Eat At The Right Time
Avoid foods that will produce heat in your body and become hazardous. Avoid sour fruits, citrus fruits, beetroots, and carrots that tend to heat up your body. Limit the intake of garlic, chilli, tomato, sour cream and salted cheese to avoid hampering your system. Eat more salads, as they are cooling, especially when eaten for lunch. Try avoiding dark meats as they heat up your body.
Bring Coconut Oil To Your Rescue
According to the book, in the morning, as a part of your daily routine, rub 5-6 ounces of coconut oil on your body before taking a bath. It gives a calming, cooling and soothing effect to the skin. You can use sunflower oil alternatively.
Avoid Hot Drinks Or Hot Water
Drinking hot beverages will invite an upset pitta dosha. This is why you must always choose to drink beverages at room temperature in order to balance it.
Avoid Strenuous Exercise
It is always good to exercise early in the morning as it is the coolest part of the day. Engaging in vigorous exercises during other parts of the day may heat up the body only to cause harm.
Make Use Of Cooling Oils
Bring sandalwood, jasmine and khus oils to your rescue. Not only do they have a soothing aroma, but also are known to have cooling properties.
Avoid Ice Cold Drinks
Ice-cold drinks only inhibit digestion and create toxins, also known as ama in the body. Your digestive system has a digestive fire that is responsible for converting food into energy. Drinking chilled is almost like putting off the digestive fire causing various health problems.
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1. Essential fatty acids
Essential fatty acids are fats that help in keeping your brain healthy. These help to control and regulate your psychological functions. Foods with these fatty acids include walnuts, olive oil, flaxseeds, almonds, whole grain foods, et al., which help in keeping your mind calm and stress-free.
2. Magnesium-rich foods
Magnesium is one of the minerals that help your liver function properly. Your liver health reflects on your skin. So, loading up on magnesium-rich foods may keep your liver and skin healthy. Include more green leafy vegetables, dark chocolate, figs, bananas, seeds, avocado, et al.
Apart from the food, you can bring kitchen ingredients to your rescue. Some kitchen ingredients that will help your skin glow.
1. Chamomile Tea and Fuller’s Earth (Multani Mitti) Pack
Chamomile helps regenerate skin cells and its anti-bacterial properties will fight off acne-causing germs.
Strain half a cup of chamomile tea (without sugar) and mix it with 3 teaspoons of Fuller’s earth. Apply this pack twice a week to remove blackheads, deep-lodged dirt and dead skin cells.
2. Sandalwood and Yogurt
Lactobacillus, a good bacterium, does two wonderful things – first, it curdles milk into yoghurt and second, it makes your skin shiny.
Take a couple of teaspoons of sandalwood powder, add 3 spoons of fresh yoghurt, add a few drops of rose water and your face pack is ready. Keep it on your skin (face, neck and arms) for 15 minutes before bath.
Apart from these, neem or neemba as it is known in Ayurvedic scriptures has been used for centuries; thanks to its various healing properties. Its antibacterial, antiseptic and anti-fungal properties have made it a popular medicine for the skin. Use neem as a part of your daily skincare and ensure healthy skin. You can add it with Multani mitti make a paste of it and apply it regularly.
Green Tea Benefits For Skin
May Reduce the Risk of Melanoma
A 2003 study – conducted by researchers at the Department of Dermatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham – concluded that green tea might be used as a pharmacological agent for the prevention of disorders of the skin caused by excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation.
May Help Control Oily Skin
The EGCG present in green tea is known to be anti-androgenic in nature. This effectively means that it regulates the production of androgens in the body, which in turn may reduce oil or sebum production on the skin.