Types of Toxins

Internal Toxins and Environmental Toxins

Here are the contents of this Types of Toxins page:

• Internal Toxins and Environmental Toxins
• First Source of Body Toxin - Ama Ayurveda
• Second Source of Body Toxin - Amavisha
• Sources of Environmental Toxins - Garavisha
• Get Rid of Toxins - Ama, Amavisha and Garavisha

Internal Toxins and Environmental Toxins

How many types of toxins are there in the body ? What is the source of ama Ayurveda.

Ayurveda ama is a mild toxin found in the body. Ama is the white stuff you find coating your tongue when you get up in the morning or when you are sick. Ayurveda ama can create an even more toxic poison called amavisha.

Are there any other types of toxins that affect the body?

According to Ayurveda, there are three types of toxins. Two of them are internal toxins, that is ama and amavisha and the third is environmental toxins or garavisha.

Let us look at the three different types of toxins.

First Source of Body Toxin - Ama Ayurveda

Ama in Ayurveda is a mild toxin, which is a result of poor digestion.

In Ayurveda, digestion takes place when the digestive fires, that is, the power of digestion is strong.

Incomplete digestion is due to an unhealthy lifestyle.

It is unhealthy to eat foods that lower your digestive power, as they are difficult to digest. This leads to the formation of a type of toxin, called ama in Ayurveda.

Here are foods that are difficult to digest:

• Rich diary products - concentrated milk products, hard cheeses
• Meat
• Fried foods
• Processed foods
• Other Junk foods
• Cold foods such as ice-cream and cold beverages
• Overnight left-over foods

Second Source of Body Toxin - Amavisha

Amavisha is one of the more toxic types of toxins. It is formed from ama when you continue living an unhealthy lifestyle.

It forms because of excess build-up of Ayurveda ama. If ama the less toxic, body toxin, is not cleansed from the body, it travels to different parts of the body.

This body toxin, ama can accumulate in different parts of the body - in the subtle channels and the channels in the organs.

As ama in Ayurveda builds-up, it clogs. If it remains stagnant for long, it mixes with body-fluids and tissues to form amavisha or ama poison.

Amavisha is the root cause of diseases.

The digestive tract, tubules in the liver, arteries, veins and capillaries, fallopian tubes etc get blocked as a result of the change of ama into amavisha.

When amavisha hardens it causes problems in joints, arteries and other areas of the body.

Sources of Environmental Toxins - Garavisha

Environmental toxins are artificial toxins called garavisha in Ayurveda

Some of these types of toxins form ama and some are processed by the liver and excreted.

The other environmental toxins can become toxic in the body, and an Ayurveda physician can help with garavisha toxin cleansing.

Some of the Sources of Environmental Toxins are:

• Food toxins. Processed food can contain preservatives, food additives, food colorings and other toxic food chemicals
• Harmful toxins in polluted water, which can include metal toxins, pesticides or chemicals in your water supply. Chlorine is commonly used to purify city water, yet is toxic to the body, especially the skin
• Heavy metal toxins such as mercury, found concentrated in fish, and in metal fillings used for tooth cavities
• Chemical toxins such as DDT. DDT is not banned in a few countries. The use of DDT can seep into our food chain. Other chemicals are on the rise such as toxic household supplies and detergents.
• Microbial toxins such as bacterial toxins
• Toxins produced by intestinal worms
• Toxic gasses present in the air due to air pollution

Get Rid of Ama, Amavisha and Garavisha

It is easy to clear ama with a simple herbal cleanse or detox or even daily oilp-pulling. However it is not easy to clear the more toxic toxins such as amavisha and garavisha.

It is best to do an Ayurvedic Consultation to clear the more advanced toxins such as amavisha or garavisha.

Through an Online Ayurveda consultation you will be able to test your body energy type or dosha and the right treatment recommended accordingly.

Anyway get a start ahead with an Ayurveda herbal cleanse or detox. Once you have done a cleanse, follow a healthy lifestyle.

It is difficult to avoid many of the environmental toxins. So, I highly recommend that you do a whole body cleanse at least twice a year.

Age gracefully by doing a complete body cleanse. Be free of the different types of toxins, and have a healthy and slim body.

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Ayurvedic Treatment

Ayurvedic treatment is for curing or preventing diseases by balancing tridosha in your body, and depends on your diagnosis. A detox or cleanse is usually recommended. What is Ayurveda?

Body Toxins

What are toxins? Body toxins, arise from Ayurveda ama, an internal substance produced by the body as a result of poor digestion. If it is allowed to build-up, it creates a poison, Amavisha.

Toxic Symptoms

Toxic symptoms or signs of toxicity, show the severity of the presence of toxins in the body. Do you have any toxin symptoms? They are the best indicators to show you how healthy you are.

*Reference: Maharishi Ayurveda