🌿 A Simple Home Purification (Home Panchakarma)

Ayurveda teaches that periodic cleansing removes ama (toxins) and restores balance, even if you cannot access a professional panchakarma center.

This home program is a safe, simplified version that you can perform seasonally for prevention or mild imbalances.

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🪔 Step 1: Internal Oleation (Snehana – Internal)

Duration: 3 days (morning, empty stomach)
Take: 2 ounces of warmed, liquefied ghee each morning.

Constitution (Dosha)	How to Take Ghee
Vata	Add a pinch of rock salt
Pitta	Take plain ghee
Kapha	Add a pinch of trikatu (ginger + black pepper + pippali)

🧈 Purpose: Lubricates the internal channels, helping toxins (ama) return from deep tissues to the digestive tract for elimination.

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💆‍♀️ Step 2: External Oleation (Snehana – External)

Duration: 5–7 days
Method: Massage 7–8 ounces of warm oil into your body (head to toe) for 15–20 minutes daily.
Then take a hot bath or shower.

Constitution (Dosha)	Best Massage Oil
Vata	Sesame oil (heavy, warming)
Pitta	Sunflower oil (cooling)
Kapha	Corn oil (light, stimulating)

Optional:

• Use neem soap afterward.

• Avoid clogging drains if using chickpea flour to remove oil — flush with hot water.

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💧 Step 3: Gentle Purgation (Virechana)

Each night (1 hour after supper):
Take ½–1 teaspoon of triphala powder.
Steep in ½ cup of boiling water, cool, then drink.

🍃 Purpose: Gently cleanses the bowels, improves digestion, and removes ama.
Triphala acts as a mild, safe laxative and can be used long-term.

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🪶 Step 4: Medicated Enema (Basti)

Last 3 days of the program, after your hot bath or shower.

Prepare Dashamoola tea:

• Boil 1 tbsp dashamoola in 1 pint water for 5 minutes.

• Cool, strain, and use the liquid as an enema.

💡 If the liquid is absorbed completely (especially in dry Vata types), it’s not harmful.

🧘‍♀️ Purpose: Cleanses the colon, pacifies Vata, and completes the purification.

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🍚 Diet During Home Panchakarma

Days 4–8: Eat only kitchari
→ a mixture of basmati rice + mung dal + cumin + mustard seed + coriander + 2 tsp ghee

🥣 Benefits:

• Nourishing yet light

• Easy to digest

• Suitable for all doshas

• Cleansing and protein-rich

Also:

• Rest adequately

• Stay warm and peaceful

• Avoid stress and overexertion

🕊️ Best done during seasonal transitions (e.g., spring/fall).

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🌼 Rejuvenation and Rebuilding (Rasayana Phase)

After cleansing, your body becomes like a clean cloth ready for dyeing — now it’s time to rebuild tissues and immunity.

🌿 Rasayanas (Rejuvenative Herbs)

Constitution (Dosha)	Rejuvenative Herb	How to Take
Vata	Ashwagandha	1 tsp in hot milk, twice daily
Pitta	Shatavari	1 tsp in warm milk, twice daily
Kapha	Punarnava	1 tsp in warm water, twice daily

Also beneficial:

• Chyavanprash (classical herbal tonic for all doshas)

• Light yoga, meditation, and rest

• Simple, dosha-appropriate diet

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⚠️ Three Cautions About Home Panchakarma

1. Not for the weak or debilitated.
   Avoid if you are anemic, frail, or have low energy.

2. Not for pregnancy.
   Panchakarma — even at home — should never be done during pregnancy.

3. Emotional release may occur.
   As toxins leave the tissues, old emotions (sadness, fear, anger, grief) may surface.

   • Drink Tranquillity Tea

   • Meditate (e.g., “Empty Bowl” method)

   • Rest and reflect

Emotional detox can occur even weeks or months later — it is part of the healing process.

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🌺 After Purification: Building Strength

After completing your program:

• Take time to rest and rejuvenate (a week or more if possible).

• Avoid sexual activity to preserve energy.

• Eat dosha-appropriate food mindfully.

• Practice meditation and yoga daily.

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💖 The Role of Self-Esteem in Healing

Ayurveda teaches that every cell is conscious — each has its own intelligence and sense of self.
Healthy self-esteem in the mind translates to healthy intelligence in cells.

Positive Self-Esteem	Low Self-Esteem
Promotes cellular intelligence and immunity	Weakens cell coordination
Strengthens self-healing	May allow disease to grow
Harmonious body-mind unity	Conflict within the system (e.g., cancer)

“If you love yourself as you are, you will develop confidence — and that will heal disease.”

Self-love and self-respect sustain immunity, longevity, and vitality.

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🌞 Summary of the Home Panchakarma Cycle

Stage	Process	Purpose
1. Internal Oleation	Ghee (3 days)	Lubricate channels, mobilize toxins
2. External Oleation	Oil massage (5–7 days)	Soften tissues, move ama
3. Purgation	Triphala nightly	Eliminate toxins
4. Enema (Basti)	Dashamoola tea (3 days)	Cleanse colon, pacify Vata
5. Light Diet	Kitchari	Nourish and balance
6. Rejuvenation	Rasayanas	Build strength and immunity
7. Self-Love	Meditation, self-care	Deep healing and emotional renewal