End Summer on a SVA Note: Recipes to Cool Off Ranjak and Pachak Pitta! PLUS: Ayurvedic Bodywork Training with Maharani – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Aug 14, 2025 – #32, Vol 14

In the United States, the Labor Day long weekend marks the end of Summer fun! Schools resume, and regular workload is also on the rise. Many take a last mini-vacation before settling in for heavier responsibilities. But this is the worst time to do so, unless you take a step back and balance your doshas! You can ease your way into a more demanding work routine by making a few ayurvedic dietary and lifestyle changes to help maximize your energy in this transitional period – Summer to Autumn.

This seasonal transition is also ideal for detox the ayurvedic shastras teach us. Detox does NOT mean heavy-duty Panchakarma or ultra-demanding protocols. It can mean something as simple as avoiding salt in your dinner meals; or completely cutting out sugar – replace with raw honey and/or lots of sweet juicy fruits; trying to go to bed earlier and waking up earlier to realign your body’s circadian rhythms with sunrise; taking one day a week (on the weekends) to stay away from EMF devices and giving your eyes, your fingers, your brain, a much needed break… But before you do any of these things, top of your list should be pacifying Pachak Pitta and Ranjak Pitta. Both Pitta subdoshas or functions of the fire element in our bodies that will most certainly go out of balance by the end of Summer. By the end of Summer, due to the heat in the environment and within our bodies, we end up craving and indulging in cold, sugary, heavy delectable sweets that further aggravate pachak and in turn, ranjak pitta. Sometimes there just is not a way around things. We have to go through them. But we can always minimize the imbalances and put the train back on track! Here are 2 easy, delicious, and wonder-working recipes with Vaidya’s Herbal-Memory Nectar drops. These drops carry the “memory” or “intelligence” of the herbs, not the actual physical molecule, hence their name. They are a gentle whisper that travel fast and deep into tissues not putting a strain on the stomach or the liver. Hence: they are perfect for this time of year!

Try these drop recipes and let us know how you like them. We love to hear your feedback. And anything else you can think of to help you relax as the temperatures drop and your body re-adjusts to the colder weather and the upcoming Autumn season. But first, start by taking a break this Labor-day weekend before embarking on the last quarter of this year!

Wishing one and all a restful long weekend… Namaste!

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