Natural Rhythms Integrative Medicine

Shatavari milk recipe for Pitta pre-dominant constitution:
1 teaspoon of shatavari is added to 1 cup of boiling water
let the water boil down to 1/2 the volume to make a shatavari concentrate
Then, add 2 cups of goat's milk to it.
Let this boil for another 5 mins.
Let this milk cool down...
Drink as a stand alone beverage at the start or end your your day or along with your food.
For Pitta-Vata constitution:
Use cow's milk for a heavier and more grounding effect!
For Pitta-Kapha constitution:
Eat cooling fruits like watermelon, papaya, and cantaloupe.

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Imbalance of vata can lead to ungroundedness, loss of coordination of our physiological functions, and even dysregulation of our mental and emotional states. This is because of the coordinating, communicating, and integrating aspect of Vata. The loss of removal of waste leads to buildup of toxicity. The loss of taking in nutrition leads to degeneration!
The loss of sensory and motor coordination leads to a dysregulated action and behaviors, while a loss of feedback leads to from the body to the hormonal and the nervous system can lead to physiological, holistic, and emotional disturbances. Therefore, individuals feel anxious, oversensitive, and overstimulated in our fast and very dysregulating world.
The return to health is essential for us to function at our best and most efficient way and feel safe and confident and secure in their body. Thank you.
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When the Vata Dosha is in balance, it imparts a sense of lightness, confidence, and safety in the body. This is because it deals with the communication, coordination, and integrity of the body. What it means is that it controls the flow of nutrition into the body and into the cells, flow of waste out of the body, out of the cells.
It deals with the sensory input to the brain, motor output to coordinate our actions, as well as the biofeedback, the silent messages from the body to the hormonal system and to the brain that helps us to adapt to our day to day life and our day to day needs. In turn, Vata is the principle that gives us a sense of wholeness.
and internal peace in the body. When in balance, it is a blessing. And when it is out of balance, it can be very challenging. Let us learn about that in the next video!
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The principle of Vata in Ayurveda has to do with communication, coordination, and integration of the whole system. This includes the microscopic communications inside of cells, intracellular, in between cells, the extracellular, within the organs, organs communicating with each other, and even the body and mind coordinating in terms of our circadian rhythm and our daily activities and routines.
An important aspect of Vata is the translation of our spiritual aspirations, our inspiration, and our will, in the form of the body. Into the function of the mind and body so that we can lead ourselves and our mind and body can follow and cooperate us in leading our life in a good way, in a beneficial way!
That is the principle of Vata in Ayurveda and it helps us to see that when the body is functioning in an integrative way, there is health. While in disease, there is disintegration, degeneration that must be corrected. Vata is the first thing that is addressed in order to make sure the healing process is coordinated and it is integrated to give the greatest benefit and efficiency of healing.
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The definition of health in Ayurveda, some doshas
ayurveda. This means healing is the balanced and well-functioning physiology, a balanced and well-functioning metabolic system. The nourishment of internal organs and cleansing of the body in addition to this. A peaceful mind, a joyful spirit, and an embodied soul.These are the ways we live our best life.
This is the definition of health in Ayurveda. And so Ayurveda is designed to help us achieve every single one of these goals. That is the true scope of Ayurvedic medicine!
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One of the ways we succeed in Ayurveda is helping our patients to understand themselves, their balance, imbalance and disease. The key piece of this is the learning of language of Ayurveda. Language of Ayurveda is not like medical jargon and complicated concepts. It is simple, the language of qualities, qualities that can be sensed, felt, seen, heard, tasted through our senses, and therefore can be known fully by ourselves!
By understanding these qualities, we understand what is health, what is disease, what is imbalanced. And using that same language, we choose. things that promote health, things that balance the disease and lead to healing of the whole person. This is how Ayurveda empowers you.
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Ayurveda follows the principle of universal relativity, which means like promotes like, and opposites balance each other. Like a modern functional medicine doctor or a physiologist, the Ayurvedic physician is looking at the physical phenomenon in the sense of deficiencies, where like can promote like, and in the sense of imbalances or aggravations, where opposite can balance the aggravated or excess state.
So when we choose herbs, diets, body therapies, and other means of treatment, we are looking at the quality of those things, what physiological impact those things are creating in the body, and then whether we want to promote a certain effect, balance a certain excess. This leads to healing!

Thank you for your interest in Ayurveda. I would like to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Anup Mullakalluri. I grew up in India, and growing up in India, I was always surrounded by a lot of home remedies and daily routines. That just seemed like part of kind of the mundane day to day and I never appreciated the power and the benefit of this much growing up!
As I grew up and started to study more of the Ayurvedic medicine, I started to appreciate some of the grandma's remedies and mom's remedies were actually based in the principles of Ayurveda. As I was studying evolutionary biology, I began to appreciate how humans have evolved interdependent relationship with nature...
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The ancient scientists and physicians of Ayurveda develop the language of the Doshas, the Doshas, Vata, Pitta, and Kafa is developed from the understanding of the natural ebbs and flows, patterns, and functions of the human physiology and the human psychology. These patterns and functions of the doshas are actually a representation of natural phenomena.
as they are humanized within us. And so, understanding the human as a part and product of nature, the language of the doshas, gives us a sense of what is natural and balanced, and what is imbalanced and causes disease. We can catch diseases before they manifest, and we can balance them by natural means using this language.
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Ayurveda is an ancient science, at least more than 5, 000 years old. For this reason, often it is dismissed as something being less than modern science. But what is considered this handicap of Ayurveda is actually its strength! See, it was developed at a time when we didn't have the microscopes and the capacity to see a human as a separate parts. And so Ayurveda has always looked at Human as a whole. It looked at human as a part and product of nature. And so developing a language of nature and Ayurveda gives us the understanding of a human being and how they should be in their strength as a natural phenomenon acting in balance. It also gives us an understanding of disease, the imbalance that causes us suffering.
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Have you ever wished that your physician could understand you as more than just a disease or just a psychological problem to deal with? Ayurveda is your answer. Ayurveda looks at humans as a natural phenomenon and so it is important to understand the individuality of the person. We try to understand the emotional, psychological, and the spiritual basis of a person that leads them, that guides them, that inspires them to live a good life. As well as look at the physiological phenomenon's, the natural ebbs and flows, and the disturbances that cause the disease.
Understanding this, Ayurveda formulates an understanding of you and treats you. So rather than a blanket to wrap everyone, a glove that fits exactly you. That is Ayurveda. Namaste https://loom.ly/xZjPjFQ

Vasti therapy for Vata Balance

Vasti treatment = Ayurvedic therapeutic e***a

Why use e***as to help with joint issues? What does the gut have to do with joints?

-Actually, our gut is the main filtration system for toxins, including the toxins that build up in joints and cause joint pain/inflammation.
-One of the biggest inputs our body receives is the food we eat, so the gut has to be the main toxin filter.
-So, the health of our gut and intestinal flora is absolutely essential to reduce the toxin burden in the body, and therefore in the joints.

Why e***as?
We use two types:
-Oil e***as promote healthy flora and soothe and heal the gut. See our previous post on why Ayurveda uses so much oil!
-Purgative e***as help remove toxins and invasive flora out of the body. This calms the body and helps make it more efficient as a filter and healing system for the body.

Healing the gut is directly related to healing the joints.

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What is the Ayurvedic understanding of joint pain’s cause? One common cause is the Ama-vata type of arthritis.

Ama-vata arthritis is caused by accumulated toxins from unhealthy food and insufficient digestion of food. Undigested food and toxins (called Ama) cannot be assimilated by our system, so it accumulates. Because Ama is toxic to the body, the body stores Ama in the skin or joints where it cannot affect the vital organs. Joint inflammation is the reaction of the joints to this storage of Ama. Psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis can arise from this accumulated Ama. This is why the Ayurvedic approach to treating the cause of joint pain is to first cleanse the body, then heal and close these systems to control inflammation.

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Modern medicine vs Ayurveda for joint healing:

The modern medical approach to joint pain focuses on symptom management. For day-to-day pain take OTC painkillers; for chronic pain, take an opioid or cannabis; for an autoimmune condition take a steroid or biological immunosuppressants. Either way, there is no cure, only temporary pain relief.

However, there is a lot of variability in how joint pain manifests and how different people experience it. The Ayurvedic approach offers a suitable and comprehensive alternative to the modern one-size-fits-all.

An Ayurvedic physician seeks out the mechanisms that have caused the joint injury and inflammation. We seek to understand the physiological functional disturbance. Then, we can apply our individualized treatments, diet, and self-care practices to correct the disturbance: in turn, the body controls the inflammation. In Ayurveda true recovery from joint pain is possible.

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Opening the channels of elimination:

In Ama-vata arthritis, we need to help the body identify and eliminate toxins. Once we reduce the toxic burden in the body, it is easier for the body to reduce inflammation. We can cleanse the liver, blood, spleen, etc. with bitter tonics and herbs. We can also use herbal ghees that cross into the joint capsule and initiate cleansing metabolic action on the toxins. The final step is completing the elimination process through virechana (purgation).

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Three scientifically-backed reasons why oil is used in Ayurveda:

1. Oil transcends barriers
Researchers have found that fatty acids can help improve absorption of medicine across the skin, blood- marrow, blood-brain barrier, and mucus membranes including the digestive tract.

2. Oil is nutritive and wound healing
Fatty acids support wound healing. Omega-3, -6, and -9 fatty acids have been found to be effective in reducing inflammation, building new blood vessels, and improving transportation of nutrition into cells.

3. Oil is an excellent carrier of medicine
Oil is an absorption aid. Fatty acids have proven to be effective allies in absorption of fat-soluble healing compounds from plants. In turmeric-based (curcumin) supplements using fatty acids as a carrier resulted in nearly double the absorption.

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