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Learn the Secrets to Cooking with Essential Oils and Chinese Herbs

(2011-07-31) Learn the Secrets to Cooking with Essential Oils and Chinese Herbs

You may know that Essential Oils and Chinese herbs are used to treat anything from soar throats to cancer, but did you know that you can use these powerful ingredients in your cooking as well? The Inn

You may know that Essential Oils and Chinese herbs are used to treat anything from soar throats to cancer, but did you know that you can use these powerful ingredients in your cooking as well? The Inner Metamorphosis University in Chicago offers fun and informative cooking workshops on how to improve your health and well-being through cooking with these vital oils and herbs; a practice known as Dietary Therapy! Plants contain virtually everything our bodies need to thrive. By concentrating a plant’s extraordinary ingredients into an Essential Oil you can access up 70 times more therapeutic potency than by eating the plant itself. By cooking with these Essential Oils you can provide your body with all of the plant’s healing nutrients, vitamins, hormones, amino acids, oxygenating molecules, trace minerals, enzymes, and more. The Inner Metamorphosis University invites you to learn the secret to creating delicious meals that also nurture your body. Please join us Saturday August 6, 12:00 to 3:00pm for Cooking with Essential Oils where you will learn which the benefits of this therapeutic cooking style to add extra layers of flavor complexity and discover the myriad ways that these most aromatic components of plants. Registration is required as space is limited. Another not-to-be-missed workshop offered by IMU is our popular How to Cook with Chinese Herbs class, also taught by Benjamin Zappin. Chinese herbs have been used for generations as a way to achieve optimal health and well-being. These plants have been used for centuries to treat ailments without the side-effects of synthetic drugs. Using these impressive ingredients in cooking adds their therapeutic properties to bring balance to the body and help remedy specific diseases. The Chinese Herbs cooking class at IMU will show you how to create versatile and delicious nourishing meals with incredible dietary therapeutic benefits. The Cooking with Chinese Herbs workshop will be held Sunday August 7th from 12:00-3:00pm. Registration is required as space is limited. IMU offers fantastic Dietary Therapy workshops taught by professional caterer and herbalist, Benjamin Zappin, L.Ac. Benjamin been catering events and teaching traditional Dietary Therapy in acupuncture schools for over a decade. He maintains a clinical acupuncture and herbal practice in San Francisco where he also operates Five Flavors Herbs and directs Sylvan Institute of Botanical Medicine.

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Which other herbs can help me to have more concentration and memory for studying?

Clary Sage is not typically used for memory enhancement. It is, however, a nervine & anti-anxiety herb. It is relaxing. Rosemary for memory is used as a room fragrance or inhalant. Rosemary is a stimulant. Together they should make you more alert, yet less anxious.

There are several ways to use these. You pick the one that works best for you. Put 2 drops of Rosemary & 1 drop of Clary Sage on a tissue and sniff every minute or two. Put this same combo on a light bulb ring and set on a bulb in a lamp over your study area. Put this same combo in a heat resistant bowl and add a cup of steaming hot water. Cover your head with a bath towel and inhale the steam through your nose, keeping eyes shut. Inhale for a few seconds, then take a breath of fresh air. Repeat once or twice and you’re ready for study. Put a small amount of warm water in a new plant mister, add the essential Oils , shake vigorously & spray the study area. Avoid spraying on wood furniture, silk or fine fabric that will spot.

Don’t overdo the Clary as it will make you sleepy and relaxed. Don’t use either herb in pregnancy or the Rosemary with epileptics.

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