Roasted Pears & Raisins |
| 1/4 c | |
| 4 whole | |
| 1/2 tsp | |
| 1/2 tsp | |
| 1/2 tsp | |
| 2 tbsp |
Preheat oven to 350. Powder the spices in a coffee grinder or pulverize with a mortar and pestle. Peel and halve the pears, slicing out the core. Place pears in a baking pan. Add 1/4c of water. Sprinkle with spices and raisins. Bake, covered, for one hour or until pears are tender. Uncover, sprinkle rolled oats and, optionally, pecans. Broil for five minutes for a grilled effect.
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Active Ingredients: Cloves, Cinnamon, Star Anise
Active Ingredients: Cloves
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Oats / Oatmeal
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Cinnamon, Oats / Oatmeal
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Pears, Cinnamon
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.
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Cinnamon, Star Anise
Active Ingredients: Cloves
Active Ingredients: Cloves
MILD QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst.
Active Ingredients: Pears
STRONG CARMINATIVE Stimulates the release of gas. Helpful for bloating or cramping abdominal pain. Propels food downward. Carminatives typically expel gas by relaxing the muscles of the intestines.
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Cinnamon, Oats / Oatmeal
MILD APPETIZER Herbs that cleanse the palate & stimulate hunger or desire to eat.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon
MILD RELIEVES-BURNING Herbs that soothe a burn or reduce an internal burning sensation, such as aloe vera.
Active Ingredients: Pears, Oats / Oatmeal
STRONG NUMBS-ANASTHETIC Inhibits sensation in a particular area.
Active Ingredients: Cloves
Active Ingredients: Cloves
MILD STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Raisins
MILD REFRESHING Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.
Active Ingredients: Pears
STRONG DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Cinnamon
MILD SOOTHING Calms and alleviates irritation, discomfort or pain in a particular region.
Active Ingredients: Pears
STRONG WARMS-CHEST Warms the chest and lungs, clearing mucus and allowing for clear breathing. Often these herbs are hot, aromatic, and pungent.
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Cinnamon
Active Ingredients: Pears, Cinnamon
MILD IRRITATES-THROAT Creates abrasive feeling in the back of the mouth. May stimulate coughing.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon
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: Cloves, Cinnamon, Star Anise
Active Ingredients: Cloves
Active Ingredients: Cloves
MILD CALMS-HEART An herb that literally calms the heart. These herbs are helpful in the treatment of anxiety, sadness, depression, or other emotional imbalances in the heart. Related to the Chinese Herbal Category 'calms spirit.'
Active Ingredients: Pears
STRONG 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.
Active Ingredients: Cloves, Star Anise
MILD GALACTAGOGUE Increases production of breast milk, often by raising prolactin and diaphoresis.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon
MILD EMMENAGOGUE Herbs which stimulate menstruation. Emmenagogues are used for scanty menstruation, to relieve menstrual pain, and improve blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon
STRONG ANTISPASMODIC Herbs that reduce or inhibit muscle spasms or cramping, such as in asthma, menstruation, heart palpitations, migraine, or IBS.
Active Ingredients: Cloves
MILD CATECHINS Antioxidant that reduces cancer and blood clots, dilates blood vessels, and is antimicrobial.
Active Ingredients: Pears
MILD COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon
MILD 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.
Active Ingredients: Pears, Oats / Oatmeal
MILD SOLUBLE-FIBER Active Ingredients: Raisins, Oats / Oatmeal
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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