St Hildegard taught us more than 2000 remedies for our wellness. But here are the fundamentals - 

The fundamental Hildegard remedies are:

- Spelt

The best grain for digestion, good blood, cheerfulness, neutralizes black bile, offers all nutrients required by the body. Eat the habermus as cereal and porridge, spelt noodles, cookies, bread, soup and add the kernels to your daily diet.

- Fennel

The best herb for good blood, digestion, beautiful complexion, pleasant body odor, joyfulness, alkaline the blood, neutralizes black bile, removes mucus when taken in the morning on empty stomach, ensures good eyesight.


- Bertram

Clear the mind, promotes absorption of nutrients from food, promotes good digestion, anti-viral, anti-parasite, anti-bacteria, treats respiratory disorders such as sinusitis, good success in curing pneumonia, malaria and tuberculosis and prevention of dementia. Add 1 to 2 tsp to all your foods. 

- Galangal

Treats heart weakness, prevents heart pain and attacks, promotes good digestion, treat nausea, dizziness and poor circulation.

- Duckweed Elixir.

A unique Hildegard formula of herbs used to prevent cancer. Hildegard even taught the preconditions for cancer and how to prevent them. It also prevents all cancers.

- Chestnuts

Good for the brain, strengthens the nerves, gets rid of headaches, promotes good memory, and treats liver diseases and a source of natural GABA. It also prevents dementia and loss of memory.

- Vermouth drink

Everyone should take this drink for at least 6 times a year to prevent gout, uric acid, diabetes, cholesterol, poor liver function and heart diseases. It is the best treatment for exhaustion resulting from sicknesses such as cancer.

Above all, all the aforementioned foods neutralize black bile and inflammation.

The 5 Main Kitchen Poisons

- Pork

‘But it is an unclean animal, so its flesh is neither healthy nor good for either healthy or sick person to eat. It does not diminish phlegm or other infirmities in a person, but augments them. Its heat joins with a person’s heat, and stirs in him tempests which are bad in their ways and workings’. The author is very convinced (through his clinical practice) of this fact that pork is an inflammatory food and eliminating this particular meat from one’s diet has benefitted those who suffered from gout, chronic ulcers, skin diseases, poor immune and many inflammatory diseases.

- Strawberries

‘The plant on which wild strawberries are grown is more hot than cold. It produces mucus in the person eating it and is not valuable as a medicine. They are beneficial as food for neither the sick nor a healthy person because they grow near the ground and indeed in putrid air’.
    
- Peaches

‘The fruit of this tree is good for neither a sick nor a healthy person to eat. It weakens the humors in a person and produces mucus in his stomach’.

- Plums

‘The fruit of this tree is harmful and dangerous for the healthy and sick people to eat. It stirs up melancholy in a person, augments bitter humors in him, and makes all diseases bubble in him’.
 

- Leeks

‘Eaten raw, it is as bad and injurious for a person as a poisonous, injurious herb. It acts contrary on a person’s blood, decayed matter and humors, so that his blood does not increase properly, his corrupt matter is not diminished, and the bad humors in him are not made clean’.

The above-mentioned are understood to cause black bile, allergy and inflammation.

Author: Sebastian Liew, Naturopath, Medical Herbalist, ND, www.slnaturopath.com