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	Kapha pulse
	Feeling cold
	Overeating
	Tendency to occur in winter or spring months
	Usually a kapha body type
	Low energy
	Paleness of skin
	Overweight
	Oversleeping
	Loss of ability to experience pleasure

	Tendency toward inactivity and lack of exercise, laziness
	Eating heavy diet
	Not dressing properly for the cold weather
	Eating cold instead of warm foods
	Increase of ama due to eating wrong foods, or to poor eating habits such as not chewing food sufficiently, reading or watching TV while eating, etc.
	Daytime sleep

Follow Kapha-pacifying diet, especially spicy, hot foods, light soups. Favor apples and pears, grains such as barley, buckwheat, millet, and corn. Honey is the only sweetener good for Kapha. All spices (except salt) are good. Minimize oils and fats, wheat and rice, cold food in general, sweets, nuts, rich desserts, red meat, most dairy.
Use heating herbs such as ginger, pepper, turmeric. Drink ginger tea.
Get vigorous exercise such as jogging, bicycling, aerobics.
Walk or exercise in the sun, but don't get too much exposure on skin.
Panchakarma purification procedure.
Daily practice of meditation.
Avoid daytime sleep.

Herbal Remedy Useful for All Three Dosha Imbalance

Universal Herbal Formula For Depression

Regardless of the type of depression you are experiencing, use all three of the following remedies:

1. Combine

	5 parts shatavari (Asparagus racemosus)
	3 parts jatamansi (Nordostachys jatamansi)
	3 parts brahmi (gotu kola)
	5 parts guduchi (Tinospora cordifolia)

Take 1/4 teaspoon of this mixture with 1/2 cup warm water three times a day.

2. Take 1 teaspoon triphala with 1/2 cup warm water at bedtime every night.

3. Inhale 3 drops of Brahmi oil into each nostril twice a day, and rub the oil on the sides of your feet at bedtime.

Herbal Remedies for Kapha Dosha Imbalance

1 part brahmi (gotu kola)
1 part trikatu
1 part jatamansi (Nordostachys jatamansi)
1 part licorice
1/2 part vacha (calamus)

Take 1/2 teaspoon of this mixture combined with warm water three times a day until the depression begins to lift.

2. Fast for 3 to 4 days on apple juice. This will lighten the heaviness of a kapha depression.

3. Drink ginger tea (1/2 to 1 teaspoon of ginger powder steeped in hot water) twice a day.

4. Make the following herbal compound:

2 parts sarasvati
3 parts punarnava
3 parts Chitrak

Take this mixture 3 times a day. Put 1/2 teaspoon of the powder on your tongue, and wash it down with warm water.

Taste. Use bitter, pungent, and astringent foods, herbs, and spices. Spring churna is recommended.

Smell. Warm aromas such as cloves, calamus, and camphor are effective aromatherapy.

Sight. Use the color red.

Hearing. Listen to the sunset raga between seven and ten P.M.

Touch: Give yourself a silk glove massage daily.

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