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Are you ready for winter?

Bacteria and viruses are all around us all the time. Despite who you are or where you live, you just can’t avoid these little critters. The fact is, it’s not the bugs that are the problem, not ever. It’s you! It is your ‘terrain’ as Louis Pasteur said on his deathbed, I quote: “The germ is nothing; the terrain is everything.”
Be prepared with these great tips from Molly, read more....

Carpet Freshener.

This is a lovely blend of essential oils that will freshen up your carpet. Simple to make and free of nasty chemicals. You can combine the oils, or use any one of them.

Carpet Freshener

1 cup Bicarb soda
20 drops Lavender
20 drops Lemongrass
10 drops Eucalyptus
10 drops Cinnamon

You need a wide-mouthed jar with a lid. Add the bicarb and all the essential oils. Close the lid tightly and shake well to distribute the oils. Allow 24 hours for the oils to infuse into the bicarb soda. Sprinkle over your carpet and allow to sit for 15 - 30 minutes, then vacuum the powder. A bonus is that your vacuum cleaner will smell great too!

Do you have cravings for special foods?

It’s probably fair to say that each of us will have a craving for a food at some time. Pregnant women are well renowned for having strange food cravings. It’s easy to remedy if you have a food craving, after all, you can just go out and purchase that food and eat it, however there can be another side to food cravings, and that is that you may even be craving certain foods and not be aware of it. How can that happen? Read more...

DeCluttering

We all know about clutter. Most of us have some of it somewhere, those special ‘things’ stashed away that we can’t bear to part with, after all we just might need them sometime! Some of us have lots of clutter. We see the TV shows about the extreme hoarders and the dreadful mess they live with, even dead mice or vermin and maggots under loads of papers or materials. A very real health hazard. Fortunately not many reach this chronic stage of clutter in their homes. But many of us do reach this chronic stage in our body!

Clutter in the form of a sluggish digestive tract, a sluggish bowel, allowing food to stagnate and toxins to accumulate and ferment. Yeasts grow and multiply and worms (yes those little creepy crawlies) find a nice home to reside in.

Clutter in the form of a toxic overload from pesticides, additives and preservatives in our foods, water, and air, and heavy metal residues.

Clutter in the form of emotion stresses. Work pressure, home and family stresses, anxiety, fear, negative self talk.

Read more.....

Chick pea recipes

Here are a couple of recipes using those champion of champions, chick peas.

Enjoy!!

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Molly Knight is a herbalist, nutritionist, iridologist and clinical hypnotherapist. Molly has been in clinical practice for over thirty years and currently operates the Shavana Health Centre, formerly the Allergy Prevention Clinic.

Herbal Paste

You have probably seen the tubes of herbal pastes in the supermarket, or seen them advertised on TV. They are a great idea and a way that you can have annual herbs all year around for your cooking delights! Now you can make your own without any of the chemical preservatives added.

If you are a herb grower, now that the annual seasonal herbs are at their end, you probably have some bushes that are heavy with leaves and you may be wondering what can you do with them. You can dry them or you can make this paste.

If you don’t grow any herbs but would like to make the pastes yourself, you can simply go to your local market and buy some fresh herbs. You will need a couple of bunches of each herb.

Herbs that work well for pastes are:

parsley
basil
coriander
oregano
mint
lemon balm
marjoram
chives

All you need are the herbs, olive oil and a food processor. The amount of olive oil is dependent on the amount of herbs you have, and the consistency that you like.

You can keep the paste in the fridge for a couple of weeks, or you can freeze the paste in ice cube trays.

Method:

Wash and dry the herbs. Remove the leaves from the stems. Place the herbs in the food processor and add small amounts of the oil until you have a consistency you are happy with.