Sagittarius and ¡yurveda: Understand your Constitution🔗

In a birth chart, many influences have to be considered to find out one's body type. Consulting an experienced Ayurvedic doctor will help you to understand your body constitution.

Generally, the Ayurvedic doºa (body constitution) related to Sagittarius is kapha.

Let's use this scale:

If you experience symptoms such as lethargy, a feeling of heaviness, nausea, chills, looseness of the limbs, coughing, mucus discharges, breathing difficulties and a tendency to sleep too much and high cholesterol, you may be suffering from kapha imbalance. Other symptoms can be inertia, congestion, stagnation and circulation problems. There may be a tendency toward obesity and boredom, depression, apathy, laziness, and mental dullness may be present.

If you are easy going, forgiving, physically strong, stable and reliable, slow to anger, active and positive minded, have a strong immune system, full of mental resolve, rational thinking, endurance, adaptability, long term memory, then your kaphais balanced.

Here are some of the common characteristics of people who have predominantly kapha body constitution:

• ❍ Relaxed disposition, slow paced
• ❍ Loving, forgiving, compassionate personality
• ❍ Stable nature, reliable
• ❍ Faithful
• ❍ Physically strong and heavy and large body, enduring constitution
• ❍ Slow speech, good memory power,
• ❍ Large watery eyes
• ❍ Prone to heavy depression
• ❍ Gentle, self sufficient
• ❍ Excellent health, strong resistance to disease,
• ❍ Slow to anger, greedy, envious
• ❍ Tend to hold on to things, possessive of people, money
• ❍ Physical problems generally include colds and congestion, sinus, headaches, respiratory problems including asthma and wheezing, hay fever, allergies, and atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and constipation.

How to manage kapha?

Kapha people are prone to lethargy, sluggishness and overweight. Therefore, they need activity and stimulation more than the other types of constitution. Daily exercise is a must for them. Getting out of the house, walking and actively seeking new and different experiences, breaking their routine is also valuable. They should learn to be receptive to useful change, renounce impediments to progress, implement life solutions and choose foods, mental attitudes, behaviors, exercise, relationships that can help them to balance kaphacharacteristics.

Food items to balance kapha:

Kapha people should consume little fried or fatty foods; avoid icy drinks, sweets or excessive amounts of bread. Butter, ice cream, cheese and milk should be avoided; they are among the worst foods which aggravates kapha. The consumption of salt should be kept in check, as it creates water retention in kapha body types.

They should enjoy plenty of fresh vegetables, raw fruits and salads. Pungent, bitter, and astringent tastes decrease kapha influences. Black pepper, ginger, cumin, chili, and some other spices provide the pungent taste; bitterness is provided by some green leafy vegetables like lettuce, endive and some green vegetables and beans provide the astringent taste, like cucumber and unripe fruits.