Ayurveda and Skin & Hair Care

Ayurveda is a holistic science. 
The term 'holistic' itself means treating a body as a whole rather than just a single health complaint.

India has been blessed with heritage of ayurveda and knowingly and unknowingly we pratice many things in tradition which are part of ayurveda.

    Skin and hairs are considered as essence of beauty and also mirror of our personality.

We often take care of our hairs and skin more than anything else of our body.

According to ayurveda the "Health of your skin and hair" is dependant on how healthy your internal body is.

Commonly seen skin and hair problems are pimples, acne, skinpatches, pigmentation, dark spots, fungal infections,
hairfall,premature greying, dandruff, splitends and some other conditions like alopecia , loss of eyebrows and mustache hairs, psoriasis.

What are the causes of skin and hair problems -

1. Disturbed digestive fire causing loss of appetite,
2. Disturbed digestion , acidity, bloating of stomach
3. Disturbed motion habits ( constipation or loose motion )
4. Excess intake of salty , preserved food , stale food like salted wafers, excess cheese paneer , pickle and excess  chinese sauces.
5. Irregular menses, less bleed during menstrual cycle, thyroid , pcod, pcos and excess heat in body.
6. Excess smoking and drinking habits.
7. Excess stress tension, disturbed sleep, irregular sleep patterns.
8. Impure blood ,excess heat in blood
9. Not maintaining hygiene can cause fungal infectionsin hair and over skin.

All the above conditions contribute to hair and skin problems. 
To improve skin and hair health naturally we must first change our food and lifestyle pattern to some extend and also regulate our internal body functioning by proper medication, yogasana.

Along with proper food intake and care here are few points which we can practice for healthy skin and hair.

1. To reduce itching and buring over skin due to heat apply aloevera gel mixed with haldi, kapoor.

2. To reduce fungal infections in entire body chew 10 tulsi leaves in morning empty stomach, also add neem leaves in your bathing water , if neem leaves are not available due to some reason add 1 spoon of haldi powder in bathing water,

3. Reoccuring pimples indicate excess heat in body and also disturbed digestive function and motion habits hence change some of food habits, eat healthy , eat black raisins manuka before going to bed in night.

4. For heat boils or pimples occuring just before menstrual cycle apply dhana +jeera powder mixed in rose water over pimple area.

5.To maintain your motion habits drink half glass of hot water before food and practice padmasana after food.

6. For excess facial hair ( hirsutism ) prepare a scrub mixed of rava,rice flour, haldi and honey and scrub over facial hairs regulary.
Also consult your doctor if you have other symptoms with it.

7. To enhance skin tone and texture various medicine application which consists of ananta, chandan , raktachandan, kachora , haldi amd various other medicines which helps to treat reoccuring skin problems.

8. Regular application of oil over skin before bathing helps in increasing blood circulation, reduces dryness and improves skin textire.

9. Ayurveda has described various panchakarma like nasya, basti, leech treatment to cure skin probems from root cause.

10. For improving hair apply hairoil regularly..Hairoil prepared with aloevera, hibiscus , methi seeds and curry leaves are extremely useful.

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11. Split ends indicated dryness in your hair and scalp hence application of hair oil to roots is very important.

12, intake of food rich in omega 3, calcium like flax seeds, chia seeds, soya, walnuts,nachani, almonds , black raisins  helps in providing nourishment to hairs.

13.  Dandruff is most common hair problem..Dandruff is caused due to excess prodcution  dead skin and also if your digestion and detoxification of body is disturbed.

For treating dandruff local as well as internal treatement is important.
Application of paste of triphala churna mixed in dahi or honey and washing hairs with reetha or shikakai water also internal medication helpsin treating dandruff.

14.Castor oil ( erand oil ) mixed in coconut oil helps in increasing hair density and to some extend helps in new hair growth.

15.Applying paste of powders of reetha, amla, brahmi, guduchi, keshraj , gokshur helps in treating hair problems.

16. Avoid chemical shampoo instead go for herbal base shampoos , for washing hairs use reetha , shikakai or triphala powder

17. Panchakarma like shirodhara, shirolepa, nasya and shiroabhyang helps in treating hair issues.

 All above are for maintaning hair and skin health but if anyone is suffering for extreme hair and skin problems then only external uses is not sufficient internal medications, proper diet pattern, panchakarma is very important.

Last but not the least-

Your Skin And Hair Reflects Status Of Your Internal Body.

©Vishwakiran Ayurvedic Chikitsalaya
Dr.Rutuja Vijay Velaskar.