Ayurveda is a holistic system of health care that teaches us to balance these energies in order to achieve optimum health and well being and to preserve life.

1. AYURVEDIC CENTER KERALA
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2. Introduction to Ayurveda :
 Ayurveda is the most ancient form of
medicine in the world, and the forerunner of
all other great systems of medicine.
 Ayurveda literally means knowledge of
life, and its guiding principles are believed to
have been handed down from the Hindu gods
to the great seers.

3.  The written texts of ayurveda date back 3,500
years and the incredibly complex and
advanced concept that embody them still
form the basis of much Indian medicine
today.

4. The Principles of Ayurveda:
 In ayurvedic philosophy, everything in the
universe is composed of five elements, the
Panchamahabhutas.
 These combine into three doshas (the
tridoshas) or bio-energetic forces that govern
our health and determine our prakrti, or
physical constitution.

5.  The three gunas- or psychic forces-
determine our mental and spiritual health.
 Ayurveda is a holistic system of health care
that teaches us to balance these energies in
order to achieve optimum health and well
being and to preserve life.
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6. The Tridoshas:
 The Tridoshas (or three doshas) are the
primary and essential factors of the human
body that govern our entire physical structure
and function.
 They are called vata, pitta and kapha, and
they are derived from the five basic
substances, the Panchamahabutas.

7. The Tridoshas
 The Tridoshas (or three doshas) are the
primary and essential factors of the human
body that govern our entire physical structure
and function.
 They are called vata, pitta and kapha, and
they are derived from the five basic
substances, the Panchamahabutas.

8.  Sirodhara treatmentEach dosha has a
predominance of one of the five bhutas. Vata
consists of the combined predominance of
vayu and akasha (air and space).
 Pitta consists of tejas and jala (fire and
water), and Kapha is formed by jala and
prithvi (water and earth)

9.  Many of the physical and mental phenomena
ascribed to the nervous system by modern
physiology can be identified with vata.
 Similarly, the entire chemical process
operating in your body can be attributed to
pitta, including enzymes, hormones, and the
complete nutritional system.

10.  The activities of the skeletal and anabolic
system (those aspects of the metabolism
involved in constructing the physical body)
can be attributed to kapha - suggesting that
the entire physical volume in a living
organism is in fact a result of kapha.
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