Today we will be looking at the relationship of Manganese and Copper. Of course we have a lot of other elements that come into contact with these two elements. We have to mention these because of them being intertwined in the whole scheme of things. In this article I will be referencing salt as a.. well, for lack of a better description, a Vector of sorts, of these and other related elements.

When things are pretty much normal with the average human being and no real issues here, the average human will be carrying around 50 to 120 MG of Copper in their body system at any given time. These same people will be carrying around 10 to 20 MG of Manganese within their body system at any given time. By the way, I referenced mountainsinai.org to verify most of the technical aspects of this article. Several other reliable sources were also referenced to verify the technical information for this article. So basically it is rational to figure that the Copper to Manganese ratio is 5 of Copper to...

2nd. Quarter, 2021 Gardening Tips.

Well it looks like spring is really struggling to make it's presence known. One of the biggest concerns where I live is water. We don't know if we will have enough water to even plant a garden this year. Well, actually we can plant one, but the likelihood that it can make it through the summer without water is the big question. So when we face this kind of a situation, it might be worth the time to consider doing the container gardening stuff. We have a serious drought situation that we are faced with. It is going to be bad, did I mention BAD? For example, on my son's one farm, just up the road from where I live, the irrigation company normally allocates around 3 feet to the share on an normal average year. Plus they do a use or lose it, with the water from about a month or so before they start charging you for water. This year there is no use or lose it water and they have allocated  .47  feet of water per share. So it is not good for...

Our discussion today is going to be centered around Clary Sage and Sclareol. The discussion is going be centered around the particular variety of Clary Sage with the Latin name of Salvia sclarea L., fam. Lamiaceae (Labiatae). There are other types of Clary Sage with different Latin names but this particular one has an important component within the needed therapeutic parameters to affect the specific targets that we will be looking at. We will also explore some myths surrounding Clary Sage in general and specifically.

Most of you are likely to have a hate relationship with Clary Sage because it might raise your estrogen hormone levels and give you cancer. This is a myth and I will show you how it is a myth, but also can be true. When I look at a GC/MS report on Clary Sage, I focus on this one component., first off right out the chute. This component will tip me off and many others to the quality of the report. This element is rather heavy in the list of "ingredients" in Clary Sage....

Today we are going to look at Rosemary. We will, for the most part, look at the differences of Rosemary grown under various conditions.
There are a number of different varieties of Rosemary. Each one has their own unique contribution to serving the needs of the various users of the plant material. As to the essential oil aspect I have seen a number of different companies selling Rosemary Essential Oil will tout all Rosemary as the same oil. Without taking into account the different properties, without really understanding the differences between the vanities as to their strengths and weaknesses. Basically they just cut and paste from someone that cut and pasted from someone that cut and pasted from someone.. do you get the picture? With the essential oil of Rosemary this is very important to understand some background on this plant.  Now when it comes to the use of the Herb, it is not quite as important, but still it is important. Another popular use of Rosemary is in cooking...

Aromatic Plants.
Within this part of the discussion about various nutrients to the plant can and will affect the outcome and quality of the plant's nutrient levels. I am going to just touch lightly on a few of the nutrients and really end up doing a sampling of sorts vs a long discussion.

With Nitrogen; Nitrogen will play a big role in the plants growth of what you see, above the ground. In previous discussions I have use Basil as an example of how a particular nutrient can alter the expression of components in a plant, in this case Basil. When Basil is exposed to a higher level than normal level of Nitrogen it then tends to produce an essential oil that is of the Menthyl Chavrol type. But at the lower levels of Nitrogen it tends t produce an essential oil that that is of the Linalool type. This is important in Aromatherapy applications as the two type of Basil essential oil will tend to produce different end results, overall. The PPM level of Nitrogen of 15 PPM will give he best...

We haven't done a whole lot in this area and sometimes it is fun to look at things in this light. There are over 18,000 plants that are known to produce essential oils or have theses oils in them. Only about 400 or so are known to be used for essential oil production to be used for therapeutic applications and for nutritional food flavorings. So with that lets look at several minerals and how they affect essential oil production n a few selected plants that are used for essential oil production. This same idea also applies to actual food production as well.

1st. Mineral; Cobalt. Cobalt is a very important micro-nutrient mineral. The ideal PPM in humans is best at 8 PPM.

With Rosemary; Rosemary was measured in some studies. With Cobalt being available at 10 PPM for plant uptake and at a soil pH of 8.49 gave the best Rosemary overall. This one aspect with the pH is why Rosemary does so well and why we select Rosemary from high alkaline soil conditions. In the other oils that will be...

I would like to discuss a little bit about this Brain Balancing Program that I am spear heading. For those that got a box through the Essential Oils Unleashed deal, you will have a description posted in the FB group as well as a sheet in your package, if I understand correctly. You can also get some information from Leiann's web site in the Blog section as I have an Introduction and several chapters posted there as well as I will post more in the future as it relates to Brain Support and Maintenance. These chapters will give you a considerable amount of back grounding on this subject. Please keep in mind that everything out there on the subject is not in these. I try to break down the information into usable material for and to what it means for us average people out on the street. I hope I am doing this. One of the challenges out there is that a lot of people out in the real world likes to present an "incomplete" picture so as to confuse you and then attempt themselves to be shown...

From Time to time we run across some interesting concepts in nutrition. One of these is one that you are going to hear a lot more about in the upcoming future. If there is anything that is going to fall into the class of new and exciting break through in human nutrition it will be this particular item. So what is that new and exciting thing? Alfalfa. The Latin name is Medicago sativa. It is known in old school circles as Lucerne. When i was a kid growing up on a farm it was always referred to as Lucerne. Then later on in time the name of Lucerne was transitioned out and replaced with the name of Alfalfa. i may be bias, but I do like the term Lucerne. 

At the present time the plant is being aggressively studied from several angles for human nutrition. The plant has been studied extensively for agricultural applications in animal nutrition. Alfalfa is a legume and as such is often referred to as the "Queen of Forages" I am not sure why it isn't called the "King of Forages"....