Fenugreek & Fennel Tea |
1. Bring 6 cups of water to the boil and reduce to a simmer.
2. Add fenugreek and fennel seeds and heat for 30 minutes.
3. Strain, and pour into cups.
Preparation notes:
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Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Water
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
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: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
MILD QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst.
Active Ingredients: Water
STRONG SPLEEN-TONIC An herb that strengthens spleen function by improving strength of the blood. Spleen tonics Builds agni, brighten the person's appearances & firms up tissues.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
STRONG 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: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
STRONG DIGESTIVE Herbs that encourage healthy digestion.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
STRONG 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: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
MILD RELIEVES-BURNING Herbs that soothe a burn or reduce an internal burning sensation, such as aloe vera.
Active Ingredients: Water
STRONG BURNS-TOXINS An herb that detoxifies by helping your body metabolize toxins, as opposed to eliminating them.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
STRONG INTERNAL-DETOXICANT Liquefies, dissolves, decongests or dislodges internal stagnant toxins. Decongests the lymphatic system.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds, Water
STRONG ANTILITHIC An herb that dissolves / breaks up stones (gallstones or kidney stones) so that it can be passed.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG NERVINE Balances the nervous system. They can help with stress, memory, early alzheimer's, and even chronic pain. Often they are aromatic in nature.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
STRONG NUTRITIVE An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG DEMULCENT Herbs that coat or form a soothing film over a mucous membrane, relieving minor pain and inflammation of the membrane.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG EXPECTORANT 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.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
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: Fennel Seeds
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.
MILD BLOOD-THINNER Herbs that thin the blood. Helpful for people with heart disease or clogged circulation.
STRONG DIURETIC Herbs that promote urine formation, thereby flushing the kidneys and urinary tract while eliminating any excess water retention. As diuretics reduce water retention, they are often used to reduce blood pressure.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
STRONG LOWERS-BLOOD-SUGAR An herb that lowers blood sugar.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG HYPOLIPIDEMIC Scrapes fats / cleanses blood vessels by 1) purging bile, 2) strengthening the liver's ability to metabolize fats, 3) by increasing uptake of cholesterol in the liver, and 4) by inhibiting fat cells.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG EMMENAGOGUE Herbs which stimulate menstruation. Emmenagogues are used for scanty menstruation, to relieve menstrual pain, and improve blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG GALACTAGOGUE Increases production of breast milk, often by raising prolactin and diaphoresis.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
STRONG UTERINE-STIMULANT Causes contractions in the uterus often by stimulating production of oxytocin. These herbs are contraindicated during pregnancy.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG TESTOSTERONIC Androgenic. Stimulates testosterone.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG ESTROGENIC Increases estrogen, helpful in menopause. Estrogen is anabolic and increases muscle growth, bone density, and moisture.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
STRONG HAIR-GROWTH-TONIC An herb or formula that encourages healthy hair growth.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG ANTISPASMODIC Herbs that reduce or inhibit muscle spasms or cramping, such as in asthma, menstruation, heart palpitations, migraine, or IBS.
Active Ingredients: Fennel Seeds
STRONG COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek, Fennel Seeds
STRONG INOSITOL Inositol is an alcohol sugar made naturally in the human body from glucose. It is lipotropic (aiding fat metabilism in the liver). It affects a variety of hormones, neurotransmitters, steroid, growth factors and water.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG PHYTOSTEROLS The plant version of cholesterol. Often precursors to stress and sex hormones.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG SAPONINS Can be used to make soap. Saponins stimulate mucus membrane secretion, liquefying mucus for easy removal (expectorant).
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG STEROIDAL-SAPONINS Steroidal saponins closely resemble human hormones such as estrogen and cortisol, and have a hormonal activity in the body.
Active Ingredients: Fenugreek
STRONG NITRIC-OXIDE Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
Active Ingredients: Fennel Seeds
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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