Beauty Care By Ayurveda - A Natural Way

By Author: Jomol Thomas
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DIET AND LIFE STYLE:
In ayurveda, health is characterized as an active state of wellness - a state in which you truly live, not merely exist. The ayurvedic approach to health is sweeping, extending to your daily diet, your routine, and your environment. The good digestion and consumption of our food together with proper and regular evacuation of wastes is nessesary for being healthy. You really need this for strength, stamina and beauty which is imitated by clear skin, bright eyes, glittering hair, strong nails and moist lips. Your needs for achieving that active state of wellness, which ayurveda calls balance, change over time. Age, environmental factors, stress levels, poor lifestyle choices and dietary excesses or deprivation can all cause imbalances in your physiology. Food plays an important role in getting beauty; it is the ahara which is going to give the sustenance to all the seven dhatus (tissues) of the body. The 'Skin' is an upadhatu (sub-tissue) of mamsa dhatu (muscle-tissue). The scalp hairs are updhatu of majja dhatu (bone-marrow tissue). The Nails, Body hairs, hairs of Beard & Moustache are the mala ...
... (wastes) of the asthi dhatu (skeletal- tissue).

Ayurvedic Treatments exhibits some basic dietary signal that can benefit everyone's health. For specify, it is important to eat at the appropriate times of the day and in accordance with the body's natural rhythm. This way we can relate and find out the defect and quality of our Skin, Hair, and Nails etc. with the concerned dhatus and take the measures to correct it, if needed.
Good digestion is enhanced by :-
a) good selection of food.
b) Masterly preparation of foods &
c) Eating should be in a quiet, clean, and friendly manner
In addition, the other measures on Dietetics that must be followed according to Ayurvedic principles.

Life style plays an important role distinct from these factors. For example: you have to get up early before sunrise (6:00 am); have agile walks or do Yogasanas; Meditation; and also proper external and internal cleansing of the body.

Quality Soaps, Shampoo or the herbs has to add in the water for cleaning up your external body. And the internal cleansing involves the Yogic procedures of 'Hatha Yoga' i.e. the shatkarmas Neti, Nauli, Basti, Dhauti, Tratak & Kapalbhati.

Balanced timing hours must be set for sitting, standing and lying for the whole day. Besides this, you must know the general rules of non-suppression of 13 natural urges as the suppression of vomiting can lead to various skin diseases.
A proper vegetarian diet controls the onset of ageing. Let's have a look into certain foods for the anti- aging effect,

SOYA BEAN: Soya bean offers lots of advantages. It amplifies the good cholesterol and improves the ratio of HDL (high density lipoproteins) to LDL (low density lipoproteins). It implements the fighting oxidants (e.g. Genistain) that help with filled arteries and the formation of cancer cells.
The Antioxidants and Physiochemical present in Soya bean are especially useful in inhibits the formation of hormone related cancers like breast cancer, prostate cancer. Being a rich source of calcium and iron, Soya food, proves beneficial in the treatment of 'Anemia' and osteoporosis. Japanese the largest consumer of Soya products, have the largest life expectancy in the world.

TOFU: this food which is cheese like product is made from Soya milk and this can increase your life span. Researchers have suggested that 12-15% longer life span in animals that were given these foods as opposed to animals fed on casein (the milk protein in paneer).

OLIVE OIL /ALMOND OIL:olive il or almond oil is good for cholesterol. While other refined vegetable oils lower the LDL (bad cholesterol) and HDL (good cholesterol) simultaneously. These keeps up the HDL while lowering the total blood cholesterol & HDL. These oils contain antioxidants which protect your body cells from the effect of carcinogens. And by this it controls your aging. Like wise there can be hundreds of dietary to keep your self fit and young which you can explore by having a ayurvedic treatment.

THE EFFECT OF GEOGRAPHICAL AND CLIMATIC CONDITION:
We are aware that genetic factors decide the complexion of an offspring, but there is some other factor also. For refer, in cold countries we may find fairer complexions and in hot climates like in tropical countries there is more probability of dark complexions. Some factors play a role by the diet of the mother during pregnancy. However, after birth, it matters how we take care of our skin and body.
Exposure to the sun, dietary habits, sound sleep, sound mind, pollution, level of humidity over the hilly areas or near the coast, level of salts in the atmosphere; every single factor is important. Ayurveda offers certain creams with some precious herbs to protect your skin in unnatural conditions.

THE SOCIAL ATMOSPHERE:

Which atmosphere you are staying and doing your job all affects your beauty and this is never thought grossly.
A saint coddle in holy rituals and is living in a calm and quite atmosphere in jungle and who has achieve a good level in meditation; could be seen with a remarkable beauty on his face; which is unmatchable and can never be attained with artificial cosmetics. So peace is necessary for beauty. The tense ambiance of the work place, negative thoughts, jealousy, hatred, anger etc will be not good for beauty. According to Ayurveda there can lead blackish ness or hyper pigmentation over a face or on a particular part of the body if there is lots of tension.

Sophisticated use of herbal gels; or cream with Yoga and meditation can certainly refresh your external and internal look.