Garden Gate Health & Wellness

01/31/2025

Date sugar

12/27/2024

These are two gluten-free starters made from brown rice and quinoa. They are just starting to show signs of life. See the tiny bubbles? I’ve been making sourdough bread for several years. My daught…

08/28/2024

Oregano (O. onites) essential oil demonstrated liver protective activity in laboratory research. The oil regulated the expression of 32 out of 84 genes related to hepatotoxicity at least 2-fold or more—elevating the expression of 17 genes and diminishing the expression of 15 genes. Its main constituent, carvacrol, was also liver protective but modified the expression of fewer genes (16).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38992651/

08/23/2024

Fig leaves are a valuable yet often underutilized part of the fig tree, offering a range of health benefits from blood sugar regulation to improved cardiovascular health.

06/05/2024

I love growing horehound and have been cultivating it for 20 years now. It is one of my " dirty dozen " of medicinal herbs. Horehound is a perennial herbaceous plant, found all over Europe and indigenous to Britain. Like many other plants of the Labiate tribe, it flourishes in waste places and often survives mistreatment by growers.The plant is bushy, producing numerous annual, quadrangular and branching stems, a foot or more in height, on which the whitish flowers are borne in crowded, axillary, woolly whorls. The leaves are much wrinkled, opposite, petiolate, about 1 inch long, covered with white, felted hairs, which give them a woolly appearance. They have a curious, musky smell, which is diminished by drying and lost on keeping. Horehound flowers from June to September.

The Romans esteemed Horehound for its medicinal properties, and its Latin name of Marrubium is said to be derived from Maria urbs, an ancient town of Italy. Other authors derive its name from the Hebrew marrob (a bitter juice), and state that it was one of the bitter herbs which the Jews were ordered to take for the Feast of Passover.

The Egyptian Priests called this plant the 'Seed of Horus,' or the 'Bull's Blood,' and the 'Eye of the Star.' It was a principal ingredient in Caesar's antidote for vegetable poisons.
It was once regarded as an anti-magical herb.

White Horehound is distinguished from other species by its woolly stem, the densely felted hairs on the leaves, and the tentoothed teeth of the calyx.

There is a syrup made of this plant which I would recommend as an excellent help to evacuate tough phlegm and cold rheum from the lungs of aged persons, especially those who are asthmatic and short winded.
Preparations of Horehound are still largely used as expectorants and tonics. It may, indeed, be considered one of the most popular pectoral remedies, being given with benefit for chronic cough, asthma, and some cases of consumption.
Horehound is sometimes combined with Hyssop, Rue, Liquorice root and Marshmallow root, 1/2 oz. of each boiled in 2 pints of water, to 1 1/2 pint, strained and given in 1/2 teacupful doses, every two to three hours.

For children's coughs and croup, it is given to advantage in the form of syrup, and is a most useful medicine for children, not only for the complaints mentioned, but as a tonic and a corrective of the stomach. It has quite a pleasant taste.

Taken in large doses, it acts as a gentle purgative.

The powdered leaves have also been employed as a vermifuge and the green leaves, bruised and boiled in lard, are made into an ointment which is good for wounds.

For ordinary cold, a simple infusion of Horehound (Horehound Tea) is generally sufficient in itself. The tea may be made by pouring boiling water on the fresh or dried leaves, 1 OZ. of the herb to the pint. A wineglassful may be taken three or four times a day.

Candied Horehound is best made from the fresh plant by boiling it down until the juice is extracted, then adding sugar before boiling this again, until it has become thick enough in consistence to pour into a paper case and be cut into squares when cool.

Two or three teaspoonsful of the expressed juice of the herb may also be given as a dose in severe cases.

05/31/2024

Mullein is a fantastic plant that often gets the horrible name "hunters toilet paper ". It has a lot more uses than cleaning dirty backsides and the plants merits are many. Often found growing in wasteland scenarios or along roadside ditches, Mullein is a plant they can survive in the worst of soils. It's sends up a cane of yellow flowers that often dot the roadsides

A sweeter tea can be made by infusing the fresh or dried flower
Leaves and flowers can be used in salads

Medical Uses
******The seeds are slightly narcotic and also contain saponins

The leaves and the flowers anti-inflammatory and is great for sprains and pulled muscles in a mash
Boil the leave in vinegar and water and use like bandage for arthritis, frostbite, gout, or painful skin condition
The leave make great bandages because they are antiseptic and an astringent
An expectorant herbal tea can be made from the leaves and it acts by reducing the formation of mucus and stimulating the coughing up of phlegm.
For nasal congestion, flu, inflammation of nerve tissue, nerve pain, steam a some of the flowers to help reduce inflammation.
Tea makes good remedy for cough, hoarseness, bronchitis, sinusitis, tuberculosis, bronchial catarrh, mumps, and whooping cough.
A tincture of the flowers is used for migraine headaches
Can be used in a compress for hemorrhoids
The juice of the plant and powder made from the dried roots is said to quickly remove rough warts when rubbed on them
Also the root is used to help you urinate if you are having issues in a tea form.
A paste of the roots is said to alleviate toothaches and even relive cramps

05/14/2024

While inhalation is a great way to deliver essential oils to the upper and lower respiratory tract, ingesting an essential oil can also influence respiratory function. A recent preclinical model of allergic asthma found that oral use of copaiba essential oil reduced inflammation and promoted healthy lungs. The oil improved the airway linings (respiratory epithelium) by reducing fragmentation of elastic fibers while simultaneously increasing the deposition of collagen fibers, favoring the restoration of the lining of the airways and maintenance of healthy respiratory function. This suggests that ingesting copaiba essential oil may be helpful for allergic asthma. Human clinical research is necessary to determine dosing and confirm findings.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38666018/

04/21/2024

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04/12/2024

09/10/2023

09/05/2023

Did you know that fluoride is an industrial waste product that before 1940 was used as rat poison?! 😑😬

Dental work can either be HARMFUL (root canals, amalgam fillings, fluoride treatments)

OR

HEALING (ozone, composite fillings, oregano and clove essential oil, stem cells, minerals, broth, coconut oil)

This picture was taken when Kicker was dealing with a cavity and we took him to a holistic dentist...and it was a wonderful, healing experience!

Real health and addressing disease / illness from the inside out is not usually convenient, but it's so important!

So, before you get any dental work done again, listen to this recent podcast episode --> https://pod.link/1639591486/episode/e36b26e2616e8b4f6e853912744649e6

08/02/2023

Help for hot flashes!!!