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Ayurveda agrees with the scientific reasons why ginger is one of the healthiest (and most delicious) super foods on the planet. It is loaded with nutrients and bio active compounds that have powerful benefits for your whole body and even your brain. Ginger belongs to the Zingiberaceae family, and is closely related to turmeric, cardamom and galangal. The rhizome (which is the underground part of the stem) is the part commonly used as a spice. It is often called ginger root, or simply ginger.   Ginger has a very long history of use in various forms in Ayurveda, the ancient...

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him." -Buddha With the daily health inflictions we put on our bodies in the modern world, it has become more necessary now more than ever to get more in tune with our bodies and look to methods like Ayurveda for pain that results from factors we can perhaps change and reduce in...

Very broadly defined, medicine can be anything from a spice in your kitchen cabinet to the antiperspirant deodorant in your bathroom drawer. A medicine is an agent capable of producing biological responses within the body. Responses may be desirable or undesirable. When a medicine produces a desirable response, it is deemed therapeutic. In the United States, when we think of a medicine, pharmaceutical drugs come to mind. The kind that is administered by our physician at the doctor's office. And for good reason . . . in the US, we spend a large portion of our health expenditures on prescription...

The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist. It lies behind and to the left of your breast bone . . . and pumps about 6 quarts of blood 12,000 miles per day. Your heart works tirelessly, propelling life through various blood vessels, arteries and veins of the body. In Sanskrit, the word for faith is shradh. It is derived from the root hrd coming from hrdaya, meaning heart. Faith is an abstract concept. Where, physiologically, is faith? In the bones? In the spleen? With the study of Sanskrit, we learn that faith is rooted in the heart....

As parents, we all wonder how to be sure our kids are receiving the best education possible. And part of this is being sure their lifestyle and home-life support their learning.   So, how can you make sure your child is getting the most out of his or her hours spent in school? One way is to enhance learning ability with the ayurveda. Ancient ayurvedic texts describe three aspects of mental ability: dhi (the power of acquisition or learning), dhriti (the power of retention), and smriti (the ability to recall). When these three mental functions are not in balance, either...