Āyurveda For You – The Vāta Concept
Āyurveda places great emphasis on prevention and encourages the maintenance of health through close attention to balance in one’s life with right thinking, diet, lifestyle and the use of herbs. Knowledge of Āyurveda enables one to understand how to create this balance of body, mind and consciousness according to one’s own individual constitution and how to make lifestyle changes to bring about and maintain this balance. Āyurveda identifies three basic types of energy or functional principles that are present in everyone and everything called vāta, pitta, and kapha. Energy is required to create movement so that fluids and nutrients get to the cells, enabling the body to function. Energy is also required to metabolize the nutrients in the cells, and is called for to lubricate and maintain...
