How to Make Pomegranate Coconut Punch

SERVINGS: 1

PREP TIME: 5 MINUTES

COOK TIME: 0 MINUTES

MEAL: DRINK

STYLE: TROPICAL

PREPARATION: RAW, JUICE

EAT IN: SUMMER

FOR OCCASION: BACKYARD-PICNIC-BBQ

How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?

CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW

This fruity combination offers a ripe pucker of juicy refreshment on a hot summer day. Coconut's nourishing sweetness and pomegranate's tart red 'pop' is a balm for summer heat and irritation. You'll feel gently cleansed of reactive summertime emotions, cooler on the inside, and clear-headed. Enjoy this splash of the tropics - feel it soothing and hydrating the angry heat of summer with each sip.

Feel vital and fresh

Sweating depletes electrolytes and sugars, leaving you exhaustion and weak after a long day working under the hot sun. This elixir of fruit sugars, electrolytes and fatty acids freshens you up and adds enjoyment to your day. Pomegranate's circulatory, stimulating qualities flush toxins out of sore overworked muscles. Upon drinking, you'll feel like a cool breeze at dusk while the sun tucks itself away. Pomegranate also encourages production of red blood cells, useful in anemia and other blood deficiencies so that you feel strong and vigorous for tomorrow. Let the rich red color of pomegranate remind you of the vital blood circulating through your veins - drink it in and never forget your innate vitality.

Nourish Kindness

Sweet, delicious coconut water restores calm and peace. Anxious, heated emotions easily flare onhot summer afternoons. This nutritive brain tonic is known to restore your affectionate side, which is why it is a popular aphrodisiac in the tropics. Coconut water's sweetness, combined with natural oils, nourish you from deep within - a sign of coconut's natural ojas building qualities. This satisfaction seems to relieve tension down to the cellular level, helping you move with ease throughout your day.

Soothing, Cooling Relief

By nature an ambitious organ, the liver often falls victim to intense, hot blooded emotions that boil up inside. Pomegranate's sour taste gently purges the liver of hot summer bile, so that you feel less irritable and more patient, despite the hot weather. Coconut water is a coolant, meaning it is a soothing anti-inflammatory for your whole body. Its creaminess soothes inflamed mucosal membranes in the entire digestive tract. It also cools the blood, which then passes through the liver like fresh mountain spring water, blessing all it touches like a crisp, babbling brook.

Glowing Skin Tonic

Skin disorders, like hot blooded emotions, start in the liver. When the liver is taxed and overheated in summer, the skin comes to rescue by helping the liver detoxify the blood. The result is ruddy, acne ridden complexion as these toxins come to the surface and irritate your skin. When this happens your skin will look inflamed and might feel hot and puffy to the touch. The liver cleansing & nourishing qualities of this drink restores strength to the liver and beauty to the skin. Meanwhile, coconut's creaminess restores your skin's suppleness. With the first taste, you'll feel relaxed in your entire skin and return to your naturally radiant state.

A Balm for Your Intestines

In early summer, stools are loose and hot, often making you feel a burning discomfort during elimination. In late summer, stools dry out and become hardened, though equally irritating. If you are suffering from dryness or heat conditions of the GI, or even simple dehydration, this recipe offers natural and delicious relief. In the same way it makes the mouth pucker, the astringency of pomegranate firms up loose early summer stools. Smooth and lubricating coconut water then comes in to balance the threat of over-drying during those hardened, late-summer stools. Altogether, Coconut Pomegranate Elixir is a perfect tonic for Vata dryness and Pitta irritation in the intestines.

If coconut and pomegranate's cold properties suppress your appetite too much, they will make your stomach feel heavy and sluggish. If that happens, add a punch of catalyzing ginger to this recipe to liven up your insides.

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Your Ayurvedic diet is tailored to your individual body and your specific imbalances. With an Ayurvedic diet you feel joy and satisfaction because what you are eating truly nourishes and balances you. Disease results from diets and lifestyles that are incompatible with your nature. By eating a personalized diet matched to your body, you experience optimal health. See How it Works.

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INCREASES Increases These Biocharacteristics (Gunas) 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. Learn More	COLD ABOUT COLD BIOCHARACTERISTIC Cold refers to anything that reduces body temperature, metabolism, and blood flow. LEARN MORE ABOUT COLD HEAVY ABOUT HEAVY BIOCHARACTERISTIC Heavy is identified by sedation, sluggishness, or increased weight. LEARN MORE ABOUT HEAVY EASY ABOUT EASY BIOCHARACTERISTIC Easy refers to anything easy to digest, or digests quickly. LEARN MORE ABOUT EASY OILY ABOUT OILY BIOCHARACTERISTIC In Ayurveda, oily refers to anything moistening. More specifically, oily refers to building substances that increases fat, or are themselves fatty. For example, sugar is Oily. LEARN MORE ABOUT OILY
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? Learn More	SWEET ABOUT SWEET BIOCHARACTERISTIC Sweet refers to anything builds tissue, including macronutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins and fats. LEARN MORE ABOUT SWEET
DOSHAS The Three Doshas / Body Types 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. They are easily stimulated, hyperactive, underweight and dry. Metabolic individuals tend to burn or use energy. They tend to be rosy-cheeked, easily irritated, focused, driven, and easily inflamed. Anabolic individuals tend to store energy as body mass. If they store too much energy, they could gain weight easily and have congestion. Anabolic people tend to be stable and grounded. Learn More	PACIFIES AGGRAVATES
HAS THE FOLLOWING	Moves Energy: Downward DOWNWARD Downward-moving (Adho Gati Marga) substances move food downward in the GI tract, settle the nervous system, and relax muscles. SEE ALL 'DOWNWARD' FOODS / HERBS , Inward INWARD Inward moving substances promote introspection, self reflection, stillness, or slow the system down. SEE ALL 'INWARD' FOODS / HERBS Tissue (dhatu): Red Blood RED-BLOOD Red blood (Rakta Dhatu) includes red blood cells and blood vessels. SEE ALL 'RED-BLOOD' FOODS / HERBS , Blood Plasma Lymph BLOOD-PLASMA-LYMPH Plasma (Rasa Dhatu) includes plasma, white blood cells, and lymph. SEE ALL 'BLOOD-PLASMA-LYMPH' FOODS / HERBS Subdosha: Pitta Sadhaka, Pitta Ranjaka, Pitta Pachaka, Pitta Bhrajaka, Pitta Alochaka
HERBAL ACTIONS (see all)	Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Pomegranate Coconut Punch 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. Digestion: Quenches Thirst QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst. SEE ALL 'QUENCHES-THIRST' FOODS / HERBS , Appetite Suppressant APPETITE-SUPPRESSANT Suppresses hunger without causing weight gain. SEE ALL 'APPETITE-SUPPRESSANT' FOODS / HERBS , Spleen Tonic SPLEEN-TONIC An herb that strengthens spleen function by improving strength of the blood. Spleen tonics Builds agni, brighten the person's appearances & firms up tissues. SEE ALL 'SPLEEN-TONIC' FOODS / HERBS , Antacid ANTACID Herbs that neutralize acidity in the gastrointestinal tract, the stomach in particular. SEE ALL 'ANTACID' FOODS / HERBS Cleanse & Detox: Internal Detoxicant INTERNAL-DETOXICANT Liquefies, dissolves, decongests or dislodges internal stagnant toxins. Decongests the lymphatic system. SEE ALL 'INTERNAL-DETOXICANT' FOODS / HERBS Mind, Stress & Sleep: Brain Tonic BRAIN-TONIC An herb that strengthens the brain and thereby enhances memory or other cognitive functions and improves mental stamina or stability. SEE ALL 'BRAIN-TONIC' FOODS / HERBS Energy Vitality: Nutritive NUTRITIVE An herb that is strengthening and nourishing. SEE ALL 'NUTRITIVE' FOODS / HERBS Skin Care & Beauty: Skin Tonic SKIN-TONIC An herb that strengthens and nourishes skin, improving tone, color, moisture and complexion. SEE ALL 'SKIN-TONIC' FOODS / HERBS Immune System: Anti Inflammatory ANTI-INFLAMMATORY Reduces inflammation in the body. Different herbs and carriers target different body systems. SEE ALL 'ANTI-INFLAMMATORY' FOODS / HERBS Heart & Circulation: Rebuilds Fluids REBUILDS-FLUIDS Herbs or substances that create moisture in the body and increase fluids. SEE ALL 'REBUILDS-FLUIDS' FOODS / HERBS , Rebuild Electrolytes REBUILD-ELECTROLYTES Substances that increase your electrolyte balance. Electrolytes help you retain water, keep your palate moist, and truly quench your thirst. SEE ALL 'REBUILD-ELECTROLYTES' FOODS / HERBS , Refrigerant REFRIGERANT An herb or substance that strongly cools the body. Can be helpful in cases of heat conditions. SEE ALL 'REFRIGERANT' FOODS / HERBS , Blood Tonic BLOOD-TONIC An herb that produces more blood cells in the body, or otherwise improves blood cell quality or hemoglobin content. Helpful for anemia and other types of deficiency. SEE ALL 'BLOOD-TONIC' FOODS / HERBS , Opthalmic OPTHALMIC Benefits the eyes, vision tonic. SEE ALL 'OPTHALMIC' FOODS / HERBS , Alterative ALTERATIVE Restores the proper function of the body by cleansing the blood and balancing blood chemistry. In Ayurveda terms, they pacify Pitta in rakta. They were traditionally used to revitalize and detoxify after a long winter. SEE ALL 'ALTERATIVE' FOODS / HERBS Liver & Gallbladder: Livotonic LIVOTONIC An herb that strengthens the liver. It is helpful for people with a history of substance abuse, chronic liver issues from hepatitis and hemolytic anemias. Generally, liver tonics are oily, cool, sweet, mildly sour, or contain beta-carotene. SEE ALL 'LIVOTONIC' FOODS / HERBS Constituents: Fats, Potassium

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