Common Knowledge and FAQ44: How to Nourishing Daily Brews? Minerals & Vitamins Found in Common Herbs
Daily infusions of nourishing herbs such as nettle, raspberry leaf, oatstraw,and lemon balm are a wonderful way to add extra nutrients to your diet. We commonly turn to herbs in times of imbalance - but the use of herbs can also be a wonderful preventative ally.
Nourishing Daily Brews:
Children and toddlers can benefit from them as a healthy alternative to sugary juice drinks. Herbs that help tame stress and anxiety can also play a huge part in keeping our systems in balance.
A convenient way to prepare your daily brews is to make them in the evening and let them steep overnight. In the morning you can strain out the plant material and refrigerate your infusion if desired, or carry it with you to drink throughout the day.
You can customize your daily brews based on specific needs. Following are some basic recipe ideas. As you learn more about specific herbs you can decide which ones best nourish your specific constitution.
~Anemia Prevention Brew~:
~1/4 0unce dried Yellow Dock root
~handful of dried Nettle leaves
~handful of dried parsley leaves
~a few pinches of dried Spearmint leaves
~Combine herbs in a quart-size canning jar and fill with boiling water. Cover tightly and let it steep overnight. The Yellow Dock, Nettle and Parsley are all great sources of highly assimilable iron and the spearmint gives it a refreshing, minty taste.
~Calcium-Rich Brew~:
~ handful dried nettle leaves
~ handful dried horsetail
~ handful dried oatstraw,
~ Combine herbs in a quart-size canning jar and fill with boiling water. Cover tightly and let it steep overnight.
~Mineral Boosting Brew~:
~ handful dried Alfalfa leaves
~ handful dried nettle leaves
~ 1/2 handful dried oatstrawleaves
~ 1/2 handful dried parsley leaves
~ Combine herbs in a quart-size canning jar and fill with boiling water. Cover tightly and let it steep overnight.
Vitamins & minerals are abundant in many common herbs. Daily herbal infusions provide essential nutrients in a highly assimilable form.
Minerals & Vitamins Found in Common Herbs:
~VITAMINS~:
Vitamin A Enhances immunity, prevents eye problems and skin disorders. Important in bone and teeth formation. Protects against colds and infection. Slows aging process.
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)Needed for red blood cell formation, aids growth and reproduction, promotes hair, skin and nail growth. Important in the prevention and treatment of cataracts.
Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)Needed to produce hydrochloric acid. Aids in absorption of fats, and protein. Mildly diuretic, helps prevent kidney stones. Helpful in treating allergies, arthritis, and asthma.
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)Helps calcium and iron formation. Enhances immunity. Helps prevent cancer. Aids in production of anti-stress hormones. Antioxidant required for proper tissue growth and repair, and adrenal gland function.
Vitamin DEssential for calcium and phosphorous utilization. Prevents rickets. Needed for normal growth of bones and teeth. Helps regulate heartbeat. Prevents cancer and enhances immunity. Aids thyroid function and blood clotting.
Chromium This mineral is vital in the synthesis of glucose and the metabolism of cholesterol, fats and proteins. Maintains blood pressure and blood sugar levels.
Magnesium This mineral prevents calcification of soft tissue. Helps reduce and dissolve calcium phosphate kidney stones. Helps prevent birth defects. Improves cardiovascular system
Selfur This mineral helps skin and hair. Fights bacterial infection. Aids liver function. Disinfects blood. Protects against toxic substances.
Herbal Sources:Horsetail.
Vanadium This mineral is needed for cellular metabolism and formation of bones and teeth. Improves insulin utilization.
Herbal Sources:Dill.
Zinc This mineral promotes growth and mental alertness. Accelerates healing. Regulates oil glands. Promotes healthy immune system, and healing of wounds.
Claims: Information this web site presented is meant for Nutritional Benefit and as an educational starting point only, for use in maintenance and promotion good health in cooperation with a common knowledge base reference...Furthermore,it based solely on the traditional and historic use or legend of a given herb from the garden of Adonis. Although every effort has been made to ensure its accurate, please note that some info may be outdated by more recent scientific developments......
Pharmakon Warning: The order of knowledge is not the transparent order of forms and ideas,as one might be tempted retrospectively to interpret it; it is the antidote....(Dissemination,Plato's Pharmacy,II.The Ingredients:Phantasms,Festivals,and Paints;138cf. Jacques Derrida.).
And as it happens,the technique of imitation,along with the production of the simulacrum,has always been in Plato's eyes manifestly magical,thaumaturgical:......and the same things appear bent and straight to those who view them in water and out,or concave and convex,owing to similar errors of vision about colors, and there is obviously every confusion of this sort in our souls.And so scene painting (skiagraphia) in its exploitation of this weakness of four nature falls nothing short of witchcraft (thaumatopoia), and so do jugglery and many other such contrivances.(Republic X,602c-d;cf.also 607c).
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Common Knowledge and FAQ44: How to Nourishing Daily Brews? Minerals & Vitamins Found in Common Herbs
Daily infusions of nourishing herbs such as nettle, raspberry leaf, oatstraw,and lemon balm are a wonderful way to add extra nutrients to your diet. We commonly turn to herbs in times of imbalance - but the use of herbs can also be a wonderful preventative ally.
