Ayurveda is an ancient Indian science that is considered an art of living as well. It is a well-known holistic way essentially focused on working and healing the mind, body and soul using nature as the cure since Ayurveda is the knowledge of life. It isn’t just Ayurveda and yoga and meditation but a deep understanding of each individual psychologically and physiologically. 

Over the course of life, to achieve good health results and maintain them, Ayurveda believes in one principle; that is good diet management, balanced emotions, consistent yoga practice, meditation, daily breathing techniques such as “pranayama” and lifestyle management with best practices. 

How does Ayurveda work?

Ayurveda characterises every human into mind-body types. These primary qualities that regulate the body are known as “doshas”. 

Similar to Chinese medicine, Ayurveda follows the doctrine that the five fundamental elements of nature are what make up our existence and our three doshas, Vata, Kapha and pitta  are a combination of these:

• Fire (Tej)
• Water (AAP)
• Earth (Prithvi)
• Space (Aakash)
• Air (Vayu)

To remain healthy, these three doshas have to be balanced. There is an imbalance when a person is going through dehydration, stress, anxiety, low-energy levels, or exertion. This propels a person into a state of “vikruti”; an imbalanced state.

Overall, the aim of Ayurveda is to keep a person’s doshas well-balanced and maintain and improve a person’s health at all given ages.

Ayurveda Improves the Quality of Your Daily Life

• Ayurveda is a decision of a holistic regimen and lifestyle, which when embraced entirely for what it stands for, delivers an influx of regular well-being to your daily life.
• Exercise, an active lifestyle, sufficient exposure to the sun, opportune treatments and emotional good health help to cleanse the mental and spiritual spaces. This leaves you with healthy mental make-up and clear, glowing skin.
• Ayurveda works in pure tranquillity with alternative medical practices and medicine so it is functional for everyday use.
• Ayurveda helps restore health with balanced diet guidance, efficiently sound sleep patterns, home remedies, daily and seasonal habits, yoga and exercise.
• Heightened levels of focus through yoga, meditation, herbal concoctions, and an adequate amount of quality sleep help revamp the mental and physical goals that you have for your health.
• Ayurvedic treatments improve metabolism and boost appetite and immunity levels.
• The basic foundation of Ayurveda establishes the following self-control: never skip breakfast, eat light at supper, avoid late nights and subsequently wake up late, drink plenty of water, and eat organic.

Skin Diseases

Skin is the largest organ of our body, the one that shields everything else, yet is largely ignored. Skin feels pain, heat, cold, pressure and can have injuries, internally as well as externally. Mainly, skin diseases are an indication that something is wrong with our bodies. When the equilibrium of our internal self goes awry, the doshas go topsy-turvy and it manifests themselves as eruptions or rashes on the surface of our skin. It is a well-known fact that skin problems have different root causes that are inside our bodies. 

From the perspective of Ayurveda, lifestyle choices and poor nutrition are the major underlying causes of skin diseases. Going against your ‘Prakriti’, the inherent nature of your being causes an imbalance of your doshas. This imbalance of the dosha causes skin diseases and while all the doshas involved can cause this, it is the ‘Pitta’ that is mainly responsible for a whole lot of them as it is a form of ‘Agni’ or fire dosha. A sluggish liver is another cause of skin disease, the accumulated toxins ‘ama’ is typically released through our porous skin in the form of the disease. 

Common skin diseases that can be healed with Ayurveda

• Psoriasis
• Skin cancer
• Dermatitis
• Atopic eczema
• Skin allergies
• Acne
• Rosacea
• Inflammatory skin diseases
• Persistent rashes 
• Bacterial infection
• Fungal infection
• Viral infection

While some of these can be turned around completely, some cannot be healed thoroughly but can be brought under control and monitored. 

Ayurveda’s answer to skin problems

Ahead of treatment of a patient suffering from any skin ailment, it is imperative to analyse the person as well as the condition. This is the perspective that ayurvedic physicians follow. The diagnostic results are based on the doshic composition, skin health, pulse rate, diet and lifestyle. The end goal of any ayurvedic treatment is to reinstate doshic imbalance. The methods of treatment include yoga, sattvic diet, pranayama and the inclusion of herbal concoctions or juices in the daily regimen as a lifestyle choice. There are also tailor-made therapies depending on the skin disease and the stage it is at. These include traditional ayurvedic massage (abhyanga). All of these are designed to rehabilitate the imbalance of doshas and concurrently, the skin health with it.

Panchakarma

Ideally, the best bet for any and every skin disease and at whatever stage it may be at, panchakarma deals with it in a swifter manner by removing the accumulated toxins from the root. This complete formulation, beginning from the diagnosis to the five different steps of panchakarma is fundamentally meant to drive the toxins out from the cellular level. 

Conclusion

It is as simple as that. Toxins are the cause of all our problems. Panchakarma helps remove the toxins at the root. Most diseases disappear. This is an age-old, proven fact. While there are a whole array of ointments and herbal remedies available, and they help to a certain extent too, Ayurveda is your best bet. In Ayurveda, the underlying cause of the skin abrasions, lesions, rashes and discoloration, all point inwards at the larger problem trying to reveal itself.