The nutritional formats recommended for patients with the IC bladder pain syndrome come from the energy science healing tradition of Ayurveda Whether you have just IC or complicating IBS, GERD. fibromyalgia, vulvodynia, or chronic prostatitis, these formats either at icdiet.com or foodsheal.com give you guidance as to which foods you would avoid if you were to maintain physiologic balance
As we have discussed before nutrition is different than diet Nutrition encompasses a broad range of recommendations that are simply not found in the matter science molecular approach to food From incompatible food combinations to how to make a meal complete are suggestions that over time can make a difference in your digestion
Most if not all patients with the IC syndrome have variants of IBS And one of things that you can do to help your struggling gut on the road to normal bowel activity is a balanced meal plan The role of spices plays an integral role in this regard
The Complete Meal
In the nutrition of the energy science of Ayurveda all 6 tastes of sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent should be present for the meal to be complete In the discipline every phase of digestion is associated with a particular vibrational frequencies and if that taste is missing then that phase of digestion becomes impaired
Milk is the complete meal since it has all 6 tastes This is why baby can subsist on milk for a year without untoward affects
But have you ever had the sensation after a meal that you’re looking for something and you’re not sure what? Often what happens is that you turn to the sweet taste in a dessert or something else But for the average American diet it’s the bitter taste that’s missing
Now if you wanted you could study the foods that you’re preparing and be sure that all 6 tastes are present but that’s very impractical Another possibility is to use spices that will give you all 6 tastes and that makes it a lot easier
What To Do Is Quite Simple
The 6 tastes are comprised of qualities For example the bitter taste is made up of the qualities of cold, light, dry, rough, mobile, subtle, and soft Now again this makes things complicated and we’re for simple, right?
The easiest way to get all 6 tastes for a meal is to get a group of spices together that will provide the 6 tastes and use it in your cooking and when eating out at restaurants For example, a PV would use cumin, coriander, fennel, turmeric, cardamom, sucanat, and sea salt in equal proportions A PK would use black pepper, cinnamon, cumin, fenugreek, turmeric, sucanat, and sea salt…again in equal proportions You don’t have to use much…just enough to get the tastes of the spices
Use these spice mixtures according to your energy constitutional makeup So if by the questionnaire at foodsheal.com you come out PK then you would use the latter mixture By the way, these mixtures are at foodsheal.com as well under churans
To healthy eating through energy science nutrition Best DB
