Hemp is an amazing plant for supplying food, fiber, oil, and medicine. It is a superfood that is rich source of protein and essential fatty acids. It can help ease pain and inflammation, and may help with chronic anxiety. Hemp fiber can be used to make paper, rope, clothes and more.
You can use coconuts to improve gut, brain, skin, and emotional health. For example, coconut oil contains MTCs which are an easily metabolized form of fats. The oil can be used to moisten the skin and make salves.
During my early years in the natural health field, I had a lot of unanswered questions and confusion about the whole subject of fats. First of all, the general attitude was that too much of any kind of fat was bad, but then there seemed to be certain kinds of fats that were good for us. So I did what I always do when I don't understand something, I did some research on it. I hope this article will help you with your own research into understanding fats better so you can select healthy fats and avoid…
When it comes to plants, it’s not easy to determine where food ends and medicine begins. Take celery as an example, it is clearly a food, but it’s one of those foods that has medicinal or healing properties. In terms of medicinal properties, I classify celery stalks as a salty remedy because of the mineral salts it contains. Salty herbs aren’t salty in the way we think of foods that contain table salt, sodium chloride. Their mild salty flavor is due to their content of other mineral salts.…
This cruciferous vegetable can aid the liver and digestive health. Cabbage is a sulfur-rich compound that is easy to get and eat. It can also be used as a poultice to help reduce swelling and pain.
Probiotics (friendly bacteria) are an important part of intestinal health, which is why many people try to use probiotic supplements and fermented foods to restore gut health. Yogurt and other fermented dairy products like Kiefer are often promoted as foods for improving gut health, but fermented vegetables are probably the best ways to repopulate the colon with friendly bacteria. You can purchase fermented vegetables at many health food stores and even some supermarkets, but they are also very…
You can ease earaches, clear congestion, fight infection, and aid circulation with this common grocery store staple. Onions have very similar uses to garlic (Allium sativium), but are milder in action.