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Herbs
The most recent or popular herbs currently being looked at by our community of visitors
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Twak means ‘skin’ or ‘bark’; the bark of the Cinnamon tree is used in Ayurvedic medicine as a major digestive herb. As a bark protects a tree, Cinnamon protects and strengthens the intestines. It is full of sweet and stimulating essential oils, cinnamon is a long-time favourite for invigorating and warming the whole body.
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Adraka means ‘moist’ and Shunthi means’ dry’. Ginger is described as vishwabhesaja, the universal medicine benefiting everybody and all diseases. Ginger is the herbalist’s best friend. When using Ginger think ‘digestion, lungs and circulation’.
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Green tea is bitter, astringent, light and drying. It's a potent natural antioxidant that boosts metabolism and energy, improving its overall efficacy and contributing towards weight loss, cleansing and detoxification programmes.
Conditions
The most commonly consulted conditions by our community of visitors
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“Dependent on sleep are happiness and misery, corpulence and leanness, strength and weakness, potency and impotency, intellect and non-intellect, life and death.” Charaka Samhita Sutrasthana The Caraka Samhita (CS) is an early text on Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine). It is one of the two foundational texts of Ayurveda dating back to the period of 900 BCE - 600 BCE.
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The term ‘stress’ represents the physical and emotional reactions of our body and mind when we are functioning above our normal threshold. When our exposure to stress becomes excessive it can adversely affect our health, disrupting our hormonal balance, immune resistance and mental health.
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Energy is the source of life and your own inherent genetic vitality and state of mind. The best way to build your energy is to tune into what your daily needs are, ensuring that your body and mind are well nourished and energised when you need them to be.
Expert Opinion
A selection of the most recent and popular articles from the herbal experts who write for this site
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Here we will discuss some home truths about sugar, coffee and caffeine including its origins, evolution of use, craving behaviours and, last but not least, herbal solutions for battling our pre-disposed need for stimulation.
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Is our modern day desire to want to ingest concentrated nutrients in the form of food supplements a survival mechanism?
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Many of the very compounds that protect plants from attack also have an immensely beneficial and protective effect on the humans that ingest them; these are phytonutrients. Read on to find out more.