Herbal medicine practitioner Jenya Di Pierro shares with Country & Townhouse how to do an Ayurvedic cleanse and heal your gut.
In Ayurveda, properly functioning digestive tract is key to all health. What we don’t properly digest and assimilate with the help of digestive fire or ‘agni’ turns into toxic buildup or ‘ama’. It’s a sticky, thick, wet substance that blocks channels of circulation (nutritional, nervous and mental). Signs or ‘ama’ include tongue coating, bad breath, tiredness after eating, lethargy and mental fog. Over time, ‘ama’ undermines body’s natural ability to defend, repair and heal itself and therefore regular cleanse is one of the main therapeutic principles of Ayurvedic philosophy.
Ayurvedic cleanse focuses on stimulating digestive fire and eliminating toxins with the help of diet, fasting, exercise, breathing practices and herbal remedies. All protocols need to take into account our individual body type or ‘dosha’ – vata, pitta or kapha, however genaral recommendations outlined below will be relevant to all of them.
