You know when you feel a chest cold coming on. Tightness in the chest (you can feel there is mucus milling around down in there), phlegm-ey coughs, and any sinus junk is a sure sign that there is a kapha imbalance.
For those pleasantries, I recommend this ginger and tumeric tea.* Make a lot of this tea and sip it on and off throughout the day.
1 glass of warm water
1 tbsp honey
1/8 tsp fresh grated ginger or 1/4 tsp dry ground ginger (use dry for pittas)
1/4 tumeric
1/2 lime
*I was a brand new student when Dr. Apte gave me this tea recipe. I loved ginger and thought there was no harm in adding more. Wrong!! I added strips of fresh ginger to my cup and aggravated my pitta so much that I woke up in the middle of the night with hives and an eye the size of a golf ball. Beauty. Inflammation is a sign of pitta aggravation and so are skin disorders. Oops. Learn from my mistake
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1 Shakti // Sep 27, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Tks Monica, I hope ginger won’t increase my Pitta lolll !
Take good care Monica,
Namaste !
2 Monica // Sep 27, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Yes! See, powdered ginger will not increase pitta because it has a “sweet” post-digestive effect. However! Fresh ginger will because it has a “pungent” post-digestive effect. So be mindful of that. Eat fresh ginger only in small amounts. It’s a great example of how one size does not fit all! :)
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