The midday meals needs to include the 6 taste. Sour sweet and salty are easy to find in the western culinary world. However bitter astringent and pungent are not as common. Remember this is your biggest meal of the day. Not just a sandwich with one hand on the wheel of your four wheel drive. An easy way to introduce the astringent taste into your diet is to cook lentils. When cooked with a bit of turmeric you have both the bitter of the turmeric and the astringent of the lentils. Add a bit of grated ginger root and you have the pungent taste. Some bitter steamed greens and a grain which is considered sweet in the culinary terminology of Ayurved and your getting close to all 6 tastes. Some salt and a squeeze of lemon or lime over your veggies and there you are - all 6 tastes - Rice, wheat, spelt are sweet, lemon and salt are obviously sour and salty, lentils (red, french and mung are considered the best ones) are astringent and turmeric and greens are bitter, pungent ginger, black pepper, etc.
Magnesium - Irregular Heart Beats
If you find yourself having irregular heart beats it definitely something to go and get checked by a competent physician. And also it would not hurt to step up your Magnesium levels. With so many people taking Calcium, Magnesium gets out of balance. Also because of our poor food growing practices mineral in our soils are depleted and since Magnesium is needed in about 700 biochemical pathways in the body it is crucial to keep its levels up. The best way to get Magnesium into the body is through the skin. Magnesium chloride is better than Magnesium sulphate (Epsom Salts) as it is better assimilated. There are many ways to get this. Also I recently read that homeopathic Magnesium carbonate 30CH has been beneficial in reducing heart palpitations in some people. No sides effects and inexpensive so it would be worth a try. Motherwort has also been used for irregular heart beats: Here is what Grandpa Google says about Motherwort. "Motherwort is used for hea...
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