Lettuce
Cool and bitter, lettuce is perfect for overheated, aggressive or impatient people. It is also a good match for the overweight, lethargic, watery individuals, that can benefit from lettuce lightness and bitterness.
Vata people should eat lettuce with lemon and rock-salt to aid digestion.
Properties
Taste: bitter, sweet
Natural Attributes: light, clear, dry
Tissue impact (Vipak): reducing
Thermal impact (Virya): cooling
Dosha impact: Increases Vata, decreases Pitta and Kapha
Digestive impact (Agni): easy to digest
Channels (Srotas): opens
Feces: moved
Urine: diuretic
Strength (Bala): clears congestionand obstructionÂ
Mind (Manas): Sattvic
Effect: sedative, refrigerant, nervine, alterative, blood thinner, hypolipidemic, demulcentÂ
Chinese five element impact: Wood
Chinese medicine syndromes: Moves Liver qi, Subdue Liver Fire
Medicinal propertiesÂ
- Nourishment (rasa): increases lactation, losing weight
- Blood-circulation-liver: edema, hemorrhoids, reducing liver excess, detoxifying and cooling the liver
- Nervous system: relaxes nerves
- Kidney-Bladder: scanty urine, blood in urine
- Digestive system: digestive yeasts
Harmful for: eye diseases, dizziness, the emaciated