REMEDIES
Here at Top Santé we love a good natural remedy to help restore us back to health, and these remedies from Lizzie King’s new book Restore are just the tonic.
I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT empowering people to take back control in optimising their own health and wellbeing by using simple and effective natural ingredients that are readily available in the world around us and that work in harmony with our bodies and the environment.
Our world is glittering with natural ingredients. Botanicals have been used as remedies for millennia without damaging side effects for us or our planet, but in recent times have been overlooked in favour of convenient and synthetic products, and so the health of our ecosystem has been impacted.
I want to make it easy, enjoyable and motivating to get back to these ingredients from nature. Originally created for me and my family to thrive in optimal health, these are the ways I’ve found that we can enlist the natural world to help, from tonics that aid sleep and balms for anxiety, syrups for avoiding the seasonal lurgies or coping with a sick bug, to fizzing bath bombs, edible face masks and lickable kitchen sprays, they have proven their efficacy time and time again through my lovely community on my blog Lizzie Loves (lizzie-loves.com/blogs).
I hope you fall in love with making, eating, healing from and giving these remedies to others. As 16th century physician Paracelsus said: ‘The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.’ naturally! TOPSANTÉ 39 Sign up to our newsletter at topsante.co.uk
CHARCOAL SICK BUG TONIC
It’s no secret that people are ill more often as soon as they leave home, whether that’s from new foods, aeroplane travel and increase in contact with possible illness or just giving up their regular routine, suddenly relaxing, or exhaustion and stress. And regular ailments can seem harder to deal with when in unfamiliar climes. There are, however, some ideas I’ve come across and a handful of things I never leave home without that are natural ways of combatting the most frequent woes of the traveller. Used in Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years because of its powerful ability to draw toxins and chemicals out of the body, charcoal has been used in the cases of accidental poisonings in the West for a long time, too. When I first mixed this up, I was hoping for a miracle and I got one: a bout of sickness stopped in its tracks. It is now one of my range of remedies (BE SETTLED, £23.95 for 15 sachets, lizzie-loves.com); we often get asked to send it out by Uber for emergencies!
Makes about 300ml
■ 1 tsp mint leaves
■ 300ml boiling water
■ 1 tsp activated charcoal (use the capsules and pull apart) 1 Put the
