Ayurveda: DIETS AND HEALTH CARE

NATIONAL SEMINAR ON TRADITIONAL INDIAN DIETS AND HEALTH CARE
Jointly organized by - Institute of Scientific Research on Vedas & National Institute of Nutrition - on 4th & 5th February, 2010
At NIN, Hyderabad, Andhara Pradesh
Dr.KSR Prasad lecture on Ayurveda Nutriceuticals in Genitourinary Tract disorders Or Dietary Preventive and Curative aspects of Genitourinary Tract disorders

1. Ayurveda Nutriceuticals in Genitourinary Tract disorders
Or
Dietary Preventive and Curative aspectsofGenitourinary Tract disorders
NATIONAL SEMINAR ON TRADITIONAL INDIAN DIETS AND HEALTH
CARE
Jointly organized by - Institute of Scientific Research on Vedas &
National Institute of Nutrition - on 4
th
& 5
th
February, 2010
At NIN, Hyderabad, Andhara Pradesh
Dr. K. Shiva Rama Prasad

2. Importance of Food
•Food can cause as well as health and Disease
•Food in health is choice & in disease compulsory
•Tasty Foods helps disease to grow rather than body
•Healthy mind takes healthy foods
•Scientifically best foods also have no action on bad
mind –it helps the disease than human
•Foods –does they improve health or disease?
•Scientific foods taste is questionable
•How food prevent the disease?
•Present situation of Ayurveda is –hanging between
holistic approaches and scientific methods
•The difference is –as Ayurvedic Ghee –from curd is
healthy and scientifically developed diary raw milk
Ghee is unhealthy

3. •Ayurveda is
considered by the
western community as
“Food” and marketed
with a label of “Food
Items”
•Normally food is in a
huge quantity and for
development of body
•Where in the Medicine
is always in a small
quantity and restores
the health from
disease
•A question here is –
“whether the Ayurveda is
a “Medicine” or “Food”
•If, the Ayurveda is food –
why the Food faculties
like NIN doesn’t involve
Ayurveda graduates –
•If it is a medicine –why
the dignity of equality is
not provided by the
Government
•The questions are
endless and without
answers –remains as
questions
Introduction

4. My topic –
Genitourinary Tract Foods in Ayurveda
•Ayurveda is based on 3 Dosha –7 Dhatu
and 3 Mala
•Genitourinary tract includes –
–1 Dhatu i.e. Sukra/ Artava (progeny tissue) &
–1 Mala i.e. Mootra (urine)
–Where three humors –Vata, Pitta and Kapha
generates the pathology with etiology of Food,
Regimen and Seasonal effects
–In which Kapha makes more diseases here in
GUT

5. What is common?
•The common is water –
•The water in the body eliminated as
Urine is the liquid part of the food i.e.
Rasa-Ambu of Udaka
•The products of GUT are urine and
semen are under the influence of
Kapha and Udaka

6. Disorders of GUT
•As the elements involved are two –
•Diseases are of –
–Sukra/ Artava (progeny tissue) disorders &
–Mootra (urine) disorders
•As a concept of Ayurveda not only uses the Food to
build and rejuvenate the Tissue
•Even by-product or waste of food is also used as
Medicine and also building the tissue
•The bulk food in many forms becomes as buffers to
alter the medicine real effect or fortify
•Many foods of a province is noticed as medicine in
different province
•Thus, it is necessary to identify the materials and
promote as food medicines
•The best example is Garcinia is used to get sour taste
in food is a best medicine for GUT inflammation and
Obesity

7. “Let Food be Your Medicine”
•How come we make the Food as medicine-
–To eat less as medicine or
–“Focus on Prevention” through food
•Ayurveda cares about the health through foods and
supplements also
•Ayurveda classics deal exclusive chapters on
nourishment and nutritive values of the food
•They describe even recipes that are useful in
Disease
•In disease pathogenic Channel (Srotas), selective
Iso-bio-available foods are scheduled as ‘pathya’ or
diet
•All the Pathya are not Medicines but they become
buffers of medicines

8. Pathya -Nutriceutical
•Pathya is a nutritive curative diet preparation could
be termed as Nutriceuticals.
•In Ayurveda the term Nutriceuticals is explained as
‘Pathya’ and ‘Rasayana’ is better.
•Still it is necessary to differentiate and demarcate
these terms of use.
•Nutriceutical is defined as “A food or part of food or
nutrient that provides health benefits, including the
prevention and treatment of a disease.”
•Or -“Art and science of preparing and
dispensing food as medicine in the practice of
healing” ie. Pathya in Ayurveda.

9. •Nutriceuticals termed as –Non prescription products
-launched by Stephen De- Felici in the 1980s.
•Ayurveda described such non prescription foods
embedded in management and therapeutics many
centuries ago.
•Nutraceuticals are from a plant, animal and microbial
ingredients like in Ayurveda
•Ayurveda provide a wide range of Peya, Vilepi,
Manda, etc. foods
•It is manipulating the diet to get maximum level of
active components to treat the disease

10. Classification of Nutriceutical in
comparison
•Nutrients
–Contemporary: Substances which have established
Nutritional functions e.g. Vitamins, Minerals, Amino
Acids, Fatty acids, etc.
–Ayurveda: Vicharana and Peya, Vilepi, manda, etc
•Herbals/ Phytochemicals
–Contemporary: Herbs or Botanical products
–Ayurveda: All the herbal compounds like
Chyavanaprasha, Vanari, etc
•Dietary Supplements
–Contemporary: Probiotics, Prebiotics, Antioxidents,
Enzymes, etc.
–Ayurveda: Medhya, Hrudya, Chakshushya, etc

11. Pathya dravya (liquids) indicated are –
•Dugdha (Gandhaka Rasayana with Milk)
–The Milk is a classical lacto based linked
active principle absorbent is a facilitative of
cGMP in GIT and there by makes the erection
with aphrodisiacs and regulates the KUB with
Gandhakarasayana, etc.
•Ikshurasa (Sugarcane juice in
Mootrakrichra), etc.
–acts as sucrose based active principle
linkage, as best as for the Genitourinary Tract
diseases.

12. GUT Indicated foods or Pathya
•The pathology of UT is better tackled with
Madhura rasa,
–and the foods are -Kulutha kwatha, Ikshuras,
Tanduleeya, Trapusa, Yavakshara, Mudga, Jeerna
Kushmanda, Pranimamsa.
•The liquids have the importance,
–and Ghruta, Dugdha and Excessive water intake is
indicated.
•The common foods like –
–Ardraka, Kadali, etc has much effect over GUT is
yet not recorded anywhere

13. Contraindicated
foods or Apathya in
GUT
•By the quality of the food,
–the items such as Sangrahi, Vidahi,
Sushka Ahara are contraindicated.
•Pistanna (wheat floor) sevana,
Kharjura, Shalooka, Kapitha,
Jambu, etc are contraindicated

14. Preventive Food items -The grains
(Dhanya /shimbi) on GUT system
•Sukra vardhaka / Sukrala –increases the semen
quantity
–Masha (Phaseolus radiatus)
–Tila (Sesamum niger)
–Vastuka (Chenapadium Album)
–Potaki (Bassella rubra)
–Patola (padval) –Vrushyam (enhances even the
conjugational effect)
–Kolasimbi (black bean) -Vegetables
–Arookam (pendalam [T]) –Vegetables
–Kaseru (Scripus kesor) -Vegitables
–Vishkira (wild birds) –Mamsa
–Koshastha (shelled) –Mamsa
–Plava (water birds) –Mamsa
–Matsya (fish) –Mamsa
–Kaschapa (turtile) -Mamsa

15. Preventive Food items -The grains
(Dhanya /shimbi) on GUT system
•Sukradaha hara –removes the burning
sensation (infection) in seminal duct
–Kulatha (Dolichos bifforus)
•Sukra haram –diminishes the semen
production
–Chanaka (Cicar arientum)
•Mootrala / Vasti shodhaka
–Kushmanda (Benineasa cerifera)
•Mootra sthambhaka –stops the excessive urination
and improves the sphincter closure
–Nishpava (Lablab valgaris)
–Tila (Sesamum niger)
•Ashmari hara – removes the urolitheasis
–
Kulatha (Dolichos bifforus)

16. Therapeutic foods or Recipies in GUT
•Mutrala –
–Krushara (kichidi)
•Sukra vardhaka –
–Kundalini (jilebi)
–Nariela ksheeri (coconut kheer)
–Mandaka (wheet papad)
–Yava roti (roti)
–Dugdha kupika (milk shake)
–Chipita (pressed rice)
–Tilakuttam (zinjili sweet)

17. Conclusion
•There are many foods mentioned many centuries
ago in Ayurveda require patenting as a part food
therapeutics
•All these food recipes (Mashandika) are even
though practiced by the practitioners doesn’t have
a proper recordings
•It is the “Right Time” for making a step towards
successful “Ayurveda Food Industry” to establish.
•Clinical studies are made to obtain a clear
differentiation of Ayurveda medicine and Food
medicine.
•So, "Let your food be your medicine and not to
make medicine be your food"
Dr. K. Shiva Rama Prasad, Professor & Head, Kayachikitsa, Amrita School of Ayurveda, Kerala

18. Dr. K. Shiva Rama Prasad, Professor & Head, Kayachikitsa, Amrita School of Ayurveda, Kerala
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