Ayurveda therapy for fifteen days

I followed a registered Ayurvedic healer in Kerala for 15 days of basic home conditioning last winter. I personally tested that it has definitely improved sub-health problems such as chronic poor digestion, emotional internal consumption, and sleep disorders caused by disordered work and rest. However, saying that it can cure cancer and replace regular drugs is purely to reap IQ taxes. The plans for different body types are very different. Blindly following Internet celebrity plans without doing professional physical assessment may cause problems.

To be honest, I was forced to try it by my best friend. I stayed up late for two months straight at the end of the year. I was constipated for almost a week and my mouth always felt bitter. My aunt postponed it for ten days and went to the hospital to check that it was all "sub-healthy" without organic disease. The Western medicine doctor asked me to rest more, but I still had to stay up until two o'clock in front of the project list. The healer was not the kind of "spiritual guru" who talks too much on the Internet. He had studied clinical Ayurveda for 7 years in South India. He first gave me a 40-minute physical assessment. He even asked me whether I had diarrhea as a child and whether my hands and feet were cold in winter. Finally, he determined that I had a mixed Vata + Pitta constitution. The plan he gave me had almost no overlap with the "universal 15-day therapy" I had read about in Xiaohongshu.

I almost gave up on the first day. I was woken up at 6 o'clock in the morning. I scraped my tongue with a copper tongue and scraped off a thick layer of white greasy stuff. The therapist said this was "Ama", which is the "toxin" produced by the metabolism of undigested food residues. According to modern medicine, it is actually oral flora metabolites plus food residues. I complained at the time that this was an IQ tax. As a result, after scraping for three days in a row, I no longer had that sticky and bitter taste in my mouth in the morning. Then I have to drink a cup of warm lemon water with a little turmeric and black pepper. My favorite iced American is blackened. I don’t even let me touch the vegetable salad I usually eat because it is said that cold and raw food will increase the dissipation of Vata constitution. For breakfast, I have to drink glutinous quinoa and millet porridge with a pinch of roasted cumin sprinkled on it.

Don't tell me, on the third day I was used to reaching for my phone and ordering an iced American to stay alive. I held the bowl of hot porridge and drank it. My whole stomach felt warm and stretched. In the afternoon, I didn't start yawning at three o'clock like usual, and my hands were shaking.

What’s interesting is that I joined a group of Ayurveda enthusiasts and there were quarrels every day. There is a girl from the Northeast who has a typical Kapha constitution, with puffiness, excessive phlegm, and slow metabolism. She followed a famous Internet blogger to do a 15-day "universal detoxification therapy" and drank 10ml of ghee on an empty stomach every day. She gained three pounds in half a month and had more phlegm in her throat. She took screenshots of the scale and called Ayurveda a liar in the group. Another group friend who works as a doctor in the gastroenterology department of a tertiary hospital pours cold water every day, saying that the essence of the so-called "15-day detoxification" is to adjust the high-fat and high-sugar diet and regulate the work and rest. It can be used in any therapy. Many Ayurvedic drugs have not been clinically verified in large samples. There have been many news in India that heavy metals in Ayurvedic preparations exceed the standard.

These statements are actually correct. I asked my therapist and she was honest: There are many so-called Ayurvedic clinics in China. The therapists only need to learn the techniques for a month or two before starting classes. 90% of the general plans on the Internet do not take into account the differences in physical constitution. Originally, the pitta constitution is prone to getting angry, and people are asked to drink ginger tea every day, which will only get worse; Just like if you have oily skin and insist on using a nourishing cream for dry skin, if you have acne, you can’t blame the cream for not working, right?

What impressed me most was the oil shower on the seventh day. Warm coconut oil was mixed with a little rosemary essential oil, and slowly poured on the Baihui point on the top of the head. The therapist gently pressed the scalp with the fingertips, and the warm oil flowed down the hair to the neck. I wiped three towels and almost fell asleep in the middle. That night, I fell asleep with my pillow on my face. I slept for nine hours in one breath. It was the deepest sleep I had that year, and I didn’t even dream. But my colleague who has a Kapha constitution tried it once with me. After finishing it, he felt his head felt heavy, his hair was so oily that he almost had frizzy hair for two days in a row, and he also had a headache for a long time - this thing is not suitable for everyone.

At the end of the 15 days, I was not "reborn" as said on the Internet. My weight remained the same, my waist circumference was two centimeters smaller, the chest swelling and pain that I always had when I came to visit my aunt disappeared, and the transaminase that was high before going for a review also dropped back to the normal range. The therapist said don’t think too much about this thing. To put it bluntly, it is to help you get back some of the bad habits you created before. If you go back to staying up late and drinking iced coffee, you will be back to your original shape in half a month.

There is currently a debate online about whether Ayurveda is a miracle medicine or an IQ tax. Both sides are quite extreme. I checked the information and found that Ayurveda and modern medicine are indeed being used in parallel in India. Many public hospitals will use Ayurvedic dietary plans for assisted living intervention for diabetes and hypertension, but the core is always "adaptation" and "assistance." If you have a gastric ulcer and still drink turmeric water every day, you will have problems even if you are not sick. I took my mother for a 15-day Kapha body conditioning session a while ago. She really didn't have much trouble with chronic bronchitis, which she had been coughing for three years. However, the aunt who went with her had gallstones and insisted on drinking ghee to detoxify. In the end, she was so painful that she had to go to the hospital for surgery.

Harm, there is no 15-day magic cure that is universally applicable. I still retain the habit of scraping my tongue with a copper tongue every day and eating hot food for breakfast. When I am stressed, I make a simple oil shower at home. For me, the biggest effect of these 15 days is not to detoxify, but to stop and truly feel my body for the first time: eating cold food will cause stomach pain, staying up late will make my mouth taste bitter the next day, and when I am stressed, my shoulders and neck will be as hard as rocks - these are signals that you have ignored for too long before. No matter what kind of therapy you use, it is really useful if you can catch the signals from your body.