Secrets of Okra and Beets

This is tonight's dinner. It's Swiss chard, mango and pear salad with feta dressing, drained Borscht-style beets, garlic and ginger fried chicken, okra and potatoes. Medicinally...Okra can improve vaginal dryness especially at times of hormonal changes as with pregnancy and menopause. Beets are good for anemia, 'grounding' your energy and spirit and are a very potent cancer preventative. Bon appetit!

Medicinal Aspects of Tonight's Dinner:
(Care of "The Herbs of Life from Lesley Tierra" with my added notations)

MANGO: strengthens stomach, quenches thirst, relieves vomiting, promotes urination, soothes indigestion, cough and bleeding from gums (very effective!)

PEAR: produces fluid, lubricates dryness, eliminates mucus, relieves constipation, helps relieve alcohol withdrawal, improves indigestion, helps increase urination

SWISS CHARD: Supports lungs, stomach and colon health. Clears heat, detoxifies, and helps to get menses back during amenorrhea

BEET: Improve spleen health, boosting immunity. Nourishes fluids, eases rheumatic pain, improves congestion in chest, improves circulation.

ONION: Improve lungs and stomach health. Onions are an expectorant, helping to clear fluid from lungs. Improve the common cold. Improve headache tension, relieve abdominal pain, and relieve constipation. Onion plasters relieve mastitis. Help as a nasal decongestant and improve facial edema.

POTATO: Heals inflammation, helpful for children with ADD, tonifies energy and spleen, used topically for burns to prevent scarring.

CHICKEN: Tonifies energy, warming, counteracts diarrhea, helps relieve fluid retention, can improve mother's milk, improves a sense of general constitutional weakness especially after childbirth or during convalescence. Used in the treatment of diarrhea, edema, and diabetes.

OKRA: Very high in vitamin K (which helps prevent bruising), and is a good source of folate and vitamin C. According to truthisscary.com: It is helpful during pregnancy, to improve fertility, improves constipation, promotes colon health and prevents colon cancer, increases digestive health, and relieves respiratory conditions.