ayurveda anyone

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, " Matt Ferguson " <

mfergyson@h...> wrote:

I came away from Subhutti's coffee article

> thinking that coffee might be okay if I mix a little bai shao in with it to

> moderate its harsh affect.

 

In ayurveda, coffee is good for kapha, bad for pitta and vata. In a nutshell, I

think Kaphas are damp-cold, spleen xu and yang xu; pittas are often dampheat,

liver depression fire and vatas are liver depression, yin/blood xu and internal

wind. Black coffee can relieve kapha all by itself. for vata, it must be weak

and mixed with milk and sugar, then it relieves depression, but the milk and

sugar prevent wind from arising. Pittas often enjoy coffee, though it is bad

for them. They like the yang excess and heat and crave more of it. While

vatas are often perceived as anxious and timid and kaphas as sedentary and

dull, pittas are rewarded for their pathology in our scoiety, so they don't see

their defect.