Welcome everyone to the blog of Crystal Arts & Health Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts & Health http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/
For those with a Kindle this blog can be located at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4
New Online Crystal Healing training course is available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop
My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System has recently been published. It covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals.
I am an Herbalist and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence TM that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric & Physical Body"
See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags or stocking fillers.
Crystal Healing
Gold – Strengthens immune system, stabilizes subtle electrical system. Boosts wealth, health, abundance. Place on areas needing healing. Useful as a gem essence. Place on heart chakra surrounded by clear quartz points to amplify infusion of life energy. Enhances self-confidence.
Herbalism
Motherwort – (Leonurus cardiac) Aerial parts used. Actions: Sedative, emmenagogue, antispadomic, cardiac tonic. Useful for stimulation of delayed or suppressed menstruation, especially if caused by anxiety or tension. Useful relaxing tonic for aiding in menopausal changes. Excellent tonic for heart to strengthen without straining, specifically for over-rapid heart beat or palpitations. Dosage: pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 tsp of dried herb and leave to infuse for 10-15 minutes. Drink 3 times a day, tincture 1-4 ml three times a day.
Hawthorn Berries – (Crataegus oxyacanthoides), Ripe fruits used. Actions: Cardiac tonic, hypotensive Stabilizes heart, either by stimulating or depressing its activity whichever is needed in a gentle way. Useful for treating varicose veins and ulcers. For high blood pressure and circulatory system can be combined with Lime Blossom, Mistletoe, and Yarrow. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 2 teaspoons of the berries and infuse for 20 minutes. This should be drunk three times a day over a long period.
Yoga
The Forward Bend – Paschimothanasana Massages abdominal organs, tones digestive organs, relieves constipation, counteracts obesity and enlargement of spleen and liver, regulates pancreatic function, valuable for people with diabetes and hypoglycaemia, mobilizes joints, increases elasticity of lumbar spine, relieves compression of the spine and sciatica, strengthens and stretches hamstrings. Enhances concentration and mental endurance. Invigorates mind and controls many nervous complaints. Balances the prana and establishes “youth”.
Poetry
Poetry Gifts for Christmas
http://shop.bl.uk/
“If literature is food for the mind, then a poem is a banquet, according to research by Scottish scientists which shows poetry is better for the brain than prose. Psychologists at Dundee and St Andrews universities claim the work of poets such as Lord Byron exercise the mind more than a novel by Jane Austen.
Music
Indie Band Survival Guide
http://cache.reverbnation.com/ebook/indie_band_survival_guide.pdf
Festival Information
http://www.efestivals.com/
For more information on Crystal Healing or Herbalism, see http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/
Sunday 22 November 2009
Thursday 12 November 2009
Welcome everyone to the blog of Crystal Arts & Health Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts & Health http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/
For those with a Kindle this blog can be located at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4
My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System has recently been published. It covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals. I am an Herbalist and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence TM that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric & Physical Body"
See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags or stocking fillers.
Crystal Healing
Garnet – Base Chakra. Speeds up healing process. Can be used with clear quartz healing wands for this purpose. Energizing, warming, good against cold, sluggishness and for improved circulation.
Herbalism
Bitters enhance the liver and digestive processes. If bitterness is disguised by sugar completely, the beneficial effects no longer occur, often used in tonics.
Gentian (Gentiana lutea) Bitter, gastric stimulant, sialagogue,( stimulates the secretion of saliva from the salivary glands) cholagogue (stimulates the flow of bile from the liver). Useful for dyspepsia and flatulence, stimulates digestion. Dosage put ½ tsp of shredded root in a cup of water and boil for 5 minutes, drunk warm 15-30 minutes before meals, or any time when acute stomach pains from feeling of fullness in stomach. Tincture: 1-4 ml of tincture three times a day.
Rue (Ruta graveolens) Warning: Herb and the oil of rue should be avoided during pregnancy Actions: anti-spasmodic, emmenagogue, (herbs that stimulate blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus) anti-tussive, herbs that suppress the body's urge to cough. Mainly used to regulate menstrual periods, used to bring on suppressed menses. Used to relax smooth muscles in digestive system, and stopping spasm of spasmodic coughs, lowers elevated blood pressure. Fresh leaf can be chewed to relieve tension headaches, ease palpitations and other anxiety problems. Dosage pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 tsp of dried her and leave to infuse for 10-15 minutes drunk x 3 a day. Tincture 1-4 ml x 3 a day
Yoga
The Fish Matsyasana (counter position to the Shoulderstand)
Benefits stiffness in cervical, thoracic and lumbar regions, increasing nerve impulse and blood circulation in these areas. Gives natural massage to shoulders and neck, corrects rounded shoulders, increases capacity of the lungs, helps relieve asthma and other respiratory problems, energizes the parathyroid glands, stimulates and tones pituitary gland, pineal gland, regulates moods and emotions, relieves stress and mental agitation, increases prana to the neck and shoulder region, relieves pranic blocks from lung, stomach, and spleen meridians.
Poetry
Poetry submission
http://www.poetcasting.co.uk
New Canadian Poetry Magazine
http://www.ditchpoetry.com/
Music
Music funding
http://www.euclid.info/
Music Education
http://www.soundrights.org.uk/
For more information on Crystal Healing or Herbalism, see http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ or Music, Poetry or Yoga http://www.caraemoore.co.uk/
For those with a Kindle this blog can be located at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4
My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System has recently been published. It covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals. I am an Herbalist and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence TM that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric & Physical Body"
See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags or stocking fillers.
Crystal Healing
Garnet – Base Chakra. Speeds up healing process. Can be used with clear quartz healing wands for this purpose. Energizing, warming, good against cold, sluggishness and for improved circulation.
Herbalism
Bitters enhance the liver and digestive processes. If bitterness is disguised by sugar completely, the beneficial effects no longer occur, often used in tonics.
Gentian (Gentiana lutea) Bitter, gastric stimulant, sialagogue,( stimulates the secretion of saliva from the salivary glands) cholagogue (stimulates the flow of bile from the liver). Useful for dyspepsia and flatulence, stimulates digestion. Dosage put ½ tsp of shredded root in a cup of water and boil for 5 minutes, drunk warm 15-30 minutes before meals, or any time when acute stomach pains from feeling of fullness in stomach. Tincture: 1-4 ml of tincture three times a day.
Rue (Ruta graveolens) Warning: Herb and the oil of rue should be avoided during pregnancy Actions: anti-spasmodic, emmenagogue, (herbs that stimulate blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus) anti-tussive, herbs that suppress the body's urge to cough. Mainly used to regulate menstrual periods, used to bring on suppressed menses. Used to relax smooth muscles in digestive system, and stopping spasm of spasmodic coughs, lowers elevated blood pressure. Fresh leaf can be chewed to relieve tension headaches, ease palpitations and other anxiety problems. Dosage pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 tsp of dried her and leave to infuse for 10-15 minutes drunk x 3 a day. Tincture 1-4 ml x 3 a day
Yoga
The Fish Matsyasana (counter position to the Shoulderstand)
Benefits stiffness in cervical, thoracic and lumbar regions, increasing nerve impulse and blood circulation in these areas. Gives natural massage to shoulders and neck, corrects rounded shoulders, increases capacity of the lungs, helps relieve asthma and other respiratory problems, energizes the parathyroid glands, stimulates and tones pituitary gland, pineal gland, regulates moods and emotions, relieves stress and mental agitation, increases prana to the neck and shoulder region, relieves pranic blocks from lung, stomach, and spleen meridians.
Poetry
Poetry submission
http://www.poetcasting.co.uk
New Canadian Poetry Magazine
http://www.ditchpoetry.com/
Music
Music funding
http://www.euclid.info/
Music Education
http://www.soundrights.org.uk/
For more information on Crystal Healing or Herbalism, see http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ or Music, Poetry or Yoga http://www.caraemoore.co.uk/
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