LIFESTYLE PRACTICES OF RITUCHARYA TO IMPROVE DIGESTIVE HEALTH-A REVIEW STUDY

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Ritucharya is a classical Ayurvedic practice that provides seasonal nutrition and lifestyle guidelines to maintain health and prevent disease by aligning the body's rhythms with nature's changes. In Ayurveda Ritu, the season, classified by different features expresses different effects on the body as well as the environment. This approach towards in to-today life helps in balancing the three doshas (Vata, Pitta, and Kapha), which fluctuate with the seasons.

Lifestyle disorders are very common in the present era, basically originating from lack of following seasonal regimens due to lack of concentration in seasonal characteristics. The main principle of the dietary guidelines in Ritucharya is to consume food, adjust food intake according to your digestive strength that counteract the qualities of the current season and pacify the dosha that tends to aggravate or fluctuates with the seasons. Due to Sharirik Doshas, Agni(catabolism) i.e. digestion is strongest in winter and weakest in summer and monsoon.