Ayurvedic Treatments

Ayurveda mentions many simple natural ways to maintain a healthy and glowing skin. Using these natural ways, one can stay beautiful for a longer period ...


For Skin Glow

Ayurveda gives importance to a balanced approach to achieve true beauty of self. Balanced approach means cleansing of inner as well as outer body. It identifies three different skin types- Vata Skin, Pitta Skin, and Kapha Skin representing the commonly known dry skin, normal skin and oily skin respectively. The skin types are categorized on the basis of three main metabolic principles- the doshas - present in everyone, but to different degrees. The dosha, most dominant in your body, will determine your skin type. Here are some beauty tips to keep all the skin types glowing

Vata Skin - Dry Skin:

Vata skin has the same qualities as air and space. In general is thin, dry, delicate with fine pores and cool to the touch. If you have a lot of Vata in your constitution and are imbalanced your skin will be rough, flakey and excessively dry with possible eczema. The greatest challenge for Vata type skin is its disposition to early wrinkles and loss of elasticity.  

• Start the day with a cup of hot water into which the juice of one lemon has been freshly squeezed. 
• Avoid exposing skin to cold, windy weather.
• Take a Vata pacifying diet that focuses on organic whole grains, leafy greens, warm mildly spiced soups and stews. 
• Eat plenty of sweet juicy fruits that provide hydration and drink lots of water.  Licorice, chamomile & ginger teas are especially beneficial. 
• Make sure you are getting a little healthy fat in your diet for internal oleation and lubrication. Ghee and olive oil are good choices.
• Give yourself a daily abhyanga (warm oil massage) with Vata Abhyanga oil or sesame oil.
• Use gentle skin care products because Vata type skin is delicate it will not tolerate products with chemical ingredients.
• Find ways to ground and calm yourself such as meditation, pranayama, and gentle yoga.
• Calming essential oils of lavender, rose and sandalwood are ideal, but should always be diluted to avoid irritation of skin

Pitta Skin- Normal Skin:

• Avoid excessive sunlight or tanning treatments. Heating therapies within beauty treatments like facial massage or whole body steams are also not good for you.
• Avoid hot and spicy foods.
• Bitter and sweet foods that balance pitta are good for such skin type. Naturally sweet should be taken. Take sweet juicy fruits like those of melons and pears.
• Cooked greens and rose petal preserves are very effective for pitta skin type.
• Drinking plenty of water to helps wash toxins out of highly sensitive pitta skin.
• Avoid synthetic chemicals. Pitta skin types react a lots when such chemicals are used.

• Avoid skin care products that are abrasive (scrubs), heating or contain artificial colors or preservatives. Use herbal products instead of artificial cosmetics.
• Avoid emotional stress through exercise, yoga and meditation

Kapha Skin- The Oily Skin

• Cleanse oily skin more often.
• Avoid greasy creams.
• Also avoid heavy and tough to digest foods like fried and fatty foods, meats, cheeses and rich desserts. Habe bitter and pungent foods as they balance kapha. You can make these foods spicey but they should not be fried.
• Use olive oil as cooking medium.
• Have ginger and lime juice before meals. It gives energy to dull digestive system characteristic to oily skin types.
• Warm baths gentle cleansers open up the skin pores of kapha skin.
• Avoid getting constipation. Have Isabgol to treat if you tend to have this problem.
• Do some exercise daily to increase circulation and help purify the skin through the sweating

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Steps To Vanish Acne Through Ayurveda

• Diet plays a dynamic role in keeping you healthy. Bad dietary habits are likely to produce disease.
• Correction of diet and regular exercise is necessary to regain regular bowel habits.
• Drink water throughout the day. Carbonated sodas contain a lot of sugar and tend to leave the body still thirsty
• Mild laxatives can be taken to prevent constipation.
• Though, preserving the food in refrigerator and then cooking it has become a need of our fast life style, it decreases food nutrition value. Avoid this way of life, as far as possible. Consume fresh food.
• Eat warm and Snigdha (unctuous) food in proper quantity.
• Eat only when earlier food is digested.
• Don’t take Virudhaanna (food that is incompatible to each other such as fruit salad, milk with fish etc.)
• Don’t eat too fast or too slow, chew your food many times.
• Eat in pleasant place.
• Avoid Ushna (hot), spicy, oily, fried and pungent food.
• Always try to avoid junk food, fast food and outside food (because it contains lots of spices, oil, and chemicals such as sodium bicarbonate etc.)
• Take sufficient amount of fats and leafy vegetables with proper washing and cleaning, it will form bulk of the stool you pass and will give you relief from constipation.
• Take sufficient amount of water, liquid juice etc., which will reduce dryness of intestine and will drain out wastes from your blood through urine. Fruit juice such as grapes, lemon etc., is recommended.
• Avoid mental tensions, worries fear; mental relaxation with meditation and yoga will help you to release your tension.
• Be relaxed, the problem gets resolved.
• Dont keep your hands close to your pimples
• Always clean your face in the morning and before bedtime.
• Fresh water, fresh air, and sunlight will help to improve the skin condition.
• Regular exercise and long walk will keep you fresh, fit and fine.
• Remove oil (surface oil) from the face by washing it with mild soap. To clean your face you can use a small slightly abrasive face sponge.

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