Ayurveda Certificate | Basics and its Clinical Aspects

Explore prakriti, the body constitution, and how physiological, psychological, and physical features create individual differences. See how different prakriti types shape responses to temperature and medical experiences such as injections.

Explore the Ayurvedic concept of Prakriti, distinguishing the physical constitution from doshas, and learn how Vata, Pitta, and Kapha exist in natural limits before becoming doshas when exceeded.

Explore vata prakriti, the air constitution, as it drives movement, dryness, and sensory signals in the body, influencing digestion, voice, joints, sleep, and learning patterns.

Explore Pitta Prakriti, the fire constitution governing digestion, heat, and metabolism, shaping the abdomen, aura, and analytical mind, with heat intolerance and distinctive features.

Explore Kapha Prakriti, the water-earth constitution that governs body fluids like mucus and synovial fluids, supports joints, hair, skin, and digestion by pacifying fire.

Explore the constitution of the body through prakriti combinations, including vata, pitta, and kapha, their dual and triplet blends, and how permutations influence dominant features.

Explore Vata prakriti, the air-element constitution, and its clinical implications in Ayurveda. See how imbalanced Vata links to insomnia, constipation, vertigo, and dry skin with thin, porous hair.

Explore how Pitta prakriti, the fire element, drives digestion and hunger with sharp analysis and leadership, while causing heat intolerance, irritability, sweating, skin changes, acid reflux, migraines, and jaundice.

Explore the practical aspects of water and earth element constitution, detailing cough patients' calm, slow start, strong build, oily skin, and risks like anorexia, indigestion, obesity, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Identify the three mental constitutions: sattva, rajas, tamas, and contrast them with the three body doshas, showing how balanced gunas and doshas underpin complete physical, mental, and social health.

Explore the sattvic property, its purity, peace, and harmony, and how it contrasts with rajas and tamas. Meditation and food can enhance sattva, nurturing kindness, truth, faith, and memory.

Outlines the rajasic mind—unsatisfied and materialistic—and shows how money-driven desires cause inner pain, anger, and unstable relationships, while sattva offers fewer social difficulties.

Uncover the tamasic property of the mind, describing darkness, heaviness, laziness, delusion, and false knowledge, and relate it to sattvic and rajasic gunas in daily life.

Explore sattvic foods that purify the body and calm the mind, supporting the sattvic mental constitution and reducing rajasic and tamasic influences through diet.

Learn how rajasic prakriti drives hyperactivity and anger, and which rajasic foods—spicy items, onion, garlic, tea, coffee, fried foods, meat—increase it; fasting and sattvic balance vat and pith.

Identify tamasic foods that dull the mind and induce lethargy and drowsiness, such as stale, reheated, fatty or sugary items. These foods calm hyperactivity but worsen mental clarity.

Explore the space element Akash as the first of the Panch Mahabhuta, and see how hollow body structures like the oesophagus, ear canal, and arteries illustrate its role in health.

Explore the fire element, or agni mahabhuta, as the body's energy source and its role in digestion, ATP production, and how digestive juices shape energy and health.

Explore the water element (Jala Mahabhut) as the body's liquid state, carrying hormones, nutrients, oxygen, and wastes via blood and body fluids, distinct from the water constitution.

Understand the earth element as the solid, stable force shaping bones and teeth from fetal development. Note its smell and mud cravings as indicators, with clinical uses discussed next lecture.

Examine the air element’s role in movement, respiration, and motor–sensory function, and distinguish air constitution from the literal air element present in every living body.

Explore the space element and its link to hearing, hollow organs, and auscultation, guiding ayurvedic diagnosis and treatment of chest and digestive hollow structures.

Explore how the air element governs touch via the skin and the nervous system, and how spirometry and lung volumes reflect vayu balance.

Explore how the fire element, Agni Mahabhuta, governs sight as the eye’s Tejo maya indriya, linking eye structure and diagnosis to modern imaging like X-rays and MRIs.

Explore the water element (jalmahabhuta) and its role in taste, salivation, and body fluids, including blood, mucus, and saliva, and why excessive water disrupts balance.

Explore Prithvi, the earth element, and its role in smell, body structure, and assessment. Learn how earth findings in stool, urine, weight, and BMI guide OPD diagnosis and Panchamahabhuta examination.

Explore dinacharya, the daily regime, and learn how waking around 4 a.m. before sunrise supports health. This practice targets lifestyle disorders by aligning daily activities with optimal morning oxygen.

Understand the cleaning regimen, mala visarjan, and how early-morning defecation leverages peak peristaltic movement at Brahm Murat to prevent constipation and boost digestion.

Explore the ayurvedic dant dhavan regimen using a 12 angul twig, ark, neem, khadir, or karanj, for tooth brushing and tongue cleaning, with antimicrobial benefits, practiced twice daily.

Explore the anjan collyrium application for the eye in Ayurveda, including sauvir anjan for daily cleansing and ras anjan for weekly use to improve eyesight.

Explore nasal instillation (navana) using sesame oil and Brahmi to calm the brain, support lactation, and reduce stress. Understand how drops reach the brain via the crib reform plate.

Perform Gandusha, or oil pulling, by swishing sesame oil (or coconut/olive oil) for up to twenty minutes, then spit out to cleanse the mouth and reduce bacteria.

Explore the herbal smoke practice of dhoom paan, inhaling smoke from turmeric and other herbs to cleanse the throat and respiratory tract, with exhalation through the mouth for antimicrobial effects.

Discover how daily exercise and yoga support mind–body health in Ayurveda, then apply abhyang, the sesame oil massage, to improve circulation, skin tone, and sleep, with udhvartana as oil-free treatment.

Learn how the bathing regimen (snana) completes the dinacharya by using neem or turmeric waters, cleansing inside and out and boosting circulation and appetite.

Outlines the dinacharya morning routine, from cleansing and morning prayers to connect with divine powers, to a balanced two-meal diet timed for gut health and night routines.

Explore the six seasonal regimens of shishir, vasant, grishm, varsha, sharad, and hemant in Ayurveda's ritucharya, and learn how these cycles structure the year.

Explore how Ayurveda's Ritucharya links the six seasons—Shishir, Vasanth, Grishmarithu, Varsha, Sharad, Hemant—with the doshas Kapha, Vata, and Pitta, detailing when each dosha accumulates, agitates, or pacifies.

Learn how season affects strength in Ayurveda, with six seasons and doshas mapping to energy: maximum in Shishir and Hemant, minimum in Kreshm and Varsha, guided by the sun.

Explore two ayans in Ayurveda: Uttarayan and Dakshinayan. Learn sun movement north and south, and moon predominance during Dakshinayan, covering Shishir to Grish and Varsha to Hemant.

Explore vasant ritucharya, balancing kapha in spring by addressing sun-driven prakop, adopting kapha-friendly diet and exercise, and using vaman as part of panchakarma to reduce kapha.

Explores Grishmritu, the summer ritucharya, showing how kapha is pacified and vata increases under maximum sun, guiding cooling foods and hydration to balance doshas.

Explore how varsha ritu, the monsoon season, aggravates vata while pitta accumulates, impairs digestion (mandagni), and learn diet and lifestyle practices to balance doshas.

Explain Sharad ritucharya, where vata pacifies and pitta aggravates due to autumn; suggest pacifying foods and herbs like avipatti karchuran and usheerasav to balance digestive fire.

Learn Hemant ritucharya as early winter, with pitta pacification and possible kapha sancha, and contrast it with Shishir as the late winter, drier variant under Uttarayan and Dakshinayan.

Learn about ritu sandhi, the fourteen-day seasonal transition, and how to slowly shift from the outgoing to the incoming regime. Explore padanshikaram, gradual adjustment, to reduce disease susceptibility in Ayurveda.

Discover the six tastes of Ayurveda: madhur, amla, lavan, katu, tikt, kashay, and how taste reveals physical and energetic qualities with implications for dosha balancing.

Learn how the six Ayurveda tastes affect vata, pitta, and kapha: sweet, sour, salty decrease vata; pungent, bitter, astringent decrease kapha; sweet, bitter, astringent decrease pitta, with food examples.

Identify the sweet taste in Ayurveda, its earth-and-water composition, cooling virya, and its effects on kapha, vata, and pitta, plus mucous membranes and skin benefits.

Explore the salty taste in Ayurveda: its heating effect from water and fire, its vata balancing and pitta-kapha aggravating roles, and its impact on digestion, hydration, and weight.

Explore the sour taste in ayurveda, driven by acids such as citric, lactic, and malic, that moistens the mouth, boosts digestion, and notes vipak effects on liver and bile flow.

The pungent taste is hot and dry, produced by volatile oils, resins, and mustard glycosides. It stimulates digestion, acts as a vasodilator and carminative, and can aggravate vata and pitta.

Explore the astringent taste in Ayurveda, its tannin-driven dryness, throat constriction, and effects on vata, pitta, and mucus, with foods like cranberry and haritaki.

Explore the bitter taste in Ayurveda: its cooling, light, dry qualities that balance pitta and kapha, stimulate the nervous system, and aid fat reduction and GI cleansing, including bitter gourd.