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<ul><li>To maintain equilibrium of dosha in body, wintertime is favorable for fasting (hemanta and shishira). [Cha.Sa. Sutra Sthana 22/24]</li>
<ul><li>To maintain equilibrium of dosha in body, wintertime is favorable for fasting (hemanta and shishira). [Cha.Sa. Sutra Sthana 22/24]</li>
<li>Upavasa should be practiced on a regular interval in obese people to remove toxic metabolic products (ama).</li></ul>
<li>Upavasa should be practiced on a regular interval in obese people to remove toxic metabolic products (ama).</li></ul>
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<li>It is a kind of spiritual therapy (daivyavyapashayachikitsa). So, in prajnaparadhajanyavyadhi which may be compared with life style disorder, the upavasa procedure can be very helpful.</li>
<li>Upavasa can make the body light by relieving heaviness. Heaviness is generally caused by kapha dosha, similarly obstruction of the body channel also occurs because of kapha dosha. So upavasa helps in all the kapha and kapha associated with pitta diseases.</li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">It removes toxins (ama): <span style="font-weight:normal">The fire intensity is reduced by the remaining ash particles on it and hampers the burning process. Similarly, in the human body, the vitiated dosha lessen the power and disable the digestive capacity. It causes stomach related debilitation, and produces ama. These ama get accumulated in our body and block the minute channels which leads to diseases. During fasting, digestive process gets ignited and destroys metabolic toxins, and clears the blockages of channels.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Reducing fat: <span style="font-weight:normal">Fasting dissolves all unnecessary and unnatural fat deposits all over the body.</span></li>
<li>Our senses become more active during fasting.</li>
<li>Excellent remedy for physical, mental, and spiritual upliftment.</li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">The physiological effect: <span style="font-weight:normal">lowering of blood sugar, lowering of cholesterol, lowering of systolic blood pressure</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Restoring youthfulness and longevity: <span style="font-weight:normal">Fasting hastens the destruction of the body's decaying tissues through hunger and then builds new tissues through nutrition. Therefore, fasting is regarded as an effective means of restoring youthfulness and longevity.</span></li>
<li>Several physicians advise patients to skip meals, sometimes for a few days, before prescribing them a controlled diet.</li>
<li>Fasting is helpful in reducing the symptoms in some psychological disorders like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia etc.</li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Upavasa(fasting) during pandemic: <span style="font-weight:normal">The importance of fasting is described in janapadoddhvamsaneeya vimana adhyaya. Regular practice of fasting was very helpful for COVID-19 patients.Fasting has an added effect to vaccination which strengthen our immune system during the pandemic and after the pandemic also.</span></li></ol>
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