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Neem and its benefits are a well kept secret if you are not familiar with Ayurveda. So, lets start with a little back ground on Ayurveda. Ayurveda is a 5,000. year old art of traditional healing in India, their medical system. Ayurveda deals with the balance of you and your environment, you and nature. Working to balance your daily routine, sleep patterns, eating and digestion, with meditation, herbs, yoga,and massage. Ayurveda has been made popular by people like Deepak Chopra, M.D, and in recent news, Dr Oz has introduced several Ayurvedic Physicians(recently Dr. Chaudhary). With Ayurvedic medicine herbs are used to help balance the system, this is where you will find things such as ginger for digestion, or holy basil for stress reduction and relaxation. Herbs have a benefit in the overall plan of Ayurvedic healing, weather it be added to your food, to massage oil, or taken by the spoonful, it is used in the forms needed. This is where neem and its benefits come in as one of the many great kept secrets of India and Ayurveda. Neem is native to India and Burma (Myanmar), the neem oil is derived from the seed of the neem tree, but the whole plant can also be used for medicinal purposes. Neem and its benefits can found in many forms in Ayurveda products, such as teas, or pastes due to its anti fungal, antiseptic, and anti-inflammatory properties. Neem is often found in products used to help relive itchy, dry scalp, tooth decay and acne. You will often find it added into a product due to the strong, seemingly unpleasant scent. I often will add neem oil to a base of sesame or coconut oil and apply to the skin to help nourish the cells and decrees blemishes. So a word of caution, when looking for a great neem oil, maybe start with a product that has neem added, or a neem capsule( www.Mapi.com). Heather Small www.mettawelllness.net

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Ayurveda

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Ayurveda is the oldest continuously practiced health care system. Ayur means life and Veda means knowledge or science, so Ayurveda is the science of life.  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation program,  revived Ayurveda around the world and worked with top Ayurvedic experts in India to restore the purity and ensure the […]

Neem and its benefits

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Neem and its benefits are a well kept secret if you are not familiar with Ayurveda. So, lets start with a little back ground on Ayurveda.  Ayurveda is a 5,000. year old art of traditional  healing in India, their medical system. Ayurveda deals with the balance of you and your environment, you and nature. Working […]

Cranial Sacral

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Cranial Sacral is a great way to balance the mind and the body. This massage uses very light pressure and helps to move the cerebrospinal fluid through the head and spinal cavities. Everyday we face incredible amounts of stress to our body and its muscles tense up because of this and stop us from being […]