Medical vrat & Fasting.
Medical vrat
Dr K K Aggarwal
Ever since people have stopped observing weekly fasts, the incidence on high blood pressure, diabetes and heart attack has increased.
Scientifically, it is now known that eating carbohydrates everyday increases the chances of heart attack.
Here are the ways we can observe weekly medical vrata:
1. Choose a fixed day in a week to observe fast. Eat only once that day ( light meal). Rest of the day one can have water, jiggery water, mint water etc.
2. If one cannot fast, then rest of the time one can have fruits and fruit juices.
3. Single vrata meals can be lunch or dinner and it should not contain carbohydrates or wheat cereals.,
4. Wheat cereals can be replaced by Besan ki roti or Samak Rice (fruit), singhare ki roti (fruit), kuttu ki roti (fruit) or sabu dana.
5. On the day of fast, one should not take any item in vanaspati ghee.
6. If this fast falls on Ekadashi, one should restrict the intake of liquid to prevent water retention on the day of full moon.
7. The fast should also be observed along with other sensual fast i.e. one should live a satvik lifestyle on that day.
8. Anything which pleasures the senses should be avoided like aromas, erotic smell, reading and watching aggressive and tamsik literature or movies on the day of fast.
9. One should observe non-violence on the day of fast and this non-violence should be in action, speech and thought. On this day, one should not gossip, criticize, condemn or complaint about others and should not indulge in judgments unless they are a must. A classical example is, if someone abuses you on that day, you should say “kal dekhunga”
10. Sexual vrata is also a part and parcel of traditional medical vrata.
11. On the day of vrata, one should reduce the intake of his blood pressure and diabetes medicines. The insulin requirement may also reduce by 40% on the day of fast.
12. One should as far as possible read spiritual scriptures on the day of fast and avoid company of bad people.
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