Mineral rich herbal drink (aka arrowhead sparkles)

I had forgotten about this dream lesson. If you need minerals in your diet, try this!

Chop and loosely fill a quart jar with purple archangel (aka Dead Nettle, Lamium purpureum) or henbit. Make sure to leave more than enough for the bees! Fill it to the top with good raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar. Cap it (plastic) and date it for 6 weeks.

You can use other herbs as well such as rose petals which are cooling, any sort of mints, basil, and even beefsteak/ shiso mint which most people consider a weed.

Strain in 6 weeks and that will be a mineral and electrolyte concentrate to make drinks with (switchel), salad dressing, sprinkle on your greens, on rice, in soup etc. Just don't drink it straight!

They have more minerals than cultivated foods!

To make switchel, or a field drink

glass of water

splash or two of mineral vinegar (can be made with any edible plant that has minerals, like mints etc)

a little mineral sweetener (or not) like honey, molasses, sorghum, maple syrup

Then sometimes I add some chia or hemp seeds, some turmeric or cinnamon. Whatever spice I need for that day (do I need warming or cooling etc). Sometimes I add marshmallow root powder and make a "booger drink".

Every drink is a playtime creation with the residual spices and seeds from the prior drink being incorporated into the next glass.

My dream lesson from this time 2017:

"My muscles have been burning more than ever. I've done more work than this with no muscle problems at all. Last night my dreams told me what I needed.

I dreamed I was in an herbal class and the teacher gave me a HUGE arrow head made of pure sparkles to give to another student. There really wasn't even a color, only sparkles and the sparkles would fall off with each touch. The tip was broken. I was to give it to a new student I brought with me.

While in the class I wanted to take a bite from the arrow head and thought that the tip was broken off, no one would notice. So I took a bite. Mmmmm it was sandy and crunchy and full of water. So I chewed and chewed. Then I felt like I shouldn't have done that, so took a piece out of my mouth, but continued chewing the remaining mineral rich sparkles that were left.

For our field trip we walked outside and there was a FIELD of purple archangel (dead nettle), it was everywhere. She talked, as I do often, about using this plant.

When I got up I knew just what to do. I grabbed the purple archangel vinegar and some molasses and made a giant jar of switchel for the day. Thanks, as always, dream teachers!"