August 25, 2024 - How Ayurveda works - practical case, tested on me

 

This morning I woke up annoyed. Whatever annoyed me, my husband talking too much, the ducks quacking too loudly, the dogs standing in my way too much, the sun was already too hot, I wanted to take some yesterday's cut potatoes out of a bowl and got my hands dirty because there were a few drops of oil in the water and that irritated me to the max. You get the idea - I was in a crazy mood to argue. And before I started looking for a knot in someone's butt, I decided to see what was wrong with me...nerves, anger, irritation mean unbalanced pitta dosha. That means too much fire in the body.

Let me remind you of the three constitutions in Ayurveda: pitta (80% fire and 20% water), vata (air and ether) and kapha (earth and water). When you are nervous, irritated and nothing goes your way, it means pitta is unbalanced. When you are anxious, fearful, have the feeling that something bad is going to happen, you are sitting with fear and stress or your head is in the clouds and you can't gather yourself, it means that vata is not quite right. And when you are depressed and you can't get up, kapha is to blame. Here are tests to see what constitution you have and other details about Ayurveda.

And I sit like this and think about what I did yesterday:

- I ate shakshouka with warm toast in the morning (lots of tomatoes in sauce, lots of tomato juice, sour, warm and brown bread, lots of fire in everything),

- I spent half a day in the sun washing some jars that I took out of the cellar, again fire and heat,

- in the evening I made a barbecue on the disc, I sat in the heat, plenty of flames under the disc, barbecue is a food that accumulates a lot of fire in it for obvious reasons;

- I drank red wine after the barbecue, again fire;

- after the meal I lit a candle on the table, so ambient, a bright orange candle and very fragrant with the aroma of oranges (again a lot of fire and intense smell);

- I ate a few slices of salami biscuits with a lot of cocoa, again fire food.

How can I not wake up irritated at how much fire energy I gathered the day before? Especially since my main constitution is pitta, meaning maximum potential for fire imbalance.

When a dosha becomes unbalanced (meaning one of the constitutions) this does not happen because of the food but is an accumulation of factors gathered from all our senses - taste, smell, sight, touch, etc. I ate a lot of fire foods, I sat in the heat, I looked at the fire... it was expected that too much fire energy would accumulate in me.

Okay, okay. I identified the problem. And now what to do?

Well, let's balance it with the opposite. Pitta is hot, dry, oily, sour, salty, spicy. This is how Ayurveda identifies it. We act in all ways with the opposite. That is, we eat sweet and bitter food, stay cool, drink lots of liquids, preferably cold or as cool as possible. I made an Ayurvedic pitta tea (sweet-bitter). I really like Everest Ayurveda teas. I'm not paid to promote them. I just like them. Hand-picked plants from clean areas in Nepal and mixtures designed by an Ayurveda specialist doctor with whom the company collaborates. Then I drank water, made myself a chicken soup with carrot (sweet) and bell pepper (bitter) which I ate warm. Today I'm staying more indoors in the cool and less in the sun. My nerves went away after the soup and tea in about half an hour. Ah...and I drank the tea in a blue mug that gives me a feeling of coolness. I also have a similar pink mug that gave me a feeling of warmth and I couldn't look at it. As I was saying, colors also matter because visually we can lose our balance.

This is my experience.

I will come back with new discoveries. I have been studying Ayurveda for a short time, but it amazes me how precisely it works and how good I feel. By the way, I am not constipated at all anymore. I find it fantastic. Since the last article about Ayurveda, my digestion has remained as good as ever after balancing vata (i.e. dryness in the body with oils, fats and tea).

Good health to everyone,

Geo