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I've used Triphala with Rose for 10 years, and it really helps to keep my elimination regular without any side effects
AS - Lancashire
It is the most powerful Rasayana—ancient formula of herbs and fruits to
create perfect health—containing over two dozen rare ingredients; 250
steps are taken in its careful production.
Modern application of an ancient formula
In the 1980s, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation, asked the most eminent Ayurvedic scholars and physicians of the time to look into the ancient texts to see if there was one formula that could be applied to benefit the health of everyone. What emerged from these deliberations were two powerful rasayanas that together nourish the mind and body. These were given the name Maharishi Amrit Kalash Nectar and Maharishi Amrit Kalash Ambrosia.
What is an Ayurvedic rasayana?
One of the goals of Ayurveda is preserving health, and rasayanas are considered the primary method for maintaining health and vigour. Literally translated, a rasayana is "that which enters the essence"- in other words, that which promotes health and longevity. The Sanskrit definition of a rasayana is "that which negates old age and disease.
There are many individual fruits, herbs and spices in Ayurveda that are considered rasayanas - for example, the main two fruit ingredients in Maharishi Amrit Kalash nectar, Amla and Haritaki, are both deemed premier rasayanas in the category of fruit. If you read Ayurvedic texts, it is clear that these two fruits can help towards a long, happy, healthy and blissful life. They promote bliss in body, mind, spirit and senses. Turmeric and Long Pepper (Pippali) are rasayanas well known for their healing properties.
Another group of rasayana herbs is called medhya rasayanas. Medhya refers to the mind and intellect. The medhya group of herbs helps enhance the ability to learn, retain and recall information. One such herb in Maharishi Amrit Kalash Ambrosia is Indian Pennywort, or Gotu Kola. Shankapushpi, or Aloeweed, another ingredient, is also a medhya rasayana.
The greatness of Maharishi Amrit Kalash is that it is a rasayana of rasayanas. It incorporates the best qualities of the best herbs in Ayurveda in a synergy able to deliver all the benefits. Researchers have been investigating these effects over the past 15 years.
Integrated and preventive - Positive impact with no side effects
Ayurveda is based on the principles of wholeness and balance, and traditional rasayanas are formulated to account for both of these principles. There are many different kinds of herbs that go into a rasayana, each chosen and blended carefully in a precise proportion.
Maharishi Amrit Kalash Nectar contains 39 herbs and fruits in combination and Maharishi Amrit Kalash Ambrosia 13. This science of herbal combination is called sanyog, and is one of the most significant aspects of Ayurveda.
A balanced Ayurvedic formula will typically have ingredients that accomplish the main aim of the formula, others that support the assimilation of the main ingredients and still others that counteract any potential negative effects of the other ingredients. Since balance is the main aim of Maharishi Amrit Kalash the main ingredients support the balanced functioning of the nervous and endocrine systems.
Maharishi Ayurveda does not recommend single herbs because even though a herb may have powerful qualities, it may not be balanced or equally efficacious for everyone who takes it.
The incorporation of supporting and balancing herbs helps create a rasayana capable of wider application; for example, across people of different physiological types.
Balancing herbs make the resulting formulation acceptable or "friendly" to the physiology, with no side effects and relatively easy to digest and assimilate. Because the herbs are used whole, and used in combination, the result is balance, and when there is balance, side effects are not an issue.
Modern pharmaceuticals and Ayurvedic rasayanas
Modern pharmaceutical drugs, and some nutritional supplements, are the result of taking the so-called "active" ingredient from a natural substance and working with it in a laboratory.
In contrast, Ayurvedic rasayanas utilise the whole plant and rely on the healing ability of nature's own intelligence. Maharishi Amrit Kalash, for example, has both a nurturing effect and a detoxifying effect on the physiology.
But because Maharishi Amrit Kalash Nectar and Ambrosia are perfectly balanced formulations, they nourish so perfectly that it creates no ama or toxins in the shrotas, or channels of the body, and cleanse so subtly that the body's ability to draw sustenance from nourishment is left undisturbed. That is the beauty of a holistic, balanced Ayurvedic formulation.
People interested in health can use rasayanas
Over 40 percent of the population of the USA have a degenerative disease and allopathic medicine offers few solutions for such problems. Ayurveda seeks to address the root cause-imbalance in the physiology rather than the symptoms, which are like the tip of an iceberg.
If one goes through all the benefits Maharishi Amrit Kalash offers, as they are laid down in Ayurvedic texts, these include enhancing longevity, enhancing the intellect, making one's complexion radiant and lustrous, and enhancing the understanding of deeper, spiritual knowledge.
A rasayana such as Maharishi Amrit Kalash helps make the senses, the body and the mind more coordinated. According to Ayurveda, optimum health is achieved when your heart, mind, body, senses and spirit are all healthy. All these aspects should be 100% coordinated, only then can one truly say that an individual enjoys perfect health or total health.
Research on Maharishi Amrit Kalash
One of the research studies on Amrit Ambrosia indicated that it enhances mental alertness and attention. According to Ayurveda, mental ability is at its optimum when the three aspects of learning, retention and recall are working well individually and are perfectly coordinated with one another.
Medhya rasayanas are good for enhancing each of the three individual aspects of mental ability and for enhancing coordination among them also. They promote mental clarity because they enhance coordination among cells, between mind and body and among senses. Plus, Ashwagandha or Winter Cherry, which is also one of the ingredients in Maharishi Amrit Kalash, is a powerful adaptogenic. It helps balance and stabilize the mind so it performs optimally even under situations involving day-to-day stress.
Life today can be extremely stressful, whether you are a student, a professional or a parent, so the combination of energy enhancing herbs, herbs that boost mental ability and herbs that help withstand day-to-day stress is what make Maharishi Amrit Kalash such an outstanding formulation for maintaining health for the greatest number of people.
Cardiovascular health
In Ayurveda, hridya herbs are those that help support the heart and the cardiovascular system. They enhance the ability to tolerate physical and emotional stress on the heart. Ayurveda does not treat the heart only as a pump.
Ayurvedic formulations seek to address both the physical and the emotional heart in a holistic way, flushing out toxins that block the physical and mental channels. Maharishi Amrit Kalash has this hridya effect.
The published scientific research on Maharishi Amrit Kalash shows that it reduces the oxidation of low-density lipoproteins (LDL). LDL contributes to clogging arteries or atherosclerosis, which is associated with heart disease.
This aspect of hridya herbs - to keep clear those vital channels, which carry prana or life in the cardiovascular area - is complemented by their ability to pacify Sadhaka Pitta and enhance emotional strength to withstand the effects of day-to-day emotional stress.
Sadhaka Pitta in Ayurveda
Pitta is the Ayurvedic governing force responsible for all transformation, even the metabolizing of knowledge or sensory perceptions. It applies to transformation of thought also.
Sadhaka Pitta is the sub-dosha of Pitta that relates to the emotions and senses. When Sadhaka Pitta is in balance, one is positively motivated in thought and emotion; when it is out of balance emotions tend toward the negative, including sadness, anger, discontent, irritability.
Hridya formulations like Maharishi Amrit Kalash Nectar help keep
Sadhaka Pitta in balance, contributing to stable emotions. Sadhaka Pitta
is also to do with metabolizing thought, both good and bad thought.
Also, when Sadhaka Pitta is balanced, there is excellent coordination
between the heart and the mind. The heart cannot be looked at
individually and neither can the mind. They must constantly check with
each other and be coordinated.
Maharishi Amrit Kalash, because it has both medhya and hridya properties, strengthens the mind and strengthens the heart individually and also enhances the coordination between them. Interaction between the heart and the mind therefore becomes smooth, seamless and cohesive.
The brain, the heart and digestion
The vagus nerve, one of the twelve cranial nerves coming out of the brain and spinal cord, impacts the heart as well as the digestive system. When the vagus nerve is over stimulated, which in Ayurvedic terms is called Pitta aggravation, there are all kinds of digestive problems linked with the excess emotional activity going on in the brain. In Ayurveda we can bring not just the vagus nerve but everything related to the brain, the heart and digestion into balance.
A positive influence on immunity
The immune system is very well described in Ayurveda. Bala, the Ayurvedic term for immunity, encompasses not just physical resistance but also mental, emotional and psychological immunity. So again the concept is holistic.
Three types of immunity are discussed in Ayurveda:
The first is sahaj, which is genetic or hereditary; the level of immunity you were born with.
The second is kalaj, seasonal immunity, which varies depending on the season, the stage of life and planetary cycles.
The third is yuktikrit, or established immunity, a balanced, permanent level of immunity that is the objective of the Ayurvedic approach to well-being.
Ayurvedic rasayanas, diet and lifestyle are the three main aspects to yuktikrit or planned immunity enhancement. Maharishi Amrit Kalash helps to strengthen natural levels of immunity at every stage of life and provides balance to offset the impact of changing seasons on the physiology. This is why it is recommended to take it regularly for greatest effect.
Free radicals scavenging, immunity and longevity
One of the best-researched aspects of Maharishi Amrit Kalash is its powerful free radicals scavenging activity. Free radicals have been linked to immunity, ageing as well as to a significant percentage of degenerative disease.
Taking care of the heart and the immune system will have an effect on longevity.
One of the main ingredients in Maharishi Amrit Kalash is Amla, considered a super rasayana in Ayurveda. It contains five out of the six tastes-sweet, sour, pungent, bitter and astringent - all except salty - a rare and valuable property even among herbs.
Amla is equally beneficial for all doshas, and is considered such a powerful rejuvenator that it is one of the very few herbs that is sometimes used by itself in Maharishi Ayurveda. It is perhaps the richest source of vitamin C in the plant world, and the form of the vitamin C is such that it is resistant to heat and light and able to be easily assimilated by the human body.
Amla has multiple positive effects - it is good for the eyes, the digestion, the heart, muscles; it helps the body absorb iron and calcium from the foods you eat.
Other ingredients like Indian Tinospora and Indian Pennywort also are individually known for their anti-aging properties. Maharishi Amrit Kalash includes a whole group of anti-aging herbs.
When you take Maharishi Amrit Kalash Nectar and Ambrosia regularly, you are detoxifying your body on a day-to-day basis, so that ama (the toxic by product of incorrect digestion) does not accumulate. You are also nurturing your brain cells and, indeed, your whole physiology. This is what keeps you from aging prematurely.
Nourishing herbs in Maharishi Amrit Kalash
As well as medhya and hridya herbs that balance the three doshas, Maharishi Amrit Kalash also includes nourishing herbs such as Indian Asparagus.
Indian Asparagus is very good for nourishing all the seven types of body tissue, particularly reproductive tissue. It enhances the metabolic processes and thus improves the quality of the body’s tissues, each of which is formed as a result of a series of metabolic processes in the body.
Indian Asparagus is especially good for improving the quality and quantity of reproductive fluid in men and women and also helps to increase the production of ojas.
Ojas, the master coordinator
Ojas is the finest, the most refined end product of digestion. It is the master coordinator between consciousness, and the functions of the mind and body. It is the subtle substance that maintains life itself.
When your physiology produces the optimum quality and quantity of ojas, you are healthy, blissful and vital. Your mind and body are getting the sustenance they need to function at optimum levels.
Maharishi Amrit Kalash supports the creation of more ojas in a shorter period of time. It helps the body perform the metabolic processes without creating toxins.
Spiritual development
Ojas is the link between self and mind and then mind and senses, mind and body, mind and emotions. There are two kinds of ojas, supreme ojas that keeps consciousness and mind coordinated, and supporting ojas, the link between mind and senses, mind and emotions, mind and body. Supporting ojas is what helps attain perfect transformation of food into body tissues.
Universal Supplement
All age groups can safely take Maharishi Amrit Kalash, from children to the elderly. If a person is under the care of a physician, it is recommended that they check with the physician first.
The general rule is that it is better not to take any preparations during the first trimester of pregnancy, even Ayurvedic preparations. The Maharishi Amrit Kalash supplements are very safe and nutritious to the growing foetus and are recommended after the first trimester.
If you have sugar intolerance the Nectar tablet should be taken rather than the Nectar paste which contains sugar and honey.
Turning the herbal potential into a reality
For the full efficacy of complex formulations such as Maharishi Amrit Kalash, the processing is as important as the formulation itself. There is great skill involved in how to mix what, when to mix what, how much to cook, how to compress and extract. Proper processing means following the steps for preparation laid down in the traditional texts, taking care to ensure that the healing properties of the herbs are preserved intact in the final product.
The Ayurvedic approach relies on the healing intelligence of the
herbs. So the processing has to ensure that the innate intelligence,
which we call chetana, is preserved very carefully in the ultimate
formulation.
In order to manufacture and package Maharishi Amrit Kalash for the
present-day consumer, and to take into account hygiene, quality control
and consistency, Ayurvedic physicians consulted top food technologists
and manufacturing engineers to develop specialized machinery and the
systems to process and produce the formulation in exactly the way
explained in the texts.
Processing is done at state-of-the-art facilities to a world-class quality standard. In the preparation of Maharishi Amrit Kalash a dual quality control system is in operation, with one stream of checks to ensure that traditional integrity is maintained, and a second stream of checks to ensure standards of manufacturing and hygiene.
How Maharishi Amrit Kalash is made
Maharishi Amrit Kalash Nectar alone involves 250 meticulous steps. The herbs have to be harvested at precise times to ensure maximum potency, the fruits picked at exactly the right degree of maturity. Each ingredient is carefully identified, sorted and prepared for processing.
The fruits are cooked at specific temperatures to eliminate degeneration of the essential intelligence of the herbs.
The several different parts of the formulation are prepared
independently in a meticulous manner as designed by the Ayurvedic
physicians (vaidyas), and the different parts are blended in at specific
stages, maintaining the appropriate temperatures and mixing times
necessary to preserve the integrity of the formulation.
At no time during the processing is Maharishi Amrit Kalash exposed to
the outside atmosphere until it is packaged. Packaging occurs in
hygienic conditions free from atmospheric contamination. Each batch is
carefully checked at multiple stages in the process. The controls are
stringent. The production process and the formulation both are crucial
to the ultimate value of the product.
Both the ancient knowledge from where the formulation and the
processes were developed, and modern research seem to be saying the same
thing - taking Maharishi Amrit Kalash regularly can have a diverse,
cumulative positive influence on all aspects of health - physical,
mental, emotional and spiritual.
By providing balance and nourishment from the cell up, Maharishi Amrit
Kalash can help to build better health.
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