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What Ayurveda is, the body clock, the seven dhātus and reading the tongue.
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Ayurveda Foundations
What is Ayurveda?
Ayurveda — āyus (life) and veda (knowledge) — is the world's oldest continuously practised system of medicine, rooted in the Vedic culture of the Indian subcontinent.
Read article →Ayurveda FoundationsThe Ayurveda Body Clock
Ayurveda maps every 24 hours onto two cycles of Kapha–Pitta–Vāta. Aligning sleep, meals and work with this clock is the single most powerful daily practice.
Read article →Ayurveda FoundationsThe Seven Dhātus
Ayurveda describes seven body tissues (sapta-dhātu) formed in strict sequence from food. The quality of each one depends on the strength of the one before it.
Read article →Ayurveda FoundationsThe Tongue and Its Different Tastes
In Ayurveda the tongue is both a map of the body and the gateway of the six tastes. Reading it daily and including all six tastes at meals is foundational.
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