To kickoff my health adventure I bought a blender. I'm very excited about it. A few days before this purchase, I grabbed some asparagus from the grocery store. This is what it looks like actually growing:
It turns out that the name means "sprout" or "sparrow". It comes from the Eastern Mediterranean, was cultivated in Egypt, and was extremely popular in Greece and Rome as a healing vegetable. The Romans had runners take it from the Tiber River Valley to the Alps so it would preserve until the Feast of Epicurus. In Victorian times, it was considered such a powerful aphrodisiac, that women would train their daughter's to detect it in the scent of their husband's urine. School girls were banned from being anywhere near asparagus.
It definitely changes the smell of your urine. That's due to an amino acid call asparagine, which was the first amino acid to be isolated by nerdy French chemist dudes. Rather than list of all of the nutritious vitamins packed in it - I'll just say it's most excellent a vegetable and has properties of a diuretic, laxative and depurative - that means it has detoxifying effects. Especially good for urinary tract issues, and also clean the blood, and like I said, a bunch of other really awesome stuff. It contains more Glutathione than any other vegetable.
All this to say, if you aren't eating raw asparagus, you should be.
More into the magical side of asparagus, it corresponds to Mars and Jupiter, is of the element of Fire, and is used in love spells. Especially in arousing male lust.
As for what I'm blending it with, I'm still experimenting. So far I've got this:
4-5 stalks of asparagus
1 mango
2 handfuls of kale and mixed greens (some health practitioners say not to mix asparagus with artichokes or spinach as "their juices are not compatible")
1 carrot
3-4 dashes of rose petals
water
It turns out that the name means "sprout" or "sparrow". It comes from the Eastern Mediterranean, was cultivated in Egypt, and was extremely popular in Greece and Rome as a healing vegetable. The Romans had runners take it from the Tiber River Valley to the Alps so it would preserve until the Feast of Epicurus. In Victorian times, it was considered such a powerful aphrodisiac, that women would train their daughter's to detect it in the scent of their husband's urine. School girls were banned from being anywhere near asparagus.
It definitely changes the smell of your urine. That's due to an amino acid call asparagine, which was the first amino acid to be isolated by nerdy French chemist dudes. Rather than list of all of the nutritious vitamins packed in it - I'll just say it's most excellent a vegetable and has properties of a diuretic, laxative and depurative - that means it has detoxifying effects. Especially good for urinary tract issues, and also clean the blood, and like I said, a bunch of other really awesome stuff. It contains more Glutathione than any other vegetable.
All this to say, if you aren't eating raw asparagus, you should be.
Raw asparagus with roasted walnuts and pecorino cheese.
More into the magical side of asparagus, it corresponds to Mars and Jupiter, is of the element of Fire, and is used in love spells. Especially in arousing male lust.
As for what I'm blending it with, I'm still experimenting. So far I've got this:
4-5 stalks of asparagus
1 mango
2 handfuls of kale and mixed greens (some health practitioners say not to mix asparagus with artichokes or spinach as "their juices are not compatible")
1 carrot
3-4 dashes of rose petals
water
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