Rainy Season : Protect yourself from Seasonal Diseases

The cool, tiny rain drops comes as a blessing after immense heat of summers.

Rain marks the beginning of Visarg kala (Dakshinayan). The sun enters Southern Solstice. The winds, clouds and rain weakens the sun and moon becomes more powerful and so we start restoring our natural 'Bala' strength.

Rainy season brings health challenges too.

 1. Weakens Digestion: Our‘Agni’ digestive fire gets low in this season so gastrointestinal problems like indigestion, bloating, and acidity pops up.

Solution:

• Start your meal with Ginger piece sprinkled with salt.

 2. Joint Pain: This cloudy, cool season causes stiffness and pain in chronic cases of Arthritis

    Remedy: 

• Boil water mix with ‘Shunthi’ powder. This prevents ‘Ama` formation.

 3. Skin Problems: Damp and humid environment supports the growth of fungus and bacteria which causes skin ailments 

  Solution: 

• Boil ‘Neem’ leaves and mix it with bathing water.

4.  Increase in Hair fall: excess humidity causes more hair fall.

     Solution: 

• Apply curd mix with black pepper in hair.
• Consume 'Amla'.

 5.  Dengue & Chikungunya: Mosquitoes breed in stagnant water and can cause malaria,dengue and chikungunya.

    Remedy: 

• Burn neem leaves in house.
• Burn karpoor this kills mosquito.

6.   TriDoshas (bodily humour): change in season brings changes in our bodily doshas. Almost all the doshas get derranged. Vata gets aggravated and Pitta Dosha starts getting accumulated.

Solution: 

• Follow Dietary guidelines. Do not sleep in daytime.

7. Cough and Cold: Due to change in season we become prone to respiratory tract infections.

    Solution: 

• Add pinch of Haldi in milk; boil and drink regularly.
• Giloy can be used as 'Rasayana'.

To keep seasonal diseases at bay- 

1. Eat Right

Eat fresh produce at all the times of year year, preferably those that are grown locally.

• Add Honey to your meals.
• Consume lentils which are light to digest (Moong).
• On cloudy days eat sour, salty and oily food this keeps doshas in balance.
• Water is heavy to digest and becomes easily contaminated so it should be boiled; cooled and then used.

2. Preserve 'Agni'

• Eat barley, wheat and rice they are light and easy to digest
• Start your meal with small piece of Ginger with added salt 
• Add Haritaki (Terminala Chebula) with sprinkled salt to your daily routine.
• Curd lovers can start eating it; but mixed with 'Panchkola' (Pippali, Pippalimool Chavya, Chitrak and Shunthi mix. It increases appetite, relieves bloating, abdominal colic pain and indigestion.

3. Protection from Skin Ailments

• Do not walk bare foot it may cause fungal infection or disease like ‘Alas’ (Chilblain )
• Since the season is very humid skin pores gets blocked with sweat and impurities one should get Udwartan and Udgharshan (ayurvedic powder massages) .They cleanse the skin and removes impurities.
• Wear loose cotton clothes.

4. Balance 'Tridoshas' 

In this season VPK gets imbalance and in future may cause several health issues so one must get take Panchkarma therapies under medical supervision. It detoxify and rejuvenates entire system.

Remember, Prevention is better than Cure!