Guest guest Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 hi there i also suffer from bad skin, in what ways have you found that ayurveda helps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2003 Report Share Posted June 18, 2003 Hi For bad skin try a course of Aonwla (Indian gooseberry) powder (best if you can get fresh fruits) or Triphala powder for about 2 months to detoxify your system and apply Aloe gel on the skin. Vinod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2003 Report Share Posted June 19, 2003 Greetings Generally speaking, ayurveda says bad skin is due to fire and toxins in the blood due to bad diet and anger. Remove fire from the small intestine and fire associated organs liver-gallbladder through purgation of panchakarma. You will need a clinician for panchakarma plus it tends to be expensive. You could try a home treatment. See below. Also 2 to 3 teaspoons of castor oil followed by small amount of warm milk with 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder before bed is a purgative for small intestine. Better yet, see The Amazing Liver Cleanse by Andreas Moritz. Remove fire and toxins from blood by blood clearing herbs like burdock or blood cleanse tablets from http://www.banyanbotanicals.com Eat a diet in accord with your ayurvedic constitution. Pitta foods and angry emotions aggravate skin conditions. The liver is where anger gets stuck. Keep in mind, I am not a doctor of ayurveda. Best to have a practitoner diagnose and prescribe in person. Kind regards OneLove Panchakarma Home Treatment From The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies by Dr. Vasant Lad In ayurveda, both for periodic prevention (to reverse any build up of toxins) and to deal with a specific health problem, panchakarma (cleansing) is the highly recommended art of detoxification and healing. If you are not near a center where panchakarma is available under the supervision of a trained ayurvedic physician, you can do an effective purification program at home for 8 days Begin your program with internal oleation (lubrication.) For 3 days in a row, consume 2 ounces of melted ghee (clarified butter see recipe below) early in the morning. Wait for appetite to return before eating. For a vata person, take the ghee with a pinch of unrefined sea salt. For a pitta person, take the ghee plain. For a kapha person take the ghee with a pinch of ginger and black pepper. The ghee provides internal oleation which is necessary so that the toxins in the deep tissues of the body are dislodged and are taken to the intestinal tract for elimination. Every night during the home purification, take 5 capsules of triphala natural laxative (available from omorganics.com) with warm water before going to bed. After three days of internal oleation, it is time for external oleation. For the next 5 days apply 8 ounces of warm (not hot) oil to your body from head to toe, rubbing it in well for 15 to 20 minutes. Then remove the oil in a hot shower or bath with a natural soap The best oil for the vata person is sesame, pitta sunflower oil, and kapha corn oil. To complete your home panchakarma treatment, on the last three days perform an ayurvedic herbalized enema (see procedure below) after your hot shower or bath. Use the detoxifying herb mix named Dashamula tea for the enema (available from ayurveda.com.) Boil 1 tablespoon of dashamula tea in 16 ounces water for 5 minutes to make a tea. Let cool, strain, and use the liquid as an enema. Retain the liquid as long as you comfortably can. And don't worry if little or no liquid comes out. Absorption of the liquid is normal. This oleation both internal and external with ghee and oil, sweating using a hot shower or bath, purgation using triphala, followed by a enema with the detoxifying tea, constitute an effective panchakarma that you can easily do on your own at home. During the entire time it is important to get plenty of rest, and to observe a light diet. From day 4 to 8 eat only kitchari (see recipe below.) Ideally, do panchakarma twice a year every year, late spring and early fall. This will prevent disease and retard the aging process. Summary Day 1 to 3 - Internal oleation. Regular ayurvedic diet. Triphala. Day 4 to 8 - External oleation. Eat kitchari only. Triphala. Day 6 to 8 - External oleation. Eat kitchari only. Triphala. Enema. Day 9 - Light diet leading to regular ayurvedic diet. Ok to continue with triphala. Take rejuvenative herbs like ashwaganda for vata people, shatavari for pitta people, and punarnava for kapha people. Also Chyavanprash for all types. Three Cautions About Home Panchakarma 1. Not for anyone with low vitality. 2 . Not for the pregnant. 3. Not during menstruation 4. This treatment may eventually release buried emotions. If this happens, take a relaxing herb tea. Ayurvedic Enema Ayurvedic enema treatment introduces into the rectum medicinals such as sesame oil, or herbal decoctions such as dashamula tea in a liquid medium. Medicated enemas pacify vata and alleviate many vata disorders, such as constipation, abdominal distention, insomnia, backache, neck pain, arthritis, sciatica, anxiety, and various nervous disorders. It is said that there at least eighty vata related disorders, and that enema is a complete treatment for 80 percent of them. Enema also is effective for treating chronic fever, sexual disorders, kidney stones, hyperacidity, and numerous other conditions. The best times for enema is in the morning or evening. The stomach should be empty, so wait at least three hours after eating. Make sure the environment is clean, warm, and comfortable: An area where you can lay down near the toilet is best. You will need an enema bag, measuring cup, oil and or herbal decoction, and towels. An enema can bucket is easier to clean (available from colonichealth.com) The usual procedure for enema is first to introduce 5 ounces of warm (not hot) sesame oil into the rectum and retain it for 10 minutes. Then, without expelling the oil, introduce a mixture of oil and herbal tea and retain it for at least 30 minutes. The mixture should consist of another 5 ounces of sesame oil, mixed with 16 ounces of herbal tea made from herbs steeped in hot water, then strained and cooled to about body temperature. To introduce the fluid into the rectum, first fill the enema container, which should be suspended about 3 feet above your position. Allow the air to be expelled from the tube hose by letting the liquid flow through, then close the clip on the hose. Then lay on the floor on your left side, your left (bottom) leg extended and your right leg flexed at the knee. For comfort lay on a couple of towels and not the bare floor. Lubricate the rectal tip with sesame oil. Make sure the rectum area is clean and lubricated. Carefully and slowly insert the rectal tip into the rectum, then release the clip and allow all the fluid to enter. When the enema container is empty, remove the tip. Again, try to hold the oil for 10 minutes, and then hold the oil/herbal tea for another 30 minutes if you can. While holding the fluid inside, assume a hands-and-knees position for a while and elevate the buttocks; this relaxes the colon. Periodically massage the colon area lightly with a counterclockwise motion (as seen when you look down toward your navel.) Massage up the left side to the rib cage, across to the right side, and down. (This is opposite to the way food journeys through and serves to propel the enema fluid up into the higher areas of the colon.) When the fluid has been retained for the suggested time (or if you just can't hold it) sit on the toilet and release. For some individuals, the fluid does not come back out. That simply means the colon was very dry and that all the liquid has been absorbed. This is entirely natural and is nothing to worry about. Note: Oil enemas are not for anyone with acute fever, diarrhea, cold, paralysis, heart pain, severe abdominal pain, or emaciation. Medicated enemas are not for the aged, children under seven, or anyone with indigestion, cough, breathlessness, ascites, profuse edema, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, hemorrhoids, diabetes, or anemia. Ghee Recipe Slowly melt one pound of organic unsalted butter in a glass sauce pan. When butter begins to boil, reduce heat and slow boil 12 to 15 minutes. Careful not to burn. When curds at bottom of pan turn light tan, remove from heat. Remove foam on top of melted butter with large spoon. Pour ghee through stainless steel strainer into glass jar and seal with lid. Ghee does not require refrigeration unless the weather is hot. Shelf life is unlimited. Use a clean dry spoon when removing ghee from jar. Unlike butter, ghee does not easily burn when used in cooking. A general dosage is 2 teaspoons per day on food. Ghee is one of the highest regarded tonic foods in ayurvedic medicine. Kitchari Recipe 1/4 cup organic split yellow mung beans 1/4 cup organic white basmati rice 1 and 3/4 cups spring water 1/4 inch slice organic fresh ginger 1/2 teaspoon organic tumeric powder 1/2 teaspoon organic corriander powder 1/2 teaspoon organic cumin powder 1 tablespoon organic ghee 1 pinch sea salt 1 organic lime wedge 1/4 cup fresh chopped organic cilantro leaves aka corriander The beans do not need prior soaking in water. Bring water to a boil in sauce pan. Add beans, rice, ginger and salt. Cover and simmer on low for 30 minutes until tender with porridge like consistency. In sauce pan saute spices in ghee for a minute then mix into rice and beans. This is important to release the energy of the spices. Ok to add steamed vegetables. Top with cilantro and lime. Serves one. Ok to make personal adjustments. This is the most basic kitchari recipe for detoxificiation and healing. You can find many different variations of this basic recipe. Sometimes the rice quantity is doubled. To maintain texture of rice, cook rice and beans separately as follows. Cook 1/2 cup rice in 1 cup water. Remove from heat and let sit covered for 5 minutes. Cook 1/4 cup beans in 1 cup water for 20 minutes. Mix spices and ghee into beans. Top rice with beans. Eating only kitchari can be constipating. Include extra fiber. A good substitute to rice is the grain quinoa. Tumeric, corriander, and cumin strengthen digestion plus tumeric is detoxifying. Organic spices available from ayurveda.com or lhasakarnak.com Kitchari simply means rice and bean mixture. Note: Split yellow mung beans also know as yellow mung or moong dahl (bean) is considered the very best bean for the ayurvedic diet, detoxification and healing. They are extremely easy to digest, have a subtle sweet taste, and not astringent. They are simply the whole green mung bean with the green hull removed and split. You can use whole green mung beans, but they require about one hour of soaking and about 45 minutes of cooking. Running the cooked beans through a blender can make them more digestible. Organic split yellow mung beans are currently only produced by American Health and Nutrition (organictrading.com.) They only do wholesale with a 500 pound minimum. The retailers are HarvestTimeNaturalFoods.com 800-628-8736 or 517-628-2506 minimum 35.00 and Everybodys Health Food Store 641-472-5199 no minimum. Ask your health food store to carry them! Panchakarma Additional Reading Ayurvedic Healing by Dr. David Frawley Ayurveda and Panchakarma by Dr. Sunil Joshi Panchakarma and Ayurvedic Massage by Dr. Avinash Lele (available from vadikherbs.com) Panchakarma Clinics The Ayurvedic Institute http://www.ayurveda.com The Raj http://www.theraj.com The Chopra Center http://www.chopra.com California College of Ayurveda http://www.ayurvedacollege.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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