Spring's Arrival: Ayurvedic Secrets to Boost Health, Keep Doctors Away

• Spring (Basant) is a crucial transitional season; Ayurveda emphasizes dietary and lifestyle changes to prevent illnesses.
• Dr. Priyanka Singh of Ballia advises light, fresh, easily digestible foods to counter accumulated kapha, which can cause colds, coughs, and allergies.
• Strictly avoid stale rice, wheat items, curd (unless with black pepper/rock salt), sugar, ice cream, cold items, and fast food.
• Include moong, chana, arhar dals; radish, carrot, spinach, yam, banana flower, green bananas; Amla, dry ginger (sonth), long pepper (pippali), and black pepper.
• Adopt early morning walks, warm mustard oil massage, lukewarm baths, and early sleep; avoid daytime napping for year-round health.