DINCHARYA

The daily regimen that Ayurveda prescribes is described as Dincharya.

Behavior patterns and food habits during the day and night time.

Routine for 24 hours

• Wake up
• Exercise
• Cooking
• Working
• Meals
• Sleep
• Study
• Sex

Wake Up –

• 2 Hours before sunrise.
• There is a peace, freshness, happiness.
• Providing mental peace and joy.
• Wake up early gives adequate time for all routine.
• Planning out routine before leaving the bed ensure all work in time.

Washing Face –

• Washing face with fresh cool water after leaving bed clear dirt from eyes, nose, mouth and face.
• Relieves early morning dullness.
• In winter lukewarm water can be used.

Ablution / Excretion –

• Early morning clearing bowel is must.
• Early rush to evacuate is necessary for regular bowel and ensure the proper digestion.

Cleaning Teeth –

• Teeth Should be cleaned with twigs that have bitter, pungent or astringent taste.
• The movement of brushing should be from top to bottom and vice versa.
• The tongue should be cleaned after teeth.

Gargling –

• Regularly gargling after brushing is necessary.
• Substance with bitter essence boiled in water are excellent for gargling.
• It also helps drying of throat and chapping of lips.
• It helps teeth, improves voice, smoothing skin of face, boost taste and appetite.

Oiling Head –

• Head should be oiled with sesame or coconut oil.
• It prevent hair fall, graying hairs, headache, drying scalp, improves sensory organs.

Oil Massage –

• Massage helps body stronger and smoothen the skin.
• It destroys premature ageing, fatigue, wrinkles, roughness and dryness.
• It clears vision, strengthens body and smoothen skin.
• Relief body odor, dirt, itches, sweat, heaviness.

Exercise –

• Physical activities leading to tiring is exercise.
• During winter and spring it should be done in half body strength.
• Exercise leads strength and stability of body.

Yoga –

• Choose according to body, type and imbalance.
• Take precautions for special position and breathing
• Follow the rules of Yoga to get maximum benefits.

Body Pastes –

• Massaging body with medicated powders and pastes.
• It’s helpful before bathing.
• It destroys dirt, odor and cleaning pores and smoothen the skin.

Face Packs –

• Face pack should be used to avoid wrinkles, blackheads and increase softness, glow and uniformity and shine.
• Paste is removed until wet, if it dries it cause wrinkles.

Bathing –

• Bathing daily is must for cleaning and refreshing body.
• Bathing rejuvenates body.
• Nose, ear, feet should be cleaned specifically during bath.
• Bathing is avoided immediate after eating. an suffering from illness of eyes, mouth and ear, diarrhea, cold, indigestion.
• Warm water for body, normal (room temperature) water for head.

Clothing –

• Clean clothes worn after bathing.
• Good clean and appropriate clothes worn as season.
• White or light colored, thin clothes in summer and dark, heavy, thick clothes in winter.

Perfumes –

• Body can be adorned with seasonal flowers and perfumes.
• It improves the quality of life leading to its prolonging.

Ornaments and Gemstone –

• Similar to performs wearing gems of gold, silver add attractiveness leading to glow on face, increased life span.
• It resolves the fear and vice versa.

Chewing fragrance substances –

• To keep mouth fresh nutmeg, betel nut, cardamom, clove, betel leaves should be chewed.
• It increase taste perception and provide protection against oral disease.

Footwear –

• Footwear protects against heat, thorns insects and germs and provide comfort to the feet.
• It protects the skin healthy and aid maintaining motion.
• Footwear should be selected according to the season.

Nail and Hair care –

• Trimming the hair and nail should be regular habit.
• Nails are accumulated with dirt and germs.
• It ensure hygiene beauty and freshness.

Kohl Application –

• Eyes should be nourishes with kohl or eye drops.
• It makes the eyes watering cleaning process.

Diet –

• Diet is crucial for maintaining health.
• It should be taken in adequate quantity at appropriate time.
• Light, easily digestible food according to season should be used.
• Eat your lunch around 11 am and dinner around 6-7 pm.
• Avoid going to bed immediately after dinner.
• Eat fresh fruits and vegetables, Shadrasatmak (Include all 6 taste), Satwik food.
• Eat food slowly, don’t eat in hurry.
• Don’t eat before previous food is digested.

Ratricharya –

• Pattern of behavior and food habits at night.
• 12 hours of day light plus 12 hours of darkness together referred to one day.
• Sleep is the described first for primary activity.

Sleep –

• To maintain good health and spirits sound adequate sleep is necessary.
• Night time is most conductive for sleep.
• Physical fatigue caused by hard work, mental peace will enjoy by sound sleep.
• Who can’t sleep, suffer from several mental and physical disorders.

Day time sleep –

• Sleeping during the day is harmful for health as it increase KAPHA and PITTA .
• Problems like Jaundice, headache, heaviness, body ache, swelling, loss of appetite, nauseous feeling, migraine, boils, itching, languor, cough, blockage of weakness etc.

EXCEPTIONS –

• Due to loss of water and shorter nights, during summer sleeping during the day is not harmful.
• Suffering from weakness, fatigue, thirst, diarrhea, asthma, hiccups.
• During childhood, old age, pregnant women, after delivery.

Eating Dinner –

• Digestion of food and sleep are inextricably linked.
• Two hour gap between dinner and sleep is a must.
• Only light and easily digestible food should be eaten.
• walking around 50-60 meter after dinner is recommended as it improves digestion aid sleep.

SEXUAL ACTIVITY –

• Ayurveda place certain limits on sexual activity.
• It is avoided during Menstruation or when suffering from infection or disease, if she is pregnant or soon after delivery.
• Without eating or overeating.
• Do sexual contacts only at night.
• Don’t intercourse by avoiding defecation or urination.
• During winter keep intercourse as per your ability but during Rainy season keep the distance of 3-4 days in subsequent intercourse and during Summer keep intercourse after every 2 weeks.
• Sexual intercourse with other than sexual organs is prohibited.