How to prepare for a successful Panchakarma.
Your 1st week is called a purvakarma and it happens at home:
You will receive a health form, fill it out and send it back to get a personalized program.
Inner and outer oilation, herbal medicine and a special diet will be given to you after the practitioner’s assessment.
Your diet will follow these guidelines:
Avoid:
- Cigarettes
- Recreational drugs
- White sugar
- Caffeine
- Alcohol
- Refined table salt
- Preservatives and artificial colors
- Refined carbohydrates including white flour
- Artificial and refined oils
- Conventionally grown, pesticide-laden produce
- Meat, dairy and all cheeses
- Pharmaceutical drugs (If you are on medication, consult your primary care physician before embarking on this or any cleansing program.)
- Raw food
- Cold drinks
Emphasize:
Organic and GMO-Free everything,
- Fresh fruits
- Cooked vegetables
- Nuts and seeds (except peanuts, which are too acidic and slow the metabolic rate of the liver)
- Whole grains (brown rice, quinoa, millet and amaranth)
- Organic cold-pressed or unrefined oils
- Vegetal protein sources such as legumes (lentils, split peas and split mung beans)
- Soups & stews
- Kichari
- Cooked warm onctuous slightly oily, but not fried food is best