Abano.it - The healing techniques of ayurveda medicine

The dosha’s balance can be considered like a natural order: when this order is disturbed, it creates an imbalance that is seen as disorder. Health is order, illness is disorder. In living beings there is a constant interaction and alternation between order and disorder, balance and imbalance.

Bad habits, lifestyle, nutrition, stress and emotional repressions can throw off the balance of a person’s dosha; as they get worse they produce a change in the metabolism and tissue physiology that leads to the production and the accumulation of Ama, or toxins. These toxins enter the circulation and are distributed all throughout the living being, blocking off the channels that, according to Ayurveda, functionally connect all the corporal tissues. The poisoning will gradually affect the being on all its levels (energetic, immune and metabolic) bringing about the symptoms of the illness. Every illness is the expression of accumulation of Ama, or toxins.

An ayurveda doctor is able to evaluate through the diagnosis methods of aryuveda, in which a pulse exam plays an important role, the first stages of an imbalance, before any clear signs of symptoms, hence intervening by supplying specific recommendations about a better life style, eating habits and remedies meant to re-establish the psychological and phisical balance, needed to be in good health.

There are various healing techniques adopted by Ayurvedica Medicine, including actions directed to re-balance the body, the mind and their interaction with the environment.

In sum, we can identify a series of actions through:

	BODY: nutrition, use of medicinal plants, external physical treatments such as massages (abyangam) given with oil and particular techniques, cleansing therapies known as panchakarma, purification techniques and yoga asana;
	SENSES: according to Ayurveda, the imbalance derives from an incorrect use of the senses, and just like the senses can bring and imbalance they can also bring the re-balance. This is why all treatments such as aromas, music, awareness of food flavours, space, forms and colours, tactile and contact stimulation are considered in order to reach a suitable sense appeal and a precise therapeutic answer.
	BEHAVIOUR: understood as what is connected to the environment, deprived of any moral references; and consists, for instance, of psycho-physical rhythms related to daily schedules, seasonal changes and rhythms of nature in general;
	MIND: Ayurveda gives emphasis to the ecology of the mind and its processes as the key to individual balance; and suggests various rebalancing methods based on techniques of meditation and yoga;
	ENVIROMENT: Aryuveda identifies in the environment the source of sense stimulation that could determine our balance and thus foresees an accurate analysis of the environment according to the vedica science called Vastu (similar to the Chinese feng shui).

In reality, Aryuveda is more than a simple medicine, it rather directs life towards the learning of regularity and harmony of a life style, expressed on its three main components: activity, nutrition and rest.