Explanation:
The weather has an immense effect on digestion. The human body is a system which happens to be in another system called the atmosphere. The human body has to attain its equilibrium with respect to the external environment. This is the reason why we construct houses, carry umbrellas raincoats for woolen clothes - to maintain stability between our body and the external environment.
Each weather or season has a different effect on the digestive system. But first, it is essential to understand that difference between the weather and the season. Season in Ayurveda is called Ritu. All Seasons have a fixed cycle in nature. However, weather conditions are not always dependent on the season.
You might experience abnormal cold temperature during the summer season, and it can become unusually hot in wintertime depending on the natural balance of seasons and environmental conditions. For example, now we have excess heat even in the hill stations, thanks to global warming. The natural weather in such places is completely changed as compared to what it was a few decades back.
According to Ayurveda, seasons have a substantial cyclic effect on digestion as well as on the entire metabolism. This is how different Seasons affect our body.
Similar to the seasonal effect, the weather also affects our body. However, typical weather conditions, for example, cold weather in winter or hot weather in summer typically do not cause significant damage to the body as it is already prepared for this predictable cyclic change.
Unnatural weather conditions like cold weather during the summer or rainy season or hot weather during winter can severely harm the body as it is not prepared for such abnormal conditions.
In the summer Season body is under sweating mode. Sweating helps to reduce the temperature inside the body. All the pores of the skin are open to maximize the sweating process. Sudden abnormal reduction in temperature or cold weather during the summer season can expose these open pores to lose excess heat and jeopardize the temperature balance inside the body.
Such metabolic compromise can expose the body to pathogens present all around us. As the temperature is one of the crucial factors that affect digestion, abnormal changes in temperature can weaken the normal digestive process and create under digested toxins instead of nutrition.
And this metabolic disaster is the primary cause of illness during the during sudden weather change.
Change in any sudden change in weather can cause a severe imbalance in the body temperature and cause disruption in a significant metabolic process dependent on body temperature, for example, digestion.
Therefore, Ayurveda recommends a very comprehensive seasonal preventive therapy called ritucharya. Ritucharya consists of food and lifestyle changes that help to adjust our body according to the seasons and prevent diseases and aging.
