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Ginger Peach Smoothie


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How to Make Ginger Peach Smoothie

INGREDIENTS

2 whole
1 inch

PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE

Puree all ingredients in 1c water.

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Medicinal Effects of Ginger Peach Smoothie

Constitutional nutrition systems use 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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MOBILE

ABOUT MOBILE BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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CLEAR

ABOUT CLEAR BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh), Peaches

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EASY

ABOUT EASY BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Easy refers to anything easy to digest, or digests quickly.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh), Peaches

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LIGHT

ABOUT LIGHT BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Lightness is identified by reduced weight.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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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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SOUR

ABOUT SOUR BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Sour refers to anything fermented or acidic.

Active Ingredients: Peaches

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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
Kapha pacifying Vata pacifying
AGGRAVATES
Pitta 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
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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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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AGGRAVATES
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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Other Health Virtues

Aromatic

AROMATIC

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.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Ginger Peach Smoothie
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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Quenches Thirst

QUENCHES-THIRST

An herb or substance that relieves thirst.

Active Ingredients: Peaches

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Sialogogue

STRONG SIALOGOGUE

A sialogogue increases saliva. Sour foods are often great sialogogues, and increase output of all exocrine glands. Salty taste is very moistening as well. Bitter, pungent and sweettastes also increase salivary output but to a lesser degree. Astringents.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh), Peaches

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Carminative

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: Ginger (Fresh)

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Burns Toxins

STRONG BURNS-TOXINS

An herb that detoxifies by helping your body metabolize toxins, as opposed to eliminating them.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Wakes You Up

STRONG WAKES-YOU-UP

Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Stimulates Energy

STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY

This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Refreshing

STRONG REFRESHING

Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Irritates Throat

STRONG IRRITATES-THROAT

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

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Anti Inflammatory

STRONG ANTI-INFLAMMATORY

Reduces inflammation in the body. Different herbs and carriers target different body systems.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Cardiac Stimulant

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: Ginger (Fresh)

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Vasodilator

STRONG 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: Ginger (Fresh)

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Antiarthritic

STRONG ANTIARTHRITIC

Herbs that ease arthritic pain and promote joint health.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Antispasmodic

STRONG ANTISPASMODIC

Herbs that reduce or inhibit muscle spasms or cramping, such as in asthma, menstruation, heart palpitations, migraine, or IBS.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Constituents:
Salicylates

SALICYLATES

Salicylates relieve inflammation, are anti-cancer, and antidiabetic, but some are allergic to it.

Active Ingredients: Peaches

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Inositol

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: Peaches

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Foods with a Similar Nature to Ginger Peach Smoothie

  • Ginger (Fresh)

    Ginger (Fresh) has these Actions in Common

    Anti-inflammatory, Burns-toxins, Irritates-throat, Stimulates-energy, Antiarthritic, Cardiac-stimulant, Refreshing, Vasodilator, Antispasmodic, Carminative, Sialogogue, Wakes-you-up

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  • Allspice

    Allspice has these Actions in Common

    Antispasmodic, Carminative, Vasodilator, Anti-inflammatory, Burns-toxins, Irritates-throat, Antiarthritic, Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy

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  • Mustard

    Mustard has these Actions in Common

    Antiarthritic, Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy, Antispasmodic, Carminative, Vasodilator, Burns-toxins, Irritates-throat, Wakes-you-up

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  • Mustard Powder

    Mustard Powder has these Actions in Common

    Antiarthritic, Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy, Antispasmodic, Carminative, Vasodilator, Burns-toxins, Irritates-throat, Wakes-you-up

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  • Mustard Seed

    Mustard Seed has these Actions in Common

    Antispasmodic, Carminative, Vasodilator, Burns-toxins, Irritates-throat, Wakes-you-up, Antiarthritic, Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy

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  • Ajwain

    Ajwain has these Actions in Common

    Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy, Antispasmodic, Carminative, Vasodilator, Burns-toxins, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up

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  • Nigella (black cumin)

    Nigella (black cumin) has these Actions in Common

    Burns-toxins, Irritates-throat, Anti-inflammatory, Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy, Antispasmodic, Carminative, Vasodilator

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  • Caraway Seeds

    Caraway Seeds has these Actions in Common

    Antispasmodic, Carminative, Burns-toxins, Stimulates-energy, Antiarthritic, Cardiac-stimulant, Vasodilator

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  • Cayenne Pepper

    Cayenne Pepper has these Actions in Common

    Vasodilator, Antispasmodic, Irritates-throat, Burns-toxins, Sialogogue, Anti-inflammatory, Cardiac-stimulant

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  • Mint (Fresh)

    Mint (Fresh) has these Actions in Common

    Vasodilator, Antispasmodic, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up, Burns-toxins, Stimulates-energy, Carminative

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  • Lemon

    Lemon has these Actions in Common

    Carminative, Sialogogue, Wakes-you-up, Quenches-thirst, Stimulates-energy, Refreshing, Vasodilator

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Herbs & Supplements with a Similar Nature to Ginger Peach Smoothie

  • Deodar (Himalayan Cedar, Devadaru)

    Deodar (Himalayan Cedar, Devadaru) has these Actions in Common

    Refreshing, Stimulates-energy, Vasodilator, Anti-inflammatory, Wakes-you-up, Antiarthritic, Antispasmodic, Cardiac-stimulant, Carminative

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  • Bitter Orange Peel

    Bitter Orange Peel has these Actions in Common

    Carminative, Irritates-throat, Refreshing, Stimulates-energy, Wakes-you-up, Anti-inflammatory, Cardiac-stimulant

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  • Yogaraj Guggulu

    Yogaraj Guggulu has these Actions in Common

    Anti-inflammatory, Antiarthritic, Antispasmodic, Burns-toxins, Cardiac-stimulant, Carminative, Vasodilator

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  • Wild Ginger

    Wild Ginger has these Actions in Common

    Sialogogue, Stimulates-energy, Vasodilator, Antispasmodic, Burns-toxins, Cardiac-stimulant, Carminative

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  • Amalaki

    Amalaki has these Actions in Common

    Anti-inflammatory, Carminative, Quenches-thirst, Refreshing, Sialogogue, Stimulates-energy, Wakes-you-up

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  • Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi)

    Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi) has these Actions in Common

    Anti-inflammatory, Antispasmodic, Burns-toxins, Cardiac-stimulant, Refreshing, Stimulates-energy, Vasodilator

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  • Vacha (Calamus, Sweet Flag)

    Vacha (Calamus, Sweet Flag) has these Actions in Common

    Anti-inflammatory, Antispasmodic, Cardiac-stimulant, Refreshing, Stimulates-energy, Wakes-you-up

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  • Dong Quai

    Dong Quai has these Actions in Common

    Vasodilator, Anti-inflammatory, Antispasmodic, Cardiac-stimulant, Carminative, Stimulates-energy

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  • Punarnava

    Punarnava has these Actions in Common

    Anti-inflammatory, Antiarthritic, Antispasmodic, Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy, Vasodilator

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  • Prickly Ash

    Prickly Ash has these Actions in Common

    Antiarthritic, Antispasmodic, Refreshing, Stimulates-energy, Vasodilator

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  • Trikatu

    Trikatu has these Actions in Common

    Burns-toxins, Cardiac-stimulant, Carminative, Irritates-throat, Vasodilator

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About the Author

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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Alaina Santa barbara, CA
2014-07-05
“Hello! Would this smoothie make a good breakfast for Kapha? Thank you!"
2015-09-10
“Me no like taste. Ginger is overpowering the peaches, even after adding additional peaches. :("
Kimberly Kubicke Asbury park, NJ
2016-07-21
“This could be a good breakfast for Kapha."
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