What is the diet during an Ayurveda treatment?
Ayurveda has a distinct food culture which stresses the unity among the three principle humours of the body – Vata, Pitta and Kapha. The humours, responsible for all the physical and mental functions are derived from the elements of nature – ether, air, fire, water and earth. The food in the form of various rasa/ tastes is also made from these five elements. A balance has to be struck between the five elements of the body and the five elements of the food we eat. During an Ayurveda treatment package, the diet is formed in such a way that your body is thoroughly analyzed and the diet is formed to balance the elements of nature in your body.
Most foods are neutral in energy and have mild properties. Condiments and spices have more pronounced effects, like the healing nature of ginger and garlic. For this reason it is only when consumed regularly that the capacity of most of foods to aggravate the biological humours comes out. We do not have to avoid all the foods to aggravate our constitution, but we do have to be careful of taking many of them on a regular basis.
