Hi again Shelley,
thanks for the info you left earlier regarding the raw veges and fruit. I will make an effort to vary my fruits and cook a few more veges to give the old liver and Spleen a rest. I ordered Julia Chang's GCG a couple of weeks ago to have it ready before my flush and I asked her a few Q's via email. She just wrote back to me and also mentioned that in Chinese medicine it is believed that salads can weaken the Spleen. Though of course I'll just cool it a little on my salad obsession and cook a few more of my veg. Balance, as you say. And that leads me to my question on the dosha deal. I found that link in your newbies posting and read lots of pages on it and did the test. Seems I'm surely a Vata (like you I believe).My curiousity is....
Given that we Vatas have a cool base and therefore need warmth, where do you think we are, from a health and harmony stance, existing for a long time in warmth(as our dosha prefers) then moving to a place with loooooong periods of COLD. That is, after 34 years of life, I moved from "sunny", Sydney Australia 3 years ago-to upstate New York. In Sydney our coldest temps in our very brief winter might be 50 degrees. Here where I live now we have several months that are below freezing-then the wacky extremes of 100 degrees come August. Then before you know it it's getting cold again. This winter(my third in this cold) I think my dosha in the Vata might have said this extreme is feaking me out! So the pneumonia and all the rest rolled on out. Maybe.....anyway, just wondering if you had any gut feel on this....
(ps. I guess also then, that I should be having some more 'warm' veges to keep the Vata happy.Cold salads are not 'right' given all of the above! I must say, those cooked root veges do leave me feeling peaceful) okay, I'm rambling now...thanks and Ciao!