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Water is the primary essential physical nutrient. This we know. Not coffee, beer, wine, milk, juice or soda pop. Tea is the next best thing to water. This we can understand since tea combines water and plants. Broth is the third best thing, especially broth made with some or all bones.Plants have been discussed hundreds of times. A kartload of details are spread across many messages. Listed below is an extremely short list of widely available plants we should consider eating more of and/or using as a tea. The details shown below are only the few I have found as they pertain to the health issues me, myself and I are currently bringing forth through this forum. These details are in no way the whole story about each plant, and are not necessarily the most immediately important plants for your health issues; however these plants are part of the broad baseline of plants that provide a healthy foundation.
All plants, fruits and vegetables provide optimal benefit when naturally grown and consumed as soon as possible after harvesting and with no or minimal processing.
1. Absinthe (Artemisia absinthium) wormwood2. Apple cider vinegar, organic and unfiltered is best and murky and contains the mother
3. Bamboo shoots
4. Basil contains rosmarinic acid
5. Beans
6. Bee balm contains rosmarinic acid
7. Berries
8. Bilberries
9. Chickweed
10. Cinnamon
11. Clover
12. Cocoa
13. Cranberries
14. Creeping charlie is a mint (contains menthol and rosmarinic acid)
15. Curly dock
16. Dandelion
17. Garlic
18. Ginger
19. Gingko bilboa
20. Ginseng
21. Grapes
22. Holly
23. Honeysuckle
24. Kale
25. Knotweed (sourweed)
26. Kudzu
27. Lamb's quarters
28. Lavender contains rosmarinic acid
29. Lemon balm contains rosmarinic acid
30. Mimosa
31. Mistletoe
32. Mulberries
33. Mullien
34. Nutmeg
35. Oregano contains rosmarinic acid
36. Peanuts
37. Peppermint (contains menthol and rosmarinic acid)
38. Plantain narrow leaf and broadleaf
39. Pokeweed poke sallet poke salad
40. Purslane
41. Rosemary, contains rosmarinic acid
42. Saffron
43. Sage, contains rosmarinic acid
44. Spearmint (contains menthol and rosmarinic acid)
45. Stinging nettles
46. Sugarcane
47. Thyme contains rosmarinic acid
48. Turmeric
49. Wild violets
50. Wood sorrel (oxalis) This stuff is delicious.
Long before a person begins to have any health issue, basic healthcare begins with water and plants and includes rest.
Rest is essential on a daily basis and during different periods during each day. We are supposed to get a sufficient amount of sleep every day. A sufficient amount of sleep is the amount of sleep that allows a person to wake up naturally without an alarm clock or another person waking them up. During rest, is when the highest amount of the body's nutrients and other resources can be devoted to preventive maintenance, pathogen fighting, injury repair and healing.
Without sufficient daily water, plants and rest, you will keep your body, mind, emotions and spirit playing catch up and continuously slipping further and behind the cue ball due to attrition due to lack of nutritions. Sooner or later, moving parts will wear out or become inundated and the body politic won't be able to replace, repair or overcome. Due to a priority pecking order, the body will scavenge other parts of self. Pathogens and injuries get the upper hand leading to acute and/or chronic illness, reducing quality of life and life span becomes shortened. In the worst case scenario, these four-fold set of genetics are passed on to family, friends and become a pandemic of culture.
