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In
the recent years Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in collaboration with
prominent scholars and physicians called Vaidyas have revived the old
classical texts and formulated effective treatment modalities for
chronic diseases.
Maharishi
Ayurveda encompasses all facets of life including mind, physiology,
behavior and environment.
Maharishi
Ayurveda uses various technologies for promotion of health and
prevention of disease. These include diet, daily and seasonal
routines, purification procedures and use of herbal food supplements.
Today
Maharishi Ayurveda is being practiced in clinics all over the world
by trained physicians. It has more than fifty medical centers
functioning in twenty-five countries. Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Poland
and Hungary have been instrumental in sponsoring Ayurvedic
conferences and training courses for physicians.
Maharishi
Ayurveda helps in balancing the body and mind by following twenty
complementary approaches. They are:
1. Consciousness:
Development of higher state of consciousness through Maharishi's
Transcendental Meditation programme, its advanced techniques and the
T.M. Sidhi programme.
2. Primodial Sound:
Use of the primodial sounds of the Samhita, of the four aspects of
Veda and their Vedangas and Upangas to eliminate imbalances in the
functioning of human nature and nature as a whole.
3. Intellect: To
correct the mistake of the intellect.
4. Emotions:
Strengthening the finest level of feeling to develop the emotions
fully.
5. Language: Using
Vedic principles of the structure of language to promote balance and
integrity in the mind and body.
6. Gandharva-veda:
Traditional music therapy using sound and melody to restore harmony
in the physiology and to eliminate the imbalances responsible for
disease.
7. Senses: Vedic
procedures to enliven, through the senses, perfect balance in all
areas of life.
8. Psychological
Integration: Restoration of homeostatic balance and acceleration of
neuromuscular co-ordination and balance in the physiology and
psychology.
9. Neuromuscular
Integration: Vedic exercises pertaining to the physiology of
breathing to restore integrated functioning at all levels of life.
10. Neurorespiratory
Integration: Vedic exercises pertaining to the physiology of
breathing to restore integrated functioning at all levels of mind and
body.
11. Maharishi
Panchakarma Programme: Physiological purification-sophisticated
purification procedures applied at regular intervals to eliminate and
prevent accumulation of physiological impurities.
12. Diet:
Appropriate dietary measures to support the restoration of
physiological balance for prevention and treatment of disease.
13. Herbs And
Minerals: Medicinal flora and minerals from every country to bring
perfect balance to the functioning of mind and body.
14. Rasayanas:
Sophisticated herbal and mineral preparations formulated for the
prevention and cure of disease and the promotion of longevity.
15. Behaviour:
Bringing behaviour in accord with natural law through daily and
seasonal routine.
16. Pulse Diagnosis:
Detecting an existing or forthcoming imbalance simply by feeling the
pulse.
17. Jyotish:
Securing perfect health for the future, mathematical prediction on
environmental influences on health.
18. Yagya: Vedic
performances to restore environmental balance and promote individual
and collective health.
19. Environment:
Creating collecting health through the T.M. and T.M. Sidhi programme
so that society provides a nourishing and strengthening environment
for the individual to rise to perfect health.
20. World
Health/world Peace: Group performance by 8000 experts in Maharishi's
T.M. and T.M. Sidhi programme to create coherence in the world
consciousness, the basis of world peace and collective health on a
global scale.
In
India Maharishi Ayurveda Products was set up on 20th March, 1987, as
a 100% export oriented unit with its manufacturing plant at Noida
Export Processing Zone. It is the only Ayurvedic company which is ISO
9001 certified with a turnover of Rs. 573.6 million as recorded in
the year 1999-2000 April to March. The company plans to grow more
than 30% to increase its market share. Presently the company is
exporting these medicinal products to forty countries all over the
world. USA alone consumes 50% of the total turnover, the other major
buyers being E.U. Japan, Italy, Russia, South America and Mexico.
Blending
ancient knowledge and latest technology, the Maharishi Ayurved
formulations are produced in ultra modern facilities for qualitative
results. A team of highly qualified researchers are engaged in
applied research on standardisation of medicinal plants and poly
herbal formulations, determining influences of industrial and
agricultural pollution on natural sources of health and development
of newer drugs for various ailments affecting humanity. In the
laboratory hygienic environment is maintained. There is a sterile
processing area and high speed automatic production system with
minimum chances of manual handling to forestall contamination. A high
performance thin layer chromatographer monitors and maintains
required level of vital elements in the various formulations. Even
the minutest trace of harmful substance in the formulation is
detected by the Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer.
A
judicious combination of herbal formulations like Asthomap, Cardimap,
Dizomap, Glucomap, Leucomap and many others are manufactured in the
plant to resist diseases such as asthma, hypertension, indigestion,
and liver disorders. Maharishi Ayurveda Products claims to have
produced over 900 medicinal formulations each one having only
benefits and no side effects. One of the most remarkable herbal
formulation produced is Amrit Kalash which prevents the ageing
process.
The
company in future also contemplates launch of a diversified range of
products like cosmetics, body care items and baby oils.
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