Ayurveda cleansing therapy

Many of the toxins in our bodies exist because of mental and emotional imbalances that come from unhealthy lifestyles. When we’re mentally or emotionally stressed, that tension is stored in the body as toxins.  While no one is completely free from toxins, how you live your life can determine the extent of toxicity. Everyone wants to live a healthy and happy lifestyle to possess any toxins in our bodies. I created some questionnaires, please go through them.

How do I know if my body contains excess toxins?

Ayurveda has a few signs that indicate your body contains a lot of toxins. Some of these include:

• You have low energy.
• You feel sluggish when you wake up in the morning.
• Your tongue is coated in the morning.
• Your appetite isn’t really sharp and you tend to eat out of habit rather than because you’re hungry.
• You are prone to flu, colds, coughs, or allergies.
• You get sharp headaches and dizziness.
• You have mild tremors in your limbs.
• You have unexplained muscle aches, especially in the calves.
• Your throat is sore.
• Your skin is less radiant, heavier, and oilier. You find it breaks out more often.
• You are more prone to sunburn and have dry patches on your skin.

Ayurvedic detox

Ayurveda recommends internal cleansing to clear the channels in your body of toxins (ama) that may have built up over time. You could begin your detox by having a personal consultation with an Ayurvedic practitioner. During this, you will have your pulse read and through that find out what your current doshic balance is.

The central concept of Ayurvedic medicine is that health exists when there’s a balance between three fundamental bodily doshas: Vata (air and space), pitta (fire and water), and Kapha (water and earth). Ayurveda provides a wide range of treatments, herbs, and lifestyle guidelines for purifying your entire body and bringing the tri-doshas (three doshas), the supportive forces of life, into balance.

Once the practitioner knows your body’s doshic balance, they can give you guidelines and lifestyle habits for your individual body type that are conducive to your dosha and rebalance any imbalances that exist in your body. These guidelines may relate to eating habits, exercise, yoga, meditation, sleeping, skin, and hair care. 

There are two approaches to detoxifying in Ayurveda. One is shamans (to balance or pacify the doshas) and the other is shodhana or cleansing. The first is more gradual. It slowly detoxifies and balances, and prevents new toxins from taking residence in the system, while the second is a fast approach and includes the purification processes of panchakarma. Will explain these two verities of treatments plans in a future post.

Ayurveda solely believes in prevention is better than cure.