Healthy wisdom quotes from Sanskrit
- If not digested, food becomes poison.
- A good sleep takes away half of the ailments.
- Worry brings out diseases.
- Exercise should be done slowly.
- Hunger makes the meals tasty.
- You should incorporate and enjoy all types of tastes like sweet, salty, sour etc in your daily intake of food. According to Ayurveda , there are 6 Rasas or tastes ; Madhura ( sweet), Amla ( sour ), lavana ( salty ), Katu ( pungent ), Tikta ( bitter ), and Kashaya ( astringent). All these tastes are essential for balancing the three doshas or bodily or biological humors, promoting proper digestion, health, immunity and vitality of the body.
- You should fill your stomach half with food, one fourth with water and one fourth to be left for circulation of air to aid digestion.
- While taking food, you should munch like a goat. If you munch food you will live for 100 years , meaning a long healthy life. Absence of indigestion is the yardstick of long, healthy life. When you munch food slowly and mix it with saliva, then it is digested in the stomach. Indigestion is the main cause of diseases.
- Water serves as medicine in indigestion.
- For healthy long life, one should walk 100 steps after taking meals.
- One shouldn’t take bath immediately after food.
- A good bath makes the mind happy and destroys bad dreams.
- For taking meals one should leave 100 works and for bath 1000 works.
