The Benefit Of Beets
on Apr 11 in Acupuncture, Allergies, Alternative Medicine, Cooking, Specific Health Issues, Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Wellness
Beets. Dr. Jacob Schor just sent out an interesting article about how drinking beet juice may help with senile dementia. Let’s face it, we hear little that really helps with dementia, so this is interesting to me. Beets are a remarkable food. Besides turning urine and stools red , they are high in vitamins and minerals, and can help keep the bowels moving. They are heart friendly, containing components which improve circulation, lower cholesterol, reduce stroke risk and more. Beets are known to counteract certain cancerous mutations. And there is evidence that beet juice cut the times for bicycle racers. Note, avoid beets if you are prone to calcium oxalate kidney stones. If you don’t already have one, it is worth your while to develop a taste for this amazing colorful root. (The greens are also rich in calcium, iron and carotenoids.) If you garden at all, now is the time to put beet seeds in the ground. Beets are easy to grow and are very hardy.
And Another Beautiful Poem
on Oct 07 in Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle, Uncategorized, WellnessNaomi Shihab Nye
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.Before you know kindness as the deepest thing
inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.
Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and
purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.
One Favorite Poem by Hafiz
on Oct 07 in Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle, Uncategorized, WellnessBy Hafiz
Don’t surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut more deep.
Let it ferment and season you
As few human
Or even divine ingredients can.
Something missing in my heart tonight
Has made my eyes so soft,
My voice
So tender,
My need of God
Absolutely
Clear.
diet drinks and foods
on Sep 09 in Acupuncture, Alternative Medicine, Cooking, Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Wellness
Hello dear readers
I saw the following on a mailing, and had heard this before. It might be interesting to check out.
Be aware if a label says “sugar free”
Aspatame, marketed as ‘Nutra Sweet’, ‘Equal’, and ‘Spoonful’
Why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees the wood alcohol in ASARTAME converts into formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The metabolic toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.
It is also suspect that the Aspartame in thousands of pellets of diet soda’s consumed by men and women fighting the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.
Besides carbonated drinks are known to deplete the body of calcium and are bad for the environment, (cans,trash)
insomnia and sleep problems
on Jul 08 in Acupuncture, Alternative Medicine, Specific Health Issues, Wellness
Good morning again
In Chinese Medicine, we look at the kind of sleeping problems one might have. It is hard to fall asleep or difficult to stay asleep. Is the sleep dream disturbed, or do you wake up early. What time in the night one wakes up, if going back to sleep is difficult, can tell something about organ imbalance. The window between 1am and 3am is often related to Liver issues.
Generally we think about sleep connected to the spirit that lives in the heart. In Chinese Medicine organs have a spirit. The heart spirit s called Shen. If the someone is anemic, the blood is not rich and at night the Shen cannot rest in the heart, but is restless, leading to disturbed sleep. So we treat improving the blood quality and nurturing the affected organ to help with sleep.
In Western Medicine, if someone has an organ transplant, often it is reported that the person picks up trades from the organ donor. In that sense even Western Medicine recognizes the presence of a spirit or personality trade related to organs.
There are several great formula’s of Chinese Herbs to choose from to balance sleep. Kidney, Liver and Heart are most often addressed.
