Each season has important health challenges. Spring may bring allergies and aches; summer a rash; rainy weather brings swollen joints and stiffness. Autumn brings colds, breathing issues and depression known as SAD seasonal affective disorder. Cleansing toxins reduces stress and aging while preventing seasonal health issues. Cleanse and rebuild health at the change of each season.
Lent and other major Spring celebrations are times to renew with detoxification. How to support health during and after antibiotics, how to cleanse from toxic environment, people, foods, and stress.
Lent brings smart Spring Cleansing. Asians and alternative health professionals know the many benefits of cleansing. Papaya leaf can be added to tea and coffee. Remember bitter sour herbs oregano, greens, mushrooms, grape seed extract and hawthorn berry, broccoli cure for prostate issues, including cancer, and a clear complexion. You can pour broccoli water over green tea.
This podcast done early Spring 2014 was for Conscious Lifestyle Radio. Letha Hadady, D.Ac. discusses foods and herbs and natural treatments useful for Spring detox programs and addresses health and beauty issues. Ginger Podcst 2
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Prunella vulgaris (xia ku cao) Today I am in a Spring Cleaning trance. Listening to raga online as I mop and dust, I welcome a season of rebirth and renewal. My cleansing frenzy was prepared with my bedtime tea: warm prunella sweetened with a little Chinese Essence of Tienchi Flower instant beverage. Have you noticed how stressing cleansing herbal remedies leads to house-cleaning? You start to feel fresh inside and out. Prunella, an old friend of mine, is a small weed, the size of your thumb, that most people kill in the grass. I have enjoyed the tea especially in Spring, when allergins and high energy prevent calm sleep. The Chinese call the dried flower bud xia ku cao and use it to help dissolve lumps in the neck and breast. I have considered the herb a calming thyroid moderator useful for April madness that keeps me awake planning and writing. But prunella, known by many names including heal all and self-heal, kills many germs and reduces fevers. Steep a handful of dried prunella flowers in 2 cups boiling water for 5 minutes.
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