Winter Wellness Kit

[suzanne sanders]

Mountain Mama Wellness: 

Winter Wellness Kit

WARMING YOU FROM THE INSIDE OUT

This Winter Wellness Kit Will Warm You, Nourish You, Boost You, and Moisturize You! 

Winter Tonic – 8 ounces -

$20.00

New Moon Chai Spice Immune Booster Cordial - 8 ounces -

$20.00

Winter Revitalizer Chai – Relaxing, Warming and Rejuvenating – 3 ounces

$9.00

Fennel Citrus Bitters – ½ ounce

$6.50

Lion Heart Elixir – 1 ounce

$12.50

Colder Weather Protection Cream – 2 Ounce Glass Jar

$15.00

Autumn Equinox Elderberry Syrup – 8 ounces

$18.50

Chilax Mushroom Cocoa – 4 ounces

$16.00

Winter Wellness Kit Cost $117.50

Some great words to use and apply as we transition into winter. 

Here are the recipes and ingredients: 

Winter Tonic
½ cup fresh horseradish peeled and grated
1 head of garlic, all cloves peeled and chopped
½ cup fresh chopped parsley
2 cups peeled and grated beets(chopped is OK)
¼ cup fresh ginger root grated or 1/8 cup dried ginger root
½ teaspoon powdered all spice or mace 0r 1 chopped red cayenne pepper

Apple Cider Vinegar

Infused ginger honey

Directions: Place all the ingredients in the jar, pour apple cider vinegar to the top.   Cover, shake, label and let sit for 4 weeks.  Give it some love daily, with a gentle shake.  

Strain.  Add ginger infused honey to taste.  

Suggestion:  If you have about 3 cups infused vinegar, try adding about 1/4 cup infused honey.  

New Moon Chai Spice Immune Boosting Cordial
Before making the syrup for the cordial, you need to infuse the brandy and the honey for this recipe first.
Infusing the brandy takes four weeks
The honey takes two weeks
Cardamom Spiced Peach Brandy:
1 64 ounce jar- clean and dry (half gallon)
3 cups chopped organic peaches
1/8 cup cardamom seed
1 teaspoon all spice powder
1 to 2 vanilla bean pods sliced and chopped
1/8 cup dried rose hips
1/8 cup dried roses
4 cups of brandy

Fill the jar with fruit, herbs and spices
Pour brandy over the ingredients
Make sure the fruit and herbs stay covered with the alcohol. Occasionally check to see if you need to add more.
Label and date
Store in dark place and shake once a day
After 2 to 4 weeks Strain

Chai Spiced Honey
2 cups real honey
½ teaspoon all spice powder
1 ½ cardamom powder
1 teaspoon clove powder
1 teaspoon ginger powder
1 teaspoon white (or black) pepper
3 tablespoons sweet cinnamon powder
Put honey in sterilized jar
Put the jar into a double boiler over low low heat
Gently heat until it is warm (do not boil or overheat)
Take out jar out of double boiler
While the honey is warm add all the powdered herbs – mix well
Put the lid on
Cool
Allow to sit for two weeks before using
Once a day turn the jar upside down and let the ingredients move then turn it right-side up

HERBAL DECOCTION FOR -New Moon Chai Spiced Immune Boosting Syrup
7 cups of filtered or spring water
¼ cup eleuthero root
¼ cup dried astragalus root
¼ cup ashwagandha root
¼ cups rose hips
½ cup hawthorn berries
¼ cup Schisandra berry
7 reishi slices
¼ cup dried ginger or ½ cup fresh grated ginger
1 teaspoon cardamom seeds
1 teaspoon fennel seed
2 teaspoons rainbow peppercorns
1 teaspoon all spice powder
½ tablespoon clove buds
2 star anise – break into pieces
1 tablespoon sweet cinnamon powder
Follow directions for making a syrup to sweeten use the infused honey (recipe above)
To sweeten syrup:
1 part herbal decoction
1 part herbal infused honey
To make the Cordial:
1 part syrup
1 part infused brandy
Winter Revitalizer Chai – Relaxing, Warming and Rejuvenating
2 ½ cups rooibos tea
1 cup holy basil
3 cups dried ginger
½ cup cardamom seed
1 ½ cups cinnamon chips
¼ cup all spice berries
1 teaspoon all spice powder
½ cup orange peel
¼ cup nutmeg powder
½ cup rose petals
2 4 ounces packages of organic crystalized ginger – chop into small pieces

Lion Heart Elixir
Vodka, orange flower honey, Hawthorn berries, leaf and flower, Motherwort, Cardamom, Rose, honeysuckle flower essence and Love

Citrus Fennel Bitters
1 quart jar
1 orange chopped
½ cup artichoke leaf
½ cup hawthorn berries
¼ cup dried orange peel
¼ cup hibiscus flowers
1 tablespoon fennel seeds
4 star anise crushed
1/8 to ¼ cup honey or maple syrup

Colder Weather Protection Cream – 2 ounce Jar
In the colder months, your skin as a tendency to become dry, use this cream all over your body, especially on the areas that need extra attention. Also great for rough spots, like feet, knees, elbows, knees, and shins. Great to use after a bath. For an all over body treatment, you will kneed a old pair of pajamas.
First, take a relaxing bath. This cream is a heavy cream so start with a little at a time.
After bath, rub cream all over your body. Then put on your old PJ’s and head for the bed for a good night’s sleep. In the morning, your skin will feel wonderfully moisturized.
3 tablespoon coco butter
6 tablespoons bees wax
3/4 cup coconut oil, extra virgin unrefined
1 1/2 cup avocado oil (or almond, apricot kernel or jojoba)
3 tablespoon castor oil

40 Cardamom
40 Sweet orange
14 Cinnamon
8 Nutmeg
Makes approximately 1 cup
Recommended for all skin types, by don’t use on exceptionally oily or blemished areas.
You can use it daily or as desired.
In a double boiler, warm all the oils and beeswax until they are all melted.
Remove from heat, cool for about 10 minutes. Then gently whisk for about 1 minute.
Allow to cool a bit more and whist again, this time add the essential oils.
You want it to look like whipped butter.
When adding the essential oils, stirring constantly
Pour in containers and put lids on immediately. Let sit overnight
Because this product has coconut oil in it, it will maintain a softer consistency at 76 degrees. If the temperature is below 76 degrees it will become firmer.

Autumn Equinox Elderberry Syrup
1 cup fresh elderberries or ½ cup dried
1 cup fresh hawthorn berries or ½ cup dried
½ cup dried rose hips
½ cup dried Schisandra berry
½ cup dried goji berry (lycii berry)
¼ cup dried licorice root
1 teaspoon all spice
½ cup sweet cinnamon chips
½ tablespoon clove buds
14 cups filtered or spring water
Put all the above ingredients in a big pot – no aluminum or copper pots or Teflon
Bring to boil – Turn down – simmer on low- stir frequently-
Cook until ½ of the liquid is left
Turn off stove, cover and leave overnight
Next day – bring back to a boil and add
1 cup fresh grated ginger
Turn off and steep for 30 minutes
It is ready to strain
After you have strained your herbal tea you should have about 7 to 8 cups
Add
1 to 2 cups of honey – optional would be add infused honey of choice
Make sure honey is all mixed in
Cool completely and add:
About 1 ½ cups to 2 cups of Brandy – optional elderberry, blackberry, strawberry or hawthorn brandy
Label and store in refrigerator
Good for 6 months maybe more.

Elderberries are super great for the respiratory system.  Just check out their branches below, they look like the bronchial parts of the lung. 

Chilax Mushroom Cocoa
1 ½ pounds of great quality organic cocoa
4 ounces ashwagandha powder
2 ounces cinnamon powder
2 ounces nutmeg powder
3 ounces lions mane mushroom powder