Homemade Gulkand / Rose petal jam
Ayurveda has the concept of Tridosha - Vata, Pitta and Kapha, the vital physical energies that decide the basic nature of an individual. Vata is not gases or joint pain but is the principle responsible for all type of movements in our body. Pitta is not bile, but rather it is the principle of fire, the energy of heating or metabolism. Kapha is not mucus or cough but it is energy that forms the body's structure, principle concerned with growth, adhesion, cohesion etc. All people have all three doshas, but one of them is usually primary, one secondary and the third is least prominent. Just as everyone has an individual fingerprint, everyone has their own energy print - a proportion of vata-pitta-kapha that is uniquely his or her own. Health depends on maintaining this proportion in balance. When out of balance, they are the cause of disease. These Tridoshas are responsible for the huge variety of individual differences and preferences, and they in...