Seasonal Customs
Monsoon Care: Eat Light, Sip Warm, Move Gently
How traditional households shift cooking and routine when the rains arrive — damp, slow digestion, quieter immunity.
Monsoon brings damp, slow digestion, and a quieter immune system. Traditional households respond by lightening meals, sipping warm decoctions, and skipping cold raw food for a few weeks.
The avoidance of leafy greens in shravan, the preference for steamed over raw, the warm jeera-water at meals — these are not superstition. They are how a kitchen tracks the season.
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