Gruffy:
I have to take a moment and warn people that even respected writers such as Mike Adams, who is the founder and who writes many of the articles at Natural News, can get things very wrong sometimes. I have seen it happen often enough at Natural News that I stopped reading that site. Here is the example that ended my readership. Mike Adams said,
"I've tasted a lot of really potent medicine in my life experience. I've
swallowed thousands of glasses of Chinese medicine, raw rainforest
medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, Western herbs and other medicines. I've
chewed on bark, swallowed gummy pastes, and chugged extremely bitter
concoctions. I can tell you this: Zrii does not taste like medicine to me. It tastes like grape juice.
"Real Ayurvedic medicine tastes bitter.
So does real Chinese medicine, real rainforest medicine and real herbal
medicine. Zrii does not taste bitter to me. It tastes primarily like
grape juice to my tongue. Perhaps your experience is different, but in
my experience, Zrii does not taste like real medicine."
Ayurvedic medicine is built upon a few key concepts. One is that consciousness structures the human body, which is the point of the article Gruffy linked. Another is that food contains six tastes and these tastes are in fact the "nutrients" we should seek to balance when aiming for a balanced diet. And this is the key concept that Mike Adams has missed.
Our western concepts of macronutrients and micronutrients and food groups are replaced by the six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter astringent and pungent (spicy, hot).Each meal should contain a balance of all six tastes for optimum health and nutrition.
The Ayurvedic principle of the six tastes is also a key in Ayurvedic herbal formulation as well.
In the quote by Mike Adams above, the bolding is in his original. How embarrassing to bold your own mistake! (Now that I have pointed this out, I hope I don't repeat the same mistake many times in the future!) On the other hand, all of us can make mistakes and let our egos overwhelm our better judgment. With Gruffy's reminder that Natural News sometimes contains good info, I think I'll give it a try again.
If you want to learn more about the six tastes in Ayurveda, and how the bitter taste is just one of those six tastes used in Ayurvedic medicines, see this link: http://www.kitchendoctor.com/Ayurveda/taste-elements.html.
In particular, this quote explains the sweet taste:
The sweet taste consists predominantly of the water element and secondarily earth. It is found in carbohydrates (starches), sugars, fats, and amino acids and is, to no one's surprise, anabolic, i.e. building. In other words, it helps to build body tissue. It is therefore absolutely necessary in the diet of emaciated people such as extreme air type individuals. The sweet taste acts quickly on the taste buds and saliva. Its nature is heavy, cold, and viscous (oily and gelatinous). In excess, it is clogging. In moderation, this taste, associated as it is with water and earth, is stabilizing, tonifying, and calming. It is therefore "medicinal" for air and fire types who are irritable. It may even help promote fertility and longevity for such persons. However, where there is overweight, mucus congestion, coldness, or chills, excessive consumptions of sweet foods is contraindicated. It is important to realize that anything watery is anti-fire so where the fire element is already low, sweets will cause considerable short- and long-term harm.
UPDATE: I just discovered that Mike Adams wrote a follow up to the Ayurveda-focused article I quoted above. I read it and it felt like an incredibly arrogant defense of his original article and it contained no admission of his mistakes. He continued to hammer on the same points without any attempt to try to understand how Ayurveda would be working in the case of the product he reviewed.
Mike Adams wrote a critical product review on a subject he didn't fully understand, bolded his own mistakes and failed to admit them, and then wrote a follow up claiming that his original article was really great. So I am sorry, but Natural News is going to remain on my list of sites to avoid.
And please, if or when I do something as arrogant as this, let me know right away. 
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