Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
Social personalities support constructive activities.
Anti-social people support destructive activities.
Carbon in the air is constructive, it helps plants grow. The more carbon, the better they grow. As the atmospheric carbon increases so the planet becomes greener and less desertified.
Plastic in the environment is destructive. Plants absorb it and pass it on to us, fish eat it and it kills them.
Be a social person. Support carbon and support the removal of plastic from the environment.
You know that the phone you hold next to your head is a microwave receiver? Watch the video in the prior post for more data.
In this essential Exeter Phoenix talk by microwave weaponry expert, Barrie Trower, he diligently exposes the plethora of peer-reviewed empirical studies, which prove that all wireless technology causes non-ionising radiation sickness, which often results in flu-like symptoms and sometimes in death.
The World Health Organization and the United Nations are two key players in the agenda for the submission of all of humanity to unprecedented tyranny. Their plans for mankind go far beyond the darkest nightmares of what anyone can even begin to imagine.
Behind their brilliant masks of proclaimed humanitarian goals hides something so nefarious that many fail to believe it. This cannot be. It’s impossible. There is no evil so horrible… is there?
In many previous reports, we have lifted the veil on their agendas for humanity. During the pandemic, we saw glimpses of their intensely dark plans:
Andy Pittman posted on Twitter: “This meme saved my life, if it involves life or death, always look for deception………..”
The ability to spot an illogic is one of the components of awareness, as distinct from intelligence. Many intelligent people rationalize away illogics and are therefore unaware of the big picture, so are fooled and hurt or killed as a result.
A mixture of raw honey, apple cider vinegar and herbs let stand to extract the medicinal properties out of the herbs.
Derived from the Greek oxymeli, which translates to “acid and honey”, oxymel use has been documented since the age of Hippocrates as a means to use and extract herbs that are not so pleasnt in flavour when taken through other methods. These herbs tend to be more pungent aromatics such as garlic and cayenne that also lend a supportive role for the immune and respiratory systems.
Both apple cider vinegar and raw honwy are common kitchen allies that can be used to help soothe the throat, calm a cough or bolster the immune system through colds and flu. Then combined with herbs that carry complimentary actions, oxymels offer a potent yet tasty support for times of sickness or compromised immunity.
In the words of Hippocrates, “You will find the drink, called oxymel, often very useful… for it promotes expectoration and freedom of breathing” (Hippocrates, 400 BCE).
The most famous oxymel is Fire Cider, which combines immune-stimulating and antimicrobial herbs with honey and vinegar to make a general tonic.
The raw vinegar, usually apple cider vinegar with the mother, helps to preserve the herbs, extracts their medicinal properties, and in some cases makes them more bio-available through fermentation.
Honey sweetens the mixture, making it more like a syrup, but it also extracts medicinal compounds from the herbs. As a bonus, honey is also anti-microbial and raw local honey helps combat seasonal allergies as well.
In Roman times, the rough ratio was 5 parts honey to 1 part vinegar.
These days, most herbalists opt for a more equal ratio. They use either 2 parts honey to 1 part vinegar or an even ratio as I do.
Mountain rose herbs suggest that oxymels will last about 6 months if kept in a cool dark place. Other herbalists suggest keeping oxymels in the refrigerator and using them within 2-3 months, while others say they’re good for years.
The shelf life is less about spoilage and more about how long the oxymel will retain potency. A mixture of vinegar and honey will only ferment to more vinegar, provided you’ve completely strained the herbal material there’s really nothing to spoil.
They’re most potent within 6 months, but I store them for a full year at cool room temperature (pantry, root cellar, etc) until I’m able to make another batch the following year. I haven’t noticed any drop in potency, at least personally.