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Super Seaweeds

Of all the foods available on this planet, none can compare in the nutrient value of seaweeds. For centuries, native cultures have used seaweeds in their diets. Modern western cultures have often overlooked seaweeds as a primary source in their diets.

  In a time when our foods progressively have decreased in nutritional values due to poor farming techniques, soil deterioration, hybridization of our plants, refining of our foods, genetically altering, etc, etc, etc…. It has never  been more important in history than it is now to consider adding them into your diets.

Due to the Gelatinous nature of the saccharides available in seaweeds, they provide soothing lubrication for the bowels and help to prevent constipation.

 Various types of seaweeds provide varying levels of specific minerals and nutritional factors which gives seaweeds great potentials in helping the body in many health related problems.

 For thousands of years, seaweeds have been used to prolong life, prevent disease, and preserve beauty.

In general, seaweeds are thermally cooling for the body, provide salty flavors, soften hardened areas and masses in the body, reduce high blood pressure, cleanse and detoxify, lubricate the intestines, improve water metabolism and cleanser for the lymphatic balance system, breaks up liver stagnation, alkalize the blood, lower bad cholesterol, treat thyroid disorders, rejuvenate the lungs, transform thick phlegm into fluid, moisten dryness in the body, and best food in the planet to remove radiation.

 The red seaweeds have the highest antiviral compounds known on the planet.  The red marine algae commonly known as the red sea cabbage can be found in the summer months along the southwest Florida coastline. Its value as an antiviral compound is unsurpassed, but not widely known or talked about in the medical community.

 Seaweeds are effective in treating swellings, nodules, lumps, goiter, swollen lymph glands, edema, chronic cough with yellow or green phlegm, all skin disorders with redness and tumors.

Chinese medical text claims “there is no swelling that is not relieved by seaweeds”.

The main reason for seaweeds healing and fluid balancing effects is their complexity and balance of minerals. Of over the 88 known mineral elements contained in our blood, seaweeds have every one of them. The minerals available in seaweed are readily available and useable to the human body. Due to the fact the minerals are bound with a carbon atom which is with all living plants. This effect allows for efficient cellular mineral absorption by the human body. The high level of minerals in seaweed and the ease of mineral absorption by the human body, makes even small amounts as little as ¼ - ½ teaspoon a day effective.

 To receive the highest amounts of mineral values from seaweeds they should be eaten uncooked, either soaked or dried. Some of the finite trace elements like fluorine, which strengthen the bones, teeth, and body defense mechanisms, are lost within only a few minutes of cooking seaweeds.  If using seaweeds in soups or broths, be sure to drink the liquid portion that the seaweed was made in to receive its complexity of minerals.

One of the seaweeds beneficial attributes is that they do not concentrate pollutants and toxic heavy metals like other marine wild life. It is pleasing to know seaweeds simply do not absorb  and concentrate toxins. In fact seaweeds detoxify  and transform toxic heavy metals by converting them into to harmless salts which the human body can excrete through the intestines. Seaweeds are also highly alkaline forming for the body and helps to reduce internal acids accumulated in the body. 

 

The many types and uses of seaweeds

Ÿ  AGA-AGAR: A product made from various species of agarophytes seaweeds where the gelatin saccharides are freeze dried.

Ÿ  Thermally cooling to the body

Ÿ  Used for weight loss/appetite reduction

Ÿ  Promote digestion

Ÿ  Reduces inflammation

Ÿ  Helps the heart, lungs, and liver

Ÿ  High in calcium & iron

Ÿ  Contains 0 calories

Ÿ  Makes natural thickener for foods like jams, gravies, syrups, etc. but will not set in foods with high oxalic acid like chocolate and rubard spinach

 

Ÿ  Purple Dulse:

Ÿ  Cooling thermal effect

Ÿ  High in iodine

Ÿ  High in manganese which activates enzyme activity

Ÿ  Prevents scurvy

Ÿ  Induces sweating

Ÿ  Powerful antiviral/ good remedy for herpes

Ÿ  Used in soups, salads, toast inn oven or on an open flame and eat as dried chips, or good replacement in a “BLT” sandwich (instead of bacon)

Ÿ  Sauté in oil and eat as condiment

Ÿ  Use as thickener in gravies and sauces

 

Ÿ  Hijiki:

Ÿ  Cooling thermal nature

Ÿ  Diuretic

Ÿ  Treats phlegm (green or yellow) from the lungs

Ÿ  Cleanses the body

Ÿ  Softens hardened tissue & masses

Ÿ  Helps thyroid

Ÿ  Moistens dryness

Ÿ  High in calcium, iron, iodine

Ÿ  High in vitamin B2 and niacin

Ÿ  Normalizes blood sugar

Ÿ  Soothes nerves

Ÿ  Supports hormone functions

Ÿ  Aids in weight loss

Ÿ  Good for bones and teeth

 

Ÿ  Arame:

Ÿ  Cooling nature

Ÿ  Helps bones and teeth

Ÿ  Softens hardened tissue & masses

Ÿ  Helps thyroid

Ÿ  Moistens dryness

Ÿ  Traditionally used to treat feminine disorders

Ÿ  Lowers high blood pressure

Ÿ  Used to treat mouth disorders

Ÿ  Prevents hair loss

Ÿ  Promotes “glossy” hair appearance

Ÿ  One of the richest sources of iodine

Ÿ  Highly concentrated iron and calcium

 

Ÿ  Kombu/Kelp:

Ÿ  Cooling nature

Ÿ  Softens hardened tissue & masses

Ÿ  Balances fluids

Ÿ  Benefits kidneys

Ÿ  Diuretic

Ÿ  Anti-coagulant

Ÿ  Natural fungicide

Ÿ  Balances hormones

Ÿ  Helps the thyroid

Ÿ  Protects from radiation

Ÿ  Considered to be the most mineralized food

Ÿ  Helps arthritis

Ÿ  Lowers blood pressure

Ÿ  Helps prostate

Ÿ  Helps ovarian problems

Ÿ  Helps reduce swollen painful testes

Ÿ  Reduces lymphatic swelling

Ÿ  Reduces rheumatic fever damage

Ÿ  Reduces heart pains

Ÿ  Aids in treating male sterility

Ÿ  Reduces blood clots

Ÿ  Helps difficulty in swallowing

Ÿ  Helps reduce anemia

Ÿ  Reduces tumors and growths

Ÿ  Soothes the lungs and throat

Ÿ  Relieves coughing and asthma

Ÿ  * Eradicates fungal and Candida yeast overgrowth

Ÿ  Aids in wound repair

Ÿ  Aids in weight loss

Ÿ  Guards the heart at high altitudes

Ÿ  Used in facial cosmetics

Ÿ  Added to cook beans to balance proteins and oils in them to make them more digestible

Ÿ  *Use sparingly during pregnancy

 

 

Ÿ  Nori:

Ÿ  Cooling Nature

Ÿ  Diuretic

Ÿ  Softens harden nodules

Ÿ  Treats phlegm (green or yellow) in lungs

Ÿ  Highest protein content (78%) of seaweeds

Ÿ  Most easily digested of seaweeds

Ÿ  High vitamin A

Ÿ  High vitamin B and niacin

Ÿ  Decrease cholesterol

Ÿ  Treats painful and difficult urination

Ÿ  Treats goiter

Ÿ  Treats edema

Ÿ  Lowers high blood pressure

Ÿ  Treats fatty cysts

Ÿ  Treats warts

Ÿ  Aids digestion

Ÿ  Can be used in soups, stews, rolled into sushi rolls, crumbled onto salads, cut into pieces as a condiment

 

Ÿ  Walcame:

Ÿ  Cooling Nature

Ÿ  Diuretic

Ÿ  Moistens dryness

Ÿ  Softens harden tissue and masses

Ÿ  Resolves phlegm

Ÿ  Treats growth and tumors

Ÿ  One of the seaweeds highest in calcium (Hijiki is first)

Ÿ  Rich in niacin and thiamine

Ÿ  Promotes healthy hair and skin

Ÿ  Softens beans when cooked with it

 

Ÿ  Irish Moss:

Ÿ  Cooling Nature

Ÿ  Moistens the lungs

Ÿ  Relieves phlegm

Ÿ  Contains carrageenan  which treats peptic ulcers and duodenal ulcers

Ÿ  Inhibits aleriusclerosis

Ÿ  Reduces cholesterol

Ÿ  Mild anticoagulant

Ÿ  Contains calcium chloride, which aids as a heart tonic

Ÿ  Glandular balancer

Ÿ  Treats chronic lung diseases

Ÿ  Treats dysentery

Ÿ  Treats diarrhea

Ÿ  Treats repertory diseases

Ÿ  Treats disorders of the kidney

 

 

Ÿ  Curiscan:

Ÿ  Used as a tea, capsules or powder

Ÿ  Discharges worms, pinworms, roundworms from the body

Ÿ  Laxative

Ÿ  Treats fibroid tumors