As soon as the weather warms, the messaging begins—cleanse, reset, detox. Juices are pressed, coffee is cut, and meals become smaller, lighter, and stricter. For a moment, it feels good. There’s a sense of control, of starting fresh. We are told spring cleaning isn’t only for our homes; we need to do this with our bodies too.

And then, almost as quickly, something shifts.

Energy dips. Irritability creeps in. Sleep gets lighter. Digestion becomes unpredictable—either too sluggish or suddenly too sharp. The very thing meant to make you feel better starts to feel like too much.

This is the part most people blame on themselves. But it’s often not a lack of discipline—it’s a mismatch with the season.

In Ayurveda, we don’t see allergies as random or purely environmental. They’re understood as an imbalance, specifically an aggravation of one of the three foundational energies.

A grad school review of a Feverfew clinical trial.

It All Begins Here

Herbs for the heart