April (Chaitra)
Practice the following in Chaitra so that the summer heat does not affect the health adversely:- Use a paste made by crushing fresh neem flowers and use it as food item.
- Eschew salt altogether from your diet or take as little of it as you can.
- Drink water copiously in summer.
- Take sour, pungent, and sweet drinks and eat such food.
- Use yogurt, buttermilk, and tamarind mixed drinks as a daily item of food.
- Patients suffering from Bleeding (Rakta pitta) and diseases of blood should eat rose jam, aamla jelly and plain aamla jam.
- Consciously abstain from sex life to protect and store semen.
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May (Vaishakh)
Practice the following in Vaishakh for health giving pravas:- Avoid moving about under the hot sun.
- Reside in cool or cooled houses, on hill stations or near seaside.
- Take more than other food, sour and sweet predominant foods. Orange, sweet lemon, mango, tamarind syrup, phalsa, watermelon, mulberry, and similar other fruits should be taken freely.
- The semen has, by now, grown diluter and weaker and also less in quality as a result of heated body constituents. In this condition it is necessary to preserve the balance; and so abstinence should be observed. The children that have been conceived in this season are born weak and become chronic patients of rickets, bone tuberculosis, flesh depletion, ratava, and skin troubles. So it is no gain to anyone in the world to beget such progeny.
- Avoid salty, sour, hot things; sour mixed with sweet can be taken.
- Onion is a shield and antidote against sunstroke in summer; it is nutritious.
- Infants and very young children may be given bath with water boiled with Kesooda or sandal or aguru and be massaged with these things.
- Sleep under the sky in moonlight; have full sleep, and have midday siesta.
- Drink buttermilk, water, and sugared water freely.
- Eat light, nutritious, and sweet foods. Avoid heavy and gas-causing foods.
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