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Combination
Doshas
Q.
I read your articles on the three doshas, and I think I need
to balance both Vata and Pitta. What sort of diet and lifestyle
should I adopt?
A.
If you need to balance two doshas,
pick the one that's more predominant of the two, and make your
diet and lifestyle choices such that they balance that predominant
dosha, but do not excessively aggravate the secondary dosha.
Or
you could follow a seasonal approach. If you need to balance
Vata and Pitta, it is more
than likely that you experience an aggravated Vata in the late
fall and winter and a vitiated Pitta during the hot months of
summer. Therefore, you could follow a Vata-balancing diet and
routine in the fall and winter and a Pitta-balancing diet and
routine in the summer.
Foods
like asparagus, lauki squash,
other summer squash, small amounts of fresh lemon and fresh ginger
root, fennel, milk, sweet lassi,
mung beans, Basmati rice,
cooked tofu, sweet juicy fruit and rasayanas such as Amalaki
and Triphala are balancing
for both Vata and Pitta.
Walking
early in the morning, meditation once a day, going early to bed,
and trying to maintain a good work-leisure balance are nurturing
lifestyle practices that help balance both Vata and Pitta.
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