Thanksgiving Blessed Margarita
This juice is definitely a great tonic drink that looks and tastes like a Margarita, and since we are entering the Fall season it’s time to add some warming spices to our diet – to protect us from the Cold and the Flu. In Chinese medicine, Orange vegetables and fruits contain vitamin C (important for the immune system and wound healing), potassium (a mineral that helps keep the body fluids and blood pressure regulated) and folate (a key vitamin for cell development).
Healing with the orange color
Color is one way to determine which organ a food will target. Ideally, one eats what is in season and includes a wide variety of flavors and colors. Colors in vegetables have beneficial antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties as well as phytonutrients:
Orange vegetables like carrots, Turmeric roots have carotenoids and lutein, powerful phytonutrients.
Yellow: Yellow benefits the spleen/stomach, the earth element, involved with digestion. Yellow foods include soy, barley, egg yolks, yellow peppers, lemons, summer squash and cantaloupe. Yellow foods boost your mood and contain bioflavonoids, carotenoids and vitamin C.
According to Chinesses medicine the autumn season correlates with the lung system which dominates the skin, respiration, body fluids metabolism, blood circulation, immunity and emotion. During the fall Since the vigorous summer is over, the universal energy shifts inwards to prepare for the harsh winter. The dry weather in the winter usually causes an itchy throat, a dry nose, chapped lips, rough skin, hair loss and dry stools.
The Stomach – Stress Connection
Your stomach digests not only your thoughts but also your emotions. Other than practicing meditation to reduce stress, you can eat Yellow and Orange foods that support the Stomach, especially foods harvested in the late summer or root vegetables that grow directly in the ground.
Emotions such as worry, anxiety, and overthinking are the emotions associated with the Stomach. If you constantly worry or over-think things (especially negative thoughts!), get anxious easily, you may have a Stomach imbalance or function disorder! Experiencing any emotions chronically or excessively can damage Stomach and digestive health, as the digestive system processes not just the food we eat, but the thoughts and emotions that we internalize.
Eat to lubricate your body
We need to eat to promote the production of body fluids and their lubricating effects throughout the body. Beneficial foods for this are lily bulb, nuts or seeds, pear, lotus root, pumpkin, honey, and flaxseed rich in Omega 3. Sour foods like pineapple, green apple, grapefruit and lemon have astringent properties and thus prevent the loss of body fluids. The body needs extra fluids to counteract the dry environment.
Tumeric and ginger roots benefits
Both have also been used to help relieve pain, decrease nausea, and enhance immune function to help protect against illness and infection. It Increases the antioxidant capacity of our bodies – more than just providing antioxidants, curcumin also stimulates our body’s own antioxidant enzymes.
More Benefits: Anti-inflammatory properties, Turmeric, which is antiviral, anti-fungal and anti-bacterial, is also prebiotic that promotes the growth of healthy bacteria in our gut.
This Drink/juice helps relieve constipation.
One shot of this Margarita juice can be a great way to up the amount of antioxidants you consume!, relieve chronic pain, reduce nausea, and improve immune function.
Preparation/h3>
Ingredients
Turmeric, 1-3 inches
Ginger, 1-3 inches
2-3 limes
1 red beet
1 orange or green apple
A Juicer.
Once you have cleaned and washed your fruits and veggies, you are ready to juice them. To make it spicy and sour add more ginger and lime.
Once you serve in a glass add a dash of black papper, (this will help the tumeric’s assimilation) and sprinkle with cayenne pepper.