Mint, Lima Bean & Corn Succotash |
| 1 tbsp | |
| 2 tbsp | |
| 1 c | |
| 1 c | |
| 1/4 tsp |
Boil corn, lima beans, salt and butter in 1c water on medium heat until soft. Mix in chopped fresh mint, remove from heat, and let sit, covered, for ten minutes.
Constitutional nutrition is tailored to the individual. In the kitchen, especially during your family’s formative years, you shape your family's lifelong health.
Understanding your child's constitution is key to raising resilience, instead of wiring in disease. Study constitutional medicine to discover the keys to personalized nourishment.
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Active Ingredients: Lima Beans, Butter (unsalted)
Active Ingredients: Lima Beans, Corn, Mint
Active Ingredients: Lima Beans, Corn
Active Ingredients: Lima Beans
Active Ingredients: Corn, Butter (unsalted)
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: Mint
Active Ingredients: Lima Beans
Active Ingredients: Lima Beans
MILD WAKES-YOU-UP Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.
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 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 DOPAMINERGIC Dopamine lifts mood, but also reduces prolactin, follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), and lutenizing hormone (LH).
Active Ingredients: Mint
STRONG SATISFIES-STOMACH Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.
Active Ingredients: Lima Beans, Butter (unsalted), Corn
MILD REFRESHING Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Mint
STRONG NUTRITIVE An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.
Active Ingredients: Lima Beans, Butter (unsalted), Corn
MILD REFRESHES-SKIN Flushes the lymphatic system to cool, awaken, and revive the skin.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD 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: Corn
STRONG PHYTATES Phytates prevent absorption of nutrients. They are commonly found in all seeds, including nuts, grains, and beans. Sprouting greatly reduces phytate content, as well as long, slow cooking with vinegar.
Active Ingredients: Lima Beans, Corn
Active Ingredients: Lima Beans
Active Ingredients: Lima Beans
MILD COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD SODIUM Active Ingredients: Salt (Mineral Salt)
MILD ROSMARINIC-ACID Inhibits autoantibodies from binding to TSH receptors in the thyroid.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD PHOSPHOROUS Active Ingredients: Corn
MILD AROMATASE-INHIBITOR Blocks estrogen synthesis by inhibiting conversion of progesterone and testosterone into estrogen.
Active Ingredients: Corn
MILD CARBOHYDRATE Active Ingredients: Corn
MILD IRON Iron is necessary for the transport of oxygen in red blood cells.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD MELATONIN Active Ingredients: Corn
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
Founder of Joyful Belly Ayurveda, John Immel, answers the question ‘What is Ayurveda?’
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