Carrots With Thyme |
| 4 whole | |
| 1 tsp | |
| 1 tsp | |
| 2 pinch | |
| 2 pinch |
Cut and steam carrots sitting directly in a small amount of water with butter, salt, and black pepper. In the last five minutes add chopped thyme.
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Active Ingredients: Carrot, Thyme (fresh), Black Pepper
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh)
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh)
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh)
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: Thyme (fresh)
MILD DIGESTIVE Herbs that encourage healthy digestion.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Black Pepper, Salt (Mineral Salt)
MILD GENERAL-LAXATIVE Promotes a bowel movement. General laxative is an umbrella term that refers to several different types of laxatives.
Active Ingredients: Carrot, 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 BURNS-TOXINS An herb that detoxifies by helping your body metabolize toxins, as opposed to eliminating them.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Black Pepper
MILD STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh)
MILD NUTRITIVE An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.
Active Ingredients: Carrot, Butter (unsalted)
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
MILD DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Black Pepper
MILD SKIN-TONIC An herb that strengthens and nourishes skin, improving tone, color, moisture and complexion.
Active Ingredients: Carrot
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 DECONGESTANT An herb that reduces mucus production often by restricting blood flow to mucus membranes.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Black Pepper
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)
MILD ANTHELMINTHIC Kills parasitic worms (hookworms, tapeworms, roundworms, etc).
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh)
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 VASODILATOR A vasodilator is an herb that widens the blood vessels by the relaxation of smooth muscle cells within the vessel walls, thereby increasing circulation systemically or to a local area.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Black Pepper
MILD OPTHALMIC Benefits the eyes, vision tonic.
Active Ingredients: Carrot
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 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
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
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: Carrot, 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
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh), Black Pepper
MILD COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD NITRIC-OXIDE Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD ROSMARINIC-ACID Inhibits autoantibodies from binding to TSH receptors in the thyroid.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh)
MILD SALICYLATES Salicylates relieve inflammation, are anti-cancer, and antidiabetic, but some are allergic to it.
Active Ingredients: Thyme (fresh)
MILD SOLUBLE-FIBER Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD VITAMIN-A Active Ingredients: Carrot
MILD VITAMIN-K Active Ingredients: Carrot
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
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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