The cusp between winter and spring is the ideal time to do an at-home internal cleansing program, to allow your body to release the toxins that may have built up over the long cold winter.
A complete ayurvedic cleansing program includes 15 days of preparation and 45 days of actual cleansing. Ayurvedic healers recommend paying special attention to your diet during these two phases to avoid overtaxing your digestion and to enable purification to occur easily and completely. Maharishi Ayurveda does not recommend fasting or entirely liquid diets such as juices, because that may cause your agni (digestive fire) to become imbalanced.
Ama is the product of incomplete digestion — it represents sticky toxic matter that can clog the channels of your body that carry nutrients to the cells and waste out of the body. Since cleansing is done to clear ama out of the body, you'll want to stay away from foods that build more ama in the body. From the ayurvedic perspective, leftovers, and "dead" foods such as processed, packaged, canned and frozen foods all create ama because they are very hard for your body to digest.
Non-organic foods; genetically-modified foods; foods grown with chemicals, pesticides and chemical fertilizers; and foods with chemical additives also introduce toxins into your body and are confusing for the natural "intelligence" of your digestive system, and should therefore be avoided.
Avoid heavy dairy products such as aged hard cheese or yogurt, foods that are deepfried or oily, raw foods of any kind, heavy desserts, and foods that contain refined sugar and honey, as these are harder to digest and create ama. Avoid yeasted breads, dry breads such as crackers, and fermented foods.
Favor vegetarian foods that are light, warm, cooked and easily digestible. Freshly-made flatbreads, freshly-made light soups and dhals, organic vegetables cooked with spices, and freshly-made grains such as quinoa are ideal. Mung dhal pacifies all three doshas and is nutritious, yet easy to digest.
Certain fruits, vegetables and spices are especially helpful during cleansing, so you'll want to eat a serving or two every day during the preparation and cleansing phases:
Ayurvedic healers recommend tailoring your diet year-round to your constitution and your imbalances. This is particularly true during cleansing to help regulate your digestive fire (agni). For detailed information on diets and foods for pacifying each of the three doshas, visit Vata, Pitta, or Kapha.
Warm water helps flush toxins out of the body through the urine. To derive healing benefits from the water you drink, add detoxifying spices to the water. Here is a recipe for Detoxifying Tea from The Council of Maharishi Ayurveda Physicians:
After the 45 days of cleansing are over, take a few days to gradually introduce heavier foods and ease back into your regular diet. This is also the perfect time to start taking Rasayanas (ayurvedic formulations for overall health and vitality) like Amrit, Organic Digest Tone, or Vital Man or Vital Lady. Now that the channels of your body are clear, your body will make maximum use of the overall healing benefits of these tonics.
According to Ayurveda, we need to detoxify our body, mind and emotions during these transition periods. Emotional health also plays an important role in keeping your skin healthy. There is a definite relationship between your brain and skin. If you are upset, that shows up on your skin in the form of a rash, acne, psoriasis or eczema. On other hand, if you are happy that gives a nice glow to your skin.
When you do a spring cleanse and receive some Ayurvedic treatments like Abhyanga – warm herbal oil massage, lymphatic massage, exfoliating scrubs, dry brush massage, sauna and steam bath, this stimulates the lymphatic system and circulation. These treatments improve lymphatic drainage, boost immunity and remove dead skin cells. Herbal steam dilates the blood vessels and opens channels so that impurities can easily move out. Herbal sweating opens our pores and allows our skin to release any toxins that may have accumulated, either from faulty digestive capacity of Pitta in the skin or an over exposure to harmful substances. Additionally, these warming treatments relax the muscles and relieve stiffness and re-hydrate dry skin. In addition, oil enemas are helpful in calming down the nervous system, emotions and alleviating dry skin.
Detoxification is a process that removes all the toxins from human body and is mainly this function is carried by the liver. It eliminates harmful toxins to clean your body and help you live healthy life. It is very helpful for people who are suffering from chronic disease conditions such as anxiety, arthritis, asthma, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, low blood sugar and obesity. Constipation is the most common problem in today’s generation and a proper detoxification of the body help reduction of this problem. Thus, maintaining a healthy detoxification process becomes a key to healthy lifestyle.
Some familiar causes are lack of fiber in the diet, physical activities, medicines that contain calcium, iron which are hard to for channel blocking and aluminum coated drugs, pregnancy, aging, routine changes, hormonal changes, excessive use of laxatives, controlling the bowel movement, less intake of water, colon and rectum problems, high caffeine and alcohol intake etc.
There are some common symptoms that depict that the individual is suffering from constipation. Few symptoms include having lumpy, dry, hard stool that is difficult to pass, straining, urge of having bowel movement, pain and bloating the abdominal, reduced appetite, lethargy, sense of incomplete evacuation after a bowel movement, excessive gas, nausea etc. Take these signs as a warning to do regular checkup and follow healthy lifestyle for its betterment.
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