Digestive Health with Ayurveda Siva Mohan, MD MPH www.svasthahealth.com
Session 1:Ayurvedic Diet agenda Quick ayurveda review What is ayurvedic diet? Assessing the energetics of your diet The 6 tastes, and the 3 doshas How your digestive system is communicating with you (poop, appetite, and digestive symptoms) Q&A 2
Ayurvedic review Everything in the universe is energy • This energy can be categorized, or witnessed in • patterned ways Ayurveda presents the universe and its patterns in the • form of 3 primal energies (doshas): vata, pitta, kapha Doshas are flowing through everything in the universe • including ourselves and our food We are unique manifestations of the doshas • How we interface with the universe is in part • determined by our energetic make-up, and in part by our current state of affairs There are patterned ways we experience this • interaction with the universe, and we can see this in our digestive systems & health FREE INTRO VIDEO • 3
Learning Objectives To begin to see how you can balance with your food To understand that ayurveda is applied dynamically, not a rigid system of rules To begin to understand how your digestive system is communicating with you 4
Q:What is ayurvedic diet? A: Choosing and preparing your food based on your energetic (doshic) needs 1. Based on vikruti 2. Based on constitution 3. Bring in the opposite qualities of what you are experiencing to balance with food 5
Assessing the energetics of your food What does it taste like? What does it feel like in your mouth, or gut? How does it make you feel after eating it? Food is energy. Untrain your mind from judging food as “good” “bad” Untrain your mind from labeling food as carbs, fats, anti-oxidants,etc. Just pay attention to the qualities. 6
Assessing the energetics of your food VATA PITTA KAPHA Dry Spicy-hot Heavy Crunchy Sour Grounding Raw Tart Sweet Flaky Acidic Slimy Bitter Smelly Moist Hard Fried Ripe Oily Soft 7
Tastes reveal the energetics of food. Taste E.g. Qualities Doshic Overall Effects Effect on Body In Excess* Effect Sweet rice, Oily V- Increases ojas; Supports senses; Congestion; Cough; Heaviness; Earth sugar, Cooling P- Promotes growth of Healthy skin, hair; Loss of appetite; Laziness; Water milk, Heavy K+ all tissues; Strength; Good voice; Relieves Obesity; Lymphatic wheat, Longevity; Stability burning Congestion; Tumors; Swelling; agave Diabetes; Fibrocystic changes Sour citrus, Liquid V- Stimuting; Stimulate appetite; Excessive thirst; Hyperacidity; Earth yogurt, Light P+ Energizing; Nourish Improve salivation and Ulcers; Sensitive teeth; Skin Fire vinegar, Heating K- heart; Enlighten the digestion; Increase conditions; Urinary tract cheese, Oily mind energy conditions pickles Salty sea salt, Heating V- Lessens spasm; Pain Electrolyte balance; Hypertension, Hot flashes, Water rock salt, Heavy P+ relief; Promotes Stimulate salivation and Wrinkles; Hair loss; Swelling; Fire kelp Oily K+ Growth; digestion; Improves Skin conditions; Hyperacidity absorption of food and elimination of waste Pungent cayenne, Light, V+ Clarity; Perception; Improves digestion, Infertility; Diarrhea; Heartburn; Fire mustard, Drying, P++ Extroversion eliminations; Clears Nausea; Colitis; Fainting; Air onion, Heating K- congestion; Stimulates Tremors; Insomnia; Pain; garlic, circulation; Kills Asthma; Skin conditions ginger pathogens Bitter coffee, Cooling V+ Clears toxins; Desire Kills pathogens; Depletion; Infertility; Dryness; Air aloe, Light P- to change; Grieving Reduces fat, bone Fainting Ether squash Dry K- marrow and wastes Astringt Sprouts, Cooling V+ Clarity; Introversion Heals ulcers; Promotes Xerostomia; Speech disorders; Air unripe Dry P- clotting Neuromuscular disorders; Earth banana Heavy K+ Constipation; Arrhythmia 8
My digestive system is talking to me? Yes, it is! Appetite Digestive symptoms Stool 9
How your digestive system is communicating with you Excess Vata Pitta Kapha Low; variable;full Strong; excessive; hungry Low in am; most active Appetite quickly soon after eating late night Symptoms Gas; bloating; cramping; Heartburn; heat; pungent Sluggish digestion; food pain gas; inflammation coma; heaviness; bloating long term; weight gain Constipation; hard; dry; Loose to diarrhea; yellow- Easy movement; mucous; Stool nuggets; lots of gas at red-green; feels hot postprandial; smell of night; darker color; least coming out; ribbony; decay smelly pungent odor; urgency 10
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