Homemade salad dressing is medicinal. Here is a recipe that  gives you the right kind of oils and fats.  You can customize your dressing with flavours that add enzymes, good bacteria and antioxidants.

Basic Salad Dressing Recipe

Put all the ingredients in a small bowl and whisk together, or into a jar and shake.

• 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tbs of cold pressed flax oil
• salt to taste, about 1/2 teaspoon
• pepper
• 2 tbs of lemon juice, lime juice, or raw apple, wine, or balsamic vinegar
• 1 teaspoon of dried ground mustard

To test flavour, dip a lettuce leaf into dressing and taste.

Things to add, in any combo you like:

• 3 tbs walnut oil
• 1 tbs whey
  lemon zest
• yogurt
• organic mayonnaise
• dried basil
• dried oregano
• Roquefort cheese, 3 tbs – 1/4 cup
• chopped herbs such as basil, chives, oregano, fennel, tarragon
• 1 clove of garlic, pressed
• Worcestershire sauce

This recipe is based on recipes from
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

Health Properties by Ingredient:

Vinegar

• unpasteurized raw vinegar -  helps with digestion

Flax seed oil

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synergistic effect between cheeses, yogurt and flax seed oil, walnut oil -(the bugwig cancer cure)

• alpha linolenic acid (ALA)
• anti inflammatory

Walnut oil

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• ellagic acid – kills cancer

Extra Virgin Olive Oil (cold pressed)

• oleic acid (the main component of olive oil) has the ability to reduce the effect of an oncogene (a gene that will turn a host cell into a cancer cell). Oleic acid, when combined with drug therapy, encourages the self-destruction of aggressive, treatment-resistant cancer cells, thus helping to combat the cancer. Olive oil has been positively indicated in studies on prostate and endometrial cancers as well.
• polyphenols in extra virgin olive oil are effective in combating breast cancer cells of the HER-2 type.
• only extra virgin olive oil, which is not heated or refined contains polyphenols
  Vit e
  Vit k
  anti inflammatory

Basil

• flavonoids
• orientin
• protects cell structures as well as chromosomes from radiation and oxygen-based damage
• protects against unwanted bacterial growth
• estragole, linalool, cineole, eugenol, sabinene, myrcene, and limonene.
• kills dangerous bacteria that might be in salads
• anti-inflammatory
• protects against free radical damage
• magnesium

Pepper

• improves digestion – by increasing hydrochloric acid in stomach
• antioxidant
• antibacterial
• breaks down fat cells (I’m just saying)

Mustard

• from the Brassica family of vegetables that contain  isothiocyanates  – inhibit the growth of cancer and protects  against the formation of cancer cells
• anti-inflammatory
• selenium – helps prevent cancer
• magnesium
• source of omega-3 fatty acids
• iron, calcium, zinc, manganese, magnesium, protein, niacin and dietary fiber

Lemon and limes

• contains  flavonoid compounds that are antioxidant and anti-cancer
• flavonol glycosides, including kaempferol-related molecules have been shown to stop cell division in many cancer cell lines
• antibiotic effects.
• lemons and limes have shown that cell cycles-including the decision a cell makes about whether to divide (called mitosis) or die (apoptosis-are altered by lime juice, as are the activities of special immune cells called monocytes.
• vitamin C,  antioxidant that  neutralizes  free radicals and  vital to the function of a strong immune system
  In animal studies and laboratory tests with human cells, compounds in lemons and limes, called limonoids have been shown to help fight cancers of the mouth, skin, lung, breast, stomach and colon
  citrus limonoids are potent anti-carcinogens that may prevent cancerous cells from proliferating.

Lemon Zest

• limonene— has shown to reduce in skin cancer – especially important if you’ve had radiation
• contains oxalates so might not be good to take if you have  kidney or gallbladder problem
• contains high concentrations of flavonoid antioxidants and other potent antioxidant compounds
• Lycopene -  protects against  cancers
• naringenin  helps prevent DNA damage and enhances DNA repair  reducing the chances of cancer development
• the phytochemical, nobilitin destroys cancer cells in two ways. It acts as a cytotoxin, killing cancer cells directly,  induces apoptosis and interfers with the cell cycles involved in certain types of liver cancer
• prevents the onset of cancers of the colon, breast and some leukaemias.
• it  exhibits synergism with certain anticancer drugs and reduces the resistance that cancer cells develop to these conventional treatments
• coumarins and  tangeretin have anti tumour  by interfering with the signalling mechanism between the tumour cells
• phytochemicals naringenin and quercetin protect  against NNK which is one of the most potent inducers of lung cancer

Garlic

• allyl sulfur prevents and inhibits cancer growth
• antibacterial properties
• blocks the formation of cancer-causing substances
• halts the activation of cancer-causing substances
• reduces cancer cell proliferation, and induces cancer cell death

Roquefort cheese

• lots of types of blue cheeses will be healthy
• I’m recommending Roquefort  because it is made with sheep’s milk that is not pasteurized or homogenized
• lauric Acid
• good bacteria

Salt
I use natural sea salt because it has trace minerals
Your homemade dressing will have much less salt then bottled dressing

Oregano
antioxidant
antimicrobial

Whey
contains (GSH) which has an anti tumour effect

All herbs have medicinal properties...you get the idea…

Peace