Your Constitution

You are intelligent but also very strong-willed. You usually know what you want and are determined to get it. Willpower and courage are your strong personality characteristics, though you need to be careful about being (or seeming) egotistical and domineering in work and social situations, including family.

WORK: You probably work with moderate speed and are generally good at getting things done. You have a practical nature and good business sense. Although strong-willed, you still possess a sense of fairness and maintain a clear and practical perspective in most situations.

FINANCIAL: Pitta types spend money moderately and practically. You’re certainly not afraid to spend money, but impulse purchasing is rare for you.

HABITS: Organized and practical are some of your primary characteristics, as you tend to make or break habits according to their usefulness. When receiving treatments or advice, you’re often critical and think that you know what is best for yourself initially. However, once you understand the facts and what you need to do, you are very good at implementing positive changes for yourself and your health.

As mentioned, Pitta types tend to be intense and quick-tempered people, but they also make just and good leaders. In a group setting, you usually gravitate toward taking control of a situation (and succeed if you are the strongest Pitta type in the group).

You make friends easily, but quite often those friendships are based mostly upon their usefulness. You can be intolerant of ignorance and impatient with those who do not understand or follow your ideas.

POSITIVE TRAITS: Your positive mental traits are: Intelligence, confidence, creativity, joyousness, sweetness, strength, forcefulness, patience, fairness, courageousness, exuberance, self-confidence, and strong leadership ability. You are also ambitious, methodical, efficient, adaptable, pleasant, clear-minded, energetic, fiery, and friendly.

NEGATIVE TRAITS: On the negative end of the spectrum, you can be domineering, easily angered, resentful, hostile, self-criticizing, irritable, impatient, and you might also suffer from outbursts of temper. You are easily frustrated and should be mindful of your internal urge to be tyrannical, critical of others, intolerant of delays, hurtful, hot-headed, and argumentative.

Does this sound like you? Understanding the doshas and how they relate to us individually can help us to make the most of our strengths and to mitigate our weaknesses.

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When it comes to food, we all like need to indulge our cravings from time to time. Making a religion out of the food we eat misses the whole point of living a happy, healthy life. Adhering to a diet that mostly includes the foods that are good for us and avoids those that can throw our dosha into an aggravated state is a sane and realistic dietary approach.

Important in Ayurveda are the principles of “like increases like” and using “opposites as medicine.” Pitta is increased by pungent, sour, and salty tastes, which increase heat. Foods with these qualities should be eaten in moderation or generally avoided. On the other hand, sweet, bitter, and astringent tastes are cooling and can have an immediate effect in calming an aggravated Pitta.

Food Do’s:

• Eat foods that are naturally sweet, astringent, and bitter.
• Eat lots of fresh, raw fruits and vegetables.
• Stick with sweet fruits like apples, berries, coconut, dates, melons, oranges, etc.
• Use cooling herbs like coriander, dill, mint, and fennel.
• Eat beans and other legumes.
• Use sweeteners like brown rice syrup, fruit juice concentrates, maple syrup, etc.
• Eat light grains like barley, cooked oats, basmati rice, white rice, wheat, wheat bran, etc.
• Drink plenty of cooling juices and teas, sweet apple juice, aloe vera juice, coconut milk, cool dairy drinks, soya milk, etc.

Foods to Avoid:

• Foods that are pungent, sour, and salty.
• Heavy sweeteners like honey and molasses.
• Sour fruits such as sour apples, bananas, cherries, grapefruit, green grapes, etc.
• Heavy grains like oat bran, buckwheat, corn, brown rice, rye, dry oats, and granola.
• Dairy, especially heavy cheeses, sour cream, yogurt, etc.
• Alcohol, coffee, carbonated drinks, sour juices and teas, pungent teas, carrot-ginger juices, highly salted drinks, tomato juice, etc.
• Heating spices such as cayenne, cloves, garlic, ginger, paprika, onion, mustard seeds, etc.
• Most nuts, especially cashews, walnuts, peanuts, pecans, pistachios, pine nuts, macadamia, etc.