Do we get the same benefits of sleep when we sleep during day instead of night? No. All the benefits of sleep discussed in the previous article are only regarding sleeping at night. Ayurveda has never encouraged day sleeping. According to Ayurveda day sleeping increases Kapha & Pitta. It is a major reason for Agni mandya i.e disturbed digestive power. Also, it is listed as cause in diseases like Diabetes, Obesity, chronic indigestion etc. One cannot sleep peacefully at night

Restful sleep is the foundation of Physical and Mental health. Sleep helps balance your body and your emotions. Let’s go with another aspect from the 3 pillars of Ayurveda, that is Sleep. ‘I just can’t keep myself awake through the entire day’, doesn’t this sound very familar to you? Actually, it shouldn’t, but number of people with this complaint is increasing day by day. They feel sleeping during the day will help them if they don’t get enough sleep at night and that makes

It is so common to hear people talking about cleansing as we move in spring. But many of us don’t know the exact meaning or idea behind it. Also in India the process of vaman i.e EMESIS is quite common for those who have less idea about vaman it’s like a cleansing process by administration of emetic medicine, but it seems these days the cleansing is taking some different turns. For this let us understand how and where does this idea come from. Basically spring is the season f

In Ayurveda, there is no one-size-fits-all model. Ayurveda recognizes that humans all have a unique mind-body constitution. That is Prakruti in short. There are so many people around us daily, if we notice them carefully we can definitely find out one or more habits specific to that person. That’s the nature of the person. It can be related to behaviour, eating habits, body gesture or even thinking tracks. This is Prakruti. Prakruti is of seven different types, let’s not go i