The time to sleep is night. Sleep promotes proper growth. Sleep is bodily inertia with mental relaxation.Ten-minute naps are good for Vata types. Long naps are permitted in the hot part of the summer, when days are long and nights are short. Sleeping during the day increases Kapha. Only the very weak, very young, very old, those exhausted by sex, diseased, overwork, one under the influence of intoxicants and other emotional or physical trauma should sleep longer than 15 minutes in the afternoon. Sometimes a nap before eating can help with acute indigestion.
Sleeping during the day produces Ama, unless a person has been awake all night. Continue Reading >>
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