Cooked Cucumber With Fennel |
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How to Make Cooked Cucumber with FennelSERVINGS: 4 PREP TIME: 10 MINUTES COOK TIME: 20 MINUTES
INGREDIENTS
| 2 tsp | |
| 2 c | |
| 1/2 inch | |
| 1/4 tsp | |
| 1/4 tsp | |
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
Grind fennel in a mortar and pestle. Grind ginger as well. Peel and cut cucumbers into the shape of a french fry. Saute cucumbers in oil. When they turn slightly translucent, add remaining ingredients.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Cooked cucumber is popular in China. As the saying goes, cucumbers are, "Cool as a ...." Cucumbers pacify Pitta. Cucumber skins are difficult to digest. Skinned, cooked cucumbers are soft, gentle and mucilaginous. Fennel is a digestive that does not provoke Pitta, useful in acid reflux. WHAT IS COOKED CUCUMBER WITH FENNEL?Cooked cucumber is popular in China.
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Increases These Biocharacteristics (Gunas)
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).
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| COLD ABOUT COLD BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Cold refers to anything that reduces body temperature, metabolism, and blood flow.
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Clear refers to anything that cleanses or flushes out wastes, or that digests ama.
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Substances that thin fluids (lower viscosity of blood plasma). These may include blood thinners or mucolytic herbs.
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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.
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| BITTER ABOUT BITTER BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Bitter taste has cholagogue action - it is cold, clear, light, and stimulating. It increases digestive enzymes, laxative, and drying.
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Pungency is characterized by irritation, or sharp, spicy foods that irritate the mouth such as black pepper.
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Aromatic AROMATIC
Herbs or spices with volatile essential oils that present strong aromas. Aromatic oils shock, refresh and numb tissue, with the end result of relaxing, opening and clearing stagnant fluids in tissues.
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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Cooked Cucumber with Fennel ![Help]() 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.
, Stomachic STOMACHIC
An herb that increases appetite or settles a nauseas or nervous stomach. These generally increase the digestive fire, therefore relieving symptoms of sluggish or difficult digestion.
SEE ALL 'STOMACHIC' FOODS / HERBS , , Sialogogue SIALOGOGUE
A sialogogue increases saliva. Sour foods are often great sialogogues, and increase output of all exocrine glands. Salty taste is very moistening as well. Bitter, pungent and sweettastes also increase salivary output but to a
lesser degree. Astringents.
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Herbs that increase the heart rate. Useful in cardiovascular health, blood stagnation, and subjective feeling of heaviness in the chest area.
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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.
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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.
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Foods with a Similar Nature to Cooked Cucumber with Fennel
Ginger (Fresh)
Ginger (Fresh) has these Actions in Common
Cardiac-stimulant, Hypotensive, Stomachic, Digestive, Sialogogue, Vasodilator, Anti-inflammatory, Galactagogue, Stimulates-energy
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Cucumber
Cucumber has these Actions in Common
Anti-inflammatory, Nutritive, Skin-tonic, Diuretic, Opthalmic, Soothes-throat, Hypotensive, Quenches-thirst
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Nigella (black cumin)
Nigella (black cumin) has these Actions in Common
Cardiac-stimulant, Galactagogue, Vasodilator, Digestive, Hypotensive, Anti-inflammatory, Diuretic, Stimulates-energy
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Saffron
Saffron has these Actions in Common
Digestive, Nutritive, Stomachic, Diuretic, Skin-tonic, Galactagogue, Stimulates-energy
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Fenugreek
Fenugreek has these Actions in Common
Diuretic, Stimulates-energy, Anti-inflammatory, Galactagogue, Stomachic, Digestive, Nutritive
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Cinnamon
Cinnamon has these Actions in Common
Cardiac-stimulant, Galactagogue, Stimulates-energy, Digestive, Hypotensive, Diuretic, Soothes-throat
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Pineapple
Pineapple has these Actions in Common
Anti-inflammatory, Quenches-thirst, Digestive, Sialogogue, Nutritive, Stimulates-energy
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Celery Seed
Celery Seed has these Actions in Common
Digestive, Vasodilator, Anti-inflammatory, Diuretic, Cardiac-stimulant, Hypotensive
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Dill
Dill has these Actions in Common
Digestive, Stimulates-energy, Diuretic, Stomachic, Galactagogue, Vasodilator
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Ginger (Dried)
Ginger (Dried) has these Actions in Common
Hypotensive, Vasodilator, Cardiac-stimulant, Sialogogue, Digestive, Stimulates-energy
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Crystallized Ginger
Crystallized Ginger has these Actions in Common
Digestive, Stimulates-energy, Hypotensive, Vasodilator, Cardiac-stimulant, Sialogogue
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Herb Supplements with a Similar Nature to Cooked Cucumber with Fennel
Amalaki
Amalaki has these Actions in Common
Anti-inflammatory, Digestive, Nutritive, Opthalmic, Quenches-thirst, Sialogogue, Skin-tonic, Stimulates-energy
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Punarnava
Punarnava has these Actions in Common
Digestive, Diuretic, Hypotensive, Stimulates-energy, Vasodilator, Anti-inflammatory, Cardiac-stimulant
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Saw Palmetto
Saw Palmetto has these Actions in Common
Anti-inflammatory, Digestive, Diuretic, Galactagogue, Nutritive, Soothes-throat
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Deodar (Himalayan Cedar, Devadaru)
Deodar (Himalayan Cedar, Devadaru) has these Actions in Common
Stimulates-energy, Vasodilator, Anti-inflammatory, Cardiac-stimulant, Digestive, Diuretic
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Angelica
Angelica has these Actions in Common
Stimulates-energy, Stomachic, Vasodilator, Cardiac-stimulant, Digestive, Hypotensive
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Dong Quai
Dong Quai has these Actions in Common
Hypotensive, Stimulates-energy, Vasodilator, Anti-inflammatory, Cardiac-stimulant, Digestive
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Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi)
Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi) has these Actions in Common
Stomachic, Vasodilator, Anti-inflammatory, Cardiac-stimulant, Diuretic, Stimulates-energy
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Triphala
Triphala has these Actions in Common
Digestive, Diuretic, Opthalmic, Sialogogue, Skin-tonic
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Dandelion Root
Dandelion Root has these Actions in Common
Hypotensive, Anti-inflammatory, Digestive, Diuretic, Galactagogue
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Kushta
Kushta has these Actions in Common
Digestive, Diuretic, Hypotensive, Vasodilator, Anti-inflammatory
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Wild Ginger
Wild Ginger has these Actions in Common
Cardiac-stimulant, Digestive, Sialogogue, Stimulates-energy, Vasodilator
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John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
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John also directs Joyful Belly's School of Ayurveda,
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John's interest in Ayurveda and specialization in digestive tract pathology was inspired by a complex digestive disorder acquired from years of international travel,
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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,
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Jesus expressed God's love by feeding and healing the sick.
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Outside of work, John enjoys spending time with his wife and 7 kids, and pursuing his love of theology, philosophy, and language.
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absolutely soothing and very yum! love your recipes - this is a delightful way I would have never thought or tried. satisfying and still light. thank you! Kristen
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