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Sweet Turnips With Ghee


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How to Make Sweet Turnips with Ghee

INGREDIENTS

4 c
1 tbsp
1/4 tsp

PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE

1. Peel and chop turnips.

2. Place all ingredients into a pot, cover with water, and bring to a boil. Lower heat to a simmer, cover, and cook for one hour.

3. Mash turnips with a potato masher. Continue cooking, covered, for another hour.

How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?

CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW

Fluffy, smooth Sweet Turnips with Ghee are a perfect winter variation on America's favorite, mashed potatoes. Topped with melted ghee, simple is better in this recipe- the only spice is salt for a classic taste. Serve as you would mashed potatoes, alongside vegetables and protein. Your whole family will smile with each bite.

Post-Holiday Cleanse

Turnips are the quintessential winter vegetable, perfect to cleanse the system after the holidays. Bitter taste is naturally cleansing, guiding toxicity and heaviness down and out of your body. Instead of feeling heavy and sluggish after dinner, this recipe will have you finishing your plate feeling clean and light.

Winter Immune Boost

Worried about catching a winter bug? Chances are you taxed your body through the holidays with abundant heavy sweets and rich dishes. Although it's important to fully participate in family celebrations, they may leave your immune system under par in the challenging cold season. Mashed Sweet Turnips and Ghee are a healthy and healing choice for this very concern- they are light to digest so that your body gets to work less, not more. The less energy your body spends on digestion, the more it has available for cleansing and fighting off bugs. And, they are high in vitamin C, the vitamin of immunity. High levels of calcium, magnesium, and potassium are a bonus!

Cooked Turnips, Please

Have you ever noticed that turnips are rarely eaten raw? This root vegetable from the brassica family contains chemicals that can block thyroid function called goitrogens. These chemicals, however are easily inactivated by steaming or cooking, rendering turnips a healthful choice. This is long understood knowledge, as turnips have been cultivated as a staple food by ancient Greeks and Romans.

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. See How it Works.

Is Sweet Turnips with Ghee Good for My Ayurvedic Diet?

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Metabolic Nature of Sweet Turnips with Ghee

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METABOLIC NATURE

Metabolic Nature

Ayurveda assesses metabolic imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics (gunas). Aggravating them weakens your body and causes imbalance. By knowing which biocharacteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct metabolic imbalances before you get sick. Every biocharacteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold). You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite biocharacteristic.

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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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HOT

ABOUT HOT BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Hot is identified by increased body temperature, metabolism, or inflammation.

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TASTES

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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BITTER

ABOUT BITTER BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Bitter taste has cholagogue action - it is cold, clear, light, and stimulating. It increases digestive enzymes and is laxative, and drying.

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ASTRINGENT

ABOUT ASTRINGENT BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Astringency is characterized by constriction, drawing together, or drying.

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DOSHAS

The Three Doshas / Body Types

Ayurveda is a metabolic theory of medicine that explains individual health, tendencies, and disease patterns through the concept of doshas, which can be understood as your metabolic patterns and tendencies.

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.

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PACIFIES
Kapha pacifying
AGGRAVATES
Pitta aggravating Vata aggravating

GREEK MEDICINE / TEMPERAMENTS

The Four Temperaments / Humors

Ayurveda & Greek Medicine were the dominant form of medicine along the Silk Road from England to China and South Asia. They work by assessing your metabolic type, patterns, and nature. Greek medicine recognizes 4 metabolic temperaments, Melancholic, Choleric, Sanguine, and Phlegmatic.

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PACIFIES
PHLEGMATIC

ABOUT PHLEGMATIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

A Phlegmatic has a cold and wet metabolic nature. The coldness implies a slow metabolism, the moisture that you are well-nourished. Phlegmatics tend towards sluggishness and thickened fluids, including mucus.

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SANGUINE

ABOUT SANGUINE BIOCHARACTERISTIC

A hot and oily nature with a moderate metabolism and a well nourished body makes Sanguine individuals vigorous, vivacious, outgoing and generous, and prone to impulsivity and self indulgence. Bullish and intense when out of balance.

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AGGRAVATES
CHOLERIC

ABOUT CHOLERIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Has a hot and dry metabolic nature. Enthusiastic, vibrant and bright. In excess burns up fluids and ojas, irritable. Corresponds to high bilirubin in the blood that irritates and heats up the body and liver.

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MELANCHOLIC

ABOUT MELANCHOLIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Cold and dry with a slow, variable or erratic metabolism. Colicky, tense. Withdrawn, pensive, anxious, and hesitant. Analytical, intelligent, detail oriented and creative. Prone to ojas depletion, dehydration, an overactive nervous system, and depression.

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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Sweet Turnips with Ghee
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.

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General Laxative

GENERAL-LAXATIVE

Promotes a bowel movement. General laxative is an umbrella term that refers to several different types of laxatives.

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Cholagogue

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.

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Lowers Thyroid

LOWERS-THYROID

Reduces thyroid function. Useful for people with hyperthyroid.

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Constituents:
Nitric Oxide

NITRIC-OXIDE

Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.

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, Carbohydrate,
Aromatase Inhibitor

AROMATASE-INHIBITOR

Blocks estrogen synthesis by inhibiting conversion of progesterone and testosterone into estrogen.

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Foods with a Similar Nature to Sweet Turnips with Ghee

  • Turnip Greens

    Turnip Greens has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, General-laxative, Lowers-thyroid

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  • Radish (raw)

    Radish (raw) has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, General-laxative, Lowers-thyroid

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  • Mustard Greens

    Mustard Greens has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, General-laxative, Lowers-thyroid

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  • Coffee

    Coffee has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, General-laxative, Lowers-thyroid

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  • Wasabi

    Wasabi has these Actions in Common

    General-laxative, Lowers-thyroid, Cholagogue

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  • Horseradish

    Horseradish has these Actions in Common

    Lowers-thyroid, Cholagogue, General-laxative

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  • Radicchio

    Radicchio has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, General-laxative

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  • Balsamic Vinegar

    Balsamic Vinegar has these Actions in Common

    General-laxative, Cholagogue

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  • Beet Greens

    Beet Greens has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, General-laxative

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  • Rhubarb

    Rhubarb has these Actions in Common

    General-laxative, Cholagogue

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  • Arugula

    Arugula has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, General-laxative

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Herbs & Supplements with a Similar Nature to Sweet Turnips with Ghee

  • Turkey Rhubarb

    Turkey Rhubarb has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, General-laxative

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  • Yellow Dock

    Yellow Dock has these Actions in Common

    General-laxative, Cholagogue

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  • Nagaradi Kashaya (Amruthotharam)

    Nagaradi Kashaya (Amruthotharam) has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, General-laxative

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  • Bhumyamalaki

    Bhumyamalaki has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue, General-laxative

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  • Goldenseal

    Goldenseal has these Actions in Common

    General-laxative, Cholagogue

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  • Ox Bile

    Ox Bile has these Actions in Common

    Cholagogue

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  • Danti

    Danti has these Actions in Common

    General-laxative

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  • Easy Go Pro Toilet Stool (White)

    Easy Go Pro Toilet Stool (White) has these Actions in Common

    General-laxative

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  • Easy Go Pro Toilet Stool (Clear)

    Easy Go Pro Toilet Stool (Clear) has these Actions in Common

    General-laxative

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  • Enema Therapy

    Enema Therapy has these Actions in Common

    General-laxative

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  • Cleaning the Colon: Safe Enema at Home

    Cleaning the Colon: Safe Enema at Home has these Actions in Common

    General-laxative

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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. His approach to Ayurveda 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 7 kids live in Asheville, NC

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Catherine Inglese Studio city, CA
2013-01-30
“Simple. Easy. Delicious."
Kimberly Kubicke Asbury park, NJ
2019-11-15
“You can shorten the cooking time. Steam the turnips until they're soft enough to blend."
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