My Sattvik Plate

  We all welcome the first showers after the scorching summer sun. However, the coming of monsoon also means low immunity and low digestive power. The Ancient science of Ayurveda has practical tips to boost immunity and stay away from viral infections as well as monsoon diseases.  With monsoon comes mosquitoes, fumigating the house with dried neem leaves in the evening is excellent to keep mosquitoes away.  Vata dosha tends to aggravate in the monsoon. This can be curbed by taking hot water baths. Oil bath at least once a week with equal quantities of neem oil and sesame oil. Massage your body with this oil, wait for at least 30 minutes and wash off with hot water. This keeps skin infections away and also helps with blood and lymph circulation.  Trim your nails real short, as long nails are a perfect hideout for pathogens, including viruses and bacteria that get trapped under that.  Raw food and salads should not be consumed as they may contain germs even when w...

  How often do you find yourself with indigestion after a meal? Or even worse, knowing that you have eaten way too much or too rich and excessively heavy foods? Reaching for the antacid is hardly the answer, with antacids there is yet another burden on your body's whole digestive system.  Refined, Processed and Manufactured foods are acid forming in the body - that is when digested they form acidic residues in the blood stream.  Eating predominantly alkaline food is far easier on the whole digestive system since it matches the ph of the blood which runs between 7.35 and 7.45. Within a few weeks of eating alkaline foods you will look and feel lighter, your energy levels will have soared, your concentration and memory sharpened, and the quality of your sleep will have improved dramatically.  Eating alkaline means consuming fresh foods as close to nature as possible- Sattvik food - organic whole foods, predominantly vegetarian, with small amounts of legumes and whole gr...