Next up in our routine is oil pulling, a traditional Ayurvedic practice in use for thousands of years, and is a safe and effective healthy oral hygiene routine, complimentary to brushing our teeth, flossing, and scraping the tongue. Oil pulling may seem strange at...
The next recommendation is to scrape the tongue. Tongue scraping, a sister to oil pulling is a very ancient Ayurvedic daily practice where the tongue is cleaned with a simple tongue scraper. It is still followed by practically everyone in India today. We recommend...
The first recommendation in any Ayurvedic daily routine is the simplest and the hardest: rise before the sun. For a healthy adult, this means waking before 6am, ideally during the period the Vedas call brahma-muhurta — the most auspicious 48 minutes of the day,...
In the purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 1.10.10, Srila Prabhupada explains how irregular habits, overeating, excessive sense gratification and an artificial standard of living sap our vitality and shorten the duration of our life. A healthy body and mind, he writes, are...
