Potatoes & Cucumber With Cilantro & String Bean |
| 16 g | |
| 2 tbsp | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 2 whole | |
| 2 clove | |
| 2 c | |
| 1 c | |
| 1/3 tsp | |
| 1/4 tsp |
Boil potatoes in 1/4 tsp salt. Meanwhile saut onions in oil. When clear, add garlic, string beans and cucumber. Continue cooking on medium heat. Stir carefully from the bottom up to avoid crushing the cucumbers as they get soft. Remove from heat. When potatoes are soft, gently stir them in with cucumber and string bean adding remaining 1/8 tsp salt, black pepper and cilantro.
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Active Ingredients: Cucumber, Cilantro, Garlic
Active Ingredients: Garlic, Yellow Onion, Green Beans, Cilantro, Black Pepper
Active Ingredients: Cucumber, Cilantro, Potato, Sunflower Oil, Green Beans
Active Ingredients: Cucumber, Black Pepper, Salt (Mineral Salt)
Active Ingredients: Green Beans, Potato, Cilantro
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.
MILD QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst.
Active Ingredients: Cucumber
STRONG MAKES-YOU-TIRED Induces drowsiness and promotes sound sleep.
Active Ingredients: Potato, Garlic, Yellow Onion
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: Potato
MILD SATISFIES-STOMACH Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.
Active Ingredients: Potato
MILD STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Cilantro
MILD REFRESHING Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.
Active Ingredients: Cilantro
STRONG NUTRITIVE An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.
Active Ingredients: Cucumber, Potato, Sunflower Oil, Green Beans
Active Ingredients: Garlic, Black Pepper
Active Ingredients: Garlic, Black Pepper
MILD SOOTHES-THROAT Soothes throat discomfort, including from a sore or ticklish throat.
Active Ingredients: Cucumber
MILD FLUSHES-SINUSES An herb that relieves sinus congestion by flushing out mucus.
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Salt (Mineral Salt)
Active Ingredients: Cucumber, Cilantro
MILD CARDIAC-STIMULANT Herbs that increase the heart rate. Useful in cardiovascular health, blood stagnation, and subjective feeling of heaviness in the chest area.
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper
Active Ingredients: Black Pepper, Garlic
Active Ingredients: Cilantro, Garlic
Active Ingredients: Cucumber, Garlic
STRONG 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: Cucumber, Garlic, Cilantro
Active Ingredients: Garlic, Cilantro, Salt (Mineral Salt)
MILD BOILED Active Ingredients: Green Beans
STRONG NITRIC-OXIDE Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
Active Ingredients: Cucumber, Cilantro, Garlic
Active Ingredients: Garlic, Green Beans, Yellow Onion
MILD POLYSACCHARIDES Active Ingredients: Garlic, Yellow Onion
MILD SALICYLATES Salicylates relieve inflammation, are anti-cancer, and antidiabetic, but some are allergic to it.
Active Ingredients: Cucumber
MILD SULFATED-POLYSACCHARIDES Active Ingredients: Garlic, Yellow Onion
MILD SULPHUR Active Ingredients: Garlic, Yellow Onion
MILD CARBOHYDRATE Active Ingredients: Potato
MILD VITAMIN-K Active Ingredients: Cucumber
MILD SOLUBLE-FIBER Active Ingredients: Potato
MILD VITAMIN-C Active Ingredients: Potato
MILD AROMATASE-INHIBITOR Blocks estrogen synthesis by inhibiting conversion of progesterone and testosterone into estrogen.
Active Ingredients: Cilantro
MILD COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Cilantro
MILD POTASSIUM Active Ingredients: Potato
MILD SODIUM Active Ingredients: Salt (Mineral Salt)
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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