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The Ayurveda Academy Jo Webber & Kate Siraj BSc Hons Ayurveda
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Yoghurt can be so healthy; it increases digestive fire, strengthens and nourishes. It is vata reducing and pitta and ka...
26/06/2025

Yoghurt can be so healthy; it increases digestive fire, strengthens and nourishes. It is vata reducing and pitta and kapha increasing. It is also, however, obstructing which means it can block the channels (which one of the main aims of Ayurveda is to keep clear).

If we eat yoghurt every day or at night, this effect builds up and we can end up with skin diseases, bleeding disorders, anaemia, and weight gain. As it is obstructing, it also creates toxins (ama) when eaten with meat, fish, milk and fruit.

So how to get the benefits from yoghurt without causing problems?
-Eat a small amount along with a meal.
-Don’t cook it (you lose all the benefits)
-Don’t have it at night
-Don’t eat everyday
-Don’t mix with meat, fish, milk or fruit
-Add raw honey to the yoghurt to reduce the obstructing qualities
-Have with mung dal which helps to reduce the obstructing qualities too

Goats yoghurt is much less obstructing and also less kapha increasing so consider this as an option if you love your yoghurt.

Make it into buttermilk (see another of our posts for how) which is the opposite of obstructing, it actually clears the channels.

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