Swasthavritta

Swasthavritta evam Yog in Ayurveda offers proactive preventive healthcare and lifestyle management. The aim of ayurveda is to cure diseases and beyond that; to prevent the occurrence of diseases and ailments by means of adoption of right hygiene: personal and social. As such Swasthavritta evam Yog offers holistic personal and social hygiene habits to be incorporated into habits and lifestyle for the proactive prevention of ailments and diseases- communicable and non-communicable. The components of personal hygiene are dinacharya, rutacharya and trayopstambha. The components of social hygiene are water, light and air.
Ayurveda defines perfect health as the sum total of the effects of the balancing of Doshas like Vata, Pitta and Kapha, Dhatus like Rasa, Rakta, Mansa, Meda, Asthi, Majja, Shukra and Agni. To the extent of achieving a perfect health Ayurveda prescribes three parts of lifestyle namely:

Dinacharya (diet and regimen for the daytime)
Ratricharya (diet and regimen for the night time)
Ritucharya ( seasonal diet and regimen) and Sandhikal ( diet instructions for the joint period of two seasons)