Pitta Season - Ayurveda life ☆
Five Cooling Practices to Tame the Fires of Pitta. Summer is underway. Make sure to stay cool to keep pitta dosha in check.
Did you know that Pitta has five fires? In Ayurveda, the pitta dosha-being the elements of fire and water-has five fires or functions. These five forms of agni or fire all serve to provide or promote active transformation on some level in mind and body.
These five fires are called Sadhaka (intelligence/light of the mind), Alochaka (sight/visual perception), Pachaka (digestive fire), Bhrajaka (lustre/glow of the skin) and Ranjaka (imparts healthy color to blood/liver/excretions).
These are the functions of pitta in the body and keeping the fires burning bright means keeping them from consuming everything in a blaze, or from becoming extinguished and lackluster. So we need to keep the pitta fires in balance with practices that contribute to the overall health of body and mind, especially in the summertime. Five cooling, soothing practices for the five fires of pitta.
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Masumi Muramatsu
Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.
Posted Date : 28-07-2015
Credited to: Jivaka Ayurveda News, Rob Talbert
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