly seen that RA attacks women mostly; it shows that this has some "emotional" reasons also, whether these are responsible for causing it or aggravates it. In many cases it has been noted that women with lot of depression are suddenly caught by this disease, it also proves the impact of psychological stress and changes on the disease.

Aggravating Factors

1) Genetic susceptibility
 2) An external trigger like trauma and infection that triggers autoimmunity
3) Sex hormones
4) Immunological factors


Symptoms

1)    Difficulty in day to day activities

2)    Fatigue, malaise, weight loss

3)    Morning stiffness

4)    Low grade fever

5)    Painful  and swollen joints

6)    Rheumatic nodule formation occurs in subcutaneous tissues of the finger, in toe and heel pads, in tendons, and in viscera.

Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis

1)   SukhAyurveda detox and purification therapy

According to ayurveda this disease is mainly caused by aam and we at SukhAyurveda give purification therapies to eliminate aam from the body so that blockage of channels should be removed. Therapeutic purgation i.e. virechana and medicated enema should be done to eliminate aam.  Sukhayurveda’s Arthritis care therapies including full body Abhyangam, Ilakizhi(pottali Massage), NavaraKizhi(Medicated Rice Pottali massage), Svedanam(Steam bath) are used along with Destress therapies like Shirodhara, aromatherapy.

2)   Proper Nutriton

We at SukhAyurveda help to improve the digestion by giving herbal    formulations and advising simple adaptive modifications of diet to the patients. Cold, spicy, stale and hard to digest food should be avoided. Proper spacing between two meals is necessary. One should take Old Rice, Butter Milk, Wet Ginger, Garlic, Wheat, Bitter gourd and Horse Gram in his diet. Avoid consumption of Dairy products, Sweets, Oily foods, Chinese Food, Junk and Fast Foods, Salty and Sour Foods, Jaggery, Black Gram, Fish, Cold Drinks and Ice Creams.

3) Physical exercise

Fatigue and decreased endurance are frequent symptoms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. A reduction in muscle strength is noted due to the disease itself and to the lack of physical activity in these patients. Exercise is an important part of the rehabilitation management of Rheumatoid arthritis. We at SukhAyurveda recommend various Yogic exercises to the patients to improve joint activity.

  

4)Life style

SukhAyurveda Consultant advises proper life style to the patient for reduction of the episodes of exacerbation and rehabilitation. Sedentary life style, excessive exercises, cold exposure and wandering in rain should be avoided. Bathing with cold water should be strictly avoided. Warm water bath is recommended. It is also advisable to take a gentle walk after consumption of food. Also it is good to avoid water intake immediately after consuming food.

5) Herbal Preparations

Sukhayurveda consultant advises various herbal formulas according to the disease. Guggulu and castor oil are most effective drugs in treating ‘Amavata’. Also herbal preparations of Ashwagandha, haritaki, Rasna, Shunthi, Pippali and Trivrut are helpful in ‘Aamvata’. The above mentioned drugs should be taken only after consulting a Qualified Ayurvedic Consultant.

6)Strengthening the Body's Natural Healing and Self-Repair Mechanisms

Sukhayurveda not only cures disease by therapies but also boost one’s inner strength to fight with diseases naturally. The healing response is one of the most complex and coordinated activities within the human physiology and often cannot be strengthened significantly without a comprehensive natural approach.

Taking together, all the SukhAyurveda health programmes described above you can create the ideal mental, physical and behavioral environment for healing.

Happy Ayurveda!

Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Ayurveda

                                     

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional GI disorder characterized by abdominal pain and altered bowel habits in the absence of specific and unique organic pathology. In ayurveda the disease is called Grahini as it occurs due to dysfunction of Grahini kala. The main function of the grahini kala is to retain food until digestion. Due to improper dietary habits and lifestyle, over anxiety, depression and other psychological behaviours digestive fire decreases leading to indigestion. The undigested food leads to toxin formation which disturbs the function of grahini kala. Thus leading to passage of digested as well as undigested faecal matter. The feacal matter may be loose or constipated.

                          According to Ayurveda, psyche and physical fitness are interdependent. Stress causes GI disturbance or vice versa or it coexists, breaking the vicious cycle Stressà GI disturbanceàStressà GI disturbance is the treatment

Symptoms of IBS

1. alternative constipation and diarrhea

2. thirst, anorexia, excessive salivation,

3. joint pain , heaviness in body

4. fever, vomiting

5. eructations with metallic and foul smell

6. burning sensations during defeacation

Four bowel patterns may be seen with irritable bowel syndrome. These patterns include the following:

• IBS-D (diarrhea predominant)
• IBS-A(alternative diarrhea and constipation)
• IBS-C (constipation predominant)
• IBS-M (mixed diarrhea and constipation)

Management of IBS at SukhAyurveda

1) Detoxify

IBS starts when accumulated toxins begin to disrupt functions of digestive system. We at SukhAyurveda provide natural recommendations to remove and help prevent toxin accumulation from:

• Hard-to-digest food
• Poor digestion
• Poor elimination
• Mental and physical stress

SukhAyurveda Detox Therapies for IBS

The most powerful treatments for removing toxins are the SukhAyurveda Detox Therapies. These treatment programs may include Abhyangam massage, Herbal bun (pottali) massage, purgation and mild herbal enema. These treatments are given in combination according to the patients’ constitution and disease. These create the ideal internal physical environment for healing.

SukhAyurveda Detox Therapies address the problem of toxin accumulation by systematically:

• Loosening impurities that have become embedded in tissues and helping liquiefy them for easy absorption into the circulation and eventual elimination.
• Softening and opening the channels of circulation and elimination so proper nourishment can reach the tissues and impurities can be more easily eliminated from them.
• Activating the elimination process for the most thorough cleansing of the entire physiology.

2) Proper Nutrition

SukhAyurveda Consultant provides detailed understanding of which foods to favor and avoid for your condition. Avoid foods that are hard-to-digest (like milk, caffeine, pulses like kidney bean, etc) clogging to the physiology and aggravating to the doshas(functioning modes) that are already imbalanced in you. Favor foods that are easy-to-digest, nourishing, cleanse the physiology, strengthen digestion and balance your body's inner intelligence. Buttermilk should be used instead of milk with added salt, black pepper, and roasted cumin seeds to improve digestion.

3) Creating Strong Digestion

Our ability to properly digest food is as important as what specific food we eat. Incompletely digested foods create toxins and impurities that are eventually absorbed, travel throughout the physiology, localize in tissues and disrupt their functioning. This process plays a major role in IBS

SukhAyurveda Consultant provides recommendations for strengthening digestion including information in the following areas:

• Proper use of spices and cooking oils.
• Herbal preparations for improving digestion.
• Important differences between breakfast, lunch and dinner.
• A simple system to determine a balanced diet.
• Digestion-enhancing foods to favor.
• Digestion-depressing foods to reduce.
• Eating behavior for maximum digestion.
• Proper food combinations to avoid indigestion.
• Non-dietary regiments to improve digestive strength including exercise, specific Yoga asanas and breathing techniques.

Ayurveda herbs

Their purpose is to restore balance to the doshas(specific functioning modes) whose malfunctioning is causing your condition. SukhAyurveda Consultant selects the appropriate herbal formulas for improving the function of grahini kala, strengthening digestion and helping the body purify itself of toxins.

Traditional Ayurveda theory says that herbs are most effective after a person completes a Detox program. The cleansing and rejuvenation treatments are the main focus at SukhAyurveda. Once cleansing program is finished, maximum benefits are achieved from herbal program.

5) Stress Management

Excessive mental, emotional and physical stress can worsen the symptoms of IBS. This is due to hormonal changes and other biochemical responses to stress that can imbalance the nervous system and depress the healing ability of the body.

Enhancing the body's ability to recover from stress is an integral part of our approach to health and well-being. The following programs help reverse the body's response to stress:

• Destress Ayurvedic Massges like shirodhara, takardhara, Ksheeradhara, Abhyangam or pizhichil
• Yoga asana, Pranayam, Meditation

6) Lifestyle and Daily Routine

One of the most important factors for maintaining healthy functioning is to have a lifestyle that does not disturb natural bodily rhythms. When we eat, sleep and exercise in constantly fluctuating and disturbing patterns, the body loses its natural balancing cycles and cannot cleanse or heal itself as effectively. Therefore, regularity in our daily routine can be extremely effective in reducing physiological imbalance at the basis of IBS.

SukhAyurveda Consultants reviews daily routine and creates a daily schedule that will increase balance in physiology and aid in healing of the body.

7) Yoga

SukhAyurveda considers Yoga as a non-dietary regiment to improve digestive strength, circulation, nervous system function, the body's healing response.

We offer Yoga classes every day and teach simple but profound set of postures that you can practice daily. For IBS we recommend

1.     Vajarasana

2.     Supta-veerasana

3.     Pitta-vardhak mudra

Pranayam & Meditation are also advised for their psychosomatic benefits of restful alertness in mind and body.

8) Strengthening the Body's Natural Healing and Self-Repair Mechanisms

Ultimately every treatment approach must depend on the body's natural healing ability for a real cure of the condition. SukhAyurveda approach is not to attack the disorder with something from the outside, like drugs or surgery, but to attempt to enliven the innate healing response of the body.

The healing response is one of the most complex and coordinated activities within the human physiology and often cannot be strengthened significantly without a comprehensive natural approach.

Taken together, all the SukhAyurveda programs described above aim to create the ideal mental, physical and behavioral environment for healing.

Happy Ayurveda!

Beat the Heat with Ayurveda

Summers make it tough for both mind and body to cope up with day to day activities. Some of the steps for helping us remain cool and healthy in these times are:

Cooling Diet

·        Pitta pacifying food which is sweet in taste like rice, curd. ·        Fruits with fluid such as melon, watermelon, coconut water, cucumber. ·        Lots of fluids like mango panna, lemon water, barley sattoo, squahes made with phalsa, khas, lemon, almond. ·        Use the cooler spices in food like Licorice, fennel, cumin seeds etc ·        Avoid alcohol or dilute it for consumption. Instead use Beer. ·        Avoid having pungent, sour and salty food. ·        Avoid anti-perspirants which are there in Deodorants and talcum powders, rather keep your body detoxified to keep yourself odour free

Lifestyle

·        Exercise Light –quantity restricted to ardh bala(half Strength) ·        Clothings Light colours, cotton, exposed areas to be covered when exposed to sunlight ·        Use sunglasses, don’t splash water to eyes after exposure to sun till body cools down as it can harm eye sight. Take baths with cool water. ·        Avoid direct exposure to sun from 10 am to 2 pm , or take lots of liquid before going out. ·        Use the fragrances like sandal, lavender, kevra and rose.

Ayurvedic Therapies

·        Use of cooler oils like coconut oil is good for daily body massage ·        Go for pitta pacifying treatments like Ksheerdhara, Takradhara(buttermilk),Jaldhara(water),mud bath etc.

Dehydration

·        Water boiled in spices like coriander, fennel and cumin seeds helps in hydration as well as cleansing the toxins out of the body. ·        Avoid caffeinated beverages which dehydrate the body. ·        The research shows that for every 1% of water weight that we lose, our capacity to do work goes down by 10%.

Protection from Prickly Heat

·        Avoid bathing when sweating. Bathe when sweat has evaporated and body is at the room temperature. Use cool water for bathing. ·        Drink Grape juice, lemon juice, sattu, buttermilk and other fluids in higher quantities. ·        Wear loose cotton clothing to encourage the evaporation from skin and avoid further skin irritation. ·        Keep the skin clean and avoid the use of harsh soaps, Powder of Sandalwood dusted all over the body gives effective relief in prickly heat. Multani mitti paste can also be applied on the affected part. ·        Application of aloe vera gel is effective in relieving itching.

Protection from Sun Burn and Sun Tan

·        Pitta constitution people having fair, sensitive, warm and soft skin are more likely to have suntan and sunburn due to the aggravation of Bhrajak Pitta in skin. ·        Clothe exposed parts using long gloves, socks, hats to avoid direct exposure. ·        Keep yourself hydrated. Use cooling fluids to drink like fresh lime ·        Use natural sunscreens like papaya, cucumber, apple, aloe, red lentile, sandalwood, multani mitti etc. ·        Application of gels like aloe vera is effective in relieving sun burns

Protection from Heat Stroke

·        Keep yourself nourished & hydrated. Empty stomach increase heat stroke probability. ·        Use lots of onion, raw mangoes, tamarind beverages in daily diet ·        Reduce salty food as it disturbs the normal sweat production and increase the chances of heat stroke. ·        Don’t drink ice cold water as it will shock your body, drink cool water.

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