Spinach
Cooling leafy green; good cooked, astringent, mildly Vata-increasing raw.
increases Vatareduces Pittareduces Kapha
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Ayurvedic properties
- Rasa (taste): astringent, sweet
- Virya (energy): cooling
- Guna (qualities): light, dry
Classical sources
- Charaka Samhita — Sutrasthana 27 — Shaka varga (vegetables)
- Bhavaprakasha — Nighantu — Shaka varga
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