- Vitamin B Complex regulates proper metabolism and nervous system functioning.
- Vitamins that make up the Vitamin B complex are:
- B1-thiamine :
- Insulates the nerves
- Improves brain functioning
- Increases learning capacity
- Deficiency symptoms:
- Impaired growth of children
- Weakness
- Exhaustion
- Loss of appetite
- Numbness in hands and/or feet
- Nervousness
- Shortness of breath constipation
- Cardiac dysfunctions
- Depression
- Forgetfulness
- Best with:
- Manganese
- Vitamins B complex
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin E
- Decreased by:
- Alcohol
- Coffee
- Fever
- Tobacco
- Stress
- surgery
- B2-riboflavin
- Essential for enzymes to function properly providing adequate oxygen to all cells
- B3-niacin
- Insulates the nerves
- Deficiency symptoms:
- Dermatitis
- Muscle soreness/cramping
- Exhaustion
- Insomnia
- Indigestion
- Mental disturbances
- Mouth sores
- Loss of appetite
- Skin dryness
- Best with:
- Phosphorus
- Vitamin B1
- Vitamin C
- Decreased by:
- Alcohol
- Coffee
- Excessive sugars/starches
- antibiotics
- B6-pyridoxine
- Essential for proper use of vitamin B12, potassium, and sodium.
- B12-cyanocobalamin
- Important for nervous systems
- Essential for the use of iron
- Deficient signs:
- Poor appetite
- Nervousness
- Anemia
- General tiredness
- Leg weakness
- Speaking difficulties
- Brain damage
- Best with:
- Potassium
- Vitamin B6
- Vitamin C
- Decreased by:
- Alcohol
- Coffee
- Laxatives
- Tobacco
- Contraceptive pills
- B13-orotic acid
- B15-pangamic acid
- B17-laetrile
- Biotin
- Aids use of:
- Protein
- Vitamin B12
- Folic acid
- Pantothenic acid
- Deficient signs:
- Loss of appetite
- Exhaustion
- Muscle aches
- Dermatitis
- Insomnia
- Depression
- Poor skin color
- Best with:
- Folic acid
- Pantothenic acid
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin C
- Choline
- Insulates the nerves
- Aids transmission of nerve impulses
- Maintains thymus gland
- Deficient signs:
- Cirrhosis of the liver
- Fatty liver deposits
- Bleeding stomach ulcers
- Hemorrhaging of the kidneys
- Hig blood pressure
- Hardening of the arteries
- Best with:
- Inositol
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B12
- Decreased by:
- Alcohol
- Coffee
- Sugars
- Folic acid
- Formation of nucleic acid (normal cell growth and reproduction)
- Deficient signs:
- Gastrointestinal disorders
- Poor assimilation
- Anemia
- Learning disabilities
- Retarded growth
- Graying hair
- Best with:
- Biotin
- Pantothenic acid
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin C
- Decreased by:
- Alcohol
- Coffee
- Stress
- Tobacco
- Sulfa drugs
- Streptomycin
- Inositol
- PABA-para-aminobenzoic acid
- Helps produce folic acid
- Deficient signs:
- Digestive disorders
- Chronic headaches
- Depression
- Exhaustion
- Anemia
- Nervousness
- Best with:
- Folic acid
- Vitamin C
- Decreased by:
- Alcohol
- Coffee
- Sulfa drugs
- Pantothenic acid
- Stimulates the adrenal gland's hormone production for healthy nerves
- Deficient signs
- Hair loss
- Dry skin
- Itching skin
- Kidney problems
- Vomiting
- Low blood sugar
- Respiratory infections
- Depression
- Ulcers
- Constipation
- Fatigue
- Best with:
- Folic acid
- Vitamin B6
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin C
- Decreased by
- Alcohol
- Baking soda
- Coffee
- Vinegar
- Too much?
- Kidney disorders
- Heart failure
- Liver failure
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Symptoms of deficiency include:
- Irritability
- Depression
- Hair loss
- Acne
- Poor appetite
- Exhaustion
- Insomnia
- Dry skin
- Constipation
- Anemia
- Vitamin B-complex can be reduced by the following things:
- Alcohol
- Coffee
- Contraceptive pills
- Stress
- Excessive sugar
- Sleeping medication
- Prescriptions containing sulfa
- Vitamin D:
- Maintains a healthy nervous system
- Aids in the functioning of the thyroid gland
- Deficient symptoms:
- Rickets in children
- Loss of energy
- Phosphorus retention within the kidneys
- Myopia
- Diarrhea
- Nervousness
- Poor metabolism
- Diabetes
- Poor tooth formation
- Best with:
- Calcium
- Phosphorus
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin C
- Decreased by
- Mineral oil
- Too much?
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Dizziness
- Loss of appetite
- Frequent urination
- Calcification of the blood vessels and heart tissue
- Anorexia
- Vitamin E (tocopherol)
- Maintains healthy nerves
- Protects adrenal hormones
- Protects pituitary hormones
- Prevents edema
- Deficient signs:
- Dull hair
- Impotency
- Miscarriages
- Heart disease
- Enlarged prostate
- Kidney damage
- Liver damage
- Gastrointestinal dysfunctions
- Infant anemia
- Male sterility
- Cancer
- Best with:
- Manganese
- Phosphorus
- Selenium
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B
- Vitamin C
- Decreased by:
- Contraceptive pills
- Chlorine
- Mineral oils
- Too much?
- Can complicate existing heart problems and increase high blood pressure.
- Magnesium
- Effective nerve insulator
- Deficiency symptoms:
- Heart disease
- Calcification of the blood vessels
- Kidney stones
- Nervousness
- Loss of muscular control
- Vascular blood clots
- Best with:
- Proteins
- Calcium
- Phosphorus
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin D
- Decreased by:
- Alcohol
- Too much?
- Stroke
- Brittle bones
- Epileptic seizure
- Cardiac disturbances
- Respiratory failure
- Phosphorus
- Maintains nerve responses
- Glandular regulation of hormones
- Deficient signs:
- Arthritis
- Bone/teeth malformation
- Gum disease
- Exhaustion
- Obesity
- Loss of appetite
- Nervousness
- Excitability
- Breathing difficulties
- Best with:
- Calcium
- Iron
- Manganese
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin D
- Decreased by:
- Excessive sugar intake
- Aluminum cookware
- Excessive ingestion of iron and magnesium
- Too much?
- Renal failure
- Potassium:
- Nerve insulation
- Deficient signs:
- Constipation
- Cardiac arrest
- Nervousness/excitability
- Insomnia
- Slowed heart rate
- Digestive dysfunctions
- General weakness
- Dry skin
- Best with:
- Sodium
- Decreased by:
- Alcohol
- Coffee
- Diuretics
- Excessive sugars
- Prolonged diarrhea
- Excessive sweating
- Too much?
- Muscle paralysis
- Cardiac disturbances
- Iodine
- Regulates hormones from the thyroid gland
- Deficient signs:
- Dry and dull hair
- Cold hands and feet
- Nervousness/excitability
- Obesity
- Mental retardation
- Brittle nails
- Heart palpitations
- Decreased by:
- Excessive ingestion of nuts
- Also in iodized salt
Food for headaches, brain function, and nervous system relief/health.
I thought this was a great title for an article that deals with foods that may help headaches and overall brain/nervous system functioning. I chose to start with food because often times our bodies will tell us when we don't have enough of an essential vitamin, mineral, or nutrient. Sometimes we just don't know what it is that we need. To make this easier for all of us I decided to go through the Earthway Dietary Guidelines and start writing articles that group these vitamins, minerals, and nutrients by what ever ailment we might suffer from. I thought this would be a good idea because it would make it easier to see if you have a headache (for example) what your body might be telling you that you need to eat. It does have the ability to heal itself with the proper building blocks so why wouldn't it tell us what those building blocks are? Any way I thought of doing it this way to because each of the magnetic seasons of the Anasazi's belief system has different physical ailments for each season. I thought this would make it easier to link everything together so that it doesn't look like my energy and thoughts are scattered in so many different directions. I show my dot connecting through the links in my articles so that you may see how it is all relevant.
I must say this first before I go any further. I am in no way a doctor or physician so when in doubt do please consult your physician. If your doctor has told you to decrease something because of renal issues or heart issues or something else do not increase it because of this article. I am not a doctor!
If you have headaches your body may be telling you that you need more: B vitamins, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Folic Acid, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, Para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), Choline, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, or Iodine. All of the foods in the table below have one or more of these nutrients. Many of them have most of these nutrients. I do not intend on going into exact amounts of vitamins of each food source (you can look up the Daily Values many places including the USDA's website). I just wanted to see what we could all consume more of to help our headaches. On that note you may have been consuming the "daily intake value" of these vitamins with out realizing that many things can decrease the amount of the nutrients your body uses. Many of these nutrients are decreased by use of: alcohol, coffee, tobacco, stress, fever, sugar, and a variety of pharmaceuticals. I'm not going to tell you to stop using said items just be aware of how they affect your nutrition and compensate for it for better health. I know some of those things take a real battle with addiction to get rid of. Below the table you will find each nutrient's use relevant to headaches/brain/nerves, all the deficiency symptoms listed, what it works best with and what decreases it's effectiveness. So if you are anyone who drinks coffee or alcohol, smokes, or takes prescription drugs you may want to have a look at this detailed list so you know what to increase if you do not want to stop drinking/smoking/taking those things and this includes BIRTH CONTROL while trying to get rid of your headaches. I'm not preaching I'm guilty of a couple of those things just suggesting you add something good to help :) !
Also you could be having a headache simply from the magnetic influence of Mars according to Anasazi tradition. Even though we are not in the month of March as I am writing this, Mars is part of a major astrological influence called the Cardinal Grand Cross right now. We just went through alignment 5 of 7 and many people are definitely feeling it's effects. So maybe this will help ease the tensions/headaches caused by the alignments too.
Regardless of the reason if you have headaches find some foods in this table that you like and start eating more of them. If your curious about something new you never heard of before try it! I know there are some things in this table that I have never heard of before and am curious about. So don't be surprised if in the future you start seeing random weirdly named food articles start popping up. LOL I know some of these are listed in multiple categories…I am going by the recommendations in the book Earthway by Mary Summer Rain. Since I have never heard of some of these before I would need to do some more research into what category they scientifically go into. I think the current category goes mainly off of how they are used.
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Cereal,
Flour & Breads
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Dairy
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Fruits
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Meats
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Amaranth
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American cheese
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Agave
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Chicken
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Amaranth bread
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Blue cheese
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Apples
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Duck
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Amaranth flour
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Butter
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Apricots
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Fowl
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Arrowhead flour
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Buttermilk
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Avocados
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Goose
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Arrowhead porridge
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Cheddar cheese
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Bananas
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Poultry
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Banana bread
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Cheese sauces
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Barberry
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Turkey
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Barley
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Cottage cheese
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Blackberries
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Bran flake cereal
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Cow's milk
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Blueberries
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Breadroot flour
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Cream
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Boysenberries
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Brewer's yeast
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Cream Cheese
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Cantaloupe
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Bromegrass meal
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Custard
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Cherries
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Brown rice
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Eggnog
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Chokecherries
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Buckwheat
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Egg yolk
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Dates
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Buckwheat flour
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Goat's milk
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Elderberries
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Burdock flour
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Honey
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Feverbush
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Corn flake cereal
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Ice cream
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Figs
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Cornmeal
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Parmesan cheese
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Gooseberries
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Farina
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Skim milk
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Grapefruit
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Fireweed
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Sour cream
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Grapes
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Fireweed flour
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Swiss cheese
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Jams/jellies
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Horsetail flour
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Yogurt
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Juniper
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Mesquite meal
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Kinnikinnick
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Oat flake cereal
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Lemons
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Oatmeal
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Molasses
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Pinon
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Nectarines
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Pinon Flour
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Oranges
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Pumpernickel bread
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Papaya
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Reindeer moss
flour
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Peaches
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Raisin bran cereal
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Pears
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Raisin bread
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Persimmons
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Rice cereal
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Pineapples
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Rice flake cereal
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Prickly pear
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Rye flour/bread
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Prunes
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Shepherd's purse
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Raisins
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Soy flour
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Raspberries
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Wheat bran
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Saguaro cactus
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Wheat bran cereal
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Serviceberries
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Wheat flake cereal
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Solomon's seal
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Wheat flour
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Strawberries
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Wheat germ
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Tangerines
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Wild Rice
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Watermelon
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Whole wheat bread
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Wintergreen
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Nuts
& Seeds
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Seafood
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Vegetables
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Agave
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Clams
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Adder's-tongue
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Almonds
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Cod
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Agave
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Amaranth
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Crabmeat
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Amaranth
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Barley
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Fish liver oils
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Angelica
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Blue cohosh
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Flounder
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Arrowhead
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Brazil nuts
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Haddock
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Asparagus
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Bromegrass
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Halibut
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Bean sprouts
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Bulrush
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Kelp
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Beets
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Butternuts
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Lobster
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Bergamot
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Cashews
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Mackerel
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Blue cohosh
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Chestnuts
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Oysters
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Borage
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Hazelnuts
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Perch
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Breadroot
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Hickory
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Red snapper
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Broccoli
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Horsetail
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Salmon
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Bromegrass
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Hyssop
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Sardines
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Brussels sprouts
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Mesquite
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Shrimp
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Bulrush
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Peanuts
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Smelt
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Burdock root
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Pecans
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Swordfish
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Cabbage
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Pinon
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Trout
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Calamus
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Pistachios
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Tuna
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Carrot
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Prickly Pear
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Cattail
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Pumpkin
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Cauliflower
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Purslane
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Celery
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Sesame
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Chickpeas
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Shepherd's purse
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Chickweed
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Sunflower
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Collard greens
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Walnuts
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Coltsfoot
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Water lily
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Corn
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White oak
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Cucumber
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Dandelion/greens
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Dewberry
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Eggplant
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Endive
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Feverbush
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Fireweed
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Green peppers
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Hemlock
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Horsetail
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Hyssop
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Kidney beans
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Kinnikinnick
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Lamb's-quarter
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Leeks
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Lentils
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Lettuce
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Lima Beans
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Meadow fern
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Mesquite
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Milkweed
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Miner's lettuce
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Mushrooms
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Mustard greens
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Navy Beans
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Nettle
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Okra
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Onions
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Parsley
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Parsnips
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Peas
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Peppers
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Plantain
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Potatoes
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Pumpkin
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Purslane
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Reindeer moss
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Rhubarb
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Saguaro cactus
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Salsify
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Sassafras
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Sauerkraut
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Shepherd's purse
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Sorrel
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Soybeans
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Spinach
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Spring beauty
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Squash
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Squawberry vine
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Sweet potatoes
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Tomatoes
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Tumbleweed
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Turnip greens
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Watercress
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White cedar
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Wild garlic
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Wild leek
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Wild lettuce
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Wild onions
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Yampa
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Yellow beans
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Yerba santa
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Yucca
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