The Ayurvedic Approach to IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Ayurvedic management of IBS disease is totally different from conventional medicine. Irritable bowel syndrom (IBS) is a chronic disease affecting our Gastrointestinal tract (GIT), characterised by a number of symptoms that include abdominal pain/cramps, bloating, indigestion and altered bowel habits. As we all know, IBS affecting our digestive system. So the influence of our food is of utmost significance in the development of IBS. The primary cause of IBS turns out to be nothing other than our food habits. All other factors like stress, work pressure play a secondary role in the development of IBS. In Ayurveda, food is called 'Mahabheshajam', which means 'the greatest medicine'. The right kind of food can prevent almost all chronic diseases, cure most of them, enhance our immunity, help our brain function well, keep us happy, keep us young, repair our DNA, and enrich all the dimensions of life. Ayurveda is an ancient health care system from India which has been practiced all over India for the last 5000 years. From India this knowledge has travelled to numerous countries like Nepal, China and even to Europe. It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. Hippocrates

Dr. MANU DAS is an Ayurveda doctor -scientist and an Ayurvedic lifestyle/nutrition specialist from Kerala, India with over 20 years clinical experience in treating chronic diseases. He is a board-certified Ayurveda doctor from one of the oldest Ayurvedic medical colleges in India which is part of the university of Kerala. He was extremely fortunate to learn and practice under the tutelage and guidance of great teachers of Ayurvedic medicine from Kerala. In his childhood he was initiated in to the timeless wisdom of Ayurveda by his father a Sanskrit scholar. He was so impressed by its logic and charmed by the power and completeness of its comprehensive understanding of life. So the passion for Ayurveda grew in him and he followed Ayurveda as a profession. At present he is the chief consultant physician at Kadaltheeram Ayurveda beach resort, Varkala. He also runs an Ayurvedic clinic with his wife in Chennai, India.