Sweet
Madhura
Builds tissue, cools, grounds
Rice, milk, dates, root vegetables
The method
Four questions,
asked in order.
A meal plan is not a list of healthy foods. It is a judgement about which qualities you need more of and which you have too much of already — and that judgement changes with the season, the hour and the state of your digestion.
Constitution
Start from prakriti
What you are made of, not how you feel this morning. Constitution sets the baseline the planner works against — a kapha body and a vata body eating the same meal get different results from it.
Season
Then adjust for ritucharya
Each season accumulates one quality and provokes another. Late winter builds kapha; autumn dries and disturbs vata. A meal that balanced you in June can aggravate you in October, unchanged.
Hour
Then place it in the day
The doshas cycle twice through every twenty-four hours. The planner puts the heaviest meal in the pitta window, when digestion can actually meet it, and keeps the evening light.
Fire
Then check agni
None of the above matters if the fire is low. When digestion is weak the answer is less food and more warmth, not a better recipe — so the plan reduces rather than substitutes.
Shad rasa
Six tastes, not four food groups
Ayurveda classifies food by what it does rather than what it contains. A balanced meal carries all six tastes, weighted toward the ones that settle your constitution — which is why the planner reasons in tastes and only then resolves to ingredients.
Sour
Amla
Kindles appetite, warms, moistens
Lemon, yoghurt, tamarind
Salty
Lavana
Retains water, softens, warms
Rock salt, seaweed
Pungent
Katu
Heats, dries, clears channels
Ginger, chilli, black pepper
Bitter
Tikta
Cools, dries, detoxifies
Bitter gourd, turmeric, greens
Astringent
Kashaya
Contracts, dries, cools
Lentils, pomegranate, unripe banana
Where yoga meets the plate
The practice prepares the meal
Twists compress and release the abdominal organs. Forward folds cool an over-heated system. Backbends open the front line and raise the heat where it has gone sluggish. Classically these are not separate from diet — they are the preparation that decides what the diet can do.
So the app sequences them together: the practice that suits your constitution this morning, and then the meal that the practice has made you ready for.
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