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AYURVEDIC RECIPES

Cardamom Coconut Spice Mix


How to Make Cardamom Coconut Spice Mix

  • SERVINGS: 3
  • PREP TIME: 5 MINUTES
  • COOK TIME: 0 MINUTES
  • STYLE: INDIAN
  • PREPARATION: RAW

INGREDIENTS

1/2 c
1 tsp
2 pinch

PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE

Mix.

How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?

CONSTITUTIONAL MEDICINE INSIGHTS

Coconut and raw sugar is building. To help digest heavy ingredients, we've included cardamom, a combination which also happens to taste great!

Constitutional nutrition is tailored to the individual. In the kitchen, especially during your family’s formative years, you shape your family's lifelong health.

Understanding your child's constitution is key to raising resilience, instead of wiring in disease. Study constitutional medicine to discover the keys to personalized nourishment.

Rooted in the insights curated from Ayurveda and Greek medicine, constitutional medicine teaches you which foods match your body, so you and your family have true vitality, strength, and balance. See How it Works.

Is Cardamom Coconut Spice Mix a Good Match for My Body?

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Medicinal Effects of Cardamom Coconut Spice Mix

Constitutional nutrition systems use biocharacteristics to classify the metabolic nature of food, hebs, lifestyle choices, your body, and disease.

METABOLIC NATURE / BIOCHARACTERISTICS

Metabolic Nature / Biocharacteristics

Ayurveda assesses metabolic imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics (vital qualtiies). 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.

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COLD

ABOUT COLD BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Cold refers to anything that reduces body temperature, metabolism, and blood flow.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Raw Sugar

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MOBILE

ABOUT MOBILE BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Mobile refers to anything that stimulates the nervous system, muscles, or activity.

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Cardamom

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HEAVY

ABOUT HEAVY BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Heavy is identified by sedation, sluggishness, or increased weight.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Raw Sugar

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OILY

ABOUT OILY BIOCHARACTERISTIC

In Ayurveda, oily refers to anything moistening. More specifically, oily refers to building substances that increases fat, or are themselves fatty. For example, sugar is Oily.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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TASTES

The 6 Tastes

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?

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SWEET

ABOUT SWEET BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Sweet refers to anything builds tissue, including macronutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins and fats.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Raw Sugar

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AYURVEDA BODY TYPES (DOSHAS)

The Three Doshas / Body Types

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.

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PACIFIES
Pitta pacifying Vata pacifying
AGGRAVATES
Kapha aggravating

GREEK MEDICINE / TEMPERAMENTS

The Four Temperaments / Humors

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.

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PACIFIES
CHOLERIC

ABOUT CHOLERIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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.

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MELANCHOLIC

ABOUT MELANCHOLIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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.

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AGGRAVATES
PHLEGMATIC

ABOUT PHLEGMATIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

A Phlegmatic has a cold and wet metabolic nature. The coldness implies a slow metabolism, the moisture that you are well-nourished. Phlegmatics tend towards sluggishness and thickened fluids, including mucus.

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SANGUINE

ABOUT SANGUINE BIOCHARACTERISTIC

A hot and oily nature with a moderate metabolism and a well nourished body makes Sanguine individuals vigorous, vivacious, outgoing and generous, and prone to impulsivity and self indulgence. Bullish and intense when out of balance.

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Other Health Virtues

Crunchy

CRUNCHY

Makes an audible noise when you eat them. Can provide fun texture variation.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Cardamom Coconut Spice Mix
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.

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Antacid

ANTACID

Herbs that neutralize acidity in the gastrointestinal tract, the stomach in particular.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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Brain Tonic

BRAIN-TONIC

An herb that strengthens the brain and thereby enhances memory or other cognitive functions and improves mental stamina or stability.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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Stimulates Energy

STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY

This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Cardamom

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Tonic

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: Coconut Flakes

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Antifungal

ANTIFUNGAL

Herbs that destroy fungus.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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Anti Inflammatory

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY

Reduces inflammation in the body. Different herbs and carriers target different body systems.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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Blood Tonic

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: Coconut Flakes

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Raises Thyroid

RAISES-THYROID

An herb that increases thyroid function.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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Promotes Virility

PROMOTES-VIRILITY

Encourages virility and potency.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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Constituents:
Soluble Fiber

SOLUBLE-FIBER

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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Fats

MILD FATS

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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Foods with a Similar Nature to Cardamom Coconut Spice Mix

  • Coconut Flakes

    Coconut Flakes has these Actions in Common

    Antacid, Blood-tonic, Raises-thyroid, Anti-inflammatory, Brain-tonic, Stimulates-energy, Antifungal, Promotes-virility, Tonic

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  • Coconut Butter

    Coconut Butter has these Actions in Common

    Brain-tonic, Stimulates-energy, Antifungal, Promotes-virility, Tonic, Antacid, Blood-tonic, Raises-thyroid, Anti-inflammatory

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  • Coconut Cream

    Coconut Cream has these Actions in Common

    Anti-inflammatory, Brain-tonic, Stimulates-energy, Antifungal, Promotes-virility, Tonic, Antacid, Blood-tonic, Raises-thyroid

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  • Coconut Oil

    Coconut Oil has these Actions in Common

    Antifungal, Raises-thyroid, Brain-tonic, Stimulates-energy, Anti-inflammatory, Promotes-virility, Tonic

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  • Coconut Milk

    Coconut Milk has these Actions in Common

    Brain-tonic, Tonic, Antacid, Raises-thyroid, Anti-inflammatory, Stimulates-energy

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  • Almonds

    Almonds has these Actions in Common

    Blood-tonic, Stimulates-energy, Brain-tonic, Tonic, Promotes-virility

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  • Flower / Bee Pollen

    Flower / Bee Pollen has these Actions in Common

    Blood-tonic, Tonic, Promotes-virility, Stimulates-energy

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  • Sesame Seeds

    Sesame Seeds has these Actions in Common

    Promotes-virility, Stimulates-energy, Blood-tonic, Tonic

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  • Sesame Oil

    Sesame Oil has these Actions in Common

    Blood-tonic, Tonic, Promotes-virility, Stimulates-energy

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  • Tahini

    Tahini has these Actions in Common

    Promotes-virility, Stimulates-energy, Blood-tonic, Tonic

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  • Grape

    Grape has these Actions in Common

    Anti-inflammatory, Tonic, Blood-tonic, Brain-tonic

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Herbs & Supplements with a Similar Nature to Cardamom Coconut Spice Mix

  • Amalaki

    Amalaki has these Actions in Common

    Promotes-virility, Stimulates-energy, Tonic, Antacid, Anti-inflammatory, Blood-tonic, Brain-tonic

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  • Chyavanprash Nutritive Jam

    Chyavanprash Nutritive Jam has these Actions in Common

    Anti-inflammatory, Blood-tonic, Promotes-virility, Stimulates-energy, Tonic

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  • Punarnava

    Punarnava has these Actions in Common

    Tonic, Anti-inflammatory, Blood-tonic, Promotes-virility, Stimulates-energy

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  • Ashwagandha

    Ashwagandha has these Actions in Common

    Blood-tonic, Brain-tonic, Promotes-virility, Tonic, Anti-inflammatory

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  • Draksha Digestive Tonic

    Draksha Digestive Tonic has these Actions in Common

    Anti-inflammatory, Blood-tonic, Stimulates-energy, Tonic

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  • Bala

    Bala has these Actions in Common

    Tonic, Anti-inflammatory, Promotes-virility, Stimulates-energy

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  • Guggulu

    Guggulu has these Actions in Common

    Anti-inflammatory, Blood-tonic, Raises-thyroid, Stimulates-energy

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  • Anantamul

    Anantamul has these Actions in Common

    Blood-tonic, Brain-tonic, Tonic, Anti-inflammatory

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  • Bitter Orange Peel

    Bitter Orange Peel has these Actions in Common

    Anti-inflammatory, Antifungal, Raises-thyroid, Stimulates-energy

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  • Rhodiola

    Rhodiola has these Actions in Common

    Stimulates-energy, Tonic, Blood-tonic, Brain-tonic

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  • Oats, Fresh Milky Seed

    Oats, Fresh Milky Seed has these Actions in Common

    Blood-tonic, Brain-tonic, Promotes-virility, Tonic

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About the Author

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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