Collard Greens With Potato, Lemon & Turmeric |
| 2 lbs | |
| 1 whole | |
| 1 c | |
| 1 tsp | |
| 1/4 tsp | |
| 1/4 whole | |
| 2 pinch | |
| 2 pinch |
Chop collard greens finely. Dice the potato. Place juice from lemon, ground black pepper, and all remaining ingredients in water and bring to a boil. Lower heat, cover, and simmer until potatoes are soft and collard greens tender and easy to chew.
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Active Ingredients: Collard Greens, Potato, Turmeric
Active Ingredients: Collard Greens, Lemon, Water, Turmeric
Active Ingredients: Collard Greens, Black Pepper, Lemon, Turmeric
Active Ingredients: Collard Greens, Lemon, Turmeric
Active Ingredients: Collard Greens, Potato, Lemon
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.
MILD QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Water
MILD DIGESTIVE Herbs that encourage healthy digestion.
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Lemon, Salt (Mineral Salt), Turmeric
MILD CARMINATIVE Stimulates the release of gas. Helpful for bloating or cramping abdominal pain. Propels food downward. Carminatives typically expel gas by relaxing the muscles of the intestines.
Active Ingredients: Turmeric, Lemon
MILD BURNS-TOXINS An herb that detoxifies by helping your body metabolize toxins, as opposed to eliminating them.
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Turmeric
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: Potato
MILD MAKES-YOU-TIRED Induces drowsiness and promotes sound sleep.
Active Ingredients: Potato
MILD SATISFIES-STOMACH Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.
Active Ingredients: Potato
MILD DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Lemon
MILD FLUSHES-SINUSES An herb that relieves sinus congestion by flushing out mucus.
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Turmeric, Salt (Mineral Salt)
MILD IRRITATES-THROAT Creates abrasive feeling in the back of the mouth. May stimulate coughing.
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper
MILD DECONGESTANT An herb that reduces mucus production often by restricting blood flow to mucus membranes.
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Lemon
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: Black Pepper
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: Potato, Turmeric
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: Black Pepper, Turmeric, Lemon
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: Turmeric, Black Pepper
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: Turmeric, Lemon
Active Ingredients: Collard Greens
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: Lemon, Salt (Mineral Salt), Turmeric
STRONG VITAMIN-C Active Ingredients: Collard Greens, Potato
STRONG SOLUBLE-FIBER Active Ingredients: Collard Greens, Potato
STRONG AROMATASE-INHIBITOR Blocks estrogen synthesis by inhibiting conversion of progesterone and testosterone into estrogen.
Active Ingredients: Collard Greens, Lemon
Active Ingredients: Collard Greens
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, Lemon
MILD CARBOHYDRATE Active Ingredients: Potato
MILD PHOSPHOROUS Active Ingredients: Potato
MILD POTASSIUM Active Ingredients: Potato
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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