Happy Earth Day! Photo: The paddy field, adjacent to Rasa Ayurveda. Our Mother Earth is even more vital to our survival than well our actual mother…! We all arise from Her, take all our sustenance from Her, and rely on Her to deal with our wastes. And ultimately, our body returns to Her. Whether we…
Thulasi Devi
In the midst of a significant life transition, Christina Reinhart came to Rasa Ayurveda to experience and learn Ayurveda. A recent graduate of Bastyr University in Washington, U.S., Christina lives in Fargo, North Dakota. The photo shows her blooming in Rasa’s medicinal plants garden, wearing a beautiful Indian sari, nestled close to her favorite plant…
Mm… Mm… Amla
Mm… Mm… Amla: It’s a fruit. It’s a medicine. When I’m shopping for produce here in Kerala and point to this round green fruit, if the shopkeeper speaks English, he will say, Gooseberry? The amla fruit also known as amalaki, or nellikka here in Kerala’s Malayalam has many names and many uses. It’s used as…
