Broiled Grapefruit With Cinnamon |
| 1 tsp | |
| 1 c | |
| 1/2 tsp | |
| 1/4 tsp |
1. Preheat broiler to high.
2. Cut grapefruit in half.
3. Sprinkle cinnamon on top and gently push the whole cloves into the flesh.
4. Broil for about 6 or 7 minutes, or until the grapefruit flesh starts to brown slightly.
5. Drizzle honey on top. Serve immediately.
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Active Ingredients: Cloves, Cinnamon, Honey
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Cinnamon, Grapefruit
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Grapefruit, Honey
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit, Honey
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Honey
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Cloves, Honey
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Grapefruit
Active Ingredients: Cloves, 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: Cinnamon, Cloves
Active Ingredients: Cloves
STRONG WARMS-ABDOMEN Warms the muscles and organs of the abdomen, stimulating digestion and metabolism.
Active Ingredients: Cloves
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit
STRONG APPETIZER Herbs that cleanse the palate & stimulate hunger or desire to eat.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon
STRONG DIGESTIVE Herbs that encourage healthy digestion.
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Cinnamon
MILD GENERAL-LAXATIVE Promotes a bowel movement. General laxative is an umbrella term that refers to several different types of laxatives.
Active Ingredients: Honey
STRONG BURNS-TOXINS An herb that detoxifies by helping your body metabolize toxins, as opposed to eliminating them.
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Cinnamon
STRONG INTERNAL-DETOXICANT Liquefies, dissolves, decongests or dislodges internal stagnant toxins. Decongests the lymphatic system.
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Cinnamon, Grapefruit
STRONG NUMBS-ANASTHETIC Inhibits sensation in a particular area.
Active Ingredients: Cloves
STRONG 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: Cloves
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit
STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Grapefruit, Honey
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit
STRONG DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Cloves
STRONG WARMS-CHEST Warms the chest and lungs, clearing mucus and allowing for clear breathing. Often these herbs are hot, aromatic, and pungent.
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Cinnamon
STRONG SOOTHES-THROAT Soothes throat discomfort, including from a sore or ticklish throat.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Honey
STRONG IRRITATES-THROAT Creates abrasive feeling in the back of the mouth. May stimulate coughing.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon
STRONG EXPECTORANT Expectorants help you eliminate mucus from the lungs. These herbs often work by increasing the quantity of mucus, or thinning the mucus. Expectorants are indicated when phlegm congests the lower respiratory tract.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Cloves, Grapefruit, Honey
STRONG MUCOLYTIC An herb that breaks apart mucus, liquefying the mucus.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Honey
STRONG 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: Cinnamon, Cloves
STRONG WARMS-HEAD An herb that increases sensations of heat and warmth in the head.
Active Ingredients: Cloves
STRONG WARMS-EARS Stimulates peripheral circulation to warm extremities, including the ears.
Active Ingredients: Cloves
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit
STRONG HYPOLIPIDEMIC Scrapes fats / cleanses blood vessels by 1) purging bile, 2) strengthening the liver's ability to metabolize fats, 3) by increasing uptake of cholesterol in the liver, and 4) by inhibiting fat cells.
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit, Honey
STRONG COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Honey
STRONG RUTIN Rutin is a flavonoid with anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. Commonly used to treat conditions such as varicose veins, hemorrhoids, and high blood pressure.
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit
Active Ingredients: Grapefruit
MILD AROMATASE-INHIBITOR Blocks estrogen synthesis by inhibiting conversion of progesterone and testosterone into estrogen.
Active Ingredients: Honey
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a healthy diet and lifestyle through constitutional nutrition (Ayurveda & Greek Medicine). His approach 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. John, his wife Natalie and their 8 kids live in Asheville, NC
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