Ayurveda Cucumber Limeade
Updated: Jul 30
Cooling, refreshing, and so easy-to-make, this Pitta cooling beverage will hydrate you like nothing else. Best of all, as temperatures soar, you’ll keep your cool.
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Ayurveda Cucumber Limeade
In the summertime, we absorb the hot, penetrating, slick qualities rising in the world around us. These elements can aggravate Pitta, the Ayurvedic dosha associated with the summer season. If your constitution is primarily Pitta, this shift can be particularly evident.
Known as agua de pepino, a delicious cucumber agua fresca from Mexico, in Ayurveda we might call it Pitta cooling elixir in a glass.
Ingredients:
6 cups water
3 cucumbers, peel and cut in a style of your liking
½ cup fresh squeezed lime juice
2 teaspoons of coconut sugar or local honey
Mint if you like it
Directions:
Juice cucumber and mix with equal parts water
Mix lime juice with cucumber juice.
Add coconut sugar.
Garnish with mint.
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