OATMEAL WITH CLOVES, CARDAMOM & MAPLE SYRUP |
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How to Make Oatmeal with Cloves, Cardamom & Maple SyrupSERVINGS: 1 PREP TIME: 5 MINUTES COOK TIME: 15 MINUTES
INGREDIENTS
1 pinch | |
2 pinch | |
1 tsp | |
2 tsp | |
1/4 c | |
1 c | |
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
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 Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
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.
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Disease results from diets and lifestyles that are incompatible with your nature.
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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).
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| CLEAR ABOUT CLEAR BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Clear refers to anything that cleanses or flushes out wastes, or that digests ama.
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Easy refers to anything easy to digest, or digests quickly.
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Gooey is identified by anything gelatinous (such as oatmeal), or by mucus congestion.
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Hot is identified by increased body temperature, metabolism, or inflammation.
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Heavy is identified by sedation, sluggishness, or increased weight.
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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.
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Sweet refers to anything builds tissue, including macronutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
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The Three Doshas / Body Types
According to the biocharacteristic theory of medicine,
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Aromatic 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.
SEE ALL 'AROMATIC' FOODS / HERBS , , BlandSTRONG BLAND
Bland means doesn't have much taste. In Chinese medicine, bland taste refers to afood without little macronutrients, such as cabbage, radish or bok choy.
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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Oatmeal with Cloves, Cardamom & Maple Syrup 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.
, Nerve Relaxant Grounding 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.
SEE ALL 'NERVE-RELAXANT-GROUNDING' FOODS / HERBS , , Nervine NERVINE
Balances the nervous system. They can help with stress, memory, early alzheimer's, and even chronic pain. Often they are aromatic in nature.
SEE ALL 'NERVINE' FOODS / HERBS Warms Chest WARMS-CHEST
Warms the chest and lungs, clearing mucus and allowing for clear breathing. Often these herbs are hot, aromatic, and pungent.
SEE ALL 'WARMS-CHEST' FOODS / HERBS , Expectorant 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.
SEE ALL 'EXPECTORANT' FOODS / HERBS , , Cardiac Stimulant CARDIAC-STIMULANT
Herbs that increase the heart rate. Useful in cardiovascular health, blood stagnation, and subjective feeling of heaviness in the chest area.
SEE ALL 'CARDIAC-STIMULANT' FOODS / HERBS , Vasodilator 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.
SEE ALL 'VASODILATOR' FOODS / HERBS Antispasmodic ANTISPASMODIC
Herbs that reduce or inhibit muscle spasms or cramping, such as in asthma, menstruation, hear palpitations, migraine, or IBS.
SEE ALL 'ANTISPASMODIC' FOODS / HERBS Constituents: Saponin, Soluble Fiber, , Polysaccharides, Phytates 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.
SEE ALL 'PHYTATES' FOODS / HERBS , Inositol 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.
SEE ALL 'INOSITOL' FOODS / HERBS , Insoluble Fiber, Melatonin, Carbohydrate
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Cloves
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Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Vasodilator, Warms-ears, Antispasmodic, Digestive, Nervine, Warms-abdomen, Warms-head, Cardiac-stimulant, Expectorant, Numbs-anasthetic, Warms-chest, Diaphoretic
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Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi)
Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi) has these Actions in Common
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Antispasmodic, Cardiac-stimulant, Diaphoretic, Expectorant, Vasodilator, Warms-chest, Warms-head
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Belly breathing has these Actions in Common
Cardiac-stimulant, Digestive, Expectorant, General-laxative, Nervine, Antispasmodic, Builds-stamina
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Breathing Exercises has these Actions in Common
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Angelica has these Actions in Common
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Breath of Fire / Shining Skull (Kapalbhati Pranayama)
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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!
- Ysha Oakes, Albuquerque, NM , 11-26-09 ( Reply)
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).
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).
Yes! You can add another teaspoon to help soothe Vata.
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!
You can add dates and or raisins to your oatmeal. Vata types will want to soak dried fruit overnight before using.
- Kimberly Kubicke, Asbury park, NJ , 03-13-17 ( Reply)
We all think fondly of dear Ysha as well.
- Kimberly Kubicke, Asbury park, NJ , 11-08-17 ( Reply)
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