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by Susun WeedChange the answer to question 3 and move it to the Southwest.
1. What part?
The fresh plant, just seeding.
2. When harvested?
When the grains are in the milk stage.
3. How prepared?
Tinctured in 100 proof vodka.
4. How much consumed?
30-60 drops several times a day to relieve anxiety.
Change the answers to question 3 and 4 and move it the West.
1. What part?
The seeds.
2. When harvested?
When ripe and dry. No mould!
3. How prepared?
Sprout until starches are converted to sugar. Grind and roast. Use this malted grain to nourish yeasts which excrete alcohol as a waste product.
4. How much consumed?
Alcohol is poison, but a highly useful one that can be tolerated in small doses without harm. It is one of the most useful solvents for extracting alkaloids, the active ingredients in many plant medicines. Alcohol is, and was, safer to drink than water in most places, and throughout most of history.
Fermentation of grains increases the nutrients available to us, vastly increasing the amount of B vitamins, for instance. Nonetheless, used lavishly, alcohol destroys the liver and robs the body of nutrients.
Vodka is the least poisonous of the high proof alcohols. In Russia, people drink a liter or more of vodka daily for forty or fifty years. "Grain" alcohol, or 198 proof alcohol (vodka is made from grain too, but is only 80 or 100 proof) will kill you in two years, I am told, if you drink even two cups of it a day.
Reasoning that I want to make myself healthy with herbs, I make my tinctures in 100 proof vodka and do not use, or recommend using, 198 proof alcohol in herbal remedies.
Plants of the East: Beans
Pulses, peanuts, lentils, chickpeas, split peas, pinto, anasazi, kidney, fava, and myriad other beans.
Also, clover, vetch, alfalfa, astragalus.
1. What part?
The seeds.
2. When harvested?
When the pods are ripe and dry.
3. How prepared?
Cooked thoroughly. Or sprouted and then cooked, to inactive phytates. Do not eat bean sprouts or alfalfa sprouts raw. Soy beans contain large amounts of phytic acid which are not destroyed by cooking. The safest way to eat soy is fermented; miso and tamari are foods of the east. Soy beans become foods of the west when they are processed.
4. How much consumed?
Limited amounts. The large amounts of indigestible sugars in beans cause flatulence and gas pains! Best to combine with grains to ensure a complete complement of amino acids (protein building blocks).
Change the answer to question 1 and move it to the Southeast.
1. What part? The fresh plant, just seeding.
2. When harvested? When the pods are still green and tender.
3. How prepared? Cooked.
4. How much consumed? Greenbeans can be eaten in moderate quantities.
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The information here is offered to help in your research and investigation of possible ways to manage your own health care issues. Common sense as well as solid professional advice from your own trusted medical care specialist or personal holistic health care practitioner should always be part of managing your health care choices.
Vibrant, passionate, and involved, Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her groundbreaking lectures, teachings, and writings on health and nutrition. She challenges conventional medical approaches with humor, insight, and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine. Unabashedly pro-woman, her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly provocative.
Susun is one of America's best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to women's health. Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world. Learn more at SusunWeed.com
Susun Weed is a contributor to the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies and the author of four highly acclaimed herbal medicine handbooks. She has been at the forefront of the herbal renaissance for 35 years.
By Susun S. Weed, author and herbalist. Write to: susunweed@hvc.rr.com for permission to reprint this article.
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