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Healing & Alternative Health
Herbal Ghee
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Putting herbs in ghee is an age old way of taking herbs for everyday health. Ghee is butter that has been clarified. It is healthier than butter and is completely stable at room temperature. It is a wonderful, nourishing food and it is a great carrier food for herbs. Putting herbs in ghee is a tasty way to get herbs into your everyday diet. You can cook with and eat ghee in any way that you use butter. Put it on toast, bake with it and mix it in with your mashed potatoes! Most health food stores carry ghee or you can make it yourself.
Making Ghee
Take one pound of organic unsalted butter. Put it in a sauce pan on low heat without a lid. Let it cook for about twenty minutes. Make sure to keep the heat on low and do not burn any of the solids that drop to the bottom of the pan. When all the bubbles disappear from the simmering melted butter and it has turned to a clear, light amber colored liquid, take it off the stove. Then strain the golden liquid by pouring it through a piece of cotton linen in to a jar. Discard anything that is left in the cloth and let the liquid ghee in the jar solidify.
You can use your plain ghee or you can add herbs to it. Ghee is a good medicine in itself. It helps to calm the nervous system and soothe anxiety. Ghee is nourishing to all the tissues of the body and when herbs are added to it, ghee helps carry the medicinal qualities of herbs into the body.
Add powdered cinnamon and cardamom to ghee for spreading on morning toast. Add powdered oregano, thyme and black pepper to put on top of fish or pasta. Add powdered carob and vanilla extract to ghee for baking cookies and desserts. Have a jar of digestive ghee on the table and add just a little bit to almost any dinner dish to help with digestion. Put cinnamon ghee in your warm cereals. Put sleeping herbs in your ghee and take 1⁄2 teaspoon before bed or let the medicinal qualities of the herbs enter your skin by rubbing the ghee on your feet. Using herbal ghees is a simple way to have herbs easily accessible as part of your daily nutrition.
When you add herbs to your ghee, make sure the herbs are powdered well. Many herbs are sold powdered in herb and health food stores and many herbs you can powder yourself by grinding them in your blender. The best time to add the medicinal herbs is when the ghee has just been strained into the jar and is still liquid. Add the powdered herbs and stir them well into the liquid. You now have an herbal ghee that is stable for a couple of years.
Most people like the taste of ghee, and again you can use it in any way that you normally use butter. I hope you enjoy these recipes and bring the healing power of herbal ghees into your life!
Italian Ghee
1 cup ghee
1 tablespoon powdered oregano
1 tablespoon powdered thyme
1 tablespoon powdered rosemary
Spread on warm French bread or pasta noodles
French Ghee
1 cup ghee
1 tablespoon powdered rosemary
1 tablespoon powdered lavender
1 tablespoon powdered peppermint
1 teaspoon powdered thyme
Put in marinades, casseroles and potato dishes
Digestion Ghee
1 cup ghee
2 tablespoon powdered fennel seeds
1 tablespoon powdered black pepper
Digestive Ghee #2
1 cup ghee
1 teaspoon cardamom
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
Add to your morning oatmeal
Flax Ghee
1 cup ghee
1⁄2 cup flax oil
Mix together and use instead of butter on bread
Sleeping Ghee
1 cup ghee
1⁄2 cup powdered skullcap
1⁄2 cup powdered chamomile
Rub this medicinal ghee on the bottom of your feet before bed to invoke a deep sleep
Energy Ghee
1 cup ghee
2 tablespoons powdered astragalus
2 tablespoons powdered codonopsis
1 tablespoon powdered ginseng
1 teaspoon powdered ginger
After ghee and herbs have solidified, add 1⁄2 cup of honey
Take one or two teaspoons a day
Love Your Heart Ghee
1 cup ghee
1⁄4 cup molasses
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons powdered hawthorn berry
2 tablespoons powdered rose hips
Put the hawthorn and rose hips in the ghee as it is solidifying. Once it is hard, add the molasses and honey. Spread on toast, muffins, bagels, pancakes and add to any cake or cookie baking mix in place of plain butter.
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Kami McBride,
Teacher of Herbal Medicine
& Women's Health
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Kami McBride has taught herbal medicine and women’s health since 1988. She has studied medicinal plants for almost 20 years and has taught Herbology at the University of California School of Nursing and Stanford Hospital. Her popular course, Cultivating the Herbal Medicine Woman Within is an experiential earth awareness and herbal studies program that is taught at her beautiful school and herb gardens in Vacaville, California.
An intuitive and inspiring teacher, Kami has helped thousands of people learn to use healing plants in their daily lives in ways that are healthy, safe and fun. Her extensive knowledge of herbal medicine along with a focus on teaching herbology as a relationship with the Earth and a way of life, help to fulfill her mission of reviving the cultural art of home herbal care.
Kami is an herbal consultant and an expert in the field of holistic health specializing in women’s issues. Her herbal consultations empower women to discover sacredness and pleasure in their healing process. Her educational courses provide a sanctuary for women to transform their relationship with their body and reclaim their heritage as healers and herbalists.
Kami is the author of 105 Ways to Celebrate Menstruation, available at www.amazon.com.
Visit Kami’s website at:
www.livingawareness.
com
Sign up for her free quarterly herbal e-newsletter.
kami@livingawarness.
com
For Classes, Books & Consultations:
Phone: 707-446-1290
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