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• Agrimony: For those who conceal mental anguish behind a “brave face.”

• Aspen: For those troubled by vague fears, apprehension, and anxiety.

• Beech: For those who are critical and intolerant of others.

• Centaury: For those who are unable to say “no” and are easily imposed upon.

• Cerato: For those who are unable to make decisions without advice from others.

• Cherry Plum: For those fearful of losing control of thoughts and actions.

• Chestnut Bud: For those who repeatedly make the same mistakes and are unable to learn from past experience.

• Chicory: For those who are possessive and always know just what is “right” for others.

• Clematis: For those who are dreamy, absentminded with an inability to concentrate.

• Crab Apple: For those who have a poor physical self-image and are overcome by feelings of shame and uncleanliness.

• Elm: Fort those who are temporarily overwhelmed and burdened by their responsibilities.

• Gentian: For those pessimist who tends to make “mountains out of molehills.”

• Gorse: For feelings of hopelessness and despair.

• Heather: For those who seek the company of any who will listen to their troubles and are over-talkative.

• Holly: For those who are jealous, suspicious, and vengeful.

• Honeysuckle: For those who dwell in the past, of what was and could have been.

• Hornbeam: For those who feel fatigue and tiredness and just need to be restrengthened.

• Impatiens: For those who are impatient and fast paced.

• Larch: For those who lack self-confidence and anticipate their own failure.

• Mimulus: For the fear of known things, such as heights, the dark, being alone, etc.

• Mustard: For melancholia, gloom, and deep despair which comes and goes.

• Oak: For workaholics who can always be depended upon to complete a task even at the expense of themselves, and those close to them.

• Olive: For mental and physical exhaustion as a result of having gone through an illness or personal ordeal.

• Pine: For prefectionist who are often dissatisfied with their own accomplishments.

• Red Chestnut: For those who worry excessively over the health and safety of friends and family, often anticipating that the worst may happen to them.

• Rock Rose: For panic, hysteria, or feelings of terror and fright; also for nightmares.

• Rock Water: For an overly-ridged, strict adherence to a particular belief or life-style.

• Scleranthus: For those caught between choices unable to decide between one thing and another.

• Star of Bethlehem: For traumas from which an individual is not fully recovered for example, accidents, surgery, or personal loss.

• Sweet Chestnut: For those who have reached the limits of their endurance.

• Vervain: For those with strong opinions, who feel they are always right and who often attempt to convert others to their way of thinking.

• Vine: For those “born leaders” who are strong willed, confident, and self-assured, but if taken to the extreme, can be over bearing, domineering and tyrannical.

• Walnut: For those experiencing periods of transition and change.

• Water Violet: For private people who, as a result, have difficulty developing close relationships.

• White Chestnut: For persistent, unwanted thoughts, mental chatter, and associated sleeplessness.

• Wild Oat: For those who are dissatisfied with their current career and would like to do something else with their life, but cannot decide what direction to take or career to choose.

• Wild Rose: For those who have become indifferent and apathetic toward life and are resigned to their circumstances.

• Willow: For those who have become resentful and bitter at having been treated unfairly.
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Earthly Eating Recipe:

Jelled Pomegranate with Mixed Winter Fruit:
Serves 4

1 1/2 cups mixed winter fruit (pomegranate seeds, diced kiwi, and tangerine segments)
2 cups pomegranate juice, preferably not from concentrate.
2 tbs. agar flakes
2 drops liquid stevia or sugar (optional)
4 tbs. whipped cream (optional)
4 tsp. homemade pomegranate syrup (juice)

1. Divide the furit among 4 small juice glasses or custard cups.

2. Combine the pomegranate juice and agar flakes in a small saucepan; bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Lower the heat and simmer, stirring occasionally for 10 to 15 minutes, until no bits of agar are visable whne you gather the juice in a metal spoon. Pour the hot pomegranate juice through a sieve into a glass measuring cup to strain out any undissolved agar. taste the juice, and if you wish to make it sweeter, add the stevia drops or sugar as desired.

3. Pour the liquid over the fruits. Refrigerate until set, about 2 hours.

4. Garnish each serving with a dollop of whipped cream, if desired, and a tsp. of pomegranate syrup.

Happy Eating!


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