Rasayans For Good Health

One thought that constantly plagues everybody’s mind is to lose weight. Every one wants that lean body, which has wrongly become synonymous with beauty and attraction.
In the want to lose weight, people resort to extreme measures. Some of them start excluding things from their diet randomly without being aware of the serious complications and deficiencies that such an action entails and others turn to dieticians and fad diet programmes. A dietician looks at only physical aspect of the body and completely ignores the energy aspect. Unaware of the complex mechanism of the body and various dhatus that comprise it, he/she usually categorises the food into fats, proteins and carbohydrates and formulates a chart where the fat component is excluded from the diet. Majority of such diet control regimes have serious side effects that often translate into chronic ailments.
The time-tested science of ayurveda details the seven dhatus that comprise our body and the importance of maintaining a balance in these dhatus for health and longevity. The seven dhatus as given in the ayurvedic texts are – rasa (lymph), rakta (blood), mansa (muscle), meda (fat), asthi (bone), majja (marrow) and sukra (semen). You will be surprised to know that fat or meda is one of the seven dhatus. Thus by eliminating fat from your diet and body, you are actually introducing an imbalance in your system and setting grounds for disease to enter.
It is a known fact that people who are extremely thin unnaturally have regular problems in their bones (spine and knees) and stomach and also problems of body heat and virility, because of lack of fat in the body. In their desire to look good (which is their version of good) people do not realise that they are actually playing with their health.
Even if you want to control your diet, it is advisable to go the ayurvedic way. Introduce specific herbs and rasayans that would supplement the low fat food in the diet. I have detailed certain rasayans and herbal supplements in the book, ‘Sanatan Kriya, The Ageless Dimension’, which can be consumed, if you are going on a low fat diet.


-Yogi Ashwini is the guiding light of Dhyan Ashram and can be reached at dhyan@dhyanfoundation.com. For more details, visitwww.dhyanfoundation.com.