That means no meat, wheat, dairy, or sugar during
heavy kapha days.
Not exact matches
Pittas need to begin their day with soothing, cooling, sweet foods to pacify their fiery body and mind, whilst
kapha's should limit foods that are naturally oily,
heavy, or foods that slow them down.
That means the
heavy, dense, inflammatory qualities that go with an imbalanced pitta -
kapha constitution could lead to the type of issues that my relatives experienced.
The
heavy, slow, and thick qualities (known as
kapha in Ayurveda) bring about sensations of sluggishness and swelling, traces of mucus and a
heavier flow, and depression, along with some emotional eating.
But dairy has the same properties as excess
kapha and phlegm; it's cold,
heavy and dense.
Walking, swimming, and yoga are all good and are most helpful in the morning
kapha time when the body feels
heavy and craves movement.
And
kapha is like earth; it controls structure (its qualities are cool, moist, stable,
heavy, and dense).
Maybe today the
kapha is a little thick and
heavy?
In the science of life, known as Ayurveda, we think of mid - to late - winter as a
kapha (earth and water) season characterized by cold, damp and
heavy qualities.
Milk is considered
kapha and has cold, wet and
heavy energies, that is cows, goat less so I don't know about camel but by the sound it would be more balanced but probably still
kapha.
«In the spring we want to create a little bit of warmth and circulation in the body to help balance the
heavy, stagnant, cold qualities of
kapha.»
Spring is the
kapha season, and its qualities mimic those in nature:
heavy, wet, cool, and thick.