Blog on the Lillypad
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
 | Just like the Flopsy Bunnies!
I've discovered a natural remedy for stress and anxiety! How many of you literate readers have read The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter? Benjamin and his wife Flopsy and their many children dine on Farmer McGregor's lettuce, and because lettuce is soporific, it puts them all to sleep. Well, while one or two leaves of green lettuce (not iceberg) has no effect on humans, lettuce juice, just two or three ounces at a time, has remarkable sedative effects. I've been sipping it throughout the day and here it is past 11:00 a.m. and I'm doing pretty good. No throat spasms (though my glands on the left side are quite swollen). |
I have learned that while Dr. Norman Parker recommends lettuce juice for the spleen and liver, lettuce juice has been known by herablists for ages as an opiate. I suppose that getting it in sufficient quantities to get really spaced out is too difficult. But if you juice two full bunches of the green leaf lettuce you get between 6 - 8 ounces of juice. Mix that as one part with two parts carrot juice, and you get a bland, slightly sweet, dark green juice that makes you feel just right with the world.
