AUTISM AND AYURVEDA

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WHAT CAUSES AUTISM ACCORDING TO AYURVEDA?

• When his/her mind is afflicted by the predominance of Rajas and Tamas
• When doshas in his/her body are aggravated and vitiated.
• When he/she takes food consisting of unwholesome and unclean ingredients
mutually contradictory properties, neglecting prescribed dietary rules (viz. confirmity with nature etc.)
• When his/her body is exceedingly depleted.
• When he/she is not in proper state of health due to other diseases.
• When his/her mind is afflicted over and over again by passion, anger, greed,
excitement, fear, attachment, excretion, anxiety and grief.

In the circumstances enumerated above the mind gets seriously affected and the intellect loses its balance. So the doshas aggravated and vitiated enter the cardiac region and obstruct the channels of the mind resulting in Autism (characterized by the perversion of mind, intellect, consciousness, knowledge, memory, desire, manners, behaviors and conduct.)

Ayurvedic Management

Oletion, fomentation, emesis, purgation, enema, alleviation therapies, errhines, fumigation, collyrium, nasya (snuff), ointment, deletion. Suitable diets should be given according to the requirements of the patient. Such other therapies as would work against the causative factors of the diseases should also be given.

Ayurveda believes that the root cause of Autism is due to poor metabolism – (the process of absorption of ingested food from intestine).

Autism - Some Facts

1 in 150 children is diagnosed with autism

1 in 94 boys is on the autism spectrum

67 children are diagnosed per day

A new case is diagnosed almost every 20 minutes

More children will be diagnosed with autism this year than with AIDS, diabetes & cancer combined

Autism is the fastest-growing serious developmental disability in the U.S.

Autism receives less than 5% of the research funding of many less prevalent childhood diseases

Boys are four times more likely than girls to have autism