2023-08-17 10:22:35
Pitta foods are just right for you if you have too much Pitta. In summer, these Pitta foods are right for everyone, because they cool you from the inside.
But there are also foods that increase Pitta and make you sweat even more. Therefore you will find two lists here:
1. Pitta Foods – Decreasing and cooling
2. Pitta foods – elevating and heating
If you’re a Pitta type, this list of reducing foods will be helpful year-round. For all other Dosha types, this Pitta diet is recommended during Pitta time. The Pitta months are late June, July, August, September and can last up to October. More regarding the doshas in the seasons.
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Pitta is really powerful
Pitta means fire! The essence of Pitta is fire!
If you can understand that, maybe even feel it physically, then you have fully understood Pitta.
Pitta is the principle of metabolism. Pitta digests and ensures the absorption of nutrients in the intestine. Pitta characters are born with strong digestion. They tolerate any food, often have more than one bowel movement a day and can eat a lot.
But what they can’t do is go without a meal. Even the postponement of an hour from the usual time makes the Pitta type an irritable lion. Warning: Rumpelstielzchen is imminent!
Ayurveda says the best recipe for Pitta types is moderation, moderation, moderation! Pitta people are intense people. Everything they do, they do with passion and dedication. If they overdo it and Pitta is out of balance, they tend to become fighting spirit, jealousy, anger and pedantry.
If everything is in order, then they are wonderfully loving people who outshine everything with their joyful nature.
If Pitta gets too much, only cooling can help
Pitta people usually have a really good metabolism, they digest well. If they’re hungry, they’re really hungry! They are very thirsty, sexually active and like to exercise. But if everything becomes too much, the inner fire and the outer heat, then you can provide inner cooling with the right Pitta foods. It helps me if I know what I should avoid as a Pitta type. These are all heating foods and spices. I leave out all bulbous vegetables, such as leeks, garlic and of course the onions themselves, in the summer. I also avoid hot radishes and hot spices. I might bathe in cooling coconut milk for that! Coconut milk cools the fiery Pitta.
July to October is Pitta time
Pitta foods are of course important for all Pitta types. But also for all other Dosha types during Pitta time. Pitta is made of fire, so logically summer, with its hot, dry days, is Pitta time.
In general, Ayurveda recommends the cooling Pitta foods, especially in the Pitta period. But if Pitta is the predominant dosha for you anyway, you can use this list “Pitta foods – reducing and cooling” all year round.
Cooling foods are not cold!
Unfortunately, there is still a bad misconception that ice-cold drinks are cooling. The mouth and stomach may feel cool at first, but the body now has to heat up tremendously to bring the freezing cold to body temperature. Our digestive system only works optimally when everything in your body is at 37°C. Pitta foods, which have a cooling effect, never come out of the fridge. They should be at least room temperature or body temperature. An ice-cold drink with food can extinguish Agni, your digestive fire. As a result, your meal will not be metabolized sufficiently and you will produce a lot of ama. More on how ice cold makes you fat and on Agni, the digestive fire.
The only exception for ice cold
What would a summer be without ice cream? no summer I feel the same way. When eating ice cream, however, I heed the Ayurvedic recommendation that at least one hour should pass before and following eating ice cream, so that Agni, the digestive fire, can work undisturbed. The best time to enjoy ice cream or a chilled drink is in the followingnoon. When your lunch meal is metabolized and dinner isn’t for an hour or two.
Unsolicited : As a Pitta type, eating too much bread is not beneficial. Start the day with a Pitta balancing oatmeal.
Generally Pitta reducing
candy
bitter
Herbs
Heavy, oily and substantial meals in moderate amounts
Salads, at noon – in the evening only in small quantities
Pitta foods – reducing and cooling
Note: cool, rich food and drinks. But not from the fridge! Cool means room or body temperature.
legumes
Mung beans, green beans, fresh peas, soy products, all legumes except lentils
Grain
Barley, oats (cooked), rice (especially basmati), wheat, spelled, wheat semolina, spelled semolina
nuts and seeds
Coconut, Pumpkin Seeds, Sunflower Seeds
Vegetables
All sweet and tart vegetables, leafy greens (green), cauliflower, beans (green), broccoli, peas, cucumber, potatoes, sprouts, cabbage, pumpkin, chard, okra, peppers (green), parsley, mushrooms, Brussels sprouts, salads (green) , celery, asparagus, sprouts, savoy cabbage, zucchini
Fruit
All sweet fruits, such as pineapple, apples, avocados, bananas, pears, prunes, figs, pomegranates, cherries, mangoes, sweet melons, oranges (sweet), plums, raisins, grapes (sweet and dark), plums
Dairy products
Ghee, milk, unsalted butter, cottage cheese, small amounts of cream cheese, lassi
Vegan alternatives: spelled, rice and oat milk and coconut milk
Animal products
Egg whites, small amounts of shrimp, chicken, turkey, game
Oils and fats
Ghee, Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Soybean Oil, Sunflower Oil
Spices
fennel, garden herbs (no leeks such as chives or garlic), Ginger, cardamomCilantro, Turmeric (Gelbwurz)pepper (black) in small amount, saffron, cinnamon
candy
All sweeteners except honey and molasses
Generally increasing Pitta
sharp
Saures
salty
Hot food and drinks
Light, dry and irregular meals
Pitta foods – elevating and heating
legumes
Lentils (cooked as a soup they are suitable)
Grain
Buckwheat, millet, corn, rice (brown), rye
nuts and seeds
Cashewnüsse, Sesamsamen
Vegetables
Eggplant, carrots, garlic, olives, pepperoni, radish, radish, beetroot, spinach, tomato, onion
Fruit
All acidic fruits, such as apples, grapefruit, oranges, papayas, peaches, persimmons, plums, lemons
Dairy products
All sour milk products such as buttermilk, yoghurt, cheese, sour cream, sour milk, quark
Animal products
All seafood, egg yolks, beef and pork
Oils and fats
Almond Oil, Corn Oil, Sesame Oil
Spices
All Hot Spices, Anise, Fenugreek Seeds, Vinegar, Ketchup, Cumin, Cloves, Celery Seeds, Mustard Seeds, Salt
candy
honey, molasses
Pitta recommendations
If pitta is your dosha anyway, avoid the sun and the heat. Pitta Reduction First Aid Tips you can find here. My favorite remedy for heat is ein Abhyanga with coconut oil and then I cook even more with coconut milk than I already do.
And definitely this recipe for the Mango Coconut Cream! Stunningly delicious, the great pleasure!
Even more Ayurveda for you
I’ve already learned a lot from Sandra Hartmann. If you want to know more regarding Ayurveda then I recommend her website Ayurveda-Alchemist.
And here are my recipes for you in the summer heat, or if you notice your Pitta is too high:
Ayurvedic recipes for summer
Ayurvedic hummus with coconut
Heavenly Lassi
Unsolicited : If you can get along well with English, then I have a good recommendation with this cookbook. It is written especially for Pitta types:
Keep cool and relaxed Lisa ♡
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