Knowledge Share Description

These dynamic 3 hours will consist of: making ghee (clarified butter), the oral and hands on history of this tradition +  learning about medicinal herbs and spices. 

We will be learning about the importance of fat for our bodies and how we can view fat as a medicine through the intake of ghee, an ancient medicine that originates in India. 2,000-5,000 B.C  In addition, participants will learn how to extract herbs into ghee, thereby amplifying their medicinal properties.

With its nourishing effects and capacity to carry herbs deep into the bodily tissues, in many cases, ghee is the ideal carrier of herbs and spices. Herbal ghees, called Siddha Ghritam, are one of the main types of herbal preparations in Ayurveda. Ghee makes herbs more bioavailable, this traditional medicine has the special capacity to adopt the nutritional qualities of the herb(s) it is prepared with. Furthermore, ghee is remarkable in that it can assume the properties of herbs without losing its own beneficial attributes.

Knowledge Share Includes

• The role dietary fat, especially saturated fat plays in your body

• Importance of fat-soluble vitamins

• Ideal oils/fats for cooking

• How plain ghee and medicinal ghee are used in Ayurveda

• How to make a nourishing skin cream using ghee

• How to make a medicinal ghee

Exchange

$35

$70 reparations ( If you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our scholarships and work redistributing resources to Black and Indigenous Land Projects)

For scholarships please email herbancura@gmail.com with subject GHEE

Access

*ASR Captioning provided 

*Spanish interpretation available (Si requiere interpretacion por favor mande un email a herbancura@gmail.com)

Virtual Gathering

Zoom link will be sent out via email 1-2 days before knowledge share

5-8pm EST

Class will be recorded and available for 30 days

Facilitator

This immersion will be facilitated by Sandeep Agarwal and Nalini Agarwal of Pure Indian Foods

Sandeep and Nalini are the co-founders of Princeton, N.J.- based Pure Indian Foods, which makes grass-fed, organic ghee and sells traditional organic Indian foods. Their interest in dairy history grew out of Sandeep’s family’s fifth generation ghee business (started by his great-great-grandfather in 1889) and the culturally significant role that dairy plays within his Indian heritage. The Agarwal’s have brought the Ayurvedic Medicinal Ghee concept to a culinary level by introducing unique herb/spiced ghee products sold as food, which has been recognized by The New York Times.