Nutrition & Herbs from Ayurveda & Greek Medicine

Nutrition & Herbs from Ayurveda & Greek Medicine

 

AYURVEDIC RECIPES

Cereal With Ginger & Lime


How to Make Cereal with Ginger & Lime

  • SERVINGS: 1
  • PREP TIME: 5 MINUTES
  • COOK TIME: 0 MINUTES
  • MEAL: BREAKFAST
  • STYLE: AYURVEDIC
  • PREPARATION: RAW

INGREDIENTS

1 c
1/2 tsp
1/4 whole
1/8 inch
2 pinch

PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE

Blend and pour over cereal.

About This Recipe

CONSTITUTIONAL & METABOLIC INSIGHTS

Cereal with milk is a bad food combination. Instead, try experimenting with nut milks, nut milks with spices, and other concoctions!

WHAT IS CEREAL WITH GINGER & LIME?

American cereals are a highly developed and diversified art. Many cereals already include familiar sweet spices like cinnamon. But classic American cuisine can go gourmet by expanding the spicy possibilities. Lime rinds are possibly the secret ingredient in Fruit Loops (tm). Ginger adds a pungent perfume.

Discovered for breakfast at John's Kitchen in Asheville, NC

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Is Cereal with Ginger & Lime a Good Match for My Body?

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Metabolic Impact of Cereal with Ginger & Lime

Classical Metabolic Theory uses biocharacteristics to classify the metabolic impact of food, herbs, lifestyle choices, your body, and disease.

METABOLIC IMPACT / BIOCHARACTERISTICS

Metabolic Impact / 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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MOBILE

ABOUT MOBILE BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Lime Zest, Ginger (Fresh)

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CLEAR

ABOUT CLEAR BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Clear refers to anything that cleanses or flushes out wastes, or that digests ama.

Active Ingredients: Water, Lime, Ginger (Fresh)

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COLD

ABOUT COLD BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Water, Lime

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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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SOUR

ABOUT SOUR BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Sour refers to anything fermented or acidic.

Active Ingredients: Lime

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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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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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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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Other Health Virtues

Aromatic

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: Lime Zest, Ginger (Fresh)

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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Cereal with Ginger & Lime
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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Quenches Thirst

QUENCHES-THIRST

An herb or substance that relieves thirst.

Active Ingredients: Lime, Water

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Digestive

DIGESTIVE

Herbs that encourage healthy digestion.

Active Ingredients: Lime, Lime Zest, Ginger (Fresh)

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Stomachic

MILD STOMACHIC

An herb that increases appetite or settles a nauseas or nervous stomach. These generally increase the digestive fire, therefore relieving symptoms of sluggish or difficult digestion.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Relieves Burning

MILD RELIEVES-BURNING

Herbs that soothe a burn or reduce an internal burning sensation, such as aloe vera.

Active Ingredients: Water

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Wakes You Up

STRONG WAKES-YOU-UP

Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.

Active Ingredients: Lime Zest, Lime, Ginger (Fresh), Raw Sugar

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Refreshing

REFRESHING

Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.

Active Ingredients: Lime, Lime Zest, Ginger (Fresh)

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Nutritive

MILD NUTRITIVE

An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar

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Diaphoretic

MILD DIAPHORETIC

An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.

Active Ingredients: Lime

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Cholagogue

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: Lime

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Antispasmodic

MILD ANTISPASMODIC

Herbs that reduce or inhibit muscle spasms or cramping, such as in asthma, menstruation, heart palpitations, migraine, or IBS.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Constituents:
Rutin

MILD 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: Lime

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Polyphenols

MILD POLYPHENOLS

Polyphenols are powerful antioxidants seen in many fruits and vegetables. There are more than 8,000 types.

Active Ingredients: Lime

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Flavonoids

MILD FLAVONOIDS

Flavonoids are a colorful type of polyphenol. As all polyphenols, they have a strong antioxidant effect. Many flavonoids have an anti-inflammatory, and/or antiallergen effect.

Active Ingredients: Lime

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Aromatase Inhibitor

MILD AROMATASE-INHIBITOR

Blocks estrogen synthesis by inhibiting conversion of progesterone and testosterone into estrogen.

Active Ingredients: Lime

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Foods with a Similar Metabolic Impact to Cereal with Ginger & Lime

  • Lime

    Lime has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, Quenches-thirst, Diaphoretic, Refreshing, Digestive, Wakes-you-up

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  • Mint (Fresh)

    Mint (Fresh) has these Actions in Common

    Antispasmodic, Refreshing, Diaphoretic, Stomachic, Digestive, Wakes-you-up

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  • Lemon

    Lemon has these Actions in Common

    Quenches-thirst, Diaphoretic, Refreshing, Digestive, Wakes-you-up, Cholagogue

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  • Orange

    Orange has these Actions in Common

    Nutritive, Wakes-you-up, Quenches-thirst, Cholagogue, Refreshing

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  • Lemon Zest

    Lemon Zest has these Actions in Common

    Digestive, Wakes-you-up, Refreshing, Antispasmodic, Stomachic

    LEARN MORE

  • Pineapple

    Pineapple has these Actions in Common

    Digestive, Refreshing, Nutritive, Wakes-you-up, Quenches-thirst

    LEARN MORE

  • Acai

    Acai has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, Refreshing, Nutritive, Wakes-you-up, Quenches-thirst

    LEARN MORE

  • Jackfruit

    Jackfruit has these Actions in Common

    Quenches-thirst, Wakes-you-up, Refreshing, Nutritive, Relieves-burning

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  • Wasabi

    Wasabi has these Actions in Common

    Diaphoretic, Wakes-you-up, Digestive, Cholagogue, Refreshing

    LEARN MORE

  • Horseradish

    Horseradish has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, Refreshing, Diaphoretic, Wakes-you-up, Digestive

    LEARN MORE

  • Fenugreek

    Fenugreek has these Actions in Common

    Diaphoretic, Stomachic, Digestive, Cholagogue, Nutritive

    LEARN MORE

Herbs & Supplements with a Similar Metabolic Impact to Cereal with Ginger & Lime

  • Mugwort

    Mugwort has these Actions in Common

    Antispasmodic, Cholagogue, Diaphoretic, Digestive, Stomachic

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  • Amalaki

    Amalaki has these Actions in Common

    Quenches-thirst, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up, Digestive, Nutritive

    LEARN MORE

  • Prickly Ash

    Prickly Ash has these Actions in Common

    Antispasmodic, Diaphoretic, Digestive, Refreshing

    LEARN MORE

  • Vomit Therapy (Vamana)

    Vomit Therapy (Vamana) has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, Diaphoretic, Refreshing, Antispasmodic

    LEARN MORE

  • Eucalyptus Essential Oil

    Eucalyptus Essential Oil has these Actions in Common

    Antispasmodic, Diaphoretic, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up

    LEARN MORE

  • Bitter Orange Peel

    Bitter Orange Peel has these Actions in Common

    Digestive, Refreshing, Stomachic, Wakes-you-up

    LEARN MORE

  • Deodar (Himalayan Cedar, Devadaru)

    Deodar (Himalayan Cedar, Devadaru) has these Actions in Common

    Antispasmodic, Digestive, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up

    LEARN MORE

  • Pennyroyal

    Pennyroyal has these Actions in Common

    Digestive, Antispasmodic, Cholagogue, Diaphoretic

    LEARN MORE

  • Breathing Exercises

    Breathing Exercises has these Actions in Common

    Refreshing, Wakes-you-up, Antispasmodic, Digestive

    LEARN MORE

  • Angelica

    Angelica has these Actions in Common

    Antispasmodic, Diaphoretic, Digestive, Stomachic

    LEARN MORE

  • Bellows Breath (Bhastrika Pranayama)

    Bellows Breath (Bhastrika Pranayama) has these Actions in Common

    Wakes-you-up, Antispasmodic, Digestive, Refreshing

    LEARN MORE


Joyful Belly is a recognized college of biocharacteristics medicine.

TRADITIONALLY INDICATED FOR
THESE SYMPTOMS

Cereal with Ginger & Lime may temper these symptoms. The suitability of any recipe for a condition is highly dependent on the individual and constitution. Please see your doctor before using this recipe to treat a medical condition.

CONTRAINDICATED FOR
THESE SYMPTOMS

Cereal with Ginger & Lime may be harmful or contraindicated for these symptoms. Note this is not a complete list of all possible contraindications. Please see your doctor before using this recipe to treat a medical condition.

Herb Drug Interaction Risk

Here are some potential herb drug interactions with Cereal with Ginger & Lime. Please see your health care provider for more information.

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About the Author

John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, offers professional clinical training in 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's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, classical Christian philosophy for mental wellness, languages (French, Arabic, Bengali), 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.

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“I tried it in Cheerios® - Yes in place of milk. It makes the Cheerios kind of taste like Fruit-Loops®. Never realized before that lime was the secret ingredient."
lisa Riverside, CA
2013-06-20
“can you tell me what type of cereal to use this on?"
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