Guest guest Posted February 23, 2007 Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 In Ayurveda, food is your medicine. It works for prevention and cure. However, dietary implications for these two directions are not necessarily the same. Mostly, we think of food in energetic ways, not their chemical constituents or active principles. There is not doubt that raw foods give prana but the question is can the person digest it? Most people we see clinically have defective agni/digestion. Raw foods are mostly, cold, dry, rough, and heavy on digestion. If a person has little digestive capacity then the food remains undigested or poorly transformed. The diet for a blood type may work well for a constitutional diet but it is unlikely to work for every disease that a person can incur, regardless of prakriti. One writer, Donald Rudin, opines that processed foods are the main enemy when nutrition is a concern and he points to many of the main modern diseases. I routinely suggest all clients get off processed foods, of all types. The Omega issue can be addressed by ingesting unprocessed foods (the actual whole grain, and raw nuts) without eating dairy or meats. There is no doubt that each person will have to address the matter of diet on an individual basis and this means prakriti and vikriti (and all the other features of dasha vidha pariksha). Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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