Buttery Carrot Soup |
| 2 tbsp | |
| 4 whole | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 4 c | |
| 1 clove | |
| 1 tsp | |
| 1 leaves | |
| 1/4 tsp | |
| 2 pinch |
Saute onions in the butter. Add garlic and continue sauteing for another thirty seconds or just until brown.
Puree carrots with onions and garlic in a blender with water. Add with remaining ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil for 15 minutes. Serve.
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Active Ingredients: Carrot, Garlic, Yellow Onion, Thyme (fresh), Black Pepper, Bay Leaf
Active Ingredients: Water, Garlic, Bay Leaf
Active Ingredients: Water, Salt (Mineral Salt), Bay Leaf, Black Pepper
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Bay Leaf
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.
STRONG AROMATIC Herbs or spices with volatile essential oils that present strong aromas. Aromatic oils shock, refresh and numb tissue, with the end result of relaxing, opening and clearing stagnant fluids in tissues.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Bay Leaf
MILD QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst.
Active Ingredients: Water
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Black Pepper, Salt (Mineral Salt), Bay Leaf
MILD RELIEVES-BURNING Herbs that soothe a burn or reduce an internal burning sensation, such as aloe vera.
Active Ingredients: Water
Active Ingredients: Carrot, Garlic, Salt (Mineral Salt)
MILD HIGH-FIBER-LAXATIVE 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
Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD ANTILITHIC An herb that dissolves / breaks up stones (gallstones or kidney stones) so that it can be passed.
Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD MAKES-YOU-TIRED Induces drowsiness and promotes sound sleep.
Active Ingredients: Yellow Onion, Garlic
MILD SATISFIES-STOMACH Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.
Active Ingredients: Butter (unsalted)
MILD STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh)
Active Ingredients: Butter (unsalted), Carrot
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: Carrot
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Black Pepper, Garlic, Bay Leaf
MILD SKIN-TONIC An herb that strengthens and nourishes skin, improving tone, color, moisture and complexion.
Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD IRRITATES-THROAT Creates abrasive feeling in the back of the mouth. May stimulate coughing.
Active Ingredients: Garlic, Black Pepper
MILD FLUSHES-SINUSES An herb that relieves sinus congestion by flushing out mucus.
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Salt (Mineral Salt)
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Carrot
MILD 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: Thyme (fresh), Garlic
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Garlic, Black Pepper, Bay Leaf
MILD BLOOD-TONIC An herb that produces more blood cells in the body, or otherwise improves blood cell quality or hemoglobin content. Helpful for anemia and other types of deficiency.
Active Ingredients: Carrot, Black Pepper
MILD ALTERATIVE Restores the proper function of the body by cleansing the blood and balancing blood chemistry. In Ayurveda terms, they pacify Pitta in rakta. They were traditionally used to revitalize and detoxify after a long winter.
Active Ingredients: Carrot, Garlic
MILD ANTIOXIDANT An antioxidant is a molecule that inhibits oxidation. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals that lead to a chain reaction causing damage or death to cells. Antioxidants terminate these oxidation reactions.
Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD OPTHALMIC Benefits the eyes, vision tonic.
Active Ingredients: Carrot
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: Carrot, Garlic
Active Ingredients: Carrot, Garlic, Salt (Mineral Salt)
MILD LIVOTONIC 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.
Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD GALACTAGOGUE Increases production of breast milk, often by raising prolactin and diaphoresis.
Active Ingredients: Garlic, Yellow Onion
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Black Pepper, Garlic
Active Ingredients: Carrot, Garlic
MILD COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD SOLUBLE-FIBER Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD SALICYLATES Salicylates relieve inflammation, are anti-cancer, and antidiabetic, but some are allergic to it.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh)
MILD SULFATED-POLYSACCHARIDES Active Ingredients: Garlic, Yellow Onion
MILD SAPONINS Can be used to make soap. Saponins stimulate mucus membrane secretion, liquefying mucus for easy removal (expectorant).
Active Ingredients: Garlic, Yellow Onion
MILD VITAMIN-K Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD VITAMIN-A Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD SULPHUR Active Ingredients: Yellow Onion, Garlic
MILD ROSMARINIC-ACID Inhibits autoantibodies from binding to TSH receptors in the thyroid.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh)
MILD CARBOHYDRATE Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD IRON Iron is necessary for the transport of oxygen in red blood cells.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh)
MILD BETA-CAROTENE Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD POLYSACCHARIDES Active Ingredients: Yellow Onion, Garlic
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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