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RARE (Reviving Ayurveda’s Rare Ecology) is a LifeSpa project built to support sustainable growth of rare and endangered herbs. Last year, LifeSpa bought an entire crop of the endangered herb kutki from local farmers in the remote Himalayan village of Kesh at 9,000 feet above sea level. To support the farmers and villagers of Kesh,
Traditional Ayurvedic Tongue Reading In Ayurveda, one of the primary investigative tools of practitioners for determining the state of one’s health is tongue diagnosis or evaluation of the tongue. The tongue is the beginning of the digestive tract, which lumbers on for another 30 feet or so. Since we cannot see much beyond the mouth
More than 80 percent of the world’s inhabitants rely on traditional plant-based medicines, according to the World Health Organization. In the US alone, more than 7 billion is spent annually on herbal medicine, and the demand is rapidly outpacing the supply. Herbal medicine sales are growing by more than 7 percent each year. The demand
Early on in my practice, kutki (Picrorhiza kurroa) was the most important herb in my Ayurvedic pharmacy. The many studies on kutki’s effectiveness drew worldwide attention which resulted in severe over-harvesting and over-exploitation, threatening it into near extinction. When it was classified as endangered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in
