Sexual health can be a confusing subject. While study of television programming found that in an average day, 70% of programs had sexual content;[1] up to 48% of teenager are engaging in intercourse[2]; sexuality among older adults is marginalized and even denied to some degree. Dr. Caroline Roberston describes that “the frenetic pre-occupation with sex…
Living a healthy balanced lifestyle includes pleasure. The pleasure of enjoying a tasty meal, the fragrance of flowers, the beauty of a sunset and the sensual sensations and pleasures of touch. Pleasure increases your physical and emotional wellbeing and in Ayurvedic terms, your ojas. “It is the Ojas which keeps all the living beings refreshed…
For some women menstruation stops quite neatly. For others it is like tidal waves at irregular intervals before dwindling to nothing. The average age when the period stops is 52. However the internal shifts may begin well before that and continue beyond that benchmark. This very individual process depends on both your Ayurvedic constitution and…
Upon feelings of fatigue, it has become our natural response to reach for an energy drink, dark chocolate square or comfort food. The result, however wonderful, is short-lived. Energy boosters will stimulate surges of energy, but deeply exhaust the body in the process. Sadly, each time the energy goes up as a result of a…
Ayurvedic tradition laments the rise of disease amongst the sages when they came down from the Himalayas to live amongst the settlements in the valleys populated with humans and their domesticated animals. Ancient Ayurveda Sage Charaka explains this phenomenon of escalating diseases as a consequence of the evils of “domesticated living.” We cannot dismiss the…
Cancer and tumors are basically the unrestricted growth of cells. A mechanism within the cell no longer tells the cell to rest and this can result in tumors. Plant medicine and herbs that have been used to treat this kind of excessive growth and inability to rest are now gaining more acceptance by the scientific…
