In history, salt was valued as a commodity and used for trade. This is where the phrase “not worth his salt” comes from. Salt is critical for life. It is needed for the brain and aids digestion. The chloride in sodium chloride is used by the body to make acid used to digest proteins. Salt is important to avoid adrenal gland exhaustion and allows nutrients to enter the cells and waste materials to leave. The make up of salt water is almost identical to blood. It is what electrolytes really are. We cannot function without salt and a civilization cannot develop without salt.
What we buy at the store that is called salt is actually something that comes from the same batch as industrial salt and has been vacuum-refined and treated with caustic soda or lime to remove all traces of magnesium salts. Magnesium salts are vital, but they are removed to allow salt to flow out of the dispensor spout. Then chemical desiccants are added to keep it dry and bleached to make it white. This chemically treated commercial product is what we are using for table salt. The body cannot recognize it and It will no longer combine with human body fluids to do the badly needed work to maintain balance. It invariably causes severe problems of edema, or water retention, or dehydration as well as other health disturbances.
Commercially produced salt today is stripped of all trace minerals that our bodies desperately need. Without those trace minerals, the chloride and sodium that are left throw off balance in the body. What is left is contaminated with chemicals in order to make it white and pour out of the container easily. Be very discerning about the salt you are putting into your body. Prussiate, a yellow anti-caking agent sometimes added to allow salt to flow, is actually a form of cyanide. Any salt, including “sea salt” that we buy in most stores, that has been refined, has been dried by intense heat and re-crystalized losing it’s nutritional value in the process. Denatured salt has been isolated from the minerals that the body needs so badly. When we binge on snacks with incomplete salts that are not real food anymore, what the body is actually craving is the real salt that contains minerals from the Earth. But the salt in those salty snacks actually increases our mineral depletion, which then in turn kicks up our cravings even more in a viscious cycle of the body seeking what it really needs.
Real salt grows in crystal form and contains almost 100% trace minerals including calcium, boron, magnesium, gallium, germanium, gold, lithium, manganese, molybdenum, potassium, selemium, silicon, silver, sulfur, vanadium and zinc. When trace minerals exist in enough quantities, like natural salt was always intended to be, the chloride and sodium in salt crystals combine with those trace minerals in a way that make them beneficial. They are used properly by the body and do not accumulate to levels that cause health problems. It’s not the salt that is the problem, it is the way salt is being altered through the commercial process.
Fluid retention occurs when lymph glands and channels are not working properly due to poor electrolyte and water-soluable vitamin levels. Salt gets trapped in the subcutaneous layer between skin and muscle. Adding a liquid electrolyte supplement, a squirt of lemon juice and a pinch of real salt to drinking water can help. Do our body a favor and buy some real salt that has minerals in it from all over the Earth. When we use real salt, we won’t need to replace electrolytes as much as we do now.
Here are some suggestions of wonderful salts to gather and mix together.
Also, I have been in love with medicinal mushroom tea. Medicinal not magical… It’s like Mother Earth gave us these little gifts to help support us on our journey here, and that is truly magical. It started when my son sent me some chaga from a birch tree in his woods in Maine. I broke off a tiny piece and put it in my kettle and simmered it for a few hours. It became a dark brown liquid. I added some to my coffee and instantly felt a heat around my head and my sinuses began to clear. Chaga has melanins, phenolic compounds, and lanostane-type triterpenoids in a nutrient-dense superfood with numerous anti-cancer and anti-viral health benefits, such as lowering blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, slowing the aging process and reducing inflammation. As I learned more, I found several other mushrooms being studied for their serious health benefits. Some of which I found right in my grocery store produce aisle. Oyster, Chanterelle, Porcini… even the adorable button mushroom. I’ll leave it to you to do your own research, but I mention medicinal mushroom tea to help tip the scales in our favor during this time. The good stuff in medicinal mushroom tea does not break down with heat so you can cook with it. Also, you can freeze it in ice cube trays and keep in your freezer for when you need it. Turkey Tail is a little fan shaped mushroom with colorful stripes that grows on stumps in most areas. I’ll bet you have some right near you. It has serious anti-cancer properties and is the best-selling anti-cancer drug on the market in Japan. I started with chaga and then added these other mushrooms to my tea as I discovered them. Next, I would like to find some Reishi. If you begin foraging for mushrooms, be very careful you are identifying the correct mushroom and be mindful of lookalikes, if any. It is a great way to get out in nature and interact with our beautiful Earth.
We have a little half acre lot next door. It’s been vacant and weedy for over 20 years. It has tree stumps. It came up for sale shortly after we moved in 5 years ago, but more than I could afford. It came up for sale a couple more times, each time a little less but still too much. Last year, two lots on the other side of the road sold and I began to worry the lot next door would be next. I began to use what I knew of the Law of Attraction to bring the land under my care. When I walked my dogs past, I would say things like, “I am the steward of this land” and “this belongs to me, I am the caretaker of this land.” I envisioned making a perennial flower garden around the stumps and planting flowers in them. The land slopes downhill so I imagined using the land in a way that manages the water for our property and others. Last month, I had a vision in my sleep. It was a picture of a stump with a few high grasses around it. I had no clue what it meant. “Why am I seeing a stump?” I asked. Two days later I saw a for sale sign on the lot. I knew the realtor and just knew it was priced to sell and that it was going to go this time. It was and I put in a call that night saying that I wanted to make an offer. Two weeks later I became the steward of that land. There were moments things didn’t seem to be going smoothly and I wondered if I was doing the right thing, but then I remembered the picture of the stump and knew my Guides were reassuring me. They just know me so well, and give me the signs I need.
Anybody else getting frustrated with our produce choices in the grocery stores? Regular produce having a bitter, chemical taste to them and feeling dead, energy-wise. Stores that do make an honest effort to provide organic produce charge way too much and keep them on the shelves way too long, and who can blame them, I hate to see good food go to waste too. No easy, full-proof way to tell if something is GMO (genetically modified) without becoming a codebreaker. This lack of transparency is so frustrating to me, personally. Like they are trying to slip something by us under our noses or something.
This is just a little personal catch up post. Wasn’t intentionally taking a break from the blog, but working on winter projects has taken up mucho time. Super cold here lately in the first days of the new year. I love winter here at the lake. It turns into a bird sanctuary with bald eagles, seagulls, geese and ducks.
We had good holiday family time. My son’s big doggie looked cold so Grandma made him a sweater. I don’t really have a solid pattern to share because I figured it out by looking at some dog sweater crochet patterns, and then freestyling it. Luckily, I had him here for a few days to custom craft it to his big great dane body. My son said I made him look like Clifford.
ars and it has worked out very well. My kids, especially my busy son in medical school, love being able to have a liquid home cooked meal in a jar. It can be flavored with herbs like parsley and rosemary. Don’t worry about salt, that can be added to taste when the jars are opened for use.
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