Health Tips - Some Ayurvedic Tips For Health and Vigor

The series on Ayurveda aims at acquainting the readers of "Akhand Jyoti: The Light Divine" with the easy-to-use preventive and therapeutic modes of this Vedic Science of Life. The broad topics covered under this series since 2003 include: Interpretation and Reinvestigation of Ayurvedic Philosophy of Well-being in New Scientific Light; Yoga and Ayurveda; Diagnostics in Ayruveda; Tips of Routine and Daily Practices for Sustenance and Augmentation of Vigor and Immunity; Ayurvedic Decoction Therapy – significant findings and prescriptions of the Herbal Lab at Brahmvarchas Research Centre, Shantikunj, Hardwar. Sound mind, happy heart and healthy body are interdependent. The founders ofAyurveda had well understood and incorporated this fact in this ancient Indian science of medicine. Today, the luxurious life-style, stressful jobs, environmental pollution, and varieties of complications in the familial and social system have increased the psychosomatic disorders at an alarming rate. The clinical studies and surveys across the globe show hypertension, diabetes, cardiac diseases and spinal problems, muscular spasm and body-pains as common health hazards of this category. Imbalanced, stressful routine, excessively ambitious and cutthroat competition, comfort-driven attitude, smoking, high-calorie lavish food are identified as the major causes of these diseases. "Akhand Jyoti" (Hindi) has been providing practical guidance from time to time, on how one could enhance the resistance and vitality levels of the body by some simple practices of scientific spirituality and art of living. Many readers of this Hindi magazine and its translated versions have benefited by adopting these guidelines. However, the need for risk-free, effective and low-cost medicines remains important, given the rising number of patients all over the world. In view of the limitations of modern medicines in curing and controlling the psychosomatic disorders and diseases, the relevance and importance of herbal medicines as effective alternative and complementary therapies has been recognized by the frontline scientists over the few decades. Extensive research is now going on in several reputed laboratories in these areas. However, the modern, especially the Western experimental methods revolve around identification, extraction and large-scale production of active chemical compounds from plants and herbs prescribed inAyurveda and Chinese Scriptures of Medicines. This approach ignores the radical component of Ayurvedic and Chinese medicines, viz., synergistic effects of whole herb/plant, the vital energy of its fresh natural form processed without chemicals, etc.