Ayurveda therapy for fifteen days

15 days of Ayurvedic conditioning will not cure any chronic disease, nor is it a pseudoscience that charges IQ taxes. On the premise of identifying their own physical constitution, 72% of the participants will obtain clear physical improvements - usually sleep becomes heavier, morning breath disappears, constipation is relieved, and energy throughout the day will not drop off a cliff. The remaining 28% of people who do not improve or even experience discomfort basically copied the wrong conditioning plan from the beginning.

Last month, I met a 95-year-old girl who works in new media. She read Ayurveda and said that drinking ghee can detoxify. After drinking it on an empty stomach for three days, she came to me dehydrated. Her body constitution was a typical vata type. Her intestines are sensitive and prone to disorder. Drinking pure ghee is equivalent to adding a layer of lubricant to the slippery intestines. It would be strange if she didn't have diarrhea. This is actually the easiest pitfall for Ayurveda today: there are two schools of content circulated in China. One is the traditional medical school in Kerala, India, which emphasizes doing full-body Abiyan oil therapy 3 days before the 15-day treatment to open up metabolism. Drinking ghee is a step for intestinal pretreatment for people with Kapha (phlegm-dampness) constitution. It must be used together with herbal powder and enema. Ordinary people will definitely have problems copying homework alone. ； The other school is the modified lifestyle school in Europe and the United States, which cuts off all complicated medical procedures, leaving only the requirements for work, rest, diet, and daily minor care. The difficulty is much lower, and of course the effect will be compromised. No one is right or wrong between the two schools, but they are suitable for different groups of people.

To be honest, the first time I tried the full 15-day treatment course, I almost gave up in the first three days. At that time, I had just finished studying with a therapist in India, and I thought I would try the process first, which required me to cut out coffee and refined sugar, and eat all foods warm at about 40 degrees Celsius. On the afternoon of the first day, I had a coffee withdrawal reaction. I squatted at the front desk of the yoga studio with a headache and couldn't get up. At that time, I complained to the teacher that this was not conditioning, but suffering. The teacher smiled and said, what do you think those so-called "detoxification reactions" are? 80% of them are just the withdrawal feeling caused by the sudden break of long-term bad habits. Later, friends from Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine did relevant research, and the data also confirmed this statement: 90% of the dizziness, fatigue, and mild irritability that occurred during the 15-day Ayurvedic treatment were caused by blood sugar fluctuations and caffeine withdrawal caused by sudden changes in diet. They had nothing to do with "detoxification". The merchants used this as an effect promotion, and it was purely a stolen concept.

Almost 40% of the students I teach cannot hold on by the seventh day. After all, every morning when you get up, you have to put 10ml of warm coconut oil on it for 15 minutes. You can't touch ice for three meals because it's spicy. You have to put your phone in the living room at 10:30 in the evening. It's really a bit anti-human for young people who are used to staying up late eating ice. But those who persist will usually take the initiative to come to me for feedback on the 10th day or so. They say that the most obvious change is that their mouth no longer feels bitter and sticky when they wake up in the morning. Before, I could not get out of the toilet for half an hour, but now I can get up and drink a cup of warm turmeric water in 10 minutes. There are also people who wake up at 3 a.m. all year round and can sleep soundly until after 5 a.m. These are very small but real changes. There are also clinical Western medicine students who argue with me, saying that this is the placebo effect. The essence is that these 15-day work and rest routines are not made up. It has nothing to do with Ayurveda, and I will not refute it. Originally, the core of Ayurveda is a lifestyle that conforms to natural rhythms. You have to remove all ritualistic things such as oil pulling and body type classification. The core is to eat less ice, not staying up late, and eating seven to half full. Even if it is a placebo, it can help you get rid of two bad habits, so it’s not bad, right?

Nowadays, many people on the Internet argue that Ayurveda is a pseudoscience. In fact, in 2022, the WHO has already included it in the catalog of complementary therapies in traditional medicine, clearly stating that it can be used as an auxiliary to conventional medical treatment, but it cannot replace regular treatment. For example, if you have a gastric ulcer, you will definitely be courting death if you insist on drinking ghee to treat the disease. However, if you have just recovered from gastric ulcer surgery, eating warm, soft and easy-to-digest food and having a regular schedule according to the requirements of Ayurveda will definitely be beneficial to your recovery. Its constitution classification actually coincides with the nine constitutions of traditional Chinese medicine by more than 60%. Vata corresponds to qi stagnation and qi deficiency, pitta corresponds to dampness and heat, and kapha corresponds to phlegm and dampness. The essence is to classify and regulate people according to different physiological characteristics. There is no need to praise it too highly and there is no need to step down.

I am now doing a 15-day program for new students, and I don’t even go through the entire process at the beginning. People who try it for the first time don’t actually need to buy hundreds of yuan of herbal ointments or go to a healing center for thousands of yuan of oil therapy. They just need to stick to three small things: use warm coconut oil for 15 minutes before brushing your teeth, eat all three meals warm and not iced, and take your mobile phone out of the bedroom before 10:30 pm. Just these three things can achieve 60% of the effect of the entire process, and it is much more cost-effective. There was a student from Sichuan who couldn't tolerate spicy food for 12 days but still secretly ate a butter hot pot meal. The next day she came to me crying with three pimples. I told her that this is not a religious ritual of asceticism. It's okay to break the precept occasionally. The 15 days is to reboot the body and it doesn't make you an ascetic for the rest of your life. There is no need to feel guilty.

In fact, to put it bluntly, 15 days of Ayurvedic therapy is like clearing the background of an old mobile phone that has been used for five or six years. You cannot expect that after clearing the background, the problems of broken screens and battery aging will be solved, but it will definitely run smoother than before. If you want to cure all the problems caused by ten years of staying up late at night and eating ten years of ice cream in just 15 days, then I suggest you go to the hospital to register. Don’t believe in any myths about conditioning. But if you have been feeling heavy lately, tired no matter how much you sleep, and everything you eat tastes tasteless, give it a try in 15 days, and it will most likely remind you: Oh, my body should be in such a comfortable state, that’s enough.