For example, if you are a kapha body type you can eat pitta vardhak (elevating) foods to
increase your agni or digestive fire.
These spices help regulate blood sugar levels and
increase agni, which is your digestive fire.
Doing so
increases the agni in the body, potentially leading to further negative health issues.
Not exact matches
This combination
increases your digestive
agni (meaning fire in Sanskrit), which helps to break down toxins and improve your digestion (2)(3).
Ayurveda's main text, the Charak Samhita, recommends primarily cooked foods because cooking
increases the element of
agni that is essential for the assimilation of nutrients and their transformation into the bodily tissues.