Herbal Remedies - (medicinal) sprouts again -Don's response

January 19, 2004

Okay Inquiring Mind,

Soaking seeds deactivates or destroys the enzyme inhibitors. The water you soak the seeds in can be used and will be very beneficial due to the stuff that gets soaked out of the seeds during the soaking when you are soaking the seeds to deactivate the enzyme inhibitors.

Still with me?

What do Hawthorne berries taste like before you grinderize them?

If you don't want sludge when you grinderize your soaked seeds then you need to allow them to dry. Either very low heat with the oven door open or sun dry them. When dry they will grinderize into a nice flour. OOOOOOOOOrrrrrrrrrrrr, you can grinderize the seeds first, then soak them for the allotted amount of time and then dry the slurry. I think the first way will be much easier and preferable though.

I'm a coming to your house for breakfast. LOL That smoothie sounds yum-uuuuummmm-my.

Enzyme inhibitors are destroyed by soaking.

Don Q.

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windflower song

herbal remedies

Monday, January 19, 2004 1:00 PM

Herbal Remedies - (medicinal) sprouts again

OK, I have another sprout question to ponder...

Medicinal seeds, like Hawthorn Berries, are large, and hard, and crunchy. When you put them in a coffee grinder, they are tiny bits, but still hard and crunchy. (But taste a bit like cherries)

If you soaked the whole seed overnight, I believe the resulting grind would produce sludge.

Is it feasible to soak it AFTER grinding?

And now for something completely different...

I make "medicinal" smoothies for breakfast:

a banana for potassium

1/2 cup of unflavored yogurt

a cup of apple cider or juice

milk thistle seeds, hawthorne berries, psyllium, flax seeds and a schisandra berry,

ground in a coffee grinder

srawberries, blueberries, whatever fruit is handy

water to make a nice consistency

Blenderize.

If i were to soak the ground seeds in the apple cider or juice overnight, could I use the juice, or would the enzyme inhibitors be floating around in it? ie, are the enzyme inhibitors destroyed by soaking? or just dissipated?

Inquiring minds want to know.

windflower

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