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children’s ayurveda

Ayurveda: Heal yourself, heal your children

February 3, 2010

My students have asked me to outline my ayurvedic regiment. I started going to Nita Desai, M.D. at East West Integrated Medicine in Boulder, Colorado four and a half years ago. I was having a pain in my intestine, which was misdiagnosed, rather impersonally, by some western physicians, as a kidney stone. I also wanted [...]

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Children and Ayurveda

April 22, 2009

So I have been implementing an ayurvedic diet in my children’s diet with mixed success. We cleaned out the cupboards and shopped for all the good things on the list for my daughter’s vata imbalance my and son’s pitta imbalance. My son squirmed while I put drops in his eyes to cool down the heat [...]

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Ayurveda for Children with ADD

April 16, 2009

I sent my 8-year-old daughter to my ayurvedic physican yesterday. Instead of drugging her up, I decided to try aryuveda. She is vata pitta, and her vata way out of control, that quintessential ADD symptom. And it’s about proper nutrition that she’s not getting. She’s always been a minimal eater Feeding her brain will help [...]

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