Ayurveda is an ancient Eastern medical science. Unlike Western medicine, Ayurveda addresses the body as a holistic system and focuses on preventative medicine rather than reacting to illness or injury after-the-fact.
By assessing your dosha combination—in other words, your particular constitution—an Ayurvedic practitioner will guide you toward health and equilibrium by offering recommendations to bring your body, mind and spirit into perfect balance.
Andrew Castellanos, owner of Stillpoint Wellness Center in San Francisco, explains that in Ayurvedic medicine, disease is spelled “dis-ease”. When we apply Ayurveda, we bring ease back into the body’s functioning. This powerful holistic system grounds the senses and brings balance to the entire self.
According to Cheryl Sindell, Global Nutritionist, the following are the traditional indicators of good health according to the Ayurvedic system:
- Proper function of sense organs (eyes, ears, mouth, skin and nose)
- Ideal weight for your body type
- A healthy appetite for food
- A feeling of “lightness” in the body
- Easy digestion
- Normal passage of gas
- Normal urine output
- Normal bowel movement
- Normal sleep patterns, without trouble falling asleep
- Feeling refreshed after sleep
- Good strength
- Good complexion
- Good mental faculties
- Good life span
Obviously this last one is hard to judge, but a qualified Ayurvedic practitioner can help you to bring the other thirteen into balance and, ideally, set you up for number fourteen.
