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Sumara's
Raw Food Recipes |
Tom Kha Gai Soup
1½ cups broccoli florets,
cut into small bite-size pieces
1½ cups cauliflower florets, cut into small bite-size pieces
1½ cups Chinese pea pods, cut into small bite-size pieces
1½ cups Chinese cabbage, thinly sliced
1½ cups shiitake mushrooms, sliced
1 carrot, julienned
4 green onions, sliced
½ cup fresh cilantro, minced
SOUP STOCK
2½ cups water
4 vegetable bouillon cubes
4 stalks lemongrass
3-4 slices ginger
8-10 lime leaves
2-3 Serrano chilies
¼ cup lime juice
1 teaspoon honey
2 cans coconut milk, room temperature
Combine all of the vegetables in a large bowl and then place a
large handful into each soup bowl to be served.
Use only the bottom white part (about 6 inches of the stalk
part) of Lemongrass and discard the woody grass part of it. With
the flat side of a ladle or a butcher's knife, pound and mash
the lemongrass so it releases the flavor. Cut into 2 inch
segments.
Put the vegetable stock in a pot and bring to a boil. Toss the
lemongrass, ginger, lime leaves. Simmer for 5-7 minutes till it
gives out an aroma. Add the chilies, and simmer for another 5
minutes.
Turn off the heat but leave on warm stove top and add the
coconut milk, lime juice and honey.
Now ladle the broth into each of the soup bowls and serve
immediately. Then let yourself be carried away into the exotic
flavor of the Asian Thai cuisine!!
Serves 4-6
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Take the Food Self-Sufficiency Pledge as Your New Year's
Resolution
by Tara Green, Natural News
If you are one of the many people who
set a New Year's resolution to lose weight, try taking a
different approach this year. Instead of promising
yourself to lose weight, and then becoming frustrated
and discouraged, try pledging to yourself to become more
food self-sufficient.
The following is a list of some of the basic skills to
get started:
Cooking
Eliminate pre-packaged foods, including frozen meals and
takeout food, from your weekly dining. Switch your style
of grocery buying to emphasize spices and basic
ingredients you can use in many dishes. If you do not
already cook, learn a few basic recipes for dishes you
can prepare quickly. If you're already an accomplished
cook, try learning a new culinary skill like
cheese-making or pickling.
Food self-sufficiency doesn't mean becoming an island,
just learning to avoid the industrialized,
chemical-laden pseudo-foods purveyed in stores. Build
community through sharing and barter. Some people expand
their eating options beyond their own kitchen repertoire
by forming food clubs or coops with friends either to
share meals together or to swap food -- for instance,
one person's lentil soup for another's fruit preserves...
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Home Remedies Relieve Tooth and Gum Pain
by JB Bardot, Natural
News
Most people hate going to the
dentist. Even the for the most minor reason, dental
appointments can cause a grown man, or woman, to
quake with fear. Regular dental hygiene at home is a
big step toward preventing dental problems; and,
basic home care can be enhanced with a variety of
herbal and homeopathic treatments to relieve pain
and resolve minor gum and tooth problems.
Liquid Calendula
Calendula is the herbal extract from marigolds and
has been used medicinally for centuries to relieve a
wide range of conditions. A calendula mouthwash
makes a soothing treatment for any number of gum and
mouth disorders. It heals the soft tissue, relieving
bleeding gums, mouth ulcers, herpes lesions, dry
sockets after extractions, and more.
Clove Oil
Clove oil is an old folk remedy for relieving a
toothache or dry socket after tooth extraction. It
possesses analgesic and antiseptic properties and is
highly effective for numbing the area, relieving the
pain...
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for the rest of the story.
Music as Medicine
by Hannah Lambert, Positive Health Online
For centuries people have believed
there is a profound link between music and health, but
is there any evidence to suggest that music can be
therapeutic in more than just an allegorical sense? Can
music really alleviate illness and distress?
The answer is, unequivocally, yes. Music helps to ease a
wide range of physical and mental illnesses. In severe
cases, such as autism and terminal disease, it can be
the only effective means of positive help. More general
ailments such as anxiety and depression are also
assuaged with regular exposure to music. Researchers
around the globe have shown that music can influence
blood pressure, circulation, metabolism, respiration and
muscular energy in both humans and animals. During the
1940s, Henry Clay Smith demonstrated that employee
productivity was influenced by listening to music. There
are many different centres that now use music as a
course of treatment. The Harperbury Hospital in Britain,
for instance, uses vibro-acoustic therapy: patients are
placed in a ‘music bath’ whilst specially chosen ‘New
Age’ music is played. The vibrational effects of this
are known to improve the condition of children with
cerebral palsy, and to relieve back pain, constipation,
irregular periods, arthritis and circulatory problems.
The connection between music and mental and physical
well-being is becoming widely known. As a result,
official medical health services, such as the NHS, are
increasingly interested in the whole subject...
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