Dinacharya Drinking Warm Water

Dinacharya Drinking Warm Water

Water is one of the most important substances that we need to sustain on this earth. The element water, called “apas” in Sanskrit, is the fourth of the five great elements (pancha mahabhutus).

Most of us are not very fond of drinking warm water. There are other people who say they feel their uncurbed thirst when drinking warm water. Most people all over the world would consider a glass of cold water more energizing than a warm one. However, according to Ayurveda text, hot water has a variety of health advantages. While drinking cold water, particularly with food, can create problems. The idea behind drinking cold water is that it can “surprise” the system that has some goodness biochemical and physiological.

Benefits

I think that the reason why most of the people don't like warm water is that they don't know its benefits. Here in this article we will talk about the benefits of warm water to our body and once you know some of these, you’ll indeed want to switch to drink hot water instead of cold water.

Ushnodaka Therapy

In Ayurveda, it is called as Ushnodaka Therapy i.e. Ayurvedic way to drink water as a practice where the water is either boiled or slightly warm. Essentially, it is an Ayurveda water drinking therapy. In doing so regularly, you will obtain these benefits:

Aids in providing easier digestion
Enhances blood circulation
Helps prevent premature aging
It helps in Cleansing and purifying of body (Detox)
Helps to decrease stress
Enhances skin health
Helps with menstrual cramps even constipation
Weight loss aid
Used as an anupan to aid easy absorption of medicine
Increases perspiration
It enhances stamina and performance
It works to relieve colds and coughs
It helps to reduce body pain
It helps to clear emotional responses and thoughts
Digestive Fire

Ayurveda advocates that you must drink water warm, as cold foods and juices can reduce your digestive fire (Agni). Cold water slows down the digestive system that has just started by diluting your digestive juices, so they cannot do their job as efficiently. Thus compelling the energy used for digestion it to be used to bring the temperature of the accompanying liquid in your stomach to body temperature.

As a result, incomplete or undigested food that moves through the digestive system, may or may not be eliminated properly. Another result you may also feel heavy, tired and bloated. Proper elimination is essential to prevent the build-up of waste material in the intestine since such build-up creates toxins and stops foods from being merged with the body.

Hot Water

Hot water stimulates hunger, supports in good digestion, sooth’s throat, cleanses bladder, reduces hiccups, and soothes the increased Vata and Kapha. It helps to calm the characteristics of breathlessness, fevers as well as cold and cough. It pulls out and flushes’s AMA, the metabolic toxin from a body.

Be careful if you are suffering from pitta fevers, hyperacidity, GERD, gout, inflammations, etc. one should not drink warm water. In such cases boiled and cooled water is best.

 Now that you know it all, are you ready to switch from cold water to warm water?