Hi HV, if you were going to envision a good all-around herbal powder mix, (I'm thinking you would want it to be a rainbow-coloured "food", so to speak) what would it be? Would you mind sharing your thoughts? I'm thinking, tonic, supportive of all systems, (good minerals, etc.) and with some adaptogenic properties.
If it's relevant-and it might be, given seasons etc. and how the plants ought to complement these, we are in Canada. Is there such a thing that would benefit a man, early 60's, a younger man, 27 and a women 53? (And others, potentially, both older and younger. But this is maybe another whole level...)
I'm sure there are some great basics, but I feel I would have to study Christopher et al for more hours than I have to devote to this. I would like to put something together myself, that would be easy for us all to take a spoonful of a day.
Here is what I might include, just off the top of my head
Nettles (It's the king, in my book)
Kelp (although this might be best taken separately)
raspberry leaf
oatstraw (but would this be good for the men, I wonder?)
I don't follow the color therapy of foods thing, but for red you could use lycii berry and schisandra berry for purple. These will support the adrenals and immune system. Calendula will provide your orange color and iodine for the thyroid. Blueberry for the blue and antioxidant effects.
I would drop the raspberry leaf though due to the high tannin content.
And yes, oatstraw is great for men. High in silica and B vitamins. It is also calming to the nerves and considered an aphrodisiac.
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PS I don't want to take bee pollen--I know some feel it's a great system supposrt--it seems like stealing, to me.
Look for single source pollens. Pollens with single colored grains. These are generally mechanically harvested straight from the plants instead of stolen from the bees.
hey, thanks for playing! The rainbow-coloured idea is something that came from a really good curezone post I found one night, I've now lost track of--or I'd repost it, by a painter who had come to see that it is really eating a range of colours in our diet, much as using the whole palette and not simply favoring a few colours, that makes for the most well-rounded balance; a lot of this is energetic in ways science and nutrition hasn't yet quite discovered the dpeth and breadth of--but we do understand that colour in food is really quite significant--I speculate that a good "superfood" (much as I dislike the word for its elitist connotation) has the entire spectrum, and the synergy is more meaningful than any of the parts. Well--you knew all this. I think industry has tended to *exploit* such ideas (therby curiously devaluing them in the minds of many)without truly *respecting* them, if that makes sense. :-) What she was saying really resonated with me (perhaps because I paint as well). But it was some of the very best material on genuine nutriment that I've read in -oh- almost ten years of health research. (yes, wow!!!)
There is a basis behind this, but I just don't do paint by numbers or diet by colors. If we think about it though those colors are beneficial compounds within the plants. Green is chlorophyll. Purple can be flavonoids. Oranges and yellows can be carotenes.........
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Look for single source pollens. Pollens with single colored grains. These are generally mechanically harvested straight from the plants instead of stolen from the bees.*
I had no idea there was such a thing, out there.
Here is an example:
http://www.graminex.com/pollen-types.php
mechanically-harvested pollen, straight from plants. (kinda makes me shudder). There is a mechanical orchid looking device that was exhibited at the Chealsea Flower show back around 2000--it is really weirldy beautifaul, and essentially was created to respond to himidity conditions in an urban space, and open its bizarre 'petals' to water the garden.
I'll try to find a link..
Your pollen information puts me back in mind of my idea of eating more flowers in my diet. I read yetserday that scarlet runners, which make great tee-pee structures, if given some bamboo to climb, can be eaten at the flower stage as well. I'd never thought of that, though we grew them for years for the vines. They are so gorgeous.
A lot of flowers are edible. Rose, dandelion, nasturtium, kudzu, petunia, violet, daisy, etc.
yes--I think I'd like to become a flower eater-->>>flowers, fruit, vegetables in diminishing order.
The finally, sky. :-)
Of course first I have to be able to disable and transmute the chemtrails. Any idea about all that? Got an invention?
We can call Dyson and have him fill up the roller balls on his vacuum

with helium so we can float the vacuums up and suck up the chemtrails.
You would think we could all do something about the oil and those damnable dispersants as well--if we really put our heads together.
That I do have ideas for, especially the submerged oil and a way to seal the well. Not sure how to get them to use the ideas though. And the first one I would like to test so I need to get a sample of the crude, gooey oil.
As Manson used to say, "I don't have to **** anyone. I think it!! Naturally, I'm suggesting the higher-level frequency of such concepts...a reversal in fact.
I suspect all that chemtrail stuff (and covert cancer-causing experiments) becomes a moot point, once we change our structure fromm carbon-based/minded to diamond-based/minded.
So--t's not really that you want a mantle-sized diamond bijoux, is it? Really, you want to BE a red diamond. Tell the truth.
I already have more carbon in my body that that diamond would have. Is less better?
Ah--but wait! (he protests). Then, where would this "I" be to enjoy the show?