Medical astrology is one of my favorite uses of astrology. So often a person can be greatly helped by some simple changes in their diet. Most health troubles can be improved by a change in dietary habits. Habits, especially bad dietary habbits, unfortunately are difficult to change, so here are some healthy recipes to help the process. Along with each recipe I will mention under what planetary blemishes a particular food should be eaten with reserve or which planetary blemishes indicate that a particular food is very necessary.

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Ice Cream & Milkshakes

    Ice cream is one of everyone's favorite foods, unfortunately, commercial ice-cream has several health hazards: First and formost, it usually contains way too much sugar, twice as much as is really necessary, but sugar is cheap, much cheap than other ice cream ingredients and so used excessively. It contains homogenized milk, which destroys the circulatory system by radically increasing bad cholesterol levels. Finally, it is cold, cold food in abundance is not a good thing. With natural ice-cream we can get rid of at least two of the problems of ice-cream, and we can even get around the cold problem.

    To make natural homemade ice cream, which is better than anything else you will find is very simple, you just need an ice cream maker. Cuisinart makes a very affordable ice-cream maker that is easy to use and does not require salt of ice. It has a freezer bowl that you freeze and then pop in the machine to make ice cream in about 25 minutes. The entry level Cuisinart ice cream maker only costs $60 new, or you can get it on ebay for $10-20. To make ice cream combine:

1/2 cup water

1/2 cup butter milk

1/2 cup raw honey (do not use cooked honey, it is slightly toxic and has no living enzymes, raw honey is health producing and houses Soma)

2 cups fresh fruit (strawberries, peaches, cherries, etc) or vanilla extract, almond extract, cinnamon or 1 cup fresh mint, etc. Basically, some flavor.

1 cup cream

Blend everything but the cream, then gently blend the cream in and throw it in your ice cream maker.

Buttermilk is the key to tasty ice cream. It gives it a smooth texture. Milk, which is normally used, dilutes the taste of ice cream and so requires more sweeteners, and also makes the ice cream more icy. I use homemade buttermilk because commercial buttermilk is homogenized, which damages your arteries (see recipe below). Commercial buttermilk also contains salt, which makes your ice cream not freeze as well in the ice cream maker, so you will have soft ice cream that is not as creamy and gooey and fun.

The one remaining problem with good  homemade ice cream is that it is still cold, so it should be eaten in restraint by those suffering cold disorders such as constipation, weak lungs, asthma or respiratory allergies, or those who have Saturn in bad dignity in the Rasi or Trimsamsa chart. You can get around the cold problem in a few ways: Eat it early in the day rather than in the evening. Exercise after eating ice cream. Don't put it in the ice cream machine, just blend the above ingredients for a great not ice cold milk shake. Put cinnamon in or on your ice cream, it makes any flavor better and warms things up. (Cinnamon is one of the best foods we can eat on a regular basis to help with cold problems and is a very good astringent herb when Saturn is disease causing.) We always add cinnamon to our ice cream in the winters.

Benefits: Fulfills that dangerous sweet craving which can cause you to pig out on junk food when you are not vigilant or visiting a friend or walking by the donut section in the grocery store. (Promise your self that you will make yourself a batch of ice cream when you get home and do not get the cake at the restaurant.) Fattens you up if you are exercising a lot - Cream is one of the best foods for endurance athletes, so improve your endurance with lots of ice cream. (When I was training in Texas as a teenager, we decided we would eat healthier by stopping our daily supper huge milk shake. Our endurance went way down and on the next long ride we hardly made it home.) When made with buttermilk, the bacteria culture in the buttermilk helps to restore the bacteria in your intestine. The greatest benefits of healthy ice cream is that it makes your kids very happy without turning them into sugared-out monsters the next day.

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Buttermilk

Buttermilk is very healthy because it contains bacteria that are necessary for health. It is a great food for constipation and other large intestine ailments, especially when drunk at room temperature and not cold. Good food when Saturn is causing the disease by being in a bad dignity. It is much like yogurt in its health promoting effects, but easier to make. Taste great in smoothies as well. Does not cause problems with most lactose intolerant people, so a good form of dairy. Buttermilk is worth making because commercial buttermilk is homogenized which causes the fat particles to be directly absorbed into the blood stream and so destroys the health of the arteries and blood and increases cholesterol levels.

To make:

Mix 25% buttermilk with 75% unhomogenized whole milk. Put covered in a warm place, around 80 % for 16-24 hours. An oven with the oven light on is usually a good place to put it. Homemade buttermilk will be more chunky than commercial buttermilk because it is not homogenized. Also, it does not have salt. You can salt it if you want, though it really does not need it, but don't salt it if you are going to make ice cream with it.

Save 25% of your buttermilk to make the next batch.

Don't worry about the fat if you are on a diet to loose weight. Sugar makes us fat and bad bacteria in the intestines cause us to loose the slender waist or youth - homemade buttermilk will help in both of those.

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Soup Stock

Save your juicing pulp, put in a pot covered with water, bring to a boil and then simmer for an hour or so. Makes great stock and saves money on all the pulp you would be throwing away. Stock is rich in organic minerals. In the rejuvenation clinics in cold northern Europe ill people fast on such freshly made soup stock. Recommend you use a maximum of 1/3 carrot and beat pulp otherwise the stock gets a bit too sweet. Celery, lettuce, cabbage, turnip, radish pulp and all other greens all make great stock.

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Watermelon Juice

Before cutting your watermelon, scrub the outside of it. Then save your peel and juice it. Makes a great and refreshing juice that is very cleansing and refreshing to the kidneys and helps you get about 40% more out of your watermelon budget. If you want the juice to be a bit sweeter and tastier leave some of the red part on the rind when you juice it or add an apple.

Combat Sugar Craving Candy

Sugar cravings are the main thing that destroys a healthy diet for must of us. If you suffer from sugar cravings take some raw almonds, soak them overnight or longer and then pop the brown peel off and eat them. They have a slight natural and healthy sweetness and some property that stops sugar cravings and they taste better than most candy you can get in the US (of course if you are in Germany, the candy is better there...) Soaked almost are much easier to digest and the almond peel is toxic, so the almonds are very healthy this way. While almonds are expensive these days, by the time they are soaked you will pay about 4.00 a pound for your Combat Sugar Craving Candy, which is not a bad price for sweets at all.