You are as old as your Agni
This is an old Ayurvedic saying. Our Agni is our digestive fire in our body. It is the enzymes in our digestive system, the ‘good bacteria’ and the quality of the blood circulation in this area. This Agni breaks down the food we eat and it helps in the nourishment of all our tissues. It also maintains the strength of our immune system. This is because the cells and constituents of the immune system are made in the body and whatever is made in the body comes from the food we eat. So if the quality of nutrition absorbed is good the quality of the immune system is good. In effect, a good functioning Agni is directly related to good health.
Our Agni increases in strength till the age of approximately 40 then it stabilises until age 60 and then decreases. This is easy to see because after age 60 our tissues break down and our bodily strength and immunity decreases. Death in Ayurveda is when the Agni is extinguished. This is easy to see as a dead body is cold. So ageing is really the decrease in function of the Agni. If we have a good agni we will feel young and healthy but if we have a poor Agni we will feel old and unwell.
A good Agni gives us positivity, strength, happiness, vitality, good glowing skin, good health and a good life. If our Agni isn’t working well then, we will age quicker, have bad skin, be negative, lack the joy of life and generally feel unwell most of the time.
When Ayurvedic practitioners treat any clients, we always work on treating the Agni. There is a simple reason for this. The Agni is the gateway to the body. If we improve the clients Agni, any herbs, spices, supplements, or diet changes we give will quickly be absorbed into their body and healing will be quicker. If the Agni is poor no matter how good the remedies we give are, they won’t act quickly and as effectively as we would like as they wouldn’t be absorbed thus making healing slower.
So on that note, as the famous boy band Take That would say “Relight my fire”
STRENGTHEN your Agni
IMPROVE your health
ENJOY your life
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