Cedar: Native Americans burn cedar while praying so that their hopes and dreams, wishes and longings can rise on the smoke to the Creator. Cedar smoke, they say, builds a bridge between heaven and earth. Incense cedar purifies a room, banishes nightmares and uplifts the human spirit. It drives out negative energy and attracts good energies. It is also burned in sweat lodges to clear ‘heavy emotional energies’. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for October, 2008
Put a sting in your tail
Nettle is the one plant everybody recognizes — and reviles. It’s often the first plant we learn to identify as children. You don’t quickly forget the pain that comes with grabbing a handful of stinging nettle. You soon learn too that the quickest way to relieve your misery is to pick a dock leaf and rub it on the sting. Read the rest of this entry »
Purple Potency, Magic Echinacea Flower
The lovely echinacea flower is the best known antiviral plant. As a result, sadly, it has also become one of the most expensive. Extracts of echinacea root behave like interferon — your body’s own internal virus fighter. Echinacea contains at least three plant chemicals that have immune strengthening antiviral activities — echinaceine, chicoric acid and caffeic acid. As yet, nobody is sure if this is what gives the plant its power. What is known for sure is that echinacea increases your body’s levels of an important immune activator known as properdin, which despatches white blood cells to do battle with invaders. I am sure it is the combined synergy of the plant that does the trick. Read the rest of this entry »
Garlic Earns a Medal, lower Cholesterol, and Boost immunity (plus Garlic Recipes without Odour)
When it comes to antiviral and antibacterial power, there is no plant in the world like garlic. Everything that antibiotic drugs can do, garlic does better, safer and cheaper. It may take a little longer but, in the process, using garlic regularly will build your strength and balance your body instead of leaving you exhausted and in a mess as many drugs do after treatment. So make garlic a day-to-day part of your life. Cook with it, prepare garlic vinegars and garlic oils for your salads. Eat chopped garlic on your baked potatoes. Use it any way you can think of. It helps safeguard health and youth. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekend Secret Herbal Detox Recipes
Astragalus tea
- 6 sticks astragalus
- 3 pieces liquorice root sticks
- 5 cm (2 in) fresh ginger, peeled and sliced thinly
- 1.5litres (2 pints) cold water
I make enough astragalus tea for four cups at a time — enough for a whole day. This recipe can make a
sweet chilled drink but I prefer to reheat mine and drink it warm. Put the astragalus, liquorice root sticks and sliced ginger into a saucepan (not aluminium or nonstick). Pour the cold water over the herbs and bring the mixture to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Take it off the heat and allow to stand for 10 minutes. Strain and keep in the fridge.
Herb tonic soup
- 0.5 cup brown rice or pearl barley
- 25 g (1 oz) dried, sliced astragalus root
- 25 g (1 oz) dried, sliced burdock root
- ginger root, finely chopped
- pinch of salt
- 1 large onion, diced
- 2 carrots, diced
- 0.5red or green pepper, diced
- parsley, chopped
- garlic
Make 2 pints of vegetable stock from leftover vegetables or use Marigold Swiss Vegetable Bouillon Powder in a large pan. Add the rice or barley, astragalus, burdock, ginger (to taste) and salt and let the soup simmer for 1 hour. In a little olive oil quickly fry the diced onion, carrot and red or green pepper and add to the simmering stock mixture and simmer for another 30 minutes. Just before serving, remove the astragalus and add as good a handful of chopped crushed raw garlic as you can manage!
Psychological support tips for get and stay off cigarettes
- Spend as much of your free time as you possibly can in public places where smoking is prohibited. Museums and galleries are excellent. So are theatres. Concert halls are very good, too, and some cinemas (save all the films you have not seen and would really like to see for this period). Read the rest of this entry »
A good night Sleep Drinks for Stop Smoking
A great many people enjoy having something to drink at bedtime; they find it relaxing. Of course, drinks made with milk have a slightly soporific effect as well as being alkalinising. So here are three very soothing bedtime drinks to help you get a good night’s sleep during this stressful stop smoking period. Read the rest of this entry »
Some Easy Home Remedies to fight Winter Flu
Home Therapies
Alternative therapies may help strengthen your body’s ability to fight the virus and can help ease temporary flu symptoms.
Aromatherapy Relief
In flu season, when those around you are coming down with the virus, protect yourself by gargling daily with 1 drop each of the essential oils of tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) and lemon in a glass of warm water; stir well before each mouthful. Read the rest of this entry »
Getting Ready to Stop Smoking
Allow no more than a week at the very most for getting ready. These days, with people moving at such a fast pace and everything around you so speeded up, you may find that a weekend, starting on Friday and going through until Monday, is as much time as you really need to spend on getting ready. It is a perfect period to do the shopping for your stop smoking diet and to make all the other preparations.
Here is a checklist to use as a guide in getting ready. Read the rest of this entry »
