Ayurvedic remedies help you slow down your body’s natural ageing process without any side effects, shares Dr Ankita Gupta

Before modern medicine, our ancestors were already well equipped with wisdom and various techniques in Ayurveda to take care of the body as well as the mind. Immortality and anti-ageing to maturing can appear to be comparable in their essential objective, yet it is total inverse in its outcome. The progression in diagnostic methods, symptomatic techniques, current treatment, and careful mediation has brought about an expanded life expectancy for people.

From the point of view of Ayurveda, the skin’s surface and appearance likewise change as we start growing up through the various phases of life. Maturing is the cycle of degeneration of cells as you grow old. It is unavoidable, yet one can postpone this with the vast wisdom of Ayurveda. Ayurveda is known to be the craft of everyday living in the concordance and the laws of nature. In Ayurveda, Rasayana is a rejuvenation therapy that helps in the maintenance and promotion of health. It essentially means nutrition at all levels from macro to micro-cellular level.

Ayurvedic medicine is based on the idea that the world is made up of five elements — aakash (space), jala (water), prithvi (earth), teja (fire), and vayu (air). A combination of each element results in three humours or doshas, known as vata, kapha, and pitta. These doshas are believed to be responsible for a person’s physiological, mental and emotional health.

While everyone possesses a combination of these doshas, each one of the doshas dominates a key period of a human’s existence, paying little heed to your essential constitution. Kapha is the hour of youth and pre-adulthood when you are young, graceful and succulent; pitta ascends in late puberty and provides energy through middle age; and vata, which is dry and cold, ascents after age 50. This is the reason why those who are old are so influenced by obstruction, gas and affected by cold weather. When the doshas are in balance, your well-being is acceptable, yet on the off chance that at least one leaves balance, different side effects or ailments can emerge. Experts agree that keeping your doshas in balance permits you to traverse through life without any body-related concerns.

The concept of healthy ageing

Diet is vastly explained in Ayurveda. The ideal diet changes according to different seasons, and it is explained that Ayurveda very well tells us about the daily consumption of the food. To slow down ageing, the remedies that are given in Ayurveda: Eating one amla or taking an Ayurveda tablet daily. Taking vasti/basti therapy in the rainy season can keep you healthy. Ayurveda explains that it is very necessary to eat before sunset. Start intake of ghee every day with your meal. Take snehan (oleation therapy) daily before bath. Daily practise of pranayama is also extremely crucial to one’s well-being. Using ubtan (a powdered mix of Ayurvedic herbs and natural ingredients) while bathing can slow down the ageing of your skin. These things were practised by our ancestors to avoid ageing and aid longevity of life.

Abhyanga is a subtype of bahya snehan (outside knead), which is a part of Panchakarma treatment. Abhyanga is the blessing of the body with oil. Oil is implanted with spices and is typically warm; the oil is kneaded into the whole body before washing. This cycle permits the oil to go through minute diverts in the body and enter profound layers of tissue.

Advantages of Abhyanga:

• Bestows non-abrasiveness and strength the body.
• Diminishes the impacts of maturing.
• Sustains the body.
• Benefits skin tissue.
• Builds life span.
• Reinforces the body’s resilience.

• Placates vata and pitta.

Swedana is a full-body steam treatment and is controlled as part of Panchkarma. It is the way towards inducing sweat with the assistance of steam, produced from cured natural decoctions. It is the pre-usable methodology in different Ayurvedic detox treatments where the goal is to widen the channels of the body to take out poisons from the tissues. Ayurvedic fomentation is generally given after an oil rub.

Advantages of Swedana:

• Separates toxins; lessens aggravation.
• Soothes sore muscles.
• Expands dissemination.
• Renews and revives the skin.
• Diminishes deadness, solidness, inflexibility.
• Follows up on fat tissues.
• Mitigates pressure.
• Eliminates daze.
• Improves absorption.

These age-old practices still find a place in the world today and these methods help you slow down your body’s natural ageing process without any side effects.

(The writer is an expert working at a wellness and treatment centre, which specialises in Ayurveda.)