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AYURVEDIC RECIPES

Multigrain Pancakes


How to Make Multigrain Pancakes

  • SERVINGS: 2
  • PREP TIME: 10 MINUTES
  • COOK TIME: 15 MINUTES
  • MEAL: BREAKFAST
  • STYLE: WESTERN

INGREDIENTS

1 tbsp
1 c
1 tsp
1 tsp
1/2 c
1/4 c
1/4 c
1/4 tsp
2 pinch
2 pinch
2 pinch

PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE

Mix the water, sucanat, and sunflower oil. Mix together the remaining ingredients in a separate container. Combine. Let sit for 5 minutes. Stir and make pancakes as normal.

How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?

CONSTITUTIONAL & METABOLIC INSIGHTS

Bran is high in fiber and thus supports the colon and regular bowel movements. But wheat is heavy and the griddle can be buttery provoking Kapha dosha.

WHAT IS MULTIGRAIN PANCAKES?

These brancakes are soft and moist with crunchy edges, and fill the whole house with a nutty aroma.

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Understanding your child's constitution is key to raising resilience, instead of wiring in disease. Study Classical Metabolic Theory to discover the keys to personalized nourishment.

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Metabolic Effects of Multigrain Pancakes

Classical Metabolic Theory uses biocharacteristics to classify the metabolic nature of food, herbs, lifestyle choices, your body, and disease.

METABOLIC NATURE / BIOCHARACTERISTICS

Metabolic Nature / Biocharacteristics

Ayurveda assesses metabolic imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics (vital qualtiies). Aggravating them weakens your body and causes imbalance. By knowing which biocharacteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct metabolic imbalances before you get sick. Every biocharacteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold). You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite biocharacteristic.

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EASY

ABOUT EASY BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Easy refers to anything easy to digest, or digests quickly.

Active Ingredients: Millet, Sorghum Flour, Cinnamon

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CLEAR

ABOUT CLEAR BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Clear refers to anything that cleanses or flushes out wastes, or that digests ama.

Active Ingredients: Water, Cardamom, Salt (Mineral Salt)

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LIGHT

ABOUT LIGHT BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Lightness is identified by reduced weight.

Active Ingredients: Millet, Sorghum Flour, Cardamom, Cinnamon

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GOOEY

ABOUT GOOEY BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Gooey is identified by anything gelatinous (such as oatmeal), or by mucus congestion.

Active Ingredients: Oat Flour, Sorghum Flour, Cinnamon, Sucanat

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TASTES

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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SWEET

ABOUT SWEET BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Sweet refers to anything builds tissue, including macronutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins and fats.

Active Ingredients: Millet, Oat Flour, Sucanat, Cinnamon, Sorghum Flour

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ASTRINGENT

ABOUT ASTRINGENT BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Astringency is characterized by constriction, drawing together, or drying.

Active Ingredients: Millet, Sorghum Flour, Cinnamon

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AYURVEDA BODY TYPES (DOSHAS)

The Three Doshas / Body Types

Ayurveda is a metabolic theory of medicine that explains individual health, tendencies, and disease patterns through the concept of doshas, which can be understood as your metabolic patterns and tendencies.

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.

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PACIFIES
Vata pacifying
AGGRAVATES
Kapha aggravating Pitta aggravating

GREEK MEDICINE / TEMPERAMENTS

The Four Temperaments / Humors

Ayurveda & Greek Medicine were the dominant form of medicine along the Silk Road from England to China and South Asia. They work by assessing your metabolic type, patterns, and nature. Greek medicine recognizes 4 metabolic temperaments, Melancholic, Choleric, Sanguine, and Phlegmatic.

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PACIFIES
MELANCHOLIC

ABOUT MELANCHOLIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Cold and dry with a slow, variable or erratic metabolism. Colicky, tense. Withdrawn, pensive, anxious, and hesitant. Analytical, intelligent, detail oriented and creative. Prone to ojas depletion, dehydration, an overactive nervous system, and depression.

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AGGRAVATES
CHOLERIC

ABOUT CHOLERIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Has a hot and dry metabolic nature. Enthusiastic, vibrant and bright. In excess burns up fluids and ojas, irritable. Corresponds to high bilirubin in the blood that irritates and heats up the body and liver.

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PHLEGMATIC

ABOUT PHLEGMATIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

A Phlegmatic has a cold and wet metabolic nature. The coldness implies a slow metabolism, the moisture that you are well-nourished. Phlegmatics tend towards sluggishness and thickened fluids, including mucus.

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SANGUINE

ABOUT SANGUINE BIOCHARACTERISTIC

A hot and oily nature with a moderate metabolism and a well nourished body makes Sanguine individuals vigorous, vivacious, outgoing and generous, and prone to impulsivity and self indulgence. Bullish and intense when out of balance.

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Other Health Virtues

Aromatic

STRONG AROMATIC

Herbs or spices with volatile essential oils that present strong aromas. Aromatic oils shock, refresh and numb tissue, with the end result of relaxing, opening and clearing stagnant fluids in tissues.

Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Cinnamon

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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Multigrain Pancakes
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.

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Nerve Relaxant Grounding

MILD 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: Millet, Sorghum Flour

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Sedative

MILD SEDATIVE

Sedative herbs create a sense of calm in the mind and body by specifically calming or quieting the nervous system. Excellent for anxiety, stress and chronic pain.

Active Ingredients: Sorghum Flour, Oat Flour

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Satisfies Stomach

SATISFIES-STOMACH

Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.

Active Ingredients: Millet, Oat Flour, Sorghum Flour

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Stimulates Energy

MILD STIMULATES-ENERGY

This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.

Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Cinnamon

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Nutritive

STRONG NUTRITIVE

An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.

Active Ingredients: Millet, Sunflower Oil, Sorghum Flour, Sucanat, Oat Flour

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Diaphoretic

MILD DIAPHORETIC

An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.

Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Cardamom

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Dries Mouth

MILD DRIES-MOUTH

Makes the mouth feel dry, or pasty.

Active Ingredients: Millet, Sorghum Flour

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Diuretic

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: Cardamom, Sorghum Flour, Cinnamon

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Constituents:
Carbohydrate

CARBOHYDRATE

Active Ingredients: Millet, Sorghum Flour, Oat Flour

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Phytates

MILD 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: Millet

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Inositol

MILD INOSITOL

Inositol is an alcohol sugar made naturally in the human body from glucose. It is lipotropic (aiding fat metabilism in the liver). It affects a variety of hormones, neurotransmitters, steroid, growth factors and water.

Active Ingredients: Millet

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Coumarin

MILD COUMARIN

Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.

Active Ingredients: Cinnamon

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Foods with a Similar Metabolic Nature to Multigrain Pancakes

  • Sorghum Flour

    Sorghum Flour has these Actions in Common

    Diuretic, Nutritive, Dries-mouth, Satisfies-stomach, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Sedative

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  • Tempeh

    Tempeh has these Actions in Common

    Diuretic, Nutritive, Dries-mouth, Satisfies-stomach, Nerve-relaxant-grounding

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  • Hemp Seed

    Hemp Seed has these Actions in Common

    Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Sedative, Nutritive, Diuretic, Satisfies-stomach

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  • Tofu

    Tofu has these Actions in Common

    Nutritive, Dries-mouth, Satisfies-stomach, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Diuretic

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  • Saffron

    Saffron has these Actions in Common

    Diuretic, Stimulates-energy, Nutritive, Diaphoretic, Sedative

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  • Beer

    Beer has these Actions in Common

    Diuretic, Sedative, Nutritive, Satisfies-stomach

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  • Butternut Squash

    Butternut Squash has these Actions in Common

    Diuretic, Satisfies-stomach, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Nutritive

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  • Potato

    Potato has these Actions in Common

    Satisfies-stomach, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Sedative, Nutritive

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  • Peanuts

    Peanuts has these Actions in Common

    Nutritive, Dries-mouth, Satisfies-stomach, Nerve-relaxant-grounding

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  • Peanut Butter

    Peanut Butter has these Actions in Common

    Nutritive, Dries-mouth, Satisfies-stomach, Nerve-relaxant-grounding

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  • Millet

    Millet has these Actions in Common

    Nutritive, Dries-mouth, Satisfies-stomach, Nerve-relaxant-grounding

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Herbs & Supplements with a Similar Metabolic Nature to Multigrain Pancakes

  • Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi)

    Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi) has these Actions in Common

    Dries-mouth, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Sedative, Stimulates-energy, Diaphoretic, Diuretic

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  • Blue Vervain

    Blue Vervain has these Actions in Common

    Diaphoretic, Diuretic, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Sedative

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  • Elecampane

    Elecampane has these Actions in Common

    Sedative, Stimulates-energy, Diaphoretic, Diuretic

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  • Gokshura

    Gokshura has these Actions in Common

    Diuretic, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Nutritive, Sedative

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  • Ashwagandha

    Ashwagandha has these Actions in Common

    Diuretic, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Nutritive, Sedative

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  • Kapha Shirodhara Oil

    Kapha Shirodhara Oil has these Actions in Common

    Diaphoretic, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Sedative

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  • Shirodhara Treatment

    Shirodhara Treatment has these Actions in Common

    Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Nutritive, Sedative

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  • Self Massage

    Self Massage has these Actions in Common

    Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Nutritive, Sedative

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  • Hops

    Hops has these Actions in Common

    Diaphoretic, Diuretic, Sedative

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  • Dashamoola Powder

    Dashamoola Powder has these Actions in Common

    Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Nutritive, Sedative

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  • Blue Cohosh

    Blue Cohosh has these Actions in Common

    Diaphoretic, Diuretic, Nerve-relaxant-grounding

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About the Author

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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“what is sucanat? "
“Sucanat is a variety or raw, unrefined evaporated cane sugar. Just click on the ingredient to get more detail."
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