Ayurveda and Pregnancy

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Ayurveda and Pregnancy

A healthy diet according to the woman’s individual needs in terms of their Ayurvedic body-mind type and presenting imbalances is important. Nutritional needs are increased during pregnancy and several herbal preparations are helpful in fulfilling these needs. Digestion weakens as pregnancy progresses, therefore, it is important to learn how to improve the digestive fire (Agni).

Having a healthy relationship with the father is an important factor during pregnancy. If there are marital problems it may affect the baby. Especially during the 4th month when the heart...

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Maintaining Good Digestion with Ayurveda - A Pillar of Good Health

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Maintaining Good Digestion with Ayurveda - A Pillar of Good Health

Visualize your digestion as a fire in the stomach; you need to provide the proper fuel and conditions so that it can burn optimally. If you dampen the fire or do not feed it, it will burn out. If you feed it too much or with the wrong fuel, it will burn too hot and be out of control. When Agni (fire of digestion) is strong, we are free from symptoms such as...

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Preventative Care with Ayurveda ― Better than Cure

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Preventative Care with Ayurveda ― Better than Cure

Optimum health and vitality are achieved through the most appropriate diet to fit with one’s own individual body-mind constitution.

In Ayurveda, proper diet is regarded as the foundation of good health. However, diet is tricky; food can be medicine for one person but poison for another. The key is to understand one’s own constitution and power of digestion. Then one will know which foods to eat and which to avoid, and also how and when to eat....

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