Bananas With Date Sauce |
| 2 tbsp | |
| 4 whole | |
| 2 c | |
| 2 pinch | |
| 2 pinch | |
| 2 pinch | |
| 2 pinch | |
| 1 tbsp |
Slice bananas in half and warm on low heat in skillet. In a blender, blend spices, dates and water into a sauce. Warm in sauce pan. Melt ghee and pour over warm bananas in serving bowl. Then drizzle with sauce.
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Active Ingredients: Banana, Ghee, Ginger (Dried), Cinnamon
Active Ingredients: Banana, Dates (dried), Ghee, Nutmeg
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Dried), Cardamom
Active Ingredients: Nutmeg, Ginger (Dried), Dates (dried), Cardamom
Active Ingredients: Banana, Cinnamon
Active Ingredients: Banana, Dates (dried), Ghee, Cinnamon
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.
Active Ingredients: Nutmeg, Cardamom, Cinnamon
MILD STIMULATES-PERISTALSIS An herb that promotes involuntary smooth muscle contractions to facilitate the movement of food and waste through the digestive tract.
Active Ingredients: Banana
MILD QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst.
Active Ingredients: Banana, Water
MILD APPETIZER Herbs that cleanse the palate & stimulate hunger or desire to eat.
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Dried), Cardamom, Cinnamon
MILD RELIEVES-BURNING Herbs that soothe a burn or reduce an internal burning sensation, such as aloe vera.
Active Ingredients: Ghee, Water
MILD NERVE-RELAXANT-GROUNDING Encourages feelings of stability and heaviness. Makes you feel settled, mentally relaxed. Mildly sedates the nervous system to ease stress. Can bring a spacey or anxious person back to earth. Reduces agitation, irritation, stress and racing thoughts.
Active Ingredients: Banana, Nutmeg
Active Ingredients: Banana, Ginger (Dried), Cinnamon, Cardamom
MILD SATISFIES-STOMACH Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.
Active Ingredients: Banana
Active Ingredients: Banana, Ghee, Dates (dried)
MILD TONIC 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.
Active Ingredients: Ghee, Dates (dried)
MILD DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Dried), Cinnamon, Cardamom
MILD DEMULCENT Herbs that coat or form a soothing film over a mucous membrane, relieving minor pain and inflammation of the membrane.
Active Ingredients: Banana, Dates (dried), Cinnamon
MILD ANTIPRURITIC Antipruritics are herbs that inhibit itching, often associated with skin conditions such as sunburns, allergic reactions, eczema, psoriasis, chickenpox, fungal infections, insect bites, or contact dermatitis (as in poison ivy rashes).
Active Ingredients: Banana
MILD WARMS-CHEST Warms the chest and lungs, clearing mucus and allowing for clear breathing. Often these herbs are hot, aromatic, and pungent.
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Dried), Cinnamon
MILD IRRITATES-THROAT Creates abrasive feeling in the back of the mouth. May stimulate coughing.
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Dried), Cinnamon
MILD CARDIAC-STIMULANT Herbs that increase the heart rate. Useful in cardiovascular health, blood stagnation, and subjective feeling of heaviness in the chest area.
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Dried), Cinnamon
MILD DIURETIC 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.
Active Ingredients: Dates (dried), Cardamom, Cinnamon
MILD CHOLAGOGUE Cholagogues stimulate the production & release of bile from the liver & gallbladder. This refreshes and cleanses these organs, as well as increases bile in the small intestines.
Active Ingredients: Ghee
MILD PROMOTES-FERTILITY An herb that promotes fertility. Generally used by women who wish to become pregnant. These herbs may also help with menstrual problems of deficiency, such as amenorrhea (lack of a period).
Active Ingredients: Ghee, Dates (dried)
MILD APHRODISIAC Herbs that increase sexual arousal through various actions including increased circulation, relaxation, stimulation, or tonics that strengthen glandular health.
Active Ingredients: Dates (dried), Cinnamon
MILD PROMOTES-VIRILITY Encourages virility and potency.
Active Ingredients: Ghee
MILD BUILDS-SEMEN Herbs that increase the production of semen, often by rebuilding fluids in general.
Active Ingredients: Ghee
Active Ingredients: Banana, Ghee, Dates (dried)
MILD SOLUBLE-FIBER Active Ingredients: Banana, Dates (dried)
MILD NITRIC-OXIDE Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
Active Ingredients: Banana
MILD POTASSIUM Active Ingredients: Banana, Dates (dried)
MILD CARBOHYDRATE Active Ingredients: Banana
MILD VITAMIN-C Active Ingredients: Banana
MILD FATS Active Ingredients: Ghee
MILD MELATONIN Active Ingredients: Banana
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people personalized diet, lifestyle and herbs through Classical Metabolic Theory (Ayurveda & Greek Medicine). His approach is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful. John also directs the Joyful Belly College, offering professional clinical training for over 15 years.
John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, virtue psychology through classical & Christian philosophy, languages, cooking & botany. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University. John, his wife Natalie, and their 8 kids live in Asheville, NC.
Founder of Joyful Belly Ayurveda, John Immel, answers the question ‘What is Ayurveda?’
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