1. Baby Inanna is born!
This month, we’re really excited to introduce our brand new line of baby products: Baby Inanna. For over a year we’ve been researching and developing: a diaper salve, light baby powder, bath herbs and lotion. We’re proud as punch to say that they are as safe and effective as they can be.
The Baby Inanna labels have just been printed this week, and, thanks to Zsoka Scurtescu at LOHAS by Design, they are a delight. They got ready just in time for the Vancouver Wellness Show, starting today, Feb 1 and running through Sunday, Feb 3. Come down to see us at Booth 622B (details below).
2. Special of the month
3. Blog Spotlight
Fed up with the Hollywood writers’ strike? Check out our latest blog, Wrinkles and Hollywood
4. Herb of the month: Garlic
It's definitely flu season. And coincidentally, February is heart month. Here's a herb that has a great deal to offer, both for healing seasonal colds and flus, and for strengthening the heart.
"Garlic is the 'King of Hearts'. No artificial drug for heart problems can come anywhere near its efficacy or its versatility. Happily many heart specialists are beginning to agree, so impressive is the evidence accumulating from many clinical trials."
Barbara Griggs, in The Green Witch Herbal
Garlic History & Lore:
According to Pliny, garlic and onion were invocated as deities by the Egyptians at the taking of oaths.
"An old Mohammedan legend says that when Satan stepped out from the Garden of Eden, after the fall of man, Garlick sprang up from the spot where he placed his left foot, and Onion from that where his right foot touched."
Mrs. M. Grieve, A Modern Herbal
Garlic Actions:
Garlic is antibiotic, bacteriostatic, anti-parasitic, anti-viral, fungicide.
"A wide range of anti-infection activity reported… Prevents build-up of cholesterol, helps clear fat in blood vessels, reducing the tendency to heart disease…helps with bronchitis, asthmas, cough, has anti-tumour activity …and more."
Thomas Bartram, MD, Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine
Garlic is effective preventive medicine for the heart because it makes the blood less likely to clot, thus preventing the blood clots that trigger heart attack. Garlic and onion also help reduce cholesterol and blood pressure.
Use Garlic generously in soups, stews and sauces.
Hint: just as you’'d expect, the odorless kind is not particularly effective. You gotta love that stinking rose!
5. Upcoming Events
Visit Inanna at Booth 622B of the
Vancouver Wellness Show,
Friday Feb 1, 12 noon to 8 pm
Sat. Feb. 2, 10 am to 7 pm
Sunday Feb. 3, 10 am to 6 pm
Vancouver Convention Centre
Canada Place (Under the Sails)
Some highlights of this year’s Wellness Show:
- Natural Treatments for Chronic Fatigue and Depression
- Terry Willard, on Flower Essences, and How they Work
- Health by Chocolate
- Sex After Menopause
- Visit Inanna at Booth 622B
For the full schedule of events, go here.
6. Quote of the month
"I've always liked a story that Dr. Ornish tells about a group of rabbits that added an unexpected tidbit to the research on heart disease. Kept in a laboratory under research conditions, the rabbits were genetically similar, and all received the same food and got the same amount of exercise, yet one group had 60 percent fewer heart attacks than the others. What was the difference? It turned out that the healthier rabbits were the ones kept in the lower cages, and the short person who fed the rabbits could reach the lower animals and pet them when feeding them. Love, it seems, is a life preserver. I've always thought so.
Dean Ornish, M.D. is a California doctor who astounded the medical world a few years ago by becoming the first researcher to actually reverse heart disease. Even more amazing, he did it with a low-tech combination of natural approaches: exercise, yoga, meditation, support groups and a very low fat vegetarian diet (10 percent of calories from fat)."
The Green Pharmacy by James Duke, PhD
