The term “pH” stands for “the potential of hydrogen,” which is the measure of the hydrogen ion in solution affecting the acidity vs. the alkalinity of the body’s tissues and fluids. The pH is measured on a scale from 0 to 14 with 7 being considered neutral. Anything...
I am fortunate in that most patients understand that Ayurveda is practiced differently than allopathic medicine and they use it in the way it was intended: as a holistic health care system which both prevents and treats disease by taking into account all aspects of...
A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of the eyes that develops with aging and slowly over time causes symptoms such as blurry vision, halos around lights, trouble looking at bright lights and difficulty seeing at night. This in turn leads to difficulty driving and...
One of the goals in Ayurveda is to prevent the patient from forming ama from the food, but instead helping them to produce Ojas. Ama is the residue of partially digested food which can happen as food moves through your digestive tract if either the food is too heavy...
Did you ever notice that as soon as you are diagnosed with a disease the discussion immediately jumps to the treatment which could be a medication, a surgery, or both? While it is important to begin treatment as soon as possible, the more important thing to be done,...
Over the past several decades, a new phenomenon has arisen: we are becoming food averse, to the point that we are now avoiding all various classifications of food, and ultimately pushing ourselves into a corner where there is hardly any food left to eat. Let me...
