Now, you know that your Vata-Pitta is predominant doshas. You have dual dosha Prakriti. This body constitution is quite common.
Managing the dual doshas becomes easy if you know the essence and qualities of both the doshas well.
Generally, Vata Pitta body constitution has to be managed as per the season. This means you have to follow two different diet routines in summer and winter season.
To know more on how to manage your Vata Pitta body constitution, read the below article.
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How To Manage Vata Pitta Dosha
Ways To Decrease or Balance Vata Dosha
The tendency of all the dosha to aggravate is similar. An increase in the inherent quality of the dosha would eventually increase the dosha.
Same is with Vata if you increase the qualities of Vata dosha it will eventually increase in your mind, body, and soul.
Vata is cool by nature, so it’s obvious to increase with cold food, cold weather, and cold emotions.
For example, you have predominant Vata dosha and you live in a cold climate and eat all the cold foods like ice cream, frozen yogurt, etc. This will ultimately increase your Vata and can make your hand and feet cold.
Down below is a list of ways to balance the imbalance of Vata dosha:
1. Taste
The Vata dosha increase and decreases with a certain taste. To manage it will you should know what taste you should go for and what tastes you should avoid for Vata Dosha.
If your Vata is imbalanced go for sweet, salty, and sour tastes. These three tastes have a tendency to decrease Vata Dosha.
They do so by giving you moisture, heaviness, and warmth. For the sweet taste, you can indulge in fruits and cereals, for sour taste go for pickles, and for salty taste go for seaweeds.
Moving on to the tastes, that you should avoid. Bitter, pungent, and astringent tastes are not good for Vata as they increase Vata due to their drying and cooling properties.
2. Medicines To Balance Vata Dosha
If a dosha goes beyond its original natural proportion it creates an environment for diseases. Moreover, the predominant dosha of your body constitution increases faster than the other doshas.
For example, if you are Vata-Pitta dominant then you will be having an active lifestyle. But, if you be overactive then you will likely increase your Vata and thereby tire your nervous system. So, for a healthy body, you need to do things that decrease the increased dosha of your body.
Medicines are such things that can to decrease the excess dosha in your body by providing the opposite qualities. For example, if your Vata is increased due to excessive dryness than wetness can be a medicine.
You can eat wet moist food for the same. Same way, if your Vata is increased due to excessive cold then you need to get heat (opposite of cold) to balance it.
So, as per Ayurveda anything can be used as a medicine but should have the opposite quality of the thing that is increased in your body.
You can choose medicines in the form of herbs, foods, colors, environment, lifestyle, smell, drinks, or any other natural thing you wish too.
It is important to be aware of the opposite qualities of the Vata Dosha. They are warming, smooth, oily, stabilizing, and grounding. So for Vata-Pitta, you should go for diet, lifestyle, and environments that have these opposite qualities.
3. Diet
The Vata dosha goes well with warm, freshly cooked, soft mushy, and nourished food. You can have soup, stews, wet gravies. You should follow a diet regimen to manage your Vatta & Pitta in a proper manner.
Heavy food goes well to reduce the lightness of the aggravated Vata.
But, make sure don’t for too much heavy food or just too much of food at once. It is because it is very difficult for the light digestive system to digest them.
In addition to this, your diet should contain foods rich in salty, sour, and sweet taste.
Moreover, be careful to go for the naturally sweet foods like grains, fruits, and fruit juices. Don’t opt for food that has refined sugar as they are not good for health and balancing Vata.
The refined processed sugar give a quick burst of energy following a crash pattern that is not at all good for the imbalanced Vata Dosha.
4. Lifestyle And Climate
The Vata predominant individuals should opt for the ideal warm and wet climate. Additionally, opt for sweet music, sweet scents, and positive emotions. A full body massage with sesame oil can also bring a drastic change in the levels of Vata.
The Vata individuals generally follow a multitasking lifestyle. If you are the one who over exhausts your nervous system with multi-tasking then you should stop doing that. Too much of work make you emotionally and physically restless and eventually diseases.
So, it is important for you to adapt an ideal routine which allows you to get up and sleep at the same time, have food at the same time, work in regular intervals, massage, and do some physical activity.
Therefore, it’s best for you to master your life in a planned way. Make a time for everything and master it in the best way you can.
5. Herbal Medicines
There are special herbs that can manage your body’s constitution and enhance the lifestyle and diet changes that you made in your life. It is good to add these herbal supplements in your life for a healthy well-being.
Some of them are ashwagandha, shatavari, and vidari kanda. These herbs work to eliminate the aggravated Vata from your body. You can have them in tablet form, in powder form, or in dry form whichever is available to you.
6. Yoga
Doing yoga at a slow, steady, and smooth pace.
Some of the poses for Vata dosha are feet and ankle warm up, wrist stretch, cat-cow, shoulder rotation, warrior, mountain, crocodile, child pose, pigeon pose, and legs up the wall.
You can also go for suryanamaskar along with these poses. The main thing is to go at a slow pace.
How To Manage Pitta?
Ways To Decrease or Balance Pitta Dosha
The tendency of all the dosha to aggravate is similar. An increase in the inherent quality of the dosha would eventually increase the dosha.
Same is with Pitta if you increase the qualities of Pitta dosha it will eventually increase in your mind, body, and soul.
Pitta by nature is hot. So, hot food, hot weather, and hot emotions can increase the pitta. For example, if your pitta is the predominant dosha in your body.
You go and live in a hot climate and at the same time, you eat spicy food. As a result, the Pitta heat quality will aggravate and you will get skin rashes, heartburn, and you will even behave stubbornly at times.
So, as per Ayurveda, you should indulge in activities that act opposite to the nature of pitta qualities.
A list of ways that can you can carry out to decrease or balance the Pitta dosha is given below:
1. Taste
The Pitta dosha increase and decreases with a certain taste. To manage it will you should know what taste you should go for and what tastes you should avoid for Pitta Dosha.
If your Pitta dosha is increased, you should go for sweet, bitter, and astringent taste. These three tastes have a tendency to decrease Pitta Dosha.
They do so by acing against the Pitta qualities. For a sweet taste, you can indulge in fruits and cereals, for a bitter and astringent taste you can go leafy green vegetables and herbs.
Moving on to the tastes, that you should avoid. Pungent, sour and salty tastes are not good for Pitta as they increase the hot, light, and subtle nature of pitta dosha.
2. Medicines To Balance Pitta Dosha
If a dosha goes beyond its original natural proportion it creates an environment for diseases. Moreover, the predominant dosha of your body constitution increases faster than the other doshas.
Suppose, your predominant dosha is Pitta. Then, you will be intellectually bright and sharp due to the hot and sharp qualities of the Pitta Dosha. But, this quality if aggravated might give you an emotional burnout.
Medicines are things that will decrease your excess dosha by providing the qualities opposite to the qualities of that dosha.
For example, if an excess of work is tiring for you, sit with a cool mind and have a cool drink to exhale the tiredness and fatigue from your body. So, if the pitta is increased due to heat, coolness is the best medicine.
You can use anything as a medicine from foods to drinks, to lifestyle, to the environment, to color, to smell, or to weather.
It is important to be aware of the opposite qualities of the Pitta Dosha. They are soft, cool, heavy, sweet, smelling, and contended. So for vata-pitta, you should go for diet, lifestyle, and environments that have these opposite qualities.
3. Diet
A pitta diet goes well with fresh cooling foods. The pitta predominant dosha can’t skip meals because of their strong appetites.
Their digestive system is strong and they can tolerate food better than the other doshas. However, be careful for the dosha it is difficult to digest alcohol, caffeine, temper, anger, and irritability. I
Additionally, sweet, bitter, and astringent taste tends to decrease pitta. So, opt for them in your diet. but make sure to go for the natural tastes instead of the refined sugary products. You can find this taste in grains, cereals, fruits, leafy green vegetables, and herbs.
4. Lifestyle And Climate
The best environment for a Pitta predominant individual is cool and dry. A morning exercise or cold weather sports proves good to them.
Anything that freshens their mind like sweet music, sweet scents, and positive emotions works as a medicine for Pitta. Moreover, a 10-minute body massage done with sunflower oil is equally good for them.
The dosha will make you think that you can work for long hours, choose the best as per nature, and going beyond your limit.
However, it is important to follow a balanced approach be in your body limits, and try to tackle any illness and treat them at the right time. Thus, a precautionary lifestyle is always better for Pitta individuals.
The best medicine for the dosha is to surrender. If you develop a trust in relationships with a divine power that you believe would be good for you.
This will help you to be at rest and take off the extra burden from your life. The best way to attain this is meditation. Mediating will help you to be self-aware and let go of things easily.
5. Herbal Medicines
There are special herbs that can manage your body’s constitution and enhance the lifestyle and diet changes that you made in your life. It is good to add these herbal supplements in your life for a healthy well-being.
Some of the herbal supplements like Brahmi, guduchi, and bhringraj are good herbs that can help you remove th excess pitta from your body.
Most of these herbs are present in tablets and powder form. Consume them on a regular basis to gain a healthy well-being.
6. Yoga
A yoga practice for a pitta individual should encourage compassion, efforts, acceptance, and must be cool in nature.
The pitta dosha doesn’t go with strenuous exercises. So, you should focus on doing exercises that you enjoy and that gives you freedom and creativity.
You should exercise the 80% of your body’s capacity and focus on every movement during your poses.
Some of the good poses for Pitta individuals are child pose, cat-cow, chair pose, mountain pose, moon salutation, revolved chair, locust, yogi breath, and bridge. Carry few or all of them regularly to have a clear mind, body, and soul.
Final Talk
Managing the dual dosha Prakriti may sound difficult but it isn’t. To manage them it is important for you to understand their nature, quality, and the guideline with which they work.
If you know the qualities you can easily find out ways in which the qualities can be suppressed to balance out the aggravated dosha.
The predominant Vata and Pitta doshas are aggravated if you do things that have similar qualities like doshas. So, the key of management is to follow a regimen, lifestyle, and diet that is opposite to the qualities of the dosha.
So, for managing it is crucial for you to know the exact nature of Vata and Pitta and also the qualities that are opposite to their nature This is f
ar most the best natural practice in Ayurveda to balance out the unbalanced doshas.
How Vata Imbalance Occurs? (Excessive state)
In Ayurveda, there are many causes of Vata imbalance.
According to that, when Vata Dosha is imbalanced, you will notice excessive qualities that usually it doesn’t show.
Vata balance is provoked in your body when you take too many chilled beverages, cold drinks, ice creams, frozen foods and come in contact with a cold climate.
Also, it happens due to stormy weather, unusual meal timing, uneven schedule, and change of season.
Moreover, when you are too much stimulated by the use of gadgets like Computer, adventurous games, thriller films and extreme workout Vata gets increased.
You Need to Balance Your Vata If You Notice these Signs and Symptoms: (Excessive state)
- Your skin is dry, rough and thin.
- If you are underweight and fighting for gaining weight.
- Your mind is restless, worried and is always anxious.
- You suffer from loss of sleep or insomnia or disturbing dreams.
- You quickly get exhausted with little work and decreased in endurance.
- Your lower back and joints are painful—causing discomfort in activities.
- You feel fullness, bloated abdomen, constipation and frequent flatulence.
- You experience cold quickly, and blood circulation is poor in feet and hands due to cold.
- Your senses loss are absent-minded and forgetful all the time. (Like “Where did I leave my goggles?”)
Diseases caused due to Vata Dosha Imbalance (Excessive state):
Though Vata imbalance diseases are countless, according to Charaka Samhita, 80 particular disorders are commonly caused by Vata imbalance.
Some of them are:
- Nakhabheda (cracking of Nails),
- Vipadika (cracking of fees)
- Padasula (pain of feet),
- Pada bhramsa (feet drop),
- Pada Suptata (numbness of foot),
- Vata khuddata (club foot),
- Gulpha graham (stiff ankle),
- Pindiko-udvestana (cramps in the calf),
- Gridrasi (sciatica),
- Janubheda (genu varum),
- Januvislesa (genu valgum),
- Urustambha (stiffness of thigh),
- Urusada (pain in the thigh),
- Pangulya (Paraplegia), etc
