Festival Traditions
Navratri as an Ayurvedic Reset
Nine days of fruit, milk, sama rice and rock salt — essentially a seasonal gut reset before winter.
The autumn Navratri is, in Ayurvedic terms, an almost perfect transitional fast. The mono-diet of fruit, milk, sama (barnyard millet) and sendha namak (rock salt) gives the digestive system a soft landing as the weather shifts.
It is not about deprivation. It is about giving agni — the digestive fire — a chance to recalibrate before the heavier eating of winter begins.
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