Dhauti – Yogic Internal Cleansing
A strip of wet cloth, four angulas wide (3″) and fifteen hands (1¼ metres) in length, is stoutly swallowed and, then taken out, as instructed
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A strip of wet cloth, four angulas wide (3″) and fifteen hands (1¼ metres) in length, is stoutly swallowed and, then taken out, as instructed
Insert a soft thread through the nose to the length of one hand-span so that it comes out of the mouth. This is called neti
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