Summer Healing Salad with Beets, Chickpeas & Lime

A seasonal bowl of ease, rooted in Prophetic wisdom and Unani nourishment

In Rhythm with the Season

As the sun stretches longer and the days swell with warmth, the body begins to ask for balance. According to Unani Tibb, summer holds heat and dryness. The liver carries more, working to cool and clear. When meals meet this shift, healing enters gently.

This salad brings together grounding chickpeas, blood-building beets, cooling citrus, and the subtle sparkle of sumac and pomegranate, designed to support the season’s internal landscape and spiritual rhythm.

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Knowing Your Nature

Each body holds a sacred constitution. This is the foundation of prophetic medicine, where temperament shapes the way one digests, processes emotion, and heals. Some bodies run warm and dry, others cool and slow. Food enters as guidance when that knowing is honored.

Our Prophetic Wellness Guide offers gentle support in identifying your temperament, a free resource to deepen your journey into seasonal and spiritual nourishment.

This bowl aligns well with choleric, sanguine, and phlegmatic temperaments. Gentle enhancements invite melancholic comfort as well.

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Ingredients

• 1½ cups cooked chickpeas

• 2–3 tablespoons Persian lime–infused olive oil

• Juice of ½ lemon

• 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, finely chopped

• 2–3 tablespoons purple onion, minced

• ½–1 teaspoon sumac

• Pinch of sea salt

• 2 medium beets, cubed and roasted with garlic olive oil

• Drizzle of pomegranate dark balsamic vinegar

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Optional Enhancements by Temperament

Each body invites different medicines. The additions below offer supportive qualities that gently align with your constitution:

• Phlegmatic: mint, black seed, lemon zest, toasted pumpkin seeds

• Choleric: cucumber, extra parsley, sunflower seeds

• Sanguine: walnuts, fresh pomegranate, fennel seed

• Melancholic: roasted carrots, cumin-infused olive oil, light drizzle of honey

The temperament-based diet guide can further support your selection.

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Preparation Method

1. In a large bowl, combine chickpeas, onion, parsley, lime olive oil, lemon juice, sumac, and sea salt.

2. Allow the mixture to rest quietly for 10 to 15 minutes.

3. Fold in roasted beets with tenderness.

4. Drizzle with pomegranate balsamic.

5. Add any seasonal enhancements that your body is reaching for today.

6. Taste with presence. Let your breath soften.

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Reflection with the Divine Name

As you prepare or serve this bowl, you may hold the Divine Name:

Ya Latif — The Subtle, The Gentle

This name enters quietly, like coolness into heat. You may wish to let it settle into your chest as you chew. Healing need not arrive loudly. Sometimes it speaks only in flavor.