Here I am, back with my 2nd post under the real me. Belva (Jane)
must be a difficult name to say because people were always giving
me nick-names. Manzanita, Manzi, BJ, Bea Jay, hey you. I went
along and didn't really care, but I want my real name on my obit.
My father-in-law called me "Velvet" all his life, thinking that was
my name. I didn't mind because it kinda sounded like a stripper
and gave me an edge of the risque burlesque.
Most of you already know the great emphasis I place on food as
being a healer. I've noticed all the vids on YT that sing the praises
of healing almost "everything" with apple cider vinegar and baking
soda.
"Holy Kamoly," I shouted out, "that was my grandfather's drink.'
Every night, as far as I knew, he went out to the kitchen to have his
Brrrusha (roll the R. I don't know the spelling.....it was German).
As soon as I heard him, I'd pad bare-footed, out to the kitchen, in
my nightgown.
Fill a tall glass half-with water. Add about a tb. of A. C Vinegar and
a teeny bit of sugar.
Add a tsp. of B. Soda and stir. He'd stand over the sink because
it would fizz up over the glass and he'd drink fast. The best part, it
would involuntarily bring up one, two or three huge burps. He'd
always make a small one for me too. I can imagine the profile we
must have made against the
dim light of a kerosene lamp. A slightly withered old man and
a toddler standing on a chair, each giving out loud belches, looking
at one another and laughing.
I'll bet you a buck that you can't drink a Brrusha, exactly as I
described, without ending it with burps. Any takers? Don't be
afraid of it as it may do you some good. Grandpa lived to see
100. LOL
lol it must work if he made it to 100. Told you you'd make it to triple digits, in the genes. My gas comes out the other end, a burp would be foreign haha
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DeleteYou made me spray out my morning drink on that "foreign" one.
hahahaha
I remember the brrrusha every so often and begin taking it again. Of course back then, they didn't have to worry about the fluoride, GMO's, chemtrails and allopathic doctors.
Today's the day.....the babies are going outside in the new intermediate
coop.
So good to see you back though you almost sneaked past me with your real name. BTW--I love Velvet for a name.
ReplyDeleteI know baking soda will make one burp so I won't take that bet but I may try his recipe. I've never combined them before.
Patti
DeleteSorry, I didn't mean to be sneaky but just didn't get that first paragraph in on the first post. It feels kinda good to start all over. I didn't know who 90% of the followers were on Duck.
I've never known any real person named Velvet.....have you? I remember the movie, National Velvet and that was a horse, wasn't it or was that Eliz. Taylor?
No takers here, I know well the value of fizz in a drink. I used to make a habit of AC and honey as a hot bedtime tea, but haven't done it for almost a year now. I think it's time I started that again, I've been having too much coffee. I need to get back to the sage tea with breakfast, peppermint tea after dinner and chamomile any time I feel like it.
ReplyDeleteI did not realise you and Manzi were the same person.
River
DeleteI guess it's the alkalizing we want for the body. All my life, and way before we had computers to remind us of healthy things, I would remember grandpa's ACV drink and begin taking it. Then, I never knew why but he always put such great faith in it and I had never seen him sick. I've always believed in the folk medicine because I saw what it did as medicine long
before allopathic was around. (gads, I'm old)
The teas are good too but I really do miss coffee when I smell it. I haven't had coffee for several years (usually off and on...haha) but I was tempted just last week. There is a big coffee grinding house that I often pass by an that coffee aroma almost pulls me right in. lol
Hello, greetings and good wishes.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting memory of your grandfather. Perhaps I should try some baking soda with water. I have read that baking soda is good in many ways. My mother in law used to have this.She had stomach ulcer.
I have a pain in my shoulder and therefore there is delay in writing a new blog post. I hope I will recover next week. I am undergoing Ayurveda treatment.
Best wishes
Joseph, I am sorry to hear of your pain. I've had three shoulder surgeries, and they were all nightmares. If were to guess I would speculate that you might have a torn rotator cuff, and if you don't get it surgically repaired in time, it was completely break apart and the ends will pull away from one another, eventually leaving it beyond repair.
DeleteJoseph,
DeleteI am so sorry. There is nothing that hinders activity like a sore shoulder. It means one has to put so many things aside. I am also a great believer in Ayurveda and my daughter, even more so. She has taught Ianger (sp) yoga for years and uses it along with her teaching.
Folk medicine is my guide and I remember the healings from my childhood.
Thanks you for the comment and may you soon be doing cartweels.
Apple cider vinegar is a storied healer in America too, but there doesn't appear to be anything in it to account for this property. I haven't heard of putting baking soda in it.
ReplyDeleteWhen you start over and leave everything behind, does this mean all the people in your life too?
Snowbrush
DeleteThe baking soda is supposed to alkalize the body. I've seen recent videos of using either apple cider vinegar or baking soda and a few with putting the two together. My grandfather was German and I imagine using the two together must have come down to him from his family. No one was ever sick or went to a doctor. In those days, the doctors were still homeopathic, not allopathic. I also recall that my grandfather would use grains to make poultices. I once got an infection on my foot from scratching an insect bite and an angry red line began going up my leg. I do recall them using hot grain poultices and soaking in epsom salt
water.
As far as leaving people behind, I guess, yes, of course, some get left
by the wayside.
Thank you for visiting. It is my pleasure to meet you.
I'd sure like to give it a try. Did you say 100?
ReplyDeleteBlue
DeleteThey say disease can't live in an alkaline body and the b. soda is supposed to alkalize. To live to 100 seemed to be the norm, back then. Of course the people were not surrounded by chemicals and poisons. I still dig my dandelions but my ding dong neighbors seem to enjoy breathing
the poison spray...... after they've filled the air with chemicals from the laundry dryer sheets.
Chemicals, poison... and there's so much garbage out there called food. It should be forbidden. Supermarkets sell food but I say it's 75% sugar and fat, is what that is.
DeleteWhen i have heartburn i use baking soda and water...after several belches the heartburn is history.
ReplyDeletejoeh
DeleteIt's always amazing that we have most cures to diseases and discomforts of the body, right in our kitchen cupboard. Big Pharma will deny this. The Rockefellers began their fortune by selliing turpentine as medicine to cure
cancer, etc. They quickly turned it into chemo and the drugs when money
entered the picture.
I learned something new. Thank you. I'm always trying to live healthier. I won't lie, the drink kind of freaks me out, but I might just try it.
ReplyDeleteMurees
DeleteThat is mild in the "freaking out department." You'd really be freaked out
with some of the natural products I've taken all my life. Hahaha But they
work. There are many ways to cure disease.
Hahahahaha.... nope I am sure I can't drink your Brrrusha without burping. And... I bet it might make me fart later too.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha
DeleteTruer words I've never heard. Gas is gas. LOL
Look at you. Getting a fresh start. That's cool, but I really liked the name of your old blog, too. (Verrrry unique!)
ReplyDeleteSeems like some of the old remedies still stand out as being the best. Vinegar is one of them. Putting black pepper on a cut is another old one that's making a comeback. (I'll take pepper over iodine any day!)
Susan
DeleteI've never heard of the black pepper on cuts.
Thanks for another new/old health remedy. I'll
try it. I keep an aloe plant in the kitchen and I've
whacked of pieces for burns, until that poor thing
looks weird. (I tend to grab hot iron fry pans)
“I've never heard of the black pepper on cuts.”
DeleteMe either. Susan also referred to iodine, and I’m wondering if it’s even used anymore. I remember merthiolate being the treatment that my mother preferred. It burned, of course, but I had the thought that the pain was caused by the dying bacteria biting me out of meanness, so the worse the pain, the happier I was that the little suckers were dying. Whether I really believed this, I don’t know. I do know that I haven’t used merthiolate for decades, but I still miss it.
Wow! Fresh start? Awesome! And yes, I do take A C V with honey every night...now will add Baking soda and try it.
ReplyDeleteI have Aloe Vera in a pot and use it all the time too. And cinnamon on stem cuts on orchids!
I was going to begin this with Manzi and then stopped. Belva feels strange on my tongue (so to speak). BUT, I think I better get used to it, so here goes... Belva, I had no idea this was you commenting on my blog. You really could've said something. Ha! It's taken me way too long to get here (and I would've done it sooner had I known it was you). Things have been a wee bit crazy in my neck of the woods (but it seems that way most of the time, no???).
ReplyDeleteI loved your last post about miracles and the Godfather's Pizza guy. The only thing that literally keeps me from losing my mind is that knowing that this world is the devil's playground, so that all the bad stuff you and I know goes on here... well, okay. But this place isn't home. God is actually running the show. And true stories like the one told in that movie are the glimpses we get into that truth (the hope we get into that truth) so that we don't allow the crazy here to frazzle us. I don't even know how you've lived with the truths you've lived with without having the better truth to tuck close to you. You're a very strong lady.
Anyway, I'm glad you're back to blogging, and I'll be here no matter what name you're writing under.
Lastly, my father had a low acid stomach and drank apple cider vinegar regularly. My mom can't touch it (because it burns her stomach terribly), but I think many people would benefit from it! Dad never even added the baking soda because he didn't need the base. There's a gal I know from camp who used vinegar and baking soda to wash her hair. You ever try that?
Robin
DeleteYou can still call me Manzi. It's difficult to change names in mid-stream or something like that. Manzanita was my stage name for Flamenco so many of the flamenco people have always called me Manzi and most likely always will. It just makes me feel good when I think of myself in my own name that my Mother gave me. I've always been a nicknamer and always gave nicknames to my kids when they were little. Often we have nicknames that are only known to the family and have meaning somewhere down the line.
Ever since I made the declaration that I would believe in miracles, I've noticed that when I want something, it's right there at my fingertips. hummm? For instance, I had been trying to find an old friend and not one of her 3 emails would work and when that happens to someone my age, we begin to wonder.....lol I rarely go on FB anymore but I did and there was her name..... big and bold.
Long ago, I discovered vinegar as being the very best hair rinse. It really detangles hair and a comb will slide right through. I've also recently been using baking soda for household cleaning. I first tried it on the bath tub and I scrubbed it with one of those nylon round fabric scrubbies. So easy, the tub actually gleamed with very little effort. Now I keep a jar of it in all bath rooms and in the kitchen. Costco sells a huge bag of B. Soda for cheap. Now I'm a fan of it for cleaning, too.
It seems as if most people get low on stomach acid as they age. I'm always trying to boost mine too.
Thanks for the visit....... until the next.
Love to you, Robin
Welcome to real-life! I'm actually glad you went to Belva. Manzanita was clunky to write and "Manzi" just seemed too informal. As one who also works under a pseudonym (albeit one of creation's most carelessly guarded pseudonyms), happy to have you "out of the shadows."
ReplyDeleteAl
Delete"carelessly guarded"....yeah and I love the explanation of how you chose it. Of course I thought of you when the rabble-rousers were trying to do away with the name Lynch.
And then for me, my middle name is Jane, so that is where bj came from and after I realized the connotations of that, I hated that name. I guess I really like my name, although I've only run into 2 others.
"out of the shadows".... is that like being out of the closet? No thanks to that one. Along that line, I read that Caitlin now has regrets. I guess I really feel sorry for him. He was so great back in his Wheaties serial box days. People simply have too much money these days and keep thinking of new ways to spend it. That must cost a ton of money and then to be unhappy and change back again. I'd rather give my money (if I had any, lol) to animal shelters.
I legally changed my last name. My wife took me last name when we were married, but later decided to go back to her “maiden name,” which she did without going through any legal process. When people at the DMV, the SS administration, and so forth told her she had to go through the courts, she informed them that they were wrong, and they believed her.
DeleteWelcome to real-life! I'm actually glad you went to Belva. Manzanita was clunky to write and "Manzi" just seemed too informal. As one who also works under a pseudonym (albeit one of creation's most carelessly guarded pseudonyms), happy to have you "out of the shadows."
ReplyDeleteAl
DeleteOut of the closet finally. lol
The trouble was, I was called by all three names and it got confusing. I bet Al is your name only with bloggers and your friends call you Ken. Not that bloggers aren't your friends too. Ha
Well if it means I can possible live to see 100...I shall give it a shot! :)
ReplyDeleteKeith
DeleteNo guarantees on that one. I think 100 must be luck of
the draw. LOL
Ha ha ..... like that ...... each giving out loud belches, looking
ReplyDeleteat one another and laughing.
Yes one has to have his/her own identity especially when it comes to names.
Haddock
DeleteYes, how uncouth!
But fun.
Thanks for dropping by.
Its almost a month .... time for your next post :-)
ReplyDeleteHow fun! My grandfather (on my dad's side) had a grouchy wife (my grouchy gram, lol, not my nice one). He was kind as could be, but not allowed to be, if that makes sense. On the rare occasion I'd get to spend the night, he'd take us kids (me and my cousin) to the kitchen to sneak a snack. Usually it consisted of Swiss Cheese and crackers. He'd tell us to eat around the holes because the holes, he said would make you stinker. So silly. Such a good memory though. He was an awesome man. He passed of lung cancer (never smoked a day in his life but gram did, a lot, in the house...no clue if that's how he got it, just noting it). Gram wasn't sick at all... but when he died, she told my aunt (her daughter) that she didn't want to live anymore. She didn't wake up in the morning (3 days after he passed). She was so complex, but she did love her husband. Years later I found out HE was the one with the money. She grew up poor in a trailer park. *sigh* She was always so snooty about her money, I just assumed their wealth came from her side. Funny that she'd behave as she did, instead of being happy and grateful. Maybe she was...but only silently. I'll never know. It doesn't even matter now.
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