About Dreams | Dream

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Swapna (dream)

Sarvendriyavyuparatau manoanuparatam yada.

Vishayebhyastada swapnam nana rupam prapasyati..

When all the sense organs get detached of their subjects but the mind still remains attached, then comes the dream.

How to sleep | About sleep

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Today, very early morning I got up to administer 60 ml of  Tiktaka Ghrita (Medicated ghee) just at the sun rise to my Psoriasis patient who lives in the in patient department. Like any other Tuesday I went to temples. Obviously now I am tired and long for a sound sleep. I am blessed with a habit of sound sleep. Thank God.

Sleep is the second of the trilogy (Traya upastambha) that we discus for last some days.

Sleep comes normally at night.

Lokadisarga prabhava tamomula tamomayi.

Bahulyat tamaso ratro nidra prayena jayate..

During the creation of the universe there was Tama i.e. darkness. The nidra is also originates from the tama guna. That is why the nidra comes normally at night.

Sleshmavruteshu srotahsu shramat uparateshu cha

Indriyeshu swakarmabhyo nidra vishati dehinam.

When the sleshma the bi product of Aahara rasa covers all the micro channels, all the sense organ get tired of their subjects and stay detached, and then comes the role of nidra.

Benefits of Sleep:

Nidrayatam sukham dukham pustih karshyam valavalam.

Vrishata klivata gyanamagyanam jivitam na cha..

Sukha (Happiness), duhkha (Sorrow), pusti (Nourishment), krushata (Emaciation), bala (Strength), abala (Weakness), vrishata (Power of sex), klivata (Loss of sexual activity), gyana (Knowledge), agynata (Ignorance), jivana (Life), Mrityu (Death) all are under the control of sleep.

Excessive sleep, little sleep, sleeping in odd time will devastate the happiness from life and the life itself. 

Awaken night brings rukshata (Dryness), while day sleep brings unnecessary  snigdhata (oiliness, say deranged lipid profile) in body. 

Sleeping interruptedly in a sitting position in day time is good.

Those who speak, travel, walk, indulge in sex, booze, lift weight, get angry, stressed regularly, diseased person, child, old, traumatized may sleep in the day time. 

Obesed person, oil and ghee consuming person should not sleep in the day time. Poisoned and person with a throat disease should not sleep at night. In summer season day sleep is allowed. 

 Excessive sleep will enhance the kapha that calms down the digestion power, as a reason the channels get blocked. That brings heaviness and leatharge to the body those again enhance the bad habit of excessive sleep.

Not only me The Ayurveda says this. 

 

Indian food | Ayurveda food habit

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Aahara Kalpana

Indian food unlike many other continental food is prepared with different oil, spice, flavours, essence etc. These are not there attract the foody people. The process is there to secrete salive, create interest in food, eliminate distraction from food and properly digest the food taken.

Coming back from my last diversified article on Basanta ritu charya, today I write some thing about the proper guide line for intake of food.

There are seven Kalpana or program which are to be considered during intake of food.

Swabhava (say nature)- By swbhava some food are guru (heavy)/ laghu (light), snigdha (rich by ghee)/ ruksha (dry) etc.

Samjoga- By combination food behaves differently.

Samskara- By samskara or value addition food acquire new properties.

Matra (Quantity)- Amount of food is to be considered.

Desha (Geoclimatic condition)- Regionality of food and the person.

Kala (Time)- Kala waits for stages of disease, digestion and season.

Upyoga Bybastha- It says about the dos and don'ts during intake of food.

Do not take food	Take food
Without taking bath, with a single dress, nude, dirty dress, without offering food to God, without arranging food for pets and servants, so hot food, Charred food, Unknown food, evening, early morning, under open sky, in darkness, under the tree, on the bed, keeping first finger straight, taking the plate on hand, keeping the plate on your seat,	At suitable place, suitable time, in dinning space, clean dishes, with friends, after washing hands and legs, facing east, served by a well wisher, with holistic approach, putting on five sense organs.

Ayurveda and spring season

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Basanta Ritu Charya: Life style in spring season:-

— I slept yester night thinking of writing something about the Ayurvedic way of "selecting and taking food". In between the twittering sound of birds in the morning from the near by trees reminds me the presence of spring season the Basanta ritu. Basanta ritu charya or lifestyle in spring season is worth written.   Because the shleshma (say the phlegm) collected in winter gets melted in spring and creates diseases.

—   The Kapha accumulated in the winter season gets melted due to the heat of the Spring season and detoriates the Agni (the fire , the power of appetite and digestion). That is why all measures should be taken to take over Kapha.







We should avoid food with the propertirs of  Guru (heavy food), Sheetala (chilled), Snigdha (oily food), Madhura (Sweets) , Amla rasa (Sour taste) and life styles like Diva Swapna (Day sleep).

The advised preventive treatment and food habit should be as follows.

Tikshna Vamana (Strong vomiting). Chandana & Aguru lepa- Application of chandan and Aguru on body. Tikshna Dhooma Paana (Strong smoking) Tikshna Gandusha (Holding medicated liquid in mouth) Teekshna Nasya (Strong therapeutic nasal drop treatment), Vyayama (Exercise), Udvartana (Reverse powder massage).

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Internally 

Boiled water  with Mutha, Asava, Arista, Sidhu, Mardhika, Madhava (different types of wine), Honey, Yava (A dry drug) , Godhuma (wheat) , Jangala mamsa (red meat) are advised.


Dr A P Nayak.
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What is Agni and Diet plan

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Agni moolam cha deha dharanamiti.

Agni is the root of all reasons to uphold the body. In Ayurveda Agni is a very vast word. Loss of appetite, indigestion, no interest in food are separate concepts.  Agni in our digestive system is just like the native fire place to cook food. If you feed no fuel, then the fire will be extinguished- no food during hunger, gradually appetite will go down. Heavy fuel in the fire place will extinguish the fire due to no space for Oxygen- heavy food (qualitatively/ quantitatively/ frequently) will ruin down the appetite and digestion power. Water, even hot water will bring the fire to zero. Likewise intake of liquid in empty stomach during hunger will diminish the fire of digestive system. Everybody is requested to take care.

How much food one should take? Half stomach is the answer. Another  one fourth of the stomach is filled with water while the last one fourth is left vacant for air movement and peristaltic movement. Water should not be taken immediately before or after food. It may be taken in between the fooding. Water intake just before food will reduce health while after food will help gaining weight. 

What is Agni

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Last evening I had written about dinacharya, ritu charya, traya upastambha etc. Skipping the first two I want to focus over the traya upastambha (three sub pillars) i.e. Aahara (food), nidra (sleep), abramhacharya (sex).

Tritayam cha idam upastmbhanam aaharah swapnoabrrahmacharyam cha. 

Ebhih yukti  

yuktaihupastabdham upastambhaih sariram bala barna upachya upachitam 

anuvartate yavat ayushah samskarah..

Three upstambha (sub pillars) are described in Ayurveda called Aahara, Nidra and Abramhacharya. The body will remain full of bala (power), barna (looks) and pusti (nourishment) till the end of life.

Before describing the Aahara (food), we have to take into consideration,        “Mandagnau sarva rogaah”. All diseases arise from Mandagni (low agni). 

Agni is 13 in number. 5 mahabhootagni (from earth, water, fire, air, ether), 7 dhatu agni ( from Rasa, Rakta, Mamsa, Meda, Asthi, Majja, Sukra) and above all the Jatharagni, the fire of the intestine.

Again to high light the importance of Agni (power of appetite and digestion) they say

Valam aarogyam ayuscha pranascha agnau pratisthhita.

Annapaana indhanaischa agnih jalati byeti anyatha..

Vala (energy), aarogya (good health), ayu (life), prana (the energy of life) are nourished by Agni. Aahara is the fuel to keep the fire burning. Absence of fuel will calm down the Agni.