A Food As Medicine Approach To Digestive Health

Ayurvedic Medicine is the traditional medicine of India utilizing the medicinal properties of whole foods, herbs, and spices, along with daily routines to support the body’s own rejuvenation abilities.

Think of Ayurveda as a common sense medicine; akin to the simplicity of how our great-grandparents treated illness. It’s greatest aim is preventing chronic disease from developing. This aim coincides with the current Western trend of increasing metabolic health to stave off chronic disease.

So, what does this mean for you? It means that there’s great reward and consequence to what you eat, how you move throughout the day, the quality of your sleep, and the nature of your relationships.

In Ayurveda, the above markers can be assessed through the quality of your digestion. This means how well you digest your food is equivalent to how well you are digesting your life. Ayurvedic Medicine treats digestive disorders, big and small.

Almost all chronic disease is believed to start with compromised digestion which directly affects your elimination pathways. If you are unable to properly eliminate, you are accumulating toxins. Internal toxicity over years or decades can lead to chronic disease.

Thankfully, the body is quite adaptable and eager to heal itself within the right environment! Ayurveda offers this wholesome framework for working with your metabolic body type, assessing your digestion and elimination, and aligning your unique needs with the earth’s natural rhythms creating an environment for whole-body health to flourish.

The Basics

Ayurveda translates to the science of life. It observes the qualities and effects of the elements (ether, air, fire, water, and earth) in all things - including the human body & mind. It seeks to recognize patterns through a system of qualities (ex: hot/cold, wet/dry, heavy/light). Patterns that tend to nourish, aggravate, or balance the body. Developing a state of internal balance expressed by healthy digestion and a robust immune system with the outward appeal of vitality is the aim of working with this medicine.

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