These are very simple to include in your diet and remember that as a food remedy it takes time for your body to adjust itself for better functioning. Give it a try for 1-2 months and see how you feel!
THE MORNING ELIXIR
Paul Pitchford writes that upon waking a morning elixir “will satisfy dryness and bring the energy up and out of its dormant phase” of sleep. “When the body is stiff and the mind unclear after rising, it means that the liver has not completed its necessary blood purification.” He recommends drinking a morning elixir each day to purify and satiate the body’s need for hydration at that time. “Elixir” just meaning a refreshing, cleansing, and detoxifying beverage that is health-restorative. Sounds good to me! Some elixirs are more cleansing than others. Here are some examples to choose from:
Less detoxifying: Warming teas like ginger, mint, spice, cinnamon. Vegetable broths. Water with lemon.
Moderately detoxifying: Vegetable juices. Fruit juices. Wheat grass or wild blue-green algae powder in water.
More detoxifying: Root teas like dandelion, burdock, or chicory. Flower teas like chamomile, orange blossom, or red clover blossoms.
Morning elixirs should be drunk warm or at the very least served at room temperature. I believe people naturally crave elixirs in the morning. How many of you can’t go a day without a warm beverage to wake you up? We have turned coffee into the modern-day beverage of choice, but we would all be less dependent upon caffeine and less tired overall if we’d try one of these. Go ahead.
ShortFormBlog: Newly discovered Mayan calendar goes way beyond 2012 -
My favorite cartoon poking fun at this is in the style of Far Side showing a Mayan ending the calendar at 2012 exclaiming that he ran out of space. From the article below it turns out we have many more years yet. If we don’t kill ourselves first that is.
- 17 b’ak’tuns in newly discovered, oldest known Mayan calendar source
» A bad day for the doomsday industry: You’ve almost certainly heard over the past few years that 2012 would be the year in which the world ended, right? Because the Mayan calendar says so? Well, not that we were…
I’ve been training my empathy in a most unfortunate way. My Way, my Tao, my Path, to empathy has been chronic pain. Because there’s nothing like having back pain strong enough to make me almost collapse from a sneeze (a sneeze!) while I’m trying to stoop low enough over a recliner to insert/remove needles to make realize what so many of us are forced to do in pursuit of enough dollars to live. Between the back pain, a history of intense arm burning from excessive computer work, and a bit of awareness I have found myself deeply wanting to become a useful connection with my community.
Great speech from the co-founder of the Black Panther Party. There has to be lot more of this cooperative thinking if we want to make serious changes to the world.
Happy Mother’s Day all!
The Mother’s Hand. 1966 by Antanas Sutkus
The GOP has already damaged its “brand” with younger Republicans on this issue. How many of the younger Republicans can look gay & lesbian friends and family in the face and say “you don’t deserve the rights that heterosexual people command?” About damn time the old guard heard and understood it too.
“Below is a remarkable document. It’s a memo circulated by Jan van Lohuizen, a highly respected Republican pollster, (he polled for George W. Bush in 2004), to various leading Republican operatives, candidates and insiders. It’s on the fast-shifting poll data on marriage equality and gay rights in general, and how that should affect Republican policy and language. And the pollster’s conclusion is clear: if the GOP keeps up its current rhetoric and positions on gays and lesbians, it is in danger of marginalizing itself to irrelevance or worse.
Read the bluntness of this. This is the GOP establishment talking to itself. And the Republican pollster who arguably knows more about the politics of the gay issue than anyone else (how else to explain the Ohio campaign of 2004?) is advising them in no uncertain terms that they need to evolve and fast, if they’re not going to damage their brand for an entire generation” – Andrew Sullivan
h/t Huskerred
In which the GOP starts to realize that gay rights isn’t coming off the table anytime soon.
(Source: iwasadaisyfresh, via hijos-del-sol)
“Teenagers need around eight to ten hours of sleep but get much less during their workweek. A recent study found that when the starting time of high school is delayed by an hour, the percentage of students who get at least eight hours of sleep per night jumps from 35.7 percent to 50 percent. Adolescent students’ attendance rate, their performance, their motivation, even their eating habits all improve significantly in school times are delayed.” —
Internal Time – the science of chronotypes, “social jet lag,” and why you’re so tired. (via explore-blog)
There’s a great book called “The Promise of Good Sleep” by the Dr. William Dement that exposes how fundamental good sleep is for everyone, from the benefits of weight maintenance to problem-solving. I’m all in for later start times for school; those days were rough.
In Chinese herbology the placenta is used for deficiencies of energy and blood and so is very useful in recovery from chronic and wasting diseases. Pharmacologically it can act as an immunostimulant (Chen, Chinese Medical Herbology & Pharmacology). According to the interview below the placenta has been consumed mostly in times of deprivation and has no practical nutritional value in countries with access to the variety of foods that we have.
http://gazettextra.com/news/2012/may/07/community-acupuncture-makes-point-janesville/ -
Way to go Community Acupuncture & Wellness in Janesville, WI! This is actually a great write-up on CA.
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