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Post by pepperhead212 on Aug 16, 2019 15:33:55 GMT -5
tom ๐ It did add a slight flavor, but I was adding it to simply add some vegetable, in place of the flour, though the flour is whole grain, so not bad. It also makes it easier to roll out, with less gluten, though I often use besan, or other legume flours for this, as well.
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Post by Mumsey on Aug 17, 2019 4:12:44 GMT -5
tom ๐, Interesting articles! Thanks for posting them.
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Post by tom ๐ on Aug 17, 2019 8:16:10 GMT -5
www.vegparadise.com/highestperch67.htmlNo scorpion bites for me yet, but yesterday I got into fire ants. Applied eggplant. The small sores that fire ant bites usually make have not occurred. To be effective, eggplant may need to be applied as soon as possible. I experimented to see if eggplant would repel mosquitoes. It doesn't, but the inflammation response (itch) following the bites did not occur, so that I could not tell by feel that I had been bitten, which is not a good thing because the mosquitoes could bite without being swatted. Eggplant juice on the skin may suppress the inflammation response like an antihistamine, or it may neutralize some toxins. It would be good to know whether it works on encounters with jelly fish, poison ivy, Virginia creeper, and such. Also, burns.
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Post by tom ๐ on Aug 17, 2019 9:32:44 GMT -5
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Post by SpringRain๐๏ธ on Aug 17, 2019 11:19:23 GMT -5
tom ๐ , have your read anything about eggplant for tick bites? I recall reading that you found one on your skin after gardening. I ask b/c I've got two very small bites on my arm that appeared about 2 - 3 weeks ago. They're more or less healed, but not completely, while other outdoor scars have healed or are close to it. There's obviously something different about these, which appeared after doing a lot of cutting small trees and shrubs. It's too late to use a tweezer; I know there are other methods (such as mints) to draw out ticks, but I'm not sure that's the problem.
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Post by tom ๐ on Aug 17, 2019 11:51:47 GMT -5
have your read anything about eggplant for tick bites? I recall reading that you found one on your skin after gardening. I ask b/c I've got two very small bites on my arm that appeared about 2 - 3 weeks ago. They're more or less healed, but not completely, while other outdoor scars have healed or are close to it. There's obviously something different about these, which appeared after doing a lot of cutting small trees and shrubs. It's too late to use a tweezer; I know there are other methods (such as mints) to draw out ticks, but I'm not sure that's the problem. I have not read about using eggplant on tick bites. I had four ticks in June, two attached, but not one since. I think it is because I have been able to keep rabbits out of the yard. Typically, a tick bite isn't a sore. It's a red, itching rising, usually smaller than a dime. My advice for attached ticks: Scrape the tick off with a fingernail as soon as possible and, using tweasers (they cling to fingers), get the tick into a bottle with rubbing alcohol. Scratch vinegar into the spot. I have not had another itchy tick rising since I began doing this. Write the work "tick" on the calendar. Give it ten day. It takes about that time for tick diseases to incubate, but if a circular rash appears (a marker for Lyme disease) go to a doctor immediately. If fever and chills begin, you have a tick disease and will need antibiotics. If you go to a doctor, take the tick. They will ask to see it. I've had two neighbors who were misdiagnosed because they had no tick to show.
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Post by SpringRain๐๏ธ on Aug 17, 2019 12:40:36 GMT -5
tom ๐ , thanks. I've seen no ticks, no evidence of them including on my arm, but I can't figure out might have caused this, although it's possible it's just a bite from some new arrivals. Or I might have gotten scratched by some of the various shrubs and wanna be trees I cut down. Some of them, such as the mulberry, weren't very happy about being cut and resisted with all their might. There's no itching, no pain, no nothing except a pin size red spot. I'll give it another week or so; I might even try some med-honey to see if it just needs a healing boost. Thanks for taking the time to offer advice.
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Post by tom ๐ on Aug 18, 2019 12:45:14 GMT -5
eggplant cream for animals onejive.com/make-homemade-eggplant-cream/This cream is the standard eggplant vinegar. My cat died of ear cancer, which developed slowly. I perhaps could have prevented it if I had known this formula.
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Post by tom ๐ on Aug 18, 2019 13:04:02 GMT -5
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Post by reuben on Aug 18, 2019 16:19:50 GMT -5
A good food fight comes to mind.
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Post by tom ๐ on Aug 18, 2019 17:16:01 GMT -5
A good food fight comes to mind. And eggplant bombs.
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Post by tom ๐ on Aug 26, 2019 17:08:49 GMT -5
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Post by desertwoman on Aug 26, 2019 18:12:40 GMT -5
I've got eggplant soaking in apple cider vinegar (didn't get to it until a couple of days ago) and in a couple more days plan to start applying to my pre skin cancer spots and one basal cell cancer I suspect has formed. I see my dermatologist in a couple of months so I have time to put this remedy to work and then have him inspect the spots. Will report back with results.
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Post by tom ๐ on Aug 26, 2019 19:03:02 GMT -5
I see my dermatologist in a couple of months so I have time to put this remedy to work and then have him inspect the spots. I have a doctor's appointment for next month, and several days ago found a black spot I'll get the doctor to look at. I have been putting eggplant juice on it, and it has lightened considerably.
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Post by tom ๐ on Sept 1, 2019 9:39:36 GMT -5
eggplant as an iron chelator
Black eggplant is an iron chelator when the skin is eaten. Iron accumulation in the body is a marker for a shorter life span and may be a factor in Parkinson's disease. There is an epidemiological suggestion that eggplant consumption reduces the likelihood of Parkinson's disease.
India is the home of eggplant. The Parsi do have eggplant dishes, but apparently the vegetable is associated with the fast period Bahman Mahino (June) when some religious Parsis do not eat meat, and thus it may be rarely consumed by them outside this period, I speculate, so they would not gain a protective benefit from it.
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