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Healing Nettles Infusions

Easy to Make Healing Nettles Infusions!

I love my nettles infusions! Nettles infusions are a nutritive and strengthening tonic for the entire body. This delightful herbal infusion is full of chlorophyll and iron. Infusions are a tasty and easy way to support the body with additional nutrients.

Nettles infusions are a great blood purifier and fatigue fighter. Because they are in high in iron, they are very supportive for women around their monthly moon cycle. If you’ve been feeling run down or fatigued, especially around your cycle, you should consider incorporating nettle infusions for an extra nutritional boost.

It is said that if you drink a quart a day for a month, your energy will return to you. I began drinking nettles infusions consistently when I went through a phase of extreme fatigue. I would have to say that it worked like a charm. After drinking a quart a day consistently for about 3 weeks, I felt more lively and energized than I had in months.

Nettles Infusions

Nettles Infusions

Nettles is also a good herb for protection, hex breaking and reversal spells. To create a nettles infusion for protection, charge and bless the nettles with your intent and maintain your focused intent as you make the infusion. While its brewing, you can place the jar on your altar within a circle of charged protective stones such as black tourmaline and smokey quartz. You can also sprinkle some nettles around the jar with the stones. To further charge the brew, you can chant over it, breathe on it and ask your protective spirits to lend their protection and blessings to the charged mixture.

While drinking a cup of your magickally brewed nettles imagine the infusion flowing throughout your body, nourishing your adrenal glands, protecting your organs, helping to clean your blood, and extending its protective plant energy outward around you strengthening your aura with a nice protective glow.

The taste of nettles is kind of green, not super green like a shot of wheatgrass, but more of a green tasting ice tea. I prefer to drink it cold with nothing added, but if the taste is too strong for you, try using it as a base for a soup. Drink a quart of this infusion in divided does throughout the day. Use nettles infusions consistently for a few weeks to yield the results. Give it a try and see how you feel!

Healing Nettles Infusions
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Ingredients

  • 1/4 ounce dried nettles
  • 1 quart boiling water

Instructions

  1. Pour water over nettles in a quart jar. Seal and let set overnight.
  2. strain, enjoy and refrigerate remainder.
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Orange Sesame Cabbage Salad

Cabbage is one of my favorite veggies. I love its crisp, light and refreshing taste and texture. As an added bonus, it is a powerhouse of nutrients and has cancer protection and gut healing abilities. Cabbage is high in vitamin C, folic acid and has anticancer compounds known as glucosinolates.

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Cabbage is cruciferous vegetable. It has been noted in population studies that the higher the intake of cabbage family vegetables the lower the rates of colon, lung, breast and prostate cancers. This is partly due to its high antioxidant capacity particularly Indole 3 Carbinole (I3C) which supports the liver in detoxifying and removing harmful chemicals and excess hormones. I3C increases the rate of which estrogen is broken down by the liver by 50%. That’s huge! Excess estrogen is associated with estrogen related cancers and migraines particularly around women’s monthly moon cycle. So if you are someone who suffers from migraines, try supporting the liver with cabbage and other cruciferous veggies. Never forget the healing power of food. Food is medicine.

Cabbage has an amino acid in it called “glutamine” which is very healing to the intestinal track. Glutamine boosts the immune system and is a source of fuel for cells lining the intestinal track. Humans must have glutamine in order to have a healthy mucosal lining. The mucosal lining in a healthy person sheds and then is rebuilt every 3-5 days. Drinking a quart a day of cabbage juice, quite high in glutamine, has been shown to heal peptic ulcers often with effects noticed in just 7 days.

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Cabbage is considered a money drawing plant and can be useful in dishes charged with creating abundance. Begin your dish preparation by taking a few deep breaths and opening up to the flow of money. Imagine that each leaf is representative of wealth and you have plenty. Unfold and pull off the leaves one by one, spinning the cabbage so the leaves are always coming off towards yourself, bringing it inwards.  As you prepare and eat the dish, know that you are calling this abundance to you. Eat this cabbage salad on the full moon while feeling satisfied and wealthy knowing that your money desires are being taken care of.

Orange Sesame Cabbage Salad

Delicious light and refreshing salad

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Ingredients

  • 1 Head of Cabbage, thinly sliced
  • 3 Scallions, thinly sliced
  • 1 Shredded carrot
  • ½ Sliced red bell pepper
  • 2 T Sunflower seeds
  • 1 T Sesame seeds
  • 1 Orange segmented
  • Salad Dressing
  • 2 T Sesame Oil
  • 2 T Orange Juice
  • 1/2 tsp of dijon mustard or honey to help emulsify
  • 1 tsp of grated ginger
  • Handful of fresh chopped cilantro

Instructions

  1. Place all salad ingredients in a bowl.
  2. In another bowl, slowly whisk together dressing ingredients until thickened. Toss with salad. Enjoy!
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Disclaimer: The material presented here is not intended to diagnose or cure any disease, and is not intended to be a replacement for medical care. Always consult with your physician before beginning any health improvement program.