“Hi.
I wonder why you don’t recommend Winter Squash? I’ve seen on other places that Winter squash is actually recommended in Ayurveda. So how come you say it’s not healthy?
Olle W.”
Dear Olle: this opinion comes from my familial lineage. My ancestors observed, centuries ago, that the winter squash is channel clogging. In my SVA lineage, we put a lot of attention on channels – physical and vibrational – much more so than any other aspect of the physiology. This is why you will also see that we recommend not to consume larger beans (kidney, lima, garbanzo, etc); no winter squashes; to avoid big bananas; etc. All these things were found to be channel clogging and having an adverse effect on health. True, they may be very nourishing and very high in nutrient content, but their channel clogging “prabhava” or post-digestive and post-absorption effect disturbs the flow of these same nutrients in the large physical or macro as well as the small and subtle micro channels. They also block the macro and micro detox pathways. In our SVA practice, I, alongside my practitioners, have noticed concrete visible differences when clients stop consuming these channel-clogging foods.
