Here’s a cracker of a winter warmer that will give your digestive fire a damn fine stoking. Believe it or not, this was the first recipe I ever created using food as medicine in the year 2000! The recipe is in my book The Healing Feeling but never made it to the website. So here it is!
This dish is intended for someone with a sluggish digestion as its ingredients and cooking method will have a warming and drying effect on the digestive system. Patients will benefit greatly from this dish, especially if taken up to three times over a week, preferably in the day time when the digestive fire (agni) is most powerful and so as not to overtax the digestive system.
The curry is cooked slowly to maintain its warming nature, and each individual component has been selected for their healing properties. Aduki beans are used here medicinally for their drying and warming nature because they strengthen the spleen energy and have an absorbent effect on the mucous in the intestines and help clear phlegm in the lungs.