Know About Immune System Ayurveda Way

The second wave of the pandemic coronavirus, in India disturbs the backbone of the healthcare system. With daily increase in cases, shows the importance of life, being more serious about health, and treating the body as an indefinite treasure.  

This time is an eye-opener for us to emphasize more on our health, to spend more time treating our body healthily, and to strengthen our body to fight back against diseases. Indian traditional medicine Ayurveda's most ancient therapy has given its importance in this pandemic, with more engagement on immune booster herbs, diets and practices draw more attention towards the Ayurveda system.  

So here we are with a series of blogs to help you know about the immune system as according to Ayurveda and what are the certain factors that affect the immune system, and immune booster that can help us to fight against this pandemic. 

What Ayurveda says about Immune System ??

The immune system is nothing new, it is classified and discussed by the Ayurveda acharyas since ancient times but has a different name and different philosophy. 

Immune System

In Ayurveda, the term Vyadhikshamtva was given for the immune system, As in simple terms, it is a resistance, the power to fight against diseases and to protect ourselves, to prevent against the different loads of diseases to maintain a healthy life. It is a strength of our body to protect against diseases and to remain healthy. 

Strength, Bala, and Vyadhikshamatva are the correlated terms of each other. 

In Ayurveda, it is divided into three categories-

1. Sahaja Bala- It is an Inherit resistance of the body to fight against the diseases, it is present since birth. It is based on the characteristics, factors at the time of fertilization, and an inherited strength from birth, which can't be changed. 

It can be only possible to change the Sahaja Bala during ante-natal care i.e pregnancy care. 

2. Kalaj Bala- A resistance to fight and to prevent diseases with change in Age and season. As with the change in Age, certain other factors affect the strength of the body like Agni, Doshas, Dhatu, physiological parameters, diet, etc.  

As also with the change in season our strength decreases and increases, and affects the strength of our Bala to fight against the diseases. 

3. Yuktikrita Bala- It is a type of acquired strength that can be achieved by ourselves by practicing some changes in diet, changes in routine, with daily exercises, and by taking some immune booster measures or healthy measures. 

Amidst the pandemic, to maintain and to achieve the Yuktikrita Bala is the need of an hour and all the measures are taken to be protected and to fight against the diseases to boost the yuktikrita Bala. 

With the upcoming series of blogs, we are going to emphasize more on how to increase the yuktikrita Bala, how to boost the immune system with some easy tips, and how to analyze your immunity and to strengthen the immune system as according to the age.