Two important aspects of life are associated with the tongue-taste and speech. Our elders advice us to control both as one can lead to excess and illness and the other can land in trouble!.
Ayurveda says that nutrition depends on the tip of your tongue as the sense of taste is a natural guide for good health. The tastes of different food desired by the body are a barometer of the body’s innate wisdom regarding food and nutrition. Taste buds not only identify tastes for the brain, they provide the initial impetus to the digestive system. Your tongue will immediately react to temperature-hot and cold; to spice-chilli and sweet, sour and bitter and to stale and fresh food. Ayurveda identifies six tastes called shadruchi: Madhu-sweet, amla-sour, lavana-salty, thiktha-bitter, kattie-pungentt, and kashaya-astrigent. Each taste has an impact on our behavior and nature.
- · Sweet helps to build tissue, it calms nerves.
- · Sour helps to clean the system and plays a major role in the absorption of minerals.
- · Salt mainly improves the taste of food. It contributes greatly to maintaining the liquid content of the body, lubricates tissues and stimulates digestion.
- · Bitter food is great as a detoxifier.
- · Pungent food also stimulates digestion and helps with metabolism.
- · Astringent food absorbs water and dries up fats.
The brain sounds the warning when our body requires energy
Any one or combination of these types of food restores the balance. When all these six tastes are included in our daily diet, then a natural balance is created. The body automatically avoids the over consumption of a particular kind of food. A squeeze of lime juice or a dash of fenugreek, asafetida; a piece of beetroot or sweet potato; adding chopped coriander or curry leaves, a sprinkling of pepper or a dash of chilli powder will fulfill the criteria of six tastes without any hassle.
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