Every year I manage to go through these motions so meticulously that they result in such a perfect faiL.
Actually, I prefer to call it a "learning tool," and I'm likely one of millions who is fortunate to have this experience annually, which serves to help us to clearly know and understand Who We Really Are. Every year I choose to re-learn:
I am not baklava. Here's what happens...
EXPERIMENT:
We come off of the summer season full of delight and eagerness to greet the colder seasons healthfully and consciously. We may even do a cleanse to prepare our bodies for the changes in temperature, and available resources for food. Plants are growing with drooping, juicy abundance that must be harvested and saved for winter medicines. Fall festivals abound with copious stands of seasonal fruits and vegetables.
Soon, the holy days approach, and we celebrate. We celebrate with family...traditions...food and drink. We prepare ancestral dishes that steadfast our hearts desires, and we eat them until we are fulfilled, warm and fuzzy; and in my family, we hope no one gets appendicitis. Let me just say, we are a little too good at celebrating by eating.
In our home, Baklava, a Greek pastry of honey, nuts, spices, and thin phyllo dough is made in 4-6 hotel sized pans to be shared with friends and family. The production takes nearly a week. Baklava becomes a routine breakfast that soon after recovering from the first round, it sounds like a good idea for lunch...snacks...oh what the heck, I'll have another, until it's time for bed. Every family has a dish like this. What is yours?
RESULTS:
Every year. Every YEAR, 2-5 members of my family get a cold or flu between Christmas and New Years day. Do yours?
CONCLUSION:
Remember those seasonal plants which grow in drooping, juicy abundance in late summer and fall that must be harvested and saved for winter medicines?
Sambucus cerulea
This one will take care of that sugar induced immune suppression which causes the onset of a flu or cold. Elderberry. This is THE plant to have in your fall and winter arsenal for cold and flu. It works.
This year we harvested over 40 lbs of berries, and have sold a whole lot of elderberry syrup.
Elder berries are immune modulating and very antiviral allies which will prevent or shorten the length of cold and flu viruses. They are known to be active against eight strains of influenza. Dr. Madeleine Mumcuoglu, of Hadassah-Hebrew University in Isreal found that elderberry disarms the enzyme viruses use to penetrate healthy cells in the lining of the nose and throat. Taken before infection, it prevents infection. Taken after infection, it prevents spread of the virus through the respiratory tract.
I highly recommend checking out this Clinical Guide to Elderberry by Herbalgram to learn more about it.
Also, here is some information about how to use elderberry syrup. Stay Healthy This Winter! I would be happy to hook you up with some seasonal medicinal elderberry syrup. Get in touch.
Best,
Michelle
Make sure to keep your syrup refrigerated for the longest shelf life.
Dosage:
Adults & children 12 and older: ½ Tbsp to 1Tbsp (1/2 Tbsp is preventative dose, 1 Tbsp if you are sick or on the verge).
Children under 12: 1 tsp-1/2 Tbsp, respectively
For cold & flu prevention, take appropriate dose once daily. If you are under threat of a cold or flu, or symptoms are coming on, take this dose 2-4 times a day until threat or symptoms subside. If you have a fever, take dose every 1 hour for 1 day, then reduce to 2-4 times per day until symptoms subside.
Syrup may be taken in a spoonful, in tea, hot water, juice, yogurt, or oatmeal if you like.
For educational purposes only. This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, and is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease.
Source: moutainroseherbs.com/learn/elderberry.php
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