I drink well water.

suvine Wrote:
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> I drink well water.


So do I - after it's been through my distiller.

Lisa wrote:
I fill a large jar with distilled water and add herbs/wild leafy greens and/or some fruit etc and leave it on a sunny windowsill for the day. Do you think this is enough to remineralise the water?

Tai:
I think so. I love water like that, especially with a little fruit. In the summer, I pack my jar with mint, because there is more available and the tea water is a rich amber brown color when I strain it (even though the leaves are still green). It depends how strong you want it.

It's amazing, to me, how much faster distilled water brews tea when compared with regular mineralized water. I cold brew various teas in distilled water every day. I add the Tracemins after a few hours of brewing and then leave the teas in the fridge over night to slow brew. The only tea I don't add Tracemins to is nettle as it is so high in minerals on it's own the Tracemins overpower it, IMO.

Thanks Tai. I love mint tea, it grows so easily in my garden, plentiful supplies

Suez, yes the DW really seems to grab all the minerals right out of the plants. Nettle is one of my favourite teas, such a lovely mellow flavour. So I take it you think it's best to also add trace minerals in - do you not think the plants on their own are enough? Or do you just like the taste of the trace minerals?



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lisa m Wrote:
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> Thanks Tai. I love mint tea, it grows so easily
> in my garden, plentiful supplies
>
> Suez, yes the DW really seems to grab all the
> minerals right out of the plants. Nettle is one
> of my favourite teas, such a lovely mellow
> flavour. So I take it you think it's best to also
> add trace minerals in - do you not think the
> plants on their own are enough? Or do you just
> like the taste of the trace minerals?

Lisa, yes, for me at least, I think the minerals are an important addition since I've been raw. Before I went raw I took vitamin and mineral supplements separately from the distilled water. I stopped taking supplements when I went raw but then started getting muscle cramps. Trying to stay "pure" I started using magnesium oil topically to avoid taking it by capsules. This worked for a while but I would still get occasional cramping muscles that were pretty severe. Once I started added 40 Tracemins drops per gallon of my distilled water I haven't had that problem again. That's why I'm taking the drops religiously now.

The Nettle I have I buy dried and is anything but mellow. Maybe that's because I use 1/4 cup of it per Qt. jar of water. It's very strong and almost black. Sometimes I dilute it and sometimes I use it undiluted in soups instead of water. I make all my teas as concentrates otherwise I wouldn't have enough room in the always way over packed fridge.

SueZ Wrote:
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> The Sproutarian Man Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > SueZ Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > "No-one is a true expert and authority
> despite
> > how
> > > they might come across. Even Brian Clement's,
> > > David Wolfe's and especially Andrew Norton
> > > Webber's water ideas seem flawed also" ...
> > >
> > > ROFL.
> > >
> > > Good Lord. Give me a break.
> >
> > Suez, l know where you are coming from and know
> my
> > comments are vomit worthy to more sophisticated
> > health audiences, but my comments are pointed
> more
> > towards average audiences that worship health
> > gurus. I was talking to a general audience that
> > gets most of their info from gurus and doesn't
> > question ALL of it....I still think that
> audience
> > is a large part of the raw movement.
> >
> > Suez...humans like charisma and like to follow
> > heros, so we need to speak with those audiences
> > the right way, and hence my post above.
>
> So you weren't speaking to me in your response you
> were talking dumbed down to the dumbed down and
> that's the "right way" in your mind. Oh really? I
> think average people deserve credit for being way
> over these former heros of yours and of other very
> gullible former starry eyed noobs. Maybe I'm
> wrong. I certainly hope I'm not wrong as these
> "heros" have been pretty thoroughly exposed.


Okay. Now I understand why you were being a d*ck to me when I asked for help transitioning. I hope some day your ego gets the best of you. (in my experience, the larger the ego, the more severe the insecurities) Good luck!

Thanks Suez. I used to like the way traceminerals made my water taste. I might give them a whirl again.
wow, your nettle tea sounds strong! I have some growing in the garden so I just use fresh, I guess it's not so concentrated.



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lisa m Wrote:
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> Thanks Suez. I used to like the way traceminerals
> made my water taste. I might give them a whirl
> again.

You're welcome, Lisa. I never liked the taste much until pretty recently. I guess the more you need it the more you like it.


> wow, your nettle tea sounds strong! I have some
> growing in the garden so I just use fresh, I guess
> it's not so concentrated.

Yea, I'm glad the nettle tea subject came up. For one thing, on checking, I just found that the company I buy my dried nettle from has four options and that I bought the nettle that includes both leaves and stems. Next time I'll order the leaf only option to see how they compare.

My only 'contact' with fresh nettle, so far in my life, was when I gathered a bunch of unknown weedy greens and offered them to a cow who walked up to me while I was visiting Stonehenge. She rejected my offering about two minutes before my hands, legs, and arms reddened and started itching like crazy.

SueZ Wrote:
>
> Yea, I'm glad the nettle tea subject came up. For
> one thing, on checking, I just found that the
> company I buy my dried nettle from has four
> options and that I bought the nettle that includes
> both leaves and stems. Next time I'll order the
> leaf only option to see how they compare.

That's good that they give you the option, never seen that before. I always wondered if nettle tea companies are careful to pick their nettles at the right time, eg seasonal/not using mature leaves etc. I generally try to pick most of my leaves in the spring - using leaves after they've flowered can lead to diarrhea. The ones around here are at seed stage now, the seeds are good to use, like an adaptogen (bit like maca).


>
> My only 'contact' with fresh nettle, so far in my
> life, was when I gathered a bunch of unknown weedy
> greens and offered them to a cow who walked up to
> me while I was visiting Stonehenge. She rejected
> my offering about two minutes before my hands,
> legs, and arms reddened and started itching like
> crazy.

Ouch!! Bet the cow was like 'crazy human'! I usually lay mine out on the ground for a day or so to give all the creatures a chance to escape (it's amazing how much wildlife live on nettles) and I notice if I leave them out for more than a couple of days the birds go crazy for them. They can't access all that cool nutrition until the leaves have lost their sting! Funny enough, just last week I was collecting nettles from another standing stone site, the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney (think I must be the only person who takes rubber gloves with me on camping trips for the express purpose of foraging nettles ha!)



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lisa m Wrote:
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> SueZ Wrote:
> >
> > Yea, I'm glad the nettle tea subject came up.
> For
> > one thing, on checking, I just found that the
> > company I buy my dried nettle from has four
> > options and that I bought the nettle that
> includes
> > both leaves and stems. Next time I'll order the
> > leaf only option to see how they compare.
>
> That's good that they give you the option, never
> seen that before. I always wondered if nettle tea
> companies are careful to pick their nettles at the
> right time, eg seasonal/not using mature leaves
> etc. I generally try to pick most of my leaves in
> the spring - using leaves after they've flowered
> can lead to diarrhea.

Well, from the sound of the consequences, I'd say the company I buy from picks them before they've flowered.


> The ones around here are at
> seed stage now, the seeds are good to use, like an
> adaptogen (bit like maca).

Wow, that's cool. I bet you'd need a whole heck of a lot of seeds for that, though. Otherwise the Chinese would grow and make use of it rather than doing so much maca to have it practically double in price since they found out about it.



> > My only 'contact' with fresh nettle, so far in
> my
> > life, was when I gathered a bunch of unknown
> weedy
> > greens and offered them to a cow who walked up
> to
> > me while I was visiting Stonehenge. She
> rejected
> > my offering about two minutes before my hands,
> > legs, and arms reddened and started itching
> like
> > crazy.


> Ouch!! Bet the cow was like 'crazy human'!

Well I was a teenager at the time and thought it was the "this human would never eat me" look but yeah, you're most likely right. Especially considering it was the same look she had as she watched me bend down and grab the electrified wire between us. It was a looong look.


I
> usually lay mine out on the ground for a day or so
> to give all the creatures a chance to escape (it's
> amazing how much wildlife live on nettles) and I
> notice if I leave them out for more than a couple
> of days the birds go crazy for them. They can't
> access all that cool nutrition until the leaves
> have lost their sting!

Hmmm. Maybe I'll give the parrot some and see what happens.


Funny enough, just last
> week I was collecting nettles from another
> standing stone site, the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney
> (think I must be the only person who takes rubber
> gloves with me on camping trips for the express
> purpose of foraging nettles ha!)

Ypu are lucky. Nettles don't naturally grow where I am. Are they really common in Britain generally or do they just like to stick around standing stone sites?

Yes they're all over the place here. It's great, but I think I'd rather live somewhere where papayas were hanging about everywhere though..



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Lisa, too bad so many of the papayas now are GMO.

BOO that sucks



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