Three Day Juice Cleanse

Here's a good way to rid the system of built-up toxins and waste materials.  Cleanses have become so popular these days!  This one is from Dr. Christopher, whose natural healing course I am taking.  It's simple and seems effective. 

Start off each morning with 16 oz. of prune juice, which draws toxins from the tissues and organs (and eliminates them quite well too!) 

Through the course of the three days drink only one kind of fruit juice.  Apple is the best.  (Don't use frozen.)  Carrot and grape are good too.  Swish and "chew" each swallow slowly.  Through the course of each day you should take in about one gallon.  (Does this sound ridiculous?)  Sipping on purified water through the day is okay. 

Three times a day, take 1-2 Tbs. olive oil.   

You will definitely feel the toxins coming out of your lymph system!  This is a good thing.  Give it a try!!  Dr Christopher recommends doing this once a month.  A couple times a year is good enough for me.  :)  

Nancy 

Natural Laundry Detergent

Anna found some great recipes for natural laundry detergent and suggested I pass them along.  Great idea!  There are quite a few of them at tipnut.com/10-homemade-laundry-soap-detergent-recipes/ that might be fun to try.  Our family just uses white distilled vinegar in our dishwasher these days.  Works for us!  And there's no residue.

Anna's idea reminded me of a suggestion we received about soap "nuts" (They're really a fruit) from Amy Jones.  She loves these natural alternatives to the chemical compound we usually dump into our washing machines.  And she said they work well...even on heavily soiled diapers!  I will definitely give them a try.  Here is a website that may be useful.  (And there are others.) www.buysoapnuts.com/

Herbal Calcium Supplement

I am so excited to try this new (to me) herbal supplement for calcium.  I found it in Dr. Christopher's manual on herbal home health care.  It calls for six parts horsetail grass, four parts comfrey root, three parts oat straw and one part lobelia.  We know that most adults lack adequate calcium from their diets, especially women...and even more especially pregnant and nursing women.  Heavily processed foods have been robbed of much of the calcium they once had, and inorganic sugars and starches further leach out calcium stored in the body.  These herbs can be purchases from mountainroseherbs.com, or I'm sure many other sources. They can be made into a tea or put into capsules.  I'm planning to make a tincture for Bekah since she likes that form best.  This is very safe for all, including pregnant and nursing mothers, and is assimilated much more easily into the body.  I have been taking inferior calcium supplements for years!  Can't wait to try this one!!  Much love, Nancy 

Free Herbal Newsletter

Here is a newsletter that I have enjoyed.  It gives delightful, seasonal recipes and suggestions for daily home use of natural herbs and ingredients.  Hope you enjoy it!  Nancy

LearningHerbs (HerbMentor News) <news@herbmentor.com>

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I'm so excited to start a family blog all about health and happiness!!  I'm hoping we will share our knowledge and wisdom with each other about all things bright and beautiful, especially with the idea of family health and quality of life in this amazing, natural world we've been given.  I have several resources I would like to share, websites and free internet classes and such, as well as recipes and health tidbits I have learned over the years.  I'm sure you have some of the same!  I will be so gratefully for your valued contributions to this blog! 



I'll start with a recipe for a great breakfast food that I got from Dr. Christopher - wheat berries.  Wheat contains all of the potential nutrient values needed in the human body.  The wheat herb or wheat grass especially is a complete food, as it provides you with protein, calcium and all the needed enzymes, vitamins, minerals, etc to rebuild and regenerate the cell structure of your body.  The grain is alive until it is killed in some chemical storage procedure or high heat. 

A simple method of preparation is to take a wide-mouth thermos, fill it in the early afternoon or evening 1/3 full of high-protein turkey red wheat (or whatever fresh wheat you have); then finish filling the thermos bottle with boiling water shaking the container once or twice so that the wheat at the bottom gets treated.  (Boiling the wheat in the water raises the temp. too high and kills the living food.)  In the morning add spices and such to taste and enjoy! 



With lots of love, Nancy/Mom/Aunt Nancy