Date:   2/27/2010 10:18:42 PM ( 14 y ago)
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I'm enthused about this stuff:)

highly nutritious as you know. I'm just experimenting with it now:. It's really amazing stuff, quadrupled in size and VERY mucilaginous. Of course I did not soak out the salt, so the stuff I'm experimenting with now is useless except for the fact that I'm learning it's properties.

I threw some of the moss/water goo into the blender and pulverized the hell out of it, now it's setting up just like jell-o. Apparently it's quite flavorless and I must say it is, just a faint seaweed taste(and mine is of course way to salty). And it looks like with proper soaking it will become quite colorless as well!

And it's VERY soothing on the skin!

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/yhst-96025587295787/soakingirishmoss.pdf


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http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/kings/chondrus.html


Chemical Composition.—Irish moss contains oxalate of calcium, compounds of sulphur, iodine, chlorine, bromine, potassium, magnesium, and sodium, and a large portion (as high as 80 per cent), of pectin matter. Flückiger, however, failed to find sulphur in the mucilage. Though starch is not present, Flückiger has shown that if thin pieces of the moss be treated for one day with solution of caustic potash in alcohol, the cell-contents (not cell-walls), react with a dark-blue coloration with the Iodide of potassium Iodine solution (Pharmacographia). Pereira considered the pectin to be a peculiar modification of mucilage, and has called it carrageenin. Carrageenin may be known from gum by its watery solution not affording a precipitate on the addition of alcohol; from starch by its not assuming a blue color with tincture of iodine; from animal jelly, by tannin causing no precipitate; and from pectin by acetate of lead not throwing down anything, though mucic acid is formed by the action of nitric acid.

Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage.—A decoction of Irish moss, with water or milk, is very nutritious, and may be used as a demulcent in chronic affections of the air passages, chronic diarrhoea and dysentery, scrofula, rickets, enlarged mesenteric glands, irritation of the bladder and kidneys, etc. As a culinary article it may be employed in the preparation of jellies, white soup, blanc mange, etc. The decoction is prepared as follows: Macerate 1/2 ounce of carrageen in cold or warm water, during 10 minutes; then boil in 3 pints of water, or milk if stronger nourishment is desired, for a quarter of an hour. Strain through linen. Sugar, lemon-juice, tincture of orange-peel, essence of lemon, or other aromatics, as cinnamon or nutmeg, may be employed as flavoring ingredients.

~There's a ton of recipes online as well~

Now- seriously, what to eat. Lots of fresh fruits and vegetables- high water content foods. Lean protein to stave off hunger. That's what works for me anyway...staying away from grains, sugar...eating often, small meals.




 

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