Ayurvedic Classification of Foods

The ancient study of Ayurveda instructs us that all-encompassing prosperity depends on the balance of meditation, physical work, our environment and the right food. In Ayurveda, food is perceived as the energy source for our body. It is divided into three sorts of food classes – ‘Tamasic’, ‘Rajasic’ and ‘Sattvic’.

Sattvic Food – Sattvic gets from the Sanskrit word ‘Sattva’ which means purity. Following this eating regimen can help in accomplishing a quiet psyche, dynamic body and life span. It additionally decontaminates the body and soul by flushing out poisons. A Sattvic diet stresses consolidating fresh food in our daily meals and regularly incorporates fruits and vegetables, spices and even grains.

Light, effectively absorbable food is preferred at a normal temperature. These food varieties support our body and mind. The majority of Sattvic food top the all advanced nourishment charts like nuts, fruits, juices, spices like Cinnamon, Asafoetida, Turmeric, Coriander, grains like Rice and Barley, Lentils and Sprouts. 

Ayurveda likewise stresses eating more cooked food than crude, which makes it simpler to process for the body. In a conventional Sattvic diet, the standard is to abstain from eating anything before dawn and after sunset. With the rushed ways of life of our advanced occasions, fusing a couple if not all of the Sattvic standards in our customary food propensities might end up being a genuinely calming and helpful mantra.

Examples of Tamasic foods are sprouted whole grains, whole grains, fresh fruit, land and sea vegetables, pure fruit juices, nut and seed milk, cheese and legumes.

Rajasic Food – The word Rajasic is derived from the word ‘Rajas’. Rajas mean activity and advancement. It additionally identifies with unsettled, sensual, energetic, moving and emotional.

Rajasic food is supposed to be stimulating and adds to physical and emotional pressure. A lot of similar diets can push us towards an imbalanced life.

Ayurveda expresses that burning-through Rajasic food consistently will undoubtedly cause apprehensive issues and overwhelm the psyche and body.

Benefits of Rajasic Food:

● Overexcites the brain and body

● Prompts hyperactivity

● Cause overexertion of the body

● Reason for pressure and uneasiness

● Causes amplified sensations of outrage

Examples of Rajasic foods are Fish, eggs, and chicken, all whole pulses and dals (not sprouted), hot spices like chilies and pepper, salt, brinjal (eggplant), onion, garlic, radish, tea, coffee, aerated drinks and chocolate, etc.

Tamasic Food – The word Tamasic is derived from ‘Tamas’. Tamas represents inertia, bluntness, latency, or laziness. Tamasic food is the most un-upheld diet in the Vedas.

According to the Ayurveda, intake of Tamasic food prompts the obliteration of the psyche and body the same. They are said to hurt people in every single imaginable manner.

This regime includes anything that will prompt a more blunt, less refined condition of cognizance. Real damage incorporates hindering pressure to any actual organ.

Benefits of Tamasic Food:

● Acquires stagnation thinking

● Causes sluggishness

● Causes Intense emotional episodes

● Crabbiness and Craving

● Lessens life span

Examples of Tamasic foods are fast food, fried foods, frozen and canned foods, microwaved foods, processed foods, stale food, alcohol, drugs, chemicals, mushrooms, margarine, red meat, beef, sausages, bacon, and ham.

Each of these groups has its extraordinary worth or ‘Guna’. Knowing one’s prevailing ‘Dosha’ or Ayurvedic body type is a significant stage in distinguishing which diet is best for overall health. Consolidating simple Ayurvedic standards into your regular food habits can recuperate and heal the body, psyche and soul.