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Coconut Butter With Ginger, Honey & Raisins


How to Make Coconut Butter with Ginger, Honey & Raisins

INGREDIENTS


SKILL LEVEL: EASY
2 c
1/4 c
1 tbsp
1/4 tsp
1/4 tsp
1 pinch

PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE

1. Use the coconut shavings to make homemade coconut butter, or use 1/2c coconut butter purchased from the grocery store.

2. Mash together all ingredients and serve.

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Metabolic Effects of Coconut Butter with Ginger, Honey & Raisins

Classical Metabolic Theory uses biocharacteristics to classify the metabolic nature of food, herbs, 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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HEAVY

ABOUT HEAVY BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Raisins

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COLD

ABOUT COLD BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Raisins

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MOBILE

ABOUT MOBILE BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Dried), Honey, Turmeric

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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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CLEAR

ABOUT CLEAR BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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

Active Ingredients: Honey, Ginger (Dried), Turmeric, Salt (Mineral Salt)

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LIQUEFIED

ABOUT LIQUEFIED BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Substances that thin fluids (lower viscosity of blood plasma). These may include blood thinners or mucolytic herbs.

Active Ingredients: Honey, Turmeric

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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, Honey, Raisins

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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 Coconut Butter with Ginger, Honey & Raisins
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

STRONG ANTACID

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

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, Ginger (Dried), Honey, Raisins

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Tonic

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, Honey, Raisins

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Nutritive

STRONG NUTRITIVE

An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Honey, Raisins

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Diaphoretic

MILD DIAPHORETIC

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

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Dried)

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Warms Chest

MILD WARMS-CHEST

Warms the chest and lungs, clearing mucus and allowing for clear breathing. Often these herbs are hot, aromatic, and pungent.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Dried), Turmeric

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Irritates Throat

MILD IRRITATES-THROAT

Creates abrasive feeling in the back of the mouth. May stimulate coughing.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Dried)

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Flushes Sinuses

MILD FLUSHES-SINUSES

An herb that relieves sinus congestion by flushing out mucus.

Active Ingredients: Turmeric, Salt (Mineral Salt)

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Warms Ears

MILD WARMS-EARS

Stimulates peripheral circulation to warm extremities, including the ears.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Dried)

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Cardiac Stimulant

MILD 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: Ginger (Dried)

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Blood Tonic

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, Raisins, Turmeric

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Livotonic

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, Raisins

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Raises Thyroid

STRONG RAISES-THYROID

An herb that increases thyroid function.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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Constituents:
Soluble Fiber

STRONG SOLUBLE-FIBER

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Raisins

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Fats

STRONG FATS

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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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: Turmeric

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Coumarin

MILD COUMARIN

Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.

Active Ingredients: Honey

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5a Reductase Inhibitor

MILD 5A-REDUCTASE-INHIBITOR

Active Ingredients: Turmeric

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Aromatase Inhibitor

MILD AROMATASE-INHIBITOR

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

Active Ingredients: Honey

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Foods with a Similar Metabolic Nature to Coconut Butter with Ginger, Honey & Raisins

  • Coconut Cream

    Coconut Cream has these Actions in Common

    Blood-tonic, Raises-thyroid, Livotonic, Stimulates-energy, Antacid, Nutritive, Tonic

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  • Coconut Flakes

    Coconut Flakes has these Actions in Common

    Livotonic, Stimulates-energy, Antacid, Nutritive, Tonic, Blood-tonic, Raises-thyroid

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  • Coconut Butter

    Coconut Butter has these Actions in Common

    Livotonic, Stimulates-energy, Antacid, Nutritive, Tonic, Blood-tonic, Raises-thyroid

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  • Mustard Powder

    Mustard Powder has these Actions in Common

    Irritates-throat, Warms-ears, Diaphoretic, Stimulates-energy, Flushes-sinuses, Warms-chest, Cardiac-stimulant

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  • Mustard

    Mustard has these Actions in Common

    Flushes-sinuses, Warms-chest, Cardiac-stimulant, Irritates-throat, Warms-ears, Diaphoretic, Stimulates-energy

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  • Mustard Seed

    Mustard Seed has these Actions in Common

    Flushes-sinuses, Warms-chest, Cardiac-stimulant, Irritates-throat, Warms-ears, Diaphoretic, Stimulates-energy

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  • Beef

    Beef has these Actions in Common

    Livotonic, Warms-chest, Nutritive, Warms-ears, Blood-tonic, Tonic

    LEARN MORE

  • Coconut Milk

    Coconut Milk has these Actions in Common

    Stimulates-energy, Nutritive, Tonic, Antacid, Raises-thyroid, Livotonic

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  • Ginger (Dried)

    Ginger (Dried) has these Actions in Common

    Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy, Diaphoretic, Warms-chest, Irritates-throat, Warms-ears

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  • Goji Berry

    Goji Berry has these Actions in Common

    Blood-tonic, Stimulates-energy, Livotonic, Tonic, Nutritive

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  • Raisins

    Raisins has these Actions in Common

    Blood-tonic, Stimulates-energy, Livotonic, Tonic, Nutritive

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Herbs & Supplements with a Similar Metabolic Nature to Coconut Butter with Ginger, Honey & Raisins

  • Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi)

    Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi) has these Actions in Common

    Warms-chest, Warms-ears, Blood-tonic, Cardiac-stimulant, Diaphoretic, Stimulates-energy

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  • Draksha Digestive Tonic

    Draksha Digestive Tonic has these Actions in Common

    Blood-tonic, Livotonic, Nutritive, Stimulates-energy, Tonic

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  • Wild Ginger

    Wild Ginger has these Actions in Common

    Warms-chest, Warms-ears, Cardiac-stimulant, Diaphoretic, Stimulates-energy

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  • Chyavanprash Nutritive Jam

    Chyavanprash Nutritive Jam has these Actions in Common

    Blood-tonic, Cardiac-stimulant, Nutritive, Stimulates-energy, Tonic

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  • Amalaki

    Amalaki has these Actions in Common

    Antacid, Blood-tonic, Nutritive, Stimulates-energy, Tonic

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  • Hot Shower

    Hot Shower has these Actions in Common

    Flushes-sinuses, Warms-chest, Cardiac-stimulant, Diaphoretic

    LEARN MORE

  • Tips for the Perfect Hot Bath

    Tips for the Perfect Hot Bath has these Actions in Common

    Cardiac-stimulant, Diaphoretic, Flushes-sinuses, Warms-chest

    LEARN MORE

  • Anantamul

    Anantamul has these Actions in Common

    Diaphoretic, Livotonic, Tonic, Blood-tonic

    LEARN MORE

  • Epsom Salt Bath

    Epsom Salt Bath has these Actions in Common

    Flushes-sinuses, Warms-chest, Cardiac-stimulant, Diaphoretic

    LEARN MORE

  • Bitter Orange Peel

    Bitter Orange Peel has these Actions in Common

    Cardiac-stimulant, Irritates-throat, Raises-thyroid, Stimulates-energy

    LEARN MORE

  • Belly breathing

    Belly breathing has these Actions in Common

    Blood-tonic, Cardiac-stimulant, Raises-thyroid, Stimulates-energy

    LEARN MORE


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About the Author

John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people 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 also directs the Joyful Belly College, offering professional clinical training for over 15 years.

John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, virtue psychology through classical & Christian philosophy, languages, 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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