Pitta

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Fire / water constitution ( hot, damp, inflammation, spreading, aggressive, oily are some of the qualities that we may see )

Pitta collects fire and water elements into the production of bile and is associated with digestive juices more generally; it is in charge of transformation and processing and concentrates in the mid-abdomen. Illnesses of excessive or obstructed pitta are marked by biliary disturbances and may include symptoms of heat, damp and excessive activity (e.g. fever, inflammation, infection, blood toxicities, bleeding); they are relieved as appropriate and perhaps in combination, by cooling, drying, nutritive or calming remedies such as the bitters, purgatives, sweet tonic remedies, astringents, cooling diaphoretics, alteratives and diuretics. Consider anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial herbs and essential oils.

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Aggravated by:

• sour
• pungent
• salty

All three of these tastes, of sour, pungent and salty will be too heating and create too much moisture for pitta. So those of a pitta constitution or a pitta condition need to be moderate in the use of these tastes.

Balanced by:

sweet

bitter

astringent