Food is Medicine

It stands to reason that the better the quality of the food, the better the medicine. Just as we are created from the five Elements, so too are foods. Food = Energy. Each food is defined by one of the six Tastes, which helps us to work out which contain the elemental building blocks that we are in need of in our body, and makes it simple for us to get a wide variety of foods to support our growth.

Ayurveda’s approach to choosing the right foods for yourself at any given time, can be compared to putting on a jumper when you start to feel cold – you don’t think about it and it isn’t a big effort – it happens naturally. Many of us don’t know how to express what our body needs and even if we do, we might override our biological intuition, simply because we’ve never been taught to place any importance on it.