Red, Flushed Skin - Art of Ayurveda Skin Color 7 of 9

So here we're talking about uh we'll start with red or flushed skin. And remember again this is we're not so much talking about skin type here but a person who has an imbalance making their skin to be more red or flushed than it would normally be. Okay. So that could be a sign of an internal heat condition or pitha which could be due to any number of the factors I mentioned earlier. Toxins, inflammation, infection, even fermentation in your gut. And the remedy here is we're going to cool down that pitta. We're going to uh cleanse the liver and the blood or nourish the liver and blood. I don't you know people always mention the word cleansing the liver too much in my opinion. It's too much of a fat. We need to sometimes nourish the liver or cleanse it. But the the remedy is going to be looking at the liver and seeing what's going on. Where's that heat coming from? Um, we're going to look to the blood and see what's going on in the blood. Could the heat that could indicate where that heat is coming from? And two herbs that may help are alaki and boommy alaki. Um, amalaki in general is a cooling uh herb for the skin, but there are many. So, um, red or flush skin could be an internal heat condition, but it could also be, uh, a cause could also be blood stagnation. Now, it's a little hard to see in this photo, but in this case, um, the person doesn't look so much like they have a flaring heat condition. It could just be that their lymphatic system is st excuse me, my throat's a little dry. That their lymphatic system is stagnant. Um, and when that happens, your if your blood is uh not moving very well and it's sluggish, then uh toxins are going to build up from cellular metabolism. Normally throughout the the day your body is your cells of your body are releasing waste products and those waste products have to be flushed out. Well, if you have a stagnant lymphatic system, those toxins don't flush out. They build up and they cause local inflammation, puffiness, and water retention. So this kind of red flesh skin is going to be uh the cause is very different uh from the first kind uh which was an more internal heat condition flaring up. In this case we're going to just use blood movers like turmeric or diuretics like punniva and CCFT to just flush things out a little bit.