Effect Of Changing Ritu (Seasons) On Sharira (Body)

Abstract

With the advancement of technology and westernization of lifestyle and food habits, the people are forgetting the scientific suggestions about the types of food to be taken in different seasons as enumerated in Ayurveda. Ayurveda in equal parlance to the modern science has explained in detail the reasons of different types of seasons which we see and the effect of different seasons on our body. Agni is considered as the most important factor in Ayurveda which determines the prevalence of disorder in our body and the northward and southward movement of sun which ultimately brings different seasons has a direct effect on Agni. The food and the lifestyle which is considered good for our body in one season may prove to be harmful in the other season. In this study I have tried to throw light on some of such issues which have been described in Ayurveda.