Ayurveda Assessment of Balance and Imbalance in Fibroids

The Ayurveda assessment of balance and imbalance does not simply identify the gross physical abnormality and match up drugs to a symptom. This is because people can have the same disease for different reasons. For example, ten people could walk into a doctor's office with a headache and have it for ten different reasons. Likewise not everyone has fibroids for the same reasons.

Ayurveda evaluation determines the imbalances in the functioning modes of the body and then prescribes treatment to restore balance. These underlying imbalances are the root causes of a condition and must be removed if real healing is to occur. By determining the causal imbalances at the basis of a disorder, Ayurveda evaluation helps address the fundamental source of ill health in the individual.

The Root Causes of Fibroids

According to Ayurveda, medicine the following general types of imbalances are at the source of most chronic conditions, including fibroids.

1. Toxins accumulating in tissues and blocking circulation.
2. Poor nutrition.
3. Poor digestion.
4. Imbalance of the nervous system.
5. Accumulation of physical and mental stress.
6. Lowering of natural resistance and immunity.
7. Disruption of natural biological rhythms.

Treatment Program for Fibroids.

Removing the Buildup of toxins and impurities:
Most chronic disorders start when toxins accumulate in tissues and begin to disrupt the delicate biochemistry there. Toxin buildup can also obstruct the channels of circulation and elimination. This blockage prevents proper nutrition from reaching the tissues and blocks the processes that cleanse them of impurities.

According to Ayurveda, this process is at the basis of fibroids . Chronic toxin accumulation in the reproductive tissue irritates the tissues into responses that result in the slow accumulation of excess tissue and fibroids. Without the toxin accumulation there would not be so much excess tissue formation in these areas. It is vital to stop the processes causing toxins to accumulate and improve circulation and eliminative function to these areas so they may purify and heal themselves. As we will see, accomplishing this approach involves improving many diverse functions throughout the mind and body of individuals with the condition.

Your Ayurveda Health Consultants will provide natural recommendations to remove and help prevent toxin accumulation from:

1. Hard-to-digest food
2. Poor digestion
3. Poor elimination
4. Improper metabolism
5. Mental and physical stress

Rejuvenation Therapy Treatments
The most powerful treatments for removing toxins and opening circulation are the Rejuvenation therapy you receive each day of your in-residence stay. This daily three-hour treatment program of

• Massage (snehan),
• Heat treatment (Sweden) and
• Mild herbal enema (BASTI) is the cornerstone of your in-residence stay.

The combination of these three treatments received every day for 5 to 21 days creates the ideal internal physical environment for healing.

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UTTARE BASTI (Intra Uterine) Treatment is very effective.

Rejuvenation therapy treatments address the problem of toxin accumulation through systematically:

1. Loosening impurities that have become embedded in tissues and helping liquefy them for easy absorption into the circulation and eventual elimination.
2. Softening and opening the channels of circulation and elimination so proper nourishment can reach the tissues and impurities can be more easily eliminated from them.
3. Activating the elimination process for the most thorough cleansing of the entire physiology.

Herbalized Oil Massage

Herbalized oil massage is used both at home and in our in-residence treatments to aid the cleansing process.

Your Ayurveda Health Consultant will choose specific herbalized oil that is individually prepared for your condition. You will also be instructed in the technique of Ayurveda massage, which involves using specific strokes over different parts of the body.

Herbalized oil massage provides a deeply soothing and balancing effect for the entire physiology. The motion of massage creates heat and friction which enhance circulation and help cleanse affected tissues of chemical impurities that could be causing symptoms of fibroids. The oil and herbs cleanse and nourish the tissues to aid their repair and development.

The various herbs that have been boiled into a base oil, and the oil itself, are specifically chosen for their effect in removing the imbalances at the basis of your condition. The oil helps the balancing process by allowing the herbs to more deeply penetrate the affected tissues.

Your program involves two types of Ayurveda herbalized massage:

1. The home program involves herbalized self-massage for 5-10 minutes in the morning before you take your shower.
2. During the in-residence portion of your program, highly trained Ayurveda technicians will give you a very specialized massage each day using oils in which as many as 50 herbs have been cured. These special oils are only available as part of the in-residence program

Proper Nutrition

Your Ayurveda Health Consultant will provide you with detailed understanding of which foods to favor and avoid for your condition. Avoid foods that are hard-to-digest, clogging to the physiology and aggravating to the functioning modes that are already imbalanced in you. Favor foods that are easy-to-digest, nourishing, cleanse the physiology, strengthen digestion and balance your body's inner intelligence.

One of the great strengths of the Ayurveda dietary approach is that it contains knowledge of how to have a light, easy-to-digest diet that still is both satisfying and nourishing. Many individuals have easily followed this diet and have improved their digestion and energy while also reducing their symptoms.

Proper food preparation
During your in-residence stay you will also learn the basic principles of Ayurveda cooking. The cooking classes provide knowledge of how to prepare foods in ways that create maximum nourishment for the body while simultaneously preventing incomplete digestion and clogged circulation.

Ayurveda Herbs
Herbs are considered nutritional supplements in Ayurveda. Their purpose is to restore balance to the specific functioning modes whose malfunctioning is causing your condition. During your personal interview our Ayurveda Health Consultants will select the appropriate herbal formulas for aiding the healing process, strengthening digestion and helping the body purify itself of toxins and free radicals.

Ayurveda herbs can also have a holistic influence of balancing and nourishing the entire physiology.

Traditional Ayurveda theory says that herbs are most effective after a person completes an internal cleansing program. The cleansing and rejuvenation treatments that you will receive daily are the main focus of your in-residence stay. Once this program is finished, you are ready to gain maximum benefits from your herbal program.

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Creating strong digestion

Your Ayurveda Health Consultants will provide recommendations for strengthening digestion including information in the following areas:

• Proper use of spices and cooking oils.
• Herbal preparations for improving digestion.
• Important differences between breakfast, lunch and dinner foods.
• A simple system to determine a balanced diet.
• Digestion-enhancing foods to favor.
• Digestion-depressing foods to reduce.
• Eating behavior for maximum digestion.
• Proper food combinations to avoid indigestion.
• Non-dietary regiments to improve digestive strength including exercise, specific Yoga-asana and breathing techniques (pranayam).

Balancing nervous system activity

The nervous system controls most bodily functions, and almost every chronic condition is affected in some way when the nervous system activity becomes imbalanced. According to Ayurveda, the physiological principle at the basis of nervous system stability and activation is called Vata. Because nervous system imbalance contributes to fibroids, from the Ayurveda perspective Vata imbalance is an underlying cause of the condition and needs to be reversed.

Stress Management

Excessive mental, emotional and physical stress can worsen the symptoms of many chronic disorders, including fibroids. This is due to hormonal changes and other biochemical responses to stress that can imbalance the nervous system and depress the healing ability of the body.

Enhancing the body's ability to recover from stress is an integral part of approach to health and well-being. The following in-residence programs help reverse the body's response to stress:

1. Instruction in the Transcendental Meditation program
2. Ayurveda massage and heat treatments
3. Instruction in Yoga asana postures

If you choose to learn meditation during your in-residence stay at the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program are available to instruct you. The TM technique has a wealth of scientific research verifying its effect on reducing many of the mental and stress factors associated with fibroids.

Practice of the TM technique twice a day is a powerful mind-body healing approach to the problems of fibroids.

Lifestyle and Daily Routine

One of the most important factors for maintaining healthy functioning is to have a lifestyle that does not disturb natural bodily rhythms. When we eat, sleep and exercise in constantly fluctuating and disturbing patterns, the body loses its natural balancing cycles and cannot cleanse or heal itself as effectively. Therefore, regularity in our daily routine can be extremely effective in reducing physiological imbalance at the basis of fibroids.

Wishing you perfect health…….

Dr.Harsha Mundada
Dr.Praphulla Mundada


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