Choleric-Friendly Diet

Who are Cholerics?

A choleric individual is a person who is associated most with the Fire Element. They thus naturally generate more heat and dryness than any of the other three temperaments.

They are vigorous energetic and driven individuals. Cholerics are known to be hard workers and ambitious, however, can often burn out when the incorrect diet is used.

Cholerics must optimize a diet to hydrate and balance their energy, to allow them to stay fiery yet tamed simultaneously. Without it, cholerics will often feel burned out, suffer intense energy crashes, and develop nervous dysregulation, leading them to be more prone to stress and anxiety.

So what then, is a choleric-friendly diet?

A choleric-friendly diet is not a diet telling you to eat specific foods, nor is it a diet promoting any specific dietary trend. It is a campus guiding you to eat for you.

If you are a choleric you will naturally look for things that enhance your fire, however, you will also seek things to cool yourself down. It's like falling in love with your opposite.

We have a similar relationship with our foods also - however, we are not always listening to our internal call.

Cholerics can eat the heating and drying food, they should however opt to balance their meals with something cooling and moistening too. For example, if you are a choleric and would like to eat hot and spicy biryani, then go for it. Add some yogurt and cucumbers to the side while you're at it. Eat what you like, the key here is to simply balance.

Below you will find a list of different types of food, categories according to their energetic value. Check it out, utilize the list, and don't forget to balance your meals.

What Choleric should eat less of - Heating and Drying foods:

• Chicken
• Lobster
• Oily fish e.g. salmon
• Small bird meats e.g. pigeon
• Turkey
• Garlic
• Onion
• Leek
• Celery
• Eggs
• Chickpeas
• Gram flour
• Chillies

What Cholerics should eat most of - Cooling and Moisturing foods:

• Rabbit
• Duck
• Beetroot
• Broccoli
• Zucchini
• Ladyfingers
• Lettuce
• Bell peppers
• Coconut milk
• Rice Milk
• Cows Milk
• Rice
• Rice cakes

Heating and Moistening foods:

• Goat
• Goose
• Lamb
• Liver
• Dates
• Mangoes
• Peaches
• Olives
• Spring onions
• Squash

Cooling and Drying foods:

• Beef
• Crab
• Pork
• Non-oily fish
• Potatoes
• Mushrooms
• Cabbage
• Yogurt
• Coconut
• Vinegar

Reference:

• Vallee, Nasira, and Rashid Bhikha. Cooking for Your Body Type: Everyday Meals to Suit Your Temperament. Ibn Sina Institute of Tibb, 2003.
• Chishti, Ghulam Moinuddin. The Traditional Healer's Handbook: A Classic Guide to the Medicine of Avicenna. Inner Traditions/Bear, 1991.