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Chocolate Ayurvedic PerspectivesWrite a review!
Written by John Joseph Immel, Asheville, NC
Chocolate is difficult to digest and hot. Bitter chocolate is Kapha pacifying. Since chocolate is often mixed with sugar and cream, it aggravates all three doshas. Chocolate stimulates the reproductive organs in women, which explains why chocolate can become an addictive habit for women, but rarely in men. Women may crave chocolate around their menses for its stimulating quality. Read more about chocolate here.

Aggravated Doshas & Qualities

Imbalance Accumulates

Improper food and lifestyle causes balances to accumulate. Ayurveda shows you exactly which doshas and qualities will accumulate in your body. Once these doshas and qualities accumulate too much, they will begin to cause disease. You can reduce an imbalanced dosha or quality by removing things that aggravate it from your diet and lifestyle.

If you have a systemic imbalance of one of these doshas or qualities, Ayurveda would highly recommend that you remove, substitute or lessen the frequency of Chocolate. 'Chocolate' is likely to aggravate the following doshas and qualities.

Vata aggravatingPitta aggravatingHotDifficult

Key: V = Vata, P = Pitta, K = Kapha. A slash through a dosha means it an aggravated dosha. To learn more about the symbols above, click on them.

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See your quiz results for a computerized assessment of your body type. Symptoms are checked below if you reported them in the quizzes. Please click on the symptoms below to learn more about them.
Emotional eatingSweet cravings
Frequent snackingRefined sugar
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I've recently gone back to an ayurvedic diet - I first went on one 20 years ago & it seemed way too complicated to maintain. Now, it doesn't at all! The last diet I was trying was alkaline/raw, and I was having a chocolate desert: Mix: 2 Tbsp. coconut oil 2 Tbsp. raw cocoa 1 Tbsp. (scant) raw honey 1 Tbsp. (scant)raw agave syrup It's like a truffle... Is this really bad for a Vata/Pitta, or would it be ok once or twice a week?

- Vibhooshana, Jamaica, NY, 11-03-12
Dear Viboosha - Mixing chocolate with sweeteners does balance both the heat and bitterness of the chocolate, generally pacifying Vata/Pitta in the moment. However, sweeteners can also aggravate Vata/Pitta if there is candida present, etc.

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