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In Ayurveda teas are the traditional method of delivering the medicinal effects herbs and spices to your body's tissues. Ayurvedic teas generally consist of a single herb or blend of herbs steeped in hot water.
Boil 1 1/2 cups of water
Add the whole cumin, coriander, and fennel seeds.
Let steep for 5 minutes, or until it cools to a comfortable drinking temperature.
Strain and serve, discarding the spices.
Drink with every meal for at least two weeks.
If you prefer to use organic, fresh, medicinal grade quality ingredients, consider purchasing Cumin, Coriander & Fennel Tea from our herb store.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Cumin, Coriander, & Fennel tea (CCF tea) is one of the simplest and most famous Ayurvedic home formulas for detoxification, weight loss, and the burning up of excess water retention.
This revitalizing yet mild blend gets right to the point by warming up your circulation and cleansing your lymphatic system.
It stokes your metabolism and digestive fire restoring your vitality where winter sluggishness abounds.
Its mild bitterness revs up the detoxification process and purifies the blood.
CCF tea blend also helps:
Restore tone and tightness to swollen water logged tissues.
Soothe agitation and inflammation
Restore a calm clarity and spaciousness to a tense mind.
Drip, drip, drip.
As winter ice and snow melts and becomes the wetness around you in springtime, they make all of that stunning green growth possible.
This same wetness can also manifest in your body. Internal dampness causes a runny nose, thick digestive mucus, and even swelling.
CCF Tea clears out water retention, while its flushing action simultaneously cleanses the urinary tract and reduces your water weight.
Make this blend yourself. Just follow our simple recipe. For best results, use organic, fresh, medicinal grade quality ingredients.
To make it, simply follow the simple recipe.
Contraindications
This tea is suitable for long term use, all three doshas and for all ages. Since CCF tea is a diuretic, do not drink before bed otherwise you will have to wake up to urinate. Dry Vata individuals should limit intake of diuretics.
AYURVEDA'S GUIDE TO VITALITY & WHOLESOME NOURISHMENT
Your Ayurvedic diet is tailored to your individual body and your specific imbalances.
With an Ayurvedic diet you feel joy and satisfaction because what you are eating truly nourishes and balances you.
Disease results from diets and lifestyles that are incompatible with your nature.
By eating a personalized diet matched to your body, you experience optimal health.
See How it Works.
Is Cumin, Coriander & Fennel Tea Good for My Ayurvedic Diet?
Find out by taking this free, easy quiz.
You'll learn your body type, and whether 'Cumin, Coriander & Fennel Tea' is a good fit.
Complete the basic quiz in 1 minute, or go deeper with additional quizzes at your own leisure to learn more about your body.
Functional Ayurveda helps you assess imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics
(gunas).
Aggravating these characteristics weakens your body and causes imbalance.
By knowing which characteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct imbalances before you get sick.
Every characteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold).
You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite characteristic.
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?
According to the biocharacteristic theory of medicine,
people tend to get sick, over and over again, due to habitual causes and imbalances that are unique to the person.
Your body type summarizes this tendency, showing you the 'type' of conditions and imbalances that frequently challenge your health & wellness.
Using body type, you can also identify remedies likely to improve your strength and resiliency.
Your body type identifies physical and mental characteristics as well as your personal strengths and weaknesses.
The calculation of your body type is based on your medical history.
The 3 functional body types
(doshas),
are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Catabolic individuals tend to break down body mass into energy. They are easily stimulated, hyperactive, underweight and dry.
Metabolic individuals tend to burn or use energy. They tend to be rosy-cheeked, easily irritated, focused, driven, and easily inflamed.
Anabolic individuals tend to store energy as body mass. If they store too much energy, they could gain weight easily and have congestion. Anabolic people tend to be stable and grounded.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An agent that kills microorganisms or inhibits their growth. Antimicrobial is an umbrella term that can be broken down into specific categories of target microorganism, such as anti-bacterials, fungals, and virals.
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
healthy diet and lifestyle with Ayurveda biocharacteristics.
His approach to Ayurveda is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful.
John also directs Joyful Belly's School of Ayurveda,
offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's interest in Ayurveda and specialization in digestive tract pathology was inspired by a complex digestive disorder acquired from years of international travel,
as well as public service work in South Asia.
John's commitment to the detailed study of digestive disorders reflects his zeal to get down to the roots of the problem.
His hope and belief in the capacity of each & every client to improve their quality of life is nothing short of a personal passion.
John's creativity in the kitchen and delight in cooking for others comes from his family oriented upbringing.
In addition to his certification in Ayurveda, John holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University.
John enjoys sharing Ayurveda within the context of his Catholic roots,
and finds Ayurveda gives him an opportunity to participate in the healing mission of the Church.
Jesus expressed God's love by feeding and healing the sick.
That kindness is the fundamental ministry of Ayurveda as well.
Outside of work, John enjoys spending time with his wife and 6 kids, and pursuing his love of theology, philosophy, and language.
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there's still snow up here in Massachusetts. But I have a lot of water retention. Can I start drinking this tea now or do I have to wait until the snow melts?
Dear Cecile - You can start drinking the tea now - no need to wait for daffodils. This tea will still help.
Dear Susan - The spices don't have to be whole, but generally ground spices lose their medicinal value very quickly, in a matter of minutes, as volatile oils evaporate.
Turmeric and cayenne may last a bit longer, since they are less aromatic than CCF. However, even these spices should be stored in a foil wrapped container, with the air removed. That will help preserve the medicinal value. Since repeated opening and closing of the container causes volatile oils to escape, often I will remove a week's worth of spices into a smaller container.
Should I let the seeds to boil in the water or just put the boiling water on top of the seeds?also I live In Miami and its very hot here. Can I drink the tea every day or just in spring ?
You have many options - the main issue is preventing evaporation of volatile oils (the medicinal constituent). The easiest way is to pour boiling water over the seeds, then cover immediately and let sit for ten minutes.
Lowering the quantity of seeds in general helps - so, if you are having the standard 1/3 coriander, 1/3 cumin, and 1/3 fennel, drop down to a 1/4 of each and see if that helps! If it still makes you feel drowsy, it may not be the tea for you!
It would be wise to consult your health care provider about whether these herbs will affect your uterine prolapse.
- Kimberly Kubicke, Asbury park, NJ, 02-25-16 (Reply)
You can drink this tea cold, though cold drinks are not generally recommended for Vata or Kapha.
- Kimberly Kubicke, Asbury park, NJ, 07-21-16 (Reply)
This may help you shed belly fat, but you probably won't rid yourself of belly fat by only drinking this tea.
- Kimberly Kubicke, Asbury park, NJ, 07-21-16 (Reply)
You should talk to your health practitioner, but this tea will likely be helpful with rheumatoid arthritis.
- Kimberly Kubicke, Asbury park, NJ, 07-21-16 (Reply)
Sure, the effects will be different.
- Kimberly Kubicke, Asbury park, NJ, 02-06-17 (Reply)
Tea is always made by boiling tea leaves, and since there are no tea leaves boiled along with cumin, coriander and fennel seeds, it is wrong to say CCF Tea. We should correctly say it as CCF Decoction. Hope this helps!
For sure! And if we're just steeping the seeds for a shorter time, we could say it's really an infusion! I've just discovered that experts refer to these kinds of herbal drinks as 'tisanes', rather than tea, due to the absence of tea leaves.
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