Spring season starts from Tuesday 18th February 2025.
King of seasons, Spring is the transition period of winter and summer. In this, the accumulated phlegm of winter season starts melting with the scorching rays of the sun, due to which the digestive fire becomes slow and many diseases like cold-cough, vomiting-diarrhea start occurring. Therefore, special care should be taken about food and lifestyle at this time.
Diet: In this season, take long-digesting, cold foods, sleep during the day, smooth foods made in ghee-oil and acidic and juice-rich foods.Do not consume as these all increase cough
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Sweets, dry fruits, sweet and sour fruits, curd, ice cream and heavy food are prohibited in spring. During these days, eat easily digestible, less oily and ghee based, spicy, bitter, astringent, hot foods like rai, puffed rice, barley, roasted gram, old wheat, gram, green gram, ginger, dry ginger, carom seeds, turmeric, pipramool, black pepper, asafoetida, yam, drumstick pods, bitter gourd, fenugreek, fresh radish, sesame oil, honey, cow urine etc. Anti-cough substances. Do not eat to the fullest. Less use of salt and one strict fast in 15 days is beneficial for health. It is not wise to stuff fruits in the stomach in the name of fasting.
Vihar : produced in the body due to seasonal changes
To remove heaviness and laziness, getting up before sunrise, exercising, running, brisk walking, asanas and pranayama (especially Suryabhedi) are beneficial. Massaging with sesame oil and bathing with saptadhan paste is the key to health.
Special Experiments of Spring Season
Chewing 15-20 neem leaves and 2-3 black peppers for 15-20 days protects one from diseases like skin disease, fever, blood disorder, etc. throughout the year.
Chop ginger into small pieces, add lemon juice and a little salt and consume it. It helps in removing poor digestion.
Chew 5 grams of fenugreek soaked overnight and drink the water in the morning to relieve stomach gas.
Grind the peel of soapnut in water and drop 2 drops in the nose to get rid of migraine (headache).
Mixing 15 grams of jaggery in 10 grams of ghee gives relief from dry cough.
Mix 10 gm honey, 2 gm dry ginger powder and 1 gm black pepper powder and lick it in the morning and evening to get rid of phlegmy cough.
Caution: If phlegm comes in your mouth, spit it out immediately. Taking English medicines for phlegm dries up the phlegm, which can cause serious diseases like T.B., asthma, cancer in the future.
Can do it. So when the phlegm increases? Jakarni use water net