For the Indian hygiene always came the uniqueness of people in the first place. For an Ayurvedic doctor, a Vaidya, medicine always twists around the person and not around the disease. By the introduction of Ayurveda in The Netherlands we get the chance to get acquaintance with this form of medicine, witch goes further than the traditional Western medicine. Thus the aim of this web site is pure preventive and will contribute to the conscience concerning the relations between mental and physical well-being, such as i.e. at stress and RSI.

Ayurveda is an centuries old, traditional Indian medicine, which literal means "knowledge of life" or "insight in living". This traditional nature medicine has been described in the Samhita's, for example the Charaka Samhita, Sushruta Samhita and Ashtanga Hridayam. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recognised Ayurveda in the nineteen seventies as medicine of the future because the economic availability for the perple of developing countries. Ayurveda is an manner of life which starts from the individual and strives to perfect harmony between body, spirit and energy assessment.

The most important principle in Ayurveda is the principle of the Tridosha. According to this theory each man has unique behaviour and body characteristics. Globally there are three types of people: Vata, Pitta and Kapha. The elements air and ether form the Vatatype, fire and water form the Pittatype and earth and water form the Kaphatype.

You are always an combination of these three types, but one or two of these types will dominate your individuality. Each type can be divided into five "sub-types", which then can be combined with each other. The five universal elements in Ayurveda are earth (prithvi), water (jala), air (vayu), fire (agni) and ether (akasha). Each man is therefore unique. Ayurveda says that each illness is the consequence of disbalans in ones own type and aims for the rebalancing of ones own type.

In India a Vaidya (doctor) determines by means of a pulse diagnose the proportion between the three dosha's and five elements, whereupon the balance is restored by nutrition, herbs, massage, pancha karma, therapy and specific yoga exercises.

You can make an roughly estimation of your constitution by means of the Tri-dosha-test.