STAGES OF DISEASE

The STAGES OF DISEASE PROCESS are important to understanding the holistic nature of Ayurveda. Health is not an all or nothing state, which we all know from our experience. Yet western medicine can rarely deal with changes happening in our body (except as individual symptoms) unless they are progressed all the way to a specific disease.

Ayurveda begins noticing & addressing imbalances at a very subtle level, before it is really “a disease”. The earlier in the disease process an imbalance is addressed, the easier to treat & recover from. Treating imbalances before they move out of their home place in the body is the easiest way. Even when treating imbalances that are already relocating, the body is not yet severely weakened, so while treatment may need to last longer, it is still not too difficult.

Ayurvedic Stages of Disease Process:

Accumulation – the imbalance accumulates in its home location in the digestive tract.

Aggravation – imbalance continues increasing at home & by pressure, creates symptoms elsewhere.

Overflow – imbalance over fills it’s site and begins to go to other areas.

Relocation – imbalance moves through bloodstream into tissue levels.

Manifestation – specific symptoms of disease in those specific tissues, a disease can be diagnosed by western medicine here. It’s no longer just a matter of imbalances moving through the body.

Diversification – disease symptomology is more entrenched and can be identified as being Vata, Pitta, or Kapha type of a disease.