Ayurveda for Beginners How to Easily Integrate the Indian Self-Healing Principle Into Your Everyday Life and Find Holistic Health Step by Step Incl. The Most Delicious Ayurvedic Recipes

By Tanja Gerlach

Combat stress, hectic and health problems with delicious recipes and relaxing massages and call it medicine - a wishful thinking? Quite the opposite!
No matter what is bothering you: Whether they are sick, simply feel unwell or can no longer cope with all the challenges of the modern world. Even if you just want to lose a few kilograms or simply feel good again: Ayurveda helps you to do so.
Because this ancient healing art not only combats your aches and pains in a wonderfully individual way, but also brings your body and mind into balance and maintains your health in the long term with a lifestyle that is individually tailored to you.
This guidebook offers you insights into the world's oldest health system, beneficial health rituals for every day, recipes that will make your mouth water, and much more.
Dive into the world of Ayurveda and convince yourself of a medicine that strengthens you, keeps you healthy and has a positive effect on your mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tanja Gerlach
• Release date: Oct 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215797815

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Ayurveda for beginners

How to easily integrate the Indian self-healing principle into your everyday life and find holistic health step by step

incl. the most delicious ayurvedic recipes

Tanja Gerlach

All advice in this book has been carefully considered and checked. Nevertheless, no guarantee can be given. Any liability of the author or the publisher for any personal injury, property damage or financial loss is therefore excluded.

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Content

What you can expect in this book

Ayurveda: What is it anyway?

Health and disease

A Journey to Ancient India

The most important elements

Nutrition

General ground rules

Subdivision of food

Massages

Forehead oil pouring: Shirodhara

Full body massage: Abhyanga

Purification therapies and herbal medicine

Panchakarma

Dravyaguna

Yoga

The three doshas / Ayurveda types

Vata

Tips for Vata Types

Pitta

Tips for Pitta types

Kapha

Tips for Kapha types

Ayurveda for you

Tips for Ayurveda newcomers

At home and in everyday life

Recipes

Ghee

Paneer

Indian lentil curry

Khichdi

Afterword

What you can expect in this book

Combat stress, hectic and health problems with delicious recipes and relaxing massages and call it medicine - a wishful thinking? Quite the opposite!

No matter what is bothering you: Whether they are sick, simply feel unwell or can no longer cope with all the challenges of the modern world. Even if you simply want to lose a few kilograms or just feel good all over again: Ayurveda helps you to do so.

Because this ancient healing art not only combats your aches and pains in a wonderfully individual way, but also brings your body and mind into balance and maintains your health in the long term with a lifestyle that is individually tailored to you.

This guidebook offers insights into the world's oldest health care system, beneficial health rituals for every day, recipes that will make your mouth water, and much more.

Dive into the world of Ayurveda and convince yourself of a medicine that strengthens you, keeps you healthy and has a positive effect on your mind.

Ayurveda: What is it anyway?

You may have read the term Ayurveda on the packaging of a herbal tea or spice blend, come across it while browsing a wellness hotel catalog or visiting a spa, but there is much more to this exotic-sounding word.

It is true that both nutrition and vitality and body awareness play an important role, but the origin of Ayurvedic teaching is a medical system and has its roots in India. Ayurveda is in fact a very old, traditional healing art of the ancient Indian people of the Vedas. This nature-based alternative medicine is a combination of philosophy and empirical values and is said to be between about 3,000 and 5,000 years old. However, it remains remarkably modern today and is practiced mainly in the South Asian region. The World Health Organization has also recognized Ayurveda as a medical science - so it is much more than just a wellness trend.

In this country, naturopathy has been gaining