Part 1 Dhauti – Danta Dhauti

DANTA DHAUTI

2. Dantadhauti (Cleaning the teeth): These are 4, but cleanses 5 locations – teeth, tongue, two ear holes and frontal sinuses:

1. 1. Danta – Mula -Dhauti – Rubbing teeth with catechu powder or with pure earth.
   2. Jivha Sodhana – Cleaning the tongue with three fingers – Index, middle and ring fingers at the throat and rubbing at the root of the Tongue to remove phlegm and wash it.  Tongue is also elongated by milking with butter again and again. This keeps old age, death and disease away.
   3. Karna Dhauti – Cleaning the holes of the ears (orifice of each of the eustachian tubes) by index and ring fingers. Mystical sounds are heard if practiced daily.
   4. Kapala Randhra Dhauti (frontal sinuses) – In this technique, the depression in the forehead near the bridge of the nose is rubbed with the thumb of the right hand. Phlegmatic humours are cured by this exercise.  Purification and Clairvoyance is induced and should be practiced after awakening from sleep, after meals and in the evening.