RE: Herbal Remedies - sprouts - VALORIE

January 19, 2004

LOL Carrie, this one is over my head I'm turning it to our sprout expert VALORIE>>>Carrie Watson <carriewatson32 wrote:

I really can't answer this. I am too new to the sprouting thing. I can't wait to hear the answers of some others, though. Don, Suzi, John?????

windflower wrote:>I love to add sprouts of all sorts to salads. They are alive, full of >enzymes and nutrition, and delicious. I have a few questions about sprouts >to ask the group...>>Powdered fenugreek is supposed to be great for blood sugar levels, to >control diabetes. If you sprout the fenugreek seed, and eat it in a salad, >does it lose its glycemic controlling properties? (The sprouts, by the >way, are especially delicious, tasting a bit like sweet, fresh peas.)>>Milk thistle seed is supposed to be great for the liver. If you sprout >these seeds, do they lose their beneficial hepatic properties? (they tawte >kinda nutty)>>and I asked this one a few days ago, and no one answered. Poppy seeds. If >you sprout them, would they have any medicinal or nutritional value, once >they transform from seed to plant (first leaves)>>and hawthorn berries for blood

pressure and cardiac support. (havn't tried >this one, however if you grind them up as fine as possible, and add them to >plain yogurt, it gives the yogurt a plesant cherry-like flavor.)>>If you don't know the answers, let me hear your opinion. I value the >opinion af all members here. I never would have started sprouting anything >at all, had there not been a discussion on "let no bean or grain be >consumed unsprouted". So I want to know about seeds used medicinally, if >their properties remain or are lost when sprouted.>>looking foreward to your replies!

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