The Gentle Birth Method: The Month-by-Month Jeyarani Way Programme

 Eat melons as a separate meal – they need special enzymes from your pancreas to digest them. Eating them with other food puts a huge strain on your digestive system.

 Eat grains such as rice, millet, corn and oats in moderation (not more than 1 small cup of any of these cooked grains per meal).

 Try to cut out tomatoes. If you must eat them restrict it to only once a week. Tomato is very acidic and can cause aches and pains. Cooked tomato is worse than raw tomato.

 Coconut is very good for reducing pitta. The white kernel and coconut milk, which is extracted from the white kernel, can be used for cooking. However, use only small amounts of coconut in your cooking, as it is high in fat.

 Apples are very good.

 Avoid citrus fruits as acidic food increases pitta.

 Having a banana once a week can reduce pitta. As a general rule I do not recommend them as they are too fattening and mucus retentive.

 Vegetable soups with herbs are very soothing.

 Congee, an overcooked broth of rice with water and salt, is very easy to digest. To make it more interesting, a little garlic or ginger and a few vegetables can be added to it.

 Milk is cooling and is good for reducing pitta. Ideally it should be goat’s milk – try to avoid cow’s milk unless it is labelled with the A-2 protein as opposed to A-1. The A-1 proteins that are found in the herds of some cows produce undesirable effects in the human digestive system and have been associated with gut problems (specifically colon cancer), coronary disease, diabetes mellitus (Type I), multiple sclerosis and autism. In the near future, it will be possible to segregate the cows that produce A-2 milk from those that produce A-1 milk. This will be done by a simple test on a hair of each cow. (A-2 milk is already on the shelf in Australia and New Zealand.) Closer to home, Guernsey cows produce A-2 milk. However, Jersey cows produce A-1 milk, so if you are buying milk look for pure Guernsey cow milk. (This was reported on BBC Health News, 9 April 2001.)

Herbs

 Choose cooling herbs like coriander in food.

 The herb Bala (Cida codifolia), a main ingredient in my Baladi Choornam drink, is very important for keeping pitta under control.

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