Ayurvedic tips to keep healthy in humid conditions

Ayurvedic tips to keep healthy in humid conditions:

1. One has to undergo detoxification therapies like Vamana and Virechana.
2. Asthapana basthi (An enema of herbal decoction) has to be administered to keep away humidity related health problems.
3. The digestive system gets weakened due to dehydration in summer. This leads to low digestive power. This is further weakened by vitiation of doshas and dhatus due to increased humidity. Hence following diets which increase power of digestion and strengthen the digestive system would be beneficial.
   
   a. Light foods prepared out of old barley, rice and wheat.
   b. Sour and salted soups of vegetables.
   c. Drinking boiled and cooled water mixed with little honey.
   d. Consuming little quantity of wine prepared out of grapes.
   e. Adding ginger and green gram in daily diet.
   f.  Eating warm food.
   g. The taste of food must be preferably sour and salty.
    
4. Do not walk in bare foot. Always wear dry foot wear to prevent growth of fungus on nails and between toes. Dry your feet and webs with soft dry cloth whenever they are wet.
5. The clothes should be fumigated using fragrant herbs. Drying clothes with fumes of loban and dry neem leaves is recommended in ayurvedic texts.
6.  We should not sleep in basement as it will be damp and growth of moulds and fungus will be more.
7. Fumigating the house with smoke of dried neem leaves in evenings for 1-2 minutes is an excellent ayurvedic method to check the growth of microbes,
8. Always keep the surroundings dry and clean. Do not allow water to get accumulated around.

Ayurvedic Home remedies for Humidity related diseases

1. Apply castor oil or sesame oil on cracked feet and skin.
2. A freshly prepared paste of turmeric, neem and sesame seeds is recommended in ayurveda for fungal infection between toes.
3.  Drink a glass of warm water mixed with a tea spoon of honey in empty stomach. This flushes out accumulated toxins.
4. Freshly prepared radish juice is the best remedy for cold.
5. A pinch each of long pepper powder and rock salt mixed in warm water reduces cough