Curd

Curd also known as yoghurt in the western world is one of the most popularly eaten food substances. It is advised as a healthy food by many doctors simply because it contains freindly bacterias or good bacterias, and also because it has a very low cholesterol content. But Ayurveda advises caution about this food substance ! According to Ayurveda it a unique property called अभिश्यंदी which means increasing discharge of all glands in the body resulting in clogging of all channels in the body or a tendency of causing bloackages in the body, this tendency increases manifold when it is eaten at night. Hence Ayurveda has advised not to eat curd at night. There is a common belief that curd is a coolant and hence it is popularly eaten in summer days, but curd has a cooling effect limited to tounge only, when it is digested it increases the body temperature to a great extent, due to this property it called as ushna which means hot.