The Six Tastes and Completeness of the Meal
Today I was eating lunch and wasn't enjoying it very much. Somehow this dish that I had had in the past many times just wasn't as pleasurable.
Near the end of the meal I began thinking about the tastes that were present. Let's see there's sweet, sour, yes, mmmm, where was the salty taste?
I knew that pungent, bitter and astringent were there but aha! the salty taste I had omitted.
So I pulled out my PV churan and sprinkled it on the remaining portion of my meal. Viola! It was quite amazing what happened to me physically. Oh my gosh, I felt pumped!
Well, the point of the story is that for foods to be satisfying, we should have all six tastes.
And if one of them is missing, we begin rooting around looking for something to satisfy us. That usually is the sweet taste, like chocolate but it is usually the bitter taste. But today it was salty for me.
The food that provides all six tastes is milk-that's why babies can thrive on mother's milk for so long.
We see that the GI tract to be healthy and functioning in a balanced way(sound familiar?) energetically needs to have all tastes. Energetically the levels of digestion in the GI tract follow sweet(mouth), sour(stomach), salty(bile), pungent(small bowel), bitter(small bowel), and astringent(colon).
So if we short change one or more of these tastes, energetically we don't amplify and support that portion of the bowel and then functionally over time it lanquishes.
See ya tomorrow To health as a skill Love DrBill
