Inflammation Reducing Turmeric Coconut Water Cocktail
Do you suffer from inflammation, sore joins, menstrual cramps or even want to repair your muscles faster after yoga or a really good workout? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, boy do we have a cocktail for you! I first started “shooting” coconut water and turmeric because I was experiencing painful cramps, but the more I did it, the more people I would encounter who were using turmeric every day to recover faster from yoga and reduce inflammation as part of their routine.
I personally don’t love the taste of this cocktail, it tastes a bit like drinking pickles. Let me say though, that a lot of other people I give this to when they’re in pain usually don’t share in my experience of the drink and often quite like the taste. All of our taste buds are unique, so give it a shot. And even if it’s not your favourite, you can still benefit from turmerics healing powers.
The reason you see turmeric mixed in coconut water, is because coconut water acts as a “carrier” delivering more nutrients to the cells. It’s also the only liquid on the planet that you can inject directly into your blood stream as it’s composition is almost identical to that of blood plasma. Not that you should try injecting it into your blood stream or anything. Just saying, it’s possible and that’s pretty cool.
Ingredients:
- 1-2 tsp. of Turmeric Powder or
- 1 Oz Juiced Turmeric Root
- 1 cup coconut water OR
- Mix into fresh vegetable juice made in your juicer (celery, cucumber, ginger & lemon is a great anti-inflammatory juice to mix your turmeric into)
Ultimate Superfoods Turmeric Powder
10 Rawesome Facts About Turmeric
1. Turmeric is a natural anti-inflammatory and has been proven to reduce pain symptoms and help chronic pain sufferers with arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
2. Turmeric has long been recognized for it’s healing powers by physicians and healers in the holistic community, however western medical professionals are only just starting to learn about turmerics charms. perhaps the inability to patent nature has something to do with this slow learning curve?
3. If you suffer from acne, turmeric is not only helpful taken internally but you can also use it externally by making a turmeric paste. Put on your face or other areas of the skin for 20 minutes or overnight to reduce inflammation and clear up a break out. Keep in mind this might turn your skin orange so dont do this before a special event.
4. Turmeric root can be juiced and used as a pain reliever. Only a small amount is needed to do the trick.
5. Even chronic sufferers of arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis can experience relief by using turmeric on a frequent basis. Use it raw for best results by sprinkling it on salads and raw dishes as well as mixing it into fresh vegetable juices & coconut water.
6. Clean cuts and wounds with turmeric, it’s a natural anti-septic and anti-bacterial.
7. Turmeric has high amounts of anti-oxidants that fight cancer causing free radicals, keeping your immune system strong. If you have a cold or flu, turmeric is one of the best things you can do to speed up recovery.
8. Even chronic skin conditions like psoriasis can be helped with turmeric. for a healthy skin regimen, make a turmeric cocktail every day for 2 weeks accompanied by fresh raw foods, juices and green smoothies.
9. Using turmeric in your daily or weekly regimen will help you recover from yoga and workouts faster by reducing inflammation and easing sore muscles.
10. Turmeric also contains good amounts of iron and other minerals so use it as a blood builder.
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I will have to try this. What amount of coconut water and turmeric do you use?
I am going to try this. How much coconut water and turmeric do you use? Thank you
How do you make the turmeric paste? Do you think it would also work for keratosis pilaris?
Thank you!!
Hi Danna
Turmeric and water will work for a paste. I have read that it may help yes but it’s best for you to do a bit of reading on your own to see what you think will work best.
Hey Zach
The recipe is above in the blog post. We use OrganicLives coconut water and UltimateSuperfoods Turmeric which you can see in the picture in this blog post 
If you cannot get OrganicLives coconut water then you can purchase a young thai coconut and crack it open. Or mix it with fresh veggie juice of cucumber, celery, lemon, ginger which is also a great anti-inflammatory mixture and with turmeric it’s highly effective and tastes great!
Can we make this mixture and keep in the fridge.
Fresh would be better
These ingredients will all break down and become less potent over a period of time.
thanks
Looks interesting, would this improve the healing process for minor sports injuries as well?
Turmeric works wonders for healing and inflammation. Also check out chlorella – it’s known for it’s rapid tissue repair properties and will be very useful to anyone who’s active or healing.
Do you drink a full cup of this or just a “shot” per day?
I usually take a shot per day when I’m experiencing cramps or inflammation. I don’t love the taste so I do use other veggies and algaes for inflammation as well. Will post an update on those shortly
I believe the concept of boiling the tumeric is from those following a Ayurvedic diet. I have wondered which way is the better way to absorb it, so I do both. I have it boiled and I have it raw in my smoothies or in my salads. Its like tomatoes, I heard that heating the tomato allows it to release its healing properties. I am mostly raw so I tend to do 10% cooked. If it seems to help with cramps/imflammation in its raw state then there has to be some benefit to it, wouldn’t you say? I read Dr. David Servan-Schreiber’s book and it was essential to my healing from cancer. He was 100% raw, but I find balance is key to everything. Thanks for the recepi, I think it would taste great with ginger and maybe some raw honey?
Namaste, Orlando
I’m unclear of increasing absorption of turmeric by 2000%. Only 100% of anything can be absorbed.
Hi Heather! It is a mathematical equation. Remember that percentages are really ways of representing fractions. 2000% really means 2000/100 which equals 20. If we are saying that something has an absorption rate of 2%, this really means 2/100 which is 0.02. If we were to increase the absorption rate of this substance by 2000%, we are really increasing it by a factor of 20. So 0.02 (the starting absorption rate) multiplied by 20 (or 2000%) equals 0.4. To turn this into a fraction, we multiply this by 100, and we get 40/100 or 40%. So we are now absorbing 40% of this substance, where as before we were only absorbing 2%
Just remember that percentages are fractions, and are representing increased factors 
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