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Nopal

by Mike September 26, 2011

Nopales (from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads) are a vegetable made from the young cladode (pad) segments of prickly pear, carefully peeled to remove the spines. These fleshy pads are flat and about hand-sized. They can be purple or green. They are particularly common in their native Mexico, where the plant is eaten commonly and regularly forms part of a variety of Mexican cuisine dishes. Farmed nopales are most often of the species Opuntia ficus-indica, although the pads of almost all Opuntia species are edible.

Konjac / Glucomannan

by Mike September 25, 2011

Konjac It is a perennial plant, growing from a large corm up to 25 cm in diameter. The single leaf is up to 1.3 m across, bipinnate, and divided into numerous leaflets. The flowers are produced on a spathe enclosed by a dark purple spadix up to 55 cm long.

Eyebright, (Euphrasia)

by Mike August 26, 2011

Use eyebright as a poultice for the redness, swelling, and visual disturbances

Rosacea: Its Symptoms

by Mike August 25, 2011

An estimated 16 million people in the U.S. have Rosacea.

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Nopal

Konjac / Glucomannan

Eyebright, (Euphrasia)

Rosacea: Its Symptoms

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