[Deut. 24:1] When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
[She find no favour in his eyes - It appears that the practice of divorces was at this early period very widespread amongst the Israelites, who had in all probability become familiar with it in Egypt. The usage, being too deep-rooted to be soon or easily abolished, was tolerated by Moses (Matt. 19:8). But it was accompanied under the law with two conditions, which were calculated greatly to prevent the evils incident to the permitted system; namely:
(1) The act of divorcement was to be certified on a written document, the preparation of which, with legal formality, would afford time for reflection and repentance; and
(2) In the event of the divorced wife being married to another husband, she could not, on the termination of that second marriage, be restored to her first husband, however desirous he might be to receive her.]
[2] And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
[3] And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
[Positive Law # 579 it was a command of the L-rd for a man who divorced his wife to do so in accordance with the Torah by giving her a bill of written divorce. This is called a get and is described in great detail in ancient and modern Jewish writings in the section tractate known as Gittin. This must be done in the presence of two witnesses. In ancient times only the man could divorce the woman. In such cases the woman could go before the Bet Din and the judges would force the man to give her a divorce in cases where she was deserving of the divorce. Around the third century C.E. women were given the right to originate the divorce.
Although there are several biblical reasons for divorce, few people investigate them. The simplest rule is that a divorce is only biblical when the circumstances of living with an individual cause one to break any of the 613 commands while living together. The most obvious of these would include such sins as incest or continued physical abuse by one partner, where a divorce would obviously be the better choice.]
[4] Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the L-RD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the L-RD thy G-d giveth thee for an inheritance.
[Negative Law # 580 it was forbidden for a man to remarry an ex-wife, it she had remarried and was divorced or widowed. The penalty for this was lashes. The woman who divorced and remarried in ancient times, because their customs were different, was considered defiled as far as her former husband was concerned, but not toward her new husband. The word defiled as used here refers to that which was in that day illegal.]
[Matt. 5:3] The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
[The definition of the term sin (transgressions) is the breaking of one of the 613 Laws of G-d (1 Jn. 3:4). This text was not a general statement on divorce and should accurately be used to teach on the subject, from the school of Hallel and Shammai. Hallel believed in any reason was the Shammai said only if unclean. But they argued what was unclean – just because they weren’t pretty enough. Y’Shua is giving them a balance between the two. Although divorce was not G-d’s best, it was not a sin either. The popular reference in Malachi 2:16 – is not a general statement concerning divorce, but speaking out against a pacific type of divorce.
G-d hates divorce is not in the original, and does not line up with any other text. In the original it said “if he hates her, than put her away). Like Jeremiah 3:8. Deuteronomy 24 – was written for two reasons:
(1.)The woman’s security from not being taken care of, and being killed.
(2.)The license to remarry: In the first century if the husband was taken captive and the wife had no way of support she could remarry. Then if he escapes and comes home, she was obligated to go back to the first husband even if she had kids with the second. Not all husbands were good to another man’s children. The only reason then to divorce was to remarry. The reason the people in Ezra 10 were commanded to divorce was because the women were causing the men to transgress several other of the 613 Laws. During the time of Henry the 8th, he keep killing his wife’s off, out of this the church of Episcopal evolved out of the controversy about divorce allowing him to divorce and remarry one to give him an heir to the throne.]
[7] They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
[Why – for breaking any of the 613 Laws constantly. The people were killing their mates in the first century to remarry pagan women. Even Solomon built temples to his heathen wives. The laws of the land said to say verbally “divorce divorce divorce” to put the wife away, then if she remarried she was put to death but not the new husband. Y’Shua was making it safe and secure for the woman by putting it in writing. To divorce and remarry the same man was forbidden in abusive situation.]
[31]It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
[32] But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
[Putting away and divorce are different Hebrew and Greek words:
1. Apollo = putting away (sent away).
2. Greek, apostasion = divorce (written document).
Kerithuth –Hebrew, divorce found four times: Deut. 24:1, 3; Isa. 51:1; Jer. 3:8 and Mat. 5:32.
Apoluotasis = putting away by law. According to the laws of the pagan world in the O.T. and the Greco-Roman world of the N.T. one could divorce another by simply putting away the wife leaving with her the Dailey. The difference in G-d’s Law is that it requires a margin of error giving a legal document so she’d be taken care of and remarries.
This verse should read = “whosoever shall marry her that is put away commits adultery.” The Jewish phrase that Y’Shua used = except for the cause of fornication goes back to the Law in Deut. 22:13-19. Perfecting the virgin who was wrongfully accused, she had to be a virgin. The sheets of the first night of marriage were called the token of her virginity (Deut. 22:13-19). She was to fold them up and keep them as evidence of her virginity. According to the Scriptures divorce is not a sin, but it is not the will of G-d (Deut. 24:1-2; Mark 10:2).
A woman could get a divorce for: a man not meeting her sexual needs by refusing, impotent, sexual disease, a tanner (collecting dog manure) Acts 10:32 unfaithful, and cruel to her.]
[19:9] And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
[The idea was fornication was only biblical reason for divorce came from a lack of understanding of the Jewish Law found in Deut. 24:1-3. A man that was paying for a virgin would take the sheets to the judges to prove she was not a virgin. If she was a virgin it was the custom of the wife to give her mother the sheets for safekeeping, incase she was ever excused.]
[Mk. 10:11] And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
[It is adultery against the wife he puts away, a wrong to her, and a breach of his contract with her.
Y’Shua was asked to give a ruling on a point of Law that was debated in the Jewish schools. In Deuteronomy 24:1-4 there is a Law which says in effect, ‘When a man divorces his wife because he has found ‘some indecency’ in her, and she is then married to someone else who divorcers her in his turn, her former husband may not take her back to be his wife again.’ This Law, forbidding a man who has divorced his wife to marry her again after she has lived with a second husband, does not lay down the procedure for divorce; it assumes this procedure as already in being.
The interpreters of the Law around the time of our L-rd, who were concerned not only with deciding what it meant but with applying it to contemporary life were asking: might be indicated by this ‘indecency’ or unseemliness which justified a man in divorcing his wife?
There were two main schools of thought: one that interpreted it stringently, another that interpreted it more broadly. The former school, which followed the direction of Shammai, a leading rabbi who lived a generation or so before Y’Shua, said that a man was authorized to divorce his wife if he married her on the understanding that she was a virgin and then discovered that she was not. There was, in fact, an enactment covering this eventuality in the Law of Deut. 22:13-21, and the consequences could be very serious for the bride if the evidence was interpreted to mean that she had had illicit sexual relations before marriage. This, then, was one school’s understanding of ‘some indecency.’
The other school, following he lead of Shammai’s contemporary Hillel, held that ‘some indecency’ might include more or less anything, which her husband found offensive. She could cease to ‘find favour in his eyes’ for a variety of reasons – if she served up badly cooked food, for example, or even because he found her less beautiful than some other women. It should be emphasized that the rabbis who gave these ‘liberal’ interpretations were not moved by a desire to make divorce easy: they were concerned to state what they believed to be the meaning of a particular scripture.
It was against this background that Y’Shua was invited to say what He thought. In Matthew’s 19:3, account of the incident, they asked Him, ‘Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause? If His answer was ‘Yes,’ they would want to know for what cause or causes, in His judgment, divorce was permissible. He gave them His answer and then, in private, expanded it for the benefit of His disciples who had heard it.
He bypassed the traditional interpretation of the rabbinical schools and appealed to the scriptures, ‘What did Moses command you?’ (Deut. 24:1-4) Because of the hardness of your heart that Moses allowed divorce. As with the Sabbath Law so with the marriage Law, He went back to first principles. ‘From the beginning of creation G-d made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one.’ So they are no longer two but one. What therefore G-d has joined together, let not man put asunder in 10:2-9. Nan is not given any authority to modify that ordinance.
Y’Shua reminds them of the biblical account of the institution of marriage. The marriage Law must conform with the purpose for which marriage was instituted by G-d. It was instituted to create a new unity of two persons, and no provision was made for the dissolving of that unity. Y’Shua does not idealize marriage. He does not say that every marriage is made in heaven; He says that marriage itself is made in heaven that is instituted by G-d. To the question, is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife the answer is No; not for any cause.
There is a feature of Y’Shua’s answer to the Pharisees, which could easily be overlooked. The stringent interpretation of the school of Shammai and the liberal interpretation of the school of Hillel were both given from the husband’s point of view. In the stringent interpretation it was the bride’s virginity that had to be above suspicion; the bridegroom’s chastity before marriage did not enter into the picture. As for the liberal interpretation, it was liberal in the husband’s interest, in that it permitted him to divorce his wife for a variety of reasons; so far as the wife’s interest was concerned, it was most illiberal, for she had little opportunity of redress if her husband decided to divorce her within the meaning of the Law as liberally interpreted. What was true of these interpretations was true of the original legislation, which they undertook to expound: it was because of the hardness of men’s hearts that divorce was conceded. The Law was unequally balanced to the disadvantage of women, and Y’Shua’s ruling, with its appeal to the Creator’s intention, had the effect of redressing the unequal balance. It is not surprising that women regularly recognized in Y’Shua one who was their friend and champion.]
[12] And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she
committeth adultery.
[Matthew 19:1-12 and Luke 9:51. Elope from him, leave him by consent; to marry another, she commits adultery.
This is a situation not contemplated in the OT Law, which made no provision for a wife to divorce her husband and marry another man. It has therefore been thought that this second statement is a corollary added to Y’Shua’s original ruling when Messianic had made its way into the Gentile World. In a number of Gentile law-codes it was possible for a wife to initiate divorce proceedings, as it was not under Jewish Law. But at the time when Y’Shua spoke there was a recent cause cerebra in His own country, to which He could well have referred.
Less than ten years before, Herodias, a granddaughter of Herod the Great, who had been married to her uncle Herod Philip and lived with him in Rome, fell in love with another uncle, Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, when he paid a visit to Rome. In order to marry Antipas she divorced her first husband. She did so under Roman law, since she was a Roman citizen. For a women to marry her uncle was not a breach of Jewish Law, as it was commonly interpreted at that time, but it was certainly a breach of Jewish Law for her to marry her husband’s brother. Herod Antipas imprisoned John the Baptist for insisting that it was unlawful for him to be married to his brother’s wife. Y’Shua named no names, but any reference at that time, either in Galilee or in Perea, to a woman divorcing her husband and marrying someone else was bound to make hearers think of Herodias. If the suggestion that she was living in adultery came to her ears, Y’Shua would incur her mortal resentment as surely as John the Baptist had done.
In Matthew’s 19:9 version of this interchange, Y’Shua’s ruling is amplified by the addition of a few words: ‘except for unchastely’. The same exception appears in another occurrence of His ruling in this Gospel, in the Sermon on the Mount, also appears in Luke 16:18.]
Overcomer
Father, I actually made it!! I can’t believe it, I have become an overcomer! This was truly the hardest thing I had ever done! So while it is yet fresh in my mind I had better write it down. It had taken me three months to overcome a lifetime addiction. It was time to sink or swim!I would start and stop, which put me right back to having to start over with all the withdrawal symptoms. Seemed to be a love hate thing going on here and I was not sure which way I truly wanted to fly.
I stayed pretty much alone but was so crabby I could not stand my self! “Now if I am doing this for my Father, I should have a better attitude,” so I willed my self to be pleasant or at least quiet.
They say if you can go three days straight the nicotine is out of the body and all you have to deal with is the head. In between all this I had a lot of physical pain, vomiting, loss of brainpower, could not think straight.
Taking to my bed I tried to sleep my life away. I found it fairly easy to seep forever, you just get up to relieve yourself, puke, and if hungry pop in a slice of cheese and go back to never-never land. Time passed much faster and I did not have the desire to smoke. But like all good things this must come to an end for I had to drive my son to work every now and then.
While I avoided talking on the phone, I could sit there for hours and listen to others talk. Didn’t feel like doing much cooking, and couldn’t concentrate for studying, so life was pretty bleak.
I did not say “I am quitting smoking”, for I hate failing, but I did say “I choose not to smoke for now.” It started an hour at a time, then worked its way to two hours. I could only make choices for now for tomorrow was not here yet and today was all I could handle. I would slip here and there, crying out for the Father to not give up on me.
The deal was to be free by the time my birthday came, but I was not. All bets were off – but I did not want to throw the towel in just yet. So “I yelled out “Father don’t let me give up on me!”
For what I learned was during the three months my habits were changing. I went from a 3 pack a day down to 1 pack, down to ½ pack until I bought no more. I could also now eat, talk on the phone, go to the bathroom, just basic functioning without having to smoke.
The hardest was what do non-smokers do with their free time of relaxation? Well I either keep busy or learn to twiddle my thumbs.
I found I had a hard time breathing, and became house bound. I also noticed I could not walk very far, and had become very lazy and spoiled just lying around.
Five times in these three long miserable months, I did break down and buy cigarettes. After all I deserved a reward for all my efforts, didn’t I? Hey and guess what?! I could breathe perfectly! I did not have that pressure sitting on my lungs rocking. My brain returned to the body and I could think again. Well, well, well what do you know about that – breathe and please the adversary or return panting for the L-rd? I do hate choices in life! But I decided death has no hold on me, absence from the body is present with the
L-rd. Guess childhood had prepared me well to handle pain, and I have come too far to turn back now.
With all five of the packs (purchased at different times) I would only get to enjoy ½ of it and then would tear the remainder up, one cigarette at a time “one for the Father, one for the Son, and one for the Holy Spirit, the Three in One.”
I was so busy taking it moment by moment, and day by day, that time got away from me.
No one noticed I had become free! Wow that amazes me, but then also shows that people are so set up in their own lives that if it doesn’t affect them it doesn’t bother them.
I was fighting such a minute-by-minute battle that I did not notice the time fly by, until the Father asked me when I had my last fix. WOW! I am not saying I am there, nor that I have arrived, but I am saying for the time being I am free from this bondages! Even starting to notice I smell better lately.
Were is the fruit of all this? What is to become of it? I do not know, but I know what my Father said years ago and if He is the same today as He was yesterday, bigger and better things are heading my way. But I must say even if it does not come down like this – it was time and I did it for Him. To Him be the glory of each breath of life I have left to take.
“You have walked a hard rock path, my Child. You slipped and fell, but you never once took your eyes off of Me. You kept coming, though you felt alone. Sometimes I had to hold you for you grew weary and tired; sometimes I had to bandage up all the wounds you accumulated along the pits of life; and sometimes I had to just mop up the all blood that keep pouring out of you.
To you that overcometh I will give the tree of life to eat. And you will not be hurt in the second death. I had hidden manna to feed you when you were hungry, and clothed you in white raiment as I confess your name before My Angels. You have kept My words unto the end, and I will give you power over the nations.
One day you will be like a pillar in My Temple and you shall go out no more, giving you My new name and we shall always be together for eternity.
I have said that one who overcometh will be granted to sit with Me on My throne, even as I also overcame, and have set down with My Father on His throne.
You will inherit all things, and I will be your G-d and you will be my daughter!
But until then My child, the game is not over for I have a lot of work for you to do, and you will do it in the fullness of your calling, carrying My authority and My power. For you are to be My Messenger with healing on your wings. Expect signs, and wonders to follow you for you will walk in My atmosphere bringing down heaven as you walk with the band of angels that were assigned to you from the pit you overcame.
Shattered Glass
“You know Father I have never been afraid of dying, a wish You have denied me for years. You said I needed to know love first, guess I will be around for a very long time. No easy way out for this warrior, but then I couldn’t learn the lessons in life if I don’t walk through them.”“Watch where you are going and remember where you have been so that you may walk others through,” He replied.
Father, You know what’s wrong with the world today. They have replaced Your Laws with the laws of man. People have allowed that pantywaist man to kick them around, and that includes me. And if I must climb out of his pit, he had best leave town. There is fire in my eyes for having been so gullible to fall in the pit. Well, I figured out if life is worth living and meant to be enjoyed, and then it should be in the fullness so let the games begin.
L-rd, I feel so all alone, my knuckles are bloody, my knees are scraped up, and my stomach is churning, but I am tying myself to the two-edged sword to keep from sliding backwards.
I am taking a break to catch my breath and straighten out this bent, sore back from climbing. You said not to look back, but I am glancing down to see how far I have come. Father, it is so dark and gloomy that I can’t even tell if I am making any progress. I feel like I am ten feet tall stuck in a six-foot hole without much to hang on to, meaning the hole is closing in on me.
The band of angels You have sent to camp around me - Mercy, Compassion, Wisdom, Shalom, Truth, Justice and Fire - have become my own little army, or have I joined theirs?
Seems like I’ve become the general and they are doing my bidding as they ascend and descend back to You. Truth has been my constant companion blocking the words of the adversary. No rest for this army; I keep them very busy. Once I get totally free there will be much more to do.
This glass vessel is not only broken, but it appears to be shattered – are You sure You can repair me, L-rd?
The higher I climb the tougher it gets; I am now crawling towards the Light. It has been a long night; days seem to pass without morning coming.
I know that whom the Son has set free is free indeed.
Concentrate little warrior on the eternal Light, I tell myself. Self-answered: Don’t rest so long for you’re on slippery ground, call out to Mercy to extend His hand. Now I am talking to myself and answering!
L-rd cut me some slack!! I cried out. Just then Mercy took a firm hold of my hand.
Another evening has passed and I am pretty bruised up. Truth keeps reminding me why I am doing this. I cannot seem to think anymore, do all non-smokers go blank?
Compassion has a soft quiet voice and he keeps cooing to me. I have no idea what he is saying, but find comfort in the sound of his voice and Shalom’s presence has put me to rest.
Wisdom has left this little body, I see him at a distance. I think I must make it to him before he will rejoin our group again - maybe as an incentive to keep going on, like dangling a carrot in front of me.
Justice will prevail. He encourages me to keep moving onward and upward to take back what was rightfully mine! It is no longer ‘IF’ I get out of this pit, but ‘WHEN’ I get out.
Fire is burning stronger and stronger in my eyes. On the topside we will have a lot of stomping to do! No longer will I be afraid to call a spade a spade, and have the fear of man! This warrior will be marching forward and onward.
Whom the Son has set free is free indeed.
Discernment has joined our band, helping me to discern the thoughts that keep running through my head. A large mass of voices that are all mingled together are slowly being weeded out. Failure is not part of my vocabulary anymore, for I have come to far too turn back now.
I have become an open porthole to the Father, though mightily worn out and quite dirty. I make frequent appearances in the Throne Room to get repaired and restored. One touch of His scepter and a taste of His nectar and I am refreshed to carry on.
Whom the Son has set free is free indeed.
Woo - woo – I can see a ray of sunlight, morning is on its way! I am coming out! Joy comes in the morning making long nights worth it.
Watch out! This warrior is no baby! The price has been paid. She has been stamped approved. The mighty warrior has broken through!!
Whom the Son has set free is free indeed.
Holy wars to be fought and battles to be won for the Father’s work will never be completely done. Want to be on the winning side? Sign up today! Freedom is our banner as this angelic band goes over the land. For He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. Justice shall prevail, for we are taking back our land!
This shattered glass vessel has been crushed and stomped on. But the Father is gathering up the glass slivers to create a beautiful mosaic vessel with many brilliant facets, and adding some precious stones. Now I am strong enough to go the rest of the distance and enjoy life to the fullness - all glory to the Father and the Son!
Have you fallen into a pit? Have you been broken and shattered? Are you willing to pay the price? He can turn you into a new vessel made with His own hands to be used mightily in His army.
Whom the Son has set free is free indeed!!
Dairy of a mad woman
While driving on a mission trip with my son and grandson, we went through 8 states, (Ill, Ind., Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Ontario, Mich., and Wisconsin). We drove way into the wee hours of the night.Stay alert and awake, one must support their life long habits, so I opened the windows in the cool of the night to let the smoke roll out. Now I do believe you reap what you sow – and it seems especially that way when sowing bad seeds. By morning I was hacking and hacked my way though the rest of the day. I think I went just a bit too far and overdosed on tobacco. I have not coughed like that since I was seven years old just learning how to smoke. I am a slow learner, so it took me a week of puking out my guts before I learned not to swallow the smoke. Now I am three score years old; do you think it is time to get serious about quitting to become an over-comer?
During the course of this mission trip we traveled over a few too many high bridges. It’s amazing how one’s terror and fright becomes another’s amusement, as they look for a way to prolong it. Don’t people stop to wonder what caused the trauma to begin with?
Well, what it did for me was made me determined not to become another’s entertainment. Towards the end we were breezing over the high drop-off bridges without me giving them much thought, since I chose not let it bother me anymore and trust my care in the hands of the Father.
Maybe, just maybe, I have overcome the flashbacks of being held and swung over a trestle with rushing water flowing over mountains of sharp rocks below, threatened to be dropped if I did not submit to their whims. “Now I loved water, but it was those sharp rocks that told me I would be a goner”.
Lots of construction in all the states, start, stop, and roll a little. “Ok L-rd, You know patience is not even in my vocabulary.” “It is now!” He seemed to replay, “Relax and enjoy; it’s going to be a long ride if you don’t embrace it.”
Conversations came and conversations went. I enjoyed the silence as well as the interacting. This loner has grown! I learned when to speak and when to stay silent.
We saw all types of people, from many races with different customs. But if you look very closely they are not so different after all. All seem to have the same emotions, family, and friend connections. The Father just planted souls in different packages, but all of them belong to Him.
This road of life has many twists and turns, many hills and valleys. Liken unto all the construction, there is an ongoing vigilance of the driver required to avoid all the pitfalls. Some we fall into by ourselves and some we are pushed into.
Who has the control is the issue? Now I am getting mad!! I used to say, “I don’t get mad, but I do get even.” I am renewing my mind on this mission trip; taking the control back from the adversary and letting it go to the Father. I am tired of being blown around by any wind heading in my direction.
It’s a new day and there is a change in the atmosphere! This mad woman has come back to town and she is taking control of what has been broken or twisted. No more roller coaster rides for me. No more pits to be thrown into. This road is being paved into a smooth straight path. Whatever remaining scores of years that I have left are going to be enjoyable and relaxed.
You’re in the drivers seat – you can determine your destination. Take back what was stolen from you. Make better choices as you go down the path of life. If you lose your peace, go back to where you lost it and recapture it. Create your own atmosphere. What kind of air do you want to breathe? Want stress free – make it so!
“I’m scared L-rd!” I cried, “You know how I hate failing. I would rather not even try it if I am going to fail. Do You plan on putting me into a padded cell to bounce off the walls? This has been my best friend who was always there to get me through the tough times. It has helped me build up a high tolerance to pain. Ya, I know, I know it is a lie straight from the pit of hell – but I bought it hook line and sinker.
I told You to leave this as the last big pit to climb out – but we are getting closer to dealing with it now, huh?
I know You can, and do, use even one from a pit – but You said if I want to go further in my calling I must get out - or at least try.
I have been a victim; then a survivor; now a thriver – now I will T-R-Y one last attempt to become free. If You will, give me the mind set needed before I get to three score plus one. I am going to shoot past the sky as the limit, for the more You give the more I will want, and nothing is impossible with You!”
This next journey I must travel alone with You. Win, lose or draw I will be used of You – the question is to what degree do I wish to flow. Let this mad woman stay in the right frame of mind to kick the right butts.
Has this road trip accomplished all it was meant to? It certainly was far more than I bargained for.
Now I wait for the mindset before stepping out – “if You’re busy, feel free to take Your time.”
If I make it to the end, stay tuned for the sequel: “Shattered Glass.”
Unsavoury Advice
[Job 5:6] Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
[Unsavoury - tasteless, bland, salt is a chief necessary of life to an Easterner, whose food is mostly vegetables. As any sort of pulse, peas, beans, lentils… which have no savory and agreeable taste unless salted, and so many other things.
It need not seem strange that the wormwood and water of gall, or the bread of adversity and water of affliction.
Were you forced to eat unsavoury meats and you find the words and speeches of friends insipid and foolish talk, and very unsuitable and disagreeable to you? It was not being seasoned with the salt of prudence, grace, and goodness, (Colossians 4:6).
The white - literally, "spittle" (1 Sam. 21:13), which the white of an egg resembles, it is very forcefully used, since it useless in judging of different tastes, and mixed with food, goes into nourishment, as the white of an egg.
Some of the Jewish writers call it the spittle of soundness, or a sound man, which has no taste, in distinction from that of a sick man, which has. The whole is by some rendered, "is there any taste" or "savor in the spittle of a dream" or "drowsiness"? Such as flows from a person asleep, or in a dream; and so may fitly express the vain and empty words, as the Septuagint translate the phrase, of one’s friends, in one’s esteem, which to one were no than the words of some idle and dreaming person, or were like the dribble of a fool or madman.]
[7] The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
[The things - The sense may be, those grievous afflictions, which you dreaded the very thought of, are now your daily, though sorrowful bread.
To touch - is contrasted with meat. Your taste refused even to touch it, and yet am you are fed with such meat of sickness. The natural taste dislike even to touch bland food and such forms your nourishment. For your sickness is like such nauseous food. (Ps 42:3; 80:5; 102:9).
Sorrowful meat - it intends the wishy-washy and disagreeable words of your friends, their doctrines, instructions, and exhortations they gave you, but were refused and rejected by you and which you before compares to unsavoury food, the white of an egg, or the spittle of a dreaming person, or the dribble of a fool.
It is wisdom not to use ourselves or our children to become nice and dainty about meat and drink, because we know not how they or we may be reduced, nor how that which we now disdain may be made acceptable by necessity.
Your friends’ comforts may be sapless and insipid. You complains you have nothing now offered to you for your relief that was proper for you, no cordial, nothing to revive and cheer your spirits; what they had afforded was in itself as tasteless as the white of an egg, and, when applied to you, as loathsome and burdensome as the most sorrowful meat.
Did you ever have to shake it off and find new friends? Sometimes G-d is closing the door to relationships to move you forward into another direction.]
[Unsavoury - tasteless, bland, salt is a chief necessary of life to an Easterner, whose food is mostly vegetables. As any sort of pulse, peas, beans, lentils… which have no savory and agreeable taste unless salted, and so many other things.
It need not seem strange that the wormwood and water of gall, or the bread of adversity and water of affliction.
Were you forced to eat unsavoury meats and you find the words and speeches of friends insipid and foolish talk, and very unsuitable and disagreeable to you? It was not being seasoned with the salt of prudence, grace, and goodness, (Colossians 4:6).
The white - literally, "spittle" (1 Sam. 21:13), which the white of an egg resembles, it is very forcefully used, since it useless in judging of different tastes, and mixed with food, goes into nourishment, as the white of an egg.
Some of the Jewish writers call it the spittle of soundness, or a sound man, which has no taste, in distinction from that of a sick man, which has. The whole is by some rendered, "is there any taste" or "savor in the spittle of a dream" or "drowsiness"? Such as flows from a person asleep, or in a dream; and so may fitly express the vain and empty words, as the Septuagint translate the phrase, of one’s friends, in one’s esteem, which to one were no than the words of some idle and dreaming person, or were like the dribble of a fool or madman.]
[7] The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
[The things - The sense may be, those grievous afflictions, which you dreaded the very thought of, are now your daily, though sorrowful bread.
To touch - is contrasted with meat. Your taste refused even to touch it, and yet am you are fed with such meat of sickness. The natural taste dislike even to touch bland food and such forms your nourishment. For your sickness is like such nauseous food. (Ps 42:3; 80:5; 102:9).
Sorrowful meat - it intends the wishy-washy and disagreeable words of your friends, their doctrines, instructions, and exhortations they gave you, but were refused and rejected by you and which you before compares to unsavoury food, the white of an egg, or the spittle of a dreaming person, or the dribble of a fool.
It is wisdom not to use ourselves or our children to become nice and dainty about meat and drink, because we know not how they or we may be reduced, nor how that which we now disdain may be made acceptable by necessity.
Your friends’ comforts may be sapless and insipid. You complains you have nothing now offered to you for your relief that was proper for you, no cordial, nothing to revive and cheer your spirits; what they had afforded was in itself as tasteless as the white of an egg, and, when applied to you, as loathsome and burdensome as the most sorrowful meat.
Did you ever have to shake it off and find new friends? Sometimes G-d is closing the door to relationships to move you forward into another direction.]
Blah blah blah
Greasily Grace
Grace through talking 'greasily' with caricatured emotion. blah blah blah
Reading into the text something the text itself does not contain.
Tend towards milk instead of meat been slimed!
Sloppy Agape
The word agape is the Greek word for love. There is nothing sloppy (careless, loose, lax) about true biblical love. James 5:19-20, Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. Did G-d love us this "sloppy agape" way? No, He sent Y’Shua to die for us that we might be forgiven and be set on the right path.
1 John 2:1, My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Yes, our love will cause us to be patient and kind, bearing with the weak, doing others good, and not make hypocritical and hypercritical judgments. Agape is not sloppy!
Sloppy, trite arguments should be avoided not only because they are ineffective but because they encourage you to become a sloppy, trite thinker.
Think of the people whose analysis and judgment you most trust, the ones you consider to be sober and thorough thinkers. Now think of the people who are most prone to exaggeration and to making comments that amplify certain aspects out of proportion to reality.
Willfully Stupid
Find to be particularly useful in helping to avoid problems is to avoid, whenever possible, willfully stupid people. Intelligence is, of course, a relative concept and everyone (except for the World's Smartest Person) is just a little less bright than someone else.
Willful stupidity, however, is distinct from IQ because it consists of a moral failing: Choosing to be dumber than you have to be.
One way to recognize a willfully stupid person is to examine the role exaggeration plays in their speech-making.
A left-leaning progressives that such exaggerations are not meant to be taking seriously. When the person who makes them treats them as if it were a rational claim then it shows that they themselves are not worthy of being taken seriously.
Grace through talking 'greasily' with caricatured emotion. blah blah blah
Reading into the text something the text itself does not contain.
Tend towards milk instead of meat been slimed!
Sloppy Agape
The word agape is the Greek word for love. There is nothing sloppy (careless, loose, lax) about true biblical love. James 5:19-20, Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. Did G-d love us this "sloppy agape" way? No, He sent Y’Shua to die for us that we might be forgiven and be set on the right path.
1 John 2:1, My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Yes, our love will cause us to be patient and kind, bearing with the weak, doing others good, and not make hypocritical and hypercritical judgments. Agape is not sloppy!
Sloppy, trite arguments should be avoided not only because they are ineffective but because they encourage you to become a sloppy, trite thinker.
Think of the people whose analysis and judgment you most trust, the ones you consider to be sober and thorough thinkers. Now think of the people who are most prone to exaggeration and to making comments that amplify certain aspects out of proportion to reality.
Willfully Stupid
Find to be particularly useful in helping to avoid problems is to avoid, whenever possible, willfully stupid people. Intelligence is, of course, a relative concept and everyone (except for the World's Smartest Person) is just a little less bright than someone else.
Willful stupidity, however, is distinct from IQ because it consists of a moral failing: Choosing to be dumber than you have to be.
One way to recognize a willfully stupid person is to examine the role exaggeration plays in their speech-making.
A left-leaning progressives that such exaggerations are not meant to be taking seriously. When the person who makes them treats them as if it were a rational claim then it shows that they themselves are not worthy of being taken seriously.
Humming Bird Feeder
The hummer receipe is : measure 2 cups H2O and boil.
Turn off & add 1/2 cups sugar.
Disolve sugar & cool in refrig.
Change the water every week or it will get stale.
Most feeders will hold 3 cups H20, 3/4 cups sugar.
No need to start with that much if you have a smaller feeder.
Do NOT add any red food coloring or honey, it will eventually kill the bird.
Also need to clean feeder each time.
Don't want G-d's creatures to get sick.
Turn off & add 1/2 cups sugar.
Disolve sugar & cool in refrig.
Change the water every week or it will get stale.
Most feeders will hold 3 cups H20, 3/4 cups sugar.
No need to start with that much if you have a smaller feeder.
Do NOT add any red food coloring or honey, it will eventually kill the bird.
Also need to clean feeder each time.
Don't want G-d's creatures to get sick.
Honey & Cinnamon
It is found that a mixture of honey and cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.
HEART DISEASES:Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. Also those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.
ARTHRITIS:Arthritis patients may take daily, morning, and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain, and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.
BLADDER INFECTIONS:Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.
TOOTHACHE:Make a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five teaspoons of honey and apply on the aching tooth. This may be applied three times a day until the tooth stops aching.
CHOLESTEROL:Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, has found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.COLDS:Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.
UPSET STOMACH:Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.GAS:According to the studies done in India and Japan, it is revealed that if honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.
IMMUNE SYSTEM:Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.
INDIGESTION:Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.
INFLUENZA:A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural Ingredient which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.
LONGEVITY:Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take four spoons of honey, one spoon of cinnamon powder and three cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans also increases and even a 100 year old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.
PIMPLES:Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the e pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.
SKIN INFECTIONS:Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.
WEIGHT LOSS:Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast on an empty stomach and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. If taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.
CANCER:Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month three times a day.
FATIGUE:Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the body within a week.
BAD BREATH:First thing in the morning, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.
HEARING LOSS: Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts
restore hearing.
HEART DISEASES:Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. Also those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.
ARTHRITIS:Arthritis patients may take daily, morning, and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain, and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.
BLADDER INFECTIONS:Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.
TOOTHACHE:Make a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five teaspoons of honey and apply on the aching tooth. This may be applied three times a day until the tooth stops aching.
CHOLESTEROL:Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, has found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.COLDS:Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.
UPSET STOMACH:Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.GAS:According to the studies done in India and Japan, it is revealed that if honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.
IMMUNE SYSTEM:Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.
INDIGESTION:Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.
INFLUENZA:A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural Ingredient which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.
LONGEVITY:Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take four spoons of honey, one spoon of cinnamon powder and three cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans also increases and even a 100 year old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.
PIMPLES:Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the e pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.
SKIN INFECTIONS:Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.
WEIGHT LOSS:Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast on an empty stomach and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. If taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.
CANCER:Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month three times a day.
FATIGUE:Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the body within a week.
BAD BREATH:First thing in the morning, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.
HEARING LOSS: Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts
restore hearing.
Arrows of the Almighty
[Job 6:4] For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
[A military image (Jug. 20:33). All the terrors which the divine wrath can muster are set in array against me (Isa. 42:13). Are like a numerous army, who invade me on every side. This was the sorest part of his calamity, wherein he was an eminent type of Messiah, who complained most of the sufferings of His soul:
1. Now is My soul troubled (Jn. 12:27).
2. My soul is exceeding sorrowful (Matt. 26:38).
3. My G-d, My G-d, why hast Thou forsaken me? (Matt. 27:46).
Indeed trouble of mind is the sorest trouble a wounded spirit who can bear.
Poor Job sadly complains here,
1. Of what he felt The arrows of the Almighty are within me. It was not so much the troubles themselves he was under that put him into this confusion, his poverty, disgrace, and bodily pain. But that which cut him to the heart and put him into this agitation, was to think that the G-d he loved and served had brought all this upon him and laid him under these marks of His displeasure. Trouble of mind is the sorest trouble. A wounded spirit who can bear! Whatever burden of affliction, in body or estate, G-d is pleased to lay upon us, we may well afford to submit to it as long as He continues to the use of our reason and the peace of our consciences; but, if in either of these we be disturbed, our case is sad indeed and very pitiable. The way to prevent G-d's fiery darts of trouble is with the shield of faith to quench Satan's fiery darts of temptation. He calls them the arrows of the Almighty; for it is an instance of the power of G-d above that of any man that He can with His arrows reach the soul. He that made the soul can make His sword to approach to it. The poison or heat of these arrows is said to drink up His spirit, because it disturbed his reason, shook his resolution, exhausted his vigor, and threatened his life; and therefore his passionate expressions, though they could not be justified, might be excused.
2. Of what he feared. He saw himself charged by the terrors of G-d, as by an army set in battle-array, and surrounded by them. G-d, by His terrors, fought against him. As he had no comfort when he retired inward into his own bosom, so he had none when he looked upward towards Heaven. He that used to be encouraged with the consolations of G-d not only wanted those, but also was amazed with the terrors of G-d.]
Have you been trouble of mind?
A wounded spirit?
Has the Father been trying to reach your soul?
Have you tried to submit your burdens to Him?
Let it go and submit to His will.
The way to prevent G-d's fiery darts of trouble is with the shield of faith to quench Satan's fiery darts of temptation.
[A military image (Jug. 20:33). All the terrors which the divine wrath can muster are set in array against me (Isa. 42:13). Are like a numerous army, who invade me on every side. This was the sorest part of his calamity, wherein he was an eminent type of Messiah, who complained most of the sufferings of His soul:
1. Now is My soul troubled (Jn. 12:27).
2. My soul is exceeding sorrowful (Matt. 26:38).
3. My G-d, My G-d, why hast Thou forsaken me? (Matt. 27:46).
Indeed trouble of mind is the sorest trouble a wounded spirit who can bear.
Poor Job sadly complains here,
1. Of what he felt The arrows of the Almighty are within me. It was not so much the troubles themselves he was under that put him into this confusion, his poverty, disgrace, and bodily pain. But that which cut him to the heart and put him into this agitation, was to think that the G-d he loved and served had brought all this upon him and laid him under these marks of His displeasure. Trouble of mind is the sorest trouble. A wounded spirit who can bear! Whatever burden of affliction, in body or estate, G-d is pleased to lay upon us, we may well afford to submit to it as long as He continues to the use of our reason and the peace of our consciences; but, if in either of these we be disturbed, our case is sad indeed and very pitiable. The way to prevent G-d's fiery darts of trouble is with the shield of faith to quench Satan's fiery darts of temptation. He calls them the arrows of the Almighty; for it is an instance of the power of G-d above that of any man that He can with His arrows reach the soul. He that made the soul can make His sword to approach to it. The poison or heat of these arrows is said to drink up His spirit, because it disturbed his reason, shook his resolution, exhausted his vigor, and threatened his life; and therefore his passionate expressions, though they could not be justified, might be excused.
2. Of what he feared. He saw himself charged by the terrors of G-d, as by an army set in battle-array, and surrounded by them. G-d, by His terrors, fought against him. As he had no comfort when he retired inward into his own bosom, so he had none when he looked upward towards Heaven. He that used to be encouraged with the consolations of G-d not only wanted those, but also was amazed with the terrors of G-d.]
Have you been trouble of mind?
A wounded spirit?
Has the Father been trying to reach your soul?
Have you tried to submit your burdens to Him?
Let it go and submit to His will.
The way to prevent G-d's fiery darts of trouble is with the shield of faith to quench Satan's fiery darts of temptation.
Harvest your Garden
Borage - leaves chopped up and added to green salad, taste like cucumber.
Flowers used to decorate cakes or fruit salads.
To preserve them, pick the blue flowers when in full bloom with a bit of the stem.
Spread them on a clean towel and shake gently.
Place the flowers on a fine mesh cake rack or a piece of screening, pressing each stem through so that each flower will sit on top of the screen.
With a small camel’s hair paint brush, coat each flower carefully with egg whites that have been beaten enough to lose their slippery texture.
Sprinkle the flowers gently with superfine sugar using a shaker or a fine sieve.
The flowers should dry in a cool place for 48 hours.
Examine to see if any part of the flower is uncovered, repeat the process.
They keep longer when treated 2 times.
When thoroughly dry set them next to each other, on cotton wadding in a shallow box.
Cover the box with transparent plastic wrap and over this place the lid of the box.
Place in a cool place for 6 months.
Chives - snip off the tops and new shoots will then appear.
2 handfuls in a blender with 2 cups of water.
Strain it.
Add 1 quart of water.
Kills red spider mites on the plants.
Garlic - 3 ounces of chopped bulbs
Soak in 2 tsp. of mineral oil for 24 hours.
Slowly add a pint of water in which 1/4 ounce of oil based soap (Palmolive) has been dissolved.
Stir well
Strain and store in glass.
Dilute with 1 part to 20 parts water.
Use against your worst pest.
Horsetail - dried and cut.
1 1/2 ounce boiled in 1 gallon of water for 20 minutes.
Cool and strain.
Makes a spray for fungus on plants.
Blossom - picked and ground.
Add water and spray on infested plants and ordinary flies
Nasturtium - use the flowers, leaves and seeds.
To make a relish, pickle the seeds by pouring hot vinegar on top of them.
Add 1 tsp. of sugar to each cup of vinegar.
Cover and let seeds ripen 1 month before using.
Flowers usage:
Borage - float in drinks, decorate cakes and salads.
Calendula - color butter, cheese, sauce, soups, stews and tea.
Chives - add onion flavor to salads, eggs ect.
Geranium - leaves for oil, ulceration of stomach, and upper intestines.
Marigolds - rice, soups, and stews
Nasturtium - peppery flavor, salads, butter (leaves and flowers).
Rose Petals - decorate cakes (remove white edges).
Safflower - coloring butter, rice, chicken gravy, and stew.
Saffron Crocus - cheese, butter, rice, noodles, gravy, soups, and cookies.
Violet - jams, jellies, candid, drinks.
Passion Vine - leaves as an sedative, nerves, headaches and sleep.
Periwinkle - as an astringent and nerviness.
Poppy - seeds for baking, or crush seeds is a substitute for olive oil.
Sunflower - seeds for coughs, colds, whooping cough.
Roots for snake bits.
Leaves are astringent, herbal tobaccos, malarial fever.
Flowers - yield a yellow dye.
Pith of the stalks - to make paper.
Flowers used to decorate cakes or fruit salads.
To preserve them, pick the blue flowers when in full bloom with a bit of the stem.
Spread them on a clean towel and shake gently.
Place the flowers on a fine mesh cake rack or a piece of screening, pressing each stem through so that each flower will sit on top of the screen.
With a small camel’s hair paint brush, coat each flower carefully with egg whites that have been beaten enough to lose their slippery texture.
Sprinkle the flowers gently with superfine sugar using a shaker or a fine sieve.
The flowers should dry in a cool place for 48 hours.
Examine to see if any part of the flower is uncovered, repeat the process.
They keep longer when treated 2 times.
When thoroughly dry set them next to each other, on cotton wadding in a shallow box.
Cover the box with transparent plastic wrap and over this place the lid of the box.
Place in a cool place for 6 months.
Chives - snip off the tops and new shoots will then appear.
2 handfuls in a blender with 2 cups of water.
Strain it.
Add 1 quart of water.
Kills red spider mites on the plants.
Garlic - 3 ounces of chopped bulbs
Soak in 2 tsp. of mineral oil for 24 hours.
Slowly add a pint of water in which 1/4 ounce of oil based soap (Palmolive) has been dissolved.
Stir well
Strain and store in glass.
Dilute with 1 part to 20 parts water.
Use against your worst pest.
Horsetail - dried and cut.
1 1/2 ounce boiled in 1 gallon of water for 20 minutes.
Cool and strain.
Makes a spray for fungus on plants.
Blossom - picked and ground.
Add water and spray on infested plants and ordinary flies
Nasturtium - use the flowers, leaves and seeds.
To make a relish, pickle the seeds by pouring hot vinegar on top of them.
Add 1 tsp. of sugar to each cup of vinegar.
Cover and let seeds ripen 1 month before using.
Flowers usage:
Borage - float in drinks, decorate cakes and salads.
Calendula - color butter, cheese, sauce, soups, stews and tea.
Chives - add onion flavor to salads, eggs ect.
Geranium - leaves for oil, ulceration of stomach, and upper intestines.
Marigolds - rice, soups, and stews
Nasturtium - peppery flavor, salads, butter (leaves and flowers).
Rose Petals - decorate cakes (remove white edges).
Safflower - coloring butter, rice, chicken gravy, and stew.
Saffron Crocus - cheese, butter, rice, noodles, gravy, soups, and cookies.
Violet - jams, jellies, candid, drinks.
Passion Vine - leaves as an sedative, nerves, headaches and sleep.
Periwinkle - as an astringent and nerviness.
Poppy - seeds for baking, or crush seeds is a substitute for olive oil.
Sunflower - seeds for coughs, colds, whooping cough.
Roots for snake bits.
Leaves are astringent, herbal tobaccos, malarial fever.
Flowers - yield a yellow dye.
Pith of the stalks - to make paper.
Biblical Herbs
Herb is mention 36 times in the Bible were the word spice is 35 times. Here are a few:
Ps. 104:14 Herbs for the service of man.
Ex. 47:12 leaves for man’s medicine.
Rom. 14:2 if you are weak eat herbs.
Prov. 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs.
Gen. 3:18 Eat the herbs of the field.
1 Kgs. 21:2; Deut. 11:10 Garden of herbs.
2 Kgs. 4:26; Ps. 37:2; Jer. 12:4 Green herbs.
Ps. 104:14 Herbs for the service of man.
Ex. 47:12 leaves for man’s medicine.
Rom. 14:2 if you are weak eat herbs.
Prov. 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs.
Gen. 3:18 Eat the herbs of the field.
1 Kgs. 21:2; Deut. 11:10 Garden of herbs.
2 Kgs. 4:26; Ps. 37:2; Jer. 12:4 Green herbs.
Vegetable Garden
Companion planting:
Carrots and Dill dislike each other.
Beans dislike fennel.
Potatoes don’t like cucumbers.
Tomatoes, asparagus and parsley are a threesome.
Cucumbers like beans.
Beets and onions.
Corn, squash, cucumbers and pumpkins.
Strawberries, spinach, and beans.
Horseradish and potatoes.
Borders of wormwood, yarrow and marigolds.
Plant fennel all alone and away from all the rest.
Oregano near the cucumbers and melons.
Lavender by the painted daisies.
Coriander near the garlic
Anise by the thyme for flies
Sage by the rosemary for insects
Lemon balm by the catnip for rats
Bee balm by the chamomile and a companion to tomatoes.
American penny royal by the bay for fleas and lice.
Garlic, onions, chives, cayenne pepper for caterpillars and tomato worms.
Anise the mice find it irresistible.
The seeds are the most useful part of the plant
(actually the fruit of the plant).
Basil is a companion to tomatoes but dislike rue.
Repels flies and mosquitoes
Borage by tomatoes, squash, and strawberries
It attracts the bees.
Caraway loosens the soil.
Catnip is planted in borders.
It deters flea beetle.
Chamomile by the cabbage and onions.
Chervil with the radishes.
Chives with the carrots.
Dead Mettle with potatoes,
Deters potato bugs.
Dill with the cabbage but dislikes carrots.
Garlic plant near roses and raspberries.
Horseradish planted at corners of potatoes patch
Rids the bugs.
Hyssop with cabbage and grapes but dislikes radishes.
Lamb’s Quarters is a edible weed that should be allowed to grow in moderate amounts in the garden. Grow in the corn patch.
Lovage can be grown here and there.
Marigold grow through out the garden to rid the pest.
Mint with the cabbage and tomatoes
Flies and rats don’t like mint.
Marjoram can be grown here and there.
Nasturtium with the radishes, cabbage and cucurbits
Plant under fruit trees.
Pot Marigolds with tomatoes here and there.
Pig weed with potatoes, onions and corn. Keep the weeds thinned.
Peppermint with the cabbage.
Rosemary with cabbage, bean, carrots and sage.
Rue plant near roses and raspberries but keep it away from sweet basil.
Sage with cabbage and carrots but keep away from cucumbers.
Summer Savory with beans and onions.
Tarragon throughout the garden.
Thyme here and there
It attracts bees
Carrots and Dill dislike each other.
Beans dislike fennel.
Potatoes don’t like cucumbers.
Tomatoes, asparagus and parsley are a threesome.
Cucumbers like beans.
Beets and onions.
Corn, squash, cucumbers and pumpkins.
Strawberries, spinach, and beans.
Horseradish and potatoes.
Borders of wormwood, yarrow and marigolds.
Plant fennel all alone and away from all the rest.
Oregano near the cucumbers and melons.
Lavender by the painted daisies.
Coriander near the garlic
Anise by the thyme for flies
Sage by the rosemary for insects
Lemon balm by the catnip for rats
Bee balm by the chamomile and a companion to tomatoes.
American penny royal by the bay for fleas and lice.
Garlic, onions, chives, cayenne pepper for caterpillars and tomato worms.
Anise the mice find it irresistible.
The seeds are the most useful part of the plant
(actually the fruit of the plant).
Basil is a companion to tomatoes but dislike rue.
Repels flies and mosquitoes
Borage by tomatoes, squash, and strawberries
It attracts the bees.
Caraway loosens the soil.
Catnip is planted in borders.
It deters flea beetle.
Chamomile by the cabbage and onions.
Chervil with the radishes.
Chives with the carrots.
Dead Mettle with potatoes,
Deters potato bugs.
Dill with the cabbage but dislikes carrots.
Garlic plant near roses and raspberries.
Horseradish planted at corners of potatoes patch
Rids the bugs.
Hyssop with cabbage and grapes but dislikes radishes.
Lamb’s Quarters is a edible weed that should be allowed to grow in moderate amounts in the garden. Grow in the corn patch.
Lovage can be grown here and there.
Marigold grow through out the garden to rid the pest.
Mint with the cabbage and tomatoes
Flies and rats don’t like mint.
Marjoram can be grown here and there.
Nasturtium with the radishes, cabbage and cucurbits
Plant under fruit trees.
Pot Marigolds with tomatoes here and there.
Pig weed with potatoes, onions and corn. Keep the weeds thinned.
Peppermint with the cabbage.
Rosemary with cabbage, bean, carrots and sage.
Rue plant near roses and raspberries but keep it away from sweet basil.
Sage with cabbage and carrots but keep away from cucumbers.
Summer Savory with beans and onions.
Tarragon throughout the garden.
Thyme here and there
It attracts bees
Medicine Applications
Illnesses using herbs as medicines applications:
Allergies: brigham tea, marshmallow root, burdock root, golden seal root, chaparral, parsley root, cayenne, lobelia.
To balance the acidity use alfalfa.
To help immunize use bee pollen.
Asthma: marshmallow, mullein, comfrey, lobelin, chick weed.
Seek doctor if continues.
Arthritis: warm tea to drink,
2 Tbsp. of honey,
2 Tbsp. of apple cider to 8 oz. of hot water.
Another is a hot pack soaked in warm tea and applied to sore joint, made with black cohosh, black walnut, brigham tea, burdock root, cayenne, chaparral, hydrangea, lobelia, sarsaparilla root, skullcap, valeria, wild lettuce, wormwood, yucca concentrate valerian root.
Arteries: cayenne, parsley, ginger, ginseng, golden seal root, garlic and an onion a day
Backache: tinctures of cayenne & peppermint applied on area of sourness and massaged into the skin will give great relief in most areas.
Blood builder: burdock, lobelia, mullein, nettle, red beet, strawberry, yellow dock.
Blood circulation: daily modest intake of capsicum along with garlic will greatly reduce this problem.
Blood pressure: meat free and no caffeine.
Garlic, cayenne, parsley, ginger, celery, grape juice, ginseng, golden seal root, garlic, hawthorn.
Blood purifier: crabapple as a tea. Buckthorn, burdock, cascara sangria, chaparral, licorice root, grape, peach bark, prickly ash, red clover, sarsaparilla, stilling, red clover blossom, poke root, Oregon, prickly ash bark, burdock root, buckthorn bark.
Boils - Sores - Infection: 1 onion chop it up and mix with water to make a thick paste.
Apply to wart, put a cloth over wound and wrap in plastic, change it as it dries.
Isa. 38:21 of a fig poultice.
Bones broken & sprains: lobelia, skullcap, marshmallow root, mullein, black walnut leaves, wormwood, queen of the meadow, white oat bark, comfrey root, aloe Vera, golden seal.
Breast Milk: to stop: crush leaves of parsley,
Moistened with camphor and apply to the breast.
2 cups of caraway tea per day makes good milk.
Calcium: comfrey, horsetail, lobelia, oat straw.
Calluses on feet: chamomile for calluses and corns,
Horsetail tea helps foot orders and foot perspirations.
Canker Sores: myrrh, golden seal, cayenne.
Childbirth: hibiscus, peppermint, red raspberry, rose hips.
“B” is use during entire pregnancy in tea form.
Clear Sinuses: use thyme with fenugreek making one cut of tea.
Cold: hot homemade chicken soup laced with cayenne and garlic, parsley, rosehips, rosemary, fenugreek, comfrey, rosemary, and watercress.
At first sign take: 1 oz. fresh ginger sliced,
1 stick of cinnamon seeds,
3 cloves,
1 slice of lemon,
1 pt. of water.
Put all in water and bring to a boil; simmer 15 min., then strain.
Drink a cupful of this hot, every 2 hours. Sweeten with honey.
Footbath help: 1 Tbsp. mustard powder in 4 pt. of hot water.
Bath feet 10 minutes 2 times daily while covering the top of your head.
Colic: The seeds of carrots grounded to powder and taken as a tea.
Colon Gas: ginseng, horseradish.
Congestion: alternates hot and cold applications 30 minutes, fomentations given as hot as can be tolerable, with a cold sponging and drying between each.
Constipation: 8 glasses water daily,
Blend with papaya leaves, buckthorn bark, licorice root, alfalfa, fennel seed, anise seed, blue melba flower, culver root, jalap root and rhubarb root.
Cough: 1/4 tsp. of each cayenne & ginger,
1 Tbsp. of each honey & vinegar,
2 Tbsp. of hot water to be mix together and taken by spoon.
Mix the juice from 1/2 lemon with 2 Tbsp. honey every 15 minutes.
Licorice tea or lobelia extract can be used.
Medicine taking a large onion and slice into rings.
Place in a deep bowl,
Cover with honey and let stand overnight.
Add a pinch of thyme; take spoon full 4-5 times a day.
Cramps: before bed drink 1 tsp. cider vinegar & 1 tsp. of honey in 1 cup of hot water.
Eat celery.
Horsetail grass, oats straw, comfrey, lobelia tea.
Gout: safflower, primrose, celery seed.
Dandruff: sage as a tea on the head as well as internally.
Depression: wild oats, St. Johns wart, verdant, borage, lemon balm, mother wart, rosemary, skullcap, ginseng.
Diabetes: cedar berries, licorice root, mullein, cayenne, golden seal root.
Diarrhea: nutmeg 1/2 tsp. several times a day, reel raspberry as an enema.
1 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. slippery elm to 8 oz. of water. Take 2-4 hours.
(May substitute for slippery elm.) or Cloves as a warm tea or Kelp with cornstarch.
Digestion: catnip, fennel, ginger, lobefin, papaya, peppermint, spearmint, wild yam, comfrey, cayenne.
Disinfectant and astringent: a tea made of white oak using a heaping tsp. in powder form to 1 cup of boiling water. Steep 30 minutes.
Earache: heat an onion up in the oven, chopping it up and mixing it with water to make a thick paste.
Eczema: cleanses the stomach. Use strawberry leaves as a tea.
Eye: bayberry, cayenne, eyebright, golden seal, red raspberry as a tea.
Tired eyes - place a fresh slice cucumber over eyes for 15 minutes.
Brighten eyes - use a wet tea bag over eyes.
Puffy eyes - use a slice of raw potato on the eyes.
Weakness - eyebright, golden seal root, bayberry, red raspberry leaves, cayenne.
Fasting: after fasting - juniper berries, parsley, marshmallow, lobelia, ginger, golden seal root.
Female Hormone: blessed thistle, cayenne, ginger, golden seal, licorice, marshmallow, queen of the meadow, red raspberry, false unicorn, ginseng, sarsaparilla, squaw vine, don quoi.
Female Problems: squaw vine, slippery elm bark, yellow dock root, comfrey root, marshmallow root, chick weed, golden seal root, Mullen.
Fevers: 2 cups of lobelia tea.
Fingernails & Hair: chamomile, oat straw, sage,
Horsetail, horsetail strengthens fingernails
Sage and chamomile use to rime the hair.
Flee & Ticks for Pets: fennel powder apply generously on them or make a collar stuffed with dry fennel, pennyroyal & thyme leaves.
Flu: bayberry, cayenne, cloves, ginger, white pine bark.
Gall Bladder Trouble: fast 2 days taking only 2 oz. olive oil and 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
3 times a day.
General Infections: Echinacea, golden seal root, poke root, cayenne.
Glands swollen and Infected: plantain, black walnut, golden seal root, marshmallow root, bugleweed, lobelia.
Gout: safflower and primrose, celery seed tea.
Growths, Infection, and Tumors: Grate a raw red potato and add 1 tsp. of ginger.
It can be used for internal cysts also.
Headache: fenugreek, passion flower, peppermint, thyme, wood betony, wild lettuce, valerian, cayenne.
1 cup of cool tea of ginger.
Heart & Blood Pressure: cayenne, garlic, hawthorn, ginger, ginseng, golden seal, parsley.
A used to strengthen the heart
B used for high blood pressure
C used to equalize the blood pressure.
Heart disease: Ginger and Garlic.
2 peeled gloves of garlic and a tsp. of freshly grated ginger in a blender,
8 to 12 oz. of orange juice
Mix and enjoy once in morning and once in the evening.
Heart tonic: hawthorn berries, cayenne, vitamin E, garlic, ginseng, golden seal, and parsley.
Hemorrhoids: thin slice of raw onion inserted in rectum to reduce inflammation, and relieve the itching.
Hormone Imbalance: slippery elm, mullein, lobelia, fenugreek - gargle as a tea.
Hot Flashes: Don Quall, passionflowers or 1 tsp. sage and motherwort.
Hoarseness: fenugreek tea - gargle; licorice as a tea or gargle.
Hypoglycemia: (low blood); cedar berries, licorice root, mullein, cayenne, golden seal root, dandelion, soybeans, cayenne, red clover.
Liniment for sprains or bruises, sore fresh wound or ulcer: a small tsp. of myrrh,
1 tsp. of golden seal,
1/2 a tsp. of red pepper,
Put in a pint of alcohol,
Allowed to stand for seven days, shaken well every day.
Impotence: Siberian ginseng, Echinacea, sarsaparilla, saw palmetto.
Indigestion: comfrey, pepsin
For vegetarians: comfrey, cayenne.
Intestinal Purifier: garlic enema, garlic oil
Capsules taken orally
Tea made with equal parts - aniseed, caraway, and fennel.
Onion tea enema
Strong thyme tea or enema.
Insect bites and stings: 1 Tbsp. of parsley leaves to 1 cut of boiling water, steep 20 minutes.
Insect repellent: rub on sage oil over the skin to keep mosquitoes away.
Kidney Bladder Infection: (also used for bed wetting) juniper berries, parsley, marshmallow, lobelin, ginger, golden seal root.
Liver Trouble: barberry, wild yam, camp bark, fennel seed, ginger, catnip, peppermint, garlic, parsley.
Low Blood Pressure: dandelion
Lung: comfrey, lobelia, marshmallow, mullein, slippery elm, chickweed, fenugreek.
Memory Aid: periwinkle, blessed thistle, lobelia, cayenne, ginger, ginseng, bee pollen, black walnut, fennel, licorice, peppermint, safflower.
Menopause & Hot Flashes: one part of each - 1/2 part of licorice, sarsaparilla, wild yam, false unicorn, holy thistle, squaw vine, blue cohosh, black cohosh & ginseng for menopause.
Don quall & passion flower for hot flashes.
Menstruation Cramps: cayenne, mistletoe, golden seal root, blessed thistle, cramp bark, false unicorn root, raspberry leaves, squaw vine, ginger.
Migraine Headaches: 1 cup of cool tea of ginger.
Miscarriage and Hemorrhage: Mistletoe used with caution for may cause abortion if used in large does. It will help expel retained placenta in childbirth. It is a Mervin and anti-spasmodic.
Catnip, false unicorn, lobelia.
Mucous: fenugreek and thyme.
Nervousness: black cohosh, cayenne, hops flowers, mistletoe, lobelia herb, skullcap, wood betony, lady’s slipper, valerian root, black walnut, licorice.
Night Blindness: capsicum taken in conjunction with fresh dandelion flowers in salad form or mixed up as a green drink with a little liquid chlorophyll may help the eyes to produce visual purple to solve the problem.
Obesity: dissolves fat, eliminate excess water, purge the bowls and curb appetite, chickweed, saffron, burdock, parsley, kelp, licorice, fennel, black walnut, papaya, hawthorn berries, mandrake, dandelion, safflower.
Fennel, chickweed, kelp as a tea.
Pain: wild lettuce, valerian, cayenne.
Potassium: horseradish, horsetail, kelp, watercress, wild cabbage, sage, rosemary.
Pregnancy: red raspberry leaves black cohosh.
Last 6 weeks: squaw vine, blessed thistle, black cohosh, penny royal, false unicorn, red raspberry leaves and lobelia.
Prostate Gland: handful of pumpkin seeds a day. Black cohosh, cayenne, ginger, golden seal, kelp, licorice, lobefin, ginseng, juniper berries, marshmallow root, parsley, queen of the meadow, parsley.
Rid body of waste and toxins: add 3 or 4 Tbsp. of ginger to bath water it opens the pores.
Remove Freckles: mix horseradish with vinegar and apples.
Remove Stains: ink; iron; rust and fruit. Rub the stain well with lemon juice, cover with salt and put in the sun.
Sex Desire: coriander as a warm tea plus warm pack soak in tea and place on organs.
Damien, ginseng.
Sinusitis: a fruit diet for 2-3 days can help clear a system clogged and over burdened by tonic wastes.
Hot lemon drinks releases mucus production as well as garlic, onions, horseradish grated into cider vinegar or lemon juice.
When eating add mustard, oregano, mint, eucalyptus, thyme, pine, hyssop, lavender, rosemary which opens up the nasal and sinus passage.
One herb golden seal stands alone. This is a special benefit to mucous membranes in body use in small doses.
Smoking: hops, skullcap, slippery elm, valerian taken together kills the desire for tobacco.
Sore Throat: gargle with sage, cider vinegar and honey 5 times daily.
Strengthen Sex Gland: cayenne, chickweed, garlic, ginseng, periwinkle, sarsaparilla, saw palmetto, Echinacea.
Stones in kidneys: roots or leaves of parsley,
Simmer 1 Tbsp. to a pint of water for 10 minutes, let stand,
Strain and drink one to 3 cups a day.
Superior Tooth Powder: the ashes of the burnt branches of common grape vine.
Make a superior tooth powder; it will clean the blackest of teeth to pure white.
Surgical Dressing: A small tsp. of myrrh and one of golden seal in a 1/2 tsp. of red pepper to a pint of boiling water.
May be use for any kind of wound or swelling.
The fluid or tea should be carefully poured off so that the fluid which is used will be entirely clear before it is part in the wounded.
Swollen foot: Soak in foot in hot water until thoroughly heated,
Then plunged it into cold for just a second or two.
Imperially back into hot water back and forth one hour.
Then after the hot water and the pores are open put your foot into kerosene.
Hot to kerosene several times.
Repeat for a few more days which cure the soreness.
Throat: cinnamon, licorice, peppermint, spearmint.
Thyroid: cayenne, Irish moss, kelp, parsley, black walnut, sarsaparilla, watercress.
Ulcer: cayenne, golden seal, myrrh, comfrey, ginger, lobelin, marshmallow, slippery elm, wild yam, white oat bark.
Vagina: chickweed, comfrey, golden seal, marshmallow, mullein, slippery elm, squaw vine, yellow duck.
Varicose Veins: white oak bark taken internally.
Witch hazel to be used externally.
In the morning spray veins with cold water and wear elastic socks.
Horsetail grass, oat straw, comfrey, lobelin.
Water Retention: dandelion, juniper, parsley, peach bark, and safflower.
Weight Loss: black walnut, chickweed, dandelion, fennel, hawthorn, licorice, mandrake, papaya, safflower.
Whiten Teeth, Eczema, Sore eyes, Strays on eyelids: Strawberry leaves used to cleanse tartar from the teeth and it will whiten stained teeth by leaving it on for a while. Brush with Black Walnut Powder. The fruit is good for a facial scrub.
Yeast Infection: white oak bark & garlic as a douche for 3 days.
Allergies: brigham tea, marshmallow root, burdock root, golden seal root, chaparral, parsley root, cayenne, lobelia.
To balance the acidity use alfalfa.
To help immunize use bee pollen.
Asthma: marshmallow, mullein, comfrey, lobelin, chick weed.
Seek doctor if continues.
Arthritis: warm tea to drink,
2 Tbsp. of honey,
2 Tbsp. of apple cider to 8 oz. of hot water.
Another is a hot pack soaked in warm tea and applied to sore joint, made with black cohosh, black walnut, brigham tea, burdock root, cayenne, chaparral, hydrangea, lobelia, sarsaparilla root, skullcap, valeria, wild lettuce, wormwood, yucca concentrate valerian root.
Arteries: cayenne, parsley, ginger, ginseng, golden seal root, garlic and an onion a day
Backache: tinctures of cayenne & peppermint applied on area of sourness and massaged into the skin will give great relief in most areas.
Blood builder: burdock, lobelia, mullein, nettle, red beet, strawberry, yellow dock.
Blood circulation: daily modest intake of capsicum along with garlic will greatly reduce this problem.
Blood pressure: meat free and no caffeine.
Garlic, cayenne, parsley, ginger, celery, grape juice, ginseng, golden seal root, garlic, hawthorn.
Blood purifier: crabapple as a tea. Buckthorn, burdock, cascara sangria, chaparral, licorice root, grape, peach bark, prickly ash, red clover, sarsaparilla, stilling, red clover blossom, poke root, Oregon, prickly ash bark, burdock root, buckthorn bark.
Boils - Sores - Infection: 1 onion chop it up and mix with water to make a thick paste.
Apply to wart, put a cloth over wound and wrap in plastic, change it as it dries.
Isa. 38:21 of a fig poultice.
Bones broken & sprains: lobelia, skullcap, marshmallow root, mullein, black walnut leaves, wormwood, queen of the meadow, white oat bark, comfrey root, aloe Vera, golden seal.
Breast Milk: to stop: crush leaves of parsley,
Moistened with camphor and apply to the breast.
2 cups of caraway tea per day makes good milk.
Calcium: comfrey, horsetail, lobelia, oat straw.
Calluses on feet: chamomile for calluses and corns,
Horsetail tea helps foot orders and foot perspirations.
Canker Sores: myrrh, golden seal, cayenne.
Childbirth: hibiscus, peppermint, red raspberry, rose hips.
“B” is use during entire pregnancy in tea form.
Clear Sinuses: use thyme with fenugreek making one cut of tea.
Cold: hot homemade chicken soup laced with cayenne and garlic, parsley, rosehips, rosemary, fenugreek, comfrey, rosemary, and watercress.
At first sign take: 1 oz. fresh ginger sliced,
1 stick of cinnamon seeds,
3 cloves,
1 slice of lemon,
1 pt. of water.
Put all in water and bring to a boil; simmer 15 min., then strain.
Drink a cupful of this hot, every 2 hours. Sweeten with honey.
Footbath help: 1 Tbsp. mustard powder in 4 pt. of hot water.
Bath feet 10 minutes 2 times daily while covering the top of your head.
Colic: The seeds of carrots grounded to powder and taken as a tea.
Colon Gas: ginseng, horseradish.
Congestion: alternates hot and cold applications 30 minutes, fomentations given as hot as can be tolerable, with a cold sponging and drying between each.
Constipation: 8 glasses water daily,
Blend with papaya leaves, buckthorn bark, licorice root, alfalfa, fennel seed, anise seed, blue melba flower, culver root, jalap root and rhubarb root.
Cough: 1/4 tsp. of each cayenne & ginger,
1 Tbsp. of each honey & vinegar,
2 Tbsp. of hot water to be mix together and taken by spoon.
Mix the juice from 1/2 lemon with 2 Tbsp. honey every 15 minutes.
Licorice tea or lobelia extract can be used.
Medicine taking a large onion and slice into rings.
Place in a deep bowl,
Cover with honey and let stand overnight.
Add a pinch of thyme; take spoon full 4-5 times a day.
Cramps: before bed drink 1 tsp. cider vinegar & 1 tsp. of honey in 1 cup of hot water.
Eat celery.
Horsetail grass, oats straw, comfrey, lobelia tea.
Gout: safflower, primrose, celery seed.
Dandruff: sage as a tea on the head as well as internally.
Depression: wild oats, St. Johns wart, verdant, borage, lemon balm, mother wart, rosemary, skullcap, ginseng.
Diabetes: cedar berries, licorice root, mullein, cayenne, golden seal root.
Diarrhea: nutmeg 1/2 tsp. several times a day, reel raspberry as an enema.
1 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. slippery elm to 8 oz. of water. Take 2-4 hours.
(May substitute for slippery elm.) or Cloves as a warm tea or Kelp with cornstarch.
Digestion: catnip, fennel, ginger, lobefin, papaya, peppermint, spearmint, wild yam, comfrey, cayenne.
Disinfectant and astringent: a tea made of white oak using a heaping tsp. in powder form to 1 cup of boiling water. Steep 30 minutes.
Earache: heat an onion up in the oven, chopping it up and mixing it with water to make a thick paste.
Eczema: cleanses the stomach. Use strawberry leaves as a tea.
Eye: bayberry, cayenne, eyebright, golden seal, red raspberry as a tea.
Tired eyes - place a fresh slice cucumber over eyes for 15 minutes.
Brighten eyes - use a wet tea bag over eyes.
Puffy eyes - use a slice of raw potato on the eyes.
Weakness - eyebright, golden seal root, bayberry, red raspberry leaves, cayenne.
Fasting: after fasting - juniper berries, parsley, marshmallow, lobelia, ginger, golden seal root.
Female Hormone: blessed thistle, cayenne, ginger, golden seal, licorice, marshmallow, queen of the meadow, red raspberry, false unicorn, ginseng, sarsaparilla, squaw vine, don quoi.
Female Problems: squaw vine, slippery elm bark, yellow dock root, comfrey root, marshmallow root, chick weed, golden seal root, Mullen.
Fevers: 2 cups of lobelia tea.
Fingernails & Hair: chamomile, oat straw, sage,
Horsetail, horsetail strengthens fingernails
Sage and chamomile use to rime the hair.
Flee & Ticks for Pets: fennel powder apply generously on them or make a collar stuffed with dry fennel, pennyroyal & thyme leaves.
Flu: bayberry, cayenne, cloves, ginger, white pine bark.
Gall Bladder Trouble: fast 2 days taking only 2 oz. olive oil and 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
3 times a day.
General Infections: Echinacea, golden seal root, poke root, cayenne.
Glands swollen and Infected: plantain, black walnut, golden seal root, marshmallow root, bugleweed, lobelia.
Gout: safflower and primrose, celery seed tea.
Growths, Infection, and Tumors: Grate a raw red potato and add 1 tsp. of ginger.
It can be used for internal cysts also.
Headache: fenugreek, passion flower, peppermint, thyme, wood betony, wild lettuce, valerian, cayenne.
1 cup of cool tea of ginger.
Heart & Blood Pressure: cayenne, garlic, hawthorn, ginger, ginseng, golden seal, parsley.
A used to strengthen the heart
B used for high blood pressure
C used to equalize the blood pressure.
Heart disease: Ginger and Garlic.
2 peeled gloves of garlic and a tsp. of freshly grated ginger in a blender,
8 to 12 oz. of orange juice
Mix and enjoy once in morning and once in the evening.
Heart tonic: hawthorn berries, cayenne, vitamin E, garlic, ginseng, golden seal, and parsley.
Hemorrhoids: thin slice of raw onion inserted in rectum to reduce inflammation, and relieve the itching.
Hormone Imbalance: slippery elm, mullein, lobelia, fenugreek - gargle as a tea.
Hot Flashes: Don Quall, passionflowers or 1 tsp. sage and motherwort.
Hoarseness: fenugreek tea - gargle; licorice as a tea or gargle.
Hypoglycemia: (low blood); cedar berries, licorice root, mullein, cayenne, golden seal root, dandelion, soybeans, cayenne, red clover.
Liniment for sprains or bruises, sore fresh wound or ulcer: a small tsp. of myrrh,
1 tsp. of golden seal,
1/2 a tsp. of red pepper,
Put in a pint of alcohol,
Allowed to stand for seven days, shaken well every day.
Impotence: Siberian ginseng, Echinacea, sarsaparilla, saw palmetto.
Indigestion: comfrey, pepsin
For vegetarians: comfrey, cayenne.
Intestinal Purifier: garlic enema, garlic oil
Capsules taken orally
Tea made with equal parts - aniseed, caraway, and fennel.
Onion tea enema
Strong thyme tea or enema.
Insect bites and stings: 1 Tbsp. of parsley leaves to 1 cut of boiling water, steep 20 minutes.
Insect repellent: rub on sage oil over the skin to keep mosquitoes away.
Kidney Bladder Infection: (also used for bed wetting) juniper berries, parsley, marshmallow, lobelin, ginger, golden seal root.
Liver Trouble: barberry, wild yam, camp bark, fennel seed, ginger, catnip, peppermint, garlic, parsley.
Low Blood Pressure: dandelion
Lung: comfrey, lobelia, marshmallow, mullein, slippery elm, chickweed, fenugreek.
Memory Aid: periwinkle, blessed thistle, lobelia, cayenne, ginger, ginseng, bee pollen, black walnut, fennel, licorice, peppermint, safflower.
Menopause & Hot Flashes: one part of each - 1/2 part of licorice, sarsaparilla, wild yam, false unicorn, holy thistle, squaw vine, blue cohosh, black cohosh & ginseng for menopause.
Don quall & passion flower for hot flashes.
Menstruation Cramps: cayenne, mistletoe, golden seal root, blessed thistle, cramp bark, false unicorn root, raspberry leaves, squaw vine, ginger.
Migraine Headaches: 1 cup of cool tea of ginger.
Miscarriage and Hemorrhage: Mistletoe used with caution for may cause abortion if used in large does. It will help expel retained placenta in childbirth. It is a Mervin and anti-spasmodic.
Catnip, false unicorn, lobelia.
Mucous: fenugreek and thyme.
Nervousness: black cohosh, cayenne, hops flowers, mistletoe, lobelia herb, skullcap, wood betony, lady’s slipper, valerian root, black walnut, licorice.
Night Blindness: capsicum taken in conjunction with fresh dandelion flowers in salad form or mixed up as a green drink with a little liquid chlorophyll may help the eyes to produce visual purple to solve the problem.
Obesity: dissolves fat, eliminate excess water, purge the bowls and curb appetite, chickweed, saffron, burdock, parsley, kelp, licorice, fennel, black walnut, papaya, hawthorn berries, mandrake, dandelion, safflower.
Fennel, chickweed, kelp as a tea.
Pain: wild lettuce, valerian, cayenne.
Potassium: horseradish, horsetail, kelp, watercress, wild cabbage, sage, rosemary.
Pregnancy: red raspberry leaves black cohosh.
Last 6 weeks: squaw vine, blessed thistle, black cohosh, penny royal, false unicorn, red raspberry leaves and lobelia.
Prostate Gland: handful of pumpkin seeds a day. Black cohosh, cayenne, ginger, golden seal, kelp, licorice, lobefin, ginseng, juniper berries, marshmallow root, parsley, queen of the meadow, parsley.
Rid body of waste and toxins: add 3 or 4 Tbsp. of ginger to bath water it opens the pores.
Remove Freckles: mix horseradish with vinegar and apples.
Remove Stains: ink; iron; rust and fruit. Rub the stain well with lemon juice, cover with salt and put in the sun.
Sex Desire: coriander as a warm tea plus warm pack soak in tea and place on organs.
Damien, ginseng.
Sinusitis: a fruit diet for 2-3 days can help clear a system clogged and over burdened by tonic wastes.
Hot lemon drinks releases mucus production as well as garlic, onions, horseradish grated into cider vinegar or lemon juice.
When eating add mustard, oregano, mint, eucalyptus, thyme, pine, hyssop, lavender, rosemary which opens up the nasal and sinus passage.
One herb golden seal stands alone. This is a special benefit to mucous membranes in body use in small doses.
Smoking: hops, skullcap, slippery elm, valerian taken together kills the desire for tobacco.
Sore Throat: gargle with sage, cider vinegar and honey 5 times daily.
Strengthen Sex Gland: cayenne, chickweed, garlic, ginseng, periwinkle, sarsaparilla, saw palmetto, Echinacea.
Stones in kidneys: roots or leaves of parsley,
Simmer 1 Tbsp. to a pint of water for 10 minutes, let stand,
Strain and drink one to 3 cups a day.
Superior Tooth Powder: the ashes of the burnt branches of common grape vine.
Make a superior tooth powder; it will clean the blackest of teeth to pure white.
Surgical Dressing: A small tsp. of myrrh and one of golden seal in a 1/2 tsp. of red pepper to a pint of boiling water.
May be use for any kind of wound or swelling.
The fluid or tea should be carefully poured off so that the fluid which is used will be entirely clear before it is part in the wounded.
Swollen foot: Soak in foot in hot water until thoroughly heated,
Then plunged it into cold for just a second or two.
Imperially back into hot water back and forth one hour.
Then after the hot water and the pores are open put your foot into kerosene.
Hot to kerosene several times.
Repeat for a few more days which cure the soreness.
Throat: cinnamon, licorice, peppermint, spearmint.
Thyroid: cayenne, Irish moss, kelp, parsley, black walnut, sarsaparilla, watercress.
Ulcer: cayenne, golden seal, myrrh, comfrey, ginger, lobelin, marshmallow, slippery elm, wild yam, white oat bark.
Vagina: chickweed, comfrey, golden seal, marshmallow, mullein, slippery elm, squaw vine, yellow duck.
Varicose Veins: white oak bark taken internally.
Witch hazel to be used externally.
In the morning spray veins with cold water and wear elastic socks.
Horsetail grass, oat straw, comfrey, lobelin.
Water Retention: dandelion, juniper, parsley, peach bark, and safflower.
Weight Loss: black walnut, chickweed, dandelion, fennel, hawthorn, licorice, mandrake, papaya, safflower.
Whiten Teeth, Eczema, Sore eyes, Strays on eyelids: Strawberry leaves used to cleanse tartar from the teeth and it will whiten stained teeth by leaving it on for a while. Brush with Black Walnut Powder. The fruit is good for a facial scrub.
Yeast Infection: white oak bark & garlic as a douche for 3 days.
Tid Bits
Reheat Pizza Heat up leftover pizza in a non-stick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.
Easy Deviled Eggs Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
Expanding Frosting When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar/calories per serving.
Reheating refrigerated bread To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
Newspaper weeds away Start putting in your plants; work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
Broken Glass Use a dry cotton ball to pick up little broken glass pieces of glass- the fibers catch ones you can't see!
No More Mosquitoes Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
Squirrel Away! To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.
MINE!!!!! If you purchase a new bike for your child, place their picture inside the handle bar before placing the grips on. if the bike is stolen and later recovered, remove the grip and there is your proof who owns the bike.
Flexible vacuum To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
Reducing Static Cling Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and - voila - static is gone.
Measuring Cups Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill it with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry the cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
Foggy Windshield? Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!Reopening envelope If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Voila! It unseals easily.
Conditioner Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's a lot cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your hair...
Goodbye Fruit Flies To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it 1/2" with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dishwashing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
Get Rid of Ants Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it "home," & can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works & you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
Take baby powder to the beach Keep a small bottle of baby powder in your beach bag. When you're ready to leave the beach sprinkle yourself and kids with the powder and the sand will slide right off your skin.
Easy Deviled Eggs Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
Expanding Frosting When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar/calories per serving.
Reheating refrigerated bread To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
Newspaper weeds away Start putting in your plants; work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
Broken Glass Use a dry cotton ball to pick up little broken glass pieces of glass- the fibers catch ones you can't see!
No More Mosquitoes Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
Squirrel Away! To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.
MINE!!!!! If you purchase a new bike for your child, place their picture inside the handle bar before placing the grips on. if the bike is stolen and later recovered, remove the grip and there is your proof who owns the bike.
Flexible vacuum To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
Reducing Static Cling Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and - voila - static is gone.
Measuring Cups Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill it with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry the cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
Foggy Windshield? Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!Reopening envelope If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Voila! It unseals easily.
Conditioner Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's a lot cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your hair...
Goodbye Fruit Flies To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it 1/2" with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dishwashing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
Get Rid of Ants Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it "home," & can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works & you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
Take baby powder to the beach Keep a small bottle of baby powder in your beach bag. When you're ready to leave the beach sprinkle yourself and kids with the powder and the sand will slide right off your skin.
Stress Reliever
SUPER EIGHT STRESS RELIEVER
1 kale leaf,1 collard leaf, small handful of parsley,1 stalk of celery,1 carrot,1/2 red pepper,
1 tomato,1 broccoli, floretcelery stalk for garnish
Juice leaves and parsley, then the celery and carrot.
Follow with red pepper, tomato, and broccoli. Garnish with celery stalk.
1 kale leaf,1 collard leaf, small handful of parsley,1 stalk of celery,1 carrot,1/2 red pepper,
1 tomato,1 broccoli, floretcelery stalk for garnish
Juice leaves and parsley, then the celery and carrot.
Follow with red pepper, tomato, and broccoli. Garnish with celery stalk.
Substitute
Bragg Aneinos - meat like flavor (veg. protein).
Cheese - Brewers Yeast - 1 Tbsp. daily - 50% protein - B vitamin.
Ice cream - for futti.
Kelp - Vitamin B - sea seasoning.
Meat - TVP (Textures Vegetable Protein) made from soy flour.
Oil - ½ cup, water.
Tofu - (bean curd) takes on any flavor its cook with.
Salt - onion, garlic, carrot, tomato, poppy seed, lemon and orange peal, rose hips, thyme, oregano, marjoram, basil, cayenne.
Cheese - Brewers Yeast - 1 Tbsp. daily - 50% protein - B vitamin.
Ice cream - for futti.
Kelp - Vitamin B - sea seasoning.
Meat - TVP (Textures Vegetable Protein) made from soy flour.
Oil - ½ cup, water.
Tofu - (bean curd) takes on any flavor its cook with.
Salt - onion, garlic, carrot, tomato, poppy seed, lemon and orange peal, rose hips, thyme, oregano, marjoram, basil, cayenne.
Soaps
Heat 6 lbs. of lard in an enamel kettle
In a separate enamel pan stir together 13 oz. of lye and 5 cups of cold water
Heat to 90-95degrees
Slowly pour the lye solution into the melted fat stirring with a wooden spoon
Simmer and stir until thick enough to hold its shape about 30 minutes
Add for smell: 2 Tbsp. lavender, citronella, rose, rose geranium, rosemary, cloves, cinnamon, sassafras, lemon grass or lemon, olive oil, thyme oil, sage
Color your soap with juice of fresh strawberries
Pour to a depth of 1 & 1/2 inches in a greased glass or enamel pan
Cool overnight
Cut into bars and remove from pan after several days
Allow to age about 2 weeks.
Shaving Soap: Fill a glass mug with finish soap
Add 1/4 tsp. of sage oil or clove oil or add 1 Tbsp. of powder sage leaf or powder clove
Allow to cure for 1 week
Lather Soap: Add soap bark hers (contains siphoning which creates lather with water)
In a separate enamel pan stir together 13 oz. of lye and 5 cups of cold water
Heat to 90-95degrees
Slowly pour the lye solution into the melted fat stirring with a wooden spoon
Simmer and stir until thick enough to hold its shape about 30 minutes
Add for smell: 2 Tbsp. lavender, citronella, rose, rose geranium, rosemary, cloves, cinnamon, sassafras, lemon grass or lemon, olive oil, thyme oil, sage
Color your soap with juice of fresh strawberries
Pour to a depth of 1 & 1/2 inches in a greased glass or enamel pan
Cool overnight
Cut into bars and remove from pan after several days
Allow to age about 2 weeks.
Shaving Soap: Fill a glass mug with finish soap
Add 1/4 tsp. of sage oil or clove oil or add 1 Tbsp. of powder sage leaf or powder clove
Allow to cure for 1 week
Lather Soap: Add soap bark hers (contains siphoning which creates lather with water)
Power Boost
Drink this at least 15 minutes before eating.
1 tart organic apple, unpeeled, quartered and chopped3-5 scrubbed,
unpeeled organic carrots, chopped2 clean stalks of organic kale, stems removed.
Drink juice immediately.
Yes, it is the color of your lawn, but its pleasant tasting, loaded with nutrients, and packed with power.
1 tart organic apple, unpeeled, quartered and chopped3-5 scrubbed,
unpeeled organic carrots, chopped2 clean stalks of organic kale, stems removed.
Drink juice immediately.
Yes, it is the color of your lawn, but its pleasant tasting, loaded with nutrients, and packed with power.
Poisonous Wastes
Poisonous wastes matter in the system is the result of more food being taken than the body can assimilate or eliminate.
Half of what we eat keeps us alive; the other half keeps the physicians alive.
Health is being sacrificed on the alter of appetite.
Remember you are what you eat!
Half of what we eat keeps us alive; the other half keeps the physicians alive.
Health is being sacrificed on the alter of appetite.
Remember you are what you eat!
Perfume
Stuff cotton in a jar
Pour on just enough oil to saturate the cotton
Add blossoms, leaves, or shavings and cap the jar.
Put in the sun for 4 days
On 2 - 3 & 4 days change the blossoms, leaves or shavings.
Cotton becomes saturated with the scent as it is with the oil.
Squeeze the oil into a small jar and you have perfume.
Refrigerate
Pour on just enough oil to saturate the cotton
Add blossoms, leaves, or shavings and cap the jar.
Put in the sun for 4 days
On 2 - 3 & 4 days change the blossoms, leaves or shavings.
Cotton becomes saturated with the scent as it is with the oil.
Squeeze the oil into a small jar and you have perfume.
Refrigerate
Medicated Teas
Formula: 1 tsp. per cup, steep 30 minutes then add 1 tsp. Braggs and 1 tsp. veg. protein.
Arthritis - 2 Tbsp. honey
2 Tbsp. apple cider
8 oz. hot water.
May use chicory root, licorice, cayenne.
Bone Knitter - alve Vera, goldenseal, slippery elm.
Clear Thinking - gota kola, ginseng, sarsaparilla, rosemary, peppermint, oyster shell, sage, skullcap, angelica, dandelion, gentian, thyme, hyssop, licorice, orange peel.
Colic - carrot seeds grounded to a powder.
Colds - chicken base, garlic, parsley, rosehips, rosemary, ginger, cinnamon, 3 cloves, lemon, golden seal, marjoram, oregano, catnip, cayenne.
Cough - 1/4 tsp. cayenne, ginger
2 Tbsp. hot water
1 Tbsp. honey, vinegar
May add licorice, marjoram, oregano.
Diarrhea - cinnamon, cloves, kelp, nutmeg, red raspberry, slippery elm.
Digestion - catnip, fennel, ginger, peppermint, papaya, spearmint, chicory root, marjoram, thyme, licorice.
Female Hormone - cayenne, ginger, goldenseal licorice, ginseng, sage, red raspberry.
Flu - cayenne, gloves, ginger, goldenseal.
Heart & Blood Pressure - cayenne, garlic, ginger, ginseng, goldenseal, parsley, garlic, licorice.
Intestinal Purifier - garlic, aniseed, caraway, fennel, onion, thyme.
Kidney & Bladder - parsley, ginger, goldenseal.
Liver - catnip, fennel seed, ginger, peppermint, garlic, parsley.
Memory - ginseng, bee pollen, cayenne, fennel, licorice, ginger, peppermint, marjoram.
Migraine & Sinuses - ginger, thyme, fenugreek, peppermint, catnip.
Obesity - fennel, chick weed, kelp, parsley, licorice, paprika, thyme, chickweed, dandelion.
Prostrate - kelp, sage, rosemary, chicory root.
Sleepy Time - chamomile flowers, spearmint leaves, lemon grass, tibia flowers, passion flower leaves, blackberry leaves, orange blossoms, hawthorn berries, rosebuds.
Stones - leaves of parsley, chicory root and simmer, 1 Tbsp. to a pint of water (16 oz)
Let stand then strain and drink for 30 days.
Throat - cinnamon, licorice, peppermint, spearmint.
Thyroid - cayenne, kelp, parsley, Irish moss.
Ulcer - cayenne, goldenseal, ginger, slippery elm.
Vagina - chick wood, goldenseal, ginger, slippery elm.
Arthritis - 2 Tbsp. honey
2 Tbsp. apple cider
8 oz. hot water.
May use chicory root, licorice, cayenne.
Bone Knitter - alve Vera, goldenseal, slippery elm.
Clear Thinking - gota kola, ginseng, sarsaparilla, rosemary, peppermint, oyster shell, sage, skullcap, angelica, dandelion, gentian, thyme, hyssop, licorice, orange peel.
Colic - carrot seeds grounded to a powder.
Colds - chicken base, garlic, parsley, rosehips, rosemary, ginger, cinnamon, 3 cloves, lemon, golden seal, marjoram, oregano, catnip, cayenne.
Cough - 1/4 tsp. cayenne, ginger
2 Tbsp. hot water
1 Tbsp. honey, vinegar
May add licorice, marjoram, oregano.
Diarrhea - cinnamon, cloves, kelp, nutmeg, red raspberry, slippery elm.
Digestion - catnip, fennel, ginger, peppermint, papaya, spearmint, chicory root, marjoram, thyme, licorice.
Female Hormone - cayenne, ginger, goldenseal licorice, ginseng, sage, red raspberry.
Flu - cayenne, gloves, ginger, goldenseal.
Heart & Blood Pressure - cayenne, garlic, ginger, ginseng, goldenseal, parsley, garlic, licorice.
Intestinal Purifier - garlic, aniseed, caraway, fennel, onion, thyme.
Kidney & Bladder - parsley, ginger, goldenseal.
Liver - catnip, fennel seed, ginger, peppermint, garlic, parsley.
Memory - ginseng, bee pollen, cayenne, fennel, licorice, ginger, peppermint, marjoram.
Migraine & Sinuses - ginger, thyme, fenugreek, peppermint, catnip.
Obesity - fennel, chick weed, kelp, parsley, licorice, paprika, thyme, chickweed, dandelion.
Prostrate - kelp, sage, rosemary, chicory root.
Sleepy Time - chamomile flowers, spearmint leaves, lemon grass, tibia flowers, passion flower leaves, blackberry leaves, orange blossoms, hawthorn berries, rosebuds.
Stones - leaves of parsley, chicory root and simmer, 1 Tbsp. to a pint of water (16 oz)
Let stand then strain and drink for 30 days.
Throat - cinnamon, licorice, peppermint, spearmint.
Thyroid - cayenne, kelp, parsley, Irish moss.
Ulcer - cayenne, goldenseal, ginger, slippery elm.
Vagina - chick wood, goldenseal, ginger, slippery elm.
Juicing for healing
Mixture for Healing:
Acne Pimples and black heads1/4 inches of ginger root
4 carrots
1/2 seeded apple
Age Spots1/4 inch slice of ginger root
1 beet
1/2 apple
4 carrots
Body Cleanser
1/2 cucumber
1 beet
1/2 apple
4 carrots
Blood Enricher
1 turnip leaf
1 kale leaf
A handful of parsley
4 carrots
Calcium
3 kale leaves
A small handful of parsley
4 carrots
1/2 apple
Constipation
Red Cabbage
Green grapes
Eye Therapy
3 endive leaves
A handful of parsley
4 carrots
2 stalks of celery
Hair growth
2 small green lettuce leaves
A handful of alfalfa sprouts
4 carrots.
Heartburn1 large head of cabbage
1 stalk celery 2 carrots
ImmuneA handful of parsley
1 garlic clove
5 carrots
3 stalks of celery
Iron3 beet tops
4 carrots
1/2 green pepper
1/2 apple
Liver1 small beet
2 apples
LungA small handful of parsley
4 sprigs of watercress
1/4 potato pealed
6 carrots
Magnesium1 garlic clove
A small handful of parsley
4 carrots
2 stalks of celery
Mineral
A handful of parsley
2 turnip leaves
1 kale leaf
4 carrots
Nerves
1 stalk of celery
4 carrots
Pancreas
3 lettuce leaves
4 carrots
Handful of green beans
2 Brussels sprouts
Protein
3 pineapple rings
4 ounces of soymilk
1 ripe banana
2 Tbsp. protein powder
Sleep4 lettuce leaves
1 stalk of celery
Super 8 stress reliever
1 kale leaf
1 collard leaf
small handful of parsley
1 stalk of celery
1 carrot
1/2 red pepper
1 broccoli floweret
1 celery stalk.Ulcers
1/2 head of cabbage
1 stalk celery
1/2 apple
Acne Pimples and black heads1/4 inches of ginger root
4 carrots
1/2 seeded apple
Age Spots1/4 inch slice of ginger root
1 beet
1/2 apple
4 carrots
Body Cleanser
1/2 cucumber
1 beet
1/2 apple
4 carrots
Blood Enricher
1 turnip leaf
1 kale leaf
A handful of parsley
4 carrots
Calcium
3 kale leaves
A small handful of parsley
4 carrots
1/2 apple
Constipation
Red Cabbage
Green grapes
Eye Therapy
3 endive leaves
A handful of parsley
4 carrots
2 stalks of celery
Hair growth
2 small green lettuce leaves
A handful of alfalfa sprouts
4 carrots.
Heartburn1 large head of cabbage
1 stalk celery 2 carrots
ImmuneA handful of parsley
1 garlic clove
5 carrots
3 stalks of celery
Iron3 beet tops
4 carrots
1/2 green pepper
1/2 apple
Liver1 small beet
2 apples
LungA small handful of parsley
4 sprigs of watercress
1/4 potato pealed
6 carrots
Magnesium1 garlic clove
A small handful of parsley
4 carrots
2 stalks of celery
Mineral
A handful of parsley
2 turnip leaves
1 kale leaf
4 carrots
Nerves
1 stalk of celery
4 carrots
Pancreas
3 lettuce leaves
4 carrots
Handful of green beans
2 Brussels sprouts
Protein
3 pineapple rings
4 ounces of soymilk
1 ripe banana
2 Tbsp. protein powder
Sleep4 lettuce leaves
1 stalk of celery
Super 8 stress reliever
1 kale leaf
1 collard leaf
small handful of parsley
1 stalk of celery
1 carrot
1/2 red pepper
1 broccoli floweret
1 celery stalk.Ulcers
1/2 head of cabbage
1 stalk celery
1/2 apple
Insect Repellents
Leaves, flowers chop in a blender and let sit overnight in some water, strain and spray.
Ants - crush catnip, tansy and sprinkle on the ant trails
Aphid - tobacco
Beetles - nasturtium, rue,
Flies - equal parts of clover flowers, broken bay leaves, crushed clovers, and eucalyptus.
Tie in a small mesh bag and hang inside your doors.
Mites - pyrethrum
Mosquitoes - apply a little citronella oil on your skin.
To extend the oil, add 1/3 pure grain alcohol
Mix 3 parts of lavender oil to 1 part.
White fly - hyssop, larkspur, grey sanitarian
Pets - pillows for pets bed to rid of flees
Cats - dry equal parts of chamomile flowers and penny royal
Dogs - rue and cedar shavings
Toys for cats - dry catnip, strip leaves and crumble slightly, dry valerian root and grind.
Sassafras Squish - twigs used as chew sticks revive the mouth and massage the gums; they also make delicious toothbrushes.
Since this insecticide is made without preservatives, it is best to make it frequently in small amounts and use it up. If refrigerated, it will last 3 days to a week. Discard it if it appears moldy.
Crush 6 fresh sassafras leaves in a small clean bowl with a charcoal tablet (these are available at health food stores). You can substitute a small, clean piece of charred wood from the fireplace for the charcoal.
Bind the ingredients together with 1-2 Tbsp. of vegetable oil.
Dot the mixture on your forehead, nose, and around the mouth and ears and rub gently.
Allow it to sit on the skin reapplied frequently.
The ingredients are non-staining and will wash out readily if they get onto your clothes.
Ants - crush catnip, tansy and sprinkle on the ant trails
Aphid - tobacco
Beetles - nasturtium, rue,
Flies - equal parts of clover flowers, broken bay leaves, crushed clovers, and eucalyptus.
Tie in a small mesh bag and hang inside your doors.
Mites - pyrethrum
Mosquitoes - apply a little citronella oil on your skin.
To extend the oil, add 1/3 pure grain alcohol
Mix 3 parts of lavender oil to 1 part.
White fly - hyssop, larkspur, grey sanitarian
Pets - pillows for pets bed to rid of flees
Cats - dry equal parts of chamomile flowers and penny royal
Dogs - rue and cedar shavings
Toys for cats - dry catnip, strip leaves and crumble slightly, dry valerian root and grind.
Sassafras Squish - twigs used as chew sticks revive the mouth and massage the gums; they also make delicious toothbrushes.
Since this insecticide is made without preservatives, it is best to make it frequently in small amounts and use it up. If refrigerated, it will last 3 days to a week. Discard it if it appears moldy.
Crush 6 fresh sassafras leaves in a small clean bowl with a charcoal tablet (these are available at health food stores). You can substitute a small, clean piece of charred wood from the fireplace for the charcoal.
Bind the ingredients together with 1-2 Tbsp. of vegetable oil.
Dot the mixture on your forehead, nose, and around the mouth and ears and rub gently.
Allow it to sit on the skin reapplied frequently.
The ingredients are non-staining and will wash out readily if they get onto your clothes.
Gather Herbs
Only in dry weather, preferable when the plant is in full bloom or the seeds getting ripe. In the early morning when thoroughly dry and kept dry in heavy brown paper bags they well keep for years. Collect flowers and stems when the flow is beginning to open. Leaves to be dried are picked on a summery morning after the dew. To dry leaves - spread on paper on a cookie sheet in preheated oven 100 degrees, leaving oven door part way open. About 15 minutes or until leaves are dry and brittle, remove from oven and cool before storing.
Roots ought to be dug in the fall after the roots and leaves are dead or have come to maturity; or they should be dug before they start in the spring.
They ought to be washed immediately after they are dug, or not washed at all.
All roots, when cleaned, ought to be put in a place where they well dry soon.
They should not be placed in the sun, as soon as they are perfectly dry they ought to be pack away and kept from the air as much as possible
Roots ought to be dug in the fall after the roots and leaves are dead or have come to maturity; or they should be dug before they start in the spring.
They ought to be washed immediately after they are dug, or not washed at all.
All roots, when cleaned, ought to be put in a place where they well dry soon.
They should not be placed in the sun, as soon as they are perfectly dry they ought to be pack away and kept from the air as much as possible
Foot Bath
1/2 cup fresh mountain mint, blossoms and leaves
Boiling water
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
Cayenne pepper
Crush the herbs as you drop them into a big pan.
Pour a kettle of boiling water over them and steep for a few minutes
Add the cider vinegar and cayenne pepper and fill the pan half full of warm or cool water.
Immerse feet for 15-20 minutes
Boiling water
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
Cayenne pepper
Crush the herbs as you drop them into a big pan.
Pour a kettle of boiling water over them and steep for a few minutes
Add the cider vinegar and cayenne pepper and fill the pan half full of warm or cool water.
Immerse feet for 15-20 minutes
Dehydrating
Dehydrating without additives and preservatives:
Dehydration is a process, in which moisture is removed, and so the natural flavor is enhanced. Vegetables contain a certain amount of natural salt, and when moisture is removed, this salty taste too is intensified.
Fresh food is the best form of diet, still dehydrated is superior to can or frozen food, and it’s more flavorful than fresh.
Fruit when dried is infinitely sweeter, like candy.
The electricity needed to operate a dehydrator cost not much more than 1 cent and hour because of its low temperature. There is no pre blanching for it kills food value.
You can plant the seeds from a dehydrator tomato and it will germinate, sprout, and grow.
Dried foods have the same calories as fresh.
Buy honey in metal containers, if you need a sweetener, since this is usually honey sold in its natural state.
Baby food - puree fruits, vegetables or meat in a blender. Dry any left over into leather or fruit rolls. When you wish to use it, tear in pieces, put back in the blender with a little water or juice. Older babies enjoy chewing dried fruits, as it is it will reconstitute in their mouths.
Always dry at low temperatures 110 - 125.
20 lbs of tomato = # 10
8 lbs of herbs = # 1
5 lbs of green peppers = # 1
4 lbs of beef = # 1
4 lbs of bananas = 1 # 4 oz.
4 lbs of apples = # 1
Water blanching: Fill pot 2/3 full of water and bring to a rolling boil.
Place vegetables in a wire basket and submerge in water.
Bring to a boil before timing.
Steam blanching: A double boiler with a lid 2 inches of water on the bottom and bring to a rolling boil.
Layer vegetables on the top part no more then 2 inches deep.
Cover and steam.
Scalding: Immerse vegetables in boiling water for a few seconds to remove the skins.
Drying: Test if dried enough by taking apiece out and pressing it, it will have a distinct characteristic.
Strawberries feel spongy.
Apples are bendable and leathery for they dry crisper and break when bent.
Peas will powder when crushed in the blender.
Onions break.
Herbs crumble.
Taste taking a piece to taste. It should be dry to the palate. It should not possess pockets or noticeable moisture in the center.
Cut and squeeze taking a piece and cut it. There should be no moisture at the center. Take several pieces in your hand and squeeze together. No moisture should remain in your hand. The pieces should fall apart when released from your hand.
Some fruits such as figs, dates, cherries, raisins, and pears will always be slightly sticky even when dried, but they will not stick together.
Weight: Weigh it before you dry it then weigh it in the dried stage or weigh the trays.
Chart: It will give you a basis to determine dryness the next time you prepare another batch.
Slice food 1/8 inch for drying. If it gets thicker than 1/4 inch a blister may appear on the outside because the outside dried first and pulled away from the center.
At 110 - 118 it is almost impossible to over dry - so if in doubt - dry longer.
Storing: Take the food off the trays immediately when the machine is turn off before it picks up moisture in the air.
Seal tightly in jars or plastic bags with no air. Filling it as full as possible.
Only store the same type of food in each container.
For long term like years: use glass jars, or brown paper bags in a plastic container.
For short term about 2 months use plastic cooking bags and freezer containers.
Label: (example) Peaches from orchard. 2 lbs fresh.
Slice with peel 1/4 inch and dried 5-92 for 8 1/2 hours.
Keeping in a cool dark place will keep indefinably 50-80 degrees under a bed, closet ect.
Check in a few days then once a week up to 2 months. Look for moisture, shake to make sure it’s not sticking together.
Dehydration is a process, in which moisture is removed, and so the natural flavor is enhanced. Vegetables contain a certain amount of natural salt, and when moisture is removed, this salty taste too is intensified.
Fresh food is the best form of diet, still dehydrated is superior to can or frozen food, and it’s more flavorful than fresh.
Fruit when dried is infinitely sweeter, like candy.
The electricity needed to operate a dehydrator cost not much more than 1 cent and hour because of its low temperature. There is no pre blanching for it kills food value.
You can plant the seeds from a dehydrator tomato and it will germinate, sprout, and grow.
Dried foods have the same calories as fresh.
Buy honey in metal containers, if you need a sweetener, since this is usually honey sold in its natural state.
Baby food - puree fruits, vegetables or meat in a blender. Dry any left over into leather or fruit rolls. When you wish to use it, tear in pieces, put back in the blender with a little water or juice. Older babies enjoy chewing dried fruits, as it is it will reconstitute in their mouths.
Always dry at low temperatures 110 - 125.
20 lbs of tomato = # 10
8 lbs of herbs = # 1
5 lbs of green peppers = # 1
4 lbs of beef = # 1
4 lbs of bananas = 1 # 4 oz.
4 lbs of apples = # 1
Water blanching: Fill pot 2/3 full of water and bring to a rolling boil.
Place vegetables in a wire basket and submerge in water.
Bring to a boil before timing.
Steam blanching: A double boiler with a lid 2 inches of water on the bottom and bring to a rolling boil.
Layer vegetables on the top part no more then 2 inches deep.
Cover and steam.
Scalding: Immerse vegetables in boiling water for a few seconds to remove the skins.
Drying: Test if dried enough by taking apiece out and pressing it, it will have a distinct characteristic.
Strawberries feel spongy.
Apples are bendable and leathery for they dry crisper and break when bent.
Peas will powder when crushed in the blender.
Onions break.
Herbs crumble.
Taste taking a piece to taste. It should be dry to the palate. It should not possess pockets or noticeable moisture in the center.
Cut and squeeze taking a piece and cut it. There should be no moisture at the center. Take several pieces in your hand and squeeze together. No moisture should remain in your hand. The pieces should fall apart when released from your hand.
Some fruits such as figs, dates, cherries, raisins, and pears will always be slightly sticky even when dried, but they will not stick together.
Weight: Weigh it before you dry it then weigh it in the dried stage or weigh the trays.
Chart: It will give you a basis to determine dryness the next time you prepare another batch.
Slice food 1/8 inch for drying. If it gets thicker than 1/4 inch a blister may appear on the outside because the outside dried first and pulled away from the center.
At 110 - 118 it is almost impossible to over dry - so if in doubt - dry longer.
Storing: Take the food off the trays immediately when the machine is turn off before it picks up moisture in the air.
Seal tightly in jars or plastic bags with no air. Filling it as full as possible.
Only store the same type of food in each container.
For long term like years: use glass jars, or brown paper bags in a plastic container.
For short term about 2 months use plastic cooking bags and freezer containers.
Label: (example) Peaches from orchard. 2 lbs fresh.
Slice with peel 1/4 inch and dried 5-92 for 8 1/2 hours.
Keeping in a cool dark place will keep indefinably 50-80 degrees under a bed, closet ect.
Check in a few days then once a week up to 2 months. Look for moisture, shake to make sure it’s not sticking together.
De-blood
De-blood the meat:
The meat must be submerged in cold water for ½ hour. It is rinsed and sprinkled with a handful of cause salt and then placed on a grooved or perforated board for one hour, tilted so that additional blood will drain from the meat.
Roasts and steaks = cover meat in salt solution (1/4 cup of salt to 1 qt. of water).
Soak in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours.
Soak ground beef for 2 hours.
Pour off salt water and cover meat with plain distilled water.
In the refrigerator, allow meat to soak several hours longer than it did in salt water.
When blood is drawn out of meat into water, change water.
The ordinary Jewish family ate meat only once a week.
The meat must be submerged in cold water for ½ hour. It is rinsed and sprinkled with a handful of cause salt and then placed on a grooved or perforated board for one hour, tilted so that additional blood will drain from the meat.
Roasts and steaks = cover meat in salt solution (1/4 cup of salt to 1 qt. of water).
Soak in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours.
Soak ground beef for 2 hours.
Pour off salt water and cover meat with plain distilled water.
In the refrigerator, allow meat to soak several hours longer than it did in salt water.
When blood is drawn out of meat into water, change water.
The ordinary Jewish family ate meat only once a week.
Dandelion
Collect dandelion leaves in early spring, when they're the tastiest, before the flowers appear. Harvest again in late fall. After a frost, their protective bitterness disappears. Dandelions growing in rich, moist soil, with the broadest leaves and largest roots, are the best. Select the youngest individuals, and avoid all plants with flowers. Some people eat the greens from spring to fall, when they're very bitter. Others boil out the summer bitterness (and water-soluble vitamins) out in two changes of water. It’s all a matter of preference.
Dandelion greens are wonderful in salads, sautéed or steamed. They taste like chicory and endive, with an intense heartiness overlying a bitter tinge.
People today shun bitter flavors—they’re so conditioned by overly sweet or salty processed food. But in earlier times, we distinguished between good and bad bitterness. Mixed with other flavors, as in a salad, dandelions improve the flavor.
I also love sautéing them for about 20 minutes with onions and garlic in olive oil, adding a little homemade wine before they're done. If you're not used to the slight bitterness, cook them with sweet vegetables, especially sliced carrots and parsnips. Boiling dandelions in one or more changes of water makes them milder—a good introduction if you're new to natural foods. Early spring is also the time for the crown—great sautéed, pickled, or in cooked vegetable dishes.
You can also eat dandelion flowers, or use them to make wine. Collect them in a sunny meadow, just before mid-spring, when the most flowers bloom. Some continue to flower right into the fall. Use only the flower’s yellow parts. The green sepals at the flower’s base are bitter.
The flowers add color, texture, and an unusual bittersweet flavor to salads. You can also sauté them, dip them in batter and fry them into fritters, or steam them with other vegetables. They have a meaty texture that contrasts with other lighter vegetables in a stir-fry dish or a casserole. Can make dandelion flower pickles, using vinegar and spices. The taproot is edible all year, but is best from late fall to early spring. Use it as a cooked vegetable, especially in soups. Large dandelions with huge roots growing on the bottom of a grassy hillside, they were only mildly bitter, so threw them into a potato stock. With the added scallions, tofu, ginger, carrots and miso, this became an excellent miso soup. Pre-boiling and changing the water, or long, slow simmering mellows this root, and sweet vegetables best complement dandelion roots. Sautéing the roots in olive oil also improves them, creating a robust flavor. A little Tamari soy sauce and onions complete this unusual vegetable side dish.
The leaves are more nutritious than anything you can buy. They're higher in beta-carotene than carrots. The iron and calcium content is phenomenal, greater than spinach. You also get vitamins B-1, B-2, B-5, B-6, B-12, C, E, P, and D, biotin, inositol, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, and zinc by using a tasty, free vegetable that grows on virtually every lawn. The root contains the sugar inulin, plus many medicinal substances. Dandelion root is one of the safest and most popular herbal remedies. The specific name, officinal, means that It's used medicinally. The decoction is a traditional tonic. It’s supposed to strengthen the entire body, especially the liver and gallbladder, where it promotes the flow of bile, reduces inflammation of the bile duct, and helps get rid of gall stones. This is due to its taraxacin. It’s good for chronic hepatitis, it reduces liver swelling and jaundice, and it helps indigestion caused by insufficient bile. Don't use it with irritable stomach or bowel, or if you have an acute inflammation.
The modern French name for this plant is pissenlit (lit means bed) because the root and leaf tea act on the kidneys as a gentle diuretic, improving the way they cleanse the blood and recycle nutrients. Unlike pharmaceuticals diuretics, this doesn't leach potassium, a vital mineral, from the body. Improved general health and clear skin result from improved kidney function. One man I spoke to even claims he avoided surgery for urinary stones by using dandelion root tea alone.
Dandelions are also good for the bladder, spleen, pancreas, stomach and intestines. It’s recommended for stressed-out, internally sluggish, and sedentary people. Anyone who's a victim of excessive fat, white flour, and concentrated sweeteners could benefit from a daily cup of dandelion tea.
Dandelion root’s insulin is a sugar that doesn't elicit the rapid production of insulin, as refined sugars do. It helps mature-onset diabetes, and I used it as part of a holistic regime for hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
Dandelion leaf infusion also good at dinnertime for its bitter elements encourage the production of proper levels of hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes. All the digestive glands and organs respond to this herb’s stimulation. Even after the plant gets bitter, a strong infusion, is rich in vitamins and minerals, and helps people who are run-down. Even at its most bitter (Taraxacum come from Arabic and Persian, meaning "bitter herb"), it never becomes intolerably so, like golden seal and gentian.
The leaf’s white, milky sap removes warts, moles, pimples, calluses, and sores, and soothes bee stings and blisters.
Unlike most other seeds, dandelions’ can germinate without long periods of dormancy. To further increase reproductive efficiency, the plant has given up sex: The seeds can develop without cross-fertilization, so a flower can fertilize itself. This lets it foil the gardener by dispersing seeds as early as the day after the flower opens.
Dandelion greens are wonderful in salads, sautéed or steamed. They taste like chicory and endive, with an intense heartiness overlying a bitter tinge.
People today shun bitter flavors—they’re so conditioned by overly sweet or salty processed food. But in earlier times, we distinguished between good and bad bitterness. Mixed with other flavors, as in a salad, dandelions improve the flavor.
I also love sautéing them for about 20 minutes with onions and garlic in olive oil, adding a little homemade wine before they're done. If you're not used to the slight bitterness, cook them with sweet vegetables, especially sliced carrots and parsnips. Boiling dandelions in one or more changes of water makes them milder—a good introduction if you're new to natural foods. Early spring is also the time for the crown—great sautéed, pickled, or in cooked vegetable dishes.
You can also eat dandelion flowers, or use them to make wine. Collect them in a sunny meadow, just before mid-spring, when the most flowers bloom. Some continue to flower right into the fall. Use only the flower’s yellow parts. The green sepals at the flower’s base are bitter.
The flowers add color, texture, and an unusual bittersweet flavor to salads. You can also sauté them, dip them in batter and fry them into fritters, or steam them with other vegetables. They have a meaty texture that contrasts with other lighter vegetables in a stir-fry dish or a casserole. Can make dandelion flower pickles, using vinegar and spices. The taproot is edible all year, but is best from late fall to early spring. Use it as a cooked vegetable, especially in soups. Large dandelions with huge roots growing on the bottom of a grassy hillside, they were only mildly bitter, so threw them into a potato stock. With the added scallions, tofu, ginger, carrots and miso, this became an excellent miso soup. Pre-boiling and changing the water, or long, slow simmering mellows this root, and sweet vegetables best complement dandelion roots. Sautéing the roots in olive oil also improves them, creating a robust flavor. A little Tamari soy sauce and onions complete this unusual vegetable side dish.
The leaves are more nutritious than anything you can buy. They're higher in beta-carotene than carrots. The iron and calcium content is phenomenal, greater than spinach. You also get vitamins B-1, B-2, B-5, B-6, B-12, C, E, P, and D, biotin, inositol, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, and zinc by using a tasty, free vegetable that grows on virtually every lawn. The root contains the sugar inulin, plus many medicinal substances. Dandelion root is one of the safest and most popular herbal remedies. The specific name, officinal, means that It's used medicinally. The decoction is a traditional tonic. It’s supposed to strengthen the entire body, especially the liver and gallbladder, where it promotes the flow of bile, reduces inflammation of the bile duct, and helps get rid of gall stones. This is due to its taraxacin. It’s good for chronic hepatitis, it reduces liver swelling and jaundice, and it helps indigestion caused by insufficient bile. Don't use it with irritable stomach or bowel, or if you have an acute inflammation.
The modern French name for this plant is pissenlit (lit means bed) because the root and leaf tea act on the kidneys as a gentle diuretic, improving the way they cleanse the blood and recycle nutrients. Unlike pharmaceuticals diuretics, this doesn't leach potassium, a vital mineral, from the body. Improved general health and clear skin result from improved kidney function. One man I spoke to even claims he avoided surgery for urinary stones by using dandelion root tea alone.
Dandelions are also good for the bladder, spleen, pancreas, stomach and intestines. It’s recommended for stressed-out, internally sluggish, and sedentary people. Anyone who's a victim of excessive fat, white flour, and concentrated sweeteners could benefit from a daily cup of dandelion tea.
Dandelion root’s insulin is a sugar that doesn't elicit the rapid production of insulin, as refined sugars do. It helps mature-onset diabetes, and I used it as part of a holistic regime for hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
Dandelion leaf infusion also good at dinnertime for its bitter elements encourage the production of proper levels of hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes. All the digestive glands and organs respond to this herb’s stimulation. Even after the plant gets bitter, a strong infusion, is rich in vitamins and minerals, and helps people who are run-down. Even at its most bitter (Taraxacum come from Arabic and Persian, meaning "bitter herb"), it never becomes intolerably so, like golden seal and gentian.
The leaf’s white, milky sap removes warts, moles, pimples, calluses, and sores, and soothes bee stings and blisters.
Unlike most other seeds, dandelions’ can germinate without long periods of dormancy. To further increase reproductive efficiency, the plant has given up sex: The seeds can develop without cross-fertilization, so a flower can fertilize itself. This lets it foil the gardener by dispersing seeds as early as the day after the flower opens.
Canning
Pressure cooker is necessary in order to kill the botulism organisms that can survive unless food is heated from 240 to 250 degrees for specific time lengths. 240 is equivalent to 10 lbs of steam pressure.
Processing time at 10 lbs. of pressure (minutes):
Asparagus 25 pints 30 quarts
Carrots 25 pints 30 quarts
Corn 55 pints not recommended
Onions 25 pints 30 quarts
Potatoes 30 pints 40 quarts
Tomatoes 15 pints 20 quarts
Asparagus - 12 lbs yield 6 pint jars ‘stalk’ and 2 pint jars cut.
Beets - one bushel, by measure, cut in small thin slices yields 40 pint jars.
Cherries - 9 baskets yield 2 pint jars, pitted, or 7 pint jars whole.
Corn - 100 ears, yield an average of 14 pint jars.
Greens - 1 bushel, spinach, yields 10 pints jars. One bushel, dandelion, yields 13 pint jars.
Peaches - 2 and 1/4 lbs. yields 14 1 quart jars.
Peas - one bushel, pods well filled, yields 14 pint jars.
Pineapples - one-half crate, 15 pines, yields 30 pint jars.
Plums - one basket of 14 lbs. yields 25 pint jars.
Strawberries - one crate yields 26 pint jars canned or 31 glasses of jam - 7 1/2 ounce size.
String Beans - one bushel, by measure, yields 17 to 20 quart jars.
Tomatoes - 3 lbs. yield 1 quart jar.
Procedure:
In packing fruits for hot or cold pack canning, the product should be packed to within 1/2 inch of the top of the jar.
If using syrup on the product, fill jar with syrup to within 1 1/2 inches of top.
If using water or fruit juice, fill jar to within 1/2 inch of the top of the jar.
For open kettle canning, fill only one sterilized jar at a time with the boiling hot product and liquid to within 1/2 inch of the top of the jar and seal immediately.
1. Prepare puree and hot pack into sterilized jars.
2. Install rack and add 3 inches of water. Put on the cover, adjust or clamp. Let steam escape for 7-10 minutes.
3. Let pressure build up, adjust heat, and process for specific time.
4. Turn off heat and cool canner.
5. Remove jars from caner and adjust lids if necessary.
6. When the jars are completely cooled, check to see if the seal is complete.
7. Store in a cool, dark place.
When using heat the concentrated and add an equal amount of milk, heat to simmering point.
Canning fruit without sugar - all fruit and fruit juices can be successfully canned in jars without sugar, but the addition of syrup at the time of canning helps to develop and improve the flavor of the fruit. When canning fruit without sugar the jar is filled to within 1/2 inch of the top with water or fruit juice and the jar cooked method (hot or cold pack) is recommended.
Processing time at 10 lbs. of pressure (minutes):
Asparagus 25 pints 30 quarts
Carrots 25 pints 30 quarts
Corn 55 pints not recommended
Onions 25 pints 30 quarts
Potatoes 30 pints 40 quarts
Tomatoes 15 pints 20 quarts
Asparagus - 12 lbs yield 6 pint jars ‘stalk’ and 2 pint jars cut.
Beets - one bushel, by measure, cut in small thin slices yields 40 pint jars.
Cherries - 9 baskets yield 2 pint jars, pitted, or 7 pint jars whole.
Corn - 100 ears, yield an average of 14 pint jars.
Greens - 1 bushel, spinach, yields 10 pints jars. One bushel, dandelion, yields 13 pint jars.
Peaches - 2 and 1/4 lbs. yields 14 1 quart jars.
Peas - one bushel, pods well filled, yields 14 pint jars.
Pineapples - one-half crate, 15 pines, yields 30 pint jars.
Plums - one basket of 14 lbs. yields 25 pint jars.
Strawberries - one crate yields 26 pint jars canned or 31 glasses of jam - 7 1/2 ounce size.
String Beans - one bushel, by measure, yields 17 to 20 quart jars.
Tomatoes - 3 lbs. yield 1 quart jar.
Procedure:
In packing fruits for hot or cold pack canning, the product should be packed to within 1/2 inch of the top of the jar.
If using syrup on the product, fill jar with syrup to within 1 1/2 inches of top.
If using water or fruit juice, fill jar to within 1/2 inch of the top of the jar.
For open kettle canning, fill only one sterilized jar at a time with the boiling hot product and liquid to within 1/2 inch of the top of the jar and seal immediately.
1. Prepare puree and hot pack into sterilized jars.
2. Install rack and add 3 inches of water. Put on the cover, adjust or clamp. Let steam escape for 7-10 minutes.
3. Let pressure build up, adjust heat, and process for specific time.
4. Turn off heat and cool canner.
5. Remove jars from caner and adjust lids if necessary.
6. When the jars are completely cooled, check to see if the seal is complete.
7. Store in a cool, dark place.
When using heat the concentrated and add an equal amount of milk, heat to simmering point.
Canning fruit without sugar - all fruit and fruit juices can be successfully canned in jars without sugar, but the addition of syrup at the time of canning helps to develop and improve the flavor of the fruit. When canning fruit without sugar the jar is filled to within 1/2 inch of the top with water or fruit juice and the jar cooked method (hot or cold pack) is recommended.
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