Useful For: Converts iron to hemoglobin. Needed for healthy bones and joints
Herbal Sources: Sheep Sorrel
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Tag Archives: Blood
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)
Useful For: Red Blood Cells, Hair, Skin, Nails, Energy
Herbal Sources: Alfalfa, Bladderwrack, Burdock Root, Catnip, Cayenne, Chickweed, Eyebright, Fennel, Fenugreek, Ginseng, Hops, Horsetail, Mullein, Nettle, Oatstraw, Parsley, Peppermint, Raspberry Leaves, Red Clover, Rose Hips, Sage, Yellow Dock
Food Sources: Whole grains, organ meats, sweet potatoes, avocado, egg yolks, fish, whey
Cranberries
Name: Cranberries
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Used for: Good for gastrointestinal health, as they improve blood vessel function, inhibit kidney stones, and can be helpful for kidney and bladder infections. They also have a lot of antioxidants, making them a good addition to an anticancer or heart health diet. They also have tannins that help to keep bacteria from sticking to cells.
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Directions & Warnings: They freeze quite well, so get extra to stock up.
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Yellow Dock
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Vitamins/Minerals: Iron
Used for: Liver strengthener, blood builder. A daily tablespoon of yellow dock vinegar or 5-20 drops of tincture can actually increase iron levels in the blood as fast as taking supplements, and it is far easier for your body to absorb and deal with than pills.
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Plantain
Name: Plantain
Latin: Plantago major and Plantago lanceolata
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Used for: Plantain is a liver strengthener and blood builder. Holding the hot tea in your mouth can assist with tooth pain caused by infection. Used as a poultice, it can help a variety of skin conditions, including the rashes caused by stinging nettle, poison ivy/oak, bug bites, and burns.
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Red Clover
Name: Red Clover
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Vitamins & Minerals: Most, in good quantity
Used for: This is a lovely tonic and nutritive herb, containing a long list of vitamins and minerals in good quantity. Due to the flavour it adds to teas, it also helps to mitigate or cover that of some of the more bitter medicinals. Mixed with mint, it makes a good cold remedy. It ranks neat the top of herbal fertility promoters. It is a liver and blood strengthener. Because of the intense nutritive quality, it is also anti-cancer. It can assist with calming nerves, and alleviating nervous disorders. As with the products of the bees who love it so much, it can be used for a variety of skin issues.
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Burdock (Arctium lappa)
Name: Burdock
Latin: Arctium lappa
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Parts Used: Root
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Used for: This herb is used to cleanse the blood and strengthen the liver. It is one of the primaries used for detoxification and health for the body’s cleansing systems. It attracts heavy metals and radioactive isotopes and removes them, if eaten. It is under research for cancer prevention as it is theorized that it will help to reverse pre-cancerous cell changes. Burdock is also known as a “cooler” of inflammatory conditions, acting beneficially for arthritis and similar ailments.
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Uses for Pets: Seborrhea, pyoderma, theumatoid diseases
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