Enriching the Soil of Your Life
Updated 1/2019.
Talk to any doula, midwife, or old hippie mama (like me) and you’re pretty much guaranteed to hear about the importance of drinking red raspberry leaf (RRL) tea for pregnancy.
[Note: adding crushed red raspberries gives the pretty red color above. RRL herb alone is the color of normal green tea.]…
I have been exploring which brand stevia to purchase. But quite honestly, I’ve never felt good about the perfectly white, flowable, processed stevia products out there.
When I was on a stock-your-pantry preparedness effort several (over 5) years ago, I bought 4 Trader Joe’s Pure Stevias. I remember thinking at the time that they were really expensive, but, hey, if things got bad and we couldn’t get things at the store, at least we had our sweetener!
What I found was that I really, really liked using it! Slowly, over time, I kept thinking about having more and MORE, and if I didn’t get to have it, I craved (felt addicted to) the stuff.
I looked for things to eat to add it to even though I wasn’t hungry! Yikes!
But here’s where the sleuth in me gets going: Our daughter started having mild migraines about this same time, and I experienced what I called ‘vertigo’, but I didn’t make the connection… and maybe there isn’t a connection.
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Today, I want to show you how to make a simple dandelion tincture.
Our ancestors have used dandelion for centuries as a blood builder, detox, and liver cleanse especially in the spring after the relative inactivity of winter months.
All parts of this fantastic ‘weed’ are used – the leaves as a spring tonic, the flower as delicious fritters, but today, I am concentrating on making a simple dandelion tincture out of the root to stock our medicine cabinet.
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Twenty-three years ago, after taking high doses of fertility drugs (Clomid, Pergonal, Metrodin, and Lupron), my case information was added to the mammoth Harvard Medical School Nurses’ Health Study looking for various links with cancer. Soon after, my annual questionnaires were funneled into the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, and it left me with an interest in well-done, long-term clinical studies.
Aspartame, and it’s health damaging effects, was one thing of interest to them….
Early Alzheimer recovery is possible. A recent study on patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) found that less than a gram (1,000 mg.) of turmeric daily, taken for three months, resulted in ‘remarkable improvements.’
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We’ve had ants. Lots of ants! You know…those industrious little 6-legged annoyances that come seeking crumbs. At different times, we’ve had 3 kinds: tiny brown ants, medium-sized, brownish-red ones and bigger black ants that came in from under the base board. Droves of them all in a few hours, and we had to do a little dance to avoid stepping on them. Eek!
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