Coconut Beet Soup |
| 2 tbsp | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 1 c | |
| 1/2 inch | |
| 1/4 tsp | |
| 1/4 tsp |
Chop the beets and puree with equal quantity water in a blender. Add all ingredients into a pot and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for a half hour.
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Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Beets, Ginger (Fresh), Salt (Mineral Salt)
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Coconut Oil, Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Coconut Oil
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: Coconut Flakes
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)
MILD WARMS-ABDOMEN Warms the muscles and organs of the abdomen, stimulating digestion and metabolism.
Active Ingredients: Beets
Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes
Active Ingredients: Beets, Salt (Mineral Salt)
MILD STOOL-SOFTENER Softens hard and difficult to eliminate stool. Stool softeners are the safest and most gentle type of laxative. Examples include warm milk with ghee.
Active Ingredients: Beets, Salt (Mineral Salt)
STRONG INTERNAL-DETOXICANT Liquefies, dissolves, decongests or dislodges internal stagnant toxins. Decongests the lymphatic system.
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Beets, Ginger (Fresh), Salt (Mineral Salt)
MILD RELAXES-EYES Eases tension in eye muscles, so the eyes feel less strained, often by supporting the liver.
Active Ingredients: Beets
MILD WAKES-YOU-UP Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)
MILD 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: Beets
STRONG 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, Coconut Oil, Ginger (Fresh)
STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Coconut Oil, Ginger (Fresh), Beets
MILD REFRESHING Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)
MILD SATISFIES-STOMACH Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.
Active Ingredients: Beets
STRONG 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, Coconut Oil
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper
Active Ingredients: Coconut Oil, Beets
STRONG IRRITATES-THROAT Creates abrasive feeling in the back of the mouth. May stimulate coughing.
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Salt (Mineral Salt)
STRONG DECONGESTANT An herb that reduces mucus production often by restricting blood flow to mucus membranes.
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Ginger (Fresh)
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: Black Pepper, Ginger (Fresh)
STRONG 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, Black Pepper, Beets
MILD OPTHALMIC Benefits the eyes, vision tonic.
Active Ingredients: Beets
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: Beets
MILD IRRITATES-KIDNEY Tight, sharp pain just below ribs in the back.
Active Ingredients: Beets
STRONG 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: Coconut Flakes, Coconut Oil, Beets
Active Ingredients: Beets, Salt (Mineral Salt)
STRONG RAISES-THYROID An herb that increases thyroid function.
Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Coconut Oil
MILD ANTIARTHRITIC Herbs that ease arthritic pain and promote joint health.
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)
MILD MUSCLE-RELAXANT Herbs that relax muscles. Helpful for chronic pain or tension as well as healing from physical trauma.
Active Ingredients: Beets
STRONG SOLUBLE-FIBER Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Beets
MILD BETAINE Used to reduce homocysteine in the blood, which supports proper liver function and prevents fatigue and blood clots. Improves muscle stamina and weight loss.
Active Ingredients: Beets
MILD NITRIC-OXIDE Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
Active Ingredients: Beets
MILD SAPONINS Can be used to make soap. Saponins stimulate mucus membrane secretion, liquefying mucus for easy removal (expectorant).
Active Ingredients: Beets
MILD SODIUM Active Ingredients: Salt (Mineral Salt)
MILD POTASSIUM Active Ingredients: Beets
MILD BETA-CAROTENE Active Ingredients: Beets
MILD CARBOHYDRATE Active Ingredients: Beets
MILD FOLATE Active Ingredients: Beets
MILD IRON Iron is necessary for the transport of oxygen in red blood cells.
Active Ingredients: Beets
MILD MANGANESE Active Ingredients: Beets
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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