When stripping all the material from inside the bowels during Shankaprakshalana, what about the good types of bacteria, the bowel flora that we need in there?
A. It comes back soon enough, only it comes back from the body’s own remanufacturing system. The body can remake that which is necessary for it’s internal environment from scratch. And that’s what is really magic about Shankaprakshalana. It is going back to square one. It takes the body right back to a baby’s state, complete purity and neutrality. Pure homeostasis. Homeostasis means stabilisation and a state of initial balance. The foods which are eaten directly after Shankaprakshalana, are the most important type of building blocks to start the body regenerating what was stripped out, and it also helps to reset the correct mechanisms of digestive function. Also, the sorts of food that one is allowed to eat and not allowed to eat in the first week are restricted so that the body has the best possible chance to rebuild its primary functions in the right way, even better than they were before the practice. The first meal in your new diet starts with simple proteins and carbohydrates to r
