The Vegan Golden Milk - Anti-Inflammatory, Digestive, Lubricates the Joints...

This very tasty drink, is wonderful for the spine, lubricates the joints, cartilages, improves skin conditions (internal and external tissue) and helps to break up calcium deposits that form kidney or liver stones and most importantly, it improves immune function.

Turmeric contains curcumin, which has been used for its medicinal properties for ages, it aids to prevent inflammation, boost immunity, maintaining cholesterol levels, promoting digestive health, anti-cancer restoring oxidative stress and oxidation to the cells of the skin (the largest organ of the body), improves brain function and memory (neuron cell function and connectivity), and it can work as a detoxifier.

1/4 – 1/3 tsp. turmeric
1/3 cup water
8 oz. coconut or almond milk (or other milk that you like - rice or soy)
1 teaspoon of coconut oil
1 teaspoon of raw honey

- 1 tbsp. raw almond oil and 1 tbsp of sesame seed oil (a positive influence on blood glucose, hemoglobin, lipid peroxidation, and antioxidant levels.)

- Honey to taste (make sure it is a good natural kind of honey.) You could also serve it with a little bit of cinnamon.

Preparation: Boil turmeric in water for about 5 minutes. Add the milk and the almond oil and heat it up for about two more minutes while mixing it well with a wood spoon. (Remember to be mind-full of your kind of energy when you cook because you pass that energy to the foods you prepare.) Remove from heat, let it rest for 10 min and add to the mix two tbsp of honey.

Refrigerate and drink it as many times as you wish (cold or hot.) We, yogis, drink this a lot to fortify, lubricate and make our joints more flexible.

Just remember that during Fall (Metal Element) and during the Winter (Water Element) season  water in our body may cause dampness.  In Traditional Chinese Medicine, dampness is considered to be the cause of many illnesses such as high cholesterol, cancer, metabolic disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, allergies and environmental illness. For the sake of this discussion, only the symptoms of the aberrations of water metabolism will be considered. There are two general categories of dampness: external and internal. Internal dampness is the most common and easily will combine with heat or cold to cause damp-heat or damp-cold. Dampness can be thought of as the condition of "high humidity" inside the body. Symptoms can include a feeling of heaviness, swelling or water retention, distended abdomen, phlegm discharge, nodular masses, loose bowels and turbidity of fluids. Individuals with a dampness condition often have sluggish energy and easily gain weight.

Some symptoms of dampness in the body are:

• fatigue, body heaviness, sluggishness
• excess weight
• cysts, tumors
• yeast infections
• bloating and gas
• unclear thinking
• chronic sinus infections
• cloudy urine
• joint inflammation
• dry skin
• foul smelling stools

Tips for better nutrition:

Employ slow cooking methods that use lower temperatures for long periods
of time: roasting, baking, stewing and braising help extract the deeper "Chi"
or life force energy from our foods. This process doesn't "kill" food nutrients exposed
to high temperatures for long periods of time, while cooking them. :)

Please remember not to over-cook vegetables. Steam vegetables no longer than 7 to 8 minutes. Remember that we want to eat nutrition and energetically alive food.


The Sunshine Vitamin: expose yourself to 15 minutes of sunshine a day, without the use of sunscreen, especially before 12 noon and after 3:00 p.m. And remember to love everything and everyone. Otherwise I advice to take the Vitamin D3 as a supplement. 

I want to send a heartfelt thank you to all my yoga teachers,
also to all my Qi-Gong and Chinese Energy Medicine professors.
I do love them and appreciate their gifts, and all what they have helped me become throughout the years. :)
Sat Nam...  Namaste. 🙏💜

Love and light!
Katherine

A New Relationship With Food: Nutritional Value and Happiness

Dearest friends;
Welcome back and I have a post today about one of my new and better habits for a better life, I have decided to teach myself how to view food for its nutritional value and to choose food and menus that give me good nutrition, no chemicals, no hormones or fertilizers in my body, fresh organic food and to eat every three hours but small portion of no denature foods, more organic vegetables and fruits.

Today we are covering Alkaline Cereals, organic and gluten free.

Organic Oats
It’s known as “the Queen of cereals” thanks to the high content in proteins, carbohydrates, phosphorus, trace elements, iron, nutrients, vitamins and minerals.

Actions: Strengthens the Spleen, the organ that produces blood in the body, the nervous system and the reproductive organs. It is recommended to treat postpartum urinary and bowel obstruction and to treat Hepatitis. It is purifying, helps control blood sugar levels in the blood and improves digestion.

Organic Barley
Barley also has B vitamins, folic acid, choline and vitamin K. It is a good source of potassium, magnesium, iron, sulfur, copper, zinc, manganese, chromium, selenium, iodine and phosphorus.

Actions: It nourishes, relaxes and refreshes the liver and gallbladder. Cooling and bland. Promotes diuresis, clears heat (inflammation in the body), detoxifies, it is great to treat indigestion, diarrhea, tumors and it is the cereal with biggest amount of fiber (17%.)

Organic Millet
Considered a sacred and powerful therapeutic food for Traditional Chinese Medicine, millet is the only alkalizing cereal, besides being a great remineralizer. Clears heat and it is cooling. It’s gluten free. It is a natural source of phosphorus. Also contains fatty acids, iron, zinc, iodine and vitamin E.

Actions: Relieves diarrhea, promotes urination, anti-toxin, stops vomiting and acts as astringent to the stomach and intestines.

Organic Quinoa
Quinoa’s properties are mainly nutritional. It’s gluten free. Almost 20% of its dry weight corresponds to vegetable proteins of very good quality for the facility to be assimilated by the body. Warm and Sweet energy. Has twice the proteins than rice or barley. Good source of iron, manganese and magnesium. It has anti-inflammatory, anti viral, anti-cancer and anti-depressive effects.

Folk Remedy: Quinoa calms the spirit and strengthen the body.

Actions: Strengthens the entire body, tonifies the flow of Qi (life force energy), it is used to treat weakness, fatigue, cold hands and feet.

Learn to see food as a source of nutrition for the body, a source of energy and to eat certain foods depending on your constitutional archetype which is a reflection of energy balance in your body. All dis-ease is a manifestation of disharmony in the body and it is caused by the energy that we live in; our thoughts, self talk, emotions, the food that we use to nourish our body, the way that we cook and preserve the food that we eat and the environment we live in which it is our extended body; color, air, relationships, living beings around us and the flow of energy in our lives.

Love your body. Love your-self and eat healthy. :)

Katherine
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Healing Lemonade

Healing Lavender-Calming Lemonade

Fun Vegan Healthy Summer Drink

Easy to make, medicinal (therapeutic uses) and healing to balance our biochemistry.

 Ingredients:

• 1 cup of brown sugar ( you could substitute with agave, a natural sugar)
• or 1/2 cup light agave syrup
• zest of 3 lemons citrus
• 1 cups fresh citrus lemon juice
• 2 cups water
• 8 drops of rose water
• 1/2 cup loosely packed lavender and 1/4 cup of mint leaves.
• serve chilled  

Agave syrup is the sweet nectar extracted from the plant. It is full of mineral and has a low glycemic index, making it far healthier than refine sugars.

Method:

• In a large pot bring sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and water to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat.  Add the herbs (mint and lavender) and let the syrup infuse for at least 15 minutes.
• Strain mix through a fine sieve, squeezing out as much liquid as possible from the herbs before discarding them. (*)
• Add ice cubes to your preference and serve chilled.

(*) Remember to start your own compose pile with left overs of your organic garden or produce; fruit, vegetables and herbs. 

Lavender Calming Properties:

Lavender is an aromatic, tonic herb with a sweet scent. It relaxes spasms, benefits the digestion, stimulates peripheral circulation and the uterus and lowers fever. It is anti-septic and has an anti-depressant effect.

Therapeutic uses

• Internal use
  • Lavender is used internally for indigestion, irritability, anxiety, exhaustion, tension headaches, migraine and bronchial complaints.
• External use
  • Used externally to treat most type of burns, including sunburn, rheumatism, muscular pains, neuralgia, cold sores, insect bites, head lice, halitosis, vaginal discharge and anal fissure.
  • It has an analgesic effect on the skin, which helps with pain relief, but it is the antiseptic and stimulant properties which make it very effective for use on wounds and burns.
  • It is mainly used for its antiseptic and anti-dandruff properties but also have antibacterial, spasmodically (relieving spasms) and local pain killing actions.
  • On the skin, lavender oil tones and revitalizes it and it is useful for all types of skin problems, such as abscesses, acne, oily skin, boils, burns, sunburn, wounds, psoriasis, lice, insect bites, stings. It also acts as an insect repellent.
  • The therapeutic properties of lavender oil are antiseptic, analgesic, anti-convulsant, anti-depressant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, bactericide, cicatrisant, decongestant, deodorant, diuretic, nervine and sedative. 
  • At the end of a stressful day, add a few drops of lavender oil to a tub and hot water. To relieve eyestrain, dot a cotton handkerchief with a little lavender oil, chill the cloth, and place it over your eyes. Combine a few drops of lavender, sandalwood, and bergamot oils and add the mixture to grape seed oil; rub it on your skin as a natural insect repellent.
    

Welcome to our blog and best wishes on your personal care plan toward a better life.


Love and light!
Katherine
@DearestSource