Health Benefits of Miso
http://www.bodyecology.com/07/02/15/miso_health_and_anti-aging.php

Miso Soup: A Delicious Bowl of Health and Anti-Aging Power
by BodyEcology.com

Find out why sipping fermented miso soup is the real secret to longevity in Japan. Studies show it can protect against radiation and cancer and keep you looking healthy and young!

There’s a great debate about soy in the health food world today.

Once thought to be the cure-all for many ills and the lifesaver for vegetarian and gluten-free diets, more and more studies are showing what we at Body Ecology have known for some time: soy is NOT the health food you may think it is...unless it’s fermented and non-GMO (not genetically modified).

Unfermented soy has been linked to digestive distress, immune system breakdown, PMS, endometriosis, reproductive problems for men and women, allergies, ADD, higher risk of heart disease and cancer, malnutrition and loss of libido.1

For more information on fermented vs. unfermented and GMO vs. non-GMO soy, read: Soy Lecithin: The Risks if You Choose the Wrong Type, The Benefits if You Choose Right.

Who’s At Risk?
While sales of soy are slowing as people learn about the risks, there are still people using soy. According to Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, who wrote The Whole Soy Story, the most at risk populations, are: infants who are taking soy baby formula, vegetarians (especially vegans) eating a high soy diet and mid-life women eating a lot of soyfoods thinking it will help with the symptoms of menopause.
So how can you get the benefits of soy, without the risks?

Fermentation to the Rescue
Fermented foods and drinks are a cornerstone of the Body Ecology program because they help build your inner ecosystem. When your inner ecosystem is healthy, it is full of friendly microflora (beneficial bacteria in your intestines), that help you digest and assimilate nutrients and boost your immunity.
In fact, healthy microflora actually go to work for you, creating the vitamins and minerals your body needs to stay strong and energized.

When you follow the Body Ecology program, you begin to create energy so that your body can correct digestion, conquer infections and cleanse. Once your systemic fungal infection is under control we recommend adding fermented soy foods like miso soup, natto and tempeh. Soyfoods are high in copper and we have found that high copper foods often are not tolerated when a person has candidiasis.

Amazing Miso
Miso has been eaten in Japan and China for many centuries and has been attracting the attention of many of us because of its health and anti-aging benefits. It’s also quite delicious. When you aren’t feeling well a bowl of miso soup can be especially soothing.

While it was once thought that soy was the reason for the low rates of heart disease, breast and prostate cancer in Asia, more evidence is now showing us that it is the consumption of traditional fermented soy products (usually eaten every day) that are providing the real benefits.

Traced from ancient China, where it was known as hisio, a seasoning prized by aristocrats, miso was perfected in Japan from the 7th century to today.

Making miso is an art form in Japan. It is made of soybeans and koji, a culture starter made from beneficial molds, yeast and lactic acid bacteria. As long as you choose unpasteruized miso, you will be getting the benefits of live friendly microflora for the health of your inner ecosystem.
There are many types of miso, some made with just soy beans and soy koji (called Hatcho miso, a favorite in Japan) and others made with barley and rice.

No matter which type you choose, this fermented superfood has many health benefits.

Miso Benefits
Many studies have been done on miso, some on humans and some on animals. These studies are showing the following benefits of miso2:

Reduces risks of cancer including breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer and colon cancer.
Protection from radiation
Immune strengthening
Antiviral — miso is very alkalizing and strengthening to the immune system helping to combat a viral infection.
Prevents aging - high in antioxidants, miso protects from free radicals that cause signs of aging.
Helps maintain nutritional balance - full of nutrients, beneficial bacteria and enzymes, miso provides: protein, vitamin B12, vitamin B2, vitamin E, vitamin K, tryptophan, choline, dietary fiber, linoleic acid and lecithin.
Helps preserve beautiful skin - miso contains linoleic acid, an essential fatty acid that helps your skin stay soft and free of pigments.

Helps reduce menopausal complaints - the isoflavones in miso have been shown to reduce hot flashes.
Length of Fermentation Matters

Soy protein is hard to digest and takes a long, slow process of fermentation to break it down. Bacteria that can digest soy are much more hardy than the more fragile bacteria used to ferment vegetables, young coconut water and milk products (so while you may love our line of Starters, they won’t help you make homemade miso - but they WILL help you make a variety of other probiotic-rich fermented foods and drinks.
With miso, length of fermentation matters. Hiro Watanabe, PhD, an expert in developmental biology and cancer prevention in Japan, conducted several animal and human studies using freeze dried rice miso to better understand how miso protects against cancer, radiation and other diseases.

Dr. Watanabe’s studies showed that when it comes to healing illnesses like breast and prostate cancer, the ideal length of fermentation was between 180 days (6 months) and 2 years.

Dr Watanabe also found that miso fermented for 180 days is typically a rich color and has plenty of healthy microflora. After 2 years of fermentation, the amount of friendly bacteria has begun to disappear. And while the miso would still a fermented food and is not “spoiled” there is a risk that other pathogens can grow in the miso.

Sipping Miso Soup for Your Health
According to Dr. Watanabe’s studies, the sodium in miso did not show adverse affects for people with salt sensitivity and hypertension. Here are the amounts of miso soup he recommended for different health conditions:

Cancer - 3 or more cups per day
High blood pressure - 2 cups per day
Menopause - 1 - 3 cups per day

Special Note: Here at Body Ecology we recommend eating less miso in the summer months because our body needs much less salt in the hot months. Donna often recommends adding it to salads, cultured veggies or salad dressings during the summertime. However, right now it is winter and much of the country is having extremely cold weather. Miso is a great food to eat every day.

For health maintenance, follow your intuition when it comes to how much miso soup you enjoy. This delicious, healing food is a great way to nourish yourself to great health!

Make Your Own Miso Soup
When you are ready to introduce the benefits of miso into your diet, you have more options than soup. For example, you can blend this certified organic miso (made with healthy sea salt) (Miso Master is another recommended brand; check with your local health food store) in with your cultured vegetables or add it to salad dressings for a delicious dose of protein, minerals and anti-aging power!

Or, sip your miso in a warming cup of soup as the Japanese have been doing to stay healthy for centuries. If you are really in a hurry simply dissolve a heaping spoonful of your favorite miso paste into a cup of hot water that you’ve poured into a favorite coffee mug. Spoon some cultured veggies into another bowl, add some roasted pumpkin seed oil and some sea salt to these and enjoy a perfectly balanced meal. This is fast food at its finest!

To make a more traditional miso soup, follow this easy recipe:

EZ Traditional Miso Soup Recipe
5-inch strip wakame (sea vegetable)
1 large onion (about 1 cup)
4 Cups filtered water
2 Tablespoons miso (ideally, fermented for 6 months - 2 years)
Garnish - chopped parsley, green onions, ginger or watercress
Instructions
Soak the wakame in water for 10 minutes and slice in into 1.5 inch pieces.
Thinly slice onions
Put water, onions and wakame in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
Reduce the heat to simmer for 10 - 20 minutes, until tender.
Remove 1.5 cups of broth from the saucepan, place in a bowl.
Allow water in the bowl to cool a bit and add the miso, mixing it into the water (the water should not be boiling, because it can kill the live beneficial microflora and enzymes in miso. In general, the microflora in koji, the starter used to make miso, die at 105° F).
Turn off heat, allow the water to cool a bit.
Add the miso broth to the soup in the saucepan and add chopped parsley, green onions, ginger or watercress for garnish.

RECIPE NOTE: The above recipe is a vegetarian version. You can also add bonito flakes (dried fish) - check out these bonito flakes at Amazon or check with your local Asian market. Simmer one tablespoon of bonito flakes in the water for 10 minutes and strain. Then continue as above. When made with the dried fish as a quick stock your miso soup will be even more strengthening.

P.S. Donna and Scott Eibel, President of Body Ecology, just returned from a trip to Japan. They enjoyed several bowls of miso soup each day...even at breakfast. They felt great.

Stay tuned for a future announcement about a delicious new all-natural non-caloric sweetener that the Japanese have been enjoying for over 10 years. Body Ecology is excited to bring it to America. Expected arrival date is early to mid May.

Sources:

1 Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN. The Whole Soy Story. Wise Traditions Conference, November 2006. http://www.fleetwoodonsite.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=11&osCsid=710d1e5b3567d83b3ec429eb228bb160

2 Hiro Watanabe, PhD The Magic of Miso. Wise Traditions Conference, November 2006.
http://www.fleetwoodonsite.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=11&osCsid=710d1e5b3567d83b3ec429eb228bb160
Miso soup ‘cuts breast cancer risk’. BBC News Online, June, 2003.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2999852.stm

No - I have never even thought of emergency storage. Now I think about it all the time. I thought we'd stock up from Walton Feed at your recommendation.

You might try looking on epionions.com or yelp.com. Thre might be reviews for these companies there. I can research for you if you like.

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

Robert Frost

http://www.jcrow.com/

Appears to be most of an old book on line:

http://householdphysician.com/

http://householdphysician.com/chapter2.php?page=11

snipped...

Discretion in Exercising the Brain. In exercising the brain we must use discretion. We must not sit down in the morning, and ply it with work during the whole day, without rest. This would soon bring upon it disease, or premature decay. It should be worked only until it begins to show symptoms of fatigue. Then it should be permitted to rest; or, what is better, be turned to some new subject, of a lighter, or a different character. This often rests the brain better than to entirely suspend its action.
continues.

http://householdphysician.com/chapter27.php?page=5

27.5 Cayenne Pepper

Cayenne (or Red) Pepper (Capsicum Annuum)

Used in Scarlet Fever as a Gargle. As a tea in Grippe or severe Colds, also Dyspepsia

http://www.jcrow.com/

This is a fantastic web site, history, herbs, medicine, odd things you don’t see and some far out stuff.
granny

The stuff you find simply amazes me! Thank you!!

http://ezinearticles.com/?Tempeh-—The-Super-Healthy-Probiotics-Food&id=1653309

Tempeh - The Super Healthy Probiotics Food
By Fanda Amnesiana

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www.KarysDietBlog.com

If you are a person who concerns about health, healthy food should be in your family’s daily menu. For your today’s menu, why don’t you cook something delicious with probiotics contents and have many health benefits to reduce cancer risk, good for diabetic diets, lower cholesterol, boost immune system, and even help weight loss program? ‘Is there one single food that have all those benefits?’ Yes, that is tempeh, a traditional food made from fermented soybean!

In my country, Indonesia, tempeh has been our traditional food from maybe hundreds of years ago. We can find tempeh in almost all markets, even in small villages. Tempeh has been a part of our life. Whether we cook for daily meals (served with rice), or when we have a fine dining in restaurants, we can always find tempeh. It is because tempeh can be processed into many delicious foods. But not as many of its health benefits!

Probiotics
Tempeh is one of many probiotics food sources. Rhizopus Oligosporus, good bacteria contained in tempeh, produces natural antibiotic that inhibits some harmful bacteria. Rhyzopus can also improve your intestinal digestion health, as well as your skin health, from atopic dermatitis, pimples, cellulitis, etc. On the other hand, the fermentation process that change whole soybeans into tempeh, produces an enzyme called phytase. This enzyme can break down phytate acid, and therefore increase body absorption of minerals like iron, calcium, and zinc. Good news for you who have anemia, as tempeh is also claimed of having 4mg iron/100 gram!

High Protein - Low Calories
Tempeh, being processed from soybeans, becomes a high protein food, even highest among other plant foods. Daily consumption of 166 gram tempeh contributes around 60% of our protein daily needs. And with the fact that tempeh has less than 329 calories, it is safe to assume that tempeh can be your perfect choice of healthy food!

As a plant protein source, tempeh can provide healthy diet for diabetes mellitus patient too. Diabetic people can use tempeh as a substitute of animal protein foods like milk and meat.

Isoflavone
Now you can get many healthy benefits of isoflavone from tempeh, which is including :
· Improve bone mineral content, reduce the risk of osteoporosis
· Antioxidant to fight free radical that cause cancer
· Lower cholesterol (lower LDL and increase HDL)
· Lower heart disease risk
· Relieve menopause symptoms

High Fiber
The high fiber content of soybeans which is found in tempeh can help diabetic patient to control sugar level in their blood. It can also prevent colon cancer, improve kidney health by replacing animal protein to soybeans, and prevent diarrhea in children.

Boost Immune System & Health
The amino acids can improve the superiority of tempeh in boosting immune system. Tempeh is also an important source of vitamin B12, which vegetarians can use to replace meat, and an excellent source of calcium.

Low Calorie & Low Carbohydrate
And last but not least, tempeh is a suitable food for weight loss diet. Being low calories and low carbohydrate, including tempeh in your dietary food list, will help you to reduce the amount of fat stored in your body. If you combine this perfect diet with exercise, you will increase lean muscle mass that will help you to burn fat. And what make it more perfect, tempeh has its high protein you can use to regain your energy after having your weight loss exercise session.

So, I don’t need to underline, that tempeh is definitely a super healthy food for healthy people, with healthy budget, which, with a little creativity can turn into a super delicious food!

Fanda is the owner of 1st Probiotics. http://www.1stprobiotics.com will help you to know more about probiotics, the good bacteria. From the health benefits, to recipes to serve probiotics to your family. You can also learn more about tempeh and other probiotics source food in http://www.1stprobiotics.com

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Fanda_Amnesiana

Always make sure your tempeh is organic. GMO soybeans are everywhere but are not allowed in organic foods.
10th

http://www.naturodoc.com/library/nutrition/natsweets_use.htm

Guide To Using Natural Sweeteners

By Fran Costigan

The following guidelines will help you transform your favorite desserts into more healthful treats.

Sweetener Source	Characteristics	Baking with Natural Sweeteners
Pure maple syrup	From the sap of maple trees. Use in all baked goods; wonderful in cakes.	Substitute 2/3 to 1/4 cup maple for 1 cup white sugar. Reduce liquid in recipe by 3 tablespoons. Add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda per cup of maple syrup. Buy pure U.S. organic syrup. Some maple producers still use illegal formaldehyde pellets and other additives during processing. Store refrigerated. High in potassium and calcium.
Maple sugar	Dehydrated maple syrup. 93 percent sucrose; 1 percent to 3 percent invert sugars*	Use in all baked goods. Substitute 1 cup maple sugar for 1 cup white sugar. No reduction of liquid is necessary. Add 1/8 teaspoon baking soda per cup. Store in a tightly closed container and sift before using. Mix with liquid to make glazes. Organic is available.
Barley malt syrup	Sprouted barley. Maltose, glucose, complex carbohydrates: 3 percent protein from malt. Dark brown, thick and sticky; has a strong, distinctive flavor like molasses. Half as sweet as white sugar.	Best used in combination with other sweeteners. Wonderful in spice cakes, gingerbread, and baked beans. Substitute 1-1/3 cups barley malt for 1 cup white sugar. Reduce liquid in recipe by 1/4 cup. Add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda per cup barley malt. Purchase only 100 percent barley malt, not barley/corn malt syrup. Store refrigerated. Organic is available.
Brown rice syrup	Brown rice and various enzymes. Maltose, glucose, complex carbohydrates. Amber-colored syrup with mild "butterscotch" flavor. Half as sweet as white sugar.	Baked goods made with rice syrup tend to be hard or very crisp. Use brown rice syrup in cookies, crisps, granola, pies, and puddings. Combine with another sweetener such as maple for cakes. Substitute 1-1/3 cups for 1 cup white sugar. Reduce liquid 1/4 cup per cup rice syrup. Add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda per 1 cup rice syrup. Store refrigerated. Organic is available.
Honey	Extracted from flower nectar by bees. Fructose, glucose, sucrose. Color and taste depend upon the flower source. 20 percent to 60 percent sweeter than white sugar, so use less!	Use in all baked goods. Substitute 2/3 to 3/4 cup for 1 cup white sugar. Reduce liquid by 1/4 cup. Add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda per cup honey. Reduce oven 25°F and adjust baking time. Some vegans don't use honey, as bees are sometimes killed after the season. Honey can affect blood sugar levels, as most concentrated sugars can.
Date sugar	Ground, dehydrated dates. Sucrose, glucose, fructose, and complex carbohydrates. Mahogany color, coarse granules.	Contains folic acid. Use in crisps, crunches, as sprinkle, or topping. Substitute 1 cup for 1 cup white sugar. Add hot water to dissolve date sugar before using in batters. Use in combination with other sweeteners. Burns easily. Purchase date sugar made from unsulphured, organically grown dates. Store in a tightly closed jar.
Granular fruit grape juice concentrate and rice sweetener syrup	Glucose, fructose, maltose, and complex carbohydrates. Light brown granules, brown sugar-like taste.	Use in cookies, crisps, granola, pies, puddings and cakes. Substitute 1-1/4 cups for 1 cup white sugar. Reduce salt 30 percent to 50 percent. Don't overmix batters. Oil or line pans with parchment. Bake at 325°F to 350°F maximum and adjust baking time. Organic is available.
Mixed fruit juice	Peach, pear, grape, and pineapple concentrate juice are most common.	Use in all baked goods and desserts, especially spice, carob, and chocolate cakes. Substitute 2/3 cup for 1 cup white sugar. Reduce liquid 1/3 cup per cup of fruit sweetener. Add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda per cup fruit sweetener. Reduce oven 25°F and adjust baking time. Some concentrates are more acidic than others. Store in refrigerator. Use at room temperature.
Sucrose, some natural fructose	Generally amber-colored and fruity tasting.	Dried cane juice. Sugar cane, water removed. Minerals and molasses are retained. Use in cookies, crisps, granola, pies, puddings and cakes. Substitute 1 cup for 1 cup white sugar. Add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda per cup dried cane juice. Be sure to purchase organic. Any pesticides and chemicals used on the cane are concentrated during processing. Store in a tightly closed container and sift before using.

* Sucrose and invert sugars. Amber-colored coarse granules, with a mild molasses-like taste.

NaturoDoc's Take: Though some components of natural sugars are chemically identical to refined white sugar, it's not true that "sugar is sugar." Low-tech processed natural sugars retain vitamins, minerals, and other components essential for their digestion, and are metabolized more slowly than white sugar. White sugar creates a strain on our bodies, depletes stored vitamins and minerals, and suppresses the immune system.

Chemically, many kinds of sugars exist. Labels could say sucrose, glucose, fructose, maltose, dextrose, lactose, galactose, or levulose. All nutritive sweeteners contain one or more of these sugars.

LOL, I researched Walton Food in the beginning.

Mormons buy from there, and it is on the main Mormon lists of companies.

Add in the fact that I have ordered several hundred pounds of their supplies and so have friends, Don’s order this year came on a semi truck and LOL, they unload that type of order on pallets, not to the living room.

Keep in mind that I use the products and did not buy them just to sit on the shelf for ‘someday’.

If you find any complaints, it will be about the time for your order to reach you, as before Y2K/2000, they had so many orders that they could not fill them.

It has been a while since I ordered and I must do so, if I have fresh oatmeal, I will eat it daily, the stale stuff in the store, I cannot handle.

You will find several Freepers that shop at Walton’s.

Any time you post the name on a yahoo list, some one will say that they shop there.

When I first went on the internet, one of the main sites, like yahoo, had a program called ‘Voyeur’, it showed what other people were searching for, and changed as the searches did, and someone asked for ‘bulk food storage’, so I clicked on it and that is how I heard of Walton’s.

Then [in the 90’s] they had a forum, and they still have many pages on how to do things and healing and early history, that caught my attention and I ordered from them and will again.

LOL, I miss the voyeur, not only did I find many sites that I would not have thought of searching for....THEN, but I learned how many ways they will search for a porn site, and not use the word porn, that was a joke in itself, and an education, which came in handy, when I got involved in terror research.........lots of terrorists meet in the porn sites.

Then they remodeled the site and removed it....there are other voyeur sites, but the ones I checked were for porn and that does not interest me at all, except to laugh at phony searches.

I didn’t learn how to really search, until I started reading Free Republic.

You have to remember that I don’t really know how to use this machine, so I learn slowly and by accident.

I traded my cream separator for a computer that would go on the internet, when he brought it, he showed me how to get on the internet and helped set up a mailbox, LOL, and I have been wandering around for 10 years, still lost on the internet.

I have read about the Miso several times, but not tried it.

I more or less reject soy, for political reasons, I don’t like Monsanto and the big soy producer’s way of taking over the seeds and food supply, and I do not like to feed babies the soy formula.

Yes, I admit that I might be a little un-reasonable.

The stuff you find simply amazes me! Thank you!!<<<

Guess that I am just a voyeur at heart...LOL

I never could walk by a book, without wondering what was written in it and transferred that to the internet.

You must admit, you and I never know where I am headed when I start clicking.

I get bored easily, so need a variety of subjects to think about.

I think I got the jcrow.com site off that coupon link, which came off the Snowdrift google that I did for you.

Tempeh I have not tried.

I like the sugar list, I did use the date sugar for a while, as I bought my registered Nubian buck “King Louie” from a small date farm/shop in Yuma, and enjoyed going there....she even held him and allowed me to make payments on him.

He was a baby, and when I had him paid off, LOL, which already had Wellton in an uproar, as I was new in town, took a job in a coffee shop where the ranchers ate, they laughed at me excitement over finding or even buying a goat.

At the time, they were still working on the I-8 freeway, and the bosses also met there in the morning.

One of them, heard a cattle man tell me, what he thought of goats and Vern, if I have the name right, would every morning take an empty coffee cup and force the ranchers to donate to the King Louie fund......he never got more than a few cents at a time, but he sure as thunder irritated them.

I had the final laugh, as the years went by, some of the ranchers had to contact me for billy goat services, there were no good ones in the valley, except mine.

Vern also got his asphalt at the same railroad siding, as the ranchers grain cars were unloaded, they knew it, as he had equipment there for the asphalt.

One morning, he told me to bring him a couple trash cans for grain......and he loaded them at the railroad site and brought them to me at work.

He told us where and when and it helped with the animal food bills, at times there would be more on the ground than we could load and then sometimes there was none.

It would have been left to rot, in the open, if folks did not take it home.

Our bulk medicinal herbs come from our own network of wildcrafters and organic growers, most of whom we personally know. To ensure the highest quality and freshest herb, we only purchase herbs that are harvested during their height of potency and from regions whose growing conditions provide the highest quality of that particular herb. Our herbs are free of any fumigation, irradiation, or synthetic chemicals.

http://www.blessedherbs.com/bh/catalog/45/bulk_herbs?page=2

Posting so I won’t loose it.

I am now afraid to order from any company that imports it from China, interesting, once, I liked the idea of the Chinese herbs........live and learn.
granny

http://www.millersoap.com/soaplinks.html

Kathy’s Soap making Links

[This page is part of Miller’s Homemade Soap Pages]
http://millersoap.com/index.html

I may have one of her books, this is an excellent site/page to read about soap making, with good links, all over the world.

http://www.43things.com/entries/view/765304

Facial and Cranial Massage 2 years ago

Progressive muscle relaxation has helped me to tell the difference between my muscles when they are tense and when they are relaxed. Now, I notice quickly when I am tensing and then I can release the tension. I didn’t seem to be doing a good job with my facial and cranial muscles though. I had tension all around my face so I started to massage it and to massage my scalp with my fingers and knuckles. OMG I made audible sounds because it felt so good! After the muscles were relaxed and there was no tension. There are free instructions about cranial and facial massage online (I downloaded one from Snowdrift Farm and one from 101 lifestyle.com). Why the heck didn’t I know about this stuff sooner? As soon as I feel facial tension I will try to release it or give myself a quick massage :)

Apr 26, 2006, 05:27AM PDT | 3 cheers

http://crafts.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Soap_Making_Instructions

This page is about soap making, but all the other crafts are linked from here.

Interesting/useful site.

Excellent soap making instructions and links:

http://www.goatworld.com/products/nsmw1.shtml

Additives

Herbs for the Skin

This is a brief list of herbs that are helpful to the skin and can be used in soap making:

Burdock: decoction of the fresh leaves makes a good wash for soars and may be helpful for acne

Calendula: A very good salve for wounds can be made from the dried flowers or leaves, from the juice pressed out of the fresh flowers or from the tincture. The salve or dilute tincture is also good for bruises, sprains, pulled muscles, sores, and boils. The New Age Herbalist states that Calendula is cleansing astringent, promotes healing of wounds and toning.

Chamomile: external swelling, inflammatory pain or congested neuralgia, and will relive where other remedies have failed, proving invaluable for reducing boils. The antiseptic powers are stated to be 120 times stronger than seawater. A decoction of the flowers and poppy heads is used hot for abscesses (10 parts chamomile to 5 parts poppy in 100 parts distilled water). Makes an excellent shampoo according to Culpepper. He also says that bathing with a decoction of chamomile removes weariness and eases pain to whatever part of the body it is employed. (A Modern Herbal by Mrs. M Greive) According to the New Age Herbalist, this herb is cleansing, cooling, lightening, and anti-inflammatory.

Chickweed: The fresh leaves can be made into an ointment or bruises, irritations, and other skin problems.

Comfrey: Root-poultice for wounds bruises, sores, and insect bites. Add to bath water regularly for a more youthful skin Leaves - demulcent, anti-inflammatory, use for psoriasis, eczema, ulcers and to promote wound healing. The New Age Herbalist suggests that this herb is an emollient.

Elder Flowers: Cleansing, emollient, lightening, promotes sweating. Antiseptic wash for skin problems, wounds and inflammation.

Horse Tail: Astringent.

Irish Moss: Emollient, demulcent, and mucilaginous. Lends a VERY strong odor to soap.

Lady’s Mantle: Astringent.

Lavender: Antiseptic, stimulating.

Marshmallow: Emollient. A decoction is made to wash wounds and soars. A poultice can be made for irritations and inflammations.

Rosemary: useful in rheumatism, scrofulous sores, eczema, bruises, and wounds. An infusion of the leaves has been used as a scalp wash to prevent baldness.

Thyme: Toning, refreshing, disinfectant. Stimulates the flow of blood to the surface of the skin, and alleviates nervous exhaustion.

Yarrow: Cleansing, toning and promotes sweating. Styptic.

This is by no means a complete list of herbs for the skin and for use in soap.

About the author: Elizabeth Childers is a soapmaker with many years experience in the making and writing about of this art. Elizabeth has been kind enough to provide GoatWorld.com with this information. Elizabeth also hosts a weekly Soapmaking Chat here on GoatWorld.com, Tuesday nights in the Chat Room.

http://terristable.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-is-beerock-and-how-did-it-get-to.html

Fresno was where my mother first made and I first tasted Beerocks, wonderful individual beef and cabbage pies, seasoned with lots of black pepper and wrapped in a thin yeast dough. They are spicy and delicious, but a common version of the more complicated meat-filled pocket pastry that arrived in the 1870's with German-Russian settlers. Their pastries were made from braised beef that was coarsely ground and mixed with cabbage and onions and wrapped in a handmade yeast dough. My mother's version was made with hamburger and boxed hot roll mix.

This recipe makes 12 stuffed pockets.

Betty's Beerocks
by Terri Powers adapted from my mom's recipe

2-1/2 lbs. ground beef
1 large head cabbage, cored and coarsely chopped
2 large onions, coarsely chopped
2 - 3 tablespoons ground black pepper
2 teaspoons salt
1 box Pillsbury Hot Roll Mix

Prepare the hot roll mix according to the directions on the box. While dough is rising to twice it's size, prepare the filling.

Put the ground beef in a large frying pan or pot and cook thoroughly on medium high heat, breaking the meat up as it cooks into the consistency of the meat filling for tacos. Add the chopped onions and cook until the onions are almost transparent. Add the cabbage and cook until it is almost soft, but still retains a somewhat firm texture (you don't want it to be mushy), stirring frequently until the meat, onions and cabbage are well mixed. Add the salt, then begin adding the pepper. Taste the mixture after you have added 2 tablespoons. The mixture should have a distinctly peppery flavor. Add more pepper as needed. Set aside and allow to cool slightly.

Preheat oven to 375ºF. Punch down the dough and divide into 12 equal pieces. Roll out each piece into a circle about 8 inches across.

For each pocket, pile several spoons full of the filling on one half of the dough circle.

Lift the remaining half of the dough over the filling and seal the dough all the way around the half circle.

Place the pockets on a large cookie sheet (you probably will need two cookie sheets) lightly dusted with corn meal. Bake in the preheated oven for about 35 minutes or until golden brown.

These freeze extremely well.

I would think you could add cabbage and tomatoes, and some garlic wouldn't hurt either. The Beerock Shop down the road has many varieties of these. My son loves them!
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Free doll patterns: [Links]

http://crafts.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Free_Doll_Patterns

This has a good selection of all kinds of crafts:

http://crafts.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Category:Craft_Tips

GOATS, all you can think of is on this site, plus a feeder for goat and farm news.

http://www.goatworld.com/

I more or less reject soy, for political reasons, I don’t like Monsanto and the big soy producer’s way of taking over the seeds and food supply, and I do not like to feed babies the soy formula.

If you buy organic miso it's pretty much guaranteed to be non-Monsanto. I do understand your attitude, though - Monsanto is a really bad company. They advertise "Roundup-ready" seeds over here (in other words, GMO)... {shudder}. Buy Organic!!!

I would think you could add cabbage and tomatoes, and some garlic wouldn’t hurt either. The Beerock Shop down the road has many varieties of these. My son loves them!
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These are a recipe that I would love to try.

They have to be good.

Imagine them with pork...[safe,home grown pork.]

If you buy organic miso it’s pretty much guaranteed to be non-Monsanto. I do understand your attitude, though - Monsanto is a really bad company. They advertise “Roundup-ready” seeds over here (in other words, GMO)... {shudder}. Buy Organic!!! <<<

Since no food is grown here, you can buy diamond tipped veggies here cheaper than organic.

I agree, organic is the way to go.

http://www.ecofriendlydaily.com/transportation/personal/homemade-deodorant/

Homemade Deodorant To the Rescue!

So far we have seen how to make both eco-friendly toothpaste and mouthwash, which are two obviously useful items. Another useful item that comes to mind when thinking about our “Hygiene Health Week”. Not only is deodorant a great item to learn to make but it is also something that we use every day, which makes it an extremely useful item. If you are interested in learning how to make your own deodorant please keep reading...

Follow the following recipes to learn how to make your own deodorant:

Basic Recipe

Ingredients:
2 tsp. zinc-oxide powder
2/3 cup witch-hazel extract
2 tbsp. aloe-vera juice
30-40 drops essential oil(s)

Directions:
In a small bowl, stir the zinc-oxide powder into the witch-hazel extract, and add the aloe-vera juice and essential oil(s). Fill an 8-oz. dark-glass spray bottle with the fluid.

For Daily Use

Ingredients:
Basic Recipe
30 drops rose-geranium essential oil

Directions:
The rose geranium oil is high in terpene alcohol, which inhibits the proliferation of odor-causing bacteria.

For Sensitive Skin

Ingredients:
Basic Recipe
30 drops calendula extract
10 drops lavender essential oil

Directions:
Calendula and lavender oils are mild yet potent fighters of bacteria and odor.

For Excessive Sweating

Ingredients:
Basic Recipe
30 drops sage essential oil

Directions:
Sage oil inhibits sweat-gland activity by as much as 50 percent. It also is antiseptic and astringent and gently constricts pore size.

These recipes are by Natural Beauty. Please visit their website for the full article on these recipes along with other ideas.

Herbal Stick Deodorant

Ingredients:
1 1/2 tbspn beeswax (yellow is best)
1/2 tbspn cocoa butter
1 tablespoon coconut oil
15 drops white thyme essential oil
15 drops rosemary essential oil
25 drops lavender essential oil
3 drops castor oil

Directions:
Melt beeswax in a glass jar standing in hot water, add the cocoa butter,
and when it has melted, add the oils. Stir to mix thoroughly, then pour
into a clean, discarded deodorant stick case and leave to cool and set

This herbal stick deodorant recipe is by Snow Drift Farms.
For those interested in purchasing their own eco-friendly deodorant try taking a look at Crystal Roll On Body Deodorant, Pure & Basic Green Tea Green Clay Deodorant Stick, Kiss My Face Summer Active Enzyme Natural Stick Deodorant, and Kiss My Face Lavender Active Enzyme Natural Stick Deodorant.