kapha

The function of kapha is the body lubrication (water element) and the body shape (earth element).

Qualities:

• Heavy: big bones, big muscles, chubby, gaining weight is easy and loosing weight is difficult, tendency to gain weight on thighs, legs, buttocks. They need a light diet, not a lot of carbohydrates and fat, more fruit, vegetables and proteins, avoid meat and chicken, is better to eat fish and eggs, better to avoid milk and dairy products,   try to drink warm water and to fast sometimes.
• Slow: they tend to talk slow, walk and work slow. They need an active lifestyle, their metabolism is slow, is better if they eat spicy (ginger, chilly, …) to stimulate metabolism. If the do fast is better not to do the intermittent fast, better to eat in small portions every 3 hours.
• Oily: they have a lot of oil in the body but is not disturbing like in pitta, the skin is normal, normal hair, if they absorb extra oil they put it in the body weight. They need small oil and fat, the mustard oil is ok.
• Stable: physically and mentally stables.  Loving, forgiving. They need daily physical activity, regarding yoga is better ashtanga, vinyasa, dynamic meditation.
• Dense: thickness of bones and muscles, due to water and earth. 
• Cool: water element, they don’t love cold and humidity, they love hot and dry weather. They need to eat sweet like honey, that is good in hot water to lose weight, under 60 °C cause over it loses his properties. For them is preferable to decrease sweet, sour, salt flavors, and use astringent (dry), pungent (spices), bitter (light) flavors like green salad, green smoothies.

This dosha refers to the power of cohesion, is the container in the body for the other two doshas. If it is not balanced manifests through excess of plasm that becomes mucus, and can causes overweight, edema, lung diseases, swollen, glands and other kapha disorders.

Kapha needs the other two doshas cause water that is cold or doesn’t move cannot sustain life.