Lemongrass Milk Chai With Mint |
| 2 tsp | |
| 1 c | |
| 1 tbsp | |
| 1 tsp | |
| 1 pinch | |
| 1 pinch | |
| 1 pinch | |
| 1 pinch |
1. For best flavor, grind spices right before cooking. Bring milk and spices to a low boil in a medium saucepan (to avoid curdleing the milk). Reduce heat to a simmer. Simmer for 5 minutes.
2. Remove from heat and add several sprigs of fresh mint and honey to taste.
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Active Ingredients: Nutmeg, Lemongrass, Mint, Honey, Cardamom
Active Ingredients: Mint, Honey, Cardamom
Active Ingredients: Honey, Mint, Cloves, Cardamom
Active Ingredients: Honey, Cloves, Lemongrass, Nutmeg, Cinnamon
Active Ingredients: Milk, Honey, Cinnamon
Active Ingredients: Nutmeg, Honey, Cloves, Cinnamon
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: Lemongrass, Nutmeg, Mint, Cloves, Cardamom, Cinnamon
Active Ingredients: Cloves
MILD QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst.
Active Ingredients: Milk
MILD WARMS-ABDOMEN Warms the muscles and organs of the abdomen, stimulating digestion and metabolism.
Active Ingredients: Cloves
Active Ingredients: Mint, Cardamom, Cinnamon
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: Mint, Cloves, Nutmeg, Cardamom, Cinnamon
Active Ingredients: Milk, Honey
STRONG BURNS-TOXINS An herb that detoxifies by helping your body metabolize toxins, as opposed to eliminating them.
Active Ingredients: Lemongrass, Cloves, Nutmeg, Mint, Cinnamon, Cardamom
STRONG NERVE-RELAXANT-GROUNDING Encourages feelings of stability and heaviness. Makes you feel settled, mentally relaxed. Mildly sedates the nervous system to ease stress. Can bring a spacey or anxious person back to earth. Reduces agitation, irritation, stress and racing thoughts.
Active Ingredients: Milk, Nutmeg, Cloves
MILD NUMBS-ANASTHETIC Inhibits sensation in a particular area.
Active Ingredients: Cloves
MILD STIMULATES-FRONT-OF-BRAIN Creates a feeling of awareness or tension in the area in the forehead. Activates the frontal lobe - the area responsible for motor function, emotional expression, thinking, and decision making.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD STIMULATES-CROWN Creates a feeling of awareness or tension in the area at the top of the head.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD WAKES-YOU-UP Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD MAKES-YOU-TIRED Induces drowsiness and promotes sound sleep.
Active Ingredients: Nutmeg
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: Lemongrass, Cloves, Nutmeg, Mint, Cardamom
MILD DOPAMINERGIC Dopamine lifts mood, but also reduces prolactin, follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), and lutenizing hormone (LH).
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD NERVE-STIMULANT Provide short lived stimulation of the nervous system.
Active Ingredients: Nutmeg
STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Honey, Mint, Cinnamon, Cardamom
MILD SATISFIES-STOMACH Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.
Active Ingredients: Milk
MILD REFRESHING Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.
Active Ingredients: Mint
Active Ingredients: Honey, Milk
STRONG DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Mint, Cloves, Cinnamon, Cardamom
MILD REFRESHES-SKIN Flushes the lymphatic system to cool, awaken, and revive the skin.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD SOOTHING Calms and alleviates irritation, discomfort or pain in a particular region.
Active Ingredients: Milk
Active Ingredients: Milk, Cinnamon, Honey
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: Cloves, Cinnamon
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: Honey, Cloves, Cinnamon, Cardamom
MILD BRONCHODILATOR An herb that encourages the widening or opening of the lung airways. They are helpful in wheezing and asthma.
Active Ingredients: Cardamom
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: Cloves, Cinnamon
MILD WARMS-HEAD An herb that increases sensations of heat and warmth in the head.
Active Ingredients: Cloves
MILD WARMS-EARS Stimulates peripheral circulation to warm extremities, including the ears.
Active Ingredients: Cloves
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: Cloves, Lemongrass, Mint
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: Lemongrass, Cardamom, Cinnamon
MILD MUSCLE-RELAXANT Herbs that relax muscles. Helpful for chronic pain or tension as well as healing from physical trauma.
Active Ingredients: Nutmeg
STRONG COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Mint, Honey, Cinnamon
MILD VITAMIN-D Active Ingredients: Milk
MILD PHOSPHOROUS Active Ingredients: Milk
MILD ROSMARINIC-ACID Inhibits autoantibodies from binding to TSH receptors in the thyroid.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD FATS Active Ingredients: Milk
MILD CALCIUM Calcium nourishes bones and muscles. A muscle cell is activated when calcium enters the cell. It relaxes when the calcium is secreted.
Active Ingredients: Milk
MILD IRON Iron is necessary for the transport of oxygen in red blood cells.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD AROMATASE-INHIBITOR Blocks estrogen synthesis by inhibiting conversion of progesterone and testosterone into estrogen.
Active Ingredients: Honey
MILD MELATONIN Active Ingredients: Milk
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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