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https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ayurvedic-healing-a-comprehensive-guide
Please invest in that book, & do a simple experiment, using its ingredients-lists:
Find your metabolism/dosha ( probably Vata? )
Then make pairs of dishes where 1 is maximally pacifying of your metabolism/dosha & the other, of each pair, is maximally aggravating.
Sit down & spend time with that experiment-meal.
You may find the experience wonderful/horrifying.
I discovered, when I did that experiment, 1.5-decades ago, that every dish I was preparing was mixing ingredients harming-my-health with ingredients benefitting my health:
the recommendations like "lentils are self-inherently-good-for-everybody", or "dairy is good for everybody", etc, all are ideological, and NOT individual-biology evidence based.
Test EACH INGREDIENT, to discover which ingredients are OK for you.
& know that Frawley's book is just a "starter" version of what probably helps your-life.
I've found that ALL other Ayurveda information I've encountered has been less-quality/integrity than his.
& I've also found that the ideological authority-based-medicine-which-identifies-as-"evidence-based"-medicine people are impervious to evidence.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nindia.2015.148 Genomic Evidence validates Ayurveda.
Do the experiment, & see what results you get.
IF the results are simply too spectacular for the ideological-prejudice to prevent you from relying on it?
THEN rely on it.
I do, in spite of medical-prejudice.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=ayurveda
That is a medical-research database, where peer-reviewed papers are indexed:
See the nearly-9000 papers on Ayurveda?
That's EVIDENCE.
Authority-based-medicine which "identifies" as "evidence-based-medicine", which ideologically won't tolerate that evidence to count, ISN'T evidence-based medicine.
( Dad was a medical-researcher, & doctor: he taught me to think, then he taught me what medical-prejudice means.
Mom was also a former medical-professional, & I learned medical-prejudice's nature in a different way, from her.
I've had it with their entire-profession's gaslighting. : )
See this article? https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25433
That became a chapter in a book, edited by John Brockman, the book's name is "This Idea Must Die".
Calling-out authority-based-medicine.
Not calling it gaslighting, as I do, but calling it out, openly.
It isn't just me.
Anyways, the experiment ought give you MASSIVE leverage with your health, if you do it honestly, and you happen to be in a lopsided metabolism ( some aren't ).
If so, then I hope you can turn that into whole-life improving, simply for the real-wealth that healing is.
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