Recipes: Buckwheat Pancakes for Health
November 18, 2008

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Buckwheat is rich in bioflavonoids: rutin.  What buckwheat will do for you is to strengthen your absorption of Vitamin C, and build up weak, failing capillaries and blood vessels in the body.  It is especially beneficial in childbirth, heart attack prone, and the elderly.

 
Herbs: More flu and Bird Flu; processing tinctures
November 11, 2008
Herbs are not a cure-all, but they strengthen the natural defenses and resources of the body to heal itself-that is if you have not debilitated the body beyond hope. Walking exercise, clean water and wholesome foods can add years of productive enjoyment to your lives. Healing of the body is beyond just the immune response which is in the dissenting opinion at the end of this article (by my daughter). Herbals nurture and aid in healing-much of which has not been researched.
 
Herbs: Flu-Spanish Flu-Bird Flu
November 03, 2008

My late mother told me about the 1918 Spanish Flu.  “You milked the cows in the morning and you were dead that afternoon.” Millions died from this virus, the few living survivors, as well as deceased, harbor the strains of this deadly virus for researchers to isolate and learn from.

 
Herbs: Wheezing, sneezing and hacking
October 26, 2008

Diane is not keen on my laissez faire wild herb gardening techniques. " I know where everything is and they grow best where they want to," I said. 

"I want a managed herbal garden," she said. "Humph! Some gardener."  So now on my endless list of Honey Do's for next spring will be an antique herbal garden for her, and if you do not say anything I can use it as a managed seed repository. 

 

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Old Farmer's Almanac

  • Gardening Question of the Day for Wednesday, November 19, 2008
    Please tell me about ashes from a wood-burning fireplace. How much can I use in the garden? Are they good for blueberry bushes and asparagus? (answer).

    From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

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