Ayurveda therapy for fifteen days

The 15-day standard Ayurvedic basic therapy is neither a magic medicine that can cure all diseases, nor is it an IQ tax that is purely deceptive. If it is implemented according to a plan that matches their own physical constitution, more than 70% of sub-healthy people can feel a clear improvement in three types of problems: sleep, digestion, and skin sensitivity. For the remaining people who have no effect, 90% have mistakenly applied the Internet celebrity's general plan directly to themselves.

I stayed in a small Ayurveda center in Dali for two full weeks last spring, and I actually went through this therapy from beginning to end. The seven experiencers in the same hospital had very different changes in their status, which could explain the secrets behind it. My roommate is a girl who works as an e-commerce operator. Before I came here, she stayed up until 3 o'clock for three consecutive months. She was constipated for almost a week and had a circle of red and swollen pimples on her chin. During the first three days of full-body oil therapy, she complained to me about the smell of warm sesame oil wrapped all over her body. I went to the sesame oil workshop, and after taking a shower, even my pajamas were soaked with the smell. On the fifth day, she knocked on my door in a daze, holding up her mobile phone and making silly jokes, saying that she fell asleep at 12 o'clock the day before, didn't even take melatonin, and had a smooth bowel movement in the morning.

Of course not everyone is so smooth. There was an older brother who came here at the same time as us who was in the building materials business. He always drank wine and had fun with spicy food. He ate rice and bean porridge kitchari without salt for three days with a traditional Indian teacher. He couldn't bear it anymore and sneaked out to eat yak beef hot pot. He had diarrhea for two days when he came back. Everyone told everyone that this therapy is a lie. This is actually the most controversial point in Ayurveda circles today: traditionalists insist that salt and sugar must be strictly cut off during the 15-day conditioning period. Raw and cold things are not allowed to be touched. Even fruits must be steamed and heated before eating. The essence is to empty the body of "toxins" through extremely light fasting.” ； Domestic reformists believe that ordinary people do not need to endure this hardship. They are here to regulate sub-health, not to practice asceticism. As long as they reduce the daily salt intake to less than 3 grams, quit drinking ice cream, and add a small amount of warm spices such as turmeric and cumin to their daily meals, it is enough, and the effect is not much different. I chose the reformist plan at that time. I drank warm milk tea with butter in the morning and had multigrain rice mixed with mixed beans at noon. I was not hungry. The urticaria that I would have suffered in spring in previous years disappeared silently after just two small red spots appeared that year.

Many people’s misunderstandings about Ayurveda begin with the “universal formula.” A colleague of mine who was doing design read the "15-day Ayurvedic detoxification method" recommended by Xiaohongshu and bought a bunch of cooling herbal oils and intestinal cleansing tea. After three days of drinking it, he started to have diarrhea and blisters at the corners of his mouth. He came to me and complained that these things were all deceptive. When I asked her, her hands and feet would usually be cold in winter and she would get upset after eating something cold. She has a typical Vata constitution. Xiaohongshu’s plan was prepared for Pitta constitutions that are prone to getting angry and acne and are afraid of heat. If used the wrong way, problems would naturally arise. The core logic of Ayurveda is to identify your constitution first and then adjust it. People with Vata constitution are already prone to dryness and anxiety, and giving people cool things like mint and calendula will only make them more dry. ； People with Kapha constitution have slow metabolism and edema. If you feed them sweet and greasy ghee, they will definitely become heavier as they eat.

Of course, I have also encountered many Western medicine friends complaining that Ayurveda is "metaphysics". Objectively speaking, there are currently not enough large-scale double-blind experiments to prove that it has a therapeutic effect on organic diseases. The doctors at the center also repeatedly emphasized to us that if you have clear diseases such as gastric ulcer and diabetes, you should take medicine. This 15-day therapy is essentially to bring back the sub-health state that you have accumulated from staying up late, drinking ice drinks, and eating haphazardly. It is not a cure. My own experience during those 15 days was actually quite detailed. After the oil therapy in the first two days, I washed my hair twice and the smell of sesame oil was still there. I even complained to the nurse that I looked like a sesame ball just fished out of the sesame oil tank. On the fourth day, I felt different. , The hard knots around my shoulders that I had accumulated for several years while sitting in the office have actually softened for the most part. It took me three days to regain consciousness after staying up late. During that time, I was so sleepy that I couldn't open my eyes at ten o'clock every day. I woke up naturally at seven o'clock in the morning, and I didn't even have a headache after staring at the manuscript for four hours.

At the end of the 15 days, the operations girl who initially disliked the smell of oil bought a small bottle of cold-pressed sesame oil and took it home. She said that she does scalp oil therapy at home once a week, and now she can fall asleep without taking melatonin.； The eldest brother who sneaked out to eat hot pot also changed his daily ice Coke to warm lemonade after returning, saying that at least he wouldn't be so bloated after dinner that he couldn't sit still. In fact, there is no one-size-fits-all health regimen. To put it bluntly, 15 days of Ayurveda gives you a chance to slow down and feel what your body needs. If you feel comfortable, continue doing it. If it feels troublesome, go back and eat and drink as you should. Be careful not to overdo your own body, which is better than anything else.