Reading Time: 3 minutes Essential oils have been used for thousands of years in various civilizations to treat illnesses and promote health. They are becoming popular as natural, safe, and cost-effective therapies for various health problems due to their antidepressant, stimulating, detoxifying, antibacterial, antiviral, and soothing effects. There’s no mystery behind it, given the high cost of health care expenditures and the adverse effects …
Everything You Need To Know About The Nootropic Bacopa
Reading Time: 3 minutes Bacopa is a plant used to treat memory and brain-related ailments for thousands of years – a plant considered so beneficial to the mind that it has been a mainstay of traditional Ayurvedic medicine in India since time immemorial. Bacopa (also known as Brahmi) is a supplement used to treat a variety of mind-related issues, including anxiety, Alzheimer’s disease, memory …
Why Ashwagandha Is the Most Sacred Herb
Reading Time: 2 minutes In Ayurveda, Ashwagandha is known as the “King of Medicine,” or the most sacred herb. In fact, its name literally means “the smell of a horse,” as it was said to give people who consumed it the strength and virility of a horse. This amazing ayurvedic adaptogen has now been scientifically proven to alleviate stress, help prevent the effects of …
How to Balance Your Dosha For Better Sleep
Reading Time: 5 minutes Sleep. It’s one of the most important protective processes our body goes through — just as important as eating! Sleep is crucial for our bodies to rest, rejuvenate and detoxify. Not getting enough sleep can lead to a whole host of problems, including poor immunity, issues with concentration, alertness and a build-up of waste materials and toxins (ama) in the …
Ayurveda and Relationships
Reading Time: 3 minutes Relationships are an inherent part of life, for better or worse. We all have relationships with friends, significant others, family members, and co-workers among many other individuals in our lives. However, these relationships can be quite tumultuous at times. Luckily there is a way to maximize the health of these interactions using Ayurveda. Every relationship has its give and take, …
How to Beat Brain Fog
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tell me if this sounds familiar: You’re sitting down and realize you need to get something in the other room. You get up, walk halfway to the other room, then stop dead in your tracks, “what was I going to get?” How you can beat brain fog – Vitamin Supplements, exercise, other solutions can provide the answer It happens to …
How To Improve Memory With Ayurveda
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of natural medicine that has been preserving the health and lives of people for at least 5000 years. Unlike conventional medicine, it treats the symptoms and the root cause of any disease, which often deals with just one specific symptom. Moreover, it is based on a holistic approach towards well-being, rather than focusing on …
Natural Remedies to Ease Your Anxiety
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Personal Experience With Anxiety I was driving on the Schuylkill Expressway, irrational thoughts racing through my head, palms sweaty white-knuckling the steering wheel, heart-pounding and seriously considering if I should pull over; fearful of passing out. That was the worst panic attack I’d experienced as a result of my anxiety, which seemed to be mimicking the behavior of an …
Transforming the Winter Blues with Ayurveda
Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever experienced the weather as a direct mirror of your internal state? When it’s sunny, warm, and bright, you feel the excitement, possibility, and clarity; when cold, grey, and rainy, you might feel a bit more melancholy. As many ancient texts point to, “as above, so below, as within, so without.” We are very much a product of …
Beating Stress with Adaptogens and Healing Faster
Reading Time: 3 minutes S-T-R-E-S-S. We’ve all been there at some point, a million and one things on our plate and hardly any time to get them done! In this article, we talk about the causes of stress and beating stress with adaptogens found in nature. There are many causes for our stress but our bodies handle each one the same way, by releasing …