"The Way You Do Food Is The Way You Live Life"
Digestion
Welcome to Wild and Weedy Wellness. You are about to take a journey down the holistic health hike. This journey will tease your senses, satisfy your taste buds, bring you new ideas and knowledge.
We are starting our Wild and Weedy Wellness with items that aide your digestion. It has been a long winter, a lot of heavy foods have been eaten and it is time to get things moving.
The digestive system is one of the most important systems in your body and I personally feel it is very abused. This is why Colon cancer is one of the highest cancers out there.
The digestive system consist of many important organs for digestion, absorption, assimilation, distribution, and elimination. It begins at your mouth and ends at your rectum. So next time you think about eating something think about this. Does the food your about to eat give your body what it needs? Will your digestive system be able to digest it, absorb nutrients out of it, will it be able to assimilate nutrients out of it, can it be distributed healthfully and can you eliminate it all the way comfortably?
It is time to start eating those spring greens, cut sugar out, start moving and start breathing.
Here are a few pointers to help you with your digestion. After all this is your gas tank and what happens when you put bad gas in your car?
Take a bitters extract. Bitters stimulate bile production. You can take them before or after meals. I will also take them if I feel like I have heartburn. I just put a few drops on my tongue or a few drops (10 plus) in a 1/8 cup of water swish in my mouth and swallow.
Bitters Information:
Eat bitter food, like fresh dandelion greens
Eat spring greens, cooked greens, lots of veggies and eat a vegetable rainbow
Limit your fruit intake and up your green veggie intake
Cut out sugar, cane sugar, brown sugar, high fructose corn syrup
Make sure your honey is real honey.
Shop at your local farmers market and purchase organic produce
Most people are not drinking enough water. Drink filtered water or spring water.
Eat Slowly
Turn off all screens. No cells, no computer, no movies etc...
Breath slowly while eating. Take deep breaths. When the blood lacks oxygen absorption decreases.
No late night eating. Eat dinner by 7:00 pm or earlier. If you are full with food when you go to bed then your body is working on digesting and not repairing and rejuvenating.
Drink relaxing teas to calm your nervous system down.
Don't overeat, instead undereat slightly
Don't eat when unhappy
Think positive thoughts when you are eating
If you are constipated and you are having trouble going poo, don't try to force it out. Relax drink some chamomile tea, drink some water, take a walk, do some exercise, eat green veggies, cooked veggies and big salads. Let the poo come out when it is ready.
Check out the Squatty Potty:
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All -Purpose Herbal Salt
All purpose herbal salt tenderizes food, making it more digestible. Rub it on fish, vegetables and meats.
1/4 Cup salt (mixture of sea salt and pink himalayan salt)
2 tablespoons pd. coriander
1 tablespoon pd. turmeric
1 teaspoon pd. cumin
1 teaspoon pd. fennel seed
1 teaspoon pd. mustard seed
1/2 teaspoon pd. star anise
Honey Spice Packet - Digestive Aid
Ingredients: orange peal, dandelion root, ginger, burdoct root, star anise and cloves
Let this herbal honey help you digest you meals.
For a wonderful cup of tea add 1 tsp of this honey to a cup of warm water, stir and enjoy.
You will need: local honey (make sure it is real honey), one 16 oz jar
I cup of honey
I packet of Digestive Aid Spice
Directions:
Put herb packet in jar, top with honey, stir, and cap with a tight-fitting lid. Place in a sunny windowsill, and turn the jar over at least once per day.
Label the jar
Add more honey if the herbs rise above the honey.
Allow to infuse for two weeks.
Just leave the herbs in the honey, there is no need to strain.
Cranky Belly Seed Chew
Keep this seed chew on your kitchen table or bring it along with you if you are traveling. When you travel there are times you might get constipation, icky belly or digestion issues. Chew on this seed mix to help you these issues.
2 tablespoons whole sesame seeds
2 tablespoons whole fennel seeds
1 teaspoon whole cumin seeds
Mix together, put in a jar and label
Rejuvenating Foot Soak -External Use Only- Shake Well
Fill tub or basin with warm water
Add Rejuvenating Foot Soak
Mix well
Soak feet for 20 minutes
Ingredients: apple cider organic, vegetable glycerin, epsom salts, tea tree EO and peppermint EO
Better Belly Bitters: - Made with alcohol
Ingredients: Artichoke leaf, hawthorn berries, fennel seed, star anise, orange peel, hibiscus, local honey, brandy (alcohol) and LOVE
Use 10 to 40 drops in a small amount of water before meals. Sip slowly to let it mingle with your taste-buds.
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