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Boil water. Add all the other ingredients and continue boiling on low heat until the oats are soft. I prefer steel cut oats to rolled oats - rolled oats taste like paper, making me suspicious that most of the vitamins have degraded.
How Can This Ayurvedic Recipe Make You Feel Great?
AYURVEDIC ANALYSIS
Cloves bring heat to the surface, open the pores, and warm the liver. Cloves ground my Vata. I remember one September afternoon just after Rose gave birth. Ysha Oakes made us beets with cloves. After a few minutes my Vata was pacified. I felt sleepy. It was my first good rest since the birth of the baby.
Cloves have enough umpff to keep Kapha warm in the winter. A good winter breakfast for all three doshas. Cardamom counteracts the sliminess of oatmeal.
WHAT IS OATMEAL WITH CLOVES, CARDAMOM & MAPLE SYRUP?
Satisfying, sticks to the ribs, and warming. A perfect holiday winter breakfast. Reported by Ysha Oakes, Ayurvedic Doula.
WHY EAT AN AYURVEDIC DIET?
Eating Ayurvedically makes you feel nourished and energized. An Ayurvedic diet is
tailored to your individual body type and the specific imbalances you are working with
at any given time. Ayurveda shows you your specific body type’s needs and what
should be favored in your Ayurvedic menu. Watch as you eat less but feel more satisfied because what you
are eating truly nourishes you. Since Ayurveda believes all disease begins in the digestive
tract, food is your first medicine. By eating a healthy diet that’s ideal for your body, you
experience optimal health.
Is Oatmeal with Cloves, Cardamom & Maple Syrup Good for My Ayurvedic Diet?
Find out by taking this free, easy quiz.
You'll learn your body type, and whether Oatmeal with Cloves, Cardamom & Maple Syrup is a good fit for your body type. Time to complete: approximately 1 minute.
Functional Ayurveda helps you assess imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics
(gunas).
Aggravating these characteristics weakens your body and causes imbalance.
By knowing which characteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct imbalances before you get sick.
Every characteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold).
You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite characteristic.
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?
According to the biocharacteristic theory of medicine,
people tend to get sick, over and over again, due to habitual causes and imbalances that are unique to the person.
Your body type summarizes this tendency, showing you the 'type' of conditions and imbalances that frequently challenge your health & wellness.
Using body type, you can also identify remedies likely to improve your strength and resiliency.
Your body type identifies physical and mental characteristics as well as your personal strengths and weaknesses.
The calculation of your body type is based on your medical history.
The 3 functional body types
(doshas),
are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Catabolic individuals tend to break down body mass into energy.
Metabolic individuals tend to burn or use energy.
Anabolic individuals tend to store energy as body mass.
Catabolic people tend to be easily stimulated, hyperactive, underweight and dry.
Metabolic people tend to be rosy-cheeked, easily irritated, focused, driven, and easily inflamed.
Anabolic people are heavy, stable and grounded, but if they store too much energy, they could gain weight easily and have congestion.
Sattvic foods promote awareness and a refreshed mind by nourishing the body without taxing digestion. Sattvic foods do not stimulate desire or nervous energy. They create clarity instead of drowsiness or heaviness.
Ojas is the essence of healthy tissue, immunity, stable energy and happiness. Substances that improve ojas are recommended after long-term illness, debility, emotional and physical trauma, and even sadness.
Prana is the Sanskrit word for vital life energy, similar to Qi in Chinese Medicine. Many herbs stimulate your energy, or improve the flow of prana through your body. Generally, prana needs to be increased in spring after a sleepy winter.
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.
Here are the herbal actions of Oatmeal with Cloves, Cardamom & Maple Syrup:
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.
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
healthy diet and lifestyle with Ayurveda.
His approach to Ayurveda exudes a certain ease, which many find enjoyable and insightful.
John also directs Joyful Belly's School of Ayurveda
, which specializes in digestive tract pathology & Ayurvedic nutrition.
John and his wife Natalie recently published Explore Your Hunger: A Guide to Hunger, Appetite & Food.
John's interest in Ayurveda and digestive tract pathology was inspired by a complex digestive disorder acquired from years of international travel, including his public service work in South Asia.
John's commitment to the detailed study of digestive disorders reflects his zeal to get down to the roots of the problem. His hope and belief in the capacity of each & every client to improve their quality of life is nothing short of a personal passion.
John's creativity in the kitchen and delight in cooking for others comes from his family oriented upbringing.
In addition to his certification in Ayurveda, John holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University.
John enjoys sharing Ayurveda within the context of his Catholic roots,
and finds Ayurveda gives him an opportunity to participate in the healing mission of the Church.
Jesus expressed God's love by feeding and healing the sick.
That kindness is the fundamental ministry of Ayurveda as well.
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In winter, except for Pitta's, I'll use honey, agave, jaggery, or another dark, warming sweetener. Even in the summer I cook porridge for Vata's but then with the maple syrup. Such a dance!
Although fruits in granolas and oatmeals have been promoted as healthy nutritionally, this food combination is difficult to digest. Fruits and yogurt should never be mixed with oats or any other grain. Instead, they should be eaten alone.
Flax seed, on the other hand, is a fine addition to oatmeal. It'll make it all the more slimy!
Yummy. Wonderful mix of spices and sweetener. I didn't have enough maple syrup, so added some honey when the oatmeal cooled a bit (to avoid cooking the honey).
- Nancy Schreider, Los altos hills, CA, 02-08-15 (Reply)
Yummy. Wonderful mix of spices and sweetener. I didn't have enough maple syrup, so added some honey when the oatmeal cooled a bit (to avoid cooking the honey).
- Nancy Schreider, Los altos hills, CA, 02-08-15 (Reply)
Yes! You can add another teaspoon to help soothe Vata.
- Kimberly Kubicke, Asbury park, NJ, 11-21-16 (Reply)
Hello John. What about dates or raisins? They are ok with oatmeal? I appreciate all your insides and work about enlightening people how to eat and live in this so called "modern" civilization. Thank you very much!
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