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The Ayurveda cookbook
Ayurvedic cuisine is not only incredibly tasty, but also has great healing powers that everyone can use.Vasant Lad is one of the most famous Ayurvedic doctors in the world. Hardly anyone is as qualified as him to write this cookbook and to make the millennia-old secrets of this healing food available.
The work is much more than just a cookbook. In addition to 100 delicious recipes from the kitchen of Vasant Lad and his wife Usha, it introduces the basic principles of Ayurveda and the theory of constitutional types, the doshas. It shows how combining foods can regulate digestion, create physical balance and thereby achieve health and well-being.
The aromatic recipes range from mung bean soup for eye problems, saffron rice for migraines, carrot sabji for blood formation, the popular potato pocket samosas and chapatis to the balancing coriander chutney and sweet almond khir. The needs of all family members can be taken into account.
In addition, The Ayurveda Cookbook offers more than 300 simple Ayurvedic home remedies for the treatment of a wide range of ailments, which are used to combat simple colds, skin diseases or even to stabilize blood sugar levels in diabetics.
The book also contains a questionnaire for determining your own constitution and nutritional guidelines for the respective constitution types. A basic work on Ayurvedic cooking and healing.