The daily regimen that Ayurveda prescribes is described as Dincharya.

Behavior patterns and food habits during the day and night time.

Routine for 24 hours

• Wake up
• Exercise
• Cooking
• Working
• Meals
• Sleep
• Study
• Sex

Wake Up -

• 2 Hours before sunrise.
• There is a peace, freshness, happiness.
• Providing mental peace and joy.
• Wake up early gives adequate time for all routine.
• Planning out routine before leaving the bed ensure all work in time.

Washing Face -

• Washing face with fresh cool water after leaving bed clear dirt from eyes, nose, mouth and face.
• Relieves early morning dullness.
• In winter lukewarm water can be used.

Ablution / Excretion -

• Early morning clearing bowel is must.
• Early rush to evacuate is necessary for regular bowel and ensure the proper digestion.

Cleaning Teeth -

• Teeth Should be cleaned with twigs that have bitter, pungent or astringent taste.
• The movement of brushing should be from top to bottom and vice versa.
• The tongue should be cleaned after teeth.

Gargling -

• Regularly gargling after brushing is necessary.
• Substance with bitter essence boiled in water are excellent for gargling.
• It also helps drying of throat and chapping of lips.
• It helps teeth, improves voice, smoothing skin of face, boost taste and appetite.

Oiling Head -

• Head should be oiled with sesame or coconut oil.
• It prevent hair fall, graying hairs, headache, drying scalp, improves sensory organs.

Oil Massage -

• Massage helps body stronger and smoothen the skin.
• It destroys premature ageing, fatigue, wrinkles, roughness and dryness.
• It clears vision, strengthens body and smoothen skin.
• Relief body odor, dirt, itches, sweat, heaviness.

Exercise -

• Physical activities leading to tiring is exercise.
• During winter and spring it should be done in half body strength.
• Exercise leads strength and stability of body.

Yoga -

• Choose according to body, type and imbalance.
• Take precautions for special position and breathing
• Follow the rules of Yoga to get maximum benefits.

Body Pastes -

• Massaging body with medicated powders and pastes.
• It's helpful before bathing.
• It destroys dirt, odor and cleaning pores and smoothen the skin.

Face Packs -

• Face pack should be used to avoid wrinkles, blackheads and increase softness, glow and uniformity and shine.
• Paste is removed until wet, if it dries it cause wrinkles.

Bathing -

• Bathing daily is must for cleaning and refreshing body.
• Bathing rejuvenates body.
• Nose, ear, feet should be cleaned specifically during bath.
• Bathing is avoided immediate after eating. an suffering from illness of eyes, mouth and ear, diarrhea, cold, indigestion.
• Warm water for body, normal (room temperature) water for head.

Clothing -

• Clean clothes worn after bathing.
• Good clean and appropriate clothes worn as season.
• White or light colored, thin clothes in summer and dark, heavy, thick clothes in winter.

Perfumes -

• Body can be adorned with seasonal flowers and perfumes.
• It improves the quality of life leading to its prolonging.

Ornaments and Gemstone -

• Similar to performs wearing gems of gold, silver add attractiveness leading to glow on face, increased life span.
• It resolves the fear and vice versa.

Chewing fragrance substances -

• To keep mouth fresh nutmeg, betel nut, cardamom, clove, betel leaves should be chewed.
• It increase taste perception and provide protection against oral disease.

Footwear -

• Footwear protects against heat, thorns insects and germs and provide comfort to the feet.
• It protects the skin healthy and aid maintaining motion.
• Footwear should be selected according to the season.

Nail and Hair care -

• Trimming the hair and nail should be regular habit.
• Nails are accumulated with dirt and germs.
• It ensure hygiene beauty and freshness.

Kohl Application -

• Eyes should be nourishes with kohl or eye drops.
• It makes the eyes watering cleaning process.

Diet -

• Diet is crucial for maintaining health.
• It should be taken in adequate quantity at appropriate time.
• Light, easily digestible food according to season should be used.
• Eat your lunch around 11 am and dinner around 6-7 pm.
• Avoid going to bed immediately after dinner.
• Eat fresh fruits and vegetables, Shadrasatmak (Include all 6 taste), Satwik food.
• Eat food slowly, don't eat in hurry.
• Don't eat before previous food is digested.

Ratricharya -

• Pattern of behavior and food habits at night.
• 12 hours of day light plus 12 hours of darkness together referred to one day.
• Sleep is the described first for primary activity.

Sleep -

• To maintain good health and spirits sound adequate sleep is necessary.
• Night time is most conductive for sleep.
• Physical fatigue caused by hard work, mental peace will enjoy by sound sleep.
• Who can't sleep, suffer from several mental and physical disorders.

Day time sleep -

• Sleeping during the day is harmful for health as it increase KAPHA and PITTA .
• Problems like Jaundice, headache, heaviness, body ache, swelling, loss of appetite, nauseous feeling, migraine, boils, itching, languor, cough, blockage of weakness etc.

EXCEPTIONS -

• Due to loss of water and shorter nights, during summer sleeping during the day is not harmful.
• Suffering from weakness, fatigue, thirst, diarrhea, asthma, hiccups.
• During childhood, old age, pregnant women, after delivery.

Eating Dinner -

• Digestion of food and sleep are inextricably linked.
• Two hour gap between dinner and sleep is a must.
• Only light and easily digestible food should be eaten.
• walking around 50-60 meter after dinner is recommended as it improves digestion aid sleep.

SEXUAL ACTIVITY -

• Ayurveda place certain limits on sexual activity.
• It is avoided during Menstruation or when suffering from infection or disease, if she is pregnant or soon after delivery.
• Without eating or overeating.
• Do sexual contacts only at night.
• Don't intercourse by avoiding defecation or urination.
• During winter keep intercourse as per your ability but during Rainy season keep the distance of 3-4 days in subsequent intercourse and during Summer keep intercourse after every 2 weeks.
• Sexual intercourse with other than sexual organs is prohibited.

• Ritu means Season and Charya means discipline or following.
• Seasons and environment affect our health as like food.
• Doshas changes according to season
• Ayurveda recommend diet and lifestyle pattern throughout the year.
• Seasons are based according to the movement of sun.

A] UTTARAYAN- Sun moves towards North, Sunrays and wind are very hot and dry moisture rapid.

B] DAKSHINAYAN- Sun Moves towards the South, Sunrays and wind are neither hot nor dry.

Due to environment, food and medicinal preparation acquire smoothness increase physical strength in our body.

• VARSHA :- Mid July - Mid September (Rainy)
• SHARAD :- Mid September - Mid November (Autumn)
• HEMANT :- Mid November - Mid January (winter)
• SHISHIR:- Mid January - Mid March (Late Winter)
• VASANT :-Mid March - Mid May (Spring)
• GRISHM :- Mid May - Mid July (Summer)

RITU SANDHI and its Significance

• Sandhi means conjunction.
• Here ritu Sandhi is the period of the last 7 days of the present ritu and the first 7 days of the subsequent ritu. For instance, it is Vasant ritu during Vaishakha month, after which it will be Grishma ritu during Jyeshta month. So Ritu Sandhi will be the last 7 days of Vaishakha and the first 7 days of Jyeshta.
• During Ritu Sandhi the diet and regimen that is being followed should be stopped gradually and that of the subsequent ritu be followed.