DIET, BEHAVIORS, AND PURIFICATIONS BY THE SEASONS |
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Season |
Ahara (Diet) |
Behavior |
Purification Measure |
| Hemant (Early)& Sisira (Late) Winter | Sweet, Sour and Salty tastes, rich diet | Massage, Exercise Wool blankets, Protection against cold | |
| Vasanta (Spring) | Pungent, Light and Dry foods especially most types of grams) | Massage, Exercise, fomentations | Vamana |
| Grisma (Summer) | Sweet, Bitter and Unctuous substances, cooling to the digestion | Cooling fruits and like amra (mango), coconut, jambu (Jamun), cool air | |
| Varsa (Rainy Season) | Sweet and Astringent tastes, Light digestive substances, boiled and clean curds, whey, lemon, and ksara (salt) preparations | Avoid sleeping on the ground, or performing Bastis, remove standing water from the living area | Basti |
| Sarada (Autumn) | Sweet, Astringent, and slightly unctuous foods especially ghee and milk, rice and its, preparations. | To sit in moon light in the first quarter of night, exercise, avoid excess curd in diet. | Virecana & Blood – letting. |
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