Psoriasis Treatment in Ayurveda – Will it Work for You?

Psoriasis, a chronic immune-related disease that causes a painful, itchy build-up of skin cells on the elbows, knees and scalp, affects over 125 million people around the world. You’re most likely to contract this health condition between the ages of 15 and 35. The exact cause isn’t known. With such severe symptoms, many people with psoriasis are faced with decades of using a range of systemic medications that can’t definitively cure the condition. But there is an alternative psoriasis treatment in Ayurveda.

An Introduction to Ayurvedic Principles

While Western medicine dominates our culture, there’s a lot that other medical fields have to offer, especially when medications become overwhelming or fail to treat your condition. Ayurvedic medicine holds considerable promise for the treatment and even cure of psoriasis. So, what is it all about?

Ayurveda means “the science of life”, taken from the Sanskrit word “ayur” (meaning “life”) and “veda” (meaning “knowledge” or “science”). This is a catalogue of therapies that are over 5,000 years old. They are practiced throughout Asia and handed on to the next generation through word of mouth.

The basic principles of Ayurveda focus on holistic treatment of the mind, body, spiritual and physical self in order to know yourself, maintain a healthy lifestyle and reach your full potential as an individual. If this makes you think of Yoga, then you’re correct – it is one of the most well-known and practiced Ayurvedic therapies. However, there is much more to Ayurvedic medicine than this. Many therapies can be used to effectively prevent and treat illness by creating balance and harmony within your body’s environment. It’s an integrative approach to medicine that looks at your body as a whole, not simply focussing on symptoms.

Typical illnesses that can be treated through these practices include skin conditions like psoriasis, respiratory conditions, migraines, poor blood circulation, gynaecological conditions, digestive disorders, insomnia, fatigues and joint and muscle conditions.

As a result, Ayurvedic medicine focusses on our ability to heal ourselves – an empowering concept that is about harnessing your potential to influence your healing process and overcome illness or health conditions.

What are the Doshas?

Ayurvedic medicine is about developing a personal and individual approach to healing and treatment that focuses on two elements – your own, unique constitution (“prakriti”) and life forces (“dosha”). Rather than everyone getting the same prescription medication as you would at the doctor’s office, your ayurvedic practitioner works to analyse your dosha – the unique combination of life forces within you to determine what course of treatment will work best. These can be any balance of:

• Kapha – The water and earth forces are defined by physical bodies that are very tall or very short, skin that is pale, moist and cold, and people are sociable but cautious, who sleep well but struggle to get up in the mornings.

• Pitta – The fire and water forces focus on people who are of an average build and an apple shape, with warm, smooth skin, who sleep very deeply and have assertive personalities.

• Vata – The ether and air forces are found in people who are physically thin, with cool, dry skin and who have trouble sleeping. They have personalities that are high-energy, anxious and enthusiastic.

Understanding Psoriasis Treatment in Ayurveda

The benefits of Psoriasis Treatment in Ayurveda are well known by practitioners but haven’t received the attention, clinical trials and research it deserves. However, it is a recognised treatment for psoriasis and is recommended by the National Psoriasis Foundation in the form of mindfulness, aromatherapy, meditation, and remedies. It was also studied in the Indo American Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and found to be an effective and natural treatment for this condition.

In essence, Ayurvedic treatment for psoriasis is founded on the belief that there is an imbalance between your Vata and Kapha doshas. Vata is responsible for your bodily functions and, when out of balance, can lead to skin dryness, scaling and inflammation, while Kapha, which is responsible for physical growth, has a clear connection to the overstimulation of skin cell growth that is central to the health condition. This imbalance causes the build-up of toxins in the body, leading to inflammation.

Restoring this balance through taking steps to reduce triggers such as stress, anxiety and diet is key to correcting this imbalance and reducing or even eliminating psoriasis flare-ups. Restoring this balance is about achieving an optimal state of health where your body functions harmoniously.

Other treatments include developing the ability to better listen to your body, massage and reflexology, breathwork, participation in Pranayama, topical solutions rich in natural herbs like aloe vera, turmeric, and jasmine flower paste, and using baths and moisturisers rich in soothing coconut and olive oils to keep affected areas soft and supple.

Lifestyle changes include giving up smoking and alcohol and following a diet that avoids very rich/acidic/salty foods. as well as trigger foods like seafood, sugar, carbohydrates, junk food, and yogurt.

Effective Psoriasis Treatment in Ayurveda Combines Ayurvedic Medicine and the Leaky Gut Protocol

Psoriasis is a serious condition. By combining ayurvedic medicine with our leaky gut protocol, patients have a highly-effective, targeted treatment to reduce or eliminate the effects of this condition.

Leaky gut is a health condition with a close connection to psoriasis. Specialists understand that leaky gut allows foreign particles to enter the bloodstream where they are attacked as a threat by the body’s immune system. This is the same immune response that leads to painful, itchy outbreaks of psoriasis.

By embracing the holistic principles of ayurvedic medicine and treating the condition as well as the underlying cause, patients are given a robust and highly-effective treatment that restores balance to the body and to the immune system.

This is done through the use of dietary modifications in line with ayurvedic principles, tools to assist in reducing stress while promoting healthy sleep, and all-natural, certified organic supplements that boost the healing of your leaky gut and restoring optimal gut health, reducing or even preventing that devastating immune system response. With a healthy gut, leaks are reduced or stopped completely, so there’s no immune threat for your system to respond to that will trigger the psoriasis.

This treatment protocol is especially exciting because Niraj Naik, The Renegade Pharmacist, developed it by combining ayurvedic principles with his treatment plan to treat his own leaky gut when he became sick with ulcerative colitis and traditional medications simply weren’t working. Rather than taking more drugs, he turned to alternative medicine to treat the source of his condition through all-natural, organic colostrum and high-impact probiotics, choosing to focus on his health as a whole and ayurvedic principles to reduce flare-ups and regain control of his life. This treatment plan of a carefully thought-out diet and supplements and ayurvedic principles not only put a stop to his severe symptoms, it gave him his life and health back and inspired him to help other people treat their immune-related and gut health-related conditions.

To find out more about psoriasis treatment in Ayurveda and healing the healthy, natural way, or to find out more about our results-driven leaky gut protocol, please contact us today.