Grape Juice Chai With Cardamom, Ginger & Turmeric |
| 1 c | |
| 1/4 inch | |
| 2 pinch | |
| 2 pinch |
Mash fresh ginger with a mortar and pestle. Mix ginger, organic grape juice, and the other spices together in a glass. For best results brew twenty minutes at room temperature. Add 1/8tsp ashwagandha or 1/2 tsp amalaki for a more powerful tonifying and rejuvenating effect.
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Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Ginger (Fresh), Turmeric
Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Turmeric
Active Ingredients: Grape, Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Turmeric, Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh), Cardamom, Turmeric
Active Ingredients: Turmeric, Cardamom
Active Ingredients: Grape
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: Cardamom, Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Grape
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: Cardamom, Turmeric, Ginger (Fresh)
STRONG DIGESTIVE Herbs that encourage healthy digestion.
Active Ingredients: Turmeric, Cardamom, Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh), Cardamom
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: Grape, Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Ginger (Fresh)
MILD 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: Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Grape
Active Ingredients: Grape
STRONG BURNS-TOXINS An herb that detoxifies by helping your body metabolize toxins, as opposed to eliminating them.
Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Turmeric, Ginger (Fresh)
STRONG INTERNAL-DETOXICANT Liquefies, dissolves, decongests or dislodges internal stagnant toxins. Decongests the lymphatic system.
Active Ingredients: Turmeric, Ginger (Fresh), Cardamom
MILD WAKES-YOU-UP Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)
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: Grape, Ginger (Fresh), Cardamom
STRONG BRAIN-TONIC An herb that strengthens the brain and thereby enhances memory or other cognitive functions and improves mental stamina or stability.
Active Ingredients: Grape, Turmeric, Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Ginger (Fresh)
MILD REFRESHING Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Grape
MILD DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Cardamom
MILD SKIN-TONIC An herb that strengthens and nourishes skin, improving tone, color, moisture and complexion.
Active Ingredients: Turmeric
MILD ANTIPRURITIC Antipruritics are herbs that inhibit itching, often associated with skin conditions such as sunburns, allergic reactions, eczema, psoriasis, chickenpox, fungal infections, insect bites, or contact dermatitis (as in poison ivy rashes).
Active Ingredients: Turmeric
MILD VULNERARY An herb used for the treatment of wounds (antiulcer, connective tissue tonic).
Active Ingredients: Turmeric
MILD WARMS-CHEST Warms the chest and lungs, clearing mucus and allowing for clear breathing. Often these herbs are hot, aromatic, and pungent.
Active Ingredients: Turmeric
MILD FLUSHES-SINUSES An herb that relieves sinus congestion by flushing out mucus.
Active Ingredients: Turmeric
MILD IRRITATES-THROAT Creates abrasive feeling in the back of the mouth. May stimulate coughing.
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh), Cardamom
MILD 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: Cardamom
STRONG ANTI-INFLAMMATORY Reduces inflammation in the body. Different herbs and carriers target different body systems.
Active Ingredients: Grape, Turmeric, Ginger (Fresh)
MILD ANTIPOISONOUS An antidote for a poison. Many anti-poisonous herbs draw out a poison and are good for insect bites. Others help burn it up.
Active Ingredients: Turmeric
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: Ginger (Fresh)
STRONG 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: Grape, Turmeric
STRONG 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: Grape, Turmeric
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh), Turmeric
Active Ingredients: Grape
STRONG ANTIPLATELET An herb that inhibits clotting, dissolves clots, thins the blood, or destroys platelets, therefore reducing the tendency of blood to form clots. They are useful in cardiovascular disease, clots, and stroke. Aka anticoagulant.
Active Ingredients: Grape, Ginger (Fresh), Turmeric
STRONG 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: Grape, Turmeric
Active Ingredients: Turmeric, Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Grape
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: Grape, Cardamom
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: Turmeric
Active Ingredients: Grape
Active Ingredients: Turmeric, Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Grape
Active Ingredients: Grape
MILD GALACTAGOGUE Increases production of breast milk, often by raising prolactin and diaphoresis.
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)
MILD 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: Turmeric
MILD INDUCES-OVULATION Herbs that encourage ovulation.
Active Ingredients: Turmeric
Active Ingredients: Grape
Active Ingredients: Turmeric, Ginger (Fresh)
STRONG ANTISPASMODIC Herbs that reduce or inhibit muscle spasms or cramping, such as in asthma, menstruation, heart palpitations, migraine, or IBS.
Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Ginger (Fresh), Turmeric
STRONG 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: Grape, Turmeric
STRONG TANNINS Active Ingredients: Grape
Active Ingredients: Grape
Active Ingredients: Grape
MILD 5A-REDUCTASE-INHIBITOR Active Ingredients: Turmeric
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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