Everyone knows too well that strong immunity is necessary to fight any kind of disease. Coronavirus primarily affects the lungs and the respiratory system.
Eating a tablespoonful of Ayurvedic ‘Chywanprash’ daily enhances the immunity, specifically that of the respiratory system. Amalaki or the Indian gooseberry, guduchi/glioy, neem, kutki and tulsi are some of the Ayurvedic herbs that improve immunity. Most powerful is tulsi, the holy basil available in every Hindu household. But modern Hindus keep a plant only for religious reasons rather than wellness objectives.
Hindus of today, particularly women, are a rebellious, militant lot when it comes to being taught wellness techniques through religious practices. They trash every thing as superstition born out of illiteracy. In Ayurveda, a strong digestive fire plays a very important role in fighting diseases.
Eating a piece of fresh ginger or drinking ginger tea, mint tea, cinnamon tea and fennel tea do magic to the digestive gadgets of the body. Good digestion includes good appetite and perfect bowel movements. The lack of these two urges could mean something is grossly wrong with the body.
Not surprisingly, amid the Covid-19 scare, there has been a 15% hike in demand for medicinal herbs such as shilajit and ashwagandha only because the age-old wisdom books have prescribed these ingredients as antiviral, more so as medical experts and scientists are screaming, “We have no drugs or vaccine in sight yet to destroy the corona pathogen.” The entire ‘human species’ is in a state of threat, perhaps on a huge scale, as the otherwise-fragile virus has so far remained potent as a uncontrollably inflective thing.
Sunlight energises the T-cells that play a central role in human immunity. It is already proven that sunlight helps the body produce Vitamin D, which is very important for good health; and recent studies have revealed another powerful benefit of getting enough sun.
According to experts, hot water consumption in the morning peps up your gut for the rest of the day and contributes to healthy weight loss. It takes care of nasal congestion, blood circulation, dental health, digestion, muscle relief, mood and toxins It is very important to know a good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes. That evidently boosts immunity. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies.
Moving barefoot is one of the best ways of remaining healthy. By walking barefoot on grass or plain ground helps discharge static electricity, causing a great deal of bodily relief by providing each living cell with enough energy to take any enemy pathogen head on and destroys the inimical microorganism.
Similarly, people who drink water straight from streams, rivers, wells and other natural sources after only heating that just once never fall ill due to want of trace minerals and other micro ingredients that support life. Unfortunately, most so-called educated people, easily influenced by market forces, are persuaded to believe crazy claims by manufacturers of modern gadgets like ‘reverse osmosis’ based water purifiers that by now have been known to push users to cancer wards.
Reverse Osmosis (RO) water filters suck away as dirt most of the lifesaving minerals not easily found across or over the counter sales outlets. Despite continuous warnings against the use of RO water purifiers by wellness experts, not many do seem to care.
Similarly, packaged edible stuffs like sauces, ketchups and ready-to-eat materials like noodles and pasta contain unhealthy chemicals, crispers or preservatives that cause organ damage and carcinogens to thrive.
Hardly do people realise that even in popular restaurants, the colours used to make meat, fish and shrimps look tempting are all suspect substances likely to cause vital organ damage. Kids and grown children of the wealthy and powerful feel elevated to splurge money at expensive eating joints without once trying to evaluate the quality of ingredients used.
It is not even known to most consumers that the mango juice they gulp down merrily from bottles and tetra packs, is reject pumpkin pulp treated with suspect colours and chemical essence along with artificial preservatives. Readers who are critical of this information would do great good by visiting a few manufacturing units on a surprise mode.
Very interestingly, playing with pets or babies increases the levels of the feel-good chemicals serotonin and dopamine in the brain. Maybe, that's why people recover from a stressful situation more quickly when they're with their pets than with their partners or friends, as per a study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
People are so corona-panicky lately as to opt for any precautionary measures that are claimed to be antiviral. Ayurveda, no wonder, is being taken very seriously for being in absolute consonance with nature.
Quite a few old timers have begun believing nature is taking revenge on the human race which has turned unforgivably predatory, particularly in consuming indiscriminately countless species of the animal kingdom including those under the endangered category. Greedy, mindlessly violent humans have been devouring anything that moves, from snails to whales, lumps to vertebrates, reptiles, birds to fairly intelligent primates.
When the second corona happened in 2019 and without a perfectly-known cure, humans with sense began shifting towards organic and Ayurvedic sources by way of precautionary measure as they are based on nature’s principles of a sustainable living world.
So, today, the Ayurvedic herbs and many more plant and natural products are in great demand to boost immunity. Vaccine candidates are too many, but the efficacy and storing-transporting logistics are nearly impossible propositions for most warm and poor countries. Yoga guru Ramdev’s pranayamas including deep breathing do increase immunity across humans of all ages.
Lastly: Food to be taken steaming hot. No raw flesh, fish or fowl; warm water at all times; no spitting in public; social distancing everywhere; least time in enclosed air-conditioned interior; constant hand-washing; no smoking; diet mostly with fruits and vegetables; exercising regularly; if alcohol is obsession, drinking in moderation; availing adequate sleep; and controlling anger by counting from 10 to 1 slowly.
If the human race becomes smart as explained, coronavirus will pack its bag never to return again.