Dear Julia,

1. Your skin is trying to clear some deposits of toxins and dead cell bacteria material that has been put there quite awhile back. Sweating always pushes these things to the surface. Liver cleansing helps to remove all sorts of things from the body.You may tap some of your own urine (best to use mid-stream morning urine) on that spot and the immedediate area around it, several times during the day and before going to sleep, for about a week. This is most likely to draw it out.

2. Pitta is your constitution which cannot be changed. Naturally, there are foods that your body requires more than others to sustain and nourish itself. For the rest of foods, your body has little or no enzyme systems available to digest and metabolize them. So it is best to choose from those foods that are listed as OK foods in the Pitta section of the book (The Key to Health and Rejuvenation). Where it says "avoid" or "reduce", these are foods that are hard to digest for Pitta types, eventually causing an imbalance in the digestive system. They increase Pitta in the body, which can cause emotional and physical distress.

So, yes eating Pitta-reducing foods is ideal for you. Don't bother about Vata or Kapha foods, but also don't worry about eating of these foods when you don't have a choice or just want to, from time to time. Eating should be a joyful event, not a matter of of the intellect, which just makes it stressful. Once the body is balanced, it will naturally and instinctively be drawn toward eating only those foods that sustain health and vitality.


With kind regards,
Andreas

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