I started getting a few gray hairs in my late 20s. While it bothered me a little at first, these days, I’m a little less fussed. A little character never hurt anyone right?
Raw food pioneer Ann Wigmore says she rid her silvers by regularly drinking wheat grass juice. While I’m yet to do my own experiment with Ann’s findings, I have worked out a natural quick fix that turns my grays to a natural shade of light brown—particularly useful when I’m in between (organic) colour touch ups.
Organic black tea, in bags, is a great way to add some (brown) colour back to grays, even if it’s just for the day or until you next wash your hair.
So, here’s how you do it: once you’ve washed and towel dried your hair, simply pour a very small amount of warm water into a small bowl, dip in your organic (black) bag of tea and dab, dab, dab. Dry as usual. The less water you use, the stronger and more effective the tea will be.
While I’m not promising it will take away every gray hair on your head, it can definitely be a Godsend when you need a quick beauty pick me up or have a last minute job interview to go to.
That’s it! If you know of other vegan friendly, gray hair quick fixes from nature, feel free to share in the comments.
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I love the idea and practice of being your own doctor … listening to your body to understand what works—or doesn’t—to bring you to your personal, ultimate state of well-being.
Looking to a general practitioner for health advice has never felt right. Why, I often wondered, did doctors generally look so unhealthy, yet were offering me pills and prescriptions that were apparently guaranteed to make me healthy? I do still think there are many great GPs out there, doing wonderful work to make a difference to many lives.
However, if I’m looking outside of myself for health and diet advice, I want to know straight away if the person is living by their own book. Ultimately, I believe there’s not a soul on God’s green earth that knows my body better than me. It’s just a matter of listening to what it’s saying.
“The first thing is to realise one’s limitations. It should be obvious that the moment one transgresses those limits, one falls ill. Thus a balanced diet, eaten in accordance with needs, gives one freedom from disease. How is one to know what is the proper diet for one? The purpose of all this is that everyone should be his own doctor and find out his limitations.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.”—Hippocrates
“Medicine is the most distinguished of all the arts, but through the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who casually judge such practitioners, it is now of all the arts by far the least esteemed.”—Hippocrates
I’ve heard a lot about Ann Wigmore in my travels, but until today hadn’t ventured beyond Google to find out more about this widely admired “mother of living foods”.
Founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida, Ann was a natural health pioneer and one of the first to bring the health benefits of wheatgrass juice into the spotlight. Word has it she even used the juice to reverse her gray hair.
This morning it was time to abandon my old pal Google for a more old-fashioned approach. I took a walk to my local library to hunt down a book or two penned by the holistic health practitioner—and arrived home with The Wheatgrass Book tucked under my arm.
What have I learned so far? That you can use wheatgrass (which is high in chlorophyll—a component that helps plants transform light into energy) internally and externally. On the inside, this little wonder of nature helps to cleanse the blood, organs and gastrointestinal tract. It stimulates metabolism and bodily enzyme systems to increase red blood cell count. It also reduces blood pressure. Externally it’s great for stopping itches, soothing sunburn and, if applied to your hair before shampooing, it can help mend those damaged strands.
Now I’ll I’ve got to do is grow some wheatgrass (or find an organic market that sells it) and get myself one of those fancy juicers… Once I do that, I’ll keep you posted on reversal of those ‘ol niggly gray hairs (gray means wise, right?).
“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.”— Thomas A. Edison
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