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Often, when there is a sudden shift in weather, our body will manifest signs of adjusting to this change. You might notice sudden congestion, fatigue, head-ache or flu-like symptoms. Your doshas are simply responding to the shift in balance, seeking health. No need to panic! Think back to how you’ve  been eating and living, look at the changes and adjust yourself accordingly. This time of year, Kapha is predominant, cold, wet weather, congestion, heaviness. You can tend to your Kapha right now, more than you usually would by eating warm, fresh foods. To get a little more specific, you can use more pungent ginger to...

All members of the onion family share certain key qualities: they are pungent and influence the lungs and they promote warmth and thus move energy in the body, resolve blood stagnancies, reduce clotting, and expel coldness. They are perhaps the richest foods in sulfur, a warming element that purifies the body, helps remove heavy metals and parasites, and facilitates proteinlamino acid metabolism. Thus, those on a high-protein diet can benefit from the onion family. These plants also clean the arteries and retard the growth of viruses, yeasts, ferments, and other pathogenic organisms often proliferating in those eating unbalanced diets. In spite of their medicinal virtue, these...

The beloved potato, tomato, eggplant, capsicum and chilli peppers belong to the nightshade family whose primary toxin is solanine, an alkaloid which can been known to produce diarrhea, heart failure, headache, and vomiting. Extreme reactions are rare but do occur in instances in which an allergic or otherwise very sensitive individual overindulges. Those who are sensitive may notice an expanded and light feeling several hours after eating the nightshades; they may also find it more difficult to focus mentally. The expansive effect can be beneficial for those who become tense from work, stress, or activity which takes great concentration, provided one has no other reaction to these...

Up to the seventeenth century, only the wild types of mushrooms found growing in fields were known. Even though the modern cultivated type is readily available and relatively nutritious, wild mushrooms have stronger properties and are worth finding. We would like to make the point that it is VERY important not to consume mushroom you have foraged unless you know what you're doing! Some mushrooms may be deadly. If in doubt, err on the side of caution and avoid consumption. Mushrooms are a good source of B vitamins (including B12) and germanium, an element that improves cellular oxygenation, counteracts the effects of pollutants and...

Both the English and Latin words for lettuce are based on the heavy, milky juice of the vegetable, which in its primitive form is prickly, with large leaves on the ends of long stems.The close-packed lettuce heads were well developed in Europe by the sixteenth century, while the loose-head type was developed later. Leafy types such as Cos lettuce are the most nutritious, being richer in chlorophyll, iron, folic acid and vitamins A and C and contains the most silicon of common vegetables. Iceberg and other types of head lettuce are very gas forming and contain little nutritional value. Lettuce contains the sedative lacturcarium, which relaxes...