The next decade....what's in store?
Musings of a yamfooted traveller still trying to shake off those last 20 pounds as she treks across the Caribbean
Not 'herbalist' as in ganja-ist!
The house has aloe vera growing outside. Actually, because of my city upbringing, I first asked the landlord if it was pineapple! You have to forgive me. Have been discovering how things look growing in the earth. The last thing was cabbage. I had no idea how it looked in the earth. Quite something...this education that I am getting here.
Anyway, I decided to pick some this morning. I don't have a blender or juicer, but somebody at work was telling me I don't need that. Peeled the skin off, cut up the jelly like substance into small pieces, used my potato masher to mash it, poured hot water on it, put it in a 1.5 litre bottle with some Passion Fruit juice, lime, honey and water. Drank it, trying not to gag because of the bitter taste.
Your mind is a very powerful thing. When it was going down, I kept thinking "this is good for you...feel it flushing out your insides....little by little" and so I progressed quite nicely near to the end of the bottle, when I got a lump of aloe vera and it made me gag, but I didn't throw up.
I have on my face now, some of the aloe vera as well. It's supposedly one of these wonder plants. Is it a herb? Maybe not. But anyway, I need a juicer or blender to make this work. Not sure how fast it will grow back. There are three plants in the yard.
Anybody use aloe vera on a regular basis?
Posted by yamfoot at September 30, 2006 08:17 AMI don't have it regularly but know it is good for you. It is also very good for use as a hair conditioner, and it has great healing properties for burns and cuts. Try a bit of squeezed lemon juice with your drink.
Posted by: weightloss115 at September 30, 2006 10:54 AMI have a plant in the backyard and in the kitchen i use it to cleanse and as a mask too when i start breaking out too much.It's really good been using it since i was a child my parents used to give us during the holidays to detox our system.
Posted by: Amelia at September 30, 2006 07:53 PMwell not as regularly as when i was back home but occasionally i'll buy piece from the west indian grocery and peel off some and eat or rather swallow. its not bad as long as you dont chew
Posted by: jdid at September 30, 2006 08:36 PMOh Gosh Yammie, you're quite disgraceful, yu asked if it was pineapple? hehe. The Ja name for it is 'sinkle bible'. Anyway, let me not talk, a couple years ago, I read an some health article, and rush out to the supermarket to get some sweet potatoes. Went to ground provision section and after staring at everything (trying to remember if I've ever even seen sweet potato apart from when it's on my plate) decided to ask one of the supermarket boys if they're out of sweet potatoe. His reply "But miss, you're staring at it."
I know it's supposed to be great for the skin, but I really haven't used it on a regular basis.
Posted by: Gela at October 1, 2006 05:44 PM"Anybody use aloe vera on a regular basis?"
Nope...and there is a plant in the yard.
You never see cabbage growing before Yammie?
nope, never saw cabbage growing before.
Posted by: Michelle at October 3, 2006 08:33 AM