||Swasthasya urjaskanyastu tad vrishyam tad rasayanam||

Whatever that serves for augmenting the excellence of health, is the mode of rejuvenation. Rasayan is the word for rejuvenation in Ayurveda.

Rejuvenation/ Rasayan in ayurveda

• It is the branch of Ayurvedic science that deals with all aspects of preventive health care.
• Rasayana imparts longevity, improved memory, health, youthfulness, glow, complexion, generosity, and strength of body and senses.
• Rasayana improves the metabolic activities and results in best possible bio- transformation leading to health.
• Rasayana is the rejuvenating therapy, which promotes rejuvenation in every individual.
• It aims at achieving a long and healthy life. The philosophy of Ayurveda is to establish good health which is achieved through rasayana treatments.
• It prescribes treatment for repairing wear and tear of the body due to aging or diseases.
• It rejuvenates the tissues of the body to give a young look. Rasayana means that physical, mental and spiritual aid to the human body, which brings the body out of its condition of natural or man made loss. It retards the process of aging.
• Rasayana basically boosts the vital force of life and the immune system. It helps a person to maintain good health or to establish impaired or lost physical or mental health. It gives a bright look, sharp memory, high performance and every expected pleasure. To achieve this state of health, intermittent regeneration of body tissues is recommended by ayurveda. Rasayana is the optimal way to achieve this.
• Rasayana treatments also have aphrodisiac qualities.
• In short Rasayana is rejuvenation and provides a long, disease free and vigorous life to the person who undergoes this therapy.

What rejuvenation therapy offers?

• Enhances intelligence, memory, strength, youth, luster, sweetness of voice and vigor.
• It nourishes blood, lymph, flesh, adipose tissue and semen & ovum, and thus prevent degenerative changes and illness, thus gives freedom from chronic degenerative disorders like arthritis and senile diseases.
• Rasayana improves metabolic processes, which results in the best possible biotransformation and produce the best-quality bodily tissues and eradicates senility and other diseases of old age .
• From this primitive treatment, one attains optimal strength of physique and sense organs.
• Rasayana has a marked action on sexual organs and shukra dhatu/semen is best nourished by it.
• Rasayana builds natural resistance against infection.
• Rasayana invigorates the body in general by sustaining the required balance between anabolism and catabolism
• Arrests aging.

ANHC emphasize on

1. Ayurvedic therapies: ayurvedic oil and powder massages done in specific manner to speed the healing process.
2. Panchakarma: This five fold purification therapy aims at correcting the imbalance of the body's bio energies in order to maintain their inherent equilibrium.
3. Ashtanga yoga, pranayama and meditation:
• Disciplined behaviour-yama
• Self purification-niyama
• Body postures -asanas
• Control of breathing-pranayama
• Control of the senses-pratyahara
• Fxing of the mind on a chosen object-dharana
• Meditation-dhana
• State of being where you experience absolute tranquility and well being-samadhi.

Meditation and yoga: mental and physical exercises meant to isolate the ego from the body and mind-designed to hone your concentration, improve health and help attain peace of mind through 8 stages