Herbs and spices are used as medicine in Ayurveda. They each contain some agni, or digestive fire, and can therefore help you digest and assimilate the nutrients in your food. We use spices instead of the commonly used digestive enzyme formulas available in health...
My teacher and mentor, Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra, spent 20 years teaching me the fine art of Ayurveda. He made over 500 formulas for me to use in treating all the very difficult cases I see each and every day. So I am familiar with so many herbs that are used for...
When many of us think of detox, our mind goes straight to the use of milk thistle, dandelion tea or burdock root. If you are an Ayurvedic physician you would consider guduchi, kutki, neem and bhringraj, among others. These are all famous for detox, however, the...
Many people I see tell me they have a food addiction, or they may crave sweets. They try to discipline themselves to eat less food or to avoid sweets, but sooner or later they end up breaking their diet and binging on the sweets or overeating the food, even healthy...
Lauki squash comes under many different names, such as doodhi, bottle gourd, long squash and many others. It is a light green squash — you need to peel it and chop the squash into one-inch cubes before cooking it. My teacher and mentor Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra used to...
Over the past several decades, a new phenomenon has arisen: we are becoming food averse, to the point that we are now avoiding all various classifications of food, and ultimately pushing ourselves into a corner where there is hardly any food left to eat. Let me...
