Menopause Metamorphosis

Stout-hearted Soup

Stout-hearted Soup
Serves 4 - 6

These ingredients feed your immune system and lower your cholesterol.

* Chop 1-2 large onions and saute in olive oil until soft.
* Mince 10-12 cloves of garlic and saute for a few minutes with the softened onion.
* Slice thinly 2 cups of fresh shiitake caps and saute for a few minutes.
* OR cut 1 cup dried shiitake into pieces and add to onions and garlic.
* Pour in 8 cups cold water and turn heat to high.
* Grate a piece of ginger root about as big as your thumb and add it to the soup.
* Toss in 5-6 slices of dried astragalus root.
* Add 1 teaspoonful each dried thyme, dried rosemary, and dried parsley or celery tops.
* Stir in 1 tablespoonful salt.

Bring to a boil; turn down the heat and simmer for an hour or so.
Serve at once, or let cool and serve the next day. This soup keeps well.

excerpt from Your Healthy Heart Online Course
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Yogurt

Yogurt
(A Superstar of Nourishment)
excerpt from Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines.

Benefits of eating a quart/liter of yogurt weekly include:
* Fewer bladder/vaginal infections
* Fewer sexually-transmitted infections
* Greater longevity
* Decreased cardiovascular event risk
* Significant decrease in risk of colon cancer
* 18 percent lower risk of type-2 diabetes
* Enhanced immunity
* Less cancer overall
* Less asthma and allergies
* Cessation of diarrhea
* Less gut distress during chemotherapy treatments
* Reduction of arterial stiffness

(pictured with astragalus powder)

excerpt from Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines. Page 126

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Weed Walk: Garlic Mustard

Weed Walk

Garlic Mustard (Alliaria officinalis)

Here are the pretty flowers of garlic mustard poking out of the sturdy goat-proof fence around my garden. If the goats don’t eat them, we will. The more of the flowers we pick and eat now, the fewer seeds there will be to sprout and grow next spring. Later, we will discuss what to do with seeds that do develop, for one can rarely eat every single flower. Garlic mustard blossoms taste good, and look great, in salads. We pinch off the entire top, flowers and flower buds, and toss it whole in salads.

The leaves of the flowering plants are smaller and tougher and more bitter now, so we leave them (or feed them to the rabbits) and start harvesting garlic mustard leaves from the first-year plants. They sprouted last month, and have grown big and tender without any tending on my part. All I have to do is harvest as many tasty, vitamin- and mineral-rich greens as I want to cook and put in my salads.

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Foods that Lower Blood Pressure

Foods that Lower Blood Pressure

excerpt from Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines.

* Fruits: apple, banana, blueberry, cranberry, fig, grape, orange, pomegranate.

* Vegetables: beets, broccoli, celery, dandelion greens, garlic, mushrooms, parsley, potatoes, seaweed, spinach

* Drinking eight ounces (a cup) of beetroot juice (best cooked, but raw will do) a day, every day, decreases blood pressure about as quickly and about as much as most drugs. It is loaded with nitrate, which turns into nitric oxide in the body, widens blood vessels and increases blood flow.

* Two half-cup servings of purple potatoes daily can decrease blood pressure without putting on pounds. Plant compounds found in potatoes act like ACE inhibitors. To increase the heart health effects: Soak potatoes in water for an hour before cooking them. This increases the amount of available vitamin C, an antioxidant that heals and relaxes the blood vessels.

* Fats: avocados and avocado oil, olive oil, salmon, herring, sardines, anchovies, mackerel.

* Changing your cooking fat to sesame oil can causes a drop in blood pressure comparable with the decrease caused by drugs. Sesamin, sesamol, and sesamolin are special fatty acids and antioxidants found in sesame.

* Grains/seeds/beans: oats, buckwheat (kasha), flaxseed, sesame seed, lentils. Eating two tablespoons of flaxseed cooked in muffins or bread can cause significant lowering of blood pressure within six months. The effect is strong enough to lower risk of heart attack by 30 percent and risk of stroke by 50 percent.

excerpt from Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines.
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Sage the Savior

Sage the Savior

Susun makes sage honey tea. Sage is known as Salvia, which means "savior."

Sage honey tea is great for sore throat, cold, cough, and flu.

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Identifying wild plants in your backyard

Identifying wild plants in your backyard

Susun shows us plants we can find in our backyards, such as oxalis, echinacea, motherwort, yellow dock, wild carrot. Oxalis aka wood sorrel, which looks like clover. It is rich in vitamin c and is great to eat in salads.

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Astragalus

Astragalus

Astragalus is gaining fame for its ability to support strong immune system functioning.
I throw a few tongue-depressor-like pieces in my soups, where they infuse their goodness without imparting much flavor.

Powdered astragalus can be added to almost anything, from oatmeal to pancakes, soups to gravies.

And there is always the tincture, which works well in doses of 1-3 dropperfuls a day.

 

 

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Horseradish tincture

Horseradish tincture

Makes your eyes water and clears your sinuses. Intense! 

Slice horseradish root into thin even disks. Cut disks into thin even strips. Chop strips into a small dice.

Fill jar to the top with diced horseradish.

Add 100 proof vodka and label.

While it is typical to wait six weeks before using a tincture, if the horseradish is finely chopped, this tincture can be used within 24 hours after preparation.
The longer it sits, the stronger it gets.
Start with 5-10 drops doses and increase as needed to clear nasal and sinus congestion.

 

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Plantain Honey

Plantain Honey
Used to counter coughs and improve digestion.

* Harvest vibrant green plantain leaves at any time of their growth.
* Chop them finely and fill a jar with the fresh chopped leaves.
* Slowly pour honey over the leaves.
* Stir it a bit with a chop stick and add more honey.
* Let it sit overnight and add more honey until it is really full.
* Wipe the jar. Label.

You can begin to use it in a few weeks, but optimum strength is achieved in six weeks.

 

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Ginkgo Biloba

Ginkgo Biloba

Susun shows us a Ginkgo Biloba tree and talks about its use as an antioxidant, for memory, as well as preventing ovarian cancer.

 

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