Pitta dosha –
This dosha is hot, sharp, light, sticky and oily.
Pitta pacifying foods –
- The balancing foods for this are cool, dry and heavy with mild naturally sweet, bitter or astringent taste. This may include milk, beans, steamed vegetables and sweet fruites like chickoo.
- Mild spice like cumin, coriander and cilantro are beneficial.
- Food having sweet, bitter, astringent taste; cold, heavy and dry property are also good for the same.
- Ghee, coconut oil, olive oil, coriander seeds, cardamom, sprouts and raw foods are good.
- One can eat most of the vegetables and fruits except barley, oats, wheat and parboiled rice.
Pitta aggravating foods –
- All the spices usually shoot up Pitta dosha.
- Pungent and oily food also increase this.
- Curry, fried foods and food having strong odor like garlic and ginger does increase.
- Chilies are the best source of increasing Vata-Pitta.
- Fermented food highly increases including south indian snacks, pickles etc.
- Vegetables like beets, carrots, tomatoes, garlic, onions, almost all green leafy vegetables increases Pitta dosha.
- Smoking, alcohol, tobbaco, pickles, vinegar, wafers, curds, corn, mustard and til oil in particular increases the Pitta dosha.
- Fruits those are sour or unripened shoots up Pitta dosha like grapefruit, papayas, peaches, unripened bananas and apricots.
- All the junk food including pizza, burger, hot dog and all the snacks generally increases Pitta dosha.
- Grains like brown rice, millete, rye and corn increses Pitta dosha.
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