Summer health care Tips

Summer health care                

General info about summer season (Greeshma Ritu)

Mid-May to mid-July (approximately) is considered as Grishma (summer) season. Environment is prevalent with intense heat and unhealthy wind. The river-bodies dried and the plants appear lifeless. The predominant Rasa is Katu (pungent) and Mahabhuta are Agni and Vayu. The strength of the person become less, deposition of Vata Dosha occurs, but the vitiated Kapha Dosha is pacified during this season. Agni of the person will remain in mild state.

Body dosha in summer

As per Ayurveda, Each one of us is composed of combination of Tridoshashas  (Vata, Pitta and Kapha) When these doshas are in balance, these leads to perfect health and when they are out of balance these Doshas leads to symptoms and these symptoms turns into disease.

Summer is Pitta season. Pitta is composed of the elements of fire and water. In summer, the heat from the sun dries and warms the environment around us and within us. 

During the summer season Vata is slowly building up during summer whereas kapha starts to lower down.

Common summer Health problems

• Skin rashes, sunburns, hot tempers and dehydration.

• Digestive discomforts : ulcers, heartburn, Indigestion, acid reflux and nausea

• Mental discomforts : Anger, frustration and irritation

Some tips 

1) keep you body hydrated and cool.

          - Drink coconut water / sugarcane juice – twice / thrice a week. Or you should also try the traditional aam paana.

           - During hot weather body demands more liquid to maintain homeostasis thus keeping body hydrated. But drinking more liquids effects the digestive fire thus we often experience decrease in appetite. but we must take care not to disturb the digestive fire by drinking ice cold liquids during and after meals.

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2) Have light sweet food frequently, which helps to pacify your pitta.

             - Sweet and bitter food cool down the body.

             - Avoid chemically refined sugar, instead prefer Jagger, mishri, etc.

3) Avoid excess spicy and hot nature food which indirectly increase your pitta.

4) Do not skip food. 

5) Include cool nature/potency or high water content food such as Include ghee, raisins, cucumber, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, almond, dates, Banana, coconut water, watermelon, lemon, Mango, berries, pineapple, oranges, bitterguard, bottleguard, pumpkin, Tomato, Papaya, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, etc in diet.

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6) Soak 5 raisins and 5 almonds in water at night and eat them in next day morning. 

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7) Do not do fasting during summer.

8) For burning of eyes – dip a cotton swab in rose water and apply it to closed eye for five minutes. Or put cucumber slices on eyes.

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9) Before night sleep apply chandan paste(made with rose water) to body(including feet, palm, back and chest also) and try sleep in open air or on the roof, which keeps you cool.  Or cold food bath for 10-15 minutes.

      - This not only not only cools you but also it enhances concentration, makes you calm, get rid acne, pimples and any of the skin problems.

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10) Add a teaspoon of coriander seed powder in cup of water and leave it for whole night and drink this water on next day morning on empty stomach.

       - prefer mud pot for this.

11) Drink buffalo milk.

12) Do coconut oil head(scalp) and body massage which keeps you cool and calm.

            

13) Practice sheetali breath : Sit in any comfortable posture >> Place your hands on the knees in Gyan Mudra >> Close your eyes and roll up the tongue and shape it as a tube >> Inhale maximum through the tongue >> Take the tongue inside the mouth and close the mouth >> Slowly exhale through the nostrils slowly >> Repeat the procedure for 6-8 rounds.

       - Balances excess pitta, Cools the body and clears excess heat, effectively cools the body, the mind, and the emotions.

14) wearing light dresses and sleeping at day time are helpful. During night one can enjoy the cooled moon rays with breeze.

15) Cold water kept in mudpot along with the flowers of patala and karpura should be used for drinking.

16) Day sleep is good but not too much.

Avoid these things

1) Drinking too much caffeine or in moderation especially in summers (coffee, tea and soft drinks).

2) Less water or glucose based fluids or consuming too much of synthetic fluids. These include artificial fruit juices.

3) Intake foods with high salt content, pungent foods. And sour food (except lemon and amla).

4) High protein diet can cause mild dehydration due to increased water loss.

5) Do not perform vigorous physical activities in sun.

6) Avoid alcohol (or should drink alcohol in little quantity or it should be diluted with plenty of water).

7) Excessive physical exercises and exposure to sunlight.

8) Hot water and drinks (room temperature drinks are ok).

9) Too much cold drinks( like icy cold) - (mud pot water and juice is okey).

10) excessive nuts.

Some recipies and food(diet) you should try in this summer which keeps you cool and calm

• Foods of sweet taste, coolant foods, liquid diet, oils, fried foods and drinks are desirable during summer.

1) The most famous drink summer is lemon water. Prepare a lemon water by adding lemon, jaggery, rock salt, Ginger with little amount of cumin and cardamom.

         - This recipe not only keeps you cool but also helps to get rid of digestive discomforts.

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2) Try some fruit juices along with jaggery, rock salt and cumin powder : include mango watermelon, sweet melon, etc.

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3) Panchasara – drink prepared with equal quantity of grapes, licorice, Kashmarya i.e. Gmelina arborea, Parushaka i.e. Grewia asiatica and sugar(jaggery), added with essence of camphor for fragrance and taste, and made cold.

          - It is a coolant fruit juice drink mentioned in Ancient Ayurvedic text book – Ashtanga Hrudaya. 

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4) Drink fragrant cold water, where as cooling should be done in mud pot. Or you should try rose lassi, rose milk, etc.

              - rose petals is the best inthe summer which keeps you cool and aromatic.

              - drinking fragrant cool water keeps you calm emotionally.

              - Gulkand is best known for relieving excess heat.

5) Aloevera juice is also the best cooling drink along with some lemon juice, Jaggery, cumin seeds, coriander seeds powder and Cinnamon.

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6) Drink buttermilk along with coriander seed and cumin seeds powder along with rock salt. As per your need you can add jaggery/mishri in it.

7) Aam panna - 1) take a boiled(first pelled and then boiled) raw mango along with jaggery and neem flowers along with little salt, cinnamon, cumin & coriander seed powder and cardamom. After this should be put in mud pot for 3-5 hours.

8) Rice water : coarsely pound 10g of rice, then take a mud pot and add coarse rice and 60-65 ml of Water to it. Wait for 3-5 hours, then strain the water and drink it. 

          - It's cooling effect is very useful for acne, hairfall, irritation, acidity and many digestive discomforts.

9) Panaka: mix 30 gms of jaggery in 1 litre of water, pinch of dry ginger powder, cinnamon and cardamom and mix it well.

10) Mantha: take equal quantities of dried grapes, dates and figs, soak it in water for an hour, churn it well.

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11) Saktu: make a fine powder of dry roasted barley, channa dal mix it with water and boil it. Then add jiggery, cardamom and milk. Serve it after cooling.

12) Diluted syrup of ananta, gulab, amra, draksha, chandana, ushira, jambhira and kamala.

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Reference : 

1) Ashtanga Hrudaya

2) Sushruta samhita

3) local tradition and knowledge

4) Ayu. 2011 Oct-Dec;  PMCID: PMC3361919

5) Madhav University