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Eating for the Season
Written by John Joseph Immel |
Late Winter / Spring - Mid-January - Mid May
The spring is a watery season of warming temperatures. Snow melts making the rivers full and muddy. Warm temperatures encourage tender young sprouts and sweet sap to run in the vasculature of maple trees. Our internal landscape reflects mother nature's. Spring is a time of cleansing and renewal. Kapha fat melts away from tissues, along with toxins, and into the blood, making the blood sweet. Blood plasma and toxins are our metaphorical maple syrup and muddy river, releasing a flood of mucus in allergy season.- Read more from Melting Fat & Shedding Dogs: Late Winter & Early Spring in Ayurveda
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Summer - Mid-May to September
Dry Summer Climates
The summer sun dries out the bodily tissues, reduces appetite and aggravates pitta. Eat a pitta pacifying diet with sweet, oily, cold and liquid foods making sure they are light for digestion. Avoid pungent and sour tastes. View a diet for Dry Summer Climates.Humid Summer Climates
Hot, humid weather is sour weather and causes rashes, irritability, and lethargy. Eat a pitta and kapha pacifying diet favoring cold and astringent. Avoid alcohol, other ferments and sour taste. Favor bitters instead. Tikta Ghrta is a popular herb formula to reduce pitta and kapha in humid summer months. View a diet for Humid Summer ClimatesTrouble with Poison Ivy?
Autumn/Early Winter: September - January
Cooling temperatures pull blood inward to the core as the body scrambles to protect itself from heat loss. The extremities lose access to blood and warmth, drying out the skin on the arms, legs and eventually the colon. The core of the body rich with blood, conversely, improves appetite just in time to nourish and insulate the skin with a fresh layer of fat.Articles in this Topic
Dog Days of Summer: Why Our Appetite Gets Lazy
When Pigs Fly - Preventing Swine Flu with Ayurveda
Why Grandma Gives You Chicken Soup
Special Halloween Article: My Granola Bar is a Vampire
Warm Socks & Home Remedies to Build Resilience for the Fall
Eating Out & Healthy Holiday Indulging
Melting Fat & Shedding Dogs: Late Winter & Early Spring in Ayurveda
questions & comments
I am in Northern California and we are in Summer. What diet do we follow now, please inform me?
- Jessica Fols-Woody, Benicia, CA , 08-22-11
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