05/21/2024
Imbalances
Do you remember the post about which dosha you are, vata, pitta or kapha? Each dosha also has an imbalance which is more important than what dosha you are born with. When you know which one you are imbalanced in, then you can figure out how to balance yourself to free yourselves of illness and disease.
Pitta has hot, oily, sharp, light, sour, fluid, and pungent attributes. It has summer qualities which means you can become prone to access pitta in the summer especially if you are mostly pitta dosha. In Ayurveda, like increases like so if you are feeling an imbalance in pitta, you want to do the opposite. Pitta is part of digestion and metabolism so the main ways to be pitta imbalanced is indigestion, heart burn, or diarrhea.
Burning sensations throughout the body
Red, irritated skin
Particularly stinky sweat
Fever
Inflammation
A hypercritical or intense mental outlook
Sensitivity to the sun
Hot flashes
Excessive thirst
Quick to anger
Feeling impatience and frustration
Feeling resentful or judgmental of others
Food for pitta imbalance
Eliminate or reduce your intake of alcohol, coffee, heavy meats, and fried, oily, salty, spicy, and sour foods.
Use fennel seeds, coriander, fenugreek, and fresh lime juice, turmeric, cumin, Peppermint, and dill for seasoning.
Kale, Dandelion greens, Collard greens, Lettuce, Cucumber, Cilantro, Bok choy, Wheatgrass, Asparagus, Green beans, Spinach, Okra, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Artichoke, Celery, Watercress, Jicama, Alfalfa sprouts, Bean sprouts, Brussels sprouts, Cabbage, Summer squash, Zucchini
Chick peas, black beans, lentils, basmati rice and Quinoa.
Avoid getting too hot during workouts
Take breaks from work, pittas tend to be work focused and driven.
Calm music
Breathing techniques and meditation.
