Foods can be used medicinally.

How each food item affects your body depends on its nutritional components and energetic structure.

For example let’s look at ginger. It has a hot energy to it (place a small bit of raw ginger on the tongue to experience, then swallow the raw ginger to notice heating effect) and contains the enzyme zingibain. We can therefore deduce that ginger is a food worth using for digestive support (among other things). It will bring warmth to the fire of digestion as well as enzyme support to break down the food. All food can be looked at this way.

To keep things simple lets order all of the food categories by the impact they will have on your physiology. By “impact” I mean how great of an effect a food’s energetics will have on your physiology plus how quickly it will affect you. This information will be beneficial when making adjustments to what’s in your kitchen or beginning your own HOME PHARMACY.

If you are interested in beginning to use food medicinally keep it simple and start with SPICES. Here is why…

Relative Impact of Food on the Physiology

1. spices (largest, fastest impact on the body)
2. animal products
3. dairy
4. oils
5. sweeteners
6. nuts and seeds
7. legumes
8. vegetables
9. fruits
10. grains (least, slowest impact on the body)

Take this dosha quiz to learn a little more about your personal constitution from an Ayurvedic point of view. Then print the spice mixture page and make (using a coffee or spice grinder) the spice mixture that matches your constitution. These spice mixtures can be ordered pre-made from www.mapi.com as well. If you choose to order from www.mapi.com go to the home page and scroll to the bottom of the page…click the MAPI icon under “Affiliated” with and enjoy 10% off.

Other Medicinal Spice Mixtures Examples:

Note: These spice mixtures should not take the place of any standard medical care you are receiving. 

Dry Cough: 1 tsp raw honey and 2 pinches of black pepper (2-3 times a day)

Wet “Mucousy” Cough (don’t take this if dealing with ulcers or infmalation in GI tract): 1/2 tsp ginger+1 pinch clove or1 whole clove+1/4 tsp cinnamon steeped in 1 cup boiling water (take 2-3 times aday)

Bowel Inflammation: 10 parts fennel seeds, 1 part turmeric powder, 1 part cumin seeds, 3 parts coriander seeds (grind/mix all together onto a powder)-use on foods.

Home Health Care Workshops:

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan January 2013: Click I AM HEALTHY–these workshops will go into much more detail as well as give examples and tastings of medicinal spice mixtures and more!

San Diego: No workshops planned yet but will be offering small group home health care sessions at my office in Cardiff. All you need to do is put together 3+ people. Price is $125 per person for a 3 hour workshop. Gather 5+ people and price drops to $99 per person.