Ayurvedic management of infertility due to fallopian tubal block

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Throughout the evolution and the story of civilization, human beings have graduated in experimenting with the form of the food they take, from eating the hunted animals in a raw form to properly processing with utmost caution and precision. Ultimately, we eat to live, to sustain the life within us, to continue the life process, to evolve, and to lead a healthy life. Some of the Acaryas have called Ahara 'Brahma or the creator'. It is so true that we are all created and maintained by ahara. Right from the point of our conception in our mother's womb, we are nurtured by the ahara rasa. All the living beings originate from ahara. Ahara is responsible for the life sustenance of all living beings. Acarya Caraka has given a beautiful concept about Ahara and tells that the ahara not only forms this body but also forms the diseases which occur in us. If the wholesome food is responsible for sukha (happiness, health), the unwholesome food causes dukha (misery, unhealthy). He also tells that ahara or food is the best among the things which sustain life. Any disease can be comprehensively cured without any medicine by just following 'pathya ahara' or wholesome food whereas even hundreds of medicines and formulations cannot cure a disease in the absence of a planned wholesome regimen of diet. Keywords: Ahara, Sukha, Dukha, Pathya