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SAFE WAY TO HEALTH WHAT IS AYURVEDA?
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yurveda is a wellness system. It’s a holistic system based on nature’s principles, not theories. It considers the environment, the person and the disease in treating and it works with the cause, not just with the symptoms. It treats the disease with the person in the context. It is a time tested system that reverses the disease quickly, completely and safely. That’s the goal of Ayurveda. It works with the extensive process behind health and disease. We work with stabilizing health, improving health as well as preventing diseases. Ayurveda has its own vaccinations which are all natural, containing no heavy metals. So not toxic at all.
HOW IS AYURVEDA UNIQUE? There are many reasons to see Ayurveda as unique. Over thousands of years ancient scientists made deep observations about how nature works, body and mind works and they interacted with each other, environment, body and mind, how people interact, how trees, animals and people interact, human life forms interact with
about health and diseases which are exactly similar to modern findings.
HOW IS THIS………… Disease has its origins and expresses itself in symptoms. Ayurveda works on all these areas. I remember a case in which a person had ongoing insomnia, diarrhea and overheating. She wanted some herbs to cool her system down. When asked why she developed heat I found she had stress and needed emotional balance. She said her finances is the real problem. When she got expert advice from a financial coach almost ninety percent of her symptoms were controlled. When cause is treated her life was saved. That is how Ayurveda is holistic. If the symptoms were dangerous we would have treated them.
IS AYURVEDA STILL RELEVANT? Politics and promoters play a role in making a system popular or not. In India what happened in the last few centuries Ayurveda was destroyed by many invaders. But luckily Kerala is holding on to that pot of nectar of healing secrets and currently in India Ayurveda is growing very fast and finally government came to support Ayurveda in whatever way possible.
tion is the question. Ayurveda goes into the disease process, dissolves the inflammation, removes the toxin and repairs the tissues. These three stage processes make Ayurveda curative and different. Without it one can only manage it.
HOW ARE AYURVEDA HERBS FREE FROM SIDE EFFECTS This is a common question. Two main questions are usually raised against Ayurveda-are these toxic, has it got any side effects. There were some news paper reports saying that Ayurveda products contain heavy metals. There are rogue manufacturers in Ayurveda also as there can be in food sector, restaurants and other areas. Some manufacturers were banned because of lower quality and the presence of toxic material. Any manufacturer can become a rogue when he stops paying attention to quality and purity and the safety aspects of production. The problem is not with Ayurveda products, but
HOW IS AYURVEDA IN AUSTRALIA?
nature, seasons and geographical peculiarities. Ayurveda observed there were micro climates and people felt different in different micro climates. Ayurveda has made deep observations about life forces and life. Key point is Ayurveda has observed for thousands of years how the inner life and outer life of a person interact. Its principles are based on how nature and health naturally work. It speaks about natural health issues and unnatural health issues. Surprisingly these principles are same as or similar to the findings of the modern or current medical science. What is inflammation, what is auto immune situation, what is degeneration of condition are all mentioned in Ayurveda with more clarity. The key working principles of all these are mentioned in Ayurveda. This is the ancient Indian way of living. Once you are connected with your inner and outer nature you can communicate with anything. Six thousand years back Ayurveda was in evolution and six thousand years back we got all these text books. It came when people started living together in villages. These books speak about eight thousand herbs and dozens and dozens of therapies, cleansers with variations any practitioner can make. Ayurveda speaks
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When I came here 22 years back what I noticed was Chinese medicine being practiced everywhere. Chinese government was pumping money into it. So it was all over the world. This is starting to happen in the case of Ayurveda also. Ask an experienced modern medical practitioner about Ayurveda. He will say we don’t have treatments. We have pain killers, we have antibiotics, we have surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. But we don’t have proper treatment for any disease. All we have is emergency care. Now we are coming to know what Ayurveda can do, what modern medicine can do and what Chinese medicine can do. Over last 22 years Ayurveda in Australia has grown tremendously and it occupy 675 pages in natural therapy listings today. I know personally about 40 Ayurveda practitioners in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Sydney. All this happened in last 22 years. When I came here there had been only one Ayurveda practitioner in Sydney and he was part time. Now there are over a dozen full time practitioners here. Based on doctors’ numbers Ayurveda is growing fast.
WHEN MOST OTHER SYSTEMS OF MEDICINE MANAGE DISEASES HOW COME AYURVEDA TALK ABOUT CURE? It talks about cure because it is unique. When you just address the disease symptoms, but not the disease process you can only manage it. For example arthritis, dermatitis, psoriasis, exema and asthma. As a doctor, do you want to cure it or just to suppress the inflamma-
Dr. Ramaprasad ic using only Kottackal Aryavaidyasala Products. I am using it now for 28 years.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE PHRASE IN HEALING? I have read a number of health and healing books from West, East, South and North. One phrase that sticks in my head is this. Its from a book called Anatomy of Illness. It speaks about little incurable diseases. Every disease has a cure. Healing requires a whole person’s presence. We need to get his emotions, mind, intellect, body and routine in one place and healing happens then. I have seen it and I have done it. Understanding a person and capturing his imagination take a little time and effort. This is an Ayurvedic phrase. It’s the whole range of principle in healing. Ayurveda is like a self extending self. It can keep on accepting other principles. Ayurveda principles are proven again and again. For example Ayurveda prescribed iron in lemon juice 6000 years back, 110 years back modern medicine says iron needs vitamin C for its absorption. Same is the case with scraping our tongues the benefits of which were found by Ayurveda six thousand years back.
HOW LONG ARE YOU PRACTICING I am practicing for the last 28 years. Before that I had been working with voluntary groups and teaching Ayurveda. I am in Sydney from 1996 onwards. Over these years I have participated in several health conferences. with some manufacturers. That’s a different story. Ayurveda products are said to be having no side effects. Why is this? The concept of side effects came with chemical medical products. Whats the difference between a chemical drug and an Ayurvedic drug? Both may be for fever. A typical Ayurvedic formulation for fever may be the product from three herbs. Each may have thousands of chemicals in them as every herbal plant part can have so many of them. Spirulina, carrot, cabbage and every other vegetable you eat have thousands of natural chemicals. When you take one molecule out of them and use it as a disease control product, it is called a chemical drug. Natural drugs will have thousands of synergitically composed and holistically acting naturally combined chemicals. Because of the synergy they don’t cause side effects. Taking one molecule out of these thousands, it becomes a dangerous weapon.
WHICH PRODUCT RANGE IS USED IN YOUR CLINIC In my clinic I use only Kottackal Aryavaidyasala products. Others available in my village are products from Coimbatore Aryavaidya Pharmacy and Aryavaidya Nilayam products. But when I started a clin-
HOW DO YOU WORK WITH A CLIENT Usually when a client comes to me I want to know him completely, his worries, fears, anxieties etc . I start with a tongue analysis because tongue is one of the twelve Ayurveda diagnostic techniques. Tongue is the window to the person’s body, mind and spirit. After it when I start saying things about him, the patient will start responding to them. Then I observe their eating style and life style and will start suggesting some upgrades with reason and the result will usually be fantastic. Once the consultation is over they are supposed to call me whenever they need help. And I see them again once in six weeks if needed.
WHAT IS ALL YOUR SERVICE In my normal service clinical consultation I offer health consultation. Most people come to me to know why they are sick, is there a life style activity that can correct the issue, is there a herb to cleanse, nutritional drug that can help them to healthy. That’s what I do. I give my range of it. Finally I put them into one package of advice. So it all will be practical and straight forward.
August 2018
AUSTRALIA
