The Silent Giant:
Supporting the Intelligence of Your Liver
By Mark Toomey, PhD
In the Ayurvedic view, a long list of ailments start in the liver, including acne, cold sores, high cholesterol, hypoglycemia, constipation, digestive problems and fatigue. This silent giant plays a multitude of important roles: digesting, metabolizing and manufacturing essential compounds. Perhaps this is how it earned the title, "the engine of the body".
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My Vedic Kitchen™
Recipes for the Heart
By Raj Vaidya Siju and Chef Mosa
When undigested toxins accumulate, they tend to do so in the heart. Here are three ama-reducing recipes. They come to us from the two premier Maharishi Ayurveda panchakarma clinics in the United States - The Raj in Fairfield, Iowa and Lancaster Health Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts. These delicious recipes help dissolve and digest the ama - the toxins - - in the heart and elsewhere, opening the srotas - the microcirculatory channels located throughout the body. Using select foods, flavors and eating times to help the body detox is one of the special skills of authentic Maharishi Ayurveda.
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Balancing Cholesterol - Nourish the Liver, Transcend
A full 80% of the cholesterol in your body doesn’t come from the food you eat. It’s produced in your liver. Here lies one of the secrets of the Maharishi Ayurveda approach to healthy cholesterol levels, an approach that gets to the root of the issue.
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End of Summer Hair Care
By Vaidya Manohar
Health starts from within. Balanced nutrition, digestion, assimilation of nutrients and elimination of wastes are all very important to overall heath and healthy hair. Herbal digest, Liver balance and Digest Tone help support not only your diet, but assimilation and elimination as well. Include lots of green leafy vegetables and sweet juicy fruits in your diet.
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Nourish and Nurture Your Heart - The Secret of Ojas
According Maharishi Ayurveda, the heart is the seat of ojas - and ojas is the substance that maintains life and promotes bliss and longevity. Cardio Support helps protect your heart by increasing ojas and improving your resistance to emotional and physical stress. But it also provides targeted nutrition for normal and clear arterial walls, by boosting digestion and supporting balanced fat metabolism. Finally, it nourishes the blood, muscles and functioning of the heart, to help keep your heart healthy as you age. An authentic Ayurvedic formulation of herbs, Cardio Support will especially help people who smoke, are overweight, eat a fatty diet, or have irregular sleep patterns or daily routines.
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Your Magnificent Heart
By Mark Toomey, PhD, Maharishi Ayurveda expert at the Raj 
Heart health is essential for a long happy life. From a western medical perspective the heart is a truly amazing pump. It is responsible for circulating blood through an estimated 60,000 miles of blood vessels. It pumps more than 3,000 gallons a day, 2.4 million gallons a year just while you're sleeping. Imagine how active the heart is during the other waking hours in a day.
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Discover Ayurveda: Your Best Detoxification
It's called "panchakarma" and means 'five actions'. The benefits of this ancient entirely natural de-tox method are being re-discovered today. This series of procedures was first described in the ancient records of Ayurveda. A quote from the Charaka Samhita, one of the old classical texts of Ayurvedic teaching (about 400 BC), describes the essentials of this powerful detox tool:
"In a person whose digestive system has been cleansed and purified the metabolism is stimulated, disease is reduced, and normal health is maintained. Sense organs, mind, intellect and complexion are improved; strength, good nourishment, healthy progeny and potency are the result. Symptoms of aging do not appear so easily and the person lives long and free from disorders. For this reason, elimination therapy should be carried out correctly and at the right time."
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