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"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...

Headaches are no fun! The symptoms of a headache can range from dull to sharp, from debilitating to mild, from long-lasting to short lived. With the help of Ayurvedic philosophy, we look to understand the nature of the beast by classifying headaches in 3 broad categories.   Take a look at common symptoms associated with vata, pitta, and kapha type headaches along with some helpful remedies to address the underlying issue. 1. The vata-type headache Vata type headaches generally occur in the back of the head. They radiate pain through the neck and shoulders. This type of headache is likely due...