5 Ayurvedic Immunity Boosting Tips
Updated: Apr 19, 2024
What we eat has a significant impact on our health. That's why these immunity boosting Ayurvedic foods should be a part of your diet. When you eat the right foods, you'll be stronger, more energetic, and will be capable of fighting off illnesses.
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5 Ayurvedic Immunity Boosting Tips
1. Try Ginger Tea to Boost Digestion Power and Immunity
Ginger tea has been used as a medicinal drink for centuries. It's high in Vitamin C and also contains trace minerals like zinc, calcium, phosphorous, and sodium. This beverage can help to strengthen your immune system and cleanse your upper respiratory tract.
Ginger is also an excellent choice for people with a vata imbalance. It can improve every phase of gastrointestinal function, allowing you to properly absorb the nutrients from the foods you are eating. If you start drinking ginger tea regularly, you'll be able to see and feel the difference.
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2. Add More Soup to Your Diet
The temperature can have an impact on both your health and your immune system function. When it's cold outside, a warm, comforting bowl of soup can bring your body temperature up and keep your immune system strong. Soups are often packed with nutritious, immune system-boosting ingredients, like carrots, turmeric, and garlic.
Warm, nourishing foods like soup can also help to balance the doshas. Each dosha is connected to specific physical functions, and keeping your doshas balanced can help you to maintain your health. Whether your dominant dosha is vata, kapha, or pitta, you can really benefit from eating more soup.
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3. Start Drinking Warm Water
It's important to remove toxins from your body so that it will be capable of fighting off illnesses. While an Ayurvedic cleanse is one of the best ways to detoxify, you can also remove toxins from your body by sipping on warm water throughout the day.
The water you drink will be absorbed into your circulatory system, clearing away toxins that are blocking your cellular channels and tissue. When these toxins are washed away, it's likely that you'll feel lighter and more refreshed. You'll also be able to absorb more nutrients from the foods that you eat.
4. Use the Right Spices and Herbs to Boost Immunity
Ayurveda’s healing trifecta is: herbs, food as medicine, and Ayurveda lifestyle practices, such as breathwork and meditation. The suitability of any of these tools is highly dependent on the individual. What is correct for one person may be incorrect for another.
"Taking the incorrect herb can create imbalances, so we want to act with knowledge and clarity. Which herbal boosters are correct and helpful for you? It depends on your overall constitution, current state of balance or imbalances and a number of other factors. An Ayurvedic consultation provides a clear picture of what herbs, foods as medicine, and Ayurveda lifestyle tools will serve you optimally." - Veena, Saumya Ayurveda
Spices and herbs play an important role in Ayurvedic medicine. While these herbs can be used medicinally, including them in your meals can also help to keep your immune system strong and your body in good health.
Spices that you'll want to use more of include cumin, turmeric, and cardamom. Beneficial herbs include dill, basil, and fennel. Not only can these seasonings improve the flavor of your food, but they can also help to correct dosha imbalances. For example, black pepper or mustard seed can help to correct a kapha imbalance.
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5. Keep Calm to Boost Immunity
There is a saying, "The mind is more in the body, than the body is in the mind." The Saumya 3 step meditation process shifts us from fight-flight-freeze mode, to rest-restore-relax mode. Give it a try for forty days and observe the changes. The more grounded and relaxed we are, the smoother life flows.
"The breath is the connection between the mind and body, so by training the breath, we become calm, focused, and grounded, we slow down the aging process by decreasing stress. These practices are so simple and easy to have as part of our daily life. We actually feel and look younger."
- Veena, Saumya Ayurveda
1. Learn Diaphragmatic Breathing and Change Your Life. When we re-learn to breath diaphragmatically, we move from the flight-fight-freeze mode, to rest, restore, relaxation mode from where we want and need to live.
2. Daily Guided Practices: 11 minutes in the morning and in the evening, as anchors of your daily Ayurveda routine.
3. Ayurveda Daily Routines: --Ayurvedic Morning Routine | 6 Rituals for a Calm and Centered Day
"Choose a couple of practices from the routines that provide you with the greatest support. Perform them while applying our two minute meditation technique and your mundane tasks, just transformed into a mellifluous meditation. This is meditation applied to daily life." - Veena, Saumya Ayurveda
"Veena was able to help me regain my energy in just a few months and I’m feeling like my “young” self again! I love the food plan she designed for me, and all the supporting practices (am/pm routines, breathing techniques, herbs, and spice mixes) are so enjoyable to incorporate into my day. I highly recommend Saumya Ayurveda if you want to feel better and have more vitality.”
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“With Veena’s guidance, with herbs and diet changes, six months later, I am a completely different person. I still have some things to work on, but with Veena’s help, I know I will be able to take control of my health and not leave it to Western medicine that was giving me little to no help and covering up my symptoms with another medication.
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“Veena has helped me several times at various stages of my life to rebalance my doshas, and to bring me back to greater vitality. Veena’s herbal protocols and food recommendations are easy to follow and effective.
Combined with her beautifully guided relaxation and meditation practices, Veena offers a truly holistic to achieving and maintaining harmony in body, mind, and spirit—and living more peacefully and joyfully in an increasingly more erratic world.”
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Veena is a Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and meditation teacher, and monk.
She is President Emeritus and teaching faculty of the Meditation Center.
Veena fell in love with the traditional medicine used in her family’s home, learning herbal remedies at her grandmother's knee.
These childhood experiences were the seeds of a lifelong passion. For over 30 years, Veena has dedicated her life to the world’s oldest healing system: Ayurveda.
She draws on this ancient wisdom to help others find their compass to a healthy life – and support those left wanting by Western medicine.
An experienced Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, Veena’s deep, intuitive knowledge of Ayurveda empowers her clients to reclaim their fullest, most vibrant lives –mentally, physically, and spiritually. Veena individualizes treatment plans to each person, rather than offering a one-size-fits-all approach, so it fits your life and becomes woven in your lifestyle, naturally.