Salad With Blood Oranges & Lemon Fennel Dressing |
| 2 tbsp | |
| 2 whole | |
| 1 whole | |
| 1 tsp | |
| 1 lbs | |
| 1/2 inch | |
| 1/2 lbs | |
| 1/2 lbs | |
| 1/4 tsp | |
| 1 tbsp |
Coarsely chop the salad greens and place in a large bowl. Peel the oranges and separate the wedges. Slice vertically in triangles. Add to salad.
Grind fennel seeds to a powder. In a small cup, mix the fennel and all remaining ingredients for the salad dressing and pour over the greens. Toss the greens to distribute the flavor.
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Active Ingredients: Endive, Lemon, Romaine Lettuce, Red Leaf Lettuce, Ginger (Fresh), Honey, Fennel Seeds
Active Ingredients: Endive, Red Leaf Lettuce, Romaine Lettuce, Lemon, Orange, Honey, Ginger (Fresh), Fennel Seeds, Water
Active Ingredients: Endive, Lemon, Orange, Ginger (Fresh), Fennel Seeds
Active Ingredients: Endive, Orange, Red Leaf Lettuce, Romaine Lettuce, Sunflower Oil, Fennel Seeds, Water
Active Ingredients: Endive, Ginger (Fresh), Honey, Orange
Active Ingredients: Endive, Fennel Seeds, Honey
Active Ingredients: Endive, Red Leaf Lettuce, Romaine Lettuce, Lemon
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: Ginger (Fresh), Fennel Seeds
MILD QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Orange, Water
MILD STIMULATES-PERISTALSIS An herb that promotes involuntary smooth muscle contractions to facilitate the movement of food and waste through the digestive tract.
Active Ingredients: Romaine Lettuce, Red Leaf Lettuce
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Ginger (Fresh), Fennel Seeds
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Ginger (Fresh), Orange, Red Leaf Lettuce
MILD RELAXES-EYES Eases tension in eye muscles, so the eyes feel less strained, often by supporting the liver.
Active Ingredients: Lemon
STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Ginger (Fresh), Orange, Red Leaf Lettuce, Fennel Seeds, Honey
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Ginger (Fresh), Orange
MILD REFRESHES-SKIN Flushes the lymphatic system to cool, awaken, and revive the skin.
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Orange
MILD DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Lemon
Active Ingredients: Endive, Ginger (Fresh)
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: Ginger (Fresh), Fennel Seeds
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: Lemon
STRONG 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.
Active Ingredients: Endive, Lemon, Red Leaf Lettuce, Romaine Lettuce
STRONG CHOLAGOGUE Cholagogues stimulate the production & release of bile from the liver & gallbladder. This refreshes and cleanses these organs, as well as increases bile in the small intestines.
Active Ingredients: Endive, Lemon, Red Leaf Lettuce, Romaine Lettuce, Orange
STRONG HYPOLIPIDEMIC Scrapes fats / cleanses blood vessels by 1) purging bile, 2) strengthening the liver's ability to metabolize fats, 3) by increasing uptake of cholesterol in the liver, and 4) by inhibiting fat cells.
Active Ingredients: Endive, Romaine Lettuce, Red Leaf Lettuce, Ginger (Fresh), Honey
STRONG NITRIC-OXIDE Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
Active Ingredients: Endive, Orange, Fennel Seeds
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Orange
Active Ingredients: Lemon, Orange, Honey
MILD 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: Lemon
MILD FOLATE Active Ingredients: Orange, Romaine Lettuce
MILD POLYPHENOLS Polyphenols are powerful antioxidants seen in many fruits and vegetables. There are more than 8,000 types.
Active Ingredients: Lemon
MILD COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Honey, Fennel Seeds
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.
Founder of Joyful Belly Ayurveda, John Immel, answers the question ‘What is Ayurveda?’
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