News — pitta

  Happy Holidays! Another year has passed and here we are amidst the joy and chaos that this time of year always brings around. The holiday season usually symbolizes warmth, happiness and a true infectious spirit of giving and of gratitude...and lots of emotions. There's excitement about the holidays and new beginnings of the new year. But there is also this darker emotion, of anxiety over fears for the future as the year comes to an end. From an Ayurvedic perspective, if fear is present, it can increase the weightiness of our earthy Kapha and anxiety or any frustration with...

According to the seasonal cycles, summer is considered to be Pitta season, where the energetic principles of Fire and Water are strongest. It is during that summer when the Pitta dosha, inherently driven by solar force, is most present, as it is made up of the Fire and Water elements. Time for healthy beverages, sunbathing, and swimming! This combination is really rather complimentary. Pitta exists as water or oil (in the body)—which protects the tissues from the fire aspect. Pitta is the principle of transformation and heat; it is responsible for all chemical and metabolic conversions in the body that create...

You are what you eat in Ayurveda and healing your acid reflux is just a few modifications away! According to Ayurveda, pitta is the heat or fire energy within every cell and mainly located in the stomach area. This means that eating too many heat producing foods like tomatoes, sour citrus fruits, spicy chillies, and alcohol can aggravate the digestive tract to overreact with an increase in acid production. And with increase stomach acid, even in Western medicine, it presents as symptoms indigestion. This could lead to more serious conditions such as peptic ulcers and even inflammatory disorders if the...