Category Archives: Food

Ayurvedic Diets for Balancing the Doshas. According to Ayurveda diet is medicine — a good regimen of diet is worth a hundred drugs but no amount of drugs can overcome a poor regimen of diet. Dietetics include what to eat, when to eat, how to eat, and how to cook plus their opposites. These articles are good for persons in health and ill health.

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  Ama – Toxins – Undigested Food

  Posted on January 12, 2012 by Bay Area Ayurvedic Doctors, Acupuncturists, Medical Doctors in Agni, Ama, Cooking Herbs, Diets, Digestion - Agni, Food, Kapha

  Ama: raw, uncooked; toxins; a toxic substance that impairs bodily or mental functions and can be physical, as in undigested food, or mental, as in any incomplete thought, experience or emotion; ama always arises from physical or mental indigestion. It is considered the root cause of many diseases. A general term for toxins within the [...]

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  Ahara Rasa

  Posted on January 12, 2012 by Bay Area Ayurvedic Doctors, Acupuncturists, Medical Doctors in Digestion - Agni, Glossary of Ayurveda, Rasa Dhatu

  Ahara Rasa: Nutritive juice that is the end product of digested food, formed about 12 hours after eating; the nutritional precursor of all bodily tissues; asthayi (unstable, unprocessed) form of rasa dhatu.

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  Ama and Toxins and Physiology

  Posted on January 11, 2012 by Bay Area Ayurvedic Doctors, Acupuncturists, Medical Doctors in Food, Vata

  Ama and Physiology   Balance or imbalance in physiology is traceable largely to the quality of either digestion or elimination.  Digestion is responsible for transforming all influences from the environment into something useful for physiology (here we call food, pollutants, radiation, and all sensory experience etc., influences).  If digestion is not good enough then the [...]

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  Clinical States of Agni – Digestion

  Posted on January 11, 2012 by Bay Area Ayurvedic Doctors, Acupuncturists, Medical Doctors in Cooking Herbs, Digestion - Agni, Food

  Clinical States of Agni / Digestion – A Self Assessment and Remedial Guidelines     Answer Yes or No to the following:   Appetite changeable Appetite changes with travel or some disruption of routine Sometimes can skip a meal with out noticing or without needing to eat Strong appetite usually but sometimes not Appetite good [...]

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