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You have spent a long hot afternoon tending your garden or chasing the kids and you're feeling parched. But sometimes, no matter how much water you drink, your body still feels thirsty. Simple water lacks the electrolytes your body needs to rehydrate. Without electrolytes, your kidneys simply can't hold onto your water. Instead, your vital fluids are quickly lost in your urine. Often, the best remedy for dehydration is a revitalizing balance of electrolytes and water.
Fresh, ripe fruits like bananas are the earth's pure nectar that will keep you cool & replenish fluids. refreshing and energizing your entire body. Bananas are the ideal delight on a hot summer afternoon for restoring electrolytes. If you are feeling a little sluggish, its natural sugars will restore your energy levels as well.
Feed Your Muscles
Do you ever feel tight cramps in the back of your legs, often called "charlie horses?" Muscle cramps are a common sign of low potassium, electrolyte and hydration levels. If your muscles are weak, tired or fatigued, consider muscle nourishing foods that restore your electrolytes like banana. Muscles depend on electrolytes for contraction as well as relaxation. Electrolytes, especially sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium, help your muscles function at optimal levels. Bananas are rich in potassium, plus their nourishing natural sugars fuel the strength your muscles need to help you work and play. So peel yourself a ripe banana, drop one in a smoothie, pull up a beach chair, and enjoy!
Calm Your Tummy
With its creamy, moist, sticky and soft texture, bananas have long been recommended to soothe intestinal irritation. Summer heat depletes protective mucus in the GI and overstimulates bile production in the liver, irritating your intestines. Soothe your discomfort and pacify excess heat with the unctuous banana. Bananas help to stimulate mucous production in your gut, which has an anti-acid and soothing effect on your stomach.
Bananas are heavier and harder to digest than most other ripe fruits. When spiced up with lime, ginger and/or cardamom (natural digestive aids), this super fruit is lighter and easier to digest.
Recipes with Banana: Banana Smoothie with Kale, Lime & Cardamom
Body-licious
Banana beauty benefits are varied and are considered one of nature's natural moisturizers. They impart luster on skin and hair, and whether enjoyed as a culinary delight, or used directly on your body (yes, even the banana peel), you will experience soft, smooth and glowing skin. Banana peels have been used topically to help with liver spots, hemorrhoids, and itching. Bananas are anti-bacterial.
Buying & Preparation
Unripe bananas will have a green hue, especially at the stem. Unripe bananas are highly astringent and cooling, helping to bind up stool and prevent diarrhea. Overripe bananas taste sour, perhaps even pungent, and are often soft or brown due to fermentation and alcohol content. Overripe bananas are Pitta provoking, causing looser stools. Perfectly ripe bananas are speckled. They taste smooth, sweet and mucilaginous.
Avoid putting bananas in the refridgerator, which will turn them brown. If your bananas are in danger of freezing, peel them and place them in a ziplock bag in the freezer. Then use them in your favorite smoothies.
Cooking Banana
Bananas may be fried, but turn to mush when cooked too long.
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AYURVEDA'S GUIDE TO VITALITY & WHOLESOME NOURISHMENT
Your Ayurvedic diet is tailored to your individual body and your specific imbalances.
With an Ayurvedic diet you feel joy and satisfaction because what you are eating truly nourishes and balances you.
Disease results from diets and lifestyles that are incompatible with your nature.
By eating a personalized diet matched to your body, you experience optimal health.
See How it Works.
Ayurveda assesses metabolic imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics
(gunas).
Aggravating them weakens your body and causes imbalance.
By knowing which biocharacteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct metabolic imbalances before you get sick.
Every biocharacteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold).
You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite biocharacteristic.
Taste is used to sense the most basic properties and effects of food.
Each taste has a specific medicinal effect on your body.
Cravings for food with certain tastes indicate your body is craving specific medicinal results from food.
Taste is experienced on the tongue and represents your body's reaction to foods.
Sweet taste causes physical satisfaction and attraction whereas bitter taste causes discomfort and aversion.
Kapha should use less sweet taste while Vata and Pitta would benefit from using more sweet taste.
One of the first signs of illness is that your taste and appetite for food changes.
The six tastes are sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent.
Do you crave foods with any of the tastes below?
Ayurveda is a metabolic theory of medicine that explains individual health, tendencies, and disease patterns through the concept of doshas, which can be understood as your metabolic patterns and tendencies.
Each dosha reflects a distinct metabolic nature and describes strengths & weaknesses in bodily function, and how these affect energy levels, digestion, susceptibility to disease, and many other tendencies.
Your metabolic nature not only affects your physical characteristics, but also influences your mental thought patterns, confidence, and enthusiasm.
Ayurveda balances these metabolic strengths & weaknesses to support your body's vitality and prevent recurrent disease cycles. This support is a critical aid, especially in chronic or incurable disease conditions.
The 3 metabolic body types
(doshas),
are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Through dosha, Ayurveda empowers people to identify metabolic imbalances early, break repetitive patterns of disease, and cultivate habits that support long-term vitality and well-being.
Ultimately, these metabolic patterns also provide a framework for understanding yourself, including body, mind, and spiritual tendencies.
Ayurveda & Greek Medicine were the dominant form of medicine along the Silk Road from England to China and South Asia.
They work by assessing your metabolic type, patterns, and nature.
Greek medicine recognizes 4 metabolic temperaments, Melancholic, Choleric, Sanguine, and Phlegmatic.
Has a hot and dry metabolic nature. Enthusiastic, vibrant and bright. In excess burns up fluids and ojas, irritable. Corresponds to high bilirubin in the blood that irritates and heats up the body and liver.
Cold and dry with a slow, variable or erratic metabolism. Colicky, tense. Withdrawn, pensive, anxious, and hesitant. Analytical, intelligent, detail oriented and creative. Prone to ojas depletion, dehydration, an overactive nervous system, and depression.
Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Banana
Experiences are Personal
Experiences vary according to the person and constitution. Individual results may vary.
The list of herbal-actions below has not be approved by the FDA and should not be used to treat a medical condition.
Encourages feelings of stability and heaviness. Makes you feel settled, mentally relaxed. Mildly sedates the nervous system to ease stress. Can bring a spacey or anxious person back to earth. Reduces agitation, irritation, stress and racing thoughts.
Antipruritics are herbs that inhibit itching, often associated with skin conditions such as sunburns, allergic reactions, eczema, psoriasis, chickenpox, fungal infections, insect bites, or contact dermatitis (as in poison ivy rashes).
In each study below, students from the
Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda ate the selected food for 3 days and reported the effects.
See other studies of food & herbs at Joyful Belly.
TEMPERATURE/CIRCULATION
How did Banana affect your temperature?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
8
15
2
1
Much colder
Slightly colder
Same
Slightly warmer
Much warmer
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your ear temperature?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
24
2
Hotter
No Change
Cooler
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your sweat quantity?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
24
1
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the color of your skin?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
0
0
26
Yellower/Greener
Paler
Redder
Grayer
No Change
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the color of your tongue body?
20
16
12
8
4
0
5
4
1
17
Paler
Redder
Bluer
No Change
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the swelling of your tongue body?
26
21
16
11
6
1
2
2
23
More Swelling
Less Swelling
No Change
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your appetite/hunger?
16
13
10
7
4
1
5
11
4
5
2
Much less hungry
Slightly less hungry
Same
Slightly hungrier
Much hungrier
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your digestion speed?
15
12
9
6
3
0
0
6
12
8
1
Much faster
Slightly faster
Same
Slightly slower
Much slower
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
TOXINS
How did Banana affect the amount of gas & bloating?
25
20
15
10
5
0
1
1
19
4
2
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your stool smell?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
3
20
4
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
Tongue: How did Banana affect the thickness & size of your tongue coating?
15
12
9
6
3
0
0
6
10
10
1
Much smaller
Slightly less
Same
Slightly larger coating
Much larger
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the color of your tongue coating?
20
16
12
8
4
0
2
0
0
10
15
Yellower
Browner
Grayer
Whiter
No Change
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your throat soreness?
25
20
15
10
5
0
1
21
5
More sore
No Change
Less sore
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your urine smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
24
2
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the amount of bubbles in your urine?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
23
3
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Many more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your sweat smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
25
0
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your acne?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
26
1
More acne
No Change
Less acne
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your freckles/moles?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
27
0
Darker
No Change
Lighter
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the color of your sclera (white part of eye)?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
0
0
0
1
Redder/Bloodshot
Yellower
Grayer
Browner
Whiter
25
No Change
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the color of the lower eye lid?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
25
1
More green/dark green
More purple
No Change
Less green/purple
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
HYDRATION
How did Banana affect your urine frequency/quantity?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
3
22
2
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the dryness of your skin?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
6
21
Drier
Oilier
No Change
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the puffiness of lower eye lid?
26
21
16
11
6
1
2
23
2
Puffier
No Change
Less Puffy
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the cracks on your tongue?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
0
17
10
0
Larger/longer/more cracks
Slightly more
Same
Slightly less/smaller/shorter
Much less
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
FLUID-THICKNESS
How did Banana affect your ear pressure?
30
24
18
12
6
0
4
23
0
More pressure
No Change
Less pressure
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your congestion?
22
18
14
10
6
2
6
18
3
More congestion
No Change
Less congestion
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the thickness of your mucous congestion?
20
16
12
8
4
0
8
18
1
More thick
No Change
Less thick
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
NERVOUS-SYSTEM
How did Banana affect your energy levels?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
3
15
8
1
Much less energy
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more energy
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your muscle tension?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
11
15
0
0
Much less tension
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more tension
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your anxiety?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
10
15
1
0
Much less anxiety
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more anxiety
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the stillness of your tongue?
30
24
18
12
6
0
3
23
1
More still
No Change
More Trembling / Jittery
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
DIGESTION
How did Banana affect your digestion speed?
15
12
9
6
3
0
0
6
12
8
1
Much faster
Slightly faster
Same
Slightly slower
Much slower
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the amount of gas & bloating?
25
20
15
10
5
0
1
1
19
4
2
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect burning sensations in digestive tract (do not include acid reflux)?
15
12
9
6
3
0
1
10
13
3
0
Much relief
Slight relief
Same
Slightly more burning
Much more burning
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your appetite/hunger?
16
13
10
7
4
1
5
11
4
5
2
Much less hungry
Slightly less hungry
Same
Slightly hungrier
Much hungrier
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
TONGUE
How did Banana affect the color of your tongue body?
20
16
12
8
4
0
5
4
1
17
Paler
Redder
Bluer
No Change
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the stillness of your tongue?
30
24
18
12
6
0
3
23
1
More still
No Change
More Trembling / Jittery
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the color of your tongue coating?
20
16
12
8
4
0
2
0
0
10
15
Yellower
Browner
Grayer
Whiter
No Change
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the cracks on your tongue?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
0
17
10
0
Larger/longer/more cracks
Slightly more
Same
Slightly less/smaller/shorter
Much less
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
Tongue: How did Banana affect the thickness & size of your tongue coating?
15
12
9
6
3
0
0
6
10
10
1
Much smaller
Slightly less
Same
Slightly larger coating
Much larger
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the swelling of your tongue body?
26
21
16
11
6
1
2
2
23
More Swelling
Less Swelling
No Change
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
STOOL
How did Banana affect your stool lightness?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
8
17
2
0
Much lighter
Slightly lighter
Same
Slightly darker
Much darker
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your stool smell?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
3
20
4
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your stool consistency?
15
12
9
6
3
0
0
11
10
4
2
Much softer
Slightly softer
Same
Slightly harder
Much harder
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your stool frequency/quantity?
15
12
9
6
3
0
1
7
13
6
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your stool color?
30
24
18
12
6
0
2
0
1
0
24
More yellow
More gray
More green
More orange
Same
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
URINE
How did Banana affect your urine clarity?
26
21
16
11
6
1
3
22
2
More cloudy
Same
More clear
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your urine smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
24
2
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your urine lightness?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
26
0
0
Much lighter
Slightly lighter
Same
Slightly Darker
Much Darker
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your urine frequency/quantity?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
3
22
2
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the amount of bubbles in your urine?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
23
3
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Many more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
SWEAT
How did Banana affect your sweat quantity?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
24
1
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your sweat smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
25
0
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
SKIN
How did Banana affect the dryness of your skin?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
6
21
Drier
Oilier
No Change
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the color of your skin?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
0
0
26
Yellower/Greener
Paler
Redder
Grayer
No Change
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your freckles/moles?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
27
0
Darker
No Change
Lighter
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your acne?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
26
1
More acne
No Change
Less acne
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
EYE
How did Banana affect the color of the lower eye lid?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
1
25
1
More green/dark green
More purple
No Change
Less green/purple
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the puffiness of lower eye lid?
26
21
16
11
6
1
2
23
2
Puffier
No Change
Less Puffy
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the color of your sclera (white part of eye)?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
0
0
0
1
Redder/Bloodshot
Yellower
Grayer
Browner
Whiter
25
No Change
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
ENT
How did Banana affect your congestion?
22
18
14
10
6
2
6
18
3
More congestion
No Change
Less congestion
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your ear pressure?
30
24
18
12
6
0
4
23
0
More pressure
No Change
Less pressure
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your throat soreness?
25
20
15
10
5
0
1
21
5
More sore
No Change
Less sore
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect the thickness of your mucous congestion?
20
16
12
8
4
0
8
18
1
More thick
No Change
Less thick
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your ear temperature?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
24
2
Hotter
No Change
Cooler
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
SYSTEMIC
How did Banana affect your energy levels?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
3
15
8
1
Much less energy
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more energy
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your muscle tension?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
11
15
0
0
Much less tension
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more tension
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your anxiety?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
10
15
1
0
Much less anxiety
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more anxiety
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your temperature?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
8
15
2
1
Much colder
Slightly colder
Same
Slightly warmer
Much warmer
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
HEART
How did Banana affect your heart pain/pressure/cramping?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
3
24
0
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your heart rate?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
6
20
1
0
Much slower
Slightly slower
Same
Slightly faster
Much faster
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
How did Banana affect your heart rhythm?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
24
3
More palpitations
Same
Less palpitations
Total Responses: 27 Study ID:72 (2021-11-13 - 2021-11-22)
Banana may be beneficial for these symptoms.
The suitability of any food for a condition is highly dependent on the individual.
Please see your doctor before using this food to treat a medical condition.
Eating Ayurvedically makes you feel nourished and energized. Food digests with ease when
right for your body type (dosha). Healthy digestion is seen as the cornerstone of well-being in
Ayurveda. Healthy digestion generally prevents illness. If you do get sick, a strong digestive fire
reduces the severity of illness and increases your resilience. It also improves your mood. Once
you begin eating Ayurvedically, you will feel refreshed, vital and strong.
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
healthy diet and lifestyle with Ayurveda.
His approach to Ayurveda is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful.
John also directs the Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda,
offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, medieval Catholic philosophy,
& botany. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University.
His wife and family of 7 kids live in Asheville, NC.
“Sue and all: Banana may not be on your list of foods, but the recipes combine herbs and foods (like banana) so they will balance each other out. When you think in those terms it is much less confusing!"
“My Dosha is Kapha so why is there a banana smoothie on my edible list... Then you go into recipe and find the banana isn't suitable for Kapha.... I am confused ...."
“You will no doubt find differing opinions about things from different Ayurvedic Practitioners. We believe that you are the best person to decide if bananas will aggravate your Pitta. Try eating a banana and take note of how you feel - warmer versus cooler, any digestive discomfort like gas, heartburn, any sensations in your body like a headache or increased heart rate. Most Ayurvedic Practitioners will agree that developing the power of self observation is essential."
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