{"id":1625109,"date":"2022-08-29T06:53:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T10:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625109"},"modified":"2022-08-29T06:53:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T10:53:33","slug":"coffee-medicine-for-the-body-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coffee-medicine-for-the-body-and-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee: Medicine for the Body and Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcoffee-medicine-for-the-body-and-soul%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625109&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>Could coffee do more than just stimulate alertness and stress out the adrenals? What if there was more going on to this ritualistic beverage consumed by billions around the world than just caffeine addiction? What if it was medicine for both the body and soul?<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That coffee possesses \u2018drug-like\u2019 properties, we know quite well. Some of us, in fact, revel in its addictive properties, as it comes with a certain \u2014 albeit a tad bit pathological \u2014 industriousness. After all, is there anyone more disciplined\/obsessed than a coffee drinker \u2014 at least, that is, when it comes to acquiring and drinking coffee? You can set your clocks with exactitude to the performance of their daily coffee-associated machinations, to the point where some\u00a0coffee makers already have built in clocks, so as not to delay or miss any opportunity for its owner to imbibe. The type of sober religiosity required to turn drinking a beverage into a ritual is known only by a few Zen tea drinkers and quite possibly\u00a0<em>billions<\/em>\u00a0of habitual coffee drinkers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pull-quote\">\n<p>It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"author\">\u2014 David Barry<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Let us also not forget that one of the first documented uses of coffee over 500 years ago was in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-22190802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">coffee was known as\u00a0<em>qahhwat<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-22190802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em> al-<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-22190802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>bun<\/em><\/a>, or,\u00a0the \u2018wine of the bean,\u2019 the phrase which provided the etymological origin of the word coffee. Once lauded as a \u201cmiracle drug\u201d and used as a sacrament in late-night rituals to invoke the sensation of God within revelers, still today, coffee drinkers are known to cast themselves into bouts of coffee-drinking induced reverie and enthusiasm (literally:\u00a0<span class=\"foreign\">en<\/span>\u00a0\u201cin\u201d +\u00a0<span class=\"foreign\">theos<\/span>\u00a0\u201cgod\u201d or \u201cgod-filled\u201d) by drinking this strangely intoxicating, and yet somehow still sobering concoction.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4694279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4694279\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/28\/shutterstock_555569653-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript> Whirling Dervishes and Musicians Perform-Istanbul -Turkey 11-02-2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is interesting that even addictions can be viewed as a form of ritual \u2014 albeit degenerated ones performed semi- or subconsciously. But that cup of Joe gets many of us up in the morning to perform our secular duties, which says a lot considering what many of us are forced or coerced to do for a living.<\/p>\n<p>While many attribute coffee\u2019s vise-like hold on their physiology to its caffeine content, there is much more going on than simply a fixation on a \u2018stimulant.\u2019 It has been known for over a quarter of a century that coffee contains a compound known as\u00a0cafestrol\u00a0with significant opiate-like properties and\u00a0which is found within\u00a0<em>both\u00a0<\/em>caffeinated and\u00a0decaffeinated coffee\u00a0forms.\u00a0The \u2018narcotic\u2019 properties of coffee, therefore, are no doubt due to a complex interplay between a wide range of compounds \u2014 not just a stimulant, but an opioid\u00a0agonist as well.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee is also a \u2018brain-booster\u2019 and contains a compound called\u00a0trigonelline\u00a0which in vitro research both stimulates the release of dopamine (not unlike cocaine), and stimulates neurite outgrowth, which involves the extension of dendrites and axons in neurons and which may compensate and rescue damaged neuronal networks in the aging brain.<\/p>\n<p>One of history\u2019s greatest nutrition philosophers, Rudolf Hauschka, described coffee\u2019s action on our body-mind as follows:<\/p>\n<div class=\"pull-quote\">\n<p>Coffee makes us more aware of our bodily structure. And since this structure is so wise and logical, our thoughts become logical in their awareness of it. Coffee thus helps thinking to find a firm foundation. The connection between bodily being and thinking, keeps calling itself to our attention. Coffee has the same effect on digestion that thought has on our upper man, i.e., a properly ordered metabolism goes hand in hand with orderly thinking. Both are founded on a properly ordered physical structure.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"author\">\u2014 Rudolf Hauschka<\/span><span class=\"org\">,\u00a0Nutrition: A Holistic Approach<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Coffee is also one of the only sources of \u201cbitters\u201d remaining in the sweet-fixated Western diet, which sadly comes with a certificate of guarantee that the bearer will likely develop type 2 diabetes, heart disease or a receive a cancer diagnosis at some point in their life. Could the extreme bitterness of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/greenmed\/topic\/18459\/focus\/1657\/page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\">coffee be the reason why it has been repeatedly shown to reduce type 2 diabetes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/greenmed\/topic\/18459\/focus\/1657\/page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\"> ri<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/greenmed\/topic\/18459\/focus\/1657\/page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\">sk<\/a>, as it is one of the only ways we can balance out the highly inappropriate excesses of carbohydrate in our modern dietary configuration?<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t normally think of grains as sweet, but they are on the glycemic index. Puffed rice, for instance, can make the blood sweeter than white sugar which is why \u2018complex\u2019 carbs are known as \u201ccrouching diabetes, hidden sugar.\u201d Coffee contains a wide range of blood-glucose and insulin sensitizing compounds, making it an ideal complement to a carbohydrate-deranged diet.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee also awakens and stimulates the Qi, as it is known in the Chinese medical tradition. This was discussed in an article entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/article\/coffee-and-qi-may-have-similar-physiological-and-psychological-stimulatory-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\">Similarity between the effects of coffee and qi<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/article\/coffee-and-qi-may-have-similar-physiological-and-psychological-stimulatory-responses\">\u00a0stimulating events<\/a>\u201c. While raising Qi through exercise and energy work is the ideal situation, coffee provides a short-cut which is the modus operandi in the modern world: instant gratification in exchange for (energy) indebtedness.<\/p>\n<p>When used responsibly,* however, coffee may be a great boon to health. There are, in fact, over 100 potential health applications of coffee. We have also identified 33 distinct \u2018pharmacological actions\u2019 coffee may activate to produce positive health results. Just make sure its organic and prepared with clean, toxicant-free water.<\/p>\n<p><em>Republished from <a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\">GreenMedInfo.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>*Responsibly could be defined as using it as a medicine, occasionally, versus every day, several times a day. Good luck with that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could coffee do more than just stimulate alertness and stress out the adrenals? 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