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How to Make Raspberry Hot Chocolate - Mood LifterSERVINGS: 1 PREP TIME: 2 MINUTES COOK TIME: 5 MINUTES SKILL LEVEL: EASY
INGREDIENTSSKILL LEVEL: EASY
| 1 c | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 2 leaves | |
| 1 tsp | |
| 3/4 c | |
| 1 pinch | |
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
Bring 1/2c water to a boil. Meanwhile, puree raspberry, coconut milk, salt & stevia in a blender.
Place ingredients in water and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
This gorgeous, silky indulgence is specially formulated for lifting the mood. Velvety chocolate and the bright touch of raspberry can be a gorgeous way to unwind and uplift on a wintery afternoon when the blues begin to creep in. Creamy coconut milk provides healthy fats to nourish dry, frayed nerves. Chocolate improves blood flow to chilled skin, increasing spirits and circulation in tandem. Vanilla, deep and exotic, soothes the nerves and alleviates stress.
Raspberry provides brain healing antioxidants, a boost in vitamin C for flu season,and a bright sour flavor that cuts through the heaviness of the chocolate, coconut milk, and encroaching dark afternoons alike.
Stevia adds sweetness with a boost of mood. A dash of mineral salt makes the richness of the chocolate taste even richer. Salt helps you feel grounded, nourished and hydrated, protecting you from the erratic, blustery winter winds.
AYURVEDA'S GUIDE TO VITALITY & WHOLESOME NOURISHMENT
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.
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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.
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| MOBILE ABOUT MOBILE BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Mobile refers to anything that stimulates the nervous system, muscles, or activity.
LEARN MORE ABOUT MOBILE DIFFICULT ABOUT DIFFICULT BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Difficult refers to anything that is difficult to digest, or takes a long time to digest.
LEARN MORE ABOUT DIFFICULT LIQUEFIED ABOUT LIQUEFIED BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Substances that thin fluids (lower viscosity of blood plasma). These may include blood thinners or mucolytic herbs.
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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.
Do you crave foods with any of the tastes below?
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| ASTRINGENT ABOUT ASTRINGENT BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Astringency is characterized by constriction, drawing together, or drying.
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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.
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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Raspberry Hot Chocolate - Mood Lifter ![Help]() 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.
Nauseating NAUSEATING
Brings about feelings of unease and discomfort in the stomach, often accompanied with the involuntary urge to vomit.
SEE ALL 'NAUSEATING' FOODS / HERBS , 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 , Makes Jittery, , Stimulates Front Of Brain STIMULATES-FRONT-OF-BRAIN
Creates a feeling of awareness or tension in the area in the forehead. Activates the frontal lobe - the area responsible for motor function, emotional expression, thinking, and decision making.
SEE ALL 'STIMULATES-FRONT-OF-BRAIN' 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 , Antioxidant ANTIOXIDANT
An antioxidant is a molecule that inhibits oxidation. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals that lead to a chain reaction causing damage or death to cells. Antioxidants terminate these oxidation reactions.
SEE ALL 'ANTIOXIDANT' FOODS / HERBS Aphrodisiac APHRODISIAC
Herbs that increase sexual arousal through various actions including increased circulation, relaxation, stimulation, or tonics that strengthen glandular health.
SEE ALL 'APHRODISIAC' FOODS / HERBS Constituents: Tannins, Flavonoids FLAVONOIDS
Flavonoids are a colorful type of polyphenol. As all polyphenols, they have a strong antioxidant effect. Many flavonoids have an anti-inflammatory, and/or antiallergen effect.
SEE ALL 'FLAVONOIDS' FOODS / HERBS , Nitric Oxide NITRIC-OXIDE
Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
SEE ALL 'NITRIC-OXIDE' FOODS / HERBS , , , Resveratrol RESVERATROL
Antioxidant frequently used for anti-aging. Protects airways and blood vessels. Anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic.
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Foods with a Similar Nature to Raspberry Hot Chocolate - Mood Lifter
Stevia
Stevia has these Actions in Common
Antidepressant, Makes-jittery, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Antioxidant, Nauseating, Wakes-you-up, Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy
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Coffee
Coffee has these Actions in Common
Antioxidant, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Makes-jittery, Wakes-you-up, Antidepressant, Stimulates-energy
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Green Tea
Green Tea has these Actions in Common
Stimulates-energy, Antioxidant, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Cardiac-stimulant, Wakes-you-up, Antidepressant
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Mustard Seed
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Muscle-relaxant, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Nauseating, Wakes-you-up, Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy
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Mustard
Mustard has these Actions in Common
Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy, Muscle-relaxant, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Nauseating, Wakes-you-up
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Mustard Powder
Mustard Powder has these Actions in Common
Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy, Muscle-relaxant, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Nauseating, Wakes-you-up
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Almonds
Almonds has these Actions in Common
Aphrodisiac, Satisfies-stomach, Muscle-relaxant, Stimulates-energy, Nerve-relaxant-grounding
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Acai
Acai has these Actions in Common
Antidepressant, Relaxes-eyes, Antioxidant, Wakes-you-up, Nerve-relaxant-grounding
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Beets
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Allspice
Allspice has these Actions in Common
Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Muscle-relaxant, Antidepressant, Stimulates-energy
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Peanuts
Peanuts has these Actions in Common
Nauseating, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Makes-jittery, Satisfies-stomach
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Herb Supplements with a Similar Nature to Raspberry Hot Chocolate - Mood Lifter
Bellows Breath (Bhastrika Pranayama)
Bellows Breath (Bhastrika Pranayama) has these Actions in Common
Wakes-you-up, Antidepressant, Cardiac-stimulant, Muscle-relaxant, Stimulates-energy, Stimulates-front-of-brain
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Breath of Fire / Shining Skull (Kapalbhati Pranayama)
Breath of Fire / Shining Skull (Kapalbhati Pranayama) has these Actions in Common
Stimulates-energy, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Wakes-you-up, Antidepressant, Cardiac-stimulant, Muscle-relaxant
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Punarnava
Punarnava has these Actions in Common
Stimulates-energy, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Antioxidant, Cardiac-stimulant, Nauseating, Nerve-relaxant-grounding
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Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi)
Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi) has these Actions in Common
Stimulates-energy, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Antidepressant, Cardiac-stimulant, Muscle-relaxant, Nerve-relaxant-grounding
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Vacha (Calamus, Sweet Flag)
Vacha (Calamus, Sweet Flag) has these Actions in Common
Wakes-you-up, Antidepressant, Cardiac-stimulant, Stimulates-energy, Stimulates-front-of-brain
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California Poppy
California Poppy has these Actions in Common
Antidepressant, Antioxidant, Muscle-relaxant, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Relaxes-eyes
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Deodar (Himalayan Cedar, Devadaru)
Deodar (Himalayan Cedar, Devadaru) has these Actions in Common
Antidepressant, Cardiac-stimulant, Muscle-relaxant, Stimulates-energy, Wakes-you-up
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Eleuthero Ginseng
Eleuthero Ginseng has these Actions in Common
Antidepressant, Muscle-relaxant, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Stimulates-energy, Wakes-you-up
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Amalaki
Amalaki has these Actions in Common
Antioxidant, Aphrodisiac, Relaxes-eyes, Stimulates-energy, Wakes-you-up
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Ashwagandha
Ashwagandha has these Actions in Common
Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Antidepressant, Antioxidant, Aphrodisiac, Muscle-relaxant
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Laughter / Humor
Laughter / Humor has these Actions in Common
Antidepressant, Cardiac-stimulant, Muscle-relaxant, Wakes-you-up
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About the Author
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
healthy diet and lifestyle with Ayurveda biocharacteristics.
His approach to Ayurveda is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful.
John also directs Joyful Belly's School of Ayurveda,
offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's interest in Ayurveda and specialization in digestive tract pathology was inspired by a complex digestive disorder acquired from years of international travel,
as well as 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.
Outside of work, John enjoys spending time with his wife and 7 kids, and pursuing his love of theology, philosophy, and language.
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