🌻🌿PART 1: AYURVEDA + HOW TO STAY COOL IN SUMMER🌿🌻
🌸Beautiful long, hot days, family vacations, beach time, soaking in the sun, and much more fun!🌸
🔥The element of fire is correlated to the Pitta dosha, which matches the season of summer. Hot, sunny, days (depending on where you live).🔥
🔥Shortcomings of Pitta dosha in this time (fire + heat), some sign are:
🔥Indigestion, (heartburn, diarrhea)
🔥Quick to get angry, or impatient
🔥Hot, overheated feeling
🔥Eye irritations, or red skin
🌿So how do you manage? Ayurveda expresses this very key principle, that like increases like, and opposites decrease each other. Additionally, use your 5 senses, (taste, smell, sight, hearing, + touch).
💙1.) FOOD💙
Incorporate more “cooling foods” in your diet, while curbing “heating foods.”
🔥Some heating foods: Vinegar, alcohol, hot spices like black pepper, too much spices in food not good at this time of year, fried foods.🍟🍔🍺🔥
🍒🍊Heating fruits: apricots, banana (ripe), cantaloupe, cherries, cranberries, green grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemon, oranges, papaya, peaches, pineapple, plums, tamarind.🍌🍇
🍆🥕Heating Vegetables: Artichoke, Brussel sprouts, burdock root, carrots, chilies, corn, dandelion greens, eggplant, leeks, mushrooms, mustard greens, olives, onion, peppers, radishes, spinach (cooked), squash (winter), tomatoes, turnips.🍅🍄
🥜🥜Heating Nuts: Almonds (with skin), brazil nuts, cashews, macadamia nuts, peanuts, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios, walnuts.🥜🥜
🥛Heating dairy products: Butter, cheese, sour cream, store bought yogurt.🥛
🍴🍽Heating Legumes: kidney beans, lentils brown, miso, navy beans, tempeh, tur dal, urad dal🍴🍽
🍗🍖Heating Meats: Beef, chicken, duck, eggs, fish, lamb & mutton, pork, shrimp.🍗🍖
🌽🌽Heating Grains: buckwheat, corn, millet, rice, brown, rye, spelt.🌽🌽
🌿🌻PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR PART 2… COOLING FOODS!! 🌿🌻
💙 Thank you 💙
