Ayurveda detox programme

seasonal cleansing routines you can do at home

Summary

20 things about seasonal cleansing and Ayurveda detox …

To find out if a seasonal cleansing home programme is right for you, please

read the general points and complete the detox questionnaire.

 Safety & gentleness is a feature of all Maharishi Ayurveda detox programmes

 Different toxins we have to deal with and where they originate

 What role shrotas (microchannels) play in removing these toxins from the body

 The main methods of detoxification used in Maharishi Ayurveda

 The steps for cleansing in Maharishi Ayurveda

 About the self-cleansing programme and the post-programme therapies

 About the post-cleansing programme

 How to determine which type of detox programme I need

 Maharishi Ayurveda detox questionnaire

 Self-detox Preparation (15 days)

 Self-detox Programme (45 days)

 Post-detox programme (15 days)

 Recommendations for cleansing the main organs of   purification

 Detoxifying the bowel

 Detoxifying the urine

 Detoxifying the skin

 Detoxifying all three

 Purifying the liver

 Prevention

 Preventing toxins from forming in the first place

 Maharishi Ayurveda takes every aspect of detoxification into account

 Maharishi Ayurveda detox and seasonal cleansing products

 For Self-Detox programme

 Herbal Cleanse BUY

 Triphala with Rose BUY

 Detox BUY

 Detox Pitta BUY

 Genitrac BUY

 Optional — Vata, Pitta or Kapha Massage Oils BUY

 

 For Post-Detox programme

 Amrit Kalash BUY

 Woman's Rasayana BUY

 Men's Rasayana BUY

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OTHER ARTICLES — Personal experience of Ayurveda home cleansing

General points — Questions and Answers 2

Q: To begin with, can you tell our readers about the different types of toxins that we have to deal with and where they originate?

A: There are three different types of toxins that can impact the physiology: ama, amavisha and garvisha. Ama is the most common type of toxin, and is the waste product of incomplete digestion. Sticky, white and foul-smelling, it forms in the digestive tract when the food you eat is not digested properly. Ama is usually caused by eating foods unsuitable for your body type or the season, by eating too much or too little, by eating before the previous meal is digested, by going to sleep on a full stomach, or by eating foods that are left over, processed, old or fermented. If ama continues to be produced over a long period of time, it can leave the digestive tract, travel to a weak area elsewhere in the body and settle there. Usually it blocks the shrotas (micro-circulatory channels) and disrupts the flow of nutrients to the area as well as the body's natural waste removal systems.

Usually ama develops when agni, the digestive fire, is either weak or irregular. By enhancing agni through dietary changes or by taking Ayurvedic herbal supplements, the digestive system itself can burn off simple ama and clear it from the body.

Amavisha is a more reactive form of ama that forms when ama settles in one part of the body for a long time and mixes with the subdoshas, the dhatus or the malas there. This more toxic, reactive type of ama is more dangerous than the simple ama and must be dealt with differently during detoxification.

Garvisha is the third type of toxin, and unlike the other two, garvisha comes from outside the body. Included are environmental toxins such as chemicals, preservatives, poisons, air and water pollution, genetically engineered foods, synthetics and chemicals in clothing, synthetic drugs, chemicals in household cleansers, and heavy metals such as lead, arsenic and asbestos. Garvisha also includes toxins from spoiled foods.

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