Fired Up!

The weather just turned HOT! If you’re trying to conceive or have other important goals burning inside, this hot weather may put you into heated overdrive. In Ayurveda, we call this excess Pitta. You know it’s Pitta when you have some of the following traits:

• Irritability, anger, or impatience

• Inflammation in body or skin

• Acne

• Headaches or Migraines

• Excess thirst

• Loose stools

• Feeling overheated in body

• Sharp hunger (MUST HAVE FOOD NOW and hearty appetite)

• Heartburn or acid reflux

• Vivid dreaming

• Wake up between 2-5:30am (before ready to wake up)

• Finds hot weather unbearable

• Demanding, critical behavior

• Overdrive mind

• Skin rashes

Balancing Pitta will bring more comfort to your body and mind, which means less stress on your physiology and better results for everything you do, whether conceiving your child, improving your health concerns, completing your goals, or just day to day living. Pitta is an essential part of our nature, it’s fire helps us to focus, be more efficient, and get things done. If we maintain balance in our Pitta, we embody these lovely traits of this firey element within us:

• Warm, loving, contented

• Strong digestion (without overdoing it)

• Efficiency in everything we do

• Enjoys meeting challenges (rather than ambushing them with all our might)

• Generous nature

• Sharp intellect

• Articulate and precise speech

• Healthy glow to the skin

• Peace of mind

• Sleeps through the early morning hours of the night
  
  Here are some tips for maintaining your own Pitta balance, even while the outside heat stokes your internal fire.
  
  Lifestyle recommendations:

• Meditation daily (if you can’t seem to sit because you have too much energy or overactive mind, contact me)

• Time in Nature

• Practice patience (will be hard at first but will work in time)

• Eating cooling foods and taking cooling herbs (see below)

• Verechena cleansing

• Have a moderate schedule, don’t overbook yourself

• Active Surrender rather than controlling everything

• Moderate exercise, avoid overdrive mode (swimming is amazing for Pitta)

• Aloe Juice (whole leaf, unfiltered) 1/4 cup 1x daily, 20 minutes or more before breakfast

• Contact me to help further
  
  Foods to favor:

• Foods that are naturally sweet (no added sugar), bitter and astringent

• Cooling foods in energy and temperature, such as fresh greens, juicy fruits (not citrus, rather pears, peaches, plums, grapes, watermelon, also apples)

• Use Cardamom in your food! Also lots of Fennel (ground or seeds), Cilantro, and Coriander

• Use Olive, Coconut or Ghee oils in your foods, in moderation

• Coconut water, Pomegranate Juice, Hibiscus iced tea

• Routine meal times, drink some fennel tea if you are hungry between meals, or if necessary, munch on some cooling cucumber, celery juice, or fruits, as above

• Eat in a peaceful environment, and sit at least 5 minutes after your finish your meal
  
  Foods to avoid:

• Sour, Pungent (like vinegar), and Salty

• Warming foods (energetically and in temperature)

• Chili and cayenne peppers or other spicy tastes

• Caffeine

• Nicotine

• Red meat

• Deep fried foods

• Most alcohol (occasional beer or wine is okay!)
  
  Herbal suggestions:

• For a broad spectrum pitta pacifying herbal formula consider Amalaki & Healthy Pitta formulas

• To support healthy skin and a clear complexion consider Blood Cleanse formula

• To balance pitta in the joints and muscles consider Joint Support

• To support healthy digestion and a comfortable post meal experience consider Pitta Digest

• For uncomfortable feeling of heat in the body consider Healthy Pitta with additional Amalaki

• For frustration, anger, irritability consider Stress Free Emotions from and Healthy Pitta from

• For judgment, impatience, criticism, intolerance consider same as above

• To Soothe the eyes and support their proper function consider Triphala and Healthy Pitta
  
  Order through Wendy during an herbal or complete consult for personalized and improved results.
  
  Wendy Kawasaki is a Registered Nurse with 10 years in Emergency medicine and trauma, 1 year in Labor & Delivery, and 12 highly successful years working as an Ayurveda Practitioner with women of all ages, primarily with women’s health, infertility and pregnancy. She has the deepest gratitude for being a catalyst for your pregnancy and overall health. She is mother of two happy boys.