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basic question about food!

Postby alizea » Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:45 pm

What is the importance of food in Ayurveda?
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Re: basic question about food!

Postby artemis » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:45 pm

In Ayurveda, diet is one of the key ways to maintain and restore dosha balance. According to Ayurvedic principles, each individual's diet should be suited to his or her prakriti. And, during times of vikriti, or imbalance, the diet can be used to either decrease or increase the three doshas until balance is restored. The dosha balancing effect is determined by its taste and qualities.

In Ayurvedic nutrition there are six different tastes and six major qualities. The tastes and qualities with attributes similar to those of a dosha increase that dosha, while tastes and qualities dissimilar to the characteristics of a dosha decrease that dosha. The six tastes and the six major food qualities, and their effect on the different doshas, are listed below:

The Six Tastes

* Bitter: The bitter taste is found in spinach, romaine lettuce, endive, chicory, chard, kale, and tonic water. The bitter taste decreases both kapha and pitta, but increases vata.
* Pungent: The pungent taste is found in chili peppers, cayenne, ginger, and other hot-tasting spices. The pungent taste decreases kapha, but increases pitta and vata.
* Astringent: The astringent taste is found in beans, lentils, cabbage, apples and pears. The astringent tast decreases kapha and pitta, but increases vata.
* Salty: The salty taste is found in any food to which salt has been added. The salty taste increases kapha and pitta, but decreases vata.
* Sour: The sour taste is found in lemons, limes, vinegar, yogurt, cheese, and plums. The sour taste increases kapha and pitta, but decreases vata.
* Sweet: The sweet taste is found in table sugar, honey, rice, pasta, milk, cream, butter, wheat and bread. The sweet taste increases kapha, but decreases pitta and vata.
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Re: basic question about food!

Postby rifyraina » Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:20 am

Ayurvedic Food In Ayurvedya, regulation of diet itself is a therapy with great importance. Lack of nutrients in food or improper transformation of food lead to a variety of disease conditions.
Thus, food is believed to be the basic of all metabolic transformations and life activities.

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Re: basic question about food!

Postby Marina_J » Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:05 am

Food should be light, and not make you feel heavy. You should eat fresh food. Another bad thing in this country is the invention of the fridge. That fridge is a very bad guy. Whatever you don't use, you should throw away.
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