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    Fasting is an important therapy in Ayurveda that is used both preventatively and to cure illnesses. It helps to balance the doshas, increase digestive enzymes, and purify the body by removing toxins and waste. Fasting can be used regularly for maintenance or for longer periods to cure illnesses. The types of fasts prescribed in Ayurveda are tailored to each individual's constitution and health condition. Fasting is recommended for conditions like diabetes, digestive disorders, obesity, skin issues, infections, and more. Potential benefits include improved senses, removal of toxins, lightness of the body, and increased well-being. Signs that one has fasted too long include emaciation, dizz

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    Fasting is an important therapy in Ayurveda that is used both preventatively and to cure illnesses. It helps to balance the doshas, increase digestive enzymes, and purify the body by removing toxins and waste. Fasting can be used regularly for maintenance or for longer periods to cure illnesses. The types of fasts prescribed in Ayurveda are tailored to each individual's constitution and health condition. Fasting is recommended for conditions like diabetes, digestive disorders, obesity, skin issues, infections, and more. Potential benefits include improved senses, removal of toxins, lightness of the body, and increased well-being. Signs that one has fasted too long include emaciation, dizz

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    Fasting is an important therapy in Ayurveda that is used both preventatively and to cure illnesses. It helps to balance the doshas, increase digestive enzymes, and purify the body by removing toxins and waste. Fasting can be used regularly for maintenance or for longer periods to cure illnesses. The types of fasts prescribed in Ayurveda are tailored to each individual's constitution and health condition. Fasting is recommended for conditions like diabetes, digestive disorders, obesity, skin issues, infections, and more. Potential benefits include improved senses, removal of toxins, lightness of the body, and increased well-being. Signs that one has fasted too long include emaciation, dizz

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    Fasting & Ayurveda

    Ayurveda includes fasting amount its preventative and curative


    therapies. Fasting from food or Kshut in Sanskrit helps to pacify
    aggravated Doshas (biological principles governing movement,
    transformation and cohesion), increase and balance Agni (digestive
    enzymes), purify the body of toxins, wastes, dead cells etc. Fasting can
    be used for maintenance (for example day-long fasts once a week or so)
    or for cure (stronger longer lasting fasts). Ayurvedic fasts are adapted to
    individual constitution and your current health situation. There are no
    hard and fast rules. It is typical that an Ayurvedic fast is not a complete
    or pure fast but permits small amounts of easy to digest, usually liquid
    foods.
    Who needs to fast?
    According to the Asthangha Hridayam, fasting (a reducing therapy) is
    useful in these situations:
    Diabetes
    madoa (toxins in the gut, blood, tissues)
    Digestive disorders
    Moistness (excess), i.e. too much mucus secretions
    Fever (in general)
    Muscle stiffness
    Leprosy and other skin conditions
    Herpes and other viral or infectious conditions (in general)
    Abscess
    Spleen disorders
    Head disorders
    Throat disorders
    Eye disorders
    Overweight
    My reasoning (backed up by evolutionaty biology) is that fasting from
    food must have been a freuquent asspect of our evolutionary past. It
    was only fairly recently that the human population begun to skyrocket.
    This is in part (mainly I think) due to the success of totalitarian
    agriculture. For example read Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and
    Spirit. Basically, we have addapted to exist in a world or non-
    continuous food availabilty. Fasting would have been imposed on us.
    We cannot expect our bodies to run optimally if we never fast from
    food.
    Of course, we all fast overnight and between meals. But it seems that
    fasting for longer (16 hours or more) at a stretch produces numberous
    benefits to the body and mind.
    According to ayurveda, fasting alone can cure you and can be safely
    used if you fit either of these pre-requisits:
    1. You are only mildly obese, of poor strength, suffering from one or
    more of the above conditions (but of mild strength), or
    2. You have medium strength, an excess of the doshas, and you are
    suffering from the above diseases (but of medium strength) and you
    are capable of withstanding some strain.
    The results of correct fasting are given as:
    Keenness of the sense organs
    Expulsion/elimination of aggravated doshas, toxins and wastes
    A pleasant feeling of lightness of the body
    Good taste perception
    Hunger and thirst appear together and in a reasonble degree
    Pure belchings and clear throat
    Reduction of disease symptoms
    Increased enthusiasm and welbeing in general
    Warning signs that you have gone too far or for too long with
    fasting and other reducing therapies:
    Profound emaciation
    Giddiness
    Cough
    Severe thirst
    Anorexia (lack of hunger)
    Loss of moistness, digestive power, sleep, immunity, hunger and power of voice
    Pain in the bladder, heart, calves, thighs, upper shoulders and flanks
    Delirium
    Belching (frequent)
    Exhaustion
    Vomiting
    Cutting pain in joints and bones
    Non-elimination of faeces, urine etc.

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