Raspberry Hot Chocolate - Mood Lifter |
| 1 c | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 2 leaves | |
| 1 tsp | |
| 3/4 c | |
| 1 pinch |
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.
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Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao), Stevia
Active Ingredients: Coconut Milk, Chocolate (Cacao)
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
Active Ingredients: Stevia, Raspberry
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.
STRONG NAUSEATING Brings about feelings of unease and discomfort in the stomach, often accompanied with the involuntary urge to vomit.
Active Ingredients: Stevia
STRONG WAKES-YOU-UP Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.
Active Ingredients: Stevia
STRONG RELAXES-EYES Eases tension in eye muscles, so the eyes feel less strained, often by supporting the liver.
Active Ingredients: Coconut Milk
STRONG 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: Coconut Milk
STRONG 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.
Active Ingredients: Stevia
STRONG MAKES-JITTERY Active Ingredients: Stevia
STRONG ANTIDEPRESSANT Herbs that lift feelings of depression, benefit the mind and improve mental function.
Active Ingredients: Stevia, Raspberry
STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Coconut Milk, Chocolate (Cacao), Stevia
STRONG SATISFIES-STOMACH Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.
Active Ingredients: Coconut Milk
Active Ingredients: Coconut Milk
STRONG 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: Stevia
STRONG 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.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao), Stevia, Raspberry
STRONG APHRODISIAC Herbs that increase sexual arousal through various actions including increased circulation, relaxation, stimulation, or tonics that strengthen glandular health.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
STRONG MUSCLE-RELAXANT Herbs that relax muscles. Helpful for chronic pain or tension as well as healing from physical trauma.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
STRONG 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.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao), Raspberry
STRONG TANNINS Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao), Raspberry
STRONG CATECHINS Antioxidant that reduces cancer and blood clots, dilates blood vessels, and is antimicrobial.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
STRONG NITRIC-OXIDE Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
STRONG POLYPHENOLS Polyphenols are powerful antioxidants seen in many fruits and vegetables. There are more than 8,000 types.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao), Raspberry
STRONG RESVERATROL Antioxidant frequently used for anti-aging. Protects airways and blood vessels. Anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
STRONG CAFFEINE-METHYLXANTHINES Methylxanthines are purine alkaloids that have a stimulant and bronchodilating effect.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
MILD QUERCITIN Active Ingredients: Raspberry
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a healthy diet and lifestyle through constitutional nutrition (Ayurveda & Greek Medicine). His approach is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful. John also directs the Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda, offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, medieval Catholic philosophy, & 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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