To keep the body healthy, presentvigor and good mood need to be cleaned from time to time. Pachakarma at home is one of the best methods of purification. It is based on the dogmas of Ayurvedic medicine. It improves health, helps a person to feel strength and energy.
What is Panchakarma?
Panchakarma is an ancient techniqueAyurvedic rejuvenation, aimed at relieving stress and defects of physiology. It relaxes the mind and body, cleans toxins and toxins. Restores the immune system, improves the cardiovascular and lymphatic system. Allows you to take extra care of your body and think about life.
“Pancha” is translated as “five,” and “karma” refers to “activity,” which implies five areas of treatment. It is a component of Ayurvedic medicine, balances bioenergy.
According to ayurveda, a person is born with perfecta genetic structure called prakriti. Wrong lifestyle, time-consuming work, stress and other factors cause an imbalance of bioenergy and lead to the emergence of various diseases.
Panchakarma awakens the body's abilityremove toxins. Some of them are removed from the body with plenty of water, since these substances are completely dissolved in the liquid and leave through the kidneys and skin. There are toxins that can be removed only with oily liquids and they leave through the gastrointestinal tract and skin. For this purpose, Panchakarma at home suggests using oils for a different type of organism. This, according to the Ayurvedic system, brings the mind and body to balance, rejuvenates the body and nourishes it with nutrients.
Stages of therapeutic cleansing
Panchakarma at home takes place in three stages, it is:
- preparatory stage - purvakarma;
- therapeutic stage - paschat karma;
- supporting procedures.
The duration of cleansing at home - 10-14 days, under the supervision of a specialist, it lasts 21 days.
First step
Panchakarma at home begins withinternal oiling. This stage lasts three days. During these days, 50 grams of liquid heated ghee (this is melted butter) is consumed on an empty stomach, washed down with hot water. According to the type of constitution, other substances are added to ghee:
- cotton wool - some salt;
- pitta - take the oil without additives;
- kapha - a mixture of ginger, black and red peppers.
After taking the ghee, you can eat after 30minutes This is due to the fact that before food enters the body, ghee must be absorbed in the stomach and intestines. If it is difficult to drink immediately 50 g of melted butter, then ghee can be taken two tablespoons fifteen minutes before the meal.
According to Ayurveda, ghee helps to carry out internal oiling, which contributes to the withdrawal of ama (toxins and slags) in the gastrointestinal tract.
With increased triglycerides, highcholesterol or ghee sugar is replaced with linseed oil. This product contains fatty acids and helps lower cholesterol. It should be consumed for three days, two spoons, fifteen minutes before meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Ayurvedic medicine recommends cleansing on a growing moon. After all, the moon affects all processes in the body.
To make ghee, take a good quality butter (82.5%) and heat it. Then remove the white foam and sediment.
Second phase
After the internal oiling should go to the outside. You can not wait for the internal oiling to end, and at the same time begin to do the external one.
For these purposes, select the oil for massage.Which is better to choose? This product is used based on the type of constitution of the body. Sesame for a vata personality, sunflower for a pita, and corn or mustard for a kapha.
If a person has a mixed personality type, thenoils are mixed together. If an imbalance is violated in one of the doshas, then more oil should be taken for it. During the week, preferably in the evening, two hours after eating, about 200-250 pre-heated buttered unrefined product is applied to the body. Massage oil (which is better to choose, experts in ayurveda advise) rub in about 15-20 minutes. Apply it in the direction from the head to the toes.
In the room where self-massage is done, there should beheat. The body after treatment with oil should not cool. After rubbing the oil into the skin should take a shower or bath with hot water, without detergent. If there is some oil remaining on the surface of the skin, then it should not be removed. It is necessary for effective oiling and should be absorbed deep into the dermis.
For seven days (exactly how long it lastsexternal oiling) and two hours after the evening meal you need to take two teaspoons of triphala black. This ayurvedic drug can be purchased at esoteric online stores.
The dosage of triphala is chosenon their own. Stool after taking the drug looks softened or slightly watery. Feces should not be completely liquid. If in the morning there is no desire to go "big", then after eating breakfast, they drink another portion of triphala. Pre-agent poured a glass of boiling water, all mix well and drink, without neglecting the sediment. Triphala churna is a sparing laxative product. It tones the body and stimulates the activity of internal organs.
The third stage
Ayurvedic medicine the third stage of Panchakarma removes cleansing enemas. They make the last three days, along with external oiling, after taking a shower or bath.
For the enema, take the Ayurvedic toll, calleddashmula One spoonful of vegetable mixture is poured half a liter of boiling water and subjected to the process of boiling for five minutes. The broth is cooled to 36 - 37 º C, filtered and used for enemas.
With cotton wool - constitution dashmula broth is mixed withsesame warm oil (150 ml). Instead of dashmula, you can use the composition of fennel, calamus and ginger, taken in the same quantity. The decoction should be in the intestinal environment as long as possible, preferably at least twenty minutes. The fluid may not exit or enter the intestinal tract. Most often, this picture is observed in people with vata-type, having a large intestine, which is often dry and dehydrated.
Meal during cleansing
None of the health of the body is complete.appropriate nutrition, panchakarma at home is no exception. During the procedures should follow a vegetarian diet. There is a special dish of kichri. Herbal tea with the addition of various spices and honey is allowed. The plants that can be used for making tea include basil, thyme, dandelion root, mint leaves, chamomile and burdock rhizome. Ginger, black pepper, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom are added to the spices from tea.
From the fourth to the ninth day there should be only kichri. If external and internal oiling is done at the same time, then the khichri are eaten from the first to the seventh day.
To starve during the execution of panchakarmarecommend, therefore, the kichri should be eaten so much that hunger does not arise. On the first day after the completion of the panchakarma procedures, only kichri with vegetables are eaten. From the second day it is recommended to move on to a dietary diet that is in compliance with the constitution.
Cooking Kichri
Panchakarma causes healing of the body.The main dish that is used in this program is kichri. For its preparation take rice, preferably basmati. Mix it with a wave in the same amount. In a dish add a little turmeric, ginger, cumin, coriander, and mustard seed. Adding rock salt is allowed. Mash on the eve soaked. In the morning, the water is drained, poured clean and prepared with the rest of the ingredients. Shelled and yellow mung bean is not soaked.
Кичри можно готовить как на скороварке, так и в the pan. To prepare the dish, put rice, mung bean, salt and spices into the pan. All fill in with water and bring to a boil. They boil for five minutes, then reduce the heat, and kichri is boiled for another 25-30 minutes, until all the components of the dish are soft. Served with two tablespoons of ghee.
Kichri can be liquid and thick. The more water used in preparing a dish, the thinner it gets. This food can have any consistency.
Practical tips
Panchakarma (cleansing the body) even at homeconditions gives good results. It takes a lot of strength to carry it out. On the days of these procedures, it is better to be at home. The mind and body must rest. Do not expose the body to excessive physical and mental stress at this time. If possible, the work schedule should be made less stressful. It is better to have panchakarma on vacation days.
Exiting the program should be gradual. In the early days, the body should be protected from overstrain, stress, overeating and from the negative effects of the environment.
Contraindications to the procedure
Panchakarma Health Regenerationgives good results. But you can not resort to this system if there are health problems. There is a weakness, a breakdown, there is a depletion of the body. It is strictly forbidden to do panchakarma during pregnancy.
С выходом токсинов из организма могут открываться psychic clamps, which are expressed in old repressed emotions and feelings. This part of purification has a positive effect on a person. It allows you to remove past grievances and mental blocks that cause many diseases. At this time, you should drink herbal tea with a sedative effect.
How often do you need to do panchakarma?
Panchakarma procedures at home are recommendedtwice a year, during the off-season, in spring and autumn. If the purification system is carried out in a special Ayurvedic center, then it is repeated once a year.
Panchakarma: reviews
Reviews about the Ayurvedic system of cleansing the mostpositive. People say that the procedure cleanses the body well, brings the mind and body to a state of equilibrium. She relieves of many, even the most chronic resentments and diseases, rejuvenates. Gives a charge of vivacity and energy, relieves stress. It must be carried out on the growing moon. Many after this technique lose weight. To oil manipulations are advised to add yoga. So the results will be more effective.
People also note the negative points in thissystem. These are difficulties with the use of ghee, especially if the procedure is carried out for the first time. After external oiling, strong relaxation sets in. Cleansing herbs and enemas in this system are a necessary, but extremely unpleasant procedure. There are people who at the beginning of the practice felt unwell, but then it passed.
Those who practiced panchakarma can no longer live without it and resort to it regularly, 1-2 times a year.
