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Wild Weed Salad

October 17, 2024

WILD WEED SALAD

Collect as many wild herbs and salad greens you can find in your garden. Dandelion grown in the veggie patch turns softer and less bitter.We use Dandelion, Plantain, Nasturtium ,yarrow leaves, peppermint, lemon balm, rocket, garden cress, parsley, sorrel, chickweed , violet and  beet greens. Add flowers from sage, rosemary, borage, calendula, rocket or daikon . We also love grating daikon into this salad, it taste fresh and juicy and is beneficial for digestion and also the lungs, great this time of the year, more food as medicine!

Dressing: Mix olive oil with apple cider vinegar (check our amazing herbal range on www.manasoulfood.com!)Tamari, 1tsp. unhulled tahini, 1tsp. mustard This powerhouse of a salad is good for every day eaten before your main meal and here are the many reasons why:

Wild Salad Medicine:

All the listed herbs act stimulating on the body’s digestive enzymes and are supporting the organs in their functionsThey have really high amounts of vitamins and minerals. Plus they carry the V- factor (green Vitality!) and elevated biotics , according to Anthony Williams, the ‘Medical Medium.’ Dandelion is a digestive bitter, supporting liver , vitamin rich A, C, B’s ,supports kidneys reducing congestion and fluid collection. Plantain soothes inflamed tissues, heals gut membranes, clears toxicity from body, alterative actions, antiseptic.Nasturtium is a natural antibiotic, Cress is anti cancer, stimulates enzyme secretion and Yarrow increases qi flow ,tonic to blood vessels , aids circulation , anti-inflammatory , kidney support, relaxes smooth muscles of digestive tract. Lemon balm is nerve calming, soothing hyper thyroid, carminative.Peppermint digestive calming.Beet greens and Sorrel’s sour taste is refreshing the liver.Calendula is antibacterial, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, lymphatic alterative, clearing stagnation, gentle immune tonic.Parsley is a good kidney herb and offers vitamin C. Chickweed is a cooling restorative, mineral rich, alterative, emollient dissolving action on deposits, such as kidney stones and ovarian cysts.Violet is good for nerves, lungs , reproductive and immune system , an expectorant, soothes chest congestion, antiseptic action alterative, anti-neoplastic, has affinity for breast tissue.

 

 

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