The Ayurvedic Detox Cleanse (Steps)

 Day 1

Morning

Get up and have a warm, not hot shower. When finishing the shower, turn the water to cold and rinse your hands and feet to help ground your energy.

Then head to the kitchen to consume 3 tablespoons of warm ghee. If you are Vata, add a dash of salt. If you are Kapha, add a pinch of the Ayurvedic remedy trikatu.

If you have high cholesterol, high BP, or diabetes, eat 2 spoons of flaxseed 15 minutes before you eat breakfast. 

Breakfast

Oatmeal is served with water or basmati rice with some coconut milk.

Afternoon

Enjoy a dosha-supporting meal. If you are Vata, eat fruit as a snack 2 hours after eating.

Evening

Before your meal, place 1 teaspoon of Triphala powder into a cup and add 1/2 cup of boiling water. Allow it to cool for 10 minutes, then drink warmly. It will serve as a mild but nourishing laxative. Enjoy a dosha supporting dinner. If you are Vata, wait 2 hours and then have your fruit for dessert.

Go for a walk after your meal. Enjoy some relaxing reading. Don’t watch TV or work on the computer for at least 2 hours before you go to sleep.

Day 2

Shower, then sit in a comfortable place to meditate for 10 minutes. Do simple breathing meditation. Try to be focused and relaxed. Eat ghee or flaxseed on the first day, and breakfast.

Eat a dosha supporting meal at lunch and dinner. Drink plenty of water throughout the day. About an hour after dinner, try some simple yoga poses such as Mountain, Tree and the various warrior poses. Head for bed in due time.

Day 3

Do the same as Day 1.

Day 4

Today you should try some exciting recipes. Take a shower and get ready to cook breakfast.

Cook the good old khichdi and eat nothing else for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It should be enough to last the whole day.

Drink the herbal or green tea that you like. Have one cup with each meal and plenty of freshwater throughout the day.

Throughout the day, practice mindfulness meditation in whatever way is comfortable to you.

Go for a walk after your evening meal.

At bedtime, try to give yourself a massage for 15 minutes with several ounces of warm essential oil. Vata should go for sesame oil, pitta for sunflower oil and kapha should go for corn oil. Wait 5 minutes so your skin can absorb the oil. Then take a warm shower or bath with pure unscented liquid Castile soap or glycerine soap, but allow some oil to remain on your skin.

After your shower or bath, head to the kitchen. Mix 1 teaspoon of Triphala powder with 1/2 cup of boiling water. Drink it warmly and head to bed.

Day 5

Day 5 is the same as Day 4. If you are lacking in energy, try inhaling some essential oils like Grapefruit or peppermint to uplift your spirit.

Day 6

Day 6 is again the same as Day 4, except this time, you can add a couple of vegetables to your khichdi according to your dosha. Add about 10 minutes before the mixture is fully cooked. Do easy yoga poses an hour after dinner.

Day 7

On the last day of the detox - Vary your vegetables. Instead of yoga, go for a walk. When you get back home, practice breathing meditation for 15 minutes. During your shower, today, concentrate on clearing your sinuses. Run the shower as hot as it will go for about 1-2 minutes before you get in, so the bathroom temperature rises. Turn down the temperature until it is warm and shower as usual, but try to blow your nose into your hands several times to clear any congestion.

Today you will be using a longevity tonic Rasayana for your day cleanse. Use the Rasayana designed for your dosha. Today you can eat unlimited steamed vegetables for every meal, according to your doshic diet.

Do yoga in the evening and enjoy some light reading or a movie. Take your Rasayana again before bed.

Post Cleanse

Having done the 7-day detox, you are probably wondering what’s next?

Ayur-Veda experts suggest you gradually add more foods to your diet and take your Rasayana for 30 to 60 days. They also recommend avoiding anything with yeast, try to use oatcakes or rice cakes instead of bread.

Continue taking the Triphala for 2 to 3 months after your detox. Continue eating according to your dosha type as much as possible.

It may also seem self-indulgent to spend so much time on yourself and doing things you enjoy, like reading, walking, and yoga, but the truth is you can’t care for others if you don’t take care of yourself first. Invest the time and effort and see what a difference an Ayurvedic detox can make in your life.

Ayurvedic detoxes can be fulfilling for your gut, mind & body balance. 

 

Ayurveda cleansing therapy

Many of the toxins in our bodies exist because of mental and emotional imbalances that come from unhealthy lifestyles. When we’re mentally or emotionally stressed, that tension is stored in the body as toxins.  While no one is completely free from toxins, how you live your life can determine the extent of toxicity. Everyone wants to live a healthy and happy lifestyle to possess any toxins in our bodies. I created some questionnaires, please go through them.

How do I know if my body contains excess toxins?

Ayurveda has a few signs that indicate your body contains a lot of toxins. Some of these include:

• You have low energy.
• You feel sluggish when you wake up in the morning.
• Your tongue is coated in the morning.
• Your appetite isn’t really sharp and you tend to eat out of habit rather than because you’re hungry.
• You are prone to flu, colds, coughs, or allergies.
• You get sharp headaches and dizziness.
• You have mild tremors in your limbs.
• You have unexplained muscle aches, especially in the calves.
• Your throat is sore.
• Your skin is less radiant, heavier, and oilier. You find it breaks out more often.
• You are more prone to sunburn and have dry patches on your skin.

Ayurvedic detox

Ayurveda recommends internal cleansing to clear the channels in your body of toxins (ama) that may have built up over time. You could begin your detox by having a personal consultation with an Ayurvedic practitioner. During this, you will have your pulse read and through that find out what your current doshic balance is.

The central concept of Ayurvedic medicine is that health exists when there’s a balance between three fundamental bodily doshas: Vata (air and space), pitta (fire and water), and Kapha (water and earth). Ayurveda provides a wide range of treatments, herbs, and lifestyle guidelines for purifying your entire body and bringing the tri-doshas (three doshas), the supportive forces of life, into balance.

Once the practitioner knows your body’s doshic balance, they can give you guidelines and lifestyle habits for your individual body type that are conducive to your dosha and rebalance any imbalances that exist in your body. These guidelines may relate to eating habits, exercise, yoga, meditation, sleeping, skin, and hair care. 

There are two approaches to detoxifying in Ayurveda. One is shamans (to balance or pacify the doshas) and the other is shodhana or cleansing. The first is more gradual. It slowly detoxifies and balances, and prevents new toxins from taking residence in the system, while the second is a fast approach and includes the purification processes of panchakarma. Will explain these two verities of treatments plans in a future post.

Ayurveda solely believes in prevention is better than cure.