Are You Ready to Tap Into the Abundant Supply of the Free Garden from Mother Nature Now?

Looking for some delicious and nutritious weeds to add to your dining table? Put chickweed on your hunting list. Chickweed or Stellaria media is a very common weed in nature all over the world. Chickweed is also commonly referred to as ‘snow in the summer’ due to its little white flowers that bloom from spring through to fall. The fresh leaves can be used to make a nutritious salad, you can also use them in infused oils and tinctures. Chickweed has a pleasant taste and has a slightly different growing season, depending on where you are and what time of year it is, you may be able to find chickweed on the menu in your local restaurants. It is important to be able to identify this plant. It is quite slender and doesn’t grow very tall with leaves that are oval and opposite. The lower the plant, the longer the stalks and larger the leaves. The flowers of the plant are small and white.

Chickweed contains many medicinal compounds that offer various therapeutic benefits, including saponins, flavonoids, coumarins, triterpenoids, and carboxyl acids. It is also packed with nutrients, such as Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and B vitamins including vitamin B12. Chickweed also contains various important minerals including calcium, copper, iron, phosphorus, manganese, magnesium, zinc, and silica. The saponins it contains help our bodies absorb nutrients. 

According to research, chickweed helps strengthen the stomach lining and treat stomach ulcers. Some studies suggested that chickweed can help people to lose weight due to its diuretic and laxative properties. Chickweed contains saponins that can help expel excessive phlegm and mucus and ease breathing issues. Chickweed also contains coumarin – a compound that can help treat both asthma and lymphedema. When your lymph system gets congested, more toxins and wastes can accumulate in your body. A healthy lymphatic system helps improve immune functions. Chickweed extracts are an excellent circulatory tonic. It has potent anti-inflammatory properties that help reduce the risk of various conditions, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and many more.

Here are some amazing health benefits of chickweed:

• Alleviates respiratory symptoms including a common cold or asthma.
• Speeds up wound healing
• Aids digestion and relieves constipation.
• Relieves skin issues such as eczema and psoriasis.
• Relieves muscle pain and joint pain.
• Promotes weight loss.
• Reduces the histamine level in the body due to its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties.

How to include chickweed in your diet?

• Add raw chickweed to your salad or sandwich.
• Lightly sauté chickweed and add it to your dishes.
• Make a sauce or pesto with chickweed.
• Make your nutritious soup and stews by adding chickweed.
• Make your herbal tea with chickweed.

External use

Chickweed can also be applied externally to the skin as part of a poultice or oil to help relieve itching and treat wounds, etc. It can also be used in a poultice or a hot bath to help relieve painful joints due to arthritis or rheumatism, or muscle pain. You can crush up some fresh chickweed leaves and add them directly to the aching joints and painful muscles. Chickweed can be applied topically to soothe irritation caused by rashes and inflammatory conditions, such as eczema or psoriasis. Applying chickweed to wounds can also help speed up healing because of its excellent antiseptic properties. If you infuse the oil with chickweed leaves, allow them to soak overnight, you can then use this oil for topical applications on the body, or you can add it to your bath, which can relieve skin irritation, and reduce pain, and inflammation. You can use infused oil of chickweed to help treat a rash, eczema, or other inflammatory skin conditions. This little weed of truly a healing gift from Mother Nature. What do you think? For more information on nutrition and natural remedies, please visit https://optimalhealthsolutions.ca.

 

How Can Your Gut Microbiota Contribute to Your Weight Gain?

There are over 100 trilliums of microorganisms in your gut, and they are gatekeepers to your health. From Western Medicine, we have learned that a healthy and balanced gut microbial flora is the key to maintaining proper digestive functions. Furthermore, it performs as a barrier in the gut and plays an important role in the immune system. Your gut microbial flora also ferments indigestible nutrients and aids the production of micronutrients such as vitamin B and Vitamin K, and reduces harmful toxins.

The composition of human breast milk is an amazing example to demonstrate how nature works for a diverse and resilient human gut microbiota. We know that babies do not have the necessary enzymes to break down certain complex carbohydrates such as oligosaccharides in human breast milk, but there is one particular gut bug called Bifidobacterium infantis in the infant’s digestive tract, which helps break down oligosaccharides to provide energy to the baby. It also provides nutrients to the infant’s intestine lining to support its growth. Therefore, it plays an important role in the development of a healthy digestive system and immune system for an infant. Human breast milk nourishes a baby and also feeds the healthy bugs in the gut. This is why breastfeeding is critical for infants’ health and the development of a strong and healthy immune system. Many people are not aware that many auto-immune diseases are linked to infant formulas because an infant’s gut is not fully developed to handle GMO food and other chemicals in the formulas including preservatives and artificial flavoring compounds. They are foreign chemicals to the body and attack the infant’s gut and immune system, which lead to food allergies and other auto-immune system-related health challenges. For example, asthma is related to the lung microbiome. In TCM, the lung is linked to the large intestine. If your gut microbiome is off-balance, it can in turn affects the microbiome in the lungs, did you see the connection here? Fibromyalgia is linked to muscle pain. According to recent research, the gut sends the signal to the brain to trigger the vagus nerve to stimulate the release of the pain signals to the body. Let’s look at it from a different perspective from TCM, the spleen and stomach meridian channels control the healthy state of the muscles, and they are all part of your digestive system, this suggests that fibromyalgia is also linked to the gut health.

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Why Should You Cleanse Parasites During This Period?

Parasites are organisms that utilize their host for nutrition and survival. Nutrient deficiencies and gut issues are common in people with parasites. As you know that our body’s circadian rhythm responds to the moon’s cycles. Did you know that parasites are more active and reproductive during a full moon period coinciding with your circadian rhythm? Around a full moon, our body produces less melatonin, which is an antioxidant and hormone that helps with sleep and immune function. With lower levels of melatonin, your immune system is weak and parasites and pathogens can take advantage of it and cause issues. If you suffer from depression, anxiety, sugar cravings, insomnia, mood swings, fatigue, weak immune system, and weak digestive system during this period, you may experience increased parasite activities in your body. Serotonin is the precursor of melatonin. The combination of less melatonin and more serotonin in your body during this time can increase parasite activities and make you sick. With four super moons in a row coming starting in May this year, parasitic activities will likely increase during the super moon period. A super moon means a full moon occurs near or at the time when the moon is at the closest point in its orbit around Earth. Encysted and cystic parasites will likely emerge specifically, and parasites that are hibernating will likely be active as well. You can see how the moon cycles impact your health and why it’s the perfect time to eliminate these troublemakers from your body.  

Encysted parasites affect humans through raw or inadequately cooked crabs, crawfish, or prawns that are eaten by humans and other mammals, they can travel through the small intestine, penetrate the gut wall, and reach the lung through the peritoneal cavity, diaphragm, and pleural space. In the lungs, the larvae mature into adult flukes and start the lifecycle over again. Cysticercosis is a parasitic tissue infection caused by larval cysts of parasites. These larval cysts infect the brain, muscle, other tissues, and organs, and they are a major cause of adult-onset seizures. These cysts have a thick-walled protective membrane enclosing a cell, larva, or organism. They form an abnormal membranous sac or blister-like pouch containing fluid or semisolid material.

Our ancestors possessed ancient wisdom over centuries to perform parasite cleansing as a necessary procedure for maintaining optimal health. Today, it is common to deworm pets, cattle, and horses regularly, but as humans, we think we are more civilized than animals. The fact is that many pets eat cleaner than humans and they don’t tough junk food guided by their intuitions. Parasites are the root causes of many health challenges these days. Some feed off toxins and waste in our body and infect the host. Believe it or not, a very high percentage of people are carrying parasites these days because of the polluted air we breathe, contaminated food we eat, and toxic water we drink, our immune system is constantly attacked and overworked. The full moon period is the best time to act upon parasites before they take over your immune system. How to remove parasites in your body? Let’s dive into it.

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