Cool Off Body, Heart, AND Mind! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter July 17, 2025 – Vol 14

Vaidya Mishra recommended dietary and lifestyle changes to protect the body from the scorching heat of the summer. Let’s find out why…

While we all look forward to sunny warmer summer days in anticipation of fun vacation days, the Summer season can actually be a difficult time for the body – and mind – in general. Summer starts when the earth’s axial tilt is closest to the sun and the days get longer than the nights. The Northern Hemisphere receives the highest levels of solar radiation, and is therefore dominated by the fire element – agni. This creates the dehydration period – “adana.”The powerful rays of the sun evaporate the moisture or unctuousness of the earth and in the human physiology – the soma. Agni becomes high and burns off soma – the cooling and grounding element. Lubricating ability – snigdha – decreases. As a result of the heat, we may experience dehydration and excess thirst, which further increases pitta and may specially challenge people with pitta-predominant constitutions, or those who are pitta aggravated.

So one of the most important things to do is to restore soma. Water is a pure soma element. So staying hydrated in the summertime is key. But did you know that many people experience that drinking water does not help? In fact, not only does it not help rehydrate them, but it makes them more thirsty and hot and sluggish? How? Did you know that water is soma – cold and heavy – and also needs to be “digested and absorbed”? That’s why drinking excessive amounts of water will actually not only make you more thirsty, but also more tired and dehydrated…. Thanks to Ayurveda we understand how such a contradictory situation is actually a very natural and “normal” bodily response. The answer is simple: excess water further dilutes the digestive fire not only in the stomach but in the tissues, and will cause lethargy, and excess heat overall.

Ayurveda gives us many details and recommendations for how to rehydrate the body, with water, or water-based drinks. In many ancient cultures with rich herbal healing traditions, adding some herbs and flowers to water, or some lime and even salt, are recommended, to help absorb and retain water and aid in hydration. Below, discover Vaidya Mishra’s Pitta Tea. A blend of cooling plants and ingredients that will help you cool off from the inside-out!

A Sip of Cool Goodness!

You will discover SVA Ayurveda to your rescue with this cup of tea! For when temperatures rise, it is not only our bodies that get hot, but our minds and hearts also get cooked up, and we will find that we have even less stamina to deal with environmental emotional and mental global stress. Ayurveda helps not just with the gross physical body, but is meant to support our entire physiology inside-out.

Here is an all-time best-seller from Vaidya Mishra that has had people from all over the world acknowledging his wisdom and ayurvedic gifts to us. A tea to help us cool down and balance all subdoshas of pitta that encompass the physical as well as emotional and mental aspects. If you’re feeling not only hot and dehydrated but also impatient, irritated, sad and blue for no apparent reason then try Vaidya’s Pitta Tea. It cools off the heat of pitta in all aspects of the body, opens the channels of pachaka pitta (stomach), ranjaka pitta (liver), sadhak pitta (heart), alochak Pitta (eyes), and bhrajaka pitta (skin ) without heating them. It also cleans the burners of the dehagni (cellular metabolism) even as it keeps agni in check.

Make a cup or a pot of this tea and cool it off at room temperature and sip throughout the day – you’ll see why people love it! Most of all it will hydrate you, pacify your emotions, and keep your stress levels in check too. Enjoy!

Rose is an excellent natural remedy that can immediately restore coolness and composure to your entire physiology.

Add 1 tsp to a glass of water, stir, and enjoy!

Making preserve out of rose petals is a very old tradition in many cultures – India, in the Middle East, as well as Europe. This is probably because ancients cultures valued the healing and balancing properties of rose. But none gives us as great insight as Ayurveda. Vaidya Mishra reminded us that rose is a cardio-tonic, or hridya. It calms and balances the vibrational and physical hearts. But that’s not all: one of the most important uses of rose is for the skin. When taken internally, it purifies the sweat of hot acidic toxins that cause harm on the surface of the skin when a person sweats. Regular transdermal use of rose either in poultices or cream formulas cleans the sweat externally, by neutralizing the pH of the sweat, so that when it is released through the skin, it does not cause irritation. 

Ultimately rose petals are pitta and vata pacifying. How about the kapha dosha? Does it aggravate kapha? It depends on the preparation. That is why Vaidya has made a special SVA formula, his Rose Petal Preserve is prepared in such a way as to become all Vata, Pitta, and Kapha pacifying. You can also add some freshly ground black pepper when consuming the preserve to make sure it does not aggravate Kapha dosha. 

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