Healing Turmeric Tea

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My Sweet, Supermom, enjoying healing Turmeric tea! She taught me sooooo much about healthy, herbs, plant-based living! Thank you MOM!

Ingredients for Healing Turmeric Tea! Sorry I forgot a dash of cayenne for the photo

I have been thinking alot lately about how to get maximum results for my family, friends and clients, when it comes to unleashing the healing power of turmeric. This little asian root, related to ginger has been used for centuries as food and medicine. So much of our food has been our medicine for millenia, as it should be. This is real health care, not sick care so much, but that also, but prevention is the best health care.
Science is now discovering the power of plants as medicine, as preventive agents and is unlocking some of the Creator's secrets, I want to stress SOME, we may be making wonderful discoveries but for every new star we discover, there are gazzilions more undiscovered, the same goes for galaxies and also for the micro world. Creation is a vast field of study that can not be exhausted.
So, I have been mulling over some alternative ways to get the benefits of Turmeric into humans in a pleasant way. I know that the turmeric root capsules are useful, but there are components of turmeric that are not absorbed, and all its potential is not unlocked unless there is a source of heat, a catalyst, like cayenne pepper and some fat. Asians of course consume much turmeric in their curries where the root powder is boiled(heat), contains hot peppers, and coconut or other oils. Their heavy use of turmeric translates into less Alzheimers and some protection against certain cancers. The capsule does not offer all these benefits, curcumin on the other hand is even found at times to be no better than a placebo when compared to using whole turmeric. This is where my healing tea came from and I want to share the recipe here today. I want to thank Dr. Gregor of nutritionfacts.org for supplying so much useful information! Here is a link to just one of his short talks on Turmeric and Alzheimers.
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-alzheimers-with-turmeric/

Healing Turmeric Tea

In a Saucepan

1 qt. pure water
1 inch fresh ginger, sliced
2 Tablespoons dandelion root
1 apple, washed, cut in 4, optional
1 heaping tsp. fenugreek powder or seed
1 heaping tsp. turmeric up to 2 heaping Tablespoons Turmeric(deepending on your condition, acute, chronic, serious, more)
1 Tablespoon unsweetened coconut
dash cayenne or a half a fresh hot pepper
2-6 squirts Stevia extract for sweetening to taste
Lemon, optional fresh when serving the tea

Bring to boil first 4 ingredients. Cover. Simmer 10 minutes. Turn off, add remaining ingredients. Let steep at least 20 minutes. Strain. Enjoy between meals. 1 hour before a meal is a good time to drink the tea. Drink 1 quart a day.

This formula contains other plants which we will discuss on a different post.
Turmeric has been shown to be anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-joint pain, anti-diabetic, anti-alzheimers, anti-hypertensive, anti-depressive, anti-brain fog, anti-gallstone, anti-anxiety for alzheimers patients. Hey, this is good food! Should anyone NOT use turmeric, yes a few people, watch this short video to find out why you should not use turmeric if you have biliary obstruction or are prone to kidney stones: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/who-shouldnt-consume-curcumin-or-turmeric/
Try the tea, let me know what happens in 10 weeks. So happy you joined me today!
Have a blessed day, Marline.

Turmeric or Curcumin

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I went to a wonderful health education seminar geared toward professional a couple weeks ago. 2016 EQ Summit. Several physicians, scientists, psychologists and nutritionists were featured. The information was phenomenal! One thing I want to share with my friends today, from the Summit, is that contrary to media, most information out there, whole turmeric works better than the curcumin extract! It makes so much sense! The whole food is greater than its parts!! Another thing is that if you make a tea or heat the turmeric powder, add a little dash of cayenne, you have a more active form of turmeric. Soooooo, my recommendation: When you make a tea, any tea, like chamomile, peppermint, verbena, whatever, add some turmeric powder to it (1 tsp per quart) let it steep, drink throughout the day and reap the powerful anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-oxidant benefits of this humble root, a gift from the Creator!! Let me know how it helps your joints, urinary system, skin, sleep, stress, hormone balance, helps you quit smoking or drugs, foggy thinking, alzheimers all this will improve. Give it 8 weeks for results, but you will feel/see a difference sooner. God bless you my friends!

Honey and your cough!

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Honey, coconut oil, tea tree oil

 

I remember as a child waking up to a cough and having trouble sleeping because of it. This of course would waken my dear mom and often she would come to my bed with a little spoon of honey, butter and a drop of eucalyptus oil. It felt so good, sweet and soothing. My cough would stop and sometimes I wanted to cough again for more of that honey and butter! But butter made my skin break out as a child and so my mom eventually cut butter out of our diet and even though we were vegetarian she was now experimenting more with a pure plant based diet.

Well, I have teen boys now, and they are a lot of fun. When they were toddlers and even now, I have followed the same plan. When a sore throat STARTS...take care of it right away. Get your feet, legs, arms, warm. Drink a hot tea. Gargle with salt water. Drink fresh vegetable juice. If someone gets a cough, take some homemade cough syrup or a spoon of honey, coconut oil and tea tree oil. Sometimes I just usehoney and a drop of eucalyptus oil, or another great one is honey and a drop of scotch pine essential oil!

So is this all quackery??? Well, a few years ago it was considered so, but not by myself! I have experienced and seen so much healing with SIMPLE, natural, harmless procedures.

Let me share something about honey and coughs from published medical literature. There have been several studies which have validated the fact that honey is indeed helpful for coughs, and studies have even verified that a spoonful of honey will help children with upper respiratory infection sleep better and reduce their coughing. -Pediatrics. 2012 Sep;130(3):465-71. doi: 10.1542/peds.2011-3075. Epub 2012 Aug 6. Parents can sleep better with honey too!! I did not need the studies, I have first hand experience! But,...for the doubting Thomas here it is!

Next time I will share a homemade cough syrup that really helps with sore throat but is especially effective with laryngitis! Beware though!! This statement has NOT been evaluated by the FDA!!! Read at your own risk!!!! Everything I have learned in life must first be verified by the FDA. "I wish above all things that you would prosper and be in health." 3 John 2. Blessings to all! Enjoy your honey!

 

 

Summer time Delicious!

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Our family loves this nutritious breakfast (or dinner) Muesli every summer. Just chop up a big bowl of cold, fresh, sweet peaches, add a generous scoop of ground flaxseeds, a cup of quick oats, chopped nuts, mix and top with raisins and berries!!! Ready to eat, kids love it, so nutritious!! With a slice of homemade bread, what more do we need!!! Have a fun and safe summer!

 

Stacking up the Supers!!! In Clover!

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Well here are some of our bee colonies in ND. Excellent year for Clover honey! The lower box is home with the queen mommy, the second box is their food pantry for the family and all upper boxes on top of that is extra honey storage. Look at all the bees flying around in the air. They love beeing busy! The queen loves it and she is busy laying eggs for babies everyday. These busy ladies only live 3 weeks during the honey season so there needs to be a steadily growing family.

Gardening and a Sweet Harvest!

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What a wonderful harvest we are having and so early this year! Perfect tomatoes, no cracking except the birds love them this year too!! We have never had tomatoes this early. Picked our first one in MAY!!! My tomatoes are always late. Had loads of kale and beets just when Charlie needed them for his juices-praise God! Picking a basket full of goodies almost every morning! Thank you Lord!