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Sweet Masala

$15.00

Sweet Masala

Sweet Masala is different from the blends most people know. It’s floral, round, and a little indulgent. Coriander, fennel, cinnamon, and cardamom outline the flavor, but it’s the rose petals and vanilla that give it a lift, a fragrance that feels almost like winter baking in itself.

This Ayurvedic baking spice blend is versatile enough for cookies, oatmeal, or smoothies, where it supports the digestion of sugars and starches while adding unmistakable depth.

Sweet masala isn’t sugary on its own. Instead, it’s warming and layered, ideal for moments you want both comfort and balance.

What lingers after is softness. It is the kind that turns sweets into something easier to digest, and maybe even a little more refined.

  • Adds depth to cakes, muffins, cookies, and smoothies.
  • Helps digestion of sugars and starches naturally.
  • Blends rose, cinnamon, and cardamom into a warming yet gentle flavor.

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Sweet Masala– Herbs:

Fennel-sweet, pungent, bitter, heating (a little), light, dry it is tri-doshic

Tissues-plasma, blood, muscles, nerve

Systems-digestive, respiratory, nervous, urinary, reproductive, lactation

Fennel means sweet one or a hundred flowers. It warms the digestion. Like its flower is spreads and moves outward, thus preventing congestion and stagnation in the center. It kindles the digestive fire. Alleviates intestinal spasms. Moves vata downward. Benefits coughs. Increases clarity of consciousness.

Coriander–Bitter, pungent, cooling

Tissues-plasma, blood, muscle         Systems: digestive, respiratory, urinary

Helps with many pitta disorders. It helps greatly with digestion and pitta’s heat. It digests toxins! Alleviates burning in the body. Alleviates sluggish appetite. Alleviates thirst. Kills worms. Lifts the spirit.

Rose petals-Bitter, pungent, astringent, cooling, sweet, dry, light (VPK)

Tissues-plasma, blood, nerve, reproductive

Systems-female reproductive, circulatory, nervous system

Rose petals treat the heart and nerves and lift the spirits. They have an affinity for the blood. Rose petals reduces inflammation. It awakens the digestion. Affinity for the heart and benefits blood flow. Increases semen. Improves intellect. Balances all three doshas and blood.

Cinnamon-pungent, sweet, astringent, hot, dry, light, penetrating (>P)

Tissues-plasma, blood, muscles, nerves, reproductive

Systems-digestive, circulatory, respiratory, urinary, nervous, reproductive

Cinnamon increases the appetite. Destroys toxins, cardiac tonic. Reduces aggravated Vata. Increases semen. Imparts strength. Alleviates vata and kapha. Cinnamon is the bark of a cinnamon tree and is used in ayurvedic medicine as a major digestive herb. Just as the bark protects the tree cinnamon protects the strength of the intestines.

Black cardamom-pungent, sweet, cooling, light, dry (>P)

Tissues plasma, blood, nerve           Systems-digestive, respiratory, circulatory, nervous system

Cardamom is an aromatic seed pod that is filled with soothing, relaxing antispasmodic essential oils. A premium digestive and mucous reducer. It stimulates digestion. Alleviates intestinal spasms and pain. Stops coughing. Prevents asthma. Redirects flow of vata downward. Prevents nausea. Stops hiccups. Cleanses the orifices of the heavy. Increases sexual potency.

 

This delightful masala is from the recipe in Divya Alters cookbook What to Eat for How you Feel.

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