MEDICINAL HERBS I LOVE

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“Dried coffee cherries, per serving, is also extremely nutrient-rich. It has three times more iron than spinach and twice the potassium of a banana. Potassium is extremely water-soluble, which makes brewed coffee fruit beverages a delicious and calorie-free way to give your body a vital nutrient.”

Brewable Coffee Fruit (Cascara)

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Raspberries are worth mentioning here. To avoid the seeds I soak frozen organic blueberries overnight in filtered water, often with blueberries, and I usually sweeten it with a raw, neutral tasting, soft-set white honey. It made for amazing sleep last night, reading a book, and sipping on it up until bedtime….


“Raspberry is better than aspirin

This berry is valuable not only for taste and aroma but also for astonishing heeling remedies.

What is so extraordinary in it?

1. It contains salicylic acid - the main content of the majority of antiphlogistic and antipyretic medicine.

2. It keeps youth: vitamins A, E, PP, B2 are responsible for life tonus, skin elasticity and good face color.

3. It contains a lot of cuprum, and cuprum is a part of many antidepressants. That is why it is good for people who experience stress to eat raspberries by cupped hand.

4. It helps to improve blood because of iron contents.

5. It supports potency because of vitamin C contents.

6. It is especially useful for pregnant and those who are planning to have a baby because it contains folic acid.

7. It improves the kidney work and takes hypostases away because decoction from its leaves possesses light diuretic action.

8. It contains tannin so it is helpful to gargle the throat during angina.

9. In contrast to aspirin it doesn?t provoke stomach ulcer.

10. It tastes good!“

Raspberry is better than aspirin - Знаменитости

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“Herbs, extracts, and especially highly concentrated essential oils can have a huge impact on estrogen, testosterone, thyroid, and so on.

For example, non-concentrated peppermint/spearmint tea lowers testosterone.

Yet many in our community, and most of society, use concentrates of them daily (toothpaste, mouthwash, floss, ...)“

Use & Avoidance Of Herbs, Essential Oils, Plant Extracts,

Is this an overlooked area? Have any of y'all dug into it or found reliable references? Herbs, extracts, and especially highly concentrated essential oils can have a huge impact on estrogen, testosterone, thyroid, and so on. For example, non-concentrated peppermint/spearmint tea lowers...

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Not sure about ginger internally, but I wonder if it might be helpful as a mouthwash…

“Thus, compared to control cells, the stimulated cells reacted about 30 percent more strongly to a peptide that simulates a bacterial infection. Addition of a TRPV1 receptor-specific inhibitor reversed the effect induced by [6]-gingerol.”

Pungent ginger compound puts immune cells on heightened alert

Ginger has a reputation for stimulating the immune system. New results from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (Leibniz-LSB@TUM) now support this thesis. In laboratory tests, small amounts of a pungent ginger constituent put white blood cells on...

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