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Concept of ageing in ayurveda

 • AGEING IS SUM OF PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES THAT PROGRESSIVELY LEADS TO THE DEATH. • AGEING IS UNSTOPPABLE, UNCHANGEABLE AND IRREVERSIBLE. • BIOLOGICAL AGEING IS A PROCESS THAT TRIGGERS DETERIORATION OF HEALTH AND ULTIMATELY TO THE DEATH. • AGING IS CONSIDERED AS A DISEASE THAT MAY BE MANIFESTED TIMELY OR UNTIMELY. •IN AYURVEDA, EVERY CONDITION THAT LEADS TO DISTURBANCE OF HOMEOSTASIS IS TERMED AS A DISEASE, THUS OLD AGE IS ALSO BEAN CONSIDERED AS A DISEASE. • AGE-ASSOCIATED DISEASE: 1. HEART DISEASE 2. STROKE 3. DIABETES 4. OSTEOPOROSIS 5. ARTHRITIS 6. CANCER 7. OTHER PROBLEMS • BIOLOGICAL AGEING IS INFLUENCED BY SEVERAL FACTOR : 1. TELOMERE ATTRITION 2. GENOMIC INSTABILITY 3. EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS 4. DEREGULATED NUTRIENT SENSING 5. LOSS OF PROTEOSIS 6. MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION 7. CELLULAR SENESCENCE 8. STEM CELL EXHAUSTION • AGEING IS CONTINUOUS PROCESS, WHICH BEGINS WITH CONCEPTION AND WITH THE DEATH. • ACCORDING TO AYURVEDA, AGEING IS NATURAL PHENOMENON LIKE HUNGER, THRUST AND ...

NASAL MEDICATION

 • NASAL MEDICATION (NASYA) IS ESPECIALLY DESIRED FOR DISEASES OF THE PARTS ABOVE THE CLAVICLE OR ABOVE BASE OF THE NECK. • USE OF NASYA IS A PRACTICE FROM ANCIENT TIME. • NASYA IS ONE OF THE 5- DETOXIFICATION THEREPY (PANCHA-KARMA). • NASYA GIVEN TO THE PATIENT BY 3- WAY  1. CATHARTIC ERRHINE- VIRECANA  2. NOURISHING ERRHINE- BRAMHANA  3. PALLIATIVE ERRHINE- SAMANA  1. CATHARTIC ERRHINE : • CATHARTIC ERRHINE IS INDICATED IN HEADACHE, CONJUNCTIVITIS, DISEASE OF THROAT, OEDEMA, SKIN PROBLEMS, GOITRE, RHINORRHEA ETC. • THIS NASYA IS DONE WITH OIL, GHEE, PASTE OF DRUGS, SALT, HONEY ETC. 2. NOURISHING ERRHINE :  • NOURISHING ERRHINE IS INDICATED IN HEADACHE OF VATA ORIGIN, IN CASE OF FRONTAL SINUSITIS, IN LOSS OF VOICE, IN DRYNESS OF MOUTH AND NOSE, DIFFICULTY IN SPEAKING AND IN CERVICAL SPONDYLITIS. • THIS NASYA IS DONE WITH MEAT SOUP AND WITH PLANT EXTRACTS LIKE RESIN, GUM ETC. 3. PALLIATIVE ERRHINE :  • PALLIATIVE ERRHINE IS PRESCRIBEDIN LOCALISED HYPER...

Premature ageing and Ayurveda

• OLD AGE IS THE LAST PHASE OF LIFE ACCEPTED BY ALL ACHARYA GEARING UP GRADUAL DECLINATION IN THE FUNCTIONS OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL FACULTIES. • ACHARYA SUSHRUTA HAS CONCENTRATED MORE ON PHYSICAL VARIATION WHERE'S ACHARYA CHARAKA HAS GIVEN DUE IMPORTANCE TO BOTH PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGES ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT MILESTONE OF LIFE. • PREMATURE AGEING IS THE STAGE WHEN SIGN AND SYMPTOMS OF AGEING OCCURS EARLIER THAN STANDARD. • SCIENTIFICALLY, PREMATURE AGEING HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON'S APPEARANCE IS LIKE A OLDER PERSON BEFORE THEIR ACTUAL AGE. • IN MODERN ERA, LIFE IS FULL OF STRESS THAT LEADS TO STRESSFUL SOCIETY. • ACCORDING TO LATEST HEALTH REPORT, STRESS IS SAID TO BE ONE OF THE LARGEST KILLER OF MAN TODAY. • STRESS CAUSE DISTURBANCE IN EMOTIONS THAT ADVERSELY AFFECTING THE AGEING. • EMOTIONS DISTURBS HOMEOSTASIS OF BODY AND MIND BY VITIATING MANASIKA AND SHARIRIKA DOSHA AND AGNI. • AGEING IS A PROCESS OF UNFAVORABLE PROGRESSIVE CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH DECLINE IN VIGOR AN...

Indian toilet or western toilet

• Present time all Indian people follow western culture and invite many more lifestyle disorders. • In this article we compare Indian toilet and western toilet. • How Western type of toilet system affect our health, we don't focus on this. • From ancient time Indian people use their cultural Indian type of toilet so they remain healthy, but now present times they forget their own culture and adopt western culture in their lifestyle. • Western type of toilets are chair type sitting toilets. • Position on western type of toilet is basically a 90° position so your hip bend at that angle with respect to your upper body. • This type of sitting posture provides obstruction to the passage of the intestine and it becomes difficult to pass stool, so person applying pressure. • While passing stool and this pressure put on rectum and cause haemorrhoids(piles). • Haemorrhoids usually caused by straining during bowel movements (constipation), obesity or pregnancy. • Haemorrhoids are very common...