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Chronic Pancreatitis treatment in Ayurveda

How we treat Chronic Pancreatitis? Chronic Pancreatitis is treated at HimVeda with herbal medicine and a strict dietary regimen. Panchakarma procedures are not done as most of the times the condition of the patient does not allow this. Hence the patients will not be admitted. Money and time can thus be saved as the diet… View Article

Interstitial lung disease in Ayurveda

Ayurveda-The ray of hope in Interstitial lung disease We have treated a wide variety of cases of Interstitial lung disease (ILD) . Results vary depending upon age and extent of lung damage. Minimum 3 months of treatment are required to show clinical improvement . Remarkable improvement has been noticed in a number of patients where the extent… View Article

Chronic kidney disease in Ayurveda

Chronic Kidney Disease Ayurvedic treatment We at HimVeda are successfully treating Chronic kidney disease (CKD) with Ayurvedic medicines. The medicines have to be taken at home along with a strict diet. Expected Results: Basic blood tests like serum creatinine, urea etc. are advised just before starting the medicine and are repeated 2 weeks after, with… View Article

Understanding Ama

The Sanskrit name for disease in Ayurveda i s ‘Amaya’ which means something derived from ‘ama’ – the unwanted or unprocessed. On t he other hand the name for the field of general medicine is ‘kayachikitsa’ where kaya is a synonym of agni or fire. This underlines the importance of ama and agni in the… View Article

Refined Sugars- Ayurvedic perspective

If a list of bad foods was drawn, refined sugar would rank second on this list, the first one being refined oils Some of the qualities of sweet taste mentioned in Ayurveda are: Prahaladana: brings happiness to the mind Brimhana :nourishing Tarpana: nourishes the senses Varnakar: Improves skin colour and complexion Ayushya: increases life expectancy… View Article

Refined oils – Ayurvedic perspective

It is held in Ayurveda that our body is rich in fats – ‘snehasaroyam purusa‘ . No biochemical reaction or any cell function would ever occur in the body in the absence of fats. No food represents such a full spectrum of molecules – from healthy to distorted and extremely toxic as fat…. View Article

Sarcoidosis treatment in Ayurveda – a case study

Sarcoidosis now curable with Ayurveda We treat Sarcoidosis with Panchakarma therapies followed by Rasayana therapy. Out of Panchakarma therapies ‘Basti‘ was the treatment of choice. Although treatment pattern varies depending upon stage of disease and body constitution. In many cases we treat with medicine only and therapies are not needed. We are presenting here, in short… View Article

BASTI treatment in Ayurveda

Basti – The jewel of Ayurveda This is an article to help people understand the importance of Basti treatment in Ayurveda. Basti in Ayurveda is said to be among the main therapies, we can also call it the king of all Ayurveda treatments. Often in our clinical practice we are amazed seeing the results of… View Article

Ayurvedic massage

Ayurvedic massage Ayurvedic massage is becoming more and more popular by the day. In fact we have observed that sometimes people identify Ayurveda with ‘massage’ which is a very sad state of affairs as far as Ayurveda is concerned. By this we don’t mean that massage is not important, neither do we underestimate the… View Article

Ayurvedic treatment for Asthma -The role of bitter tasting foods

Ayurvedic treatment for asthma Ayurvedic treatment for asthma like for any other disease consists of drugs that derive their potency from their taste.In Ayurveda every drug has a taste which gives it the potential. According to scientists at the University of Massachusetts medical school ,substances which give some foods their bitter flavors can also… View Article