Our current hectic, busy lifestyle, irregular eating habits and incompatible diet choices during the day and the mental stress of work and home has made everyone vulnerable. When it gets out of hand, one starts showing signs of constant fatigue, whatever you are walking, talking or during office work, difficult concentrating, mood swings, brain fog and sleep disturbances. When you put them together and go to your GP, they will say you are suffering adrenal fatigue syndrome. This disease has different graduation of manifestation and can lead to various auto-immune ailments once it reaches a chronic state.
Those who suffer from it will know
that our mainstream medicine has no real solution for this problem, apart from taking
multi vitamins or vegetables or some exercise regime, Various complementary
medicines also follow the same path of various anabolic regimes/vitamins or can
put some kind of special diet, either keto diet or plant-based diet. But
unfortunately, while they will help the client for a short period of time, the problem
keeps getting more and more severe.
In ayurvedic medicine this disease is
described as Ojas Kashya, meaning depletion of your immune essence. Ayurveda teaches
us that each individual has 7 layers of tissue (known as Dhatus in Sanskrit), and
these seven tissues get nourishment from the physical, mental and emotional
activities and food we eat. The physical aspect of our immune essence gets nourishment
from a compatible diet and lifestyle, as well as the compatible environment in
which we live and work,
You may ask what this compatible
means? This ancient science shares with all of us that even though we all look
alike, with the same 2 legs, 2 ears or 2 nostrils, in fact, each individual’s
body make up is unique. Our likings and disliking’s and reaction to different
food and seasons is unique. This unique
principle is known as your body type. As long as one is able to feed themselves
and follow more compatible activities, one can provide more nourishment to their
7 dhatus and, as a result, build more immune essence. In same way, compatible
mental and emotional activities also build more immune essence and keep the individual
in more stable state at a mental level.
But once we start getting into
erratic and incompatible activities and diet, such as eating more processed and
take away foods, coffee, junk foods, carbonated drinks, excessive alcohol,
drugs and marijuana on a regular basis or mental incompatibility such as wrong
deeds, wrong actions, jealousy, hate, anger frustration and relationship
problems, we will start burning our immune essence and make ourselves more
vulnerable and this will affect our immune system. Immune essence is what keeps
our immune system stable and intact, so each bodily system functions at their
optimum strength.
According to Ayurveda, adrenal
fatigue syndrome is nothing but a depletion of one’s immune essence. Thus, an ayurvedic
practitioner will help those suffering from this ailment to rebuild their
immune essence by incorporating a compatible plan that will include daily and
seasonal regimes which will immediately start flushing the build-up of toxins in
the body and will stop their further production and provide a comprehensive
plan of compatible and incompatible foods. At the same time an ayurvedic
practitioner will guide the individual in how to make each meal as medicine, so
one can get best out of their food to build their immune essence.
There will also be a programme that
will help the client learn to deal with the mental and emotional issues without
being harsh on themselves, and there will be the support of ayurvedic herbs and
formulations that will revive the bodily intelligence, thus returning the hormonal
balance. At the same time, these ayurvedic practitioners will advise specific
ayurvedic bodywork therapies that help to bring balance at physical, mental and
emotional level by dislodging deep seated toxins.
This comprehensive ayurvedic
approach gives the opportunity to those who suffer from adrenal fatigue issue
not to sit and live with the problem but be able to get rid of the causes and
live a more balanced life at each physical, mental and emotional level.