Ayurveda: gids voor een gezond voedingspatroon in het gezin / Ayurveda: a treatise on food and healthy life

ABSTRACT

The three bioforces(tridosha) are responsible for the arising of natural urges and individual preference in food-tastes. They govern the creation, maintance and destruction of bodily tissues, and the evacuationand elimination of wastes products from the body. They are also responsible for psychological and spiritual phenomena including such emotions are fear, anger, anxiety and greed.And for the highest order of human experiences, love, compassion and understanding. The bioforces are the foundation of thepsychosomatic existence of men. To maintain or restore the balance on behalf of healthy life one must use food and tastes, according to her or his own constitution. Imbalance of dosha is caused by unproper food and tastes, which creates toxins called ama. Ama is the root of all kind of chronically diseases and it aggravates the ojas. Ojes is life essence responsible for immunity system in the body. The tastes, bitter and astringent are very beneficial to eliminate and evacuate the bodily toxin(ama) produced by impaired food tastes and unproper life-circumstances.....(AU)