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 Your body's immune system is central to your overall health. It detects invaders and protects you from them, whether they are toxins or disease-causing agents such as bacteria and viruses. When it is working well, your immune system prevents chronic diseases, fights infections, and increases your longevity. When it doesn't work as it should, even if the rest of your body is humming along, trouble lies ahead.
The immune system can malfunction in two ways. First, it can over-react to a substance that normally isn't a dangerous threat (for instance, to pollen, thus causing an allergic reaction, or to other substances, thus causing arthritis or lupus). Second, it can weaken and fail to react when it should, thus allowing the growth of the cancerous cells, the spread of herpes viruses or the development of conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome. A weakened immune system also makes you more susceptible to less serious conditions, such as
cold and flu.
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 The Immune System:
Medical scientists identified the first immune deficiency disease in the 1950s. The most well known, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS
has appeared on the national scene only for the past fifteen years. The major organs of the immune systems are dispersed throughout the body. These include the lymph nodes (grouped along lymphatic vessels), bone marrow (in the core of bones), the thymus (in the upper part of the chest), and the spleen (on the left side of the abdomen). These and other organs produce and store an array of white blood cells and specialised immune cells that go by names such as T cells (T for thymus), lymphocytes, neutron phils, mast cells, macrophages, and B cells (B for Bone). These cells variously help the body to identify the invading agents, produce antibodies that neutralise or destroy them, turn off the immune reaction when it is no longer needed, and remember the whole process for future reference.
 If you don't take care, your immune system won't:
The cancer pattern is well established in the literature. It is characterised by feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. The sense that you've been victimised by factors beyond your control and that you have no power to change
what has happened. In recent years we've discovered that this same pattern of behaviour is connected to other illnesses. Rheumatoid
arthritis, Allergies and any immune-related diseases including Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It's as if your immune system is acting analogously with your behaviour. You're not trying to change your life or take care of yourself in essence; you've just given up. And your immune system says,
'Well if you've given up, so will I' and the result is that the immune system becomes depressed and you are susceptible to a whole host of illnesses.
 The practice of yogasana regenerates the inner defences of the human body and promotes health. It enables one to discover the self-care that has been hidden in one's body to flower and to emerge in perfect balance. The well being of a human being, according to
the Ayurveda system of medicine depends upon the equilibrium of tridosha (Bio-Energies)
namely., Vatha, Pitha and Kapa. Each dosha has a primary location known as its seat, which serves as a focal point for treatment. Kapa's seat is the chest and Kapa imbalance principally affects the respiratory system; Vatha's seat is the nervous system and Vatha imbalance affects the nervous system, Pitha's seat is the digestive system and its imbalance affects the digestive system. The digestive system, respiratory system, nervous system, circulatory system, etc. help to maintain the health of the tissues in the body.
 Yoga to rejuvenate
the body's defence system:
Any imbalance of a dosha has a tendency to affect the other doshas as they are interconnected and move together.
Hence a Pitha imbalance, even though immediately affects the digestive system, may affect the other systems too if the imbalance persists for a long duration of time. Ultimately the nervous system and respiratory system may also get severely impaired. Nature has provided a great healing power
within us. Doctors of our system try to imitate this natural power and supplement with medical work. Yogasanas play a crucial role in our fight against diseases and in improving the immunity of
the human body, by boosting the God-given healing power.
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