Green power for women

Smoothies made from medicinal plants provide vital substances and bring hormones into balance

With a sound background knowledge of medicinal plants and 27 recipes for tasty powerhouses , Andrea Wichterich focuses primarily on women's health. Green smoothies can be used particularly gently and specifically to prevent and treat women-specific illnesses and concerns.

A new health awareness
For alternative practitioner and author Andrea Wichterich, enjoying green smoothies, especially when they are made from wild plants, is less a fad than an expression of a new health awareness. This is characterized by a newfound maturity, the assumption of responsibility for oneself and one's body, which also includes responsibility for the world around us and increasingly scarce resources: "It is an expression of a lifestyle based on sustainability, a (re)consideration of the healing powers of nature and the interconnectedness of all life, the (re)connection with your roots."
Andrea Wichterich therefore emphasizes the special connection between botany and female wisdom, which has always known how to use natural allies to its advantage. Her new book "Medicinal Plant Smoothies for Women" is dedicated to the preparation of tasty smoothies based on medicinal herbs, which have a long tradition of helping women. "These are plants that generously offer their healing powers to treat and prevent women-specific illnesses, plants that accompany us throughout our entire lives as women."

The green elixir of life
The healing power is particularly evident in plants, whose green pigment, chlorophyll, can actually be described as "sunlight made into a substance". Today we know that chlorophyll is chemically almost identical to the red blood pigment (hemoglobin). The two only differ in one atom: magnesium in the chlorophyll and iron in the hemoglobin. Otherwise, their molecular structure is the same.
So it is not surprising that chlorophyll stimulates blood formation and transports oxygen to the cells. In this way, it also regulates the acid-base balance, cleanses the blood and flushes deposits and toxins out of the blood vessels and the entire body. It also improves the body's odor, inhibits inflammation and promotes wound healing. It activates the thyroid and reduces the need for insulin. On top of that, chlorophyll provides an abundance of vital substances as well as plenty of vitamins and folic acid. In a green smoothie, the green power is present in a form that could not be better absorbed by the body. If it is made from freshly picked plants, it also contains an abundance of biophotons. This makes every green smoothie a true elixir of life that can significantly improve health and quality of life.

The living balance
Medicinal plant smoothies not only help you stay healthy, detoxify the body continuously and regularly and supply it with vital substances, but they can also be used specifically when the balance is already disturbed and manifest illnesses occur. Almost all processes in the body are controlled by hormones and/or the nervous system via neurotransmitters - regardless of whether it is metabolic processes, digestion, the sleep-wake rhythm, the general energy and activity level, dealing with stress, growth and development or sexuality and reproduction. All of these functions depend on a very finely tuned interaction of the individual hormone glands. The multidimensional demands of a fast-paced lifestyle with all its stimuli and professional demands as well as high and low frequency radiation, toxins, etc. can throw the hormone system out of balance.
On the other hand, a balanced lifestyle with sufficient rest and exercise, a healthy diet and the practice of yoga and meditation, among other things, can balance our hormonal system. Smoothies with medicinal plants that remove toxins from the body and have a hormone-like effect in the body can make a significant contribution to bringing the hormones and thus the entire organism back into balance.

Book tip:
Andrea Wichterich: Medicinal plant smoothies for women. With 27 smoothie recipes for health, vitality and hormonal balance. Mankau Verlag, 1st edition October 2016, flexi-brochure, 16.8 x 24 cm, full color, 159 pages, €15.95 (D) / €16.40 (A), ISBN 978-3-86374-326-0.

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More information about the guide "Medicinal herbal smoothies for women"
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More about our author Andrea Wichterich
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