Botanical Name: Anethum graveolens

Dill was once known as the beauty herb.  Before the days of crash diets, health spas and diet pills, when a woman was expected to retain her youthful figure after bearing eight or more children, dill seed was used to maintain a lithe svelte figure.  Not  unlike today where everyone aspires to the youthful bodies portrayed in the fashion magazines and obesity is fast becoming the biggest health problem in the modern world.

The humble dill seed is available as it always has been as a preventative medicine to aid digestion and help the body discard toxins, gas, waste material, germs and disease.  Today we only use the seeds and leaves in cooking, but in earlier days people found the plant useful for curing all manner of ailments..  Only the roots were discarded.

Some of the uses for Dill were relief for the symptoms of hangovers, hemorrhoids, insomnia, loathing, lust, pains, swellings, teething venereal disease, vomiting, windinesse and ulcers.

Dill is a beauty aid that offers beautiful skin, sweet breath and restful sleep.  A beautiful complexion was possible with a blend of dill water with rose water in equal parts.  This was applied three times daily and allowed to dry to clean the face and achieve a clear complexion.

Dill was once so desired that its seeds were preferred to cash or gold.  It was a sign of  wealth.

Stretching out a bony hand
the old man pleaded,
Pay me with Dill Seede rare
So me cupboard’ll ne’er be bare.
Circa 2nd cent BC Roman

Dill is a snob in the garden preferring to be sown in its own individual clumps a foot or so away from other plants in a sunny dry area.  It can be grown indoors but it will refuse to grow tall or produce seeds.  Soak the seeds overnight in warm water and Anthenum will germinate in four days.  It loves water and dung.  This fussy little plant resents disturbance, crowding or transplanting so do not thin.

Dill is a wonderful natural medicine and beauty aid that can be grown in your garden over and over again from your own seed.

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Asparagus was known in ancient times as a very powerful aphrodisiac. Given the phallic appearance of the spears nature has certainly sent a message to that effect for us to heed.  It was also known as a food for perpetual youth.  Asparagus is also a very delicious vegetable and can be cooked simply or made into exotic dishes.

Asparagus takes five years or more to produce spears if you grow it from seed so the best way to grow it is from crowns.  Once you have planted your asparagus and it has become established, you will be able to harvest it for eighteen to twenty years.  It is an excellent plant for a community garden as a very large bed can be made and cared for by many people.

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Roman Pliny the Elder was a herbalist who stressed it’s values.  He urged “the eating of it daily for freedom from all diseases and for speed”.  Mexican botanists classified their Esparrago as a heart tonic.  The Greek Theophrastus explained that the mild laxative properties in the “spinous coronary Herb” were helpful in disposing of the waste products in the body which create illness and thus place a strain on the heart.  Doctors found various cures in the health food by using not only the stalks that we eat, but also every other part of the plant including the roots and berries that we discard.

In modern times there have been claims that it can prevent and even cure some very serious illnesses.  Although Richard R. Vensal’s article has not been able to be found Asparagus is safe and cannot hurt you.  Here are some testimonials:

“My Mom had been taking the full-stalk canned style asparagus that she pureed and she took 4 tablespoons in the morning and 4 tablespoons later in the day. She did this for over a month. She is on chemo pills for Stage 3 lung cancer in the pleural area and her cancer cell count went from 386 down to 125 as of this   past week. Her oncologist said she does not need to see him for 3 months.”
Several years ago, I had a man seeking  asparagus for a friend who had cancer. He gave me a photocopied copy of an article, entitled, `Asparagus for cancer’ printed in Cancer News Journal, December 1979.  I will share it here, just as it was shared with me:
I am a biochemist, and have specialized in the relation of diet to health for over 50 years.  Several years ago, I learned of the discovery of Richard R. Vensal, D.D.S. that asparagus might cure cancer. Since then, I  have worked with him on his project. We have accumulated a number of favorable case histories. Here are a few examples:
Case No. 1, A man with an almost hopeless case of Hodgkin’s disease (cancer of the lymph glands) who was completely incapacitated. Within 1 year of starting the asparagus therapy, his doctors were unable to detect any signs of cancer, and he was back on a schedule of strenuous exercise.
Case No. 2, a successful businessman 68 years old who suffered from cancer of the bladder for 16 years. After years of medical treatments, including radiation without improvement, he went on asparagus. Within 3 months, examinations revealed that his bladder tumor had disappeared and that his kidneys were normal.
Case No. 3, a man who had lung cancer. On March 5th 1971, he was put on the operating table where they found lung cancer so widely spread that it was inoperable. The surgeon sewed him up and declared his case hopeless. On April 5th he heard about the Asparagus therapy and immediately started taking it. By August, x-ray pictures revealed that all signs of the cancer had disappeared.  He is back at his regular business routine.
Case No.. 4, a woman who was troubled for a number of years with skin cancer. She finally developed different skin cancers which were diagnosed by the acting specialist as advanced.. Within 3 months after   starting on asparagus, her skin specialist said that her skin looked fine and no more skin lesions. This woman reported that the asparagus therapy also cured her kidney disease, which started in 1949. She had over 10 operations for kidney stones, and was receiving government disability payments for an   inoperable, terminal, kidney condition. She attributes the cure of this kidney trouble entirely to the asparagus.
I was not surprised at this result, as  `The elements of materia medica’, edited in 1854 by a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, stated that asparagus was used as a popular remedy for kidney stones. He even referred to experiments, in 1739, on the power of asparagus in dissolving stones. Note the dates!
We would have other case histories but the medical establishment has interfered with our obtaining some of the records. I am therefore appealing to readers to spread this good news and help us to gather a large number of case histories that will overwhelm the medical skeptics about this unbelievably simple and natural remedy.
For the treatment, asparagus should be cooked before using, and therefore canned asparagus is just as good as fresh.
Place the organic cooked asparagus in a blender and liquefy to make a puree, and store in the refrigerator. Give the patient 4 full tablespoons twice daily, morning and evening. Patients usually show some improvement in from 2-4 weeks. It can be diluted with water and used as a cold or hot drink. This suggested dosage is based on present experience, but certainly larger amounts can do no harm and may be needed in some cases.
As a biochemist I am convinced of the old saying that `what cures can prevent.’ Based on this theory, my wife and I have been using asparagus puree as a beverage with our meals.
We take 2 tablespoons diluted in water to suit our taste with breakfast and with dinner. I take mine hot and my wife prefers hers cold. For years we have made it a practice to have blood surveys taken as part of our regular checkups.  The last blood survey, taken by a medical doctor who specializes in the  nutritional approach to health, showed substantial improvements in all  categories over the last one, and we can attribute these improvements to nothing but the asparagus drink.

As a biochemist, I have made an extensive study of all aspects of cancer, and all of the proposed cures. As a result, I am convinced that asparagus fits in better with the latest theories about cancer. Asparagus contains a good supply of  protein called histones, which are believed to be active in controlling cell growth. For that reason, I believe asparagus can be said to contain a substance that I call cell growth normalizer. That accounts for its action on cancer and in acting as a general body tonic. In any event, regardless of theory, asparagus used as we suggest, is a harmless substance. The FDA cannot prevent you from using it and it may do you much good. It has been reported by the US National Cancer Institute, that asparagus is the highest   tested food containing glutathione, which is considered one of the body’s most   potent anticarcinogens and antioxidants.

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Natural Ites formed in 1981, a vocal trio of Percydread, Ossie samms aka Ossie gad and Neil foster heading a changing line up of instrumentalists and players known as the Realistics.  Their Hit song In My House first aired in 1982 and became a positive anthem for many Rastafarians worldwide.

Percy Dread continues to perform his material live. He tours throughout the United Kingdom and Europe.  His debut solo album Upside Downside is reggae roots drawing on contemporary sounds with Rastafarianism as its spiritual core.

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DEXTA MALAWI’s is a recent arrival on the reggae scene in Kingston Jamaica. His remarkable ability to write and perform lyrics that are deep, passionately aggressive, accurate, and thoughtful may be may be his greatest gift. The stage performances of this young prodigy are nothing short of an interestingly smooth, mind blowing, dynamic and explosive series of events. However Jamaica’s Music Industry is a fast moving world where fame and success are difficult to gain and effortless to lose and only a select few can effectively gain and hold their audience’s attention to remain relevant to the industry as the years go by. This reality has left many entertainers with much shorter careers than they had initially expected. The Plan of Dexta Malawi involves a career of LONGEVITY and it sure sounds like he has the talent to do just that.  This was his first ever studio recording in February 2009.

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Lets face it when it really comes down to it all anyone really wants to be totally free is peace of mind.
So how do you get it and keep it?
To have peace of mind you have to be certain and then you are centred.  To be certain you have to recognise the pattern in something.
So it goes, once you recognise the pattern, you become certain, then you are centred and then you have peace of mind.
Everything you have ever done has followed this formula, from tying your shoelaces to driving a car or riding a bike.
So why are so many people struggling to have peace of mind.
The man made world is made of millions of repeated patterns.  These create a hypnotic trance in people.  If we recognise a pattern we repeat the pattern and repeat it and repeat it and repeat it over and over again.  It is comfortable and what we know.  Instead of being creators, we are then being created, into consumers, christians, moslems, Australians, Americans Africans or clones of our favourite movie star.  The great oppressive civilisations, one of which we are now living under, have had over five thousand years to perfect this hypnosis in the masses to make them into whatever serves their dominion.  Workers, slaves or consumers.
So what do we do to get our peace of mind back.  We recognise the pattern and then we break it.  We do something different. We use our own brilliant mind to have a novel or creative thought or action to break us out of hypnosis.
By recognising and changing the pattern we automatically become more certain, hence centred and once again have peace of mind.
If you don’t have peace of mind look for the patterns and then do something different.
Nature has no repeated patterns, it is random and unpredictable and hence will never be able to be controlled by man.

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