Eating for your Dosha: Kapha-Pacifying Diet Dairy. Low-fat milk is better. Always boil milk before you drink it — which makes it easier to digest — and take it warm. Do not take milk with a full meal or with … Continue reading
Kapha Pacifying Diet
Daily Archives: June 28, 2014
Pitta Pacifying Diet
Eating for your Dosha : Pitta-Pacifying Diet Dairy. Milk, butter and Ghee are good for pacifying Pitta. Reduce yogurt, cheese, sour cream and cultured buttermilk (their sour tastes aggravate Pitta). Sweeteners. All sweeteners are good except honey and molasses. Oils. … Continue reading
Vata Pacifying Diet
Eating for your Dosha: Vata-Pacifying Diet Eat larger quantities of food, but not more than you can digest easily. Dairy. All dairy products pacify Vata. Always boil milk before you drink it, and drink it warm. Don’t drink milk with … Continue reading
Ayurveda: Gunas
The Effect of Diet on Ritual: The spiritual and ritual connection to what we eat is simple, what goes in, you get out. A true way to ensure clean, pure energy is to ensure that is what is fueling your body. … Continue reading
Ayurveda: 6 Tastes
In Ayurveda, foods are classified into six tastes, three are cooling: sweet, astringent, bitter, and three are heating: sour, salty, pungent. Depending on your balanced state of being (Prakruti), and your current state (Vikruti), the type of taste you should … Continue reading
Doshas: The Balancing Act
VATA : ETHER & AIR GOVERNS: the following body functions: Prana Vata The senses, creative thinking, reasoning, enthusiasm, Udana Vata Quality of voice, memory, movements of thought Samana Vata Movement of food through digestive tract Apana Vata Elimination of wastes, … Continue reading
Ayurveda
Sanskrit: Ayur : Life + Veda : Knowing = The Science of Life. The ancient seers (Rishis) of India contemplated the ailments of the time, and took note that mental, physical and emotional imbalances effected the time and energy a … Continue reading
