Pisces and Ayurveda: 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 dośa (body constitution) related to Pisces 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, a tendency to sleep too much and high cholesterol, you may be suffering from kaphaimbalance. Other symptoms can be inertia, congestion, stagnation and poor circulation. There may be a tendency toward obesity and boredom, depression, apathy, laziness, and mental dullness.

lf 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, and good long term memory, then your kapha is balanced.

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

• ാ A relaxed, slow-paced disposition
• A loving, forgiving, compassionate personality O
• ാ A stable and reliable nature
• o Faithfulness
• ാ Physical strength, with a heavy and large body and enduring constitution
• റ Slowness of speech, good memory power,
• Large watery eyes
• ാ Tendency to heavy depression
• റ Gentleness, self sufficiency
• Vibrant health, with strong resistance to disease, O
• ാ Slowness to anger, greedy, envious
• റ Tendency to hold on to things, possessive of people, monev
• Physical problems generally include colds and congestion, sinusitis, 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 kapha characteristics.

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.