Topic: Dry eyes and ingesting spicy food - Burning?
susank
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I have very bad dry eyes. Lately burning much more than usual. I also have been eating foods with "hot" things in them.
Connection?
No - I am not putting my fingers in my eyes after touching the "hot" things. Not fumes either.
For example - this evening I ate some hummus - which has garlic in it. My eyes started burning.
I have been trying to figure out what has happened with my eyes - getting worse. Some foods/spices ingested can effect the eyes? Could this be what is going on?
Garlic, onions, cinnamon? Other spices? Raw and/or cooked?
Essential oils??? (not ingested).
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Judie
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It reminds me of an ayurveda diet. Foods are thought of in different categories. Onions, garlic and lot of spices cause heating/warming.
This is the quality that creates heat in the mouth and the body. When we call something “spicy,” we are often referring to its pungency. From an Ayurvedic perspective, this taste stimulates agni, the digestive fire. Just like a fire, in excess, it can be drying and too much heat can create inflammation, so this is one of those tastes for which it is important to be cautionary. Just because a little is good, it doesn’t mean a lot is better. The pungent taste is catabolic, and can burn fat and increase the metabolic rate.
Pungent foods: All of the peppers are pungent to different degrees. So whether we are talking about bell peppers, red peppers, jalapeno, habaneras, or other peppers, they are all pungent. Other pungent foods include: ginger, garlic, onion, asafoetida, cloves, cayenne, cinnamon, cardamom, cumin, thyme, sage, turmeric, wasabi, horseradish, mustard seeds and greens, radishes, black and green peppercorns.
Pungent: Increases pitta and decreases vata and kapha. (Because it can cause dryness, small amounts decrease vata; large amounts increase vata.)
Vipak: Pungent."
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LisaK
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I noticed my eyes are just more sensative than they used to be. and yes fumes or whatever from spices bother me.
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