The Herbal Grinder

"Let your food be your medicine" is an old adage the gets thrown around quite a bit.  In fact, we've all heard it so much that many times when used, we just glaze over and no longer really feel what it truly means. 

Eating is a joyful act.  For many of us, it is a passionate act.  Taking our medicine?  Not so much.  What if we could combine the two acts?  What if taking our medicine was joyful and passionate and we actually looked forward to it?  How would the energy change?  Our thoughts and feelings are potent catalysts to our overall state of well-being.  They are creative energy.  So if our food is our medicine, then taking our medicine becomes a joyful, passionate act.  An act of deep self-loving.  This energy can amplify the potency of our medicine on our body.

How can we do this?  A simple and delicious way is to start with my Herbal Grinder!  By adding a little bit of herbal medicine to each meal, we are combining our medicine with our joy and passion!  With each bite, we are enhancing our food and supporting our body.  In this case, we are supporting our digestion and our liver. 

Milk Thistle Seed (Silybum marianum), Dandelion Root (Taraxacum officinale) and Burdock Root (Arctium lappa) are all gentle liver tonifiers.  Their actions are gentle enough for daily use and allows for a consistent flow of healing and support to stream through your liver.  And in this world, our livers need all the help they can get!

Milk Thistle Seed (Silybum marianum) has been shown by research to protect liver cells from chemical damage.  According to herbalist David Hoffmann in his book Medical Herbalism (2004), "Well designed clinical research thoroughly supports the efficacy of milk thistle seed in protecting and treating the liver.  Studies confirm that the herb can restore liver function impaired by disease, such as viral hepatitis or by exposure to toxins, including ethanol, mushroom toxins, solvents, acetaminophen and pyschotropic medications." 

Dandelion Root (Taraxacum officinale) is considered both a hepatic (has action upon the liver) and a cholagogue (promotes discharge of bile from the gall bladder) and so may be helpful for inflammation and congestion of the liver and gall bladder. According to Finley Ellingwood, author of the American Materia Medica and renowned Eclectic physician, Dandelion root is recommended for chronic jaundice. 

Burdock Root (Arctium lappa) According to herbalist Matthew Wood, burdock stimulates the gallbladder, liver, thyroid and adrenal cortical functions, encouraging the digestion and metabolism of fats and proteins.  Burdock helps to restore the primal blueprint of health, so to speak, when it has been lost in persons suffering from long, chronic illness. He quotes David Hoffmann (2004, 528) saying burdock will “move the body to a state of integration and health.”  Burdock is an alterative (blood cleanser) and a bitter (stimulates digestion). 

The Herbal Grinder is completed with organic peppercorns which not only add flavor but enhances the bio-availability of the other herbs in the blend helping them work more effectively.  It is also a digestive aid.  The last ingredient is Hawaiian Red Sea Salt whose high mineral content provides the trace minerals our body needs as catalysts in all cellular processes. With our commercial chemical farming methods, most of the food that once supplied our trace minerals are depleted.