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Healing & Alternative Health
Medicinal Citrus
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The stores and trees are still full of delicious citrus fruits including tangerines and mandarins. Our neighbor down the street has a sixty year old tangerine tree that gives off fruit from November until April. The fruit is yummy but don’t throw away the peels! Dried mandarin peel sells for $30 to $50 a pound and has been used for hundreds of years in Chinese cooking and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Mandarin and tangerine peels are used interchangeably and are a popular ingredient in many Chinese tonics. They are considered valuable medicinal herbs.
Mandarin peel can be used fresh or dried. Add fresh peels to soups and stews or slow cook them with chicken or duck. Grate fresh mandarin peel into cookies and breads to add a zesty flavor.
You can also add mandarin peel to your foods throughout the year by drying them. Peel the mandarin and break the peel into quarter sized pieces. Let them sit out at room temperature until they are crispy. If it is damp where you live, put the peels on a cookie sheet in the oven on the lowest setting until the peels are dry. Be careful to not to burn them. Once they are dry, store them in a jar with a lid and to keep in your spice rack for adding to soup and chicken dishes. I throw a few peels into almost every soup I make.
Mandarin peel not only adds a nice flavor to your food but it makes a very good tasting tea. Mandarin peel tea is traditionally used for coughs and asthma that are due to excessive phlegm in the lungs. It is a good tea to drink if you have lots of mucus, chronic chest congestion or a wet cough. It doesn’t help much if you have a dry cough.
Mandarin peel regulates digestion and is very effective for treating gas, bloating and nausea. It is a perfect food for this time of year, chasing away mucus and warding off colds and flu with its antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties.
The white pith on the peel contains bioflavonoids. Bioflavonoids strengthen your blood capillaries enhancing their ability to deliver blood, oxygen and nutrients to your tissue and organs. Bioflavonoids provide tonic support for the entire cardio vascular system. The high content of bioflavonoids in mandarin peel contributes to their anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties.
Mandarin peel tea stimulates blood circulation and lymph system flow, helping to eliminate excess fluid in the body. Mandarin peel also helps to soothe the nervous system and is a popular remedy for nervous tension, stress and depression. There are no known contraindications to cooking with and drinking mandarin peel.
Mandarin Peel Tea
2 cups water
Chopped peel (fresh or dried) from one mandarin
Put water and peel in a pot with the lid on. Bring to a boil and then turn off the heat. Let steep for one half hour. Strain out the peel, re-heat and drink one to three cups a day
Mandarin Chicken
2 lbs chicken thigh filets
Juice of 2 mandarins
1 teaspoon black pepper
1⁄2 teaspoon dried chili pepper
2 tablespoons peanut oil
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
2 teaspoons chopped ginger
3 tablespoons sherry
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon sesame oil
Heat peanut oil in wok on low heat; fry the ginger and garlic for one minute. Add chicken pieces and then sprinkle with peppers, juice from the mandarins, sherry and soy sauce. Cook until chicken is tender. Just before serving stir in sesame oil and garnish with thin strips of mandarin peel
Mandarin Peel Paste
First dry the mandarin peels either at room temperature or in low heat oven.
Put three dried mandarin peels in the blender and blend until powdered. Add enough olive oil to the mandarin powder to make a paste. Put two or three tablespoons of this paste on halibut or salmon just before baking the fish. This paste is also a wonderful marinade for poultry and vegetable stir fry |
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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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