Ayurvedic Tips

Hair is composed mainly of the protein keratin. Keratin assembles into rope-like intermediate filaments. The structure of these filaments provides strength to the hair shaft. Irrespective of your hair type is there are plenty of tips for lustrous and healthy hair. Ayurveda the 5000 year old healing tradition in India suggests many healthy tips for [...]

Excessive hair growth on the face is particularly troublesome to some women. This may be the result of some hormonal disturbances. Tumors arising in the ovaries, adrenal glands and other endocrine organs have sometimes contributed to this problem. But in most neither cases there is nor specific cause for excessive growth of hair. Hair growth [...]

Dandruff, also known as scurf or Pityriasis simplex capillitii, affects the scalp and causes flakes of skin to appear. Our skin cells are forever renewing themselves. When the skin cells on our scalp are renewed the old ones are pushed to the surface and out of the scalp. For a person with dandruff the renewal [...]

Hair loss, balding, thinning of hair and alopecia are some of the common hair problems. Many of us suffer from these ailments due to our modern lifestyle and diet. Ayurvedic practitioners believe that hair fall control is very much associated to the body type and also the stability of your mind-body structure. How to control [...]

Dandruff is a kind of skin disorder that affects the scalp. Dandruff is a condition in which white, dry flakes of dead skin are shed from the scalp. Normally dead skin cells are shed from the scalp, but it results in dandruff only when the scalp starts shedding thick layers of these dead skin particles. [...]

Graying of hair is a natural process that happens with increasing age. But if the hair starts graying before the age of 35, it is termed as premature graying that occurs due to the aggravation of pitta dosha. Excessive intake of tea, coffee, alcohol, meat, fried, oily, greasy, spicy, sour, and acidic foods increases pitta [...]

Ayurvedic treatment considers the hair as a byproduct for bone formation. The tissues which are responsible for formation of bones are also responsible for your hair growth. Early loss of hair can be very much associated to the body type and also the stability of your mind-body structure. In order to preserve the health of [...]