Category: Aloe

Dandelion greens in a smoothie

10/9/2012

"Dandelion would be a rare plant if people knew its health potential."
- Seven Song (herbalist from Ithaca, NY)

I've come down with a pretty bad cold so I'm drinking hot ginger tea with local honey. I'm also trying to get as many healing foods into my body as possible. Although it was a cool morning here today, I craved a smoothie after my tea. I had some dandelion leaves in the fridge so I concocted my smoothie around the healing properties of dandelion leaves (which are good for your liver and kidneys). A tea usually made with dandelion leaves is good for colds. Today, I've added it into my smoothie. Here's my concoction for the day. It is very tasty and the zing of the ginger is a good wake up!

Today's smoothie - Dandelion leaves, carrots, raw cocoa powder, goji berries, Fresh aloe vera gel from the leaf, coconut oil, frozen banana, grapes, ginger.

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Aloe Vera & Burns

10/15/2011

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I cannot stress enough how important having an aloe plant (or a few of them) in your home is. One time, while driving to one of my clients in the Bronx, I spilled scalding hot tea onmy chest. I had it in a really great thermos cup (so it was REALLY hot) and forgot that I had loosened the lid to cool it down. While driving down the NYS Thruway, I lifted the thermos and brought it to my mouth and poured. Well, I cannot begin to explain how extremely shocked and in pain I was when the tea spilled all over my chest. It was a wonder I didn't get into an accident. I could feel the trickle of the hot liquid going down. It was excruciating! I got off the first possible exit and went home. Luckily, Bill was there and began cutting up a few aloe leaves. I lay on the bed and he placed each one on me and the soothing gel was a welcome relief. I kept the aloe on for a couple of days - changing the leaves a couple of times a day. It had just begun to blister but with the aloe, it never did fully. The pictures show the before and after. Today, I have no scarring from it at all.

I urge you to keep aloe around - if you can't have or don't want the plants, then buy some aloe gel to keep around. It's not as good as the real thing, but it's better than nothing.

I've also read that putting frozen french green beans on a burn helps a lot too! Just put the beans on the burn. Pour the juice of it on and wrap in a towel for 15 minutes. Repeat again for another 15 minutes.

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Dandelion greens in a smoothie

Aloe Vera & Burns

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