----- Original Message -----
From: Gloria C. Baikauskas
To: GardeningOrganically@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:11 AM
Subject: [GardeningOrganically] Weeds that help
We talked a bit recently about weeds and plants that help us with our
health. I am sitting here drinking some stinging nettle tea. I
don't like it that much, but Joyce, our fearless moderator from
Oklahoma loves it. I mixed it with some cinnamon tea I had on hand
to make it more palatable. Stinging nettle is one that it is better
to cook a bit rather than just pour hot water over the leaves I have
read. It does help the flavor.
Anyway.....why am I drinking it? Allergies. It is a natural
antihistamine. I am out of allergy meds at the moment....and this
works so well. I couldn't find it for a few months..my stash of it.
So glad I located it when I was organizing things a bit.
Good buddy, the deb, picked, dried and sent me some a year or more
ago. Every time I drink some I feel better in many ways. I am sure
it does more than help with allergies, but someone else will have to
tell you about that.
I just wanted to point out that some of those weeds we pull and throw
in the compost pile are valuable in ways we might not have imagined.
Gloria, Texas
US zone 8a
We talked a bit recently about weeds and plants that help us with our
health. I am sitting here drinking some stinging nettle tea. I
don't like it that much, but Joyce, our fearless moderator from
Oklahoma loves it. I mixed it with some cinnamon tea I had on hand
to make it more palatable. Stinging nettle is one that it is better
to cook a bit rather than just pour hot water over the leaves I have
read. It does help the flavor.=20
Anyway.....why am I drinking it? Allergies. It is a natural
antihistamine. I am out of allergy meds at the moment....and this
works so well. I couldn't find it for a few months..my stash of it.=20
So glad I located it when I was organizing things a bit.=20
Good buddy, the deb, picked, dried and sent me some a year or more
ago. Every time I drink some I feel better in many ways. I am sure
it does more than help with allergies, but someone else will have to
tell you about that.=20
I just wanted to point out that some of those weeds we pull and throw
in the compost pile are valuable in ways we might not have imagined.=20
Gloria, Texas
US zone 8a
Hey, cinnamon just keeps becoming more and more of a miracle for many
things. It is being investigated by the medical research folks for
that reason.=20
I have to relate that when I was younger chocolate had too much a
finger wagging at me to come hither and partake of it....so....I
started substituting cinnamon whenever that happened. Cinnamon made me
feel so much better. Later I found out it has a natural pickmeup in
it. I am sure that is part of the reason why.=20
When my sinuses are bad I either drink Chai Spice tea without the milk
because of its ingredients, or cinnamon tea. They usually help me
breathe better. Chai Spice has cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg,
allspice...and probably something I am not remembering right now. Good
tea, though.=20
Gloria, Texas
US zone 8a
--- In GardeningOrganically@yahoogroups.com, "linda"
wrote:
> I have heard people using Cinnamon for diabetes too. I know that my
doctor,
> the M.D. who is a homeopath too, recommend cinnamon for it. His
father uses
> it successfully to keep his blood sugars down. He doesn't know if it
would
