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Recipes with Honey Dew: Honey Dew, Cucumber & Mint Popsicles
Refreshing & Cold
As a refrigerant, it is a foremost remedy for Pitta. Simply drop the sweet green flesh into a blender and drink for fast cooling action.
Honey dew soothes burning sensations in the gut, and relieves Pitta irritability. It is an excellent remedy for the emotional heat of summer. When summer heat creates irritability and anger, often due to high Pitta in the liver, honey dew comes to the rescue, cooling down a hot blooded temper.
Honey dew can make your whole body feel refreshed, soothed, and cool.
Sweet, Hydrating, Satisfying
Honeydew has a high water content, approximately 90%. As a high volume food with lots of water, it offers stomach satisfaction with very few calories. Studies show that high volume, low calorie foods are useful for weight loss. Further, studies show that regularly incorporating high-volume, low-calorie foods into your diet can help you lose extra pounds and maintain a healthy weight.
Honeydew's cold, refrigerant nature makes it an excellent appetite suppressant.
Honey dew is light & easy to digest. It bulks up and slightly softens stool for easy elimination.
Cooling, Soothing Diuretic
As with most melon family foods, honeydew is a diuretic. It's cool nature, high potassium, and high water content make it an excellent diuretic for flushing and cleansing the kidney, bladder, and urinary tract.
Improves Vision & Relaxes the Eyes
Honeydew is an excellent source of vitamin C and A. It's cold nature, pitta pacifying properties and high vitamin A make honey dew an Ayurvedic tonic for eyes. When the summer heat smoulders and your eyes become inflamed, strained, or blurry, consider honey dew to relax the eyes, reduce inflammation, and restore crisp vision.
Contraindications
Like all gourds, the skin of honeydew contains a latex which some are allergic too. For clients that are sensitive to latex, eating honey dew creates a pungent sensation in your mouth. It's cold nature may suppress appetite in Kapha or vata individuals. Although honey dew is easy to digest, as a fruit it may cause gas and bloating, or increase diarrhea.
Recipes with Honey Dew: Honeydew Smoothie with Aloe Vera Jelly
About Honey Dew
Honeydew, when fresh and ripe, is a succulent treasure. Floral accents perfume its lush green flesh. It's juicy sweetness seems to capture all the wholesome abundance of a teeming garden into a delightful green bowling ball. As a melon, honey dew is related to cucumbers, pumpkins, squash, watermelon and other members of the vine-growing Cucurbitaceae or Gourd family. Underripe, honey dew is crispy and bland. Overripe, it is soft and sweet.
Buying & Preparation
The honeydew should have a completely white, yellow or cream colored skin. The presence of a little brown freckling is a plus that indicates enhanced sweetness.
Avoid honeydew with any hint of green skin, as these are underripe.
The skin should be slightly soft and springy on the blossom end, giving a little to mild pressure. A mature melon may have a slight wrinkling to the skin that can be felt by touch.
If the skin is tacky, it is likely to be sweeter. Feel the skin for slight, nearly undetectable wrinkling that can only be discerned by touch. Though you won't be able to see it, a perfectly mature melon may feature this mild corrugation. I
f the skin feels slightly tacky, this melon might be a keeper. A deliciously ripe honeydew may develop stickiness on the rind as its sweetness continues to mellow and deepen.
The honeydew should have a symmetrical slightly ovate shape, with the weight of a bowling bowl. A honeydew of 5-6 pounds is optimal. It should feel heavy for its size. Avoid honeydews that feel light for their size, these are less likely to be juicy.
Sniff the blossom end of the honeydew melon, which should smell fresh and clean. Honeydew melons continue to ripen after picking. Let it sit on the counter for a few days before eating.
Cooking Honey Dew
Refresh your body with honeydew cucumber smoothies. Use as a filler in fruit platters alongside blueberries and strawberries.
Serve as a sorbet with mint. For a savory option, sprinkle cilantro, cayenne and salt atop honeydew.
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AYURVEDA'S GUIDE TO VITALITY & WHOLESOME NOURISHMENT
Your Ayurvedic diet is tailored to your individual body and your specific imbalances.
With an Ayurvedic diet you feel joy and satisfaction because what you are eating truly nourishes and balances you.
Disease results from diets and lifestyles that are incompatible with your nature.
By eating a personalized diet matched to your body, you experience optimal health.
See How it Works.
Ayurveda assesses metabolic imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics
(gunas).
Aggravating them weakens your body and causes imbalance.
By knowing which biocharacteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct metabolic imbalances before you get sick.
Every biocharacteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold).
You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite biocharacteristic.
Taste is used to sense the most basic properties and effects of food.
Each taste has a specific medicinal effect on your body.
Cravings for food with certain tastes indicate your body is craving specific medicinal results from food.
Taste is experienced on the tongue and represents your body's reaction to foods.
Sweet taste causes physical satisfaction and attraction whereas bitter taste causes discomfort and aversion.
Kapha should use less sweet taste while Vata and Pitta would benefit from using more sweet taste.
One of the first signs of illness is that your taste and appetite for food changes.
The six tastes are sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent.
Do you crave foods with any of the tastes below?
Ayurveda is a metabolic theory of medicine that explains individual health, tendencies, and disease patterns through the concept of doshas, which can be understood as your metabolic patterns and tendencies.
Each dosha reflects a distinct metabolic nature and describes strengths & weaknesses in bodily function, and how these affect energy levels, digestion, susceptibility to disease, and many other tendencies.
Your metabolic nature not only affects your physical characteristics, but also influences your mental thought patterns, confidence, and enthusiasm.
Ayurveda balances these metabolic strengths & weaknesses to support your body's vitality and prevent recurrent disease cycles. This support is a critical aid, especially in chronic or incurable disease conditions.
The 3 metabolic body types
(doshas),
are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Through dosha, Ayurveda empowers people to identify metabolic imbalances early, break repetitive patterns of disease, and cultivate habits that support long-term vitality and well-being.
Ultimately, these metabolic patterns also provide a framework for understanding yourself, including body, mind, and spiritual tendencies.
Ayurveda & Greek Medicine were the dominant form of medicine along the Silk Road from England to China and South Asia.
They work by assessing your metabolic type, patterns, and nature.
Greek medicine recognizes 4 metabolic temperaments, Melancholic, Choleric, Sanguine, and Phlegmatic.
Has a hot and dry metabolic nature. Enthusiastic, vibrant and bright. In excess burns up fluids and ojas, irritable. Corresponds to high bilirubin in the blood that irritates and heats up the body and liver.
Cold and dry with a slow, variable or erratic metabolism. Colicky, tense. Withdrawn, pensive, anxious, and hesitant. Analytical, intelligent, detail oriented and creative. Prone to ojas depletion, dehydration, an overactive nervous system, and depression.
Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Honey Dew
Experiences are Personal
Experiences vary according to the person and constitution. Individual results may vary.
The list of herbal-actions below has not be approved by the FDA and should not be used to treat a medical condition.
A class of laxative that adds bulk and water to stools. The large size of the stool stimulates peristalsis so the stool can pass more easily through the colon. It is important to drink plenty of water when using high fiber laxatives, as they can be dehydr
A tonic herb restores function through strengthening tissue. This can happen through a combination of nourishing the tissue, and invigorating tissue metabolism. The tonic should not be withering, as in caffeine.
Herbs that promote urine formation, thereby flushing the kidneys and urinary tract while eliminating any excess water retention. As diuretics reduce water retention, they are often used to reduce blood pressure.
An herb that strengthens the liver. It is helpful for people with a history of substance abuse, chronic liver issues from hepatitis and hemolytic anemias. Generally, liver tonics are oily, cool, sweet, mildly sour, or contain beta-carotene.
Honey Dew may be beneficial for these symptoms.
The suitability of any food for a condition is highly dependent on the individual.
Please see your doctor before using this food to treat a medical condition.
Eating Ayurvedically makes you feel nourished and energized. Food digests with ease when
right for your body type (dosha). Healthy digestion is seen as the cornerstone of well-being in
Ayurveda. Healthy digestion generally prevents illness. If you do get sick, a strong digestive fire
reduces the severity of illness and increases your resilience. It also improves your mood. Once
you begin eating Ayurvedically, you will feel refreshed, vital and strong.
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
healthy diet and lifestyle with Ayurveda.
His approach to Ayurveda is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful.
John also directs the Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda,
offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, medieval Catholic philosophy,
& botany. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University.
His wife and family of 7 kids live in Asheville, NC.
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