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Treatment of Making you healthy
The treatment in ayurveda is classified mainly into two Samana and
Sodhana. Samana is the pacifying way of treatment and sodhana roots out
the disease from the body. Oral therapy and easier means of treatment
are prescribed under Samana treatment. But Sodhana treatment is
extensive, time consuming procedures to change a diseased man to the
original healthy man. These are widely used all over India for patients
with chronic illnesses. If done with special precautions, regular checkups
and extra care these type of ‘Sodhana’ treatments can work wonders and
this is what happens in India, especially in Kerala, which attracts a lot of
foreigners from all over the world to this small state.
Medicine
You are what you eat - according to ayurvedic principle. So much significance is given to the food habits and life style. Natural herbs are widely
used as medicines. In fundamental principles of Ayurveda 5 basic elements are very important. The universe, and anything in the universe is
believed to be made of these 5 elements- air, water, earth, fire and space.
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