Health: Burdock Root

What is it?

Burdock root nutrition

"Burdock root is an underground tuber of greater burdock plant that found its use as a vegetable and medicinal herb. The plant burdock is a short biennial which believed to be native to the Northern Europe and Siberia. In Japan, popular as gobo, it is being cultivated on a larger scale as a major root herb since earlier times. In the botany, however, burdock sighted as a wild, easy-growing, hardy plant existing in almost all parts of the planet.

Botanically, burdock belongs to the family of Asteraceae; in the genus of Arctium, and known scientifically as Arctium lappa."

More info can be found HERE

Nutrition and you

What is it for?

Burdock root is said to....

Where do you get it?

I buy mine from my favourite herbalist Baldwins or health & herbs stores.

How do you take it?

I take Burdock root in tea form with a tea strainer..x2 cups a day (Morning and Evening)

Does it work?

My first few weeks I did go to the bathroom a lot more.

-Burdock root is a diuretic, so this is to be expected.

I guess it helped to clean out my system of any unnecessary toxins.

My PMS definitely improved, I had no cramps after the 1st month and I noticed an increase in the amount of perspiration during exercise.

 All in all it seemed to do me some good cleansing wise and that

can only be a good thing.

@MsShayDivine

Food: Cassia Bark

Munching on some seriously good Indian food and I bit into something that looked like tree bark, I was about to start cursing the chef when I decided to smell the item in question to see if in fact it was a herb or spice. It smelt like a sweet cinnamon...but I wasn't sure if that was another herb or spice.

I headed over to google and found out my tree bark was actually Cassia Bark or Cinnamomum Cassia which is said to have originated in south China but is widely used in southern and east Asian cooking, including; Indian, Indonesian and Thai. 

I was right from the first unexpected bite, it was bark!

(what did we do before google?)

Cinnamon is said to have some great health benefits.

@MsShayDivine