Every little movement has a meaning all its own.
-Otto Harbach
Dinacharya in Ayurveda emphasizes on evacuation of bowels
every morning. Thats all. But whys do we consider evacuating bowels in the
morning? What happens if we don’t evacuate in the morning, if we skip it or if
we neglect about.
You may thing it is not an important thing as you keep your
time to reach your office or attend to your meating.
It is your day that begins with the waste management. It is
your day which begins with the order of nature and the day begin like that has
a huge lightness, physically and psychologically.
Why waste management?
Ayurveda strongly proposes its theories with the relation
between microcosm and macrocosm. During night, the active principle in
nature is moon and the body metabolism during the night concentrates much on nurturing,
lubricating and cooling the organs. This process will also end up with some
little wastes in the form of urine and stool which must be eliminated in the
morning. If someone don’t pass stool in the morning carries the waste of last
night night throughout the day. Day where solar energy is predominant, because
of the nature of solar energy; waste deposited in the rectum gets dried up
resulting in constipation or improperly formed stool. The toxins that the body wanted to get rid of
will be released again into the system. Seat of Apana vata( a type of vata
seated in lower abdomen which helps to eliminate wastes) will be spoiled and
the functions like menstration, sexual activity will also get affected. If the
waste management does not work out according to the body intelligence, another
fatigued drowsy and irritable day opens its black carpet for you.
Ayurveda focuses much on digestive system when we consider
an optimum health. Agni, the basic digestive principle which must be nourished
properly throughout the life can only be achieved with proper intake and
perfect output.
So according to Ayurveda, one should be aware of natural
waste management, evacuation of colon every day in the morning is very
important. Passing stool twice a day is normal, but at least once a day,
especially in the morning is essential to have an active day.
Improper evacuation syndrome ?
As discussed in last paragraph, improper elimination can
cause so many successive problems of different systems.
Improper digestive system is because of several dietary and
lifestyle causes. And these causes will affect whole digestive system, not only
colon.
Following are some of the simple line of advice as per Ayurveda texts to
maintain a proper evacuation:
The entire digestive system must be worked out. Maintain
proper agni, the basic digestive principle with following methods.
Don’t over eat.
Relax and eat. Don’t be overactive during eating. Don’t rush
during eating.
Don’t reduce the quantity of eating unnecessarily.
Don’t fast unnecessarily.
Balance what you eat. Proper dietary fiber, hot soups,
adequate water per day, fruits, ghee in food makes the food easily digestible
causing proper evacuation.
Diluted sour milk with salt and hing taken along food helps
bowel movement.
Don’t read or don’t peep in your ipad or in cellphone
sitting on a commode. Let Apaana vaata
to carry its function normally.
On a overview, one should give double importance to
evacuation of bowel every morning than giving importance towards calculating
the calories of in our daily food.
-Dr Kanada Narahari.
