Ayurvedic Medicines

Kind of Chinese Herbal Therapy Today By : Barnavies Traditionally, Chinese herbal therapy made use of many treatment modalities, including acupuncture , moxibustion- the application of heat to the skin, cupping-or applying suction to the skin), gua sha-scraping the skin, massage , dietary and lifestyle recommendations, exercise and stress-reduction techniques that all worked alongside the herbal medication prescribed. Chinese Herbs Chinese herbal therapy is a natural way to maintain good health and treat diseases.

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Chinese Herbal Therapy

As research all around the medical field continues to expand, the number of doctors who are looking closely at magnetic therapy continues to grow as well. With side ranges of benefits that can help those in pain without the use of medications, heat or ice this is starting to look like one of the best treatment options available to athletes regardless of the injury. While not everyone is suited to use magnetic therapy, those who have tried it so far have been highly successful and enjoyed t

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Sports Medicine Ventures into Magnetic Therapy

What is your experience with socialized medicine when it comes the treatment of your Eating Disorder and/or Mental Illness? Have you gotten what you need to ensure your health and recovery? If you’re in the United States, are you for or against socialized medicine?Please take a moment to participate in the poll located in the sidebar and share your experience.Thank you.MrsM.

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Poll: Socialized Medicine And The Treatment Of Eating Disorders / Mental Illness

How to Give a Shirodhara Part 6: Traditional Shirodhara Technique A Quick Note About Me: My name is Rhett Hatfield and in addition to being the owner and Director of Education for the Body Wisdom Massage Therapy School I am am indigenous therapies researcher in Asia and South East Asia and normally spend several months there every year. You can read more about me and my travels in the Blog section Body Wisdom Global Section 6 Overview: Having covered all the preparations for Shirodhara in sections 1-5 we are now ready to perform the actual technique itself in the traditional way.  In truth the proper preparations for giving Shirodhara are just as important if  not more important than the actual treatment itself.  If you have not followed these posts up until now you might want to take a few minutes to review the background and preparations that have brought us to where we are now.

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How to Give a Shirodhara Part 6: Traditional Shirodhara Technique

National Holistic Institute Students and Graduates will receive a  $100 VISA Gift Card for referring a new student to NHI with our Referral Rewards Program! Refer a friend, relative or acquaintance to National Holistic Institute by completing the Referral Rewards Form at http://www.nhi.edu/referrals/form.html . When your referral enrolls at one of the National Holistic Institute campuses, your name is recorded into our rewards database. After your referral has attended 2 weeks of class, you will automatically qualify to receive the $100 Visa Gift Card

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Renee Lucchini, Dean of Faculty at National Holistic Institute , takes a break from the complicated job of scheduling teachers for classes.   See her here, in the mud, at the site of NHI ’s new building in Emeryville! This picture reminds me of a similar one from 1939 showing the construction of a new gymnasium at my alma mater, the University of Southern California.   The caption to that picture read, “Always growing, ever-changing, never finished.”   Certainly, these words also capture the NHI spirit.

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Dean of Faculty Visits New NHI Campus Construction Site

Last Thursday, the National Holistic Institute campus in Encino opened its doors to the California Massage Therapy Council – the organization charged with creating the voluntary statewide massage certification for California.  The board meeting covered such topics as credentialing and the proposed application process.  As the September 1 start approaches, refer to this blog for breaking news. NHI Co-Owner and CAMTC Treasurer Mason Myers with fellow Board Member Beverly May CAMTC Chairman Ahmos Netanel with Board Member Roberta Rolnick CAMTC Board Member Dr. Paul Schwinghammer with Executive Director Cheryl Oliver

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NHI Hosts California Massage Therapy Council

Over the Easter vacation I gave eco tourism a try in Italy with some friends at a vegetarian/vegan organic farm not far from Parma that I located with some internet detective work.  Il Paradiso dei Gatti is a small, cute farm up a mountain overlooking the Taro valley surrounded by great hiking trails and full of not just cats but also friendly dogs, chickens, goats, sheep, horses and geese. Staying here included the room and all meals. Breakfast was served at 9 or when you wanted: tea, coffee, bread, cakes

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Vegan Eco tourism in Italy

Lymphatic Breast Treatment Have you ever had a Lymphatic Breast Treatment? Lymphatic Breast Treatment is an effective ‘wellness’ treatment for breasts because of their particular need for good circulation and tissue mobilization to achieve optimum health. To help create and maintain healthy breast tissue and to help monitor tissue changes designed to softly drain the many lymph glands around the breast, and to encourage circulation in and around the breast with gentle massage.

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Lymphatic Breast Treatment

87.35%   That’s the final National Holistic Institute Placement percentage for 2008!! All 5 NHI campuses demonstrated remarkable placement numbers with the Encino campus in Los Angeles finishing at an extraordinary 96.6%! While many sectors of the economy struggle right now, massage blazes on.   The success of our recent graduates supports the numerous articles we’ve read ( Massage Thrives During Recession ) stating that the national massage scene flourishes.

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Neal Delaporta, NCTMB Chair (left) and Paul Lindamood, NCTMB CEO after the CAMTC meeting on April 27, 2009   Neal Delaporta, the Chair of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork , graduated from National Holistic Institute Group 3 in 2001.  He moved from Connecticut to California to attend NHI .  “I didn’t undertake that move lightly because there were good massage schools nearby in Connecticut,” said Delaporta.  “I pretty much knew when I walked through the door that NHI was the place for me.  I saw the way the program was set-up – it was perfectly balanced – and it was a great decision for me.”   Neal was in California on Monday, April 27, 2009, to attend a meeting of the newly formed California Massage Therapy Council (CAMTC) implementing California statewide certification.  The CAMTC is considering the NCTMB’s national certification exam as one of the methods by which a massage therapist could receive a certification in California.   The NCTMB provides a national certification that is held by 91,000 therapists across the U.S., including 5,000 in California.  Overall, the national and California exam passing rates are in the high 60 percent range, but over 80% of NHI graduates pass the national exam on the first attempt.  Excellent work NHI graduates!  

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NHI Graduate Chairs National Massage Certification Board

  Sunday’s sold-out Integral Anatomy workshop with Gil Hedley was a smashing success!   81 people, including staff, students, graduates, yoga teachers, personal trainers, artists and massage therapists, gathered at our Emeryville campus for this unique class.   You have a 2nd chance to catch this class at the National Holistic Institute Encino campus on May 17.  Email Denise at boyled@nhi.edu to register

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Gil Hedley Wows Emeryville Class

How to Give a Shirodhara Part 5: Final Preparations for Treatment Overview: For those of you coming into this 7 part series a little later, allow me to provide a little context.  I am owner of the Body Wisdom Massage School here in Des Moines, Iowa and I have also oper ated as a global spa trainer and indigenous researcher in South East Asia for a few months out of each of the past few years.  An up and coming spa treatment which you may not have heard of but is very, very popular in today’s destination spas in both the US and abroad is called Shirodhara.  Shirodhara is the pouring of warm oil on the forehead for an extended period of time.  Although is may seem quite odd to the uninitiated it is one of the most relaxing experiences that can be had along with a massage or other spa treatment.  The purpose of this 7 part series is to report on my documentation of this traditional Ayurvedic treatment during my trips to India and in parts 6 and 7 still to come to describe the traditional approach as well as recommended adaptions of the original for today’s spa community.  Part of my work in documenting this treatment is as the current Chair of the Asia Pacific Spa and Wellness Task Force on Indigenous Therapies dedicated to documenting and preserving traditional therapies in South East Asia.  See Body Wisdom Global n introduction to Shirodhara is one of three therapies we teach in our Best of Asia Signature Spa Course here at Body Wisdom, the only one of its kind in the nation.  Best of Asia is just one of several Spa courses we offer at Body Wisdom in addition to European Spa, Hot and Cold Stone Massage and Bamboo Massage to name a few. If you like take a look at Parts 1-4 to get up to speed on where we are at the moment

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The National Holistic Institute (NHI) in Encino is launching the Pink Slip Massage Therapy Relief Act (PSMTRA) which will provide one free 50-minute massage to any unemployed person who has a pink slip or other verification of unemployment issued within the last 90 days. Eligible individuals must book online at Encino Clinic . Appointments will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis the following dates only: April 17 & 24 and May 8 & 15.

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Pink Slip Massage Therapy Relief Act (PSMTRA)

How to Give a Shirodhara Part 2: Link to Part 1 When we are speaking of a traditional Shirodhara the first requirement is for the proper table called a Dharapati or Droni.  The making of a proper droni has many requirements starting with the selection of a suitable wood.  In Ayurveda the wood itself it considered to be a part of the healing process. There are many trees that can be used but one of the best is a droni made from wood of the Neem tree which is also used as an herbal remedy in Ayurveda for inflammatory skin conditions, itching and other skin conditions.  On average the droni must be about 80cm wide and 2.5 to 3 meters in length In the pictures shown you can see the progression from the raw pieces of wood to the nearly finished state.  This process that can take several days when crafted by hand.  These pictures are from a small factory in southern India where I was able to see the process from beginning to end.  There are many kinds of dronis available in India ranging from all kinds of wood and also fiber dronis which are far lighter.  On the last point I have seen some dronis in doctor’s offices that would take four very strong men to pick up because they are that heavy.  I own a fiber droni that I shipped back from India for the reason of portability since I need to take it to the Body Wisdom Massage School when teaching Shirodhara.  Otherwise I would much prefer to have a wooden droni for their increased stability and the beauty and healing properties of the wood. You will notice when looking at the pictures below that there is a little ledge near the top of the droni.  This is to separate the flow of oil so that when the oil is poured on the head that it drains off and into the collecting basin and not down the table and along side the patient’s (guests) body.  The collecting basin has a hole in the center and the oil then drains out the hole and into a collecting pot where it is then transferred back up to the Shirodhara pot but more on the technique itself in a future post.  You will notice that the dronis are built with the sides higher than the center and there is always some contouring to allow drainage to the sides.  This is to allow the oil when a localized dhara (pouring of oil) is being performed or many other oily treatments like Abhyanga (massage with oil), Pizhichil (dripping of oil on the body) to drain off the body, down the sides and out a hole in the bottom of the table or collected again from the sides and reused.  For these and many other treatments like Udwarthanam (dry power massage) the clean up is quite easy compared to any other method

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Actually, I think it’s essentially the same site, since the same person e-mailed me to let me know about it. Anyway, it looks like we’re in the top 100 Botany Blogs , too (#13 this time, though again it doesn’t really look like a ranking). (I kind of suspect their both just scams to link to as many popular blogs as possible to drive up traffic on their own site, which is one of those content-poor places you stumble across when Googling and wonder if anyone ever reads.

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This treatment is used to treat spine and joint disorders like arthritis, slip disc and various types of spondylitis. Feel the pain fade away from the joint, muscle and sport injuries as little bundles filled with medicinal leaves, powders and rice are heated and lightly pressed over your body in this ayurveda therapy.

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Kizhi: A pain relieving ayurvedic treatment

Turn to the age old Ayurveda therapy of Kadeevasthi to cure modern day lifestyle and stress related chronic pains of the lower back, slip disc or lumbar spondylosis.

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Kadeevasthi: An ayurvedic treatment for lower back pain

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