Ginger Rice With Carrots & Zucchini |
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How to Make Ginger Rice with Carrots & ZucchiniSERVINGS: 2 PREP TIME: 15 MINUTES COOK TIME: 30 MINUTES SKILL LEVEL: EASY
INGREDIENTSSKILL LEVEL: EASY
| 3 c | |
| 1 tbsp | |
| 2 whole | |
| 1 clove | |
| 1/2 whole | |
| 1/3 c | |
| 1/4 tsp | |
| 1/4 tsp | |
| 1/4 inch | |
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
Bring water to a boil. Meanwhile, dice zucchini and carrots. Grate the ginger. Add all ingredients to the water and return to a boil. Turn down heat and simmer until rice is tender.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Extra water, zucchini and lime have liquid quality balancing out slightly drying effects of rice. For debility, seed the zucchini, making it easier to digest. WHAT IS GINGER RICE WITH CARROTS & ZUCCHINI?A simple favorite with the intention of helping Vata.
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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.
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INCREASES![Guna Help]()
Increases These Biocharacteristics (Gunas)
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.
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| EASY ABOUT EASY BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Easy refers to anything easy to digest, or digests quickly.
LEARN MORE ABOUT EASY CLEAR ABOUT CLEAR BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Clear refers to anything that cleanses or flushes out wastes, or that digests ama.
LEARN MORE ABOUT CLEAR LIQUEFIED ABOUT LIQUEFIED BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Substances that thin fluids (lower viscosity of blood plasma). These may include blood thinners or mucolytic herbs.
LEARN MORE ABOUT LIQUEFIED COLD ABOUT COLD BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Cold refers to anything that reduces body temperature, metabolism, and blood flow.
LEARN MORE ABOUT COLD | TASTES![Taste Help]()
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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The Three Doshas / Body Types
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.
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| | HAS THE FOLLOWING | Subtaste:
Bland BLAND
Bland means doesn't have much taste. In Chinese medicine, bland taste refers to afood without little macronutrients, such as cabbage, radish or bok choy.
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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Ginger Rice with Carrots & Zucchini ![Help]() 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.
, , Sialogogue 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.
SEE ALL 'SIALOGOGUE' FOODS / HERBS , , , Tonic 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.
SEE ALL 'TONIC' FOODS / HERBS Cardiac Stimulant CARDIAC-STIMULANT
Herbs that increase the heart rate. Useful in cardiovascular health, blood stagnation, and subjective feeling of heaviness in the chest area.
SEE ALL 'CARDIAC-STIMULANT' FOODS / HERBS , Alterative 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.
SEE ALL 'ALTERATIVE' FOODS / HERBS Diuretic 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.
SEE ALL 'DIURETIC' FOODS / HERBS Cholagogue 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.
SEE ALL 'CHOLAGOGUE' FOODS / HERBS Constituents: Rutin RUTIN
Rutin is a flavonoid with anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. Commonly used to treat conditions such as varicose veins, hemorrhoids, and high blood pressure.
SEE ALL 'RUTIN' FOODS / HERBS , Nitric Oxide NITRIC-OXIDE
Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
SEE ALL 'NITRIC-OXIDE' FOODS / HERBS , Carbohydrate, , Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Beta Carotene, , Soluble Fiber, Sodium, , , Insoluble Fiber, Flavonoids 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.
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Foods with a Similar Nature to Ginger Rice with Carrots & Zucchini
Lime
Lime has these Actions in Common
Alterative, Digestive, Refreshing, Cholagogue, General-laxative, Sialogogue, Diaphoretic, Quenches-thirst, Wakes-you-up
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Horseradish
Horseradish has these Actions in Common
Refreshing, Diaphoretic, Flushes-sinuses, Wakes-you-up, Cardiac-stimulant, Digestive, General-laxative, Cholagogue, Diuretic
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Wasabi
Wasabi has these Actions in Common
Wakes-you-up, Cardiac-stimulant, Digestive, General-laxative, Cholagogue, Diuretic, Refreshing, Diaphoretic, Flushes-sinuses
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Lemon
Lemon has these Actions in Common
Alterative, Digestive, Refreshing, Cholagogue, General-laxative, Sialogogue, Diaphoretic, Quenches-thirst, Wakes-you-up
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Daikon Radish
Daikon Radish has these Actions in Common
Diaphoretic, Flushes-sinuses, Cardiac-stimulant, Digestive, General-laxative, Cholagogue, Diuretic, Refreshing
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Pineapple
Pineapple has these Actions in Common
Digestive, Quenches-thirst, Wakes-you-up, General-laxative, Refreshing, Nutritive, Sialogogue
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Salt (Mineral Salt)
Salt (Mineral Salt) has these Actions in Common
Cholagogue, General-laxative, Strengthens-resolve, Digestive, Sialogogue, Flushes-sinuses, Soothes-throat
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Strawberries
Strawberries has these Actions in Common
Digestive, Refreshing, General-laxative, Sialogogue, Alterative, Quenches-thirst, Wakes-you-up
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Acai
Acai has these Actions in Common
General-laxative, Refreshing, Alterative, Nutritive, Wakes-you-up, Cholagogue, Quenches-thirst
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Jackfruit
Jackfruit has these Actions in Common
Refreshing, Tonic, Nutritive, Relieves-burning, Wakes-you-up, Quenches-thirst, Satisfies-stomach
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Grape
Grape has these Actions in Common
Diuretic, Quenches-thirst, General-laxative, Sialogogue, Alterative, Nutritive, Tonic
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Herb Supplements with a Similar Nature to Ginger Rice with Carrots & Zucchini
Amalaki
Amalaki has these Actions in Common
Tonic, Alterative, Wakes-you-up, Digestive, General-laxative, Nutritive, Quenches-thirst, Refreshing, Sialogogue
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Amritarishta (Amrutharishtam)
Amritarishta (Amrutharishtam) has these Actions in Common
Diuretic, Quenches-thirst, Relieves-burning, Tonic, Alterative, Cholagogue
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Chyavanprash Nutritive Jam
Chyavanprash Nutritive Jam has these Actions in Common
Nutritive, Tonic, Alterative, Cardiac-stimulant, Digestive, General-laxative
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Breathing Exercises
Breathing Exercises has these Actions in Common
Alterative, Cardiac-stimulant, Digestive, General-laxative, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up
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Breath of Fire / Shining Skull (Kapalbhati Pranayama)
Breath of Fire / Shining Skull (Kapalbhati Pranayama) has these Actions in Common
Digestive, General-laxative, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up, Alterative, Cardiac-stimulant
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Bellows Breath (Bhastrika Pranayama)
Bellows Breath (Bhastrika Pranayama) has these Actions in Common
Refreshing, Wakes-you-up, Alterative, Cardiac-stimulant, Digestive, General-laxative
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Punarnava
Punarnava has these Actions in Common
Alterative, Cardiac-stimulant, Cholagogue, Digestive, Diuretic, Tonic
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Regular exercise
Regular exercise has these Actions in Common
Cardiac-stimulant, Diaphoretic, Refreshing, Strengthens-resolve, Wakes-you-up
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Triphala
Triphala has these Actions in Common
General-laxative, Sialogogue, Alterative, Digestive, Diuretic
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Bhumyamalaki
Bhumyamalaki has these Actions in Common
Cholagogue, Digestive, Diuretic, General-laxative, Alterative
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External Breath (Bahya Pranayama)
External Breath (Bahya Pranayama) has these Actions in Common
Alterative, Digestive, General-laxative, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up
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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,
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