COVID-19-  PRECAUTIONS

"The digestive fire in the intestines (jataragni) is the root of all the digestive fires in the body. As it causes the increase or decrease of the elemental and tissue digestive fires it should be treated with great care."

- Ashtanga Hridaya Samhita

Wash hands often at least 20 seconds with soap and water, if don't have soap then use alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

Avoid touching your face.

Cover your sneeze with your elbow or tissue.

Avoid close contact with people who are sick.

Stay home when sick.

Avoid eating food from outside. Eat home cooked food.

Leave 4-6 hours between meals with no snacking.

The sign that the previous meal is digested is when the breath is fresh.

Eating in between meals weakens the agni.

Eating foods with cold, wet and heavy qualities weakens the agni.

Drink hot water to stimulate agni.

Treat agni with occasional fasts; use a mono-diet (rice, kicharee), hot lemon water and a seasonal cleanse to keep digestion healthy.

Agni is increased by pungent, sour and salty flavors. It is beneficial to start a meal with these flavors.

A low dosage of bitter taste taken before a meal increases the secretion of hydro-chloric acid in the stomach.

Agni stimulating and increasing herbs are ginger, black pepper, cayenne pepper cinnamon, long pepper (Piper longum). Use a small dose ginger with lemon(1/4tsp) 30 mins before meals to enkindle the digestive fire.

Agni tonic herbs that build enduring digestive strength are black Cardamom.

Yoga exercises to balance agni: stimulating the fire practice (Agnisara kriya), abdominal massage (nauli), lighting the skull breath (kapalabhati), bellows breath (bhastrika), peacock (mayurasana), forward bend pose (paschimottanasana), fish pose (matsyendrasana), sun salutation (surya namaskar).  Do not make assumptions about someone's health status.

Just be careful .

Disclaimer- Just for the information basis ( home remedies) for details or specific cure please visit Ayurvedic Practitioner to get specific details as per your body constitution.