Summer Cooling Coriander Drink – Dhanyaka Phanta

Summer Cooling Coriander Drink – Dhanyaka Phanta

Dhanyaka Hima (cooling coriander seed drink)

Coriander seed drink is a great over the summertime as it can deeply quench our thirst and support increased pitta conditions and burning sensations. It can reduce excess sweating, hot flashes, abdominal colic due to increased acidity.

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Heal hyperacidity (amlapitta) with Ayurveda

Heal hyperacidity (amlapitta) with Ayurveda

Most people will experience some level of hyper-acidity at some point in their lives and 1 in 4 adults in the UK are affected by heartburn. you may refer to it as acid reflux, or heartburn, making it a common stomach complaint worldwide.

When the symptoms of heartburn become more regular and intense such as twice a week or more, it can be diagnosed as gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD or GORD), and this refers to when stomach acids frequently flow back into the tube connecting your mouth and stomach (your oesophagus).

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Healing powers of the ‘sweet stem root’

Healing powers of the ‘sweet stem root’

Traditionally, liquorice was used as a medicine rather than a spice and the root was the main part used from this purple and white flowering perennial. Liquorice is sweet in taste, heavy and sticky in quality, cool in potency and sweet post digestion and balancing for vata and pitta doshas.

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Shad Rasa - the 6 essentials tastes in Ayurveda

Shad Rasa - the 6 essentials tastes in Ayurveda

When it comes to nutritional balance in Ayurveda, taste plays a key role. We look beyond the functional levels of nutrition and a balanced meal surpasses calorie-counting or balance of fats, carbs and proteins on your plate. Healthy balance in Ayurveda starts with attention to the 6 tastes.

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Combating allergies the Ayurvedic way

Combating allergies the Ayurvedic way

It’s that dreaded time of year for the airborne allergy - Hay fever (seasonal allergic rhinitis)! Treating hay fever and most conditions through Ayurveda revolves around strengthening our digestive power, clearing out toxins and balancing the doshas and this is the epicentre of any good Ayurvedic seasonal cleanse.

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