I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #182 - Arch and My Medicinal Teas Are Back, and I'm Rocking Hive! - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, January 25, 2023

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I live barefooted and naked, very close to Earth and Nature, in a 16-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i. I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

After I finished publishing the previous version of this post last night, I recreated my GRUB boot menu in the third and last installation of Arch Linux that I've been working to get bootable in my new laptop, and updated. Now all three hard drives with their respective installations of Arch Linux are all fully functional and ready use once again! I received this new laptop on the 3rd, and the last boot menu was recreated left night the 24th, so it took me twenty days to get them all bootable, mostly updated, and usable on my laptop. It was very worth the time and effort, as I am ecstatic to have Arch Linux back in my life!

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My Hive tasks today were mostly (though not entirely) just getting and staying caught up on my overflowing notifications, which I was able to do rather well! I didn't get in quite as much engagement as I would have liked today, but that's OK, as I'm pretty much an engagement fiend lately!

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I left the Flow House at 2PM today to help Ano clean fifty Samoan coconut sprouts, in preparation to ship to Maui tomorrow. @aukuna was helping for a while, too. The process took a little more than an hour. After helping Ano, I went to collect and prepare my first batch of medicinal tea since I've been back at GaiaYoga.

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I couldn't sleep very well last night because a staph infection on the outside of my left big toe had gone deeper than usual, which made it swell up quite a bit, and it became pretty painful. Lymph nodes in my left groin were also swollen and a little painful. I don't usually worry much about staph infections, because I've gone through many rounds of them, and I have a very strong immune system, but when it starts going deeper into the body is when I get a little more concerned. Because of that, I decided to collect and prepare a new batch of my medical tea today, which I know can stop it very quickly. I filled three half-gallon jars with washed and chopped leaves of various important medicinal plants that either grow wild, or ones that I've planted. I'll do three rounds of hot water, allowing the jars to cool before pouring them out. I poured out one round tonight that I put in the fridge. I'll pour them out two times tomorrow, and then mix all three pourings together, put them back in the fridge, and sip them for days.

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My body has been craving my medicinal teas for months now, but this is the first time in the three months I've been back at GaiaYoga that I'm actually collecting and preparing another batch. I don't have sufficient quantities of a few important species in the ground yet to harvest regularly, which is one of the reasons that I haven't made any teas since I've been back. I'm super grateful to be making my medicinal teas again! The plants in this round are listed below!

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👇This batch👇
Patchouli - Pogostemon cablin
Cuban Cilantro/Culantro - Eryngium foetidum
Coffee Leaf - Coffee arabica
Plantain - Plantago major
Comfry - Symphytum x uplandicum
Mamaki - Pipturus albidus
Vana Tulsi - Ocimum gratissimum
Krishna Tulsi - Ocimum tenuiflorum
Rama Tulsi - Ocimum tenuiflorum
Kapoor Tulsi - Oncimum africanum
Ramgoat Dashalong - Ternera ulmifolia
Chinese Rain Bells - Strobilanthes Hamiltoniana
Gotu Kola - Centella asiatica

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I promised @treefrognada that I'd post the list of ingredients in my superfood fire coffee, so I did just that. The ingredients, with approximate amounts of each, are listed below. Everything is blended for 2 minutes in a VitaMix blender, then put in a half-gallon and a quart jar. The ingredients vary depending on what I have available, with the largest variation found in the various superfoods that I've used in it over time. This list is what I'm presently using.

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coffee - 1 table spoon
yerba mate - 1 table spoon
local raw honey - 2-3 tablespoons 
coconut meat from older 'shaker' coconuts - small handful
raw whole cow milk - 1 cup
black seeds - 1 teaspoon
matcha powder - 1 teaspoon 
moringa powder - 1 teaspoon
spirulina powder - 1 teaspoon
Hawaiian hot peppers - 4-6
peanut butter - 2 tablespoons
maca powder - 1 teaspoon
lion's main mushroom powder - 1 teaspoon
clove powder - 1/4 teaspoon
allspice powder - 1/4 teaspoon
nutmeg powder - 1/4 teaspoon
cardamom powder - 1/4 teaspoon 
cinnamon powder - 1 heaping teaspoon
cacao powder - 1 heaping teaspoon
Hawaiian sea salt - 1/4 teaspoon
pink Himalayan sea salt - 1/4 teaspoon
chia seeds - 1 teaspoon
hulled hemp seeds - 1 teaspoon
hulled sunflower seeds - 1 teaspoon
hulled pumpkin seeds - 1 teaspoon
liquid stevia - 20-25 drops

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After putting hot water in my jars of tea to steep, I blended some kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao, then I made myself some food, and headed back to the Flow House to write and publish my Index4Index Daily Inspired Motivation: Your Daily Routine Holds the Key! post, and start on this one.

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So in January two things that I love are back in my life, Arch Linux and my medicinal teas. It feels very fulfilling to have them back! I want to get back into making medicinal teas very regularly again, as my body super loves plant juices in water!

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It's getting close to 11:30AM, so I'm going to end this post now so that I can go to sleep. I truly deeply appreciate you all! Until tomorrow! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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All photos were taken with my Motorola G Power Android Phone.

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Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚

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Wow, there are so many tasty things in your fire coffee that I bet even I could drink it, and not choke on the coffee flavour! I'm definitely going to try making something similar for the hubby once I gather all the ingredients :D About 2.5 quarts water, no cooking?

No wonder you are so !ALIVE when you drink this every day!

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Hehe...indeed! It's super delicious, though you just have to find the right balance. It might take a few rounds of adjustment to get it just right for your particular conditions. The amount of water is about two French presses, so approximately 2 quarts. I put the coffee and mate in the French press, and fill it with boiling water, letting it steep for a few minutes. The water is a bit of a guesstimation, as I leave the coffee and mate grounds in the press for many rounds, until it gets too full, then I start over, but it comes out to about 2 quarts. When the press is done steeping I pour it into the blender with all of the other ingredients, then blend it for 2 minutes. When blending, I put one press-full of coffee-mate in first, then when it's blended, I pour it into the jars and pour the next round of coffee-mate into the the jars to get them near full. Then I pour the jars back and forth between them to make sure the new round of coffee-mate is mixed in well.

So that's my basic process. I adjust it periodically, so it's always a work in progress. Once you start doing it you'll find your own particular say to do it that works for you. This is what works for me under my present conditions. I can't wait to hear how it goes! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Thanks for the instructions! I have a gallon cookpot, so I think the easiest way for me would be to mix it in that, then pour it into smaller containers :)

It'll be awhile before I can try it... I need to find a coconut! And go into town to buy mate and good spices.

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Absolutely! Yes, that should work just fine for the mixing! Yes, it'll likely take time to get all the components together! It'll be worth it, though! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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