Agni & Ama
Little Maha’s gut desk. Agni is digestive fire — the intelligence that turns food into tissue, clarity, and energy. Classical practice watches four flavors of fire: balanced (samagni), irregular (vishamagni), sharp (tikshnagni), and dull (mandagni). Strong Agni means timely hunger, light after meals, clear mind. Weak or irregular Agni leaves residue.
Ama is that residue: sticky, heavy, incompletely transformed. It shows as coating on the tongue, fogginess, heaviness, irregular stools, and cravings that don’t satisfy. Detox in Laura’s practice starts by kindling Agni and clearing Ama — not by punishing the body with extreme cleanses.
Signals she tracks with you: morning hunger, post-meal heaviness, gas timing, craving patterns, and how the tongue looks before coffee. Fix the fire first; then food lists make sense.
Mexican kitchen note: cold drinks with meals, late heavy dinners, and rushed antojitos can damp Agni. Warm spices on the comal, sit-down meals, leftover-aware cooking, and chile used with intention protect it — cilantro, limón, turmeric, cumin — without erasing the table you love.
