Absolute Ayurveda

No frills, no cheap thrills, no fanfare — just

ABSOLUTE AYURVEDA @ kalpavriksh

This Ayurvedic centre for ethical healing, optimum wellness and natural beauty is the first of its kind in this popular suburb. Experience the most therapeutic and rejuvenating Kerala Ayurvedic massage at our centre.

kalpavriksh is a traditional Kerala Ayurvedic centre offering a variety of treatments, therapies, massages and other services meant to cure various ailments, using the time-tested, proven principles of Ayurveda and Kerala Ayurvedic Panchakarma. Our centre stands apart from the conventional feel-good services offered in the various “spas” that adorn our cityscapes. We are a spa–clinic, not just for the discerning few but for everyone who seeks health. Special care and preference is given to senior citizens, besides discounts on rates.

Gerard, the mastermind, an ardent devotee of Ayurveda, says, “Health and well-being to all who come to us is our ultimate goal”. We, at kalpavriksh, use nothing but the best — absolutely no compromise on the quality of the therapy.

Dr Sethu Madhavan (DAM, AVP, CMO [retd.] Central Govt. Health Scheme, Ex-Deputy Advisor Dept. Of Ayush, Hon. Consultant and Guest Prof. at Bharatiya Vidya Peth), the in-house Ayurvedic physician, emphasises that our healing remedies — i.e., Kerala Panchakarma treatments integrated with traditional Ayurvedic medicines — have given remarkable results in cases like arthritis, muscular dystrophy, obesity, ulcerative colitis, paraplegia, neuralgia, Parkinson’s disease, sciatica, cervical spondylitis, skin problems and all other stress-related disorders. It is also a wonderful supportive therapy for cancer and diabetes.

Our Ayurvedic beauty treatments are skin-, hair- and body constitution specific. We invite you to take advantage of our unique therapies for skin and hair nourishment. We have special packages for brides and grooms which take care of their overall health and beauty requirements. Our team of certified, trained and experienced Panchakarma therapists, under the able supervision and guidance of our in-house doctor, make therapeutic treatment a pleasure. Our clients from the corporate world consider kalpavriksh a blessing to them as it is here that they unwind their highly stressed minds, and rejuvenate and regain their health, ready to take on the world again.

We have separate treatment rooms for ladies.

An in-house astrologer is available for consultation.

Gift yourself and your loved ones total wellness this glorious season @ kalpavriksh!

12, Garodia Shopping Centre, Garodia Nagar, Ghatkopar (E), Mumbai – 400077

Star Cooperative Housing Society, Opp. IIT Main Gate, Powai, Mumbai – 400078

For details, call: 9920178202, 9322942311 or email at absoluteayurveda@gmail.com

When it comes to your health, don’t settle for the mediocre, or even the second best.

Medical Tourism

Medical tourism is a growing sector in India. India’s medical tourism sector is expected to experience an annual growth rate of 30%, making it a $2 billion industry by 2015.^[1][2] As medical treatment costs in the developed world balloon - with the United States leading the way - more and more Westerners are finding the prospect of international travel for medical care increasingly appealing.  An estimated 150,000 of these travel to India for low-priced healthcare procedures every year 

 A separate study by ASSOCHAM reported that the year 2011 saw 850,000 medical tourists in India and projected that by 2015 this number would rise to 3,200,000

• In addition to receiving traditional medical treatments, a growing number of western tourists are travelling to India to pursue alternate medicines such as Ayurveda

• The number of medical tourists visiting Kerala was close to 1,00,000 in 2010.

• To encourage the growth of medical tourism, the government also is providing a variety of incentives.  As well as expedited visas for overseas patients seeking medical care in India

• The compatibility of infrastructure with the tourist

Why Medical Tourism India

India has one of the best qualified professionals in each and every field, and this fact has now been realized the world over. Regarding Medical Facilities India has the most competent doctors and world class Medical Facilities. With most competitive charges for treatment, India is a very lucrative destination for people wanting to undergo treatment of certain medical problems who do not need immediate emergency treatment.

India offers World Class Medical Facilities, comparable with any of the western countries. India has state of the art Hospitals and the best qualified doctors. With the best infrastructure, the best possible Medical facilities, accompanied with the most competitive prices, you can get the treatment done in India at the lowest charges. A patient can come to India to undergo medical treatment and along with that can have the Indian tourist and pilgrim destinations, as and when advised by the Doctors. The whole thing would save a lot of money and will get to discover India at the same time.

Why India 

India is a leading player in the medical tourist/healthcare Facilitation industry. It is increasingly emerging as the destination of choice for a wide range of medical procedures. There are numerous advantages of going to India for treatment. Some of the advantages of going to India for medical treatment are:

Alternative Therapies in India for Medical Treatment

India is renowned for ancient alternative therapies such as Ayurveda, Yoga and Meditation, and Therapeutic Massage. India is an exotic tourist destination offering everything from beaches, mountains, cosmopolitan cities, quaint villages and pilgrimages to suit every palate. Rich in history and culture, India has proved to be an oasis in the modern world, providing complete health and well being, while providing the latest in technology

Seeing the huge potential in the sector, the government has also started issuing M (medical) visa to the medical patients, and MX visas to the spouse accompanying him, which are valid for a year. Two lakh medical tourists visited India last year, and the figure will grow by 50% this year.

India is being promoted as a healthcare destination in the ongoing 'Incredible India campaign,' being run by the tourism ministry. The campaign would promote Indian hospitals abroad as centres offering best medical services. In addition, availing medical services in India costs about a tenth of what it is in US, and one-sixth in UK. Not only this, the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals (NABH), a body set up to ensure safety and hygiene norms for hospitals, has already started the process of granting accreditation with 70 hospitals in the process of getting approval [chairman of CII's national committee on healthcare, Dr Naresh Trehan]

India now offers the latest techniques such as robotic surgery, and gamma-knife treatment for brain tumors. The efficacy of treatment compares with that in the West, with the death rate from coronary bypasses at 0.8% compared to 2.35% in the US. Union health minister stated the government is considering the Clinical Establishment Bill that would mandate accreditation for hospitals down to the district and village levels.

Source - The Times of India

Kerala-The Pioneer State

Kerala has pioneer health tourism in India. Kerala has strongly focused on Ayurveda and its wide array of treatments and medications, good facilities are also available in other traditional forms of medicine as well as in modern medical treatment. Kerala is Capitalizing on its Rich Cultural Heritage and alternate Medical Therapies.

Karnataka’s Foray

The government of Karnataka has ambitious plans to make Karnataka the top health tourism destination not only in India but internationally. In fact, the government is setting up a Bangalore International Health City Corportation for provision of a wide variety health care products and treatments.

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu has multi speciality hospitals that offer the best medical treatment at surprisingly low rates. In the state various other forms of medicine, viz, Siddha, Ayurveda, Unani, Nature Therapy and Yoga are also

practiced, which the foreigners are inclined to patronize. The Tourism Department is taking steps to promote the illness to wellness concept by developing tourism with health care.

Maharashtra’s Unlimited Potential

This state, as a gateway to India, offers tremendous potential to develop medical tourism. The latest addition in Mumbai is the Asian Heart Institute at Bandra-Kurla complex, which offers state-of-the art facilities for all types of heart complications and even preventive cardiological treatment to avoid heart alignments and keep under control a host of heart problems. This institute in collaborating with the Cleveland Institute, U.S.A offers ‘Five Star’ services at reasonable prices.

The weaknesses are as follows: 

• Lack of uniform pricing policies across hospitals.

• Lack of international accreditation – a major inhibitor

• Overseas medical care not covered by insurance providers.

• Under – investment in health infrastructure.

• Identifying a real practitioner is a major problem in India.

• Exploitation of tourists by illegal money operators.

The role of State Government for success in medical tourism is two-fold:

• acting as a Regulator to institute a uniform grading and accreditation system for hospitals to build consumers’ trust.

• Acting as a Facilitator for encouraging private investment in medical infrastructure and policymaking for improving medical tourism.

An article from 'The Guardian'

This UK patient avoided the NHS list and flew to India for a heart bypass. Is health tourism the future? Three months ago George Marshall fretted about the choice offered by his doctor in Britain. Diagnosed with coronary heart disease, the violin repairer from Bradford was told he could either wait up to six months for a heart bypass operation on the National Health Service or pay £19,000 to go under the scalpel immediately.

In the end, Mr Marshall chose to outsource his operation to India. Last month he flew 5,000 miles to the southern Indian city of Bangalore where surgeons at the Wockhardt hospital and heart institute took a piece of vein from his arm to repair the thinning arteries of his heart. The cost was £4,800, including the flight.

"Everyone's been really great here. I have been in the NHS and gone private in Britain in the past, but I can say that the care and facilities in India are easily comparable," says Mr Marshall, sitting in hospital-blue pajamas. "I'd have no problem coming again."

The 73-year-old found the hospital in Bangalore after a few hours surfing the internet. Mr Marshall decided to come after an email conversation with Wockhardt's vice-president and a chat with other "medical tourists" from Britain who had undergone surgery in the hospital.

"Once I knew others had come I thought, why not? In Europe hospitals in Germany and Belgium would do the operation for less than doctors in Britain. But Europe was still more expensive than here. And the staff speak English in India."

With patients such as Mr Marshall willing to travel across the globe to get treatment sooner or more cheaply than they could at home, Indian hospital groups see a huge market for their services. This was an article onThe Guardian - UK.

Diabetes

Diabetes : Key facts

346 million people worldwide have diabetes.

In 2004, an estimated 3.4 million people died from consequences of high blood sugar.

More than 80% of diabetes deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.

WHO projects those diabetes deaths will double between 2005 and 2030.

Healthy diet, regular physical activity, maintaining a normal body weight and avoiding tobacco use can prevent or delay the onset of type 2diabetes. (WHO)

Prameham:

First mentioned in Vedas (Adharva – Veda - which is about the everything in Universe), as asravi or defects in flow (can take as metabolic flow disorder by name). In later manuscripts as Prameham.   Modern Medicine detected this as a disease in 1800 s and the disease of pancreas in 1886. In 2006 WHO updated the definition, aetiology, prognosis, classification etc. It can be seen as ‘the’ data in Charaka Samhitha about Madhumeham is same.  Still in this era we lack to provide proper and validated hypoglycaemic drugs,  to explain in modern terms (if these terms itself can be edited as per Ayurveda), that will be beneficial to mankind. Concluding that, we have every right and responsibility to manage this national menace. Hence, dhanwanthari Vaidyasala [KERALA] and Kerala Health Station together is starting an initiative to minimise the damages caused by the highly risky diabetes with the following objectives through Kerala Diabetes clinics in Maharashtra.

Objective:

1.     To maintain the approved sugar level. (To investigate individual ideal sugar level)

2.     To know the level of pancreatic function in every patient.

3.     To manage the defective symptoms due to Diabetes.

4.     To cover all vital organs that can be affected.

5.     Systemic correction

6.     Prevention or delaying of non symptomatic group from precipitation

Indias Traditional Agriculture

अमन्त्रम्‌अक्षरंनास्तिनास्तिमूलमनौषधम्।अयोग्यःपुरुषोनास्तियोजकस्तत्रदुर्लभः॥

amantramakṣaraṁnāstināstimūlamanauṣadham|

ayogyaḥpuruṣonāstiyojakastatradurlabhaḥ|

 "There is no syllable that cannot be used in mantras; nor a root that that cannot be used as medicine; There is no useless person too; only the one who knows how to use these

ancient knowledge and organic farming

India's Traditional Agriculture

The Vedas, world's oldest scriptures, form a rich body of traditional ecological and agricultural knowledge. Composed of hymns that reveal the reverence, the respect and admiration Vedic people had for nature, the Vedas represent the grandest homage ever rendered to the environment.

The Atharvaveda, the fourth Veda, describes the life of the ancient Indian agriculturist community. It is interesting to note that in Vedic times, agriculture was considered the most honourable of human activities. According to the Atharvaveda, the farmer is an authority in the knowledge and acquirement of food and is therefore highly respected. The common people choose their king from amongst the agriculturists. And the king is given the honour of being the first to plough the land. Everyone must cultivate the land and grow nutritious food. The farm is compared to the divine cow fulfilling all the desires of the hard working farmer.

There are two famous collections of Vedic hymns: the BhoomiSukta or Earth Hymns and the Anna Sukta or food hymns.

In the BhoomiSukta, Earth, Prithvi, the divine mother is worshiped by the farmer, her son. She is worshiped because she sustains all plants and animals. She is the bestower of food. When cultivated, she provides all necessities of life. That is why every agricultural activity has to be accompanied with rituals that remind us of the divine quality of Mother Earth and the sacredness of all life forms. Divinizing Mother Earth ensures that man lives in partnership with nature rather than exploit it. Vedic people were wise when they overlapped the agricultural calendar with the ritual calendar. Agriculture has to be first of all a spiritual activity, not just a materialist, mechanist activity.

         

In the Anna Sukta, food is equated to God. Great emphasis is laid on growing food in plenty and sharing it.

Moulded by the Vedic spiritual view of nature, ancient India's farmers evolved nature friendly farming systems and practices. Agricultural activities were designed to ensure ecological sustainability. Impregnated with the Vedic thought that every life form, living or non-living, is sacred, India developed its own holistic scientific knowledge. It has a number of classical texts related to agricultural science. Kautilya'sArthashastra, Patanjali'sMahabhasya, Krishi-Parashara, Varahmihira'sBrhatSamhita, and Surapala'sVrikshayurveda are some of the manuscripts that contain valuable information about selection of seeds, land preparation, pest control, storage, plant nutrients, grafting, soil selection, plant propagation, diseases and plant protection, crop rotation, intercropping….

While India's traditional agriculture has proved to be sustainable by maintaining the country's fertility and biodiversity over centuries, the Green revolution couldn't be sustained for more than three decades. There is therefore an urgent need to rediscover India's traditional ecological agricultural knowledge.      

Organic farming can benefit from the principles described in the ancient texts of India. Time has come for traditional knowledge to take its rightful place in the context of modern knowledge!

World Of Health

If ‘we’ can replace ‘i’, illnesswill become wellness.

World of Health (W o H)

The world of health is more of illness than wellness!  And with reference to illness, only wellness is defined?

Preface: From the very beginning, life phased challenges and was called as diseases or illness. The solutions were found within the nature and philosophy of living was the foundation of such solutions. The so called holistic, traditional, natural wellness system was evolved in the basis of different fundamentals of the region, hence different methodologies and different applications.

 When science in different forms like physics, mathematics developed, a new medical science also evolved, and true to the other modern science,from trial and error, solutions were developed and later the same were made available for future use without a need of a trial. ALLOPATHY, is the latest arrivals among branches of world’s numerousage old health care systems. But, the whole world of health now revolves around thisinfant science and is the projected face of today’s healthcare.  Further, even after living examples of beneficiaries of all systems, all systems including modern medicines, the recognition is lacking for any other source of wellness, beyond ALLOPATH, hence comprehensiveness is lacking. The diagnosis, treatment and management protocol is standardised as per the modern medical system which still is in a developing stage and is solely dependent on fewest, limited statistics. Surprisingly, the classification of curable/incurable diseases are made out of this small size statistics, compared to the massive size of life, and also simply ignoring the ‘live’ examples around the globe.

The world of health, intend to prove that the ‘world of health’ consists of all streams of medicine systems, not only modern medicine. The noble way to prove the same is to actually cure some incurable diseases scientifically and open the door of healing to masses.

Conventional Medical View --------------------------------------------------- 1. The body is stupid 2. The body creates diseases randomly 3. The body cannot heal itself 4. Pain is the problem 5. The problem is where the pain is 6. Everything is separate (mechanistic viewpoint) 7. Drugs and surgery are the only choices 8. Emotions and beliefs have nothing to do with disease 9. Disease is only about biochemical deficiencies 10. You are not responsible for what your body has created 11. Your doctor knows best 12. It must be genetics 13. Science is the only truth 14. The mind and the body are separate 15. The body’s parts wear out and need to be replaced 16. Medical doctors are great role models 17. Western medicine offers health care 18. Treating symptoms is the norm 19. Fear is the primary motivator

Holistic Medical View ------------------------------------------------------ 1. The body holds infinite wisdom 2. You create your own disease 3. All disease can be healed 4. Pain is only a messenger 5. The source of the problem is often far from where the pain shows up 6. Everything is connected (holistic) 7. Drugs and surgery should be the last choice 8. Emotions and beliefs have everything to do with disease 9. Disease is a result of an imbalance 10. You are responsible for everything your body creates 11. What your doctor tells you may kill you 12. Genetics are rarely at fault 13. Science is only one source of truth 14. The mind and the body are intimately connected 15.Replacing the parts is the last option 16. Medical doctors are poor role models 17. Health care is seldom found under Western medicine 18. The cause of disease is identified and brought back into balance 19. Hope is the primary motivator