Essential Sleep | Day Sleep

• Provides freshness, 
• Alertness and happiness; 
• Controls proper distribution of nutrients to all systems, 
• Improves the quality of work and ensures longevity. 

• Vatika disorders (neuro-musculoskeletal disorders); 
• Old age; 
• Strenuous physical exertion and exercises; 
• Starvation; 
• Uncomfortable bed; 
• Anxiety, 
• Fear, 
• Worries and 
• Tension 

These are the major factors that cause disturbed sleep or insomnia. 
   

• Irritability; 
• Loss of weight; 
• Mental diseases and early death.  

• Body massage (Samvahana kneading the body by hand); 
• Long shower bath; 
• Soothing ointments on eye, head and face; 
• Comfortable bed; 
• Ingestion of pounded rice with curds; 
• Consumption of warm milk, soups or mildly fermented drinks; 
• Relaxing in a comfortable, cool and dark place. 

• Obesity; 
• Diabetes; 
• Cardiac problems; 
• Inertia; 
• Lack of imaginative powers and 
• Metabolic diseases.  

• Resorting to strenuous physical exercises; 
• Fasting; 
• Bloodletting etc.