Herbal Diet

Your Solid Diet While You Are With Us
The equilibrium between Man and Nature leads to perfect health. The five elements in nature are present in every human being and governs every life on Earth. These five elements are in fact present in the naturally available food that we eat. Therefore any imbalance in the relation between man and nature is bought in equilibrium by the art of maintaining a proper diet.

The cooking process is the simplest, very refined, free from oil and fat. Every day a buffet lunch & dinner comprising the above, with almost 15 varieties of herbal food, varieties of deserts & a complimentary herbal wine, a dinner not only fulfilling the cravings of the taste buds but also fulfills the cravings of the body. The course of the buffet are synchronised with the constitution of ones body and its response to different kinds of food. Nature has provided a variety of food items to us, and how these herbal items form a healthy diet, is stressed here. Food cooked in a traditional manner, cooked in earthen vessels, served on leaf ware etc. An understanding of the ingredients of each dish will be in-detail monitored and explained by an Ayurvedic physician. "Let thy food be thy medicine" The food we eat, how we cook it, how we garnish it, is all very important. Herbal food and fruit juices are the best form of natural food. All this is based on the basic principles of Ayurveda and these principles form the foundations of the cuisine, which helps one to choose a constitution based diet, which will energize and revitalize your body and create a feeling of well being within one self.

Ayurveda describes diet, as being composed of five elements. i.e Water, Air, Fire, Earth and Space. The quality and the effects of food eaten depends upon the elements it contains. Ayurveda describes a meal to have six tastes which have their own properties depending upon the element it contains. These are madhur(sweet), amla(sour), lavana(salty), tikta (bitter), katu(pungent) and kashaya (astringent). The perfect diet is that which maintains our health in a natural way, nourishes the limbs and the organs of the body, makes them active and supplies whatever is deficient in the body.

Your Liquid Diet while you are with us
Fruit juices are the best form of natural food. This is because they contain a large number of nourishing and disease fighting nutrients like vitamins, minerals, and enzymes.

Few points of the advantages of the juice served at the Juice Bar :
· The Organic acids of the salts in fruits after chemically getting digested leave an alkaline ash by the formation of alkaline carbonates, which turn the body alkaline and therefore aid in maintaining the correct Acid and Alkaline balance of the body.

· All fruits juices and the citrus juices in particular have the property of cleansing and eliminating the toxic waste from the intestines.

· The carbohydrates of the fresh fruit juices are chiefly in the form of fructose, dextrin and acids which are easily digested and completely assimilated. This in turn supplies quick and natural energy which is of immense value to the sick in recovering from sickness.

· Fresh fruit juice provides necessary vitamins, minerals, metals and enzymes besides energy to the body in the easily assimilable form.

A brief on few of the fruits served at the Juice Bar
Watermelon : According to Ayurveda, the watermelon is cool, diuretic, energizing and delicious. It satisfies thirst and hunger, gives nutrition and allays biliousness

Analysis of Contents
Water - 95.7%
Protein - 0.1%
Fat - 0.2 %
Carbohydrates - 3.8%
Calcium - 0.1%
Iron - 0.2 mg/ 100gm

Lemon : Lemon Juice is a powerful antibacterial. It has been proved by experiments that the bacteria of malaria, cholera, diphtheria, typhoid and other deadly diseases are destroyed in lemon juice.

Analysis of Contents
Water - 85%
Protein - 1.00 %
Fat - 0.9%
Carbohydrates- 11.1%
Fibres - 1.8%
Calcium - 0.07%
Iron - 2.3 mg/ m 100gm

Orange : Orange acts as a appetizer. It cleanses the blood, soothes bile and eliminates windiness. It is cool and refreshing. It cleanses the mouth. It is a regimen even in fever. It destroys intestinal worms and allays abdominal pain. It strengthens the bones. Analysis of Contents

Water - 87.8 %
Protein - 0.9%
Fat - 0.3%
Calcium 0.05%
Carbohydrates - 10.6%
Iron - 0.1mg/ 100 gm

Papaya : Papaya is delicious, heavy, warm, oily, laxative, and antibilious. It increases virility. It is beneficial to the heart. It is beneficial to the liver. It is a good medicine for constipation and urinary disorders.

Analysis of Contents
Water - 89.6%
Protein - 0.5%
Fat - 0.1%
Carbohydrates - 9.5%
Minerals - 0.4%
Iron - 0.4mg/ 100gm

Pineapple : The ripe pineapple is a diuretic. It destroys intestinal worms and soothes bile. It is delicious and digestive.

Analysis of Contents
Water - 86.5%
Protein - 0.6%
Fat - 0.1%
Sugar - 12.0%
Calcium - 0.12%
Iron - 0.9mg/100 gm

Grapes : Grapes give relief in uric troubles, burning sensation in bladder and kidney-stones. They have often been found of value in arthritis, irregular and painful menstruation and bleeding.

Analysis of Contents
Water - 85.5%
Protein - 0.8%
Fat - 7.1%
Carbohydrates - 10.2%
Calcium - 0.03%
Iron - 0.04 mg/ 100 gm

Carrot : Carrot is sweet, warm, pleasant, stimulant of gastric fire, dry, appetiser, diuretic, constipating and to some extent bitter. It gives relief in fistula, worms and dysentery. It eradicates windiness and caugh. If taken in excess, it increases bile.

Analysis of Contents
Water - 86%
Protein - 0.9%
Fat - 0.2%
Carbohydrates - 10.7%
Calcium - 0.08%
Iron - 1.5 mg / 100 gm

Bitter Gourd : It is bitter in taste, stimulant of gastric fire, light for digestion, warm, purgative, soothing, and conductive to digestion. They are excellent appetiser and cure cough, windiness, blood impurities, fever, worms, bile, anaemia and leucoderma.

Analysis of Contents
Water - 92.4%
Protein - 11.6%
Fat - 0.2%
Carbohydrates - 4.2%
Minerals - 0.8%
Calcium - 0.02%
Iron - 2.2mg/ 100gm

Apple : It has a sweet-sour taste. It is nourishing and easily digestive. It is very usefull in decreasing acidity of the stomach. It appeases bile and windiness, cures dysentery, and strengthens intestines.

Analysis of Contents
Water - 85.9 %
Protein - 0.3%
Fat - 0.1%
Carbohydrates - 9.5%
Minerals - 0.4%
Calcium - 0.01%
Iron - 1.7mg/ 100gm