Nurturing your breasts with nature's best

Since a few people have followed up on the Face to Grace breast balm recipe posted on my teacher’s blog, http://bhuvaneswaridevi.blogspot.com/2011/05/basic-breast-balm-recipe.html, I decided to include an enhanced recipe here and talk about the benefits of some of its ingredients. Future recipes will now on appear in the blog for all to enjoy.

For Beautiful and Healthy Breasts
The breasts have sensitive skin,
 muscles, glands, including lymph nodes, and milk ducts. The recipe below is quite nourishing and will provide some sun protection. And since the skin eats what we provide it through the pores and allow the nutriments to be transported directly through the blood, here are wonderful ingredients that support breast and overall health.

Comfrey

The comfrey plant, also known as knitbone, is used to promote collagen production, which is useful to close wounds, including bone fractures, speed up healing and prevent scarring. It and gives elasticity to the skin. Massaging with a maceration with comfrey is useful by itself to prevent stretch marks on the breasts, thighs and wombs of pregnant women.

Fennel

Fennel seed, a cooling and sweet spice considered as one of the most satvic (pure), is beneficial for digestion. In this recipe, however, it is used to reduce inflammation and promote milk production in nursing mothers. The phyto-chemicals in it are passed to the baby and give a soothing action.

Wild yam

As mentioned in my earlier blog on Peru and Cartagena, wild yam is a medicinal herb that balances both progesterone and estrogen, therefore women's menstrual cycles, and regulates the discomforts associated with PMS and menopause. Research has shown that its active ingredient, diosgenin, is better absorbed by the skin than when you eat it, but it is nevertheless healthy both on your breasts and on your plate.

Licorice Root

Licorice has many properties including the ability to stimulate the immune system and to prevent cancer. It assists the body in creating ojas (the most subtle, refined level of  creation, which allows consciousness to flow in the physiology).

Shatavari

Shatavari is known as a female rejuvenative. It is useful for infertility; decreased libido; risk of miscarriage; menopause; and has the ability to balance pH in the cervical area, soothing irritated mucus membranes on the vaginal wall.

Ashwagandha

Aswangandha, sometimes called Indian ginseng, is a tonic that improves stamina. It moderates stress by boosting neurotransmitters that sooth the pain; reduces anxiety and irritability; and nourishes the adrenal glands and the thyroid.

Vitamine E

This vitamine is essential for healthy skin. It also protects against cancers of the breast, lungs, colon and oesophagus; assists in immune function; and decreases the incidence and severity of cataracts as well as the progression of dementia in Alzheimers patients.

Zinc:

Zinc is an important anti-oxidant mineral that plays a vital role in the regulation of cells production in the immune system. It activates white blood cells to fight infections; helps the pancreas make insulin and balance sugar levels; is essential for memory and night vision; regulates testosterone and collagen synthesis; plays a leading role in appetite control; is vital in building of major constituents of the cell during pregnancy; is essential for smell and taste; and protects against hair and bone loss.

RECIPE

Ingredients:

1/2 cup coconut oil

¼ cup ghee (clarified butter)
¼ cup maceration of dried comfrey leaves, fennel seeds, licorice root (a maceration is made of plants immersed in olive oil for 6 to 8 weeks)

½ oz beeswax

1 Tbsp of wild yam jelly

½ tsp zinc cream (e.g. Zincofax)
1/3 cup aloe vera gel

2/3 cup fennel hydrolate OR very strong tea of shatavari and ashwagandha (simmer; boiling would kill the nutriments)

20 drops total of tangerine and rose geranium essential oil (DO NOT use if you are pregnant or nursing)

10 drops of jojoba or ¼ tsp or vitamine E

Method:

1. Melt the wax in the oils

2. Blend aloe vera and herbal tea

3. Mix the aloe and tea in the oils, not vice-versa

4. Add the jojoba or vitamine E, essential oils and yam jelly

5. Pour in dark glass jars and label.

Will give 5 to 6 jars of 100mg

Apply once a day. Keep other jars in the fridge until you use them or give away as presents.

Note: Iodine is a good supplement to help reduce the incidence of breast cysts.

BEAUTY TIPS:

1. In Essential Ayurveda, author Shubhra Krishan wrote that one of the biggest reasons people fail to look beautiful is that they don’t feel beautiful. She says that Ayurveda believes that this negative self-perception (whatever the source) is a mistake of the intellect.

Because the body hears everything you think, the damage from this condition eats into your very consciousness and shows up on your face.”

To counteract any damaging self-perception, my teacher, Bhuvaneswari recommends watching our thoughts and just saying: Not guilty Your Honour. You’ll be amazed by how powerful this simple exercise of self-awareness rekindles self-love and kindness.

2. Osho, a spiritual teacher also recommended to meditate on one's breast. See what he had to say on http://meditation.blog.osho.com/2012/05/17/meditation-of-the-week-concentrate-on-the-breasts. Source: Osho, The Book of Secrets, Talk no. 67.