Sweet Cream Of Wheat With Spices |
| 1 c | |
| 2 tbsp | |
| 2 tbsp | |
| 2 c | |
| 1/4 tsp | |
| 1/4 tsp | |
| 1/4 tsp |
1. Dry roast cream of wheat until browned. Add sugar. As soon as sugar begins to carmelize add ghee.
2. Once ghee has soaked into the grains pour in boiling water slowly. Add cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg.
3. Optionally stir in cream and egg for additional richness. Serve with toast.
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Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat, Nutmeg, Ghee
Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat, Sucanat, Cinnamon
Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat
Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat, Sucanat, Ghee, 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: Nutmeg, Cardamom, Cinnamon
MILD RELIEVES-BURNING Herbs that soothe a burn or reduce an internal burning sensation, such as aloe vera.
Active Ingredients: Ghee, Water
STRONG MAKES-YOU-TIRED Induces drowsiness and promotes sound sleep.
Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat, Nutmeg
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: Nutmeg
STRONG SEDATIVE Sedative herbs create a sense of calm in the mind and body by specifically calming or quieting the nervous system. Excellent for anxiety, stress and chronic pain.
Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat, Nutmeg
STRONG SATISFIES-STOMACH Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.
Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat
Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat
MILD STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Cinnamon
STRONG NUTRITIVE An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.
Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat, Sucanat, Ghee
STRONG TONIC A tonic herb restores function through strengthening tissue. This can happen through a combination of nourishing the tissue, and invigorating tissue metabolism. The tonic should not be withering, as in caffeine.
Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat, Ghee
MILD DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Cinnamon
STRONG DEMULCENT Herbs that coat or form a soothing film over a mucous membrane, relieving minor pain and inflammation of the membrane.
Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat, Cinnamon
Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat
MILD 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: Cardamom, Cinnamon
MILD MUSCLE-RELAXANT Herbs that relax muscles. Helpful for chronic pain or tension as well as healing from physical trauma.
Active Ingredients: Nutmeg
STRONG ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat
Active Ingredients: Cream of Wheat
MILD COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon
MILD FATS Active Ingredients: Ghee
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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