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Updated: 13 January 2022

Why do acute diseases such as fever, cold, cough & diarrhoea occur more frequently, while following the Satvic lifestyle?

It's completely normal to experience acute diseases like fever, cold, cough, diarrhoea, etc, at the beginning of your healing journey. 


To learn why this occurs, let's first understand how our body eliminates waste. 


Our body eliminates waste through 4 detox channels - stool, urine, sweat & breath. How much waste should be excreted through which channel is decided by the body? It knows how to efficiently remove the waste & when to remove the waste. For people who fall sick rarely, their body may be just satisfied with excreting waste normally and wouldn't feel the need to give the body a fever or a cold to detox more intensely.


However, when someone starts to follow the Satvic diet and lifestyle 100%, they give their body a chance to detoxify and their body takes that chance to throw out the waste through the 4 elementary channels and sometimes with acute (happy) diseases like fever, cold, diarrhoea, vomiting, acne, etc. 


These diseases do not come to harm but benefit us. That is why we call them Happy Diseases. 


However, you need to keep the following points in mind when suffering from an acute disease -


  • Do not take any medicine, as taking medicine will obstruct the detox process and will suppress the toxins even further in your body. 


  • Give proper rest to your body, not just to your external but also to your internal body.