Ayurveda Concept Of Malas & Body Waste

Ayurveda recommends that elimination of waste products from the body in any form e.g. stool, urine or sweat is key to maintaining good health. Bodily wastes help maintain the healthy functioning of our organs.

Stool provides support and tone, as well as maintaining the temperature of the colon. Improper functioning can lead to Vata illness like worry, fear, ungroundedness, nervousness, headaches, gas, distension, and constipation.

Functioning of the stool is damaged by excessive use of purgatives, colonics, worry, and fear (fear can both create improper functioning or be a by-product of this dysfunction).

It is also damaged by excessive travel, the wrong foods (such as “junk food,” or those foods that are too light or too heavy), oversleeping, coffee, drugs, antibiotics, insufficient exercise, and prolonged diarrhoea.

Urine expels water and other solid wastes from the body. Poor urine elimination results in bladder pain or infection, difficult urination, fever, thirst, dry mouth, or dehydration. Diuretic drugs, alcohol, excessive sex, trauma, fright, or too few liquids damage it.

Sweat controls the body temperature by way of expelling excess water and toxins, cools the body, moistens the skin and hair, carried excess fat from the body, and purifies the blood.

Excess sweating can cause skin diseases (usually Pitta related) like eczema, boils, fungus, burning skin, dehydration, fatigue, or convulsions (Vata caused).

Deficient sweating can result in stiff hair, skin fissures, dry skin, dandruff, wrinkles, or susceptibility to colds and flu (i.e., peripheral circulation).

Too much dry food, lack of salt, excess or deficient exercise, and excessive use of diaphoretic herbs or excess sweating damage the sweating functions.

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