Hello, my name is Eliseo Cheo Torres. I'm an administrator and professor at the University of New Mexico. I also teach a course, a summer course, Traditional Medicine without Borders, Curanderismo of the Southwest in Mexico, and also an online course. And we have two presenters today, we're so lucky to have Rita Navarrete. >> Hi. >> Rita is from Mexico City, she's a curandera, a healer. And also a teacher of curanderos in Cuernavaca, Mexico City, Estado de Mexico and other states around Mexico. She will be demonstrating some techniques that I'll share with you in just a minute, and we welcome Rita. Thank you, Rita. And Tonita is our second presenter. Tonita Gonzales is from the ranks of Gonzales, New Mexico and also from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Both Tonita and Rita help with the class, are instructors in the summer class and they will also be demonstrating the presentation in just a few minutes. Tonita is a healer apprentice with Rita. For over a year, she was in Cuernavaca in Mexico City learning about curanderismo, is certified in Mexico on the topic of traditional medicine. And both of them will be talking about juice therapy. How do we prevent illnesses, how do we deal with illnesses through food, whether they're vegetables or fruits. And they will be doing an excellent presentation, so I welcome both Rita and Tonita. Thank you very much. >> [FOREIGN] >> Thank you. Good morning and thank you for having us here. >> Good morning. [LAUGH] [FOREIGN] >> I'm really happy. >> [FOREIGN] >> That you have invited me here to share. >> [FOREIGN] >> The practice of juicing. >> [FOREIGN] >> The theme is health >> [FOREIGN] >> Using juice therapy. >> [FOREIGN] >> We all know that our health is very important. >> [FOREIGN] >> So that we can prepare ourselves so that we don't have dangerous problems within our health. >> [FOREIGN] >> That's why now in this moment >> [FOREIGN] >> I want to share with you today >> [FOREIGN] >> That we have encountered >> [FOREIGN] >> That there's a mixture of illnesses >> [FOREIGN] >> That we know that have come specifically that are caused by constipation. >> [FOREIGN] >> Problems with your urinary tract, specifically your kidneys. >> [FOREIGN] >> Or in times that it's cold we know that we have a lot of respiratory illnesses. >> [FOREIGN] >> Here we're going to do a juice that can be used for the digestive system. >> [FOREIGN] >> We could use grapefruit. >> [FOREIGN] >> We could also use papaya. >> [FOREIGN] >> I also put in here only three seeds, the little black seeds that come within the papaya. >> [FOREIGN] >> But something that is very important. >> [FOREIGN] >> That we have. >> [FOREIGN] >> Always in our kitchen. >> [FOREIGN] >> Sufficient cereals. >> [FOREIGN] >> Seeds. >> [FOREIGN] >> Also fruits. >> [FOREIGN] >> And vegetables. >> [FOREIGN] >> And how I said this was a juicing for constipation. >> [FOREIGN] >> We put a little big of grapefruit. >> Papaya. >> Papaya. >> [FOREIGN] >> And a teaspoon of flax seed. >> [FOREIGN] >> This blended drink, >> [FOREIGN] >> With the amount of Omega-3 that's within the flax seed. >> [FOREIGN] >> It'll help us >> [FOREIGN] >> To cleanse the stomach. >> [FOREIGN] >> We know that the grapefruit >> [FOREIGN] >> Has a lot of fiber. >> [FOREIGN] >> The papaya >> [FOREIGN] >> Is relaxes and it's a laxative. >> [FOREIGN] >> And it helps us to cleanse the stomach. >> The papaya's are anticarcinogen as well. [SOUND] We know that papaya is one of the strongest medicines to do a good cleanse of your stomach and your intestines. >> [FOREIGN] >> Here we have a blended drink. >> [FOREIGN] >> We don't want it perfectly blended, you want it to have a little bit of pulp. >> [FOREIGN] >> This should be sufficient amount- >> [FOREIGN] >> So it will also help you so that you lower your appetite. >> [FOREIGN] >> You could do a combination- >> [FOREIGN] >> Of papaya- >> [FOREIGN] >> With nopal, which is cactus. >> [FOREIGN] >> It's refreshing, the papaya. >> [FOREIGN] >> We consider the papaya a total medicine for the entire body, because it does a great job of cleaning every, not just your digestive system, but your circulatory system and your lymphatic system as well. >> [FOREIGN] >> You can notice that the nopal, if you can see. >> [FOREIGN] >> That has a lot of fiber. >> [FOREIGN] >> And something that the large and small intestine needs >> [FOREIGN] >> Is fiber. >> [FOREIGN] >> But also this would be a significant as, enough amount. >> [FOREIGN] >> We could do this with chia which has a lot of magnesium. >> [FOREIGN] >> Or you could do the combination again with flax seed. >> [FOREIGN] >> Because it has more fiber, the flax seed. >> [FOREIGN] >> You want to only use half a tea spoon. >> [FOREIGN] >> This then, the nopal, this blended drink. >> [FOREIGN] >> It has an impressionable amount of fiber in this drink. >> [FOREIGN] >> We can consider that this amount of fiber >> [FOREIGN] >> It's as if you kind of used a brush to cleanse your intestines in your stomach. [SOUND] [FOREIGN] >> This is excellent for cholesterol. >> [FOREIGN] >> [FOREIGN] >> [FOREIGN] For triglycerides, but also we know that nopales is an excellent medicine that we use for diabetics. It has a way of balancing the sugars naturally. [FOREIGN] >> We can notice that this blended drink- >> [FOREIGN] >> Because of the mucilage of the nopales. >> [FOREIGN] >> It cleanses your intestines as if it was a gel. [FOREIGN] >> The ideas to have a sufficient amount of vegetables. >> [FOREIGN] >> This next drink that we're going to do. >> [FOREIGN] >> [FOREIGN] >> The next one that we do is with pineapple. >> [FOREIGN] [FOREIGN] >> Is with pineapple and with celery. >> [FOREIGN] >> And it's excellent for kidneys. >> [FOREIGN] >> And it's refreshing. >> [FOREIGN] >> But if we also had water of Jamaica. >> [FOREIGN] >> Jamaica is hibiscus flower. >> [FOREIGN] >> It helps as a diuretic to help your kidneys. >> [FOREIGN] >> And it's something that we do need in our kidneys. >> [FOREIGN] >> It's to make them fresh. >> [FOREIGN] >> But we also want to prevent that we don't have retention of liquids within our kidneys. >> [FOREIGN] >> This fiber in the celery- >> [FOREIGN] >> It's also excellent to cleanse your intestines. >> [FOREIGN] >> So we're going to do a blended drink here with parsley and with celery. >> [FOREIGN] >> It's a diuretic. >> [FOREIGN] >> We're going to put a little bit of parsley. >> [FOREIGN] >> This would be enough parsley. Parsley's an excellent kidney medicine. >> [FOREIGN] >> Pineapple. >> [FOREIGN] >> And we're going to put a little bit of honey. >> [FOREIGN] >> It's also refreshing. >> [FOREIGN] >> And it's delicious. >> [FOREIGN] >> We could put a couple of cubes of ice, if you would like. >> [FOREIGN] >> We know that the pineapple. So, this mixture together are really strong kidney medicines and for us when we relay a lot of things that happen with emotions, we look at the fruits that correlate. So for example when we look at the kidneys we look at people that are having a lot of fear in their lives or when we look at the liver we look at people that have a lot of anger. So when we work with people emotionally sometimes we use a lot of juice and so that would help them cleanse out their emotional low balance as well [SOUND] >> [SOUND] [FOREIGN] >> If we would consume, >> [FOREIGN] >> Drinks that were green. >> [FOREIGN] >> It would also strengthen your bones. >> [FOREIGN] >> In traditional medicine one of the first things that we do is before we would even attempt to have somebody try plants or any type of other traditional medicines. We always look at their foods first to see how we can improve their health using food as a first recourse. >> [FOREIGN] >> When people have anemia, >> [FOREIGN] >> When they don't eat sufficient amounts of chlorophyll, >> [FOREIGN] >> I recommend, >> [FOREIGN] >> We call these a B8. >> [FOREIGN] >> It's almost as our V8 that we have at the store, but we do a little bit of lettuce. >> [FOREIGN] >> This depends a lot. >> [FOREIGN] >> You want to depend the quantity of amounts of plants that you use, depending on the person. If it's a child, if it's a grown adult, or if it's an elder. >> [FOREIGN] >> This is one leaf of a beet. >> [FOREIGN] >> We have two green leaves. >> [FOREIGN] broccoli. >> We could the leaves of the broccoli. >> [FOREIGN] >> And maybe this amount of broccoli. >> [FOREIGN] >> You could put two leaves of spinach. >> [FOREIGN] >> And here's four. >> [FOREIGN] >> You would put the green leaves which hold more medicine in the celery, because they have a lot of magnesium. >> [FOREIGN] >> Five leaves. >> [FOREIGN] >> We could put a little bit of parsley. >> [FOREIGN] >> This is cilantro. >> [FOREIGN] >> We would put a tomato as well. >> [FOREIGN] >> And we would call this V8 homemade. >> [FOREIGN] >> Because of the amount of vegetables, it really doesn't matter if you put a little bit more than one and a little bit less than the other. The recipes are not that specific. >> [FOREIGN] >> This is a great drink when people have anemia. Especially, with people that don't have great teeth and their not able to eat as many crisp vegetables. They have problems chewing, this is an excellent way for them to get the same nutrients. >> [FOREIGN] >> Because they need a lot of fiber. >> [FOREIGN] >> Because they can't chew significantly. >> [FOREIGN] >> People for example that have cancer. >> [FOREIGN] >> Or have problems with nutrition. [NOISE] >> [FOREIGN] >> But also this will help the color of your skin. >> [FOREIGN] >> Because of the amount of chlorophyll [FOREIGN] >> The salsa will really help the iron within your bones. >> [FOREIGN] >> I'm not going to get stuck describing the properties of each vegetable. >> [FOREIGN] >> Because our time will go really quickly. >> [FOREIGN] >> There's a lot of information. >> [FOREIGN] >> You can look very easily and find all the vitamins that are within each of these vegetables. >> [FOREIGN] >> But what we know is that everything that's green has life chlorophyll. >> [FOREIGN] >> It's very important for me. >> [FOREIGN] >> Is the blood. >> [FOREIGN] >> And the bones. >> [FOREIGN] >> The chlorophyll is for the bones. >> [FOREIGN] >> And the bones need is calcium. >> [FOREIGN] >> So we're going to do a drink here. >> [FOREIGN] >> And we're going to use a combination with, starting, basically we call this a [FOREIGN]. >> [FOREIGN] >> This is making our own milk and she's using a little bit of a soy powder. >> [FOREIGN] >> And I'll put a significant amount. >> [FOREIGN] >> Of powdered soy milk. >> [FOREIGN] >> If I want this much milk. >> [FOREIGN] >> I'll put a little bit of water. >> [FOREIGN] >> Soy milk. >> [FOREIGN] >> I'll put a teaspoon of oatmeal or granola. >> [FOREIGN] >> And you could put a little bit of, Of nuts. >> [FOREIGN] >> I want to say that. >> [FOREIGN] >> We could do a combination. >> [FOREIGN] >> This amount of peanuts. >> [FOREIGN] >> And five almonds. >> [FOREIGN] >> And this blended drink. >> [FOREIGN] >> We call it a milk. >> [FOREIGN] >> For people, especially that are lactose intolerant. >> [FOREIGN] >> This helps prevent them from getting acid reflux from being lactose intolerant. [NOISE] >> [FOREIGN] >> But something else that I want to share with you guys. >> [FOREIGN] >> When we consume. >> [FOREIGN] >> A blended drink. >> [FOREIGN] >> I always like to decorate it on the top with the same nuts. >> [FOREIGN] >> So that we can chew. >> [FOREIGN] >> The majority of the times. >> [FOREIGN] >> When we chew something, and especially it prevents us from having the desire of wanting to eat something. >> [FOREIGN] >> And the idea is at the moment that we are doing the juice. >> [FOREIGN] >> We start having the taste. >> [FOREIGN] >> We produce with our saliva, the taste within our mouth. >> [FOREIGN] >> This drink. >> [FOREIGN] >> You could do the soy. >> [FOREIGN] >> Amaranth. >> [FOREIGN] >> With oatmeal. >> [FOREIGN] >> And you could have the combination. >> [FOREIGN] >> With almonds. >> [FOREIGN] >> With walnuts. >> [FOREIGN] >> With sesame or with peanuts. >> [FOREIGN] >> You could do it with one or the other or a little bit of each. >> [FOREIGN] >> But if we needed more potassium. >> [FOREIGN] >> Or to strengthen our amount of calcium. >> [FOREIGN] >> We could imagine this. >> [FOREIGN] >> The combination of these. >> [FOREIGN] >> And we would add a banana. >> [FOREIGN] >> And this would help us to strengthen. >> [FOREIGN] >> The potassium that we have. >> [FOREIGN] >> Is the banana >> [FOREIGN] >> And calcium. >> [FOREIGN] >> It's very good. [SOUND] [INAUDIBLE] [SOUND] So there's a couple of more drinks that we'll go into at another time, but for right now, one of them that's really good as well is that we use chia seeds. Chia are excellent, they're also help in digestive and you would mix them with cucumber and some lime. We also, [FOREIGN]. We do another one in a juicing. >> [FOREIGN] >> We'll do another one usually for what are the biggest problems is that a lot of people take a lot of Prilosec in this country is because they have reflux. So one of the medicines that we recommend that people do especially in the morning or before they go to bed both is to use both carrots and potatoes. This is one of the best medicines for when people have reflux. >> [FOREIGN]. >> When people have that burning sensation- >> [FOREIGN] >> Or acid in their stomach. >> [FOREIGN] >> With your combination. >> [FOREIGN] >> Potatoes, carrots. >> [FOREIGN] >> And cabbage. >> [FOREIGN] >> This would be for gastritis. >> [FOREIGN] >> If we were going to do another blended drink. >> [FOREIGN] >> For vitamin C. >> [FOREIGN] >> Citrus. >> [FOREIGN] >> We could do grapefruit. >> [FOREIGN] >> Mandarin, >> [FOREIGN] >> Oranges. >> [FOREIGN] >> And apples. >> [FOREIGN] >> If we have the need to. >> [FOREIGN] >> Depends on the time of the season of the year where we're at. >> [FOREIGN] >> And this time we would use. >> [FOREIGN] >> We would really want to strengthen our kidneys and drink a lot of liquids. >> [FOREIGN] >> Well, the time, as we all know, is always short. >> [FOREIGN] >> Thank you very much. >> [FOREIGN] >> For allowing us to share this medicinal juice with you. >> [FOREIGN] >> And I'm here to help you share our medicine. >> [FOREIGN] >> That is traditional for us. >> [FOREIGN] >> And like Hippocrates says. >> [FOREIGN] >> That your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food. Thank you. >> We want to thank Rita and Tanita for an excellent presentation. And this is one of several modules that you'll be able to enjoy from both of them, and food is medicine. And we can stay healthy by eating the right types of foods. Thank you very much. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. >> [FOREIGN]
