Ayurveda considers healthy digestion as the most important factor for health and longevity. Healthy digestion creates a healthy life and weak digestion creates an unhealthy life. Healthy digestion ensures your body is assimilating the nutrients you are taking in through the foods you eat. The saying “You are what you eat,” is quite literal in this sense.
Ayurveda has long known the health benefits provided by restful restorative sleep. In fact, sleep is one of the three pillars of life, along with food and fertility. These three pillars create life for all beings on earth. Restful restorative sleep is necessary for both cognitive and physiological functions. When we are fully rested, our immunity, happiness, focus and decision-making skills are optimized.
Jwara is a Sanskrit word for fever and according to Ayurveda it is considered the "king of all illnesses". This is because Jwara affects not just the body but also the mind and senses. Ayurveda understands jwara as not only an increase in body temperature but is also a feeling of malaise, unease, and discomfort, and involves the deha (body), indriya (senses), and mana (mind).