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IMMUNE BOOSTING BROTH

  • Jessica Alexander-Fields
  • Mar 11, 2020
  • 4 min read

My daughter and I have been drinking this broth concoction I came up since the media started talking about the coronavirus.

Instead of living in fear we are living in abundance of health!!! Energy negative or positive feeds off of other energy creating more of what you don’t want. I have found in my own life when I focus on something that is negative I’m actually praying for what I don’t want.

Abundance abundance abundance of health!!! We are choosing to focus on visualizing beaming with health at all times....... and that my dear is the power we ALL have!!!

***warning....I have a toddler jumping all over me to post this so I am sure there is many typos! It is truly a miracle this even was posted! Ha!****

RECIPE:

2 large heads garlic - peeled/whole

2 large onions - quartered

8 celery sticks - chopped

6 carrots - chopped

2 cinnamon sticks -whole

4 star anise - whole

2 Tbsp black peppercorns

1/4 cup rosemary

1/4 cup thyme

2 Tbsp oregano

Roast veggies in oven for 30 mns at 400 degrees.

Put veggies in large stockpot and fill with water. Bring to boil, turn down to low and simmer for 24 hours. Sometimes I will simmer for longer just depends how busy I am. I add a few tbsp of pink Himalayan salt at this time....or to taste.

When done let it cool for a few hours. Strain the broth to separate the veggies out. You can always eat the veggies if you like but I like my broth without them.

Once cooled off I fill two large mason jars and store broth in fridge since it will last up to a week. The remaining broth I put into ice cube trays and freeze. When frozen I take them out and put into freezer storage bags. This way daily I take around 6 or 8 cubes out and heat them up on stove so my daughter and I can drink daily.

BENEFITS:

CELERY: Antioxidants in celery help neutralize free radicals and prevent them from causing damage that may otherwise lead to disease development. A stick of celery also provides small amounts of vitamin K, folate, vitamin A, potassium, and vitamin C.

CARROTS: Carrots are a particularly good source of beta carotene, fiber, vitamin K1, potassium, and antioxidants. They also have a number of health benefits. They're a weight-loss-friendly food and have been linked to lower cholesterol levels and improved eye health.

ONION: Contain antioxidants and compounds that fight inflammation, decrease triglycerides and reduce cholesterol levels — all of which may lower heart disease risk. Their potent anti-inflammatory properties may also help reduce high blood pressure and protect against blood clots.

GARLIC: Acts as a natural antibiotic. Garlic has significant antibacterial properties that help protect against certain infections. This is particularly important for strains resistant to antibiotics, including MRSA. Garlic’s antimicrobial and antibiotic properties are able to stop the growth of unwanted organisms. Significant evidence suggests that garlic can play a role in the prevention of cancer and the slowing of its progression. “Garlic’s rich phytochemical content delivers its potential cholesterol-lowering and cancer-fighting characteristics,” says Bakko. Phytochemicals are chemical compounds found in plants that protect cells from damage that lead to cancer.

STAR ANISE: The oil produced from star anise contains thymol, terpineol and anethole, which is used for treating cough and flu. Anise also helps improve digestion, alleviate cramps and reduce nausea. Consuming star anise tea after meals helps treat digestive ailments such as bloating, gas, indigestion and constipation.

CINNAMON: Cinnamon's antioxidant properties are what makes it especially beneficial to include in your diet. As little as half a teaspoon of cinnamon daily can have positive effects on blood sugar levels, digestion, immunity and more. However, stronger doses are also extremely beneficial for improving heart disease risk and cutting your risk of diabetes, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

BLACK PEPPER: Great source of magnesium, vitamin K, iron, and fiber. It also contains the essential oil piperine, which, when used in aromatherapy, helps ease aching muscles, digestive issues, and even inflammatory arthritis. Black pepper also possesses antibacterial, antioxidant, immune-boosting, and fever-reducing properties.

ROSEMARY: Rosemary is used for digestion problems, including heartburn, intestinal gas (flatulence), and loss of appetite. It is also used for liver and gallbladder complaints, gout, cough, headache, high blood pressure, low blood pressure, stress, depression, improving memory in healthy adults, reducing age-related memory loss, improving energy and mental tiredness, opioid withdrawal symptoms, sunburn protection, and diabetic kidney disease.

THYME: Packed with vitamin C and is also a good source of vitamin A. If you feel a cold coming on, thyme can help get you back in good health. Another health benefit of thyme: It's a good source of copper, fiber, iron, and manganese.

OREGANO: It's loaded with antioxidants that help prevent cell damage, and it's an excellent source of fiber, vitamin K, manganese, iron, vitamin E, tryptophan and calcium. You go, oregano!

My daughter has been raised on eating fruit mainly for snacks. I find myself very frustrated most of the time watching parents give young kids sugar all day.....watching kids have melt down over melt down......It breaks my heart. I believe we teach our kids what to eat.... and yes I am sure when she is older she will have sugar at some point...but at least I have the control at this point of what goes into her body so she hasn't had any sugar as of now. She has never been so the proof is in the pudding!!!

Speaking of melt downs we were at Trader Joe's last week and Cora was chomping on her apple we checked out and were about the walk out the door and the checker tracked me down because she forgot to charge me for Cora's apple. I was extremely annoyed since there kids free bin is filled with sugary snacks....shame on you Trader Joe's you promote health yet deliver crap. Sorry just my opinion....I want to live in a culture that actually cares about our kids health with actions. Its not about the money for me its the point that we are telling kids to eat sugary crap that only weakens the immune system....ok rant over!

***If you would like to convert this into a bone broth recipe very easy to do. Follow instructions the same. Roast bones on 450 degrees for 45mns and add to the broth. Best results simmer on low for 48 hours or longer. ***

 
 
 

Comments


Am I still the sick girl since I have been all my life?

Or am a Phoenix rising from the ashes of of hellish torture?

Fortunately I am choosing the Phoenix.....I always wanted to fly.....so here goes.

Age 33 was lovely......divorced, bankrupt and losing both my homes, while I worked my ass off. None of this was due to be being lazy. I worked 5 jobs to try to get our mortgages paid through the recession. Basically I allowed men to live off of me during those years for money. I chose to take it so I knew what I was doing. Somehow I thought they would return the love. I was buying LOVE.

 

I bought over $100,000 worth of love from a man and ended up with nothing. No voice, no power, no money, no kids, no husband, no dreams. Too many dreams had left....I was a shell of woman with only despair and everyone looking at me like I am an idiot since I bailed him out of all his debt while I worked for it.​

Realizing at age 33 my soul was crushed in ways I couldn't even imagine. My dreams ran out and no way to take care of myself since my health problems were escalating and the economy was horrible at the time. No apology, no love....just despair and health issues spiraling out of control.

34- Met the love of my life! But before I knew it I was ripping him to shreds in my head on our first date. Like every woman does if the guy is too nice. Most women I know anyway.

A loud voice screamed in my head at the dinner table "Just shut the hell up and enjoy your dinner! He just drove your butt all the way up to Seattle to your favorite restaurant....just enjoy the company and be polite."

At that point I submitted and said ok I will just ditch him after dinner, but have fun in meantime.

Once he kissed me it was all over......I love this man so much my heart aches all the time with love for him. This is the true love I had always been searching for. Seeing him as a Father to his boys made me fall even more in love with him.

This man has truly helped me find the way to me. The real Jessica without sickness. The girl always hiding her true self only showing what she thought others wanted to see to make them happy. Never realizing in the end she was always left unhappy and none came to rescue her like she did for so many others.

So then I turned 38 and spent well over $100,000 to get pregnant or adopt. It was a shit show how that all went down. Anyone who knows me knows this was impossible. Hardly able to keep my body up at this point as the pain was increasing big time daily. I was beyond desperate but just kept doing what I always do...acted my way into saying I am fine. I would sob through the day and night silently from pain.....never ending physical pain. I would beg God to help me. My pain grew so intense I would have no other choice than to sit there for hours paralyzed by pain.

I will never forget the news of being diagnosed with Lyme Disease. Hit me so hard....silently plotting my suicide. That's what my Dad did so may as well follow....his chronic pain ate him alive. He was in so much physical pain he couldn’t function.

But once my doctor calmed me down I felt better thinking well at least I have insurance to cover it. I finally after 38 years of pain know WHY!

Ya no such luck. Insurance doesn't cover that disease and don't forget this is the disease that makes you look crazy and people will accuse you of faking it. Awesome......now what?!

And.....that's when I took matters into my own hands.

I was so far down the hole of despair at that point all I could see was black. Black sticky tar.....dragging my body through it. Screaming at me to keep moving because if I stop moving I won't be able to get back up.

I knew suicide was not the answer. My Mom already lived through my Dad's suicide....can't do that to her.

Walking up all night never having sleep taught me just how much I needed to love myself. I sobbed for hours and days and days sobbing out all the trauma to let this shit go once and for all. I had no clue how much my body held onto trauma.

All my organs had shut down and i dropped to 98 pounds. All the doctors told me to make sure and eat even when it was coming out the same way it went in. Didn't matter what I ate it I was unable to digest anything. At this point i had none who could help me....but me.

I chose LIFE

I chose LIGHT

I chose to rise like the PHOENIX

I slowly started to see myself for who I really was.....a scared girl too afraid to show herself. Not the bitch I made myself out to be.

This blog is about my path and the many crazy ways I learned to heal when I took matter into my own hands to become my own Doctor.

Who Am I?

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