AYURVEDA PERSPECTIVE ON SOUR CRAVINGS

Sour cravings are a frequent desire to eat sour food. Sour is one of the six fundamentals tastes in Ayurveda. In balanced quantities, the sour taste cleanses the palate, refreshes the body, and hydrates the GI tract by stimulating digestive secretions. Sour cravings can be either wholesome or unwholesome. In some cases, a sour craving can indicate that your digestive tract is dehydrated and crying out for more fluids. In that case rehydrate and drink some water. If dryness of the GI persist despite adequate hydration, you should follow your craving for sour foods. However, sour cravings can also be distorted, meaning your body desires more of the sour taste than it actually needs, often due to weakness of the liver.

Intense sour cravings usually mean Pitta dosha is aggravated. Sour taste stresses the liver and its heat can provoke intense Pitta emotions like anger, agitation, and jealousy. The sour taste is wet, as it moves fluids. Sour, live culture foods increase fermentation in the GI tract. Sour ferments are also heavy, and in excess, can create congestion and dampness in the body, aggravating Kapha dosha.

If you are experiencing intense and frequent sour cravings, bitter, cooling foods, like kale and dandelion greens, work to balance sour cravings. Avoid sour and fermented foods like yogurt, sour cream, vinegar, pickles, and miso.

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SOUR CRAVINGS IS IN STAGE OF DISEASE #1 - AFFECTING DIGESTION

If you have symptoms in this category, your body is sending you a warning sign. Since digestion is so metabolically intensive and sensitive to stress and emotions, the earliest warning signs of imbalance usually appear in the digestive tract first. You may have gas and bloating, for example, or acid reflux. Ayurveda recommends paying careful, close attention to warning signs. They indicate that an imbalance is starting to accumulate. Correct these warning signs before they accumulate further and weaken your body's resistance. This is usually accomplished by removing diet and lifestyle habits that aggravate your imbalanced doshas and biocharacteristics. (See all disease stages on JB)

GET MY FREE AYURVEDA BODY MAP According to Ayurveda, one or more of the following doshas and biocharacteristics may aggravate 'Sour cravings'. If you have an excess of one of these doshas or biocharacteristics below, Ayurveda recommends reducing foods and lifestyle habits that aggravate them. Click on the biocharacteristic to learn what foods and lifestyle habits should be reduced.

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The following symptoms & habits may be related to 'Sour cravings'. See your quiz results for a computerized assessment of your body type. Please click on the symptoms below to learn more about them. On average the biocharacteristics of people reporting Sour cravings were more aggravated than 53% of other symptoms. From the 3,705 people who reported Sour cravings average deviation in biocharacteristic levels were the following:

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