Health & Garden Tips
Cayenne
One of those herbs which seems to helps with everything. It’s a great digestive aid, and stimulates digestion if you are low in digestive enzymes. Keep some on the kitchen counter and add a good pinch to almost every dish, including juices and smoothies. It is taken...
Herbs looking a bit tired? Time to take cuttings.
Soft cuttings of mints, oregano,, thyme etc, in pots can overwinter in the kitchen. Rosemary and sage cuttings and any other shrubby ones can also come indoors, but try a few outside in the shelter of the parent plant. Check for borage seedlings, and collect calendula...
A Summer Kidney Cleanse from Jill Davies…
Kidney Cleansing is Important A hot July is a great time to do a kidney/bladder cleanse if you haven’t already done one but so is the rest of the summer until the chills of October creep in. The kidneys do not like the cold or being weakened by it, so colder weather...
Sunburn and insect bites. Two in one protection. Try this…
When applying sun cream for the children or yourself, squeeze a good dollop of factor 50 into your hand and add a couple of drops of citronella essential oil. This smells delicious, except to biting insects, and protects for hours. Don't forget the sunhats.
Spring cleaning
No, not cleaning behind the fridge! Its time to overhaul your internal workings. Nothing drastic, but most people can manage a day on 3 or 4 juices, with plenty of clean water in between, a good session with a dry skin brush, if you’ve neglected that recently, and...
Look out for young nettles to put in your juice, and wild garlic leaves for salad…
Some of the earliest wild Edibles Cleavers, Chickweed and Nettles. Slightly Later Spring Edibles Dandelion, Garlic Mustard and Sheep’s Sorrel. Cleavers foliage (Galium aparine) Known for clinging (cleaving) to clothing and fur it’s not a good choice for the salad bowl...
Start your springtime juicing now…
A gentle winter detox
To re balance after some winter indulgences, too many carbs? alcohol? sugar?, not enough exercise? Take it gently and use herb teas to support while you cleanse. First, get back into the habit of drinking lots of water, and at the same time use your dry skin brush...
Boost your antioxidants this season…and stay away from all other sugar
Fresh blueberries are still available. Of all the dark purple fruits they are not just packed with antioxidants, but taste marvellous. If you are following a no sugar way of eating, perhaps because you need a ketogenic regime (see Dr.Myhill's excellent advice) for a...
Try standing up at your screen?
My grandfather's old fashioned office was fitted with stand up sloping desks on which rested the huge ledgers in which he wrote with pen and ink. Modernisation took the form of a typewriter and a sit down desk for Nancy, who kept the accounts, but he remained standing...