I’ve written about the Celtic Sea Salts before. This time I’m writing to let you know that our stocks are running low of the Fleur de Sel with Sichuan Pepper – one of the most popular item we’re ever stocked.
When we run out, we can’t just email the Salt Cooperative in Guerande, Brittany. They only offer a collection service so it’s either us or we arrange space in a van, and that adds to the cost.
In so many ways, unrefined salt is essential for our health, especially with women…..
What is the effect of refined salt on women?
From Jacques de Langre the “Salt Doctor: “When trace minerals are absent from the salt a woman uses, ACTH, the adrenocorticotropic hormone, begins to affect her glands, from the pituitary to the adrenal cortex. These strong male hormones, the androgens, become overpowering and tend to change female female characteristics into aggressive male traits by stimulating the adrenal cortex.
There are uniquely feminine internal secretions of the ovaries; the estrogens, the luteins, and the folliculins; when these are replaced by the male androgens, the exquisite femininity disappears. This can all be caused by the use of white refined salt.
Women are highly intuitive by nature. In order to maintain this trait, their food and their salt need to need to be selected differently than for men. Fleur de Sel is an ideal feminine salt. Women become unhappy when they take too much meat, fish, cheese, or refined salt. When they do indulge in these, women will often suffer from menstrual irregularities. If they love at all they usually choose men with passive obedient traits, or other women, often the kind that are also more submissive. Their delicate feminine balance is lost due to the taking of foods and salts that are contrary to the intuitive character of their sex.
The reproductive system functions as well as a calm and harmonious mood in both men and women are influenced and determined by the health of the kidneys. A breakdown in the gonad performance is caused by a failure of the kidneys. The kidneys are very effective filtration organs. Without the continuous cleansing they provide, the blood would become so toxic that a person would die in a matter of days. It is because of their busy schedule that they are often tired and overtaxed.
Refined salt produces pain, aches or tightness in the back, indicating a problem in the kidney function. Nearly everyone who uses refined salt experiences this at some time or another, and a stepped up liquid intake relieves the problem only very briefly. This only compounds the problem, since the kidneys now have a greater volume of water as well as hard refined salt in the form of kidney stones to contend with and try to eliminate. This overwork makes them weaker, resulting in a lowering of sexual energy in both men and women.
Natural salt allows liquids to freely cross membranes, the kidney’s glomerulus and blood vessel walls. Whenever the sodium chloride concentration rises in the blood, the water in the neighbouring tissues is attracted to that salt-rich blood. Then, if they are functioning properly, the kidneys remove the saline fluids easily. Refined salt does not allow this free crossing of liquids and minerals, and causes accumulated fluids to stagnate in joints, producing oedema and chronic kidney problems.”
Fleur de Sel – the caviar of salts, a gift from the ocean that borders on alchemy. This isn’t your average rock in a grinder; no, this is salt with a pedigree, the darling of chefs, the secret handshake of bakers. A whisper of it – a mere pinch – and suddenly flavours that were mumbling in the background are now singing into perfect pitch.
Harvested from the sunlit salt flats by women, Fleur de Sel is neither entirely dry nor entirely wet, but rather something magical in between. Creamy-white, slightly damp, these delicate granules are coaxed from the water’s surface with all the care of handling gossamer, a ritual as old as the salt marshes themselves.
And it shows. The taste? Pure, complex, almost mineral-sweet. The texture? Fine, feathery, an echo of the sea it was born from. Fleur de Sel doesn’t just season – it awakens. It takes a meal, or a dessert, or the edge of a cocktail glass and transforms it, a tiny crystal symphony conducting each bite with an elegance only nature could compose.
Sichuan pepper – nature’s electrifying little paradox. Not really a pepper, mind you, but rather the husky, twisted fruit of the prickly ash tree, beloved by chefs and feared by taste buds across the world. Bite into one, and you’re in for an experience that’s equal parts champagne fizz and a live wire to the tongue. It’s a culinary jolt, a defibrillator for the senses, sparking a sensation that’s neither heat nor spice but a tingling that stuns and soothes in a single bite.
Mixed with Fleur de Sel, the “heat” is slightly diminished so as not to overwhelm any dish.
Sichuan pepper is a trove of health wonders. Beneath that exterior lies a dose of antioxidants that reduce inflammation and boost your immune system. Vitamins A, K, and C. They’re all here, quietly minding your vision, caressing your skin, and stitching up those little nicks and scrapes that life throws at you.
In terms of digestion, Sichuan pepper doesn’t just ask your stomach to dance; it pulls it right out on the floor, coaxing out saliva and gastric juices, easing the process with a touch as precise as a surgeon’s scalpel. Minerals like potassium, iron, and manganese slip in unnoticed, keeping the heart thumping, the bones steadfast, and the blood, well, red.
So, Sichuan pepper – a deliciously numbing paradox; a twist of nature that’s profoundly nourishing.
Graeme Dinnen
ResourcesForLife.net
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