▶️ *Rutucharya*
🦚Varsha Rutu is approaching.
🌈 With pleasant sprays of first rains, earth will release aroma.
Keeping fit and strong is important as this season is marked by low sun and environment changes causing low hunger and hence low immunity.
🌿Changing season will show its effects and the alternating heat and cold can give a boost to illnesses like fever, cough and cold if Rutucharya is not followed.
👉🏻To counter the outbreak of rainy diseases:
1. Avoid list:
Leafy vegetables
Raw juices/ salads/ chutney with leaves
Refrigerated/frozen food
Stale food
Street food
Non seasonal vegetables and fruits
Overeating
Daytime sleep
Heavy, deep fried food milkshakes, ice creams, cold drinks.
Keeping body /hair/ clothes wet for long.
Applying mehendi/ cooling packs on palms or head
Over exertion/ heavy exercise
Taking on hot sunrays or cold wind for too long
Spicy food, acidic fruits, fermented food
2. Follow list:
Semifasting
Eating only when hungry
Eating freshly cooked, homemade food items
Eating well cooked seasonal veggies like parwal, tinda, creeper growing vegetables, kantola/kartula, karela, takla bhaji, etc
Avoid heavy sabjis like potatoes, sweet potatoes, beetroot, root sabjis.
Eating and drinking lukewarm food n drinks like soup.
Drinking boiled and cooled water.
Drinking mild herbal tea made of fresh Tulsi/ginger lemongrass/ pudina /ajwain seeds daily.
Do restorative yoga poses
Take care of back and spine posture
Wear light colors
Bath with warm water with neem kadha or neem ark
Eat lighter grains like jwari, rice
Eat early dinner.
3. First aid home remedies:
1. Fasting or Semifasting if you notice hunger is less
2. Samshamani vati 2 tablets twice for adults as a precaution if you notice fever outbreaks in neighborhood.
3. Sudarshan kadha or vati in doctor recommended dose for feverishness/mild fever.
4. Soonth plus haldi powder mixed with jaggery for cough/soar throat.
5. Drink water boiled with sonth powder full day if stomach infection.
6. Take steam with ginger for cough cold.
7. Do dhoopan or Kapoor and ajwain dhoomadi in whole house daily.
General recommendations based on Ayurvedic texts and clinical experience. Consulting your ayurvedic consultant is must before any medicine use.
Best wishes by Dr. Harsha and Dattatraya Kulkarni, Om Ayurved centre, Thane.
