What is the Purpose of Ayurveda?

Ayurveda is a traditional system of medicine with the historical roots in the Indian sub continental and that seeks to integrate the body,mind, spirit and soul by using the comprehensive approach especially by diet, herbal remedies, exercise, meditation, breathing and physical therapy.

It aims to provide the information regarding food and lifestyle so that healthy people so that healthy people can stay healthy and with the health challenges we can improve their health.

There are several aspects related to Ayurveda they are:

• Its information will be often different for each and every person about which food and lifestyle they should follow in order to become a healthy person.
• Everything in Ayurveda is validated by observation and knowledge derived from the ancient texts.
• It understands there are energetic forces that influences the nature and human beings and for these energetic forces also called as Tridoshas.
• Ayurveda which provides a connection between the body and the mind it gives many information regarding this relationship.
• The Ayurveda is a system of healing that originated in India thousands of years ago. We can find evidence for this Ayurveda in ancient books of the wisdom known as Vedas. In Rigveda over 60% were mentioned that could be used to assist an individual for various health issues and this rigveda is written over 6,000 years ago but this Ayurveda has been around even longer than that.Ayurveda is a Science of Life and in we are all the part in nature like animals and plants lives in the harmony of nature and utilize the law of nature to create health and balance within their beings same like that only we too adhere the same principle.Therefore,we can say that Ayurveda is a system that helps to maintain health in a person by principle of nature.

      Meaning:

Ayurveda is made up of two Sanskrit words of Ayu which means life and Veda means the knowledge.According to the ancient ayurvedic the “ayu” is comprised of four essential parts they are mind,body,senses and the soul.

Mind, Body and Senses:

The mind and the body works in conjunction with one another to regulate the body.In order for our mind to act accordingly to assist the physical body we must use our senses of information.We can think mind as the computer and senses as the data which gets entered into the computer.Smell and taste are the two important things in the digestive process when the mind registers the particular food is entering,it directs the body accordingly by releasing various digestive enzymes.However,if the taste buds with too much of certain taste such as sweet, we may find the ability of the mind to perceive the sweet taste is impaired. So that maintaining the clarity of our senses is an essential part in allowing the mind and body to integrate their functions and to keep healthy and happier of individuals.

Principles:

In Ayurveda we see a person of individual made up of five primary elements those elements are space,air,water,fire and earth.Just as in nature we too have these five elements within us.while we are composite of five elements certain elements are seen to have the ability to combine to create various functions.Ether and Air  combine to form what is known as vatadosha in Ayurveda.Vata has the principle of movement and by that we can see that the force which directs the nerve impulses, circulation and respiration.Fire and Water combines to form the pitta dosha. The pitta dosha is the process of transformation or metabolism. The transformation of foods into nutrients the body can assimilate which is an example of pitta dosha.

Finally the water and the fire combines to form the kaphadosha. Function of kaphadosha is to provide the protection.We are all made up of vata, pitta and kapha.These ratios of doshas vary in each individuals.

Conclusion:

By this we can understand that we are all unique individuals Ayurveda enables to address not only health concerns but also offers explanation of why one person is responds differently from one another.