Cold Drink After Meals

It is true. I have read it in "Times Wellness". We get it along with our Times of India.

 

Thanks for sharing.
In our place in kerala, almost *everyone* only drinks hot water (even when the weather is hot!).
Either it is jeera water or daahashamini. (water boiled in powdered mixture of thulasi and some other herbs)

 

It is true. I have seen this in an email regarding health news before.

Rekha

 

Hello RajmiArun ma'am, very cheerful evening!

Yes. I did come across this article in digitaljournal website. Truly speaking there are loads of people who say its just a fake mail, and many others in support of the same (you can access these info in the very same website). But any health relating issue should not be dealt casually.

As i referred in another site, according to "Tibetan medicine" "water opposes bile and increases wind".

In Tibet, where there are vast areas without easy access to water, different natural water sources are recognized as having different benefits (or harm) for drinking: The different types of water include rainwater, melted snow, river water, spring water, well water, lake water, and forest water. Rainwater is of supreme quality and the rest are successively inferior. Rain water is of indeterminate but pleasant taste, is invigorating and satisfying, has cool, light power, and is like nectar. Melted snow water comes in rushing torrents. It is very fine, cool water which is hard for the digestive power to withstand. Still calm areas of water [such as the lake and forest water] produce germs, elephantiasis, and heart diseases. Good water is that which comes from a clean area and which has felt the touch of the sun and wind….Cool water cures fainting, fatigue, hangovers, vertigo, vomiting, thirst, obesity, blood and bile disorders, and poisoning. Freshly boiled water increases digestive heat, facilitates digestion, cures hiccoughs, promptly cures distention of the abdomen, caused by phlegm, and cures asthmatic conditions, fresh colds, and infectious fevers. Cool boiled water does not increase phlegm and cures bile conditions, but if it is left standing for one day or more it acquires toxic properties.

Consistent with certain ancient Ayurvedic suggestions, which differ from the modern one, the drinking of beverages is usually associated with meals and its quantity related to the amount of food consumed. The description in the Tibet tantras is: "One should fill two parts of the stomach with food, one with drink, and in the fourth part leave room for the fire-like equalizing wind, the decomposing phlegm, and the digestive bile." Of course, it is difficult to know what would constitute one-fourth part of the stomach, but the idea expressed here is to not eat until full, indeed, only half full, and then consume far less beverage than food, still not filling the stomach. Depending on the kind of food consumed and the type of humoral imbalance a person might have, different beverages would be recommended, which might best be taken at different times after completing the meal. At any rate, the quantity of the beverage to be consumed is not as critical as the type of beverage, and it is limited.

Different cultures and different customs. But it is up to us to take which ever is the best suit for our own selves.

 

Hi Rajmi,
THANK U FOR YOUR USEFUL SUGGESTION.