Peach Smoothie

It’s peach season. Peaches, like most foods, can be an important part of our medicine chest. These fruits have energetic properties that can be used therapeutically. Traditional practices of herbal medicine always used energetics to better understand how to use herbs as well as food.

In herbalism, almost the entire peach tree can be used in a variety of ways.

Peach is a traditional remedy that has been gaining well-deserved attention from the herbal community in the last several years. This aromatic herb is both tasty and effective, and its calming and cooling properties give it a wide range of applicability. It has the ability to calm anxiety, heal wounds, soothe nausea and even moderate histamine reactions. The leaves, bark, flowers and even the fruit pits of this well known tree provide us an with an amazing array of healing actions that culminate in Peach.

If you had more peaches than you knew what to do with, you could use them externally as a facial. Simply mash up the peach fruit, spread on the face, let dry, and then rinse.

So back to peaches and the peach smoothie recipe.

Ingredients

4 large peaches halves. 

100gm raspberries , plus a few for garnish.

100ml orange juice.

150ml fresh custard , plus a spoonful for garnish.

 

Method

1. Drain and rinse peaches and place in a blender with raspberries. Add orange juice and fresh custard and whizz together.
   
   
2. Pour over ice, garnish with another spoonful of custard and a few raspberries. Best served chilled.