Pork

This substantial meat builds blood and strength (balya). It’s strengthening qualities are ideal for weak, or deficient persons. Its  oily and hot qualities make it the quintessential pitta-kapha aggravating food. Pork increases sweating.

Properties

Taste: Sweet

Natural Attributes: Heavy, Oily, sticky

Tissue impact (Vipak): Sweet, nourishing

Thermal impact (Virya): Neutral

Dosha impact: Decrease Vata, Increase Kapha and pitta

Digestive impact (Agni): hard to digest

Channels (Srotas): closes the channels

Feces: enhances bowel movement

Urine:

Strength (Bala): highly increases strength and immunity

Mind (Manas):  Tamas (short term effect), Rajas (long term effect)

Effect:

Chinese five element impact:

Chinese medicine syndromes: kidneys, spleen-pancreas, stomach ; nurtures yin

Medicinal properties

• Nourishment (rasa):  ideal for the deficient, and those with weak, dry, nervous and thin constitutions,  gaining weight, treating weakness, exhaustion
• Blood-circulation-liver: conditions of dryness (lips, nose, throat, skin)
• Reproductive and hormonal systems: fertility
• Vital essence: wasting stage of diabetes
• Respiratory system: dry cough (defatted soup)
• Digestive system:  constipation (defatted soup)

Harmful for: obesity and other Kapha disorders, weak digestion, diarrhea, hypertension,conditions of yellow mucus (mucus+heat conditions), stagnant phlegm conditions causing tiredness, pain, spasm, paralysis.

Varieties

• Pork liver: builds the blood and strengthens the liver, treats edema, benefits the eyes in cases of weak vision, night blindness,and  pink-eye.