Lemon & Berries Italian Ice |
| 1 tbsp | |
| 2 whole | |
| 1 c | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 2 pinch |
1. Squeeze lemons and collect juice in a blender container. Add sugar and water. Place in the refrigerator overnight.
2. Place remaining ingredients in a thick glass bowl and put in the freezer overnight.
3. The next day, pureed all ingredients in a blender. Pour into the frozen glass bowl. Place in freezer. Stir every fifteen minutes until frozen.
5. Alternatively, set aside blueberries and strawberries without freezing.
6. Just before serving, slice strawberries.
7. Mix a teaspoon of lemon juice and a teaspoon of sugar into the strawberries. Garnish the italian ice with the fruits and serve.
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Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Lemon Zest
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Water, Lemon Zest
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Blueberry, Strawberries
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Water, Lemon Zest
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Strawberries, Blueberry
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Strawberries, Blueberry
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.
STRONG QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Water, Strawberries
STRONG APPETIZER Herbs that cleanse the palate & stimulate hunger or desire to eat.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Lemon Zest
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: Lemon, Strawberries
STRONG STOOL-SOFTENER Softens hard and difficult to eliminate stool. Stool softeners are the safest and most gentle type of laxative. Examples include warm milk with ghee.
Active Ingredients: Lemon
STRONG GENERAL-LAXATIVE Promotes a bowel movement. General laxative is an umbrella term that refers to several different types of laxatives.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Strawberries
STRONG WAKES-YOU-UP Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Raw Sugar, Strawberries, Lemon Zest
STRONG RELAXES-EYES Eases tension in eye muscles, so the eyes feel less strained, often by supporting the liver.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Strawberries
MILD MAKES-JITTERY Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar
MILD MAKES-YOU-TIRED Induces drowsiness and promotes sound sleep.
Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar
STRONG REFRESHING Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Blueberry, Strawberries, Lemon Zest
STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Lemon
STRONG REFRESHES-SKIN Flushes the lymphatic system to cool, awaken, and revive the skin.
Active Ingredients: Lemon
STRONG DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Lemon
STRONG CALMS-HEART An herb that literally calms the heart. These herbs are helpful in the treatment of anxiety, sadness, depression, or other emotional imbalances in the heart. Related to the Chinese Herbal Category 'calms spirit.'
Active Ingredients: Lemon
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: Lemon, Strawberries, Blueberry
STRONG REFRIGERANT An herb or substance that strongly cools the body. Can be helpful in cases of heat conditions.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Blueberry
MILD KIDNEY-TONIC An herb that strengthens the kidneys.
Active Ingredients: Blueberry, Strawberries
STRONG 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: Lemon
STRONG 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.
Active Ingredients: Lemon
STRONG AROMATASE-INHIBITOR Blocks estrogen synthesis by inhibiting conversion of progesterone and testosterone into estrogen.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Blueberry
STRONG POLYPHENOLS Polyphenols are powerful antioxidants seen in many fruits and vegetables. There are more than 8,000 types.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Blueberry
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: Lemon, Blueberry
MILD CARBOHYDRATE Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar
MILD TANNINS Active Ingredients: Strawberries
MILD VITAMIN-C Active Ingredients: Blueberry, Strawberries
MILD SOLUBLE-FIBER Active Ingredients: Blueberry, Strawberries
MILD COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Strawberries
MILD RESVERATROL Antioxidant frequently used for anti-aging. Protects airways and blood vessels. Anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic.
Active Ingredients: Blueberry, Strawberries
Lemon & Berries Italian Ice may temper these symptoms. The suitability of any recipe for a condition is highly dependent on the individual and constitution. Please see your doctor before using this recipe to treat a medical condition.
Lemon & Berries Italian Ice may be harmful or contraindicated for these symptoms. Note this is not a complete list of all possible contraindications. Please see your doctor before using this recipe to treat a medical condition.
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people personalized diet, lifestyle and herbs through Classical Metabolic Theory (Ayurveda & Greek Medicine). His approach is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful. John also directs the Joyful Belly College, offering professional clinical training for over 15 years.
John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, virtue psychology through classical & Christian philosophy, languages, cooking & 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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