Kapha food program below:
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Kapha Vata balancing diet
Kapha dosha is cold, dry, and heavy. Favor foods that are light, moist, and warm. Foods with pungent and sour tastes are beneficial for pacifying Kapha-Vata. Sweet and bitter tastes can be reduced.
Recommendations
1. Dairy products tend to increase Kapha and decrease Vata. All dairy is best taken warm with a small amount of spices such as ginger and cardamom.
2. Fruits are best when they are sour and not overly ripened or sweet. Fruit in general should not be a staple of the diet but is all right for occasional use.
3. Honey is the best sweetener.
4. Legumes are best cooked in a pressure cooker with warm spices. As they contain earth and air, they are heavy and dry which can harm both doshas when digestion is weak.
5. Favor the grains of Amaranth, basmati rice, brown rice, buckwheat, quinoa, wild rice.
6. Eat dry roasted and lightly salted nuts. Pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and piñon (pine nuts) are best.
7. All spices are pacifying to Kapha-Vata.
8. The diet should consist primarily of cooked vegetables. However, occasional use of raw vegetables is all right as long as there is no constipation or gas.
9. For non-vegetarians, bone broth. chicken and turkey (dark meat), fish (fresh river and sea) are acceptable.
Recommendations
1. Dairy products tend to increase Kapha and decrease Vata. All dairy is best taken warm with a small amount of spices such as ginger and cardamom.
2. Fruits are best when they are sour and not overly ripened or sweet. Fruit in general should not be a staple of the diet but is all right for occasional use.
3. Honey is the best sweetener.
4. Legumes are best cooked in a pressure cooker with warm spices. As they contain earth and air, they are heavy and dry which can harm both doshas when digestion is weak.
5. Favor the grains of Amaranth, basmati rice, brown rice, buckwheat, quinoa, wild rice.
6. Eat dry roasted and lightly salted nuts. Pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and piñon (pine nuts) are best.
7. All spices are pacifying to Kapha-Vata.
8. The diet should consist primarily of cooked vegetables. However, occasional use of raw vegetables is all right as long as there is no constipation or gas.
9. For non-vegetarians, bone broth. chicken and turkey (dark meat), fish (fresh river and sea) are acceptable.
VATA-Kapha Chutney
- 1/3 cup orange juice
- 3/4 cup chopped peeled ginger root
- 2 pinches of salt
- 1/2 cup soaked raisins
Combine ingredients in food processor and grind to desired texture.
Vata-Kapha Churna
Ingredients:
Preparation:
1. Put all ingredients in an electric grinder or spice mill and grind them.
2. Store in airtight container such as a glass jar.
- 2 Tbl. whole coriander seeds
- 1 Tbl. ground ginger
- 1 Tbl. whole cumin seeds
- 1 Tbl. ground turmeric
- 1 Tbl. ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp. ground clove
Preparation:
1. Put all ingredients in an electric grinder or spice mill and grind them.
2. Store in airtight container such as a glass jar.
Vata-Kapha Tea
- 1 part Ginger
- 1 part Cardamom
- 1/4 part Cinnamon
- 1/8 part Turmeric
- 1/8 part Licorice
- 1/16 part Saffron
Mix ½ tsp in a cup of boiled water ans steep for 5 minutes and then strain.