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Cardiac Disease-
How can Ayurveda help to prevent Cardiac Disease?
 The Ayurveda Retreat cardiovascular program is conducted under the supervision of our Ayurvedic Consultant and draws on knowledge from Ayurveda, the world's oldest and most complete system of natural health care.
Through its unique assessment of causal imbalances at the basis of a condition and its wide range of time-tested recommendations, Ayurveda provides the most comprehensive approach for cardiovascular health available in natural health care today.
Causes and Treatments
Cardiovascular disease has many components to it, but the main aspect of the disorder is a physical deterioration of the structure of cardiovascular vessel walls. This deterioration of structure can be of three main types:
1. Clogging of vessels with cholesterol and plaque.
2. Damaged areas due to increased pressure and free radical activity.
3. Loss of vessel wall thickness.
This physical deterioration of cardiovascular vessels predisposes individuals to a wide variety of symptoms including pain, weakness, shortness of breath, palpitations and faintness. Individuals with cardiovascular disease also have heightened risk of serious, life threatening disorders mainly from tissue damage due to poor oxygen supply. The good news is that cardiovascular disease is mainly a result of unhealthy lifestyle decisions and is therefore preventable, and often reversible, by natural means.
Modern medicine now understands cardiovascular disease to be mainly caused by a variety of "risk factors".
In addition to hereditary factors the main risk factors for cardiovascular disease are:
• Excess stress and over-activation of the "fight or flight" response
• Overweight and inactivity
• Too much saturated and trans fats in the diet
• Overeating
• Sugar intolerance and diabetes
• High cholesterol
• High blood pressure and
• Cigarette smoking
Virtually all of these factors are determined by lifestyle issues of diet, exercise, substance abuse, and the amount of rejuvenative regimens in daily life. It is vital to address cardiovascular disease through lifestyle and prevention.
Ayurveda’s approach to removing the true causal imbalance of cardiovascular disease differs markedly from the standard modern medical approach of matching specific drugs to symptoms. Drugs often just eliminate or masks symptoms but do not really cure and heal. Rather, they leave the root imbalances in place and often further deteriorate the body's natural healing response through the side effects they create. For example, blood pressure, cholesterol reducing and anti-anxiety medications provide only temporary improvement, as the risk factor or symptom promptly returns if the medication is discontinued.
Following are the main issues in cardiovascular disease and the natural procedures used at Ayurveda Retreat for their treatment.
1) Opening the Channels of Circulation
There are several sources of circulatory blockage, most of which come from areas completely outside the cardiovascular system. Your program at Ayurveda Retreat aims to prevent blockage of vessels through:
a) Improving nutrition
Certain foods are heavier and more clogging in nature. Consultations and health education classes will help target the foods that can be most clogging to circulation so you may reduce or eliminate these foods. Conversely you will receive recommendations for foods that do not clog the physiology and could actually aid the natural cleansing and healing processes within the cardiovascular system.
b) Strengthening digestion
Even more important than what we eat is our ability to digest food properly. If we eat proper foods we still may create toxic and clogging impurities that localise in vessel walls due to the fact we have poor digestion. Digestion and nutrition are cornerstones of Ayurveda and you will receive a comprehensive set of individualised recommendations for improving digestion.
c) Better elimination
When elimination slows down, impurities which should be removed end up being absorbed. The impurities travel throughout the body and localise in tissues. They not only block vessels but when toxic they can damage vessel walls. You will receive individualised recommendations to improve elimination and maintain its proper function.
d) Improved metabolism
It is not enough for the body to have strong digestion and elimination. It also needs strong metabolism to build tissues properly and remove waste products created by cells and tissues. Free radicals are an example of toxic waste products that can seriously damage vessel walls if allowed to accumulate. In fact, science is now seeing that it is not so much the cholesterol levels that create cardiovascular damage but the levels of free radicals.
If needed, our Ayurvedic Consultant will provide recommendations aimed at improving metabolism and reducing free radicals. It is worth noting that there are herbal preparations that scientific research has shown to be some of the most powerful free radical scavengers yet studied. In many cases these particular herbal preparations are recommended by our Ayurvedic Consultant for their anti-oxidant and free radical scavenging effect.
e) Regular regimens for internal cleansing
Cleansing programs
Ayurveda Retreat programs include powerful yet gentle internal cleansing procedures administered by our highly trained Ayurvedic therapists. The combination of massage, herbalised oil application, heat treatments and mild herbal enema provide a thorough, multi-faceted approach to removing impurities that may have already accumulated. By administering these treatments, layer after layer of toxins and impurities are able to be loosened from tissues and eliminated from the body.
Herbalised oil massage:
Our Ayurvedic Consultant will choose a specific herbalised massage oil that is individually prepared for your condition. Herbalised oil massage provides a deeply soothing and balancing effect to the entire nervous system. The motion of massage creates heat and friction which enhance circulation and help cleanse the areas of chemical impurities that could be causing cardiovascular disease. The oil and herbs cleanse and nourish the tissues so that tissue development and repair is hastened.
The various herbs that have been boiled into a base oil, and the oil itself, are specifically chosen for their balancing and cleansing influence. The oil allows the herbs to deeply penetrate the tissue beds, thereby balancing the tissues throughout the body.
2) Stress Management
Cardiovascular disease is often worsened by the experience of chronic stress. This is due to hormonal changes and other biochemical responses to stress that activate the cardiovascular system and place it under greater pressure. Stress can contribute to many of the risk factors of cardiovascular disease including hypertension, poor eating habits, weakened digestion, slow elimination and increased cigarette smoking.
Scientific research on meditation shows it to create virtually the opposite physiological effect of chronic stress and reduce many of the risk factors of cardiovascular disease.
3) Proper Lifestyle and Daily Routine
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. Disruption of natural biological rhythms is a major factor in weakening the body's natural healing and balancing ability.
Our Ayurvedic Consultant will review your daily routine and provide the information you need to help create a daily schedule that will actually increase balance in your physiology and aid in healing your body.
4) Exercise and Flexibility Education
Ayurveda considers proper stretching and flexibility exercises to have a very positive effect on the body's healing response and the treatment of many chronic conditions. We offer Yoga classes and teach you a simple but profound set of postures that can be practiced daily to create a healthy flexibility throughout the body. We also instruct you in individualised Yoga breathing practices that create a state of restful alertness in mind and body.
Summary
Ayurveda can help with the prevention and symptoms of Cardiac
Disease. The Ayurveda Retreat program for cardiovascular disease
is conducted under the supervision of our Ayurvedic Consultant
and draws on knowledge from the world's oldest and most complete
system of natural health care. The program provides the most
comprehensive approach in natural health care to remove the
imbalances at the basis of cardiovascular disease. |
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Opening hours : Monday – Friday 9.00am – 8.00pm | Saturday 9.00am – 6.00pm | Sunday 10.30am – 4.30pm.
32 Friar Street, Reading, RG1 1DX, England. Email: info@ayurveda-retreat.co.uk |
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