PCOS and Healing: My 3rd Ayurveda Panchakarma Treatment in India 🍃

I'm writing again, studying Ayurveda, and documenting my hormone balancing journey as I spend 27 days in a beautiful treatment center in South India.

Hello friend ❤️ I’m writing to you from my Ayurvedic Healing Center in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu where I’m in day 6 of 27 of Panchakarma treatment (Panch - five; translates to five therapies or procedures), a process that cleans Aam, or undigested waste and toxins from the body. This is my third time getting treatment to balance my hormones and it will be the longest I’ve spent here. After my first treatment, Ayurveda did for me what numerous doctors told me was not possible - to fully balance my hormones. All within 6 months. 

6 years after my first treatment, I’m now studying to be an Ayurvedic practitioner (and likely moving to the doctor track). I started my current company, SHE Health based on my own spiritual and emotional healing journey as well the basic principles of Ayurveda. To me, Ayurvedic medicine has the answer to any problem because it is not just a medicine. It considers the mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical state of a human. It considers one’s perception of the world, how their body interacts with and encompasses the elements, and their inherent mental and physical composition.

Its basic principles are also about being in communion with the earth and cosmos. On the first day of my Ayurveda program, the first thing our professor said is when we manipulate nature, we manipulate ourselves. When we remove seeds from a grape, we’re depriving ourselves of our own seeds because grape seeds contribute to female fertility. His point was when we alter the natural state of the world, we’re altering our own natural state.

Ayurveda is about coming into alignment with our true nature and that means the uniqueness of who we are right down to our unique body composition. Modern medicine looks to fix the physical body while Ayurveda looks at each dimension of the human.

In the last few months it has become clear to me that my work with this medicine, amongst a few other things, is to do for others what I did for myself - to treat the body while addressing how emotional and spiritual trauma that is lodged in the body can manifest as physical ailments.

I wrote this longer blog post that shares more about my treatment, healing journey and decision to study Ayurveda. I also shared some book recommendations :)

Until next time,

🫶🏽 Rina