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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
fRosemary Gladstar
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Day 7 Survey
Supermarket Herbalism Quiz
You'll be taken to the answers when you click on "Submit Survey" below...
Q.1
Which herb(s) can help you if you have a cold?
Q.2
Which plant is a simple pink eye remedy?
Q.3
Which supermarket herbs can help with digestion?
Q.4
Ginger....
Q.5
Stressed out? Which supermarket herbs can help...
Q.6
Finally, say you had a cough? Which can help? (Choose one or more)
Day 6
Supermarket HerbalismDay 6: Oats and Chamomile are great herbs for stress
Did you know that one of the most nourishing herbs for stress could be purchased at your local market?
Yesterday we had a really brief introduction to oatmeal and chamomile as digestive aids. Today, we’re going to relax with them.
Make sure you get an hour for yourself tonight. You deserve it. Just imagine you're that person in that bath.
FIRST…
Make yourself a cup of chamomile tea. We all know it is relaxing. Chamomile has many amazing properties, and one of them is that it is helpful for our nervous systems. Make the tea just like you made the peppermint tea yesterday.
SECOND…
Make yourself a luxurious Oat bath. You’ll also use the milk and honey here. YES...I know, you had that for breakfast. BUT, take a look at the many brands of oat, milk and honey soap bars on the market and you'll see I'm not just making this up.
PREPARATION:
1. Fill a small muslin bag with the oats, or tie the oats securely inside a piece of muslin or cheesecloth.
2. Run a bath, making sure that the hot water runs through the oat bag. You can hang the bag over the hot tap, or attach it with a length of string.
3. Warm a half cup of whole milk without boiling it. Stir in the honey.
4. Add the milk and honey to the bath water.
5. Climb in and relax. Use the oat bag as a soft washcloth to clean your skin.
Oats are an amazing plant. They are VERY nourishing for our nervous systems. One of the best herbs for stress.
Six days ago…
Six days ago you may have not known much about how to use herbs in home remedies. From stress relief and upset stomach relief to herbal sore throat remedies, now you see just how simple it is. Congratulations!
When we meet tomorrow… We'll wrap it all up! The exciting conclusion...
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Day 5
Supermarket Herbalism
Day 5: The power of onions, garlic and honey as herbal cough and sore throat remedies?
Welcome to Day 5. We're on the home stretch now. Here’s a couple herbal cough and sore throat remedies, and more!
First, watch the video. It's the longest one, but it shows you how to make a simple herbal cough syrup as well as how to make garlic oil for coughs as well... REALLY great stuff...
OK... NOW... Here's some more useful information on these remedies...
More with garlic and the onion...
Remember WAY back in Day 2 when you read about all the amazing things ginger could do, but we focused on it’s immune enhancing properties?
Well, with garlic, it’s the same story. I think if I was forced to live with just one herb, it would be garlic. That’s how incredible it is.
When you are getting a cold or flu, while you are sick, and after you are sick with a cold or flu, you want to make sure you are ingesting lots of garlic. I can’t stress enough how important this is.
You can read about different ways to use garlic in that link above, but for now, let’s make a simple soup.
The onion is also a very important medicinal herb. It is in the same plant family as garlic and also has immune enhancing properties.
Whether you are sick with a cold or flu now or not, this is a tasty addition to your dinner tonight.
- Peel and slice up 6 cloves of garlic and a medium size or large onion.
- Take out a sauce pan and light cover the bottom with olive oil.
- Turn it on to a low heat and simmer the onions and garlic.
- Simmer for a few minutes. Then add 4 cups of vegetable broth, chicken broth, or even water.
- At this point, you can add some greens like kale. You could even add a couple carrots.
- Simmer on a low heat for an hour or so.
- Add some salt if you like and enjoy.
Now, when you are sick, often you don’t feel like eating solids. I often stop at step 4. I then let it simmer for an hour. When I take it off the heat, I’ll add a little miso.
To read about miso, click here.
To read about another great immune system booster soup recipe, click here.
Sore throat and cough relief
Yes, once again, honey. It coats, soothes, and even heals. Now you see why it’s good to always make sure you have a jar of honey in the cupboard.
Another simple sore throat remedy...salt
When you have a sore throat or one coming on, pour a glass of hot tap water. Add a tea spoon of salt. Gargle.
ANOTHER one of the great herbal sore throat remedies is Echinacea tincture. You can make your own for pennies compared to buying it in the stores. I teach you how and give you all the supplies you need in The Herbal Medicine Making Kit.
Tomorrow… You get to relax!
Day 4
Supermarket Herbalism
Day 4: Simple Pink Eye Remedy
Ready for the simplest pink eye remedy?
Watch the video...
Day 2
Supermarket Herbalism
Day 2: Ginger tea recipe and the basics
Before getting to our ginger tea recipe with lemon and honey, there's a really important point to understand.
When you look in herb books and look up ginger you might find something like this written:
GINGER (Zingiber officinale) possesses strong antibacterial activity against several food bourse pathogens such as E. coli and salmonella, it is the choice herb for treating colds and flus, it reduces and eliminates diarrhea, relieves pain, stimulates immune activity, reduces inflammation, has clinical uses for burns, and has been found effective in the treatment of cataracts, heart disease, migraines, stroke, bursitis, fatigue, coughs, fever, kidney stones, sciatica, tendonitis, viral infections, indigestion, and dizziness….
WHEW!!!! Now I am dizzy!!!!
Now, this is all useful information, but all this will do is have you close the book and say to yourself, “WOW! Ginger sure is a cool plant. I am not sure how to use it, but boy is it powerful!.”
This is precisely what I DON’T want you to think.
The authors of the books HAVE TO list all this information. They figure if they pack their books with lots of words, you’ll buy it over the book that doesn’t use quite as many. It’s a great reference, but lacks a little on the instructional side of things.
For now, let’s just pretend that the only thing you have ever read about ginger is that it is an immune system stimulant that is extremely helpful when you have a cold or the flu.
In fact, ALL THE PLANTS WE USE IN THIS COURSE HAVE LOTS AND LOTS OF USES. However, we’re going to focus on one for two recipes. I want to keep it simple.
Even if you are the thorough type of person who wants to know it all now, it's wise to keep it simple at this point. As you gain more interest and have some more time, you can research other ways to use the plants in this course.
When you read about all those uses for ginger, it’s not like you are going to use the same recipe (such as the ginger tea recipe I will give you in this lesson) or the same home remedy method for each health situation. For example, the tea recipe below would not be how I use ginger for the treatment of cataracts.
This is where I think people get stuck. You see all these uses for ginger and no clear way to access the plant for your ailment.
AHA! Now you see why I created LearningHerbs.com, The Herbal Medicine Making Kit.
I don’t know if you know my personal story. To make a long one short, I will just tell you that I was interested in herbs for about 6 years before someone FINALLY showed me how simple it was to make an herbal remedy. I had ALL the books and read about all the cool things the herbs could do, but there was still this wall between me and accessing the herbs.
I don’t want your story to be like mine, so let’s get to that ginger tea recipe.
Ginger, Lemon, Honey Tea
What about the lemon and the honey?
Well, lemon is quite a powerful plant. For now, I’ll tell you that it is high in vitamin C and contains antioxidants, natural compounds that help protect us from the harmful effects of free radicals. They cause cell damage and can impair your immune system. There’s lots more to lemon, but that’s pretty handy information, isn’t it!?!?! By the way, that’s for real lemon, not Sprite. :)
Honey is a botanical medicine. Were the bees not the original herbalists? Honey is basically the nectar of plant flowers. They contain the essence of the wilds plants that it is gathered from. Honey is so useful that we are using it for three of our lesson days. For now, we are using it for it’s immune enhancing qualities including the fact that it fights bacteria and viruses.
I’m not sick!
I know. Let’s pretend you are sick. We’ll make this ginger tea recipe. Then, next time you are, you’ll know what to do.
- Boil 3 cups of water in a saucepan.
- While that’s happening, grate (preferred) or thinly slice up a two-inch piece of ginger root.
- When the water comes to a boil, turn it down to a simmer.
- Add the ginger.
- Let it simmer for 15 minutes.
- Turn it off and add the juice of half a lemon.
- Add 2 big tablespoons of honey and mix it all up.
- Strain the tea into a cup and enjoy.
You may need to adjust the amount of honey to your taste. You can even add more lemon if you want. Heck, you can even add more ginger if you like it really strong.
When you need more, heat it back up and strain more out. Leaving the ginger in allows it to get even stronger.
This is the tea I make when I feel a cold coming on. It is also the tea I make when I have the cold. Not only does it actually help me fight the cold, it also provides relief. It also tastes great.
Please read my Eight Simple Secrets to Treating a Cold Naturally to see how I treat a cold in a holistic way.
Thanks for having tea with me.
We’ll go more into cold relief that isn’t mentioned on the web site on the last day of the course.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Supermarket Herbalism:Day 1
Welcome to Supermarket Herbalism!
Learning about herbs is an incredibly rewarding, inspiring, creative and nourishing experience, not to mention healthful.
I remember how overwhelming it can be as well. All those plants, all those remedies, Which ones to use? How much? Is it safe? Do they really work?
I admit that it does take a little time and some experimenting to find what works for you. Some of you may want to know a lot and become teachers or practitioners. Others may simply want to know what works and what they need to do to keep their families healthy.
That’s where I come in. Even though herbal medicine is incredibly simple to learn and use, it doesn’t seem like that to the beginner.
There is a very important secret that the herb books forget to mention.
That secret is that the key to learning is taking it ONE EXPERIENCE at a time.
The more experiences we have, the more we learn. For example, if someone tells you that ginger tea is good for a cold, that will inspire you to make the tea. If it works, you might go and look up ginger in your reference book. You’ll find out HOW ginger works for a cold and you might find out a few more things out about ginger on the way, such as the fact that it helps with digestion issues. The next time you need a digestive aid, you might make ginger tea. Also, in looking up ginger, you might also read a bit about other herbs, remedies, and recipes. Before you know it, you’re off making a remedy with a different herb.
The more you use herbs, the more you will learn. Many herb books are meant to be for reference. You grab them off the shelf when you need them.
The more you experiment and use your books, the more you will learn about plants and what you can do with them to bring health into your life. Many buy several herb books, really wanting to learn, but are still confused and don’t know where to begin.
Why a Supermarket Herbal?
I chose to call this the "Supermarket Herbal" because I wanted to make sure anyone could run out to their local market and get the ingredients you need to do this course. No need to buy dried herbs or go out and pick something. That will come later if you choose.
Right now, let’s stick with some things you are already familiar with and use them in new ways. You probably didn’t know that there are wonderful herbal remedies located right down the street at your local co-op or even Safeway.
Once you make these remedies with items you probably already have in your kitchen, you will see just how simple it is.
I am hoping this free herb course allows you to access even more of the free remedies posted on LearningHerbs.com.
You are now officially on your way to becoming a home medicine maker!
Let’s get started with…
Day 1: Gathering your herbs
Well, there may come a day soon where you will go out and gather herbs from the field or shop for them at your local herb shop.
For now, let’s take a look in the fridge so you can get started.
Time to build our first herbal apothecary..
SO LET'S GO TO THE SUPERMARKET! Watch the video below...
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