Ayurveda is an ancient healing tradition from India. It is over 5,000 years old and is practically and philosophically very closely linked to Yoga. Ayurveda is a holistic form of medicine asserting that true healing must occur on all levels of being: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

Methods of treatment and prevention in Ayurveda include yoga practices, diet, internal cleansing practices, lifestyle adjustments, and individualized herbal formulas.

Ayurvedic guidelines for optimal digestion:

1. only eat food that you can digest

Symptoms such as gas, burping, constipation, pain diarrhea, or hyperacidity, are the body’s attempt to communicate that it cannot digest and assimilate the substances which you are offering it.

2. leave 3-5 hours between meals, allowing body time to fully digest previous food before introducing new food.

3. Proper food combining for you body type: it is recommended to drink milk alone and fruits alone or 20-30 minutes before other foods.

If the body has been in a state of indigestion for a long period of time, chronic illnesses may begin to develop. At this point, simply changing one’s diet is not enough and internal cleansing practices should be applied as well.

Ultimately, Ayurveda is based upon the interconvertibility of energy and matter. Yoga theory says the energy can exist in the form of matter in several different states: solid, liquid, luminous combustive, gaseous, or as pure space devoid of matter. All life contains a mixture of these elements which in individual life forms can be functionally grouped into three “doshas”; vata, pitta, and kapha. This is the doctrine of tridosha, upon which the foundation of Ayurveda is based.