Saffron - Eat the Stigma

I was just following up from a Dr Amen piece on Instagram, I was reading about the really wide ranging effects of the Ayurvedic herb Saffron particularly for eye health as I’m finding my eyes are sore a lot from screens & they water in sunshine since going into presbyopia a couple of years ago. So I remembered the brain eye link, that eyes are really visible bits of brain so that’s all nervous system & Saffron is highly neuro protective, a very valid attribute by itself but there’s much more.

It has particular positive gut relaxation benefits & generally reduces inflammation & all cause oxidative stress in the brain & nervous system, making it especially likely for Alzheimer’s & ADHD, it promises cognitive & mood improvement as well as physiologically enhancing overall experience of sex for both genders, really, what’s not to like 😂😉

So I thought to check for my daughter who has Fibromyalgia & has low mood & anxiety way too much of the time but can’t be coaxed into any therapy atm & sure enough its a really good bet for Fibromyalgia support.

And I just thought personality disorder management and searched for articles & sure enough Psychology Today covered it among others.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/inner-source/201601/saffron-emotional-health

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9781906/

https://drtorihudson.com/general/consider-saffron-for-fibromyalgia/

https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2016/7/saffron-improves-vision-in-aging-humans

A quick search showed Swanson do a nice pure stigma product 15mg very cheap & I was so thrilled by the irony of dual word meaning 🤷‍♀️ I find those irresistible, that I felt I had to post it on here. You wouldn’t want more than 1 cap twice a day - I will go in at just one a day & see how I feel, I might not need it but I do like to try things.

The Human Garage - Anti Stress - Anti-Gravity Full Spinal decompression Fascial Manoeuvre

 

Oh I love the effects of this exercise - I’m conked out needing a nap it’s made me sooooo relaxed! That’s a great thing, most of us have no idea how to unwind & this is literally that; unwinding at a deep level. 👌👍 Additionally recommended as hormone balancing due to hormone imbalance being a side effect of nervous system imbalance/held trauma.

Papaver somniferum - The Opium Poppy

I’m copying this over from my Instagram because I’m not sure anyone reads what I write over there & I’ve been writing quite a lot.

I have such a hard time organising myself & now it seems that only images should be there & only writing over here, what do do - I guess I will just do both at both & hope for the best. 

There is an indigenous concept that nature is so intelligent & interconnected with us that it is always responding to the needs of its local population in the varieties of plants that thrive & multiply nearby.

Raw plant medicine is often safer, though in this particular instance illegal 🤷‍♀️ - when compared with the suped up, highly processed pharmaceutical end product.

Nicholas Culpeper wrote in The English Physician, (1652) that opium was a good remedy for menstrual cramps, gout and toothache, and recommended it as a sedative: “The Garden Poppy heads, with seeds made into a Syrup, is frequently and to good effect used to procure rest and sleep in the sick and weak.”

These wild seeding Opium Poppies are growing absolutely all over the place near me but as I said they are illegal to utilise in any way.

This law is sold to you on safety when in reality it’s all about dependence & profit & control & yet meanwhile their ultra processed versions have killed millions upon millions.

Lemon Balm Tincture

Lemon Balm Tincture is kind of the love of my life tincture wise & it never fails to drop my nervous system down several notches every evening. 

This is just the same link I’ve given in the side bar but I felt to highlight it with it’s own post as I recommend it ***so much*** for all & any & every mental/ nervous system dysfunction there is.

https://nootropicsexpert.com/lemon-balm/

Other Herb tinctures have come & gone & I’d say that I’ve tried every natural anti-anxiety & nervine herb out there but this it the one that stayed. I always have Kava Kava (‘Now’ brand liquid extract) on hand for emergency insomnia, which happens less & less but Lemon Balm I have every evening to wind down & it’s usually enough.

And by far the most economical way to buy tincture is a big old half litre size - I buy from these lovely people at HomeHerbs.co.uk - https://www.homeherbs.co.uk/Lemon-balm-tincture-p/tinc-lemon-balm-500ml.htm This is a strong 1:2 tincture 💪 honestly one of these only lasts me about 6 weeks 🤷‍♀️ still much much cheaper than anti anxiety medication (if you had to buy it, which looks pretty likely incoming in the Uk right now 🙄) & no no side affects! Hurrah.

Freaking adorable 🥰😍💕💕💕