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CBD for Health and Recovery

By Billee Sharp

A few years ago I had two friends, both women and both in their forties who had the same ACL surgery. One decided to medicate with CBD tincture while the other chose conventional painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs. The woman who chose to use CBD used two ounces of CBD tincture and at the end of a month was able to ride her bicycle again. The other friend had a much slower recovery and subsequently needed physical therapy to strengthen her knee.

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CBD and Autoimmune Disease Management

By Billee Sharp

Autoimmune disorders manifest in many different forms from a mild case of psoriasis to the profound symptoms of full blown rheumatoid arthritis or lupus. Some autoimmune disorders attack one organ or system while others attack the whole body. Whatever the autoimmune dysfunction is, the basic situation is the same: the immune system incorrectly identifies healthy cells as foreign invaders, viruses or bacteria, and attacks them, causing damage and creating wide-ranging symptoms including pain, inflammation, fatigue, nausea, migraine, lack of appetite etc.

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Cannabis – A Solution to the Polypharmacy Problem

By Dan Reich

Polypharmacy – the situation that arises when someone is prescribed multiple prescription medications – has been a problem plaguing medicine since the emergence of Big Pharma. It is estimated that 36% of adults over 60 take five or more prescription medications. If you include over-the-counter remedies and supplements, the figure climbs to 67%. Many seniors have needed to be hospitalized due to adverse reactions to medications, and the more one takes at a time, the greater the chance that a problematic or even deadly reaction can occur.

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Loving Life As Autumn Approaches

By Billee Sharp

September’s the month that sometimes grants us an Indian Summer, a last month of warm days to savor before the fall, a chance to enjoy the bounty of summer harvests. Blackberries, hawthorn, rose hips, and acorns are ripe for foraging and all kinds of summer crops and fruit trees are ready to harvest. 

The Autumn Equinox at the end of September is a major astronomical event ushering in the fall. This is the moment when the Sun crosses the celestial equator ( a theoretical line in the sky above the Earth’s equator ) passing from the Northern Hemisphere to the South for those of us living in the North. At the Equinox both hemispheres receive nearly equal amounts of sunlight, then we start to get more darkness and the longer nights of the fall and winter.

The Celtic Harvest festival of Mabon celebrates the Autumn Equinox and features the fruits of the harvest, bonfires and a spiritual stock-taking; an opportunity to bring our inner life back to equilibrium, reflecting the cyclical adjustments of the heavenly bodies. 

Here are a couple of suggestions for bringing balance into our lives as the season changes:

• Remember to pace yourself, don’t push yourself too hard, remember to keep work, play and rest in balanced parts. 
• Eat seasonally, in the Japanese macrobiotic tradition eating seasonal produce is believed to give us what we need nutritionally for the season. Pumpkins and pears and apples come to mind!
• Don’t neglect to enjoy yourself, stroll out in the mild weather and soak up the colors of autumn. Apples are my favorite autumnal treat and Apple Tartine is easy to make and a delicious treat with caramelized apple slices over a light puff pastry base, here's the recipe made over with Synergy CBD tincture for extra goodness.

Autumn Apple Tartine infused with CBD

Ingredients:

• I pack of puff pastry, defrosted
• 2-3 good size apples, peeled, cored and sliced
• 3 oz/ 84 grams butter at room temperature
• 1oz/ 28 grams sugar (preferably brown)
• 30 drops Synergy CBD tincture oil or alcohol based.

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400f, take a shallow pie dish and wipe the bottom with the soft butter, then sprinkle over the sugar, don’t worry about getting to the edges.
2. Arrange the apple slices on top of the butter and sugar, cover the entire area, then using the tincture dropper, add 30 drops of tincture over the apple layer.
3. Roll out the puff pastry, it comes in a square but it's easy to tease it into a circular shape with the back of a spoon.
4. Lay the pastry over the dish and lightly press into place, bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes.
5. Remove the tartine when the pastry is golden brown and crispy, let it rest for 5 minutes.
6. Cover the pie dish with a dinner plate, hold the plate in place securely using dish towels or oven gloves, flip over decisively and your apple tartine will be apple side up on the plate. Serve warm or cold, add cream, ice cream, creme fraiche or greek yogurt or enjoy it alone..

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