Medicating With Taste
So this evening I had a dish that's quite common for me and added some fresh grated ginger with salt and pepper Fresh ginger has a cooling effect and rest of the spices that were used were cooling so what followed was a result of salt and pepper
Salt has the properties of hot, light, subtle, liquid, smooth, and soft; pepper has the pungent qualities of dry, light, mobile, sharp, subtle, and rough.
Together they produce hot, light, mobile, sharp, subtle, and soft But the qualities of salt and pepper are less important than what they physiologically did to me
Since I had been using salt and pepper regularly for the last few days, after the meal although I had had enough to eat from a satiation level I began noticing watering of my mouth as if I was still hungry(salt effect) I also noticed mucous mobilization from my throat and nasal passages(pepper effect)
It was if my appetite was still not satisfied! What had happened was my digestive fire was so stoked with these two particular spices that particularly the hot, light, mobile, sharp, and not so subtle were ramping my digestive fire
So I reached for the sweet taste to balance with cold, heavy, static, slow/dull, and gross using yogurt and sucanat Yogurt especially store bought is more sour than homemade so dulled the effect of the sweet sucanat
Nonetheless the sweet taste helped do the trick by satisfying the digestive fire which was roaring
Moral of the story: Spices even simple salt and pepper have a powerful impact on the physiology if we pay attention and we can affect those physiologic changes by contrasting qualities understanding the qualities of energy science nutrition
Have you ever noticed that salt or pepper affects you adversely? Ever experienced bowel activity after ingesting certain spices(mobile quality)? Does this make any sense to you?
Tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
