Ayurvedic Products, Products You Can Know
The truth of the old saying “you are what you eat” is hard to miss. Although, accidentally or not, we often neglect to consider its real import when we eat the foods we eat and use the products and medicines we do. It may be rare that we truly understand what is in such food and such products, and even if we know the ingredients, we often don’t know what is in or involved in the production of those ingredients. The alarming implications of being ignorant of such a fundamental aspect of life have only in recently really begun to become clear to the world. The demand for and rise of organic farming is a clear indication of this new found awareness regarding food, but what about medicine and consmetics, is it not important to know what is included in these products as well? Furthermore, unlike foods, medicines and cosmetics often contain ingredients that are near impossible to pronounce, let alone understand the importance of. Soeven if one knew the names of ingredients, does this mean one knows what is in these products? Is it even possible to know this without a degree in chemistry?
Depending upon what kind of products you use, it is possible know and understand the ingredients included, even for the common man and woman. Though one might need a fairly substantial understanding of chemistry to understand the ingredients of a common pharmaceutical like Zoloft, to understand an herb like Ashwagandha might not be so difficult. Whereas the former bears the elusively ubiquitous appearance of table salt, the latter, a naturally growing plant rich with color and variety, will become as familiar as the Italian basil atop a caprese salad after a little time spent with the five senses. There is a marked difference between ingredients such as these two, and ayurvedic medicine continues to prefer ingredients like Ashwagandha to synthetic compounds because, among other reasons, they are knowable without machines like microscopes and electro-chromatographers.
Ayurvedic products are made of all natural ingredients that are as familiar as the fruit and milk in your refrigerator. Though it is not possible for everybody to visit the wonderful Asian sub-contintent of India, those who can are able to taste first hand many of the ingredients they find in their ayurvedic products. One can walk through the market and right from the vendor’s stand one can try the Amla fruit or the Holy basil which are used in so many ayurvedic products. They can touch, taste, smell, and savor all the wonderful sensations of these natural medicines right in the open air of the produce market. There is no need to wear white coats and visit a laboratory to know these ingredients, one need only explore and taste them as they grow from the ground.
Exclusively including natural ingredients sets ayurvedic products apart from most products manufactured in the world today. Although not necessarily USDA certified, most ayurvedic products are made with organically grown and wild harvested fruits and herbs, just as they have been for millennia. Contrarily, most manufacturers today take advantage of the ease and cost benefits which petroleum based mass synthesis provides, from a barrel of oil and a few other ingredients one can make gallons of chemicals and millions of pills. It is this and similar methods that render all those impronouncable names that often comprise the majority of the ingredient list of today’s products. Ever wonder how each of those products affects the human body? Nobody can really know yet, only time will tell.
Ayurvedic products follow an age old tradition of utilizing completely natural ingredients that are knowable directly through the five senses. The thousands of plants and minerals which are included in Ayurveda’s materiamedicum have been in use for two to three thousand years, and their effects and attributes have been carefully documented throughout this period. The ayurvedic products we know and love today are the fruit of this millennia old labor of love, the union between doctor and earth. Using the fruit of this labor is like eating a home cooked meal, carefully crafted with love, knowledge, and experience. However, playing guinnea pig while scientists in lab coats test new unknown chemicals seems foolish by comparison, especially if the old saying is true. If we truly are what we eat, then it is important that we know what that is. Ayurvedic products are both known and knowable in a way that products of modern chemical synthesis can’t be, so use with care.
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