We will explore the folklore and healing properties of this beautiful temptress - The Apple.
The apple tree is perhaps the first tree ever to be cultivated. In Traditional Chinese Medicine apples are an excellent source of fiber, antioxidants, and vitamin C. — The healing powers of the apple are endless and go back centuries.
Apples have sacred and mythical significance in many cultures In mythology apples are said to have given the gods their eternal youthfulness. Buckets of apples have been found at burial sites in Norway and Ancient German grave sites, suggesting they held symbolic importance to these early peoples.
Apples have long been a symbol of fertility. In ancient Greece, apples were said to be sacred to the goddess of love, Aphrodite. To throw an apple at someone was to declare your love for them, and to catch the apple was to accept that love.
In the Bible, apples are associated with the Garden of Eden and are the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. As a result of the story of Adam, Eve, and The Apple, the apple became a symbol of knowledge, immortality, temptation, and the fall of man into sin.
The larynx in the human throat is called an “Adam’s Apple” because of an old notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit remaining in Adam’s throat. It also evolved into a symbol of sexual seduction, as another play on the notion of it being a forbidden fruit.
An overview of the healing properties of the apple in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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In Traditional Chinese Medicine The Apple Governs:
Pin Yin: Ping Guo
Meridians: Lung, Heart, Intestines
Key Actions: Supports the Lungs, Builds Qi, Strengthens Intestines,
Stops Diarrhea, Tonifies the Liver, Strengthens the Heart
Medicinal Uses: Nourishes Skin, builds immunity, relieves asthma and bronchitis, resolves mucus, builds Body Fluids, supports liver and heart health, treats constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and bloating, and helps remove toxins from the blood.
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The Apple Cleanse — Detofixies The Body To Prevent Disease.
In Spring our body wants to cleanse itself of the fats and heavy foods of the Winter. This is a good time to do an apple cleanse as the body is naturally cleansing.
Edgar Cayce (Holistic Healer) recommended 3-day Apple Fasts to hundreds of people to ‘cleanse all toxic forces from anybody’ and said that fasting is one of the most effective ways of preventing disease. He fasted on apples for 3 days three times a year.
This Apple Fast provides not only the benefits of the malic acid in apples but also gives you large amounts of natural pectin fiber to cleanse the intestinal tract.
It’s called a fast because, by eating only apples, the body is fooled into a fasting mode, where it starts dumping toxins from the liver, kidneys, and other internal organs, into the bloodstream, where they can be leeched by the pectin.
The Apple Cleanses are very simple, here are the steps!
1. Eat only organic apples all day long.
I buy as many different varieties as I can to mix things up a bit and I usually eat 4 to 10 apples depending on my hunger. Don’t worry about how many you eat. When you’re feeling hungry simply eat an apple and your hunger subsides.
2. Drink warm water all day long.
This is key! I always fill up a glass with half cold water and then half boiling water and keep it with me. Just get into the habit of drinking warm water. Cold water isn’t good for digestion and elimination — but warm water stimulates peristalsis.
3. Do this for 3 days.
4. On the third night take 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil.
This was Edgar Cayce’s idea is based on the same principle as the liver flushes that are popular now. When you don’t eat any fat for days, your liver and gallbladder store up bile. When you flood your system with fat (olive oil) all at once like that — your gallbladder and liver release all the stored bile and push out the cholesterol stones that have formed.
“To keep the body in good health is our duty.” — Buddha
Stay healthy my friends and remember the healing power of this beautiful temptress fruit — The Apple.
Blessings from my heart to yours!
Tiffany
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