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.
From Drugs to Herbs
I have been writing this blog for several years and realized that some people are now reading it that might not know me. Here is my story. My story as a healer started early in life. At 15 my first job was as a care aide for retarded children. Then working at children's hospital in Winnipeg as a pharmacy student and after graduating as a Hospital Pharmacist working in large teaching hospitals in both Winnipeg and Ottawa. Four years into my career as a hospital pharmacist I had a rude awakening at work one day. As I was handing a large bag of medications to a man, I looked at him and in that moment "saw" that his mind and the stress in his life was the root cause of his "dis-ease". That led me on a journey of studying psychology, becoming a teacher of The Transcendental Meditation Program and eventually getting a Master's degree in education from Maharishi International University. I continued working as a community pharmacist and expanded my scope to incl
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