The Ayurvedic diet is based on the principles of Ayurvedic medicine and focuses on balancing different types of energy within your body, which is said to improve health. It is an eating pattern that's been around for thousands of years. In Ayurveda, there are six tastes that can be found in our diet: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Pungent (spicy), Bitter, Astringent. To maintain proper health it is necessary to consume food with all these tastes. I have found that bitter is one taste that is commonly missing from daily diet.
Bitter taste?
To encourage my kids to eat bitter foods like bitter gourd, I would ask them, “What do you feel like on putting a bitter item into your mouth?”
“Feel like spitting it out.”
“Right, so when this reaches the cells of your body, that is what they would do. They spit out all the toxins inside and your body remains healthy.”
This approach, along with giving Reiki to the food made sure they developed healthy eating habit.
A leaf a day
When I had sciatica type pain years back, I started eating parijat leaves, which gives relief. Later I made it a habit to eat one parijat leaf every day in the morning. It makes sure I have my bitter taste for the day. The leaves juice is bitter and works as a tonic. Its decoction is excellent for arthritis, constipation, and worm infestation. The beautiful parijat flowers are steeped in boiled water to make tea for drinking.
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