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Why learn to Meditate?
Why learn to Meditate? If someone told me 5 years ago I would be meditating every day and teaching meditation to my patients-well- I would have laughed and said “Oh ya right!” Actually, five years ago I was so stressed out I probably would not have laughed. I would have walked away. Every day my…
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Poultices, apparently if you don’t use them they don’t work
Poultices A poultice, also called cataplasm, is a soft moist mass, often heated and medicated, that is spread on cloth over the skin to treat an aching, inflamed, or painful part of the body. It can be used on wounds such as cuts. I love stuff like this – things you can make naturally using…
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Food equals Medicine: Ginger
Food equals Medicine: Ginger I’m a fan of ginger ale. Its the one thing settles my yucky stomach. Canada Dry is my brand. It has real ginger in it. Having said that -its extracted and lots of not so good stuff in ginger ale. I don’t know why i have never included grated real ginger…
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shoh wu chi a tonic and Lili Von Shtupp
When ever I think of “tonics” I think of the wild west and the guys in their wagons touting the latest cure. One of the more popular tonics like Hostetter’s Celebrated Stomach Bitters had an alcohol content of 44.3% by volume. Others, like Parkers Tonic had 41.6% and Peruna had 28%. From the 1850’s to…
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Food equals medicine MUNG BEANS
Food equals medicine MUNG BEANS The only beans i ever really liked were Boston Baked Beans. Delicious but probably not good for you. With my hotdog and some potato salad. On my old sailboat in eel pond in woods hole. I digress… This stuff you can get the bean or also in vermicelli noodles. These…
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food equals medicine SEAWEED
food equals medicine SEAWEED This was another one of the foods i said ugh to. Now i can’t enough of it. I just bought some iodine. We don’t get enough Iodine. Salt does not naturally contain iodine. “No salt, table or sea, in its natural state contains iodine. This mineral was added to salt in…
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Food equals medicine Kimchi
Food equals medicine Kimchi This one of the foods my acupuncture doc turned me onto. I’m very lucky to be able to pick up home made at my local Chinese grocery store. You can also buy in Publix. Effective in preventing cancer and detoxifying heavy metals in the liver, kidney and small intestine. Slows down…
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Integrative recovery and being your own advocate
Integrative recovery and being your own advocate A few weeks ago I had a headache. Actually it was more like a head pain. Like my brain was on fire. There are thousands of reasons for a headache. I’m not a headachy type of person. I just thought I had some kind of virus took some…
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and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make (paul mccartney)
I feel I need to tackle this any maybe someone somewhere will read it and be able to help someone. The only goodness that comes out of a suicide death of a friend or a family is perhaps one can gain a little knowledge and understanding. As a spiritual counselor and as psych rn sometimes…
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Intention is everything
I hate looking back – it doesn’t do you any good to rehash the past – and I know ,yes , sometimes things just get stuck in your head and remain there. There is a way to get rid of all that stuff and no its not drowning your sorrow in alcohol. Its mediation. try…
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