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While most arthritis patients take to physiotherapists for treatment, they are unaware of the psychosomatic origins of the disease. Arthritis is essentially a manifestation of emotional congestion that arrest most people by their late twenties. This congestion causes the vital fluids in the joints to dry up slowly. Likewise a lot of friction is produced in the joints, making them brittle in the long run. Nagging Pain in the wrist, pain felt in knees while getting up, or pain in ankle joints , shoulders, pain in finger joints while writing, basically any pain felt in the joints, is the beginning of arthritis. What is the cause of this pain ? As per Ayurveda, this pain is a collection of ama (toxins) in the body which manifests as swelling. If we don’t immediately make amends then arthritis sets in. To remove these symptoms and get rid of arthritis it has to be corrected at the root. Yoga and Ayurveda go to root cause of the problem and the root cause is the emotional centre, the...

Recently it was in the news that the BBC science show presenter Dr Michael Mosley has discovered  that eating less can increase your lifespan because it slows down the metabolic rate, and hence the rate of cell decay in the body. It is incredible to see that with every passing day every new ‘discovery’ of modern science is only rediscovering and reconfirming what our ancestors had said many thousands of years ago. Be it the nasal irrigation technique (jal neti) to fight infections that has become a rage in the United States; the hydro-colon therapy (basti) or the recent research by Dr Mosley, the world is gradually waking up to the ancient Vedic sciences and laying claims to the knowledge of our ancestors. However, still being in the stage of development, modern sciences are able to touch upon these principles only partially, as in the case of the ‘eat less, live longer’ mantra of Dr Mosley. Ageing is not just a product of a stressed-out digestive system, it works up...