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Place ingredients in a medium saucepan with 1.5c water. Bring to a boil then lower to simmer and cook on low heat until rice is soft, about 40 minutes.
How Can This Ayurvedic Recipe Make You Feel Great?
AYURVEDIC ANALYSIS
If you are feeling tired, overwhelmed and overworked, this is the recipe for you. According to the famous arabic physician Avicenna in "The Canon of Medicine," black cumin stimulates the body's energy and helps recovery from fatigue and dispiritedness. In Ayurvedic terms black cumin helps build agni (your digestive fire), but is also inflammatory.
Both black cumin (nigella) and wild rice support healthy kappa by keeping blood sugar even and removing excess water from your system. Black cumin is an even stronger diuretic than its more commonly used cousin, brown cumin. It has such a direct effect on the kidneys that it can even help to break up a painful, stubborn kidney stone. Wild rice is high in protein and fiber. Combined with black cumin, which lowers blood sugar, this is an excellent choice for diabetics.
For those of you who feel anxious or stressed, a hearty, protein-rich dish such as Black Cumin Wild Rice will bring you a sensation of grounded stability. Nigella stimulates energy, helping to stave off the fatigue that so often accompanies stress. The high fiber content of wild rice helps keep constipation at bay. If you have constipation due to dryness, make sure to add ghee to your wild rice while cooking.
Black cumin is a little too heating for pitta. Use fennel seeds instead for a delicious, pitta soothing modification to this recipe.
WHAT IS TOASTED BLACK CUMIN WILD RICE?
Black cumin, also known as nigella, offers a warm, softly pungent aroma to the kitchen table. On a cold day, even its scent makes you feel warmer! Cook Black Cumin Wild Rice on a chilly day to warm and nourish your body. This rice dish is a complimentary side to cooked carrots, fennel, bitter greens, spring onions and most other vegetables you can think of! It is also nice served room temperature as the base for couscous inspired dishes featuring chopped tomatoes, sauteed squash, and fresh herbs.
Why not make a little extra to heat up in the morning and top with avocado slices for a nourishing, energy-stimulating start to your day?
WHY EAT AN AYURVEDIC DIET?
Eating Ayurvedically makes you feel nourished and energized. An Ayurvedic diet is
tailored to your individual body type and the specific imbalances you are working with
at any given time. Ayurveda shows you your specific body type’s needs and what
should be favored in your Ayurvedic menu. Watch as you eat less but feel more satisfied because what you
are eating truly nourishes you. Since Ayurveda believes all disease begins in the digestive
tract, food is your first medicine. By eating a healthy diet that’s ideal for your body, you
experience optimal health.
Functional Ayurveda helps you assess imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics
(gunas).
Aggravating these characteristics weakens your body and causes imbalance.
By knowing which characteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct imbalances before you get sick.
Every characteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold).
You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite characteristic.
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?
According to the biocharacteristic theory of medicine,
people tend to get sick, over and over again, due to habitual causes and imbalances that are unique to the person.
Your body type summarizes this tendency, showing you the 'type' of conditions and imbalances that frequently challenge your health & wellness.
Using body type, you can also identify remedies likely to improve your strength and resiliency.
Your body type identifies physical and mental characteristics as well as your personal strengths and weaknesses.
The calculation of your body type is based on your medical history.
The 3 functional body types
(doshas),
are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Catabolic individuals tend to break down body mass into energy.
Metabolic individuals tend to burn or use energy.
Anabolic individuals tend to store energy as body mass.
Catabolic people tend to be easily stimulated, hyperactive, underweight and dry.
Metabolic people tend to be rosy-cheeked, easily irritated, focused, driven, and easily inflamed.
Anabolic people are heavy, stable and grounded, but if they store too much energy, they could gain weight easily and have congestion.
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.
Here are the herbal actions of Toasted Black Cumin Wild Rice:
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.
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.
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.
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
healthy diet and lifestyle with Ayurveda biocharacteristics.
His approach to Ayurveda is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful.
John also directs Joyful Belly's School of Ayurveda,
offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's interest in Ayurveda and specialization in digestive tract pathology was inspired by a complex digestive disorder acquired from years of international travel,
as well as public service work in South Asia.
John's commitment to the detailed study of digestive disorders reflects his zeal to get down to the roots of the problem.
His hope and belief in the capacity of each & every client to improve their quality of life is nothing short of a personal passion.
John's creativity in the kitchen and delight in cooking for others comes from his family oriented upbringing.
In addition to his certification in Ayurveda, John holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University.
John enjoys sharing Ayurveda within the context of his Catholic roots,
and finds Ayurveda gives him an opportunity to participate in the healing mission of the Church.
Jesus expressed God's love by feeding and healing the sick.
That kindness is the fundamental ministry of Ayurveda as well.
Outside of work, John enjoys spending time with his wife and 6 kids, and pursuing his love of theology, philosophy, and language.
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