How to Make Refreshing Ayurvedic Mint Lemonade to Keep Your Pitta Cool
Updated: Oct 5, 2024
This traditional Ayurvedic cooling beverage is known as Pudina Sharbat. A refreshing drink made from mint and lemons. It is a delicious, healthy, Pitta dosha balancing, and easy-to-prepare Ayurvedic beverage. Reduce body heat and keep your cool with this natural cooling drink. Using food as medicine to beat the heat this summer season! Bonus: Sip your way to cool with our free Pitta beverage recipe eBook.
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Benefits of Lemons According to Ayurveda
Support healthy digestive fire (agni).
Supports healthy blood sugar.
Known to have healthy blood pressure benefits.
High in calcium, potassium, and magnesium.
Stimulates liver bile production.
Can prevent kidney stone formation.
Balancing to Vata.
Cooling to Pitta (except if the digestive system is already inflamed).
Benefits of Mint According to Ayurveda
The different varieties of mint are especially cooling for fiery Pitta.
Mint is a dipana, a digestive aid, that supports balanced digestive fire (agni).
Soothing to the digestive tract.
Cleansing to the stomach.
Mint can help reduce acid indigestion.
Peppermint is a refreshing. lifting, and inspiring aroma.
Mint clears stagnation in the blood, mind, stomach and overall.
Mint is has anti-inflammatory properties.
Reduce pain with mint.
Mint contains anti-bacterial and anti-oxidant properties.
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Ayurvedic Mint Lemonade Recipe To Cool Pitta
Ingredients:
2-3 cups water
A good sized handful of mint leaves (Mints are easy to grow in containers)
1 small piece of rock sugar (base the size on how much sweetness you like.)
If rock sugar is not available, try coconut sugar.
Squeeze in the juice of one lemon (more if you want it stronger and also depending on the size, potency, and juiciness of the lemon.)
Add a little rock salt (such as Himalayan Pink Salt) according to your taste.
Instructions:
Blend it up.
Drink it up.
Grab your favorite cocktail style glass. (Maybe even one of those little umbrellas.)
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Let each meal or snack become an eating meditation that supports healthy digestion and nourishment.
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Healthy Digestion Begins in the Mind.
When we eat and drink, it's important to have a calm state of mind. Have you ever eaten when you were upset? Indigestion city. When we're calm, we taste the food, digest, assimilate, and eliminate optimally. Digestion begins in the mind before you take your first sip of bite!
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