The first rule of Ayurvedic skin care is : cleanse, nourish and moisturise. No matter what type of skin you have, this three-step routine for the external care of the skin is essential to counteract the daily effects of environment, stress and the skin’s natural process of cell degeneration. It is the very minimum you must do to maintain a normal, healthy, youthful complexion. And even if you do nothing else for an existing skin problem, keeping this regimen every day can help to improve your condition, sometimes in a short period of time.
Water Therapy: All Weather Skin Care
Along with stress and diel, environmental factors are one of the major causes of premature aging. Seasonal and climatic changes not only imbalance the subtle internal energies of the body and mind, but also have an effect externally on the skin. Sun, wind and cold can be particularly damaging unless you take action lo counter Lheir effects.
Water Therapy: Hair Care
Hair is 97 percent protein and three percent moisture. The average person has 100,000 hairs on the scalp, which grow at the rate of .37 millimetres per day and shed at the rate of 50-100 per day The factors that affect hair growth and hair loss include age, health, diet, hormones, seasonal changes and climate. Trauma, stress and anxiety also affect growth because they reduce the blood and oxygen supply to the scalp, which is essential to healthy hair.
Water Therapy: Mud and Mustard Pack
Mustard powder, when made into a paste with a touch of water and flour and applied in a cloth on to lightly oiled skin, has unique power of bringing blood to the surface of the skin. It quickly heats up the area, and, as the blood rushes to the skin surface, even the worst congestion diminishes.
Water Therapy: Eye, Hand and Foot Care
Eye Care
Clear, vibrant eyes are a sign of good health. However, the area directly under the eyes does not have sebaceous glands to lubricate the skin. As a result, il is the most delicate part of the complexion and the first to show signs of aging. Stress, anxiety, worry, insomnia, water retention, sun, dim or bright light, overwork and excessive alcohol all strain the eyes and lead to crow’s-feet and fine lines. Three simple methods to relieve and avoid eyestrain, prevent wrinkles and give more sparkle to the eyes are :
Urine Therapy: Introduction
Owing to the increasing part played by vested interests inmany branches of human endeavour, not least in the very lucrative providing of remedies for disease, intelli- gent members of the public are growing more and more distrustful of orthodox medical methods.Many people must have asked themselves the following questions How comes it that for over fifty years the ortho- dox cancer researchers have been occupying them- selveswith the cause and cure of malignancy, yet stillcan suggest nothing better than the knife, radium or X-rays?
Urine Therapy: Some Objections on Urine Therapy Answered
Before proceeding, it is advisable to deal with some objections which have been, and may still be, raised. It has been argued that if man were intended to drink his own urine he would have been born with the instinct to do so. But one may as well argue that because man has not been born with the instinct to do deep breathing exercises or adopt other measures which have proved conducive to health, they are therefore invalid or reprehensible.
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Urine Therapy: Urine – Water of Life
Before relatingmy own experiences with urine- therapy, it is advisable to quote some opinions derived from both ancient and modern sources as to the value of urine as a curative agent. Towards the beginning of last century, a book entitled One ‘Tho,v “”d Notable Things’ was published sim’ata- neously in , -,’ Scotland and Ireland. ” An universal and excellent remedy for all distempers inward and outward drink you own water in the morning nine days together and it cures the scurvy, makes the body lightsome and cheerful. “It is good against the dropsy and jaundice, drun., as before (stated). ” Wash your ears with it warm and it is good against deafness, noises and most other ailments in the ears. ” Wash your eyes with your own water and it cures sore eyes and clears and strengthens the sight. “Wash and rub your hands with it and it takes away numbness, chaps and sores and makes the joints limber.
Osteopathy: Growth of Osteopathy
Dr Andrew Tailer Still, the founder of osteopathy, was a man endowed with imagination, rare vision and perseverance. He was born on August 6, 1828, to a simple, hardy German farmer who was a physician by training and a missionary by choice. His mother Martha, was Scottish. Andrew was born in a remote village in Virginia, U.S.A . He was sturdy and strong and lived close to nature. He was fond of watching different animals. He would catch hares and squirrels and dissect them to find out the type of organs they had.
Osteopathy: What part do nerves play in the symptom of a disease? Using bones as a leverage, how can one influence them? What role do arteries and veins play in the cure of a disease?
Dr.Still concluded that blood supply could be normalised a great deal by manipulative manoeuvres which relaxed the muscles and thus affected the free flow of blood. He declared, ‘The rule of the artery is supreme’. He was sure that the free flow of blood played a great role in overcoming disease.
Dr Still’s fame spread gradually. At no time, however, did he think his discovery to be complete. With the co-operation of his sons and doctors who were attracted towards his science, he founded a new branch of medical treatment which came to be known as Osteopathic Medicine. Dr Still planned to open a college of osteopathy. Assistance came in an astonishing way. Dr William Smith of Edinburgh, Scotland, was so impressed by Dr.Still that he offered to stay and teach anatomy in exchange for lessons in manipulative movements. The college at Kirksville, Missouri, opened in November 1892, and was given legal recognition.