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Ayurveda is a traditional Eastern system of medicine, which is based on the idea that the proper diet helps to balance the body and ensure good health.  In Ayurveda, it is believed that every baby is born with 1 of 3 different types of Ayurvedic makeup (aka "dosha"). Each dosha (pronounced doe-shah) requires different types of food to keep them happy and healthy. 

Below is a list of recommended baby food recipes by dosha type. If you don't know your baby's dosha type, click here to determine your baby's dosha type first. 

Please note that these are just suggestions.  If you want to make your own food combos, check out the full list below of what foods are best by dosha type so you can mix and match and make your own baby food recipes.  

SUGGESTED BABY FOOD RECIPES:

The Vata Baby:

  • Fruit: avocados, bananas, blueberries
  • Veggies: carrots, green beans, sweet peas, sweet potatoes
  • Grains: brown rice, oatmeal
  • BABY FOOD RECIPES FOR VATA BABIES
    • 1 banana + 1 cup blueberries + 1/2 avocado
    • 3 bananas + 2/3 cup blueberries + 1/2 cup green beans
    • 3 bananas + 2 cups cooked brown rice + 2 tsps cinnamon
    • 1/2 banana roasted + 1/2 cup blueberries roasted + 1/2 cup oatmeal
    • 1/3 cup carrots + 1 cup sweet potatoes + 1/4 cup brown rice + water
    • 1 cup sweet peas + 1 cup green beans + 2 avocados
    • 1 cup sweet peas + 1 cup sweet potatoes

        The Pitta Baby:

        • Fruit: apples, avocados, bananas, blueberries, butternut squash
        • Veggies: green beans, kale, sweet peas, sweet potatoes
        • Grains: oatmeal
        • BABY FOOD RECIPES FOR PITTA BABIES
          • 1 apple + 1 banana + 1 whole butternut squash
          • 2 apples + 1 cup blueberries (fresh or frozen)
          • 4 apples + 1/2 cup kale (fresh or frozen)
          • 1 apple + 1 sweet potato (peeled & steamed) + 3/4 cup water
          • 1 banana + 1/2 cup oatmeal cooked
          • 1 banana + 1/2 cup blueberries + 1/2 avocado + (optional) 1/2 cup oatmeal cooked
          • 2 cup sweet peas + 1 cup green beans + 1/2 avocado
          • 1 whole sweet potato + 2 cups oatmeal (cooked)

        The Kapha Baby:

        • Fruit: apples, pears
        • Veggies: cauliflower, kale, sweet potatoes
        • Grains: brown rice, oatmeal
        • BABY FOOD RECIPES FOR KAPHA BABIES
          • 4 apples + 1/2 cup kale (fresh or frozen)
          • 1 apple + 1 sweet potato (peeled & steamed) + 3/4 cup water
          • 1 apple + 1 pear + pinch of cinnamon + (optional) 1. 5 cups oatmeal
          • 1/2 apple + 1 cup brown rice (cooked)
          • 2 pears + 1 cup oatmeal (cooked)
          • 1/2 lb cauliflower + 1 apple
          • 1/2 lb cauliflower + 1 pear
          • 1 sweet potato + 1 cup kale
          • 1 whole sweet potato + 2 cups brown rice (cooked)

        FULL LIST OF BABY FOODS BY DOSHA:

        Note: Try to limit or avoid the foods that aren't good for your baby's dosha. Eating those foods can lead to gas, constipation, and overall fussiness.

        Vata Pitta Kapha
        apples x x
        apricot x x
        asparagus x x
        avocado x x
        bananas x x
        basmati rice x x
        beets x x
        black beans x x
        blueberry (blueberries) x x
        broccoli x x
        brown rice x x
        butternut squash x x
        carrot x x
        cherries x x
        chicken x x
        cinnamon x x
        corn x
        cranberry x x
        cumin x x
        curry x x
        grapes x x
        green beans x x x
        kale x x
        kiwi x
        mango x
        millet x
        oatmeal x x
        orange x x
        papaya x
        peaches x
        pears x x
        peas x x
        pineapple x
        plums x
        pomegranate x x
        prunes x x
        pumpkin x
        quinoa x x x
        raspberry (raspberries) x x
        rice x x
        strawberry (strawberries) x x x
        sweet potato x x x
        wheat x x
        zucchini x x

         

         

         

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        WHOLESOME CEREAL

        Rice 1 measure

        Green lentil-awned ¼ measure

        A choice of vegetables 1 measure

        (Opt for cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, cucumber, club gourd, spinach, etc. ,or their combinations)

        A well ripened small tomato 1 number Whey or Buttermilk sufficient quantity 

        Cook the rice and lentils in a pressure cooker using adequate volume of water to soften the main ingredients. 

        Soften the tomato and vegetables together with sufficient water in a pressure cooker. Do not drain the excess water, if any.

        Allow it to cool.

        Take softened rice, whey or buttermilk (ensure that they are not sour). Also add other ingredients. Run it in a blender to obtain a soft, even paste suitable for your baby's age.

        Fruity Diet

        During the weaning period, Ayurveda prescribes an intermediary phase between milk and cereal feeding. At this stage the baby should be fed with fruit juices and mashed fruits. This practice may be started when the child attains 4 months of age and enters into the 5th month. This procedure of giving fruits is termed as Phalaprashan.

        The choice of fruits is unlimited. Ayurvedic physicians commonly prescribe juices of citrus fruits, mashed bananas, papaya and mango pulp. Among dry fruits, raisins are considered to be the most nutritious. This helps particularly if the child is intolerant to hunger reflexes. 

        With raisins, you could try this recipe:

        Take about 20-30 dried, seedless raisins (small variety grapes). Soak them in a little volume of water for about an hour. Mash them into a fine paste in water.

        Add a few drops of honey and clarified butter to this paste and blend well.

        Nutritious Pudding

        Rice or Wheat porridge 1 part

        Whole milk/Standardiased milk 2 parts

        Raisins 4 in number

        Cashew or Almond 1 nut

        Cardamom seeds 3 seeds

        Clarified butter ¼ teaspoonful

        Cook the rice or wheat porridge in milk (without adding water) in a pressure cooker.

        Heat the clarified butter in a bowl. Fry the cashew pieces and raisins till brown.

        Finely blend the cooked cereal, fried items and cardamom seeds into a paste.

        This recipe may be fed to your baby once a day (during afternoons). As a measure of precaution avoid feeding this to your baby at night.
         

        Summer Porridge

        Rice 1 measure

        Green lentil-awned ¼ measure

        A choice of vegetables* (*Cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, cucumber, club gourd, spinach, etc.)

        Small well ripened tomato 1 in number

        Salt a pinch

        Bishop's weed/ Cumin seeds 2-3 in number

        Clarified butter ¼ teaspoon

        Cook the rice and lentil together in a pressure cooker.

        Soften the vegetables using sufficient water. To this add salt, Bishop's weeds or Cumin seeds and clarified butter. Do not drain the excess water.

        Blend the cooked cereal and softened vegetables in a blender to obtain a soft lickable paste.

        The paste should be of adequate consistency to suit the baby's age. Feed your baby using a small teaspoon.

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        Every week, by Monday, I make a new menu for the child and hang it on the refrigerator so as not to think for a long time how to feed my son. But the principles of feeding always remain the same: when they passed into the status of a habit, it became quite easy to follow them, and I simply don’t think about them, says Yulia Ray, author of Mir and Martha’s Cookbook.

        Mode

        My son Mir is a vegetarian from birth, eats and sleeps by the hour, and his menu, plus or minus, takes into account the correct daily routine according to Ayurveda:
        Breakfast 1 - sweet food: smoothies or just fruits, berries .
        Breakfast 2 - porridge with melted butter, honey, dried fruits or eggless cheesecakes with sour cream and honey.
        Lunch is a basic nutritious meal like soup with legumes, beans and unleavened bread or pancakes with minced lentils.
        Snack - optional, fruits, nuts, smoothies, toast with urbech and honey.
        Dinner - light vegetable meal (salad, sauté, baked vegetables), porridge such as rice, buckwheat, amaranth or oven-baked potatoes with vegetables, herbs and spices.
        Dairy I give separately from other products either in the morning or at night: syrniki without eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese.

        Cooking

        The world only eats freshly prepared food - no storage, no reheating. We boil, fry, steam, stew, bake in the oven and use only ghee. The only thing we eat defrosted all year round is organic berries, which our beloved relatives from Ryazan gather for us in the summer in their huge garden and wild fields. My mother accidentally bought a professional 2m camera. And it’s also good if the dish is cooked for about five minutes, not counting, of course, the time for boiling, for example, beans.
        Very important points are the joint cooking, because it is a game, development, study of products. The world is responsible for laying cheesecakes in a frying pan (cold), for turning on the dishwasher, for taking out cutlery and kneading dough for cookies.

        Liquid

        Water - the first time the world tried it at 6 months, I did not supplement it while he was exclusively on breastfeeding. Dried fruit compotes, simply drenched in boiling water for a while: the favorite and sweetest is apricots. We drink before and a little during meals. No sodas or tea.

        Snacks and sweets

        The world eats only at the table - this is a conscious upbringing of children. Options on the couch, watching cartoons or in bed are excluded. Snacks, of course, he happens. Optionally - homemade oatmeal cookies, dried fruit sweets, natural chocolate with honey raisins, nuts, fruit. Like all children, he loves sweets, starchy foods, so I just try to choose healthy, and if it didn’t work out, then it doesn’t matter, we’ll eat shamelessly in the morning!

        Vitamins, protein and other fears of vegetarians

        Lack of vitamins and protein can overtake everyone, nutrition is not the only factor here. The quality of products, climate, seasonality of products in your country, lifestyle are important. But I found the optimal balance in the variety of food - every day is similar to the previous one in terms of regimen, but completely different in content. Every day, a child (and an adult too) should receive proteins, carbohydrates, different tastes from sweet to salty, more fresh fruits and vegetables. And the combination of products such as cereals + legumes + seeds, nuts during the day, create a complete chain of amino acids, which is called protein.

        Shopping together

        Especially visiting the markets, where all the food is in plain sight without packaging, allows the child to take part in the choice. By the color of fruits, for example, you can instinctively choose those vitamins that a person needs right now. Just pull. Plus a lot of developing experience, forms, textures, names, elementary rules of conduct, the ability to ask, buy, carry a cart. I really like to go shopping with the World, although sometimes you have to spend twice as much time shopping, as you understand.

        Buckwheat pancakes with lentils - a recipe from the Cookbook of Mir and Martha

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        3. Then prepare the minced meat: grind the boiled lentils, fried asafoetida spice in oil, dried herbs in a blender to a pulp, and then add salt.
        4. Now put the stuffing in the pancakes and roll them into tubes. Fry lightly in a pan.

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        Proper nutrition in Ayurveda, Recommendations for doshas.

        Ayurveda is the only system of medical knowledge that recognizes the existence of individual types of metabolism.

        “What is food for one is poison for another” - says a well-known proverb. Knowledge of individual characteristics helps in the selection of products and cooking, in the selection of herbs and vitamins. It is vital to know what kind of food suits us and what does not, because it depends on whether we will strengthen our health or lose it.

        From an Ayurvedic point of view, food is medicine. Inadequate nutrition is the first physical factor in imbalance and disease, and proper diet is a necessary condition for the prevention and treatment of disease. This applies equally to the body and the mind. Our mood is directly related to food. Therefore, everything you eat affects not only the physical well-being, but also the state of mind.

        You can determine the type of your dosha (prakriti) by passing the Dosha Test for of this page of our site.

        Diet that soothes Vata Dosha:

        Favorable for this dosha:

        • warm, not too heavy food;
        • use of oil and fat;
        • salty, sour and sweet tastes;
        • food that brings peace and satisfaction.

        Vata is a cold, dry dosha, so warm, nutritious food common in winter (stews, soups, casseroles, freshly baked bread, and fruit pies) will calm her down nicely. The food we prefer in summer - cold salads, chilled drinks, fresh vegetables and herbs - is not very suitable for her.

        Vata types often have unstable digestion, soft, easily digestible food will help them.

        Vata dosha is also very sensitive to the environment when eating. The best food in the world won't do you any good if the tense atmosphere around the table makes your stomach churn. Anything that makes eating more peaceful and quiet will help calm Vata dosha.

        Vata balancing diet is the best for all this type. Starting to follow a diet, you will notice how new forces are pouring in, and you will feel calmer and happier. If you are experiencing mild symptoms of unbalanced Vata - insomnia, nervousness and restlessness - you should turn to the same diet. Stick to it for at least two weeks.

        Ayurvedic physician's dietary recommendations for Vata dosha:

        • , stews, hot cereals and freshly baked bread. All these foods, mostly warm and not very heavy, have a sweet taste, most soothing to the body.
        • A nutritious breakfast (heavy is best) will keep Vata going throughout the day. Rice or wheat cream are the best cereals for Vata; everything warm, milky and sweet also has a beneficial effect on it.
        • Many people belonging to the Vata type feel a sharp decline in energy at the end of the day. Hot tea with cookies or other natural sweets will help them.
        • Spicy flavors are not Vata's favorites, but spicy foods are generally liked by this type, as spicy Mexican or Indian foods tend to be warm and rich in oil. Ginger is an ideal spice for Vata and is often used to improve digestion. And sweet spices such as cinnamon, fennel or cardamom help Vata people to restore their appetite, which they often lack.
        • Warm liquid food has a very calming effect on Vata. Flour dishes and cereals are the best for her. When you're nervous, anxious, or overwhelmed, a bowl of hot oatmeal or vegetable soup with sour cream will do you much more good than candy or alcohol.
        • Although the sweet taste is favorable for this type, sugar, eaten in its pure form, causes a quick burst of energy, making Vata restless. Warm milk is a sweet food and is very good for Vata, especially if some honey is added to it.
        • Sweets prepared with a lot of sugar should be paired with a nutritious sweet food such as milk.
        • Salted nuts are better than any dry and salty snacks; heavy and oily, they have two Vata pacifying qualities. For her, there is nothing better than almonds. Ayurveda recommends that before eating, peel the almonds; the usual advice is to soak a dozen unpeeled almonds overnight, then peel and eat in the morning to balance Vata. Tahini (sesame paste) is an excellent source of nutrients, one of the best dishes for warming and balancing Vata.
        • For representatives of the Vata type, all sweet fruits are good, but especially green grapes, apricots, melons, mangoes. Astringent fruits, such as apples and pears, require cooking (it is better to bake apples with honey). Unripe, highly astringent fruits should be avoided, especially unripe bananas, as well as watermelon and sour berries.
        • Cold, soft and low-calorie food increases Vata, causing a feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're partial to salads, let them come to room temperature and dress with oil to make them a more balanced meal. The same applies to fresh vegetables. Eat them in moderation and not cold. As a rule, all vegetables require cooking with a little oil, this method is better than steaming. As a result, many vegetables will become more acceptable for Vata dosha.
        • When you are going to have dinner, ask for a glass of warm water and drink it in small sips, instead of a salad, eat a bowl of hot soup. Indulge in bread, butter and dessert, preferably warm.
        • Hot porridge for lunch is an unusual dish, but extremely useful for people suffering from exacerbation of Vata dosha. Rice served with oiled lentils and rich soup are also very good. All types of pastes have a very calming effect on this dosha. It's great to have a glass of warm milk before going to bed, but eating late at night is still unhealthy, and although it will help you sleep, it will make you feel worse in the morning.
        • Lassi (traditional Indian drink) will rid the body of excess Vata. To prepare it, beat half a cup of regular kefir with half a cup of water, add a pinch of crushed ginger, salt or cumin. Sweet lassi is made from equal proportions of kefir and mango pulp.

          • Pitta Calming Diet

          Favorable for this dosha:

          • cold or warm (but not scalding hot) food;
          • moderately heavy food, without oil and fat additives;
          • bitter, sweet or astringent taste.

          Pitta Dosha people are born with good, strong digestion, and if it is not spoiled, it will remain so. Representatives of the Pitt type are closest to the ideal, since they can eat a little of everything, but they should not abuse all sorts of diets. If they eat a LOT of salty foods, overindulge in sour and spicy foods, or overeat, which they tend to do, for a long time, this can end in unpleasant consequences.

          Pitta is a hot dosha and therefore prefers cold food, especially in summer. Everything bitter and astringent (mainly vegetables) is excellent for people of this type. These two races curb appetite, remove excess moisture and irritate the palate. They also counteract the blunting effect that excess salt and sugar has on the taste buds, thereby helping Pitt type people to moderate their appetite and make it what nature should be.

          Anything that can make eating more peaceful and orderly helps to calm this dosha.

          The following Pitta-pacifying diet is suitable for all Pitta types. This diet is good for people suffering from symptoms of medium Pitta imbalance: heartburn, irritability or excessive thirst.

          Ayurvedic doctor's dietary recommendations for Pitta dosha:

          • Cold or chilled food with reduced salt, oil and spices to warm the body is most beneficial for Pitta people. Salads, both cold and light, have two flavors, bitter and astringent, that balance Pitta. Milk and ice cream are also good for her.
          • An excess of Pitta increases the acidity in the body. To prevent this, you should, as a rule, avoid pickles, kefir, sour cream and cheese. The exception is natural lemon juice, which can be used in moderation in place of vinegar.
          • Enzymatic foods, acid present in coffee and alcoholic beverages aggravate Pitta. Learn to drink herbal tea - menthol with licorice root or a special one that soothes Pitta (ingredients: coriander, cumin, anise, fresh cilantro)
          • Cold porridge, a slice of cinnamon bread and apple juice for breakfast are a great substitute for coffee, pie and orange juice that bother Pitta.
          • Fatty meat, also warming the body, is not required for Pitta type people. Although they love meat, a vegetarian diet benefits them more than any other type. If you are not a vegetarian, make sure you have enough milk, grains, and vegetables in your diet. In this case, Pitta will feel good.
          • Fried, fatty, hot, salty and heavy foods have a set of qualities that Pitta should avoid. Starchy foods - all vegetables, fruits and legumes - satisfy Pitta and curb her intense hunger. The sustained energy provided by a high carbohydrate diet will counter Pitta's tendency to overeat when stressed.
          • Industrial and fast food restaurants are often salty or sour and should be avoided by Pitt type people. Since this type loves luxury, a quiet, tastefully furnished restaurant will be the most suitable for them. Japanese and Chinese cuisines, which are relatively low in fat and meat, provide good food for Pitta.
          • If you are eating out, order a glass of cold but not ice-cold water, have salad instead of hot soup, bread with a little butter, and donate dessert. Spicy food excites Pitta too much. If you like Mexican cuisine, eat cheese and sour cream, eat a cold vegetable salad, which counteracts the severe aggravation of Pitta, which is caused by hot peppers.
          • Pitta tolerates lightly salted food, but if the food is too bland, she will quickly rebel. Removing salt from the dinner table and adding it only during cooking is a good compromise. A savory snack cocktail reflects worse on people like Pitt than on anyone else. Dry salty food along with alcohol excites the appetite and irritates the gastric mucosa.
          • A standard remedy for reducing aggravated Pitta is prepared as follows: Take two teaspoons of ghee (ghee) and stir it in a glass of warm milk. It also acts as a laxative to help flush out excess Pitta from the body. Drink milk with ghee after or instead of a light meal. You can also drink milk for breakfast. (This remedy is not suitable for those who have high cholesterol in the blood)

          General recommendations for Pitt Doshi at this link

          Diet, soothing capu

          For this dosha are favorable for this dosha:

          • warm, light food;
          • dry food prepared with a little water;
          • the minimum amount of butter or vegetable oil and sugar;
          • pungent, bitter and astringent tastes;

          Kapha is too slow a dosha to detect food cravings. But over time, overeating sweet and fatty Kapha people lose their balance. They may have other problems, but in today's society, where sugar and fat account for more than half of the calories consumed on average, people of this type should beware of their influence.

          Care must also be taken with salt, the excessive use of which causes fluid stagnation in the body in many representatives of the Kapha type.

          Preference should be given to all light modest breakfast and dinner, lightly boiled or fried foods, fresh vegetables and fruits. Spicy food improves digestion and warms the body; bitter and astringent, curbs the appetite. Any stimulating food helps balance Kapha and guards against the habit that most people of this type have of overindulgence in food.

          The following soothing diet is ideal for all Kapha individuals, especially in the case of symptoms of a medium balance of this dosha - persistent runny nose or constant sleepiness.

          Ayurvedic doctor's recommendations for nutrition for Kapha dosha:

          • Choose hot ice cream over cold food among all meals: eat hot sandwich instead of salad. For Kapha balance, it is always good to warm up cold foods. For people of this type, dishes prepared without water (baked, fried on the stove or in a grill and a saucepan) are preferable to dishes cooked in steam or in boiling water.
          • Eat something spicy or bitter instead of salty or sour before eating to increase your appetite. Bitter lettuce, chicory, endive or tonic will wake up your taste buds and keep you from overeating at the same time. We advise you to drink ginger tea or add a pinch of fresh ginger to your food. In general, you should be sure that there are bitter and astringent flavors in every dish. However, there is no need for a lot of bitter food, a little bit of bitterness in a salad and viscosity in herbal dressings are enough. Common spices that are both bitter and pungent are cumin, fenugreek, sesame seed, and turmeric.
          • The best way to balance Kapha is to include hot spices in your diet. All spices are good, as well as Mexican or Indian food rich in them, from which tears well up in your eyes, thereby cleansing the mucous membranes. Contrary to popular belief, spicy and spicy foods are healthier not in summer, but in winter, when they compensate for the cold and damp that irritate Kapha.
          • Breakfast is necessary for Kapha type people - in order to cheer up in the morning, and not to thoroughly get enough. To invigorate them, it is better to drink coffee and excite the body with light foods that reduce Kapha: hot spiced cider, buckwheat pancakes with apple butter, corn muffins, bitter cocoa made from skimmed milk with a little honey. As a rule, everything hot and light is good, while heavy and cold is less useful. Cold cereals, cold juice or milk, sugary confectionery often lead to stagnation in the body, especially in wet winter weather. Bacons and sausages containing salt and vegetable oil aggravate Kapha. If you don't feel hungry in the morning, it's best to skip breakfast, which Ayurveda considers optional, especially for Kapha people.
          • If you feel stagnation in the body in the morning - a sign of excess Kapha, you should resort to honey, hot water, lemon juice or ginger. Hot ginger tea is an excellent drink for this type of person as it has a stimulating effect on their body and flushes out excess Kapha. If you accidentally skip a meal, which is not bad for most of this type, then a full-tablespoon of honey diluted in hot water will help you make up for this loss.
          • Although it is difficult for many Kapha people to limit their intake of sweets, a week-long low-sugar diet usually gives good results, and they begin to feel lighter, more energetic. Honey is recommended for the Kapha type, but you should not eat more than a tablespoon per day. It must be remembered that honey is unsuitable for cooking using heat, as according to Ayurveda, when heated, it makes food harmful.
          • Out of balance Kapha leads to the fact that people of this type begin to love milk,
          • Butter, ice cream and sweets are food that is completely unhealthy for them, cooling and overloading the body.
          • Another thing is skimmed milk, preferably boiled, in order to aid digestion, and a minimal amount of other dairy products. A bun and bread sprinkled with sesame seeds will help neutralize sweet, heavy foods, also bad for Kapha. Due to the combination of too many heavy sweets, hamburgers, milkshakes or even sandwiches with milk should be consumed infrequently.
          • Fresh fruits, vegetables and salads are very useful for this type of people, as the fibrous structure is good for the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, these products give an astringent taste. As a rule, Ayurveda recommends cooked food, but fruits, salads and vegetables are exceptions and are beneficial for most Kaphas.
          • Aggravates Kapha and deep fried foods. Try to eliminate it from your diet. There is no need to completely eliminate fats, just use less oil when cooking. Corn oil warms the body; in a small amount, it will benefit you, as well as almond or sunflower. Lightly season the steamed vegetables with clarified butter for a wonderful light dinner. Kapha is also balanced by any crumbly, fresh and stimulating food.
          • Kapha people should be more careful with restaurant food. Meals in fast food cafes are often too fatty, salty or sweet.
          • Also try not to overuse salad dressings in diners. When dining in good restaurants, keep in mind that the lightest cuisine is oriental, especially if you order not meat, but vegetables. Wherever you go, ask for a glass of hot water instead of an iced drink, have a salad instead of hot soup (but not in cold weather), refrain from muffins and butter, and cut back on dessert: fruit tarts (apricot, cherry, pear, apples, plums)

          General recommendations for Kapha dosha at this link

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          Eating rules.

          "Even food, which is the life of living beings, destroys life if taken improperly, while poison, which by its very nature destroys life, acts like an elixir if taken properly."

          Treatise Charaka-samhita, Original dated 1st century AD

          He lists the following as the basic rules of a healthy diet:

          • Eat food warm, it helps digestion.
          • Eat oily food - it kindles the digestive fire and nourishes the body.
          • Eat food in the right combinations.
          • Eat in a quiet place, clean, alone or with loved ones (remember: food, toilet, sex and meditation should not be taken out in public).
          • Eat neither too fast nor too slow.
          • Eat without laughing or talking.
          • Do not eat when you are hungry and do not abstain from eating when you are hungry.
          • Do not eat when angry or depressed.
          • Do not eat immediately after a bowel movement.
          • Try to keep as long as possible between meals.

          Follow two other basic conditions:

          • Eat fresh food all year round, preferably those that grow in the area where you live.
          • Avoid foods that do not grow in the current season in the area. For example, eat less tomatoes or lettuce in winter, less grains in summer, no fruits brought unripe from other areas, etc.

          According to Ayurveda, no food is good or bad by nature.

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