The week before the fires broke around south/central BC, some interesting articles were published, such as this one about an "emerging parasite" that poses danger to both dogs and humans. When we see the word "emerging" now, a healthy dose of skepticsm says it was "enhanced" in a lab somewhere and then released.

https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/440482/Emerging-parasite-poses-danger-to-dogs-and-humans#440482

We already have various medications on the market that deal with tapeworms. But there are foods that have also been known to kill worms and other parasites in the human body.

The root of black and wild cherry, Oil of Oregano, and Aloe Vera are three herbal treatments specifically mentioned to deal with intestinal worms. Ginger is also known to be anti-parasitic, along with black pepper, chokecherry, chamomile, garlic, onions, lemons, pomegranates, pumpkins, tarragon and thyme.

That short list is by no means exhaustive, but it is encouraging. Foods often described as anti-malarial are anti-parasitic. They got their description from how well they kill off blood flukes, but have been known to kill off other parasites as well, making them immensely valuable since 2020 broke out.

So make sure you eat your dewormers several times a week! Eat them daily if your area is prone to parasitic infestations. The list of anti-parasitic foods is far longer than what's been shared here, but these are a good sampling.

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I've been accepted to the big wellness fair one town over, at the end of September! I'll get an event announcement up soon to share with any Canadian friends you may have who might be in BC. It turns out that herbal vinegars can be sold at craft fairs without a temporary permit. I am creating labels to sell my daughter's Prickly Lettuce ACV tincture as a herbal vinegar, and have put an "info card" up on my site that is only accessible via the QR code on the label. In person, I'll have the info card printed out and ready to be handed to each person who buys it. Hopefully this helps pay for the table fee, which is quite steep. Thankfully the fair runs for two days, so pray we break even at minimum, maybe pay back more of the trunk costs or even pay it off with extra at maximum.

Echinacea, also known as coneflower, is one of the most commonly used herbal products, valued traditionally for immune system support and relief from respiratory symptoms.[i] Native Americans used echinacea for hundreds of years to treat respiratory infections, colds, coughs, bronchitis and more.[ii] While its immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory activities are well-known, at our echinacea research database you can learn about 130 diseases that this herbal remedy may benefit. With at least 54 known pharmacological actions, emerging evidence also suggests echinacea has anxiety-relieving and mood-enhancing effects.[iii]
https://www.activistpost.com/2023/04/new-benefit-of-echinacea-discovered.html

Holiday Foods, Day 1, Lettuce! From Caesar salad to the traditional tossed iceburg lettuce salad, lettuce gets used as the basis for many salad options during the holiday season. The precursor to domestic lettuce - Prickly Lettuce, can actually be used in tincture form as a painkiller and has been used to wean people off opiod dependencies although prickly lettuce itself is not addictive. The white sap that springs up when harvesting the thorny plant is a topical aenesthetic that works immediately, making the prickly harvest easier to tolerate. To use Prickly Lettuce in a wild salad, run your thumb up the center spine of each leaf to remove the tiny thorns, then wash and prep as normal. Larger leaves are more bitter than younger leaves and this is true throughout the growing season, however, bitters are known to aid in improving digestion, so we eat the leaves the entire growing season.

This is the last holiday foods post. For those that stuck with me from Day 38 to today, you now have 38 nutritional/medicinal wholefood profiles that you can use year-round. If you aren't sure how to use a given food for a pre-diagnosed condition, your local herbalist or naturopath can be of assistance. If there isn't one in your area, contact me, and after filling out my client intake packet, I can help you with recommendations around using food as medicine in your home. The wholefoods nutritional/medicinal database these profiles were pulled from is available for sale on my website. I'll also be compiling these profiles into a digital and paperback book that you can buy in the New Year. I'll be creating a calendar from these profiles as well, the goal there was to pick my top 12, but I kept annotating more than 12, so we'll see how I fit them into a 12 month calendar. I hope to have that ready for sale shortly after Christmas, before January 1st.

If you want links to any of these items, let me know. Otherwise, have a very merry CHRISTMAS! Merry in old English means "strong/strength". May you exit your holiday festivities healthier than you entered them! :-D

Today I attended a wholiopathic seminar, a recently trademarked term by the head of New Eden School of Natural Health and Herbal Studies to illustrate how we put God first in our health journey. The last major point I got from today’s seminar, was the question: Who are you bowing to? Has your condition become your identity, title, and idol?

https://songdove.fa-ct.com/wordpress-mu/tame/is-the-banner-over-your-head-child-of-god-or-name-of-condition/

15 min left of the "lunch break" in the wholiopathic seminar I am taking today. The college head of New Eden School of Natural Health and Herbal Medicine, the college I took my NHP training through, made a few good points this morning:

1) Pray and praise before you eat, exercise, or even take supplements! Your body IS the Temple of the Holy Spirit, so treat it that way by including and thanking God for the means He has provided to maintain your health, and expect Him to work through those means as you do your part in using them.

2) As I get a kick out of the freak-out of western nations over the concept of eating crickets, Dr De Santis (not the Florida governor) reminded everyone that God DID give His blessing on eating crickets/locusts/grasshoppers/etc. He broke down the nutritional profile of these critters and then said, "if you get a locust swarm through your area? Eat them!!" Yes such swarms eat up every grain and green thing in sight, so set out your nets, then roast, grind and eat THEM instead! He then pointed out what I have said on occasion recently, that western nations are really the only ones who don't already include insects in our diets to any degree short of the ocean-based insects (lobster, crab, shrimp, etc). Westerners have no trouble eating ocean insects and even pay big money at restaurants to have them on the platter. But oh no, the media MUST whip everyone up against the idea!!! I guess they forgot about the chocolate-covered grasshoppers from the 70's and '80's.

3) Daily getting outside into fresh air and green grass/etc is beneficial to the body and mind/soul/emotions as well.

Sessions resume in a few minutes here.

Four days ago I created a sample file for a project I was encouraged by a follower over on Flote, to make ready for sale. This guy says he wants to help me sell this thing too, and both my kids encouraged me to prep it for sale as well.

This nutritional/medicinal wholefood spreadsheet database contains (currently), over 7000 entries for over 350 foods and herbs, covering phyto chemicals, minerals, body system supports, medicinal uses, vitamins, amino acids, and more.

You don't need an Internet connection to use this tool! Pretty much every database I looked at (to get a feel for pricing), was entirely online, meaning if string pullers have their way, whole swaths of practitioners, herbalists and naturopathic doctors will not have access to these databases if the Internet goes down in their areas.

This tool still requires you to boot up your laptop or desktop, and therefore dependent on electricity, but it doesn't require Internet access for daily use. I use this tool when I am creating my handouts and charts that I share from time to time, and it was created for my own practice to begin with.

If you know people who could benefit from an interactive nutritional/medicinal wholefood spreadsheet/database that they don't need to be online to use, send them this link.

https://songdove.fa-ct.com/wordpress-mu/tame/product/marilynn-dawsons-nutritional-medicinal-wholefood-database/

It may have been Canada Day today, but this afternoon at the barn, I harvested a bag of Lamb's Quarters, a bag of mallow, and another bag of dandelion. On our walk over to the rec centre at noon today, we went through the community garden area, and the Burdock and broadleaf plantain are huge!!! I gotta do some processing tomorrow to free up some trays, and then get over there to do a major wild harvest on the ground around the private raised garden beds.

Watching the sumac trees too for when the red cones appear. Hoping to make more sumac juice (tastes like lemonade).

The burdock leaves can be used as food wraps for cooking instead of tinfoil or parchment paper. I still put a tray under them, but they are a natural way to do this type of cooking. Burdock root is highly medicinal! It's a pain to dig out of the ground, but really helpful. The leaves contain the same compounds, just milder. The second year stalks can be stripped and then cut up to make a wild version of artichoke dip. I continually forget to try my hand at that and a few times, brought home the stalks, but they dried before I could get to them. Don't try eating the leaves or stalk alone, as the flavour is quite sharp by itself. Burdock flowers are also medicinal and can be put in medicinal teas. When the flower is dry, the spines are more furry than sharp, more like soft burrs than sharp spikes.

If you need burdock but don't have it growing nearby, see if you have arrowleaf balsamroot growing nearby, it has pretty much the exact same nutritional/medicinal profile, but the leaves are narrower and not as good at being used as food wraps unless you are wrapping something narrow. We accidentally used arrowleaf balsamroot in our first herbalist-suggested double-oil infusion to treat my daughter's horse's rain rot. But it still worked! And the root is just as hard to dig up!