Summer Season Ayurveda Tips by Health Resort Prakruti

Summer is a season where severe heat is experienced right since the sunrise. This severe heat is experienced specifically during April, May and mid of June. Summers when severely hot temperature is experienced is called "grishma rutu" in Marathi as well as in Hindi.

Features of Grishma rutu-

. temperature is hot;

. blazing hot sunrays;

. Gastrointestinal region is affected due to which a certain lack of appetite is experienced.

. hot air is directed towards south-western direction.

. Leaves, flowers fade pretty soon.

Summers trigger imbalance in vaat dosha. Vaat dosha basically, dries out our internal organs. However, summer can be a lot more fun if one takes enough health care. Imbalance in kapha dosha, that is caused due to winters, is also reduced to a large extent. Here are a few ayurveda tips for summer season by health resort Prakruti that help you live a better, healthier life.

Dos for summer season

1. Carry umbrella, caps, or scarves to cover your head everywhere you go.
2. Prefer Cotton clothes, silk, light colored clothes.
3. Ladies can prefer pearl ornaments
4. Men’s can wear natural perfumes made from sandalwood, rose, jasmine etc.
5. People can consider sleeping in open-air.

Don’ts for summer season

1. Do not step out during afternoons
2. Tiring exercises
3. Staying awake at nights
4. Over-exertion

Dietary dos for summer season

1. Consume milk, homemade butter, ghee- daily
2. Use spices like Coriander seeds, Cinnamon, Cumin, Indian Bay leaf, Turmeric, Garcinia indica (kokum), cardamom (velchi), ginger etc.
3. Eat a lot of bottle gourd, potatoes, ladies finger, ridge gourd, palak, cucumber, etc. regularly
4. Eat plenty of rice, jowar, bajra, wheat varieties.
5. Dry-fruits raisins, dates, overnight soaked almonds.
6. Have lots of fruits like grapes, watermelon, muskmelon. Mangoes can be more beneficial if it soaked in water for an hour, juiced, two spoonful ghee is added, a pinchful of dried ginger powder is added. Takes out the dryness caused by summers and acts as an energy booster and promotes enthusiasm.
7. Rice pudding, semolina pudding (rawa in Marathi), wheat pudding, dudhi halwa, coconut savory (naral barfi), etc atleast twice every week.
8. Gooseberry preserves (moravla), sweet preserves made out of rose petals (gulkand) should be consumed everyday, as many time as possible.
9. Coconut water, unripe mango juice (panhe),kokum sherbet, lemon sherbet, sugar-candy juice etc. should be ideally replaced with tea/coffee.

Dietary don’ts for summer season

1. Yoghurt, lassi
2. Corn, ragi flour, barley (jav)
3. Capsicum, bitter gourd, fenugreek should be avoided
4. Excessively spicy dishes, dry, food can be cooled down a little before consuming
5. Consuming raw onion should be avoided
6. Tamarind, pineapple, raw tomato should be avoided

Vaat dosha triggered by summer can be very well managed with ayurvedic therapies. Therapies like saunshaman and shodhan deal with eliminating toxic substances in our bodies. Saunshaman is about eliminating root causes without excreting them in any way. Shaman is excreting them and terminating illness causing factors right away.

Panchakarma treatments are a great ayurveda tip for summer season to even out dryness caused by summers. They also help in achieving good digestive power, balance metabolism, increase the efficiency of sensory and motor organs enabling a healthy lifestyle. Vaman and virechan done under professional supervision are considered to be the best ways to deal with summer heat.

You can get best-in-industry panchakarma treatments done for your health from health resort Prakruti, Satara. Every ayurvedic therapy here is done under the guidance and supervision of Dr. Suyog Dandekar who has successfully treated above 1,00,000 patients in the past 15 years. Prakruti is also home to well-known celebrities and several awards. Know more about ayurveda tips for summer season by Health Resort Prakruti or simply book an appointment today for a clearer complexion, and a cleansed colon by visiting www.prakrutiayur.com.

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