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Plant Medicine For Sinus Infections
Notes for the live video 🙂 The sinus are cavities in the skull, found on either side of the nose, between the eyebrow and above on the forehead. They usually have a thin layer of mucus and are hollow. Acute sinusitis is when having a "head cold" and the sinuses become mucous filled and inflamed as the body works to clear out infection; be that bacterial, viral, fungal and usually resolves in...
Soul Food For Stress Management
Soul Food - For Stress Soul food nourishes our mind and spirit. It casts a soothing spell; worries and concerns seem to melt away. Soul food is about taking time to take time; time for outside adventures, creative moments, sports teams or dance troupes, time to meditate under a tree, read a book or breathe in the beauty of a sunrise....
Chemotherapy and Water Fasting
Water fasting to reduce the side effects of Chemotherapy Cancer Treatment When I first heard of combining the ancient healing practice of water fasting with chemotherapy my ears pricked up. This was going to be interesting. Diagnosed with HER2 enriched breast cancer, a fast growing aggressive little bugger, I was calling on the big guns. 3 months of chemotherapy (TCH) combined with 12...
Celery in a Minute – Healing Benefits of Celery
Celery - the Balancer For the hot and bothered types Celery has been used as a traditional medicine for centuries and has so many benefits for modern-day illnesses. We don’t need an otherworldly being to tell us (no offence, Medical Medium ) Celery is a detoxifier. Clearer of fluid congestion. Ideal for Aching joints Fluid retention Celery is an alkaliser in an acidic world, providing...
Herbs For Autumn
Energies of Autumn In Autumn the expanding energy of summer begins to turn inwards. Our plants are reflecting this same energetic principle, energy returning into the roots from leaves and flowers the closer we get to winter. In traditional medicines we acknowledge the cycles of nature are intertwined with our own cycles of health and healing. A Time of Harvest Autumn being the time of...
I Found Cancer In My Body
Finding Breast Cancer Late August 2018, the 29th to be exact, I found a lump in my right breast. I was lounging on my sons bed and reached up to scratch under my arm and felt something. That was it. To be honest I sort of knew straight away. If you have followed my extended juice cleanses, I talk about feeling something wasn't right. I have sensed I had something deep inside that needed to be...
Ginger – Herbal Relief for Nausea, Travel Sickness, Coughs and Colds
When I think of herbs I imagine these little personalities that they have. Ginger I think of a warm hearted friend. One who wants you to feel better real soon so you can come out and play. This one came to me as I was drifting off to sleep thinking about ginger, as you do. Official things Botanical Name - Zingiber officinale Energetically - Ginger is warming and drying, though once dried it...
Alfalfa – For The Itchy, Busy People Left Fatigued and Run Down
Alfalfa For The Itchy, Busy people left Fatigued and Run down. To busy to read a blog post? Fill up your salad bowl with some alfalfa sprouts and watch Herbs in a Minute - Alfalfa, a snapshot of this powerful little friend. https://youtu.be/iFUQEV7lHdM Freshly served as Alfalfa sprouts we have a wonderful source of plant protein containing nine essential amino acids, 8 digestive enzymes...
Dandelion – The Herb for the New Millennium
Have you seen those weed killing ads on TV? The one where they zoom in on that nasty pest Dandelion? Does.my.head.in There is a reason Dandelion keeps popping up in those manicure lawns... the uptight owners are most likely full of liver congestion and the answer they have is the very thing they are trying to destroy... Ms Dande Why do we humans do that? Try to kill the very thing that is there...
