Iron rules of health - 5

[Guest guest]

Happy New Year, may it be a good one. Funny that your summer is starting

now; it is supposed to be in the 80's with high humidity here in S.

Louisiana all this and next week. According to our calendar, winter ended

March 20 with the spring equinox. Our seasons have been strange and out of

sync and more hot than usual lately. Does ayurveda have anything to say

about what to do when the weather and the usual seasons don't match up? For

example, our winter was very warm with mostly 70's, some 80's, and a few

60's and very few of lower temperatures. So if we are eating for the

seasons, do we eat for spring, which is more like winter was? Since weather

tends to run in fairly long cycles, I was wondering if the literature has

recorded such a thing and how to handle it. I know some of it is global

warming, but some of the unseasonal weather is just a cyclical variation

also.

Darla

 

On 3/29/06, Shirish Bhate <shirishbhate wrote:

Ancient acharyas, recommended eating neem

> leaves, as summer is starting now. This 'bitter' start may surprise

> some, but the festival calendar of indian culture already accomodates

> ayurveda recommended lifestyle. Diseases caused by Pitta excess will assume

full force in few days. Before they do any damage, ayurveda discussion is

initiated under 'prevention' approach.

[Guest guest]

According to ancient texts, summer (greeshma) should start not before

middle of April; see

http://ayurveda-foryou.com/clinical_ayurveda/ritu.html

but global warming, unpredicatble changes in climate give a feeling

that summeris already started.

Vaidyas get a feeling by more inflow of patients with migraine,

nosebleed, quicker or heavier cycles etc These are pitta diseases.

Secondly, ancient texts define seasons according to lunar calendar.

this calendar itself lags solar calendar every year by few days. hence

vaidyas have to guess seasons by effect on people.

 

dr bhate

 

ayurveda, "Darla Wells" <lethe9 wrote:

>

> Happy New Year, may it be a good one. Funny that your summer is

starting

> now;