Ayurvedic Science of Healing

Sujatha Reddy is a professional counselor and an Ayurvedic Practitioner. She has a degree in Ayurvedic Science from India. Ayurveda is a traditional Indian system of medicine which is over 5,000 years old. It deals with the balance of the mind, body and spirit through lifestyle changes and herbs for balancing your unique body constitution. In this presentation, Su explains that everyone is born with a unique combination of the five elements or three doshas. When this inborn constitution becomes imbalanced through diet, lifestyle, time of day, time of life and climate, it is called vikruti. Therefore, Ayurveda suggests the use of different qualities and substances to bring these elements back into balance. Each of us may be primarily one dosha or a combination of the three: vata, pitta or kapha. Ayurveda recommends that we eat a balanced diet, with all six tastes, regularly. However, if you clearly have the symptoms of an imbalance in one of the doshas, you should favor foods that decrease that dosha and avoid the ones that aggravate it. This is an excellent explanation of Ayurveda.