Tibetan Medicine and You by Miriam E. Cameron & Tenzin Namdul

Author:Miriam E. Cameron & Tenzin Namdul
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2019-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Eat the Six Tastes Each Day

The five elements consist of six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent, and astringent. All six tastes are needed to create and maintain health. Choosing a diet with the six tastes replenishes the five elements and keeps the three nyepa in balance.

Six Tastes and Foods to Ingest for Each Taste

Sweet The sweet taste clings to the mouth and causes craving for more. Composed of earth and water elements, the sweet taste is heavy, moist, and cooling. Sweet decreases loong and tripa and increases baekan. These foods contain the sweet taste:

Most grains such as wheat, rice, barley, and corn.

Maple syrup, milk, and milk products such as butter, ghee (clarified butter), and cream.

Fruits such as coconut, date, fig, grape, pear, mango, dried fruit, and banana.

Vegetables such as potato, sweet potato, carrots, and beet roots.

Sugar in any form: raw, refined, brown, white, molasses, sugar cane, and honey.

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