Seagreens® Organic MicroGranules
Versatile fine-ground Seagreens® seaweed for nutritional use and on the skin. Add to fruit and vegetable juices and soups or sprinkle on food.
Can also be mixed with a good natural shampoo for your hair and scalp.
To use as a face pack, or for burns, grazes and other skin problems, mix to a moist paste with a little warm water.
Cover the burn, aggravated area, eczema or psoriasis, and apply a plain dressing.
Leave overnight or as long as possible, and repeat as required.
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Seagreens® MicroGranules are prepared from a single wild wrack seaweed called Ascophyllum nodosum. It contains virtually every known nutrient including all the minerals and trace elements, special polysaccharides, growth hormones and numerous betaines.
For this reason seaweed extracts are widely used in medical science, thalassotherapy (seaweed body wraps) and wound dressings and have long been known to improve the bloom of horses, dogs and mink, not to mention human hair, skin and nails.
Unique among seaweed producers, Seagreens® process only live, wild seaweeds on the day of harvest for freshness and purity in human food and body care - the only ocean-to-table seaweed producer in the world approved in accordance with EC biodynamic and organic standards by Demeter for its harvesting, processing and consumer products.
Body Care and Therapeutic Uses
Face pack
Stir a teaspoon of the MicroGranules in a cup, adding a little hot water until a fairly stiff paste is produced which will adhere to the face without dripping off. Apply as you would any normal face pack and allow to dry on the skin, washing off after about 15 minutes.
Burns, dry skin, eczema and other skin problems
Prepare the MicroGranules in the manner of the face pack until a suitably moist, warm paste can be applied to cover the affected area without dripping off even where the skin is grazed or broken.
It is preferable then to dress the area and leave for several hours or if possible overnight.
‘Orange peel’ or cellulite
- As above, make up and apply a generous layer of the MicroGranules as a warm, moist (but not runny) paste over the affected area of skin.
- Cover with a warm, moist cloth or towel, or apply a warm, moist dressing to the affected area, and leave for at least 30 minutes before washing the paste away.
Where possible, it is even better to leave a dressing on overnight.
This species is also the main active component in a very expensive ‘best-selling’ cellulite control product.
For the regulation of body weight and fat reduction
The most likely modes of action are related to improving the digestion, metabolism and hormone system regulation, blood alkalising and cleansing, mineralisation of the skin and cellular balance.
In addition for inner cleanliness and detoxification we recommend 2 Seagreens® Food Capsules or 1g Food Granules every morning for 3 to 6 months.
Effects are extremely subtle and homeostatic and generally apparent within weeks if the person’s health is suboptimal, and within 3 - 6 months if the person is in normal health.
From ‘Healing with Whole Foods’ by Paul Pitchford, North Atlantic Books, 1993
Nutritional Profile/Ingredients - Seagreens® MicroGranules
Ingredients:
100% sustainably wild harvested ascophyllum seaweed - nothing added or extracted.
Microgranules per 2 grams (½ teaspoon) provides:
Protein: 118mg
Carbohydrate: 1110mg of which Dietary Fibre : 995mg (including the non-starch polysaccharides Algin, Fucose, Fucoidan, Mannitol, Methylpentosans, Laminarin, Mannuronic Acid and Chlorophyll
Enzymes: (units) Carbohydrase 90 (pH 8.0), Protease 1124 (pH 8.0)
Essential Fatty Acids (EFA) : Total EPA + DHA Omega-3 1.566mg, Omega-3 3.38mg, Omega-6 10.26mg, Omega-9 25mg, Alpha-linolenic Acid 1mg, Eicosapentenoic Acid 1.57mg
Vitamins: A (antioxidant carotenoids including beta carotene, fucoxanthin and violaxanthin) 178µg, B1 (thiamin) 0.60µg, B2 (riboflavin) 0.10µg, B3 (niacin or vit PP) 118µg, B9 (folate) 572µg, B12 (cobalamin) 0.94µg, C (antioxidant) 99µg, D (cholecalciferol) 0.01µg, E (antioxidant) 27µg, H (biotin) 0.30µg, K (menadione) 10µg
Minerals: Calcium 27mg, Magnesium 16.5mg, Nitrogen 19mg, Phosphorus 1.4mg, Potassium 36.4mg, Sodium 69mg, Sulphur 0.11mg
Trace elements: Antimony 0.10µg, Barium 12.10µg, Boron 196µg, Cerium 0.22µg, Cobalt 1.26µg, Copper 1.12µg, Germanium 0.14µg, Gold 0.10µg, Iodine 1424µg, Iridium trace, Iron 238µg, Lanthanum 0.10µg, Lithium 0.66µg, Manganese 50µg, Molybdenum 1.26µg, Palladium 1.5µg, Platinum trace, Praseodymium 0.224µg, Rhemium 0.26µg, Rubidium 12.40µg, Ruthenium 0.006µg, Scandium trace, Selenium 0.06µg, Silicon 120µg, Silver 0.11µg, Thallium 0.004µg, Tellurium trace, Titanium 4.14µg, Vanadium 7.18µg, Zinc 88µg. A total of 67 mineral elements have been analysed in all Seagreens human food ingredients
Amino Acids: Alanine 3.54mg, Arginine 2.30mg, Aspartic acid 6.60mg, Cystein + Cystine 1.50mg, Glutamic acid 8mg, Glycine 7.70mg, Histidine 0.80mg, Isoleucine 2.12mg, Leucine 3.90mg, Lysine 2.50mg, Methionine 1.50mg, Phenylalanine 2.30mg, Proline 3.56mg, Serine 2.52mg, Threonine 2.56mg, Tryptophan 0.94mg, Tyrosine 1.32mg, Valine 2.90mg
Betaines: Glycine Betaine trace, Gamma Amino Butyric Acid Betaine trace, Delta Amino Valeric Acid Betaine trace, TML (Laminine) trace, L-Carnitine trace, Trigonelline trace, enzymes, lipids, lioproteins and many compound which cannot be artificially replicated or formulated
Note: 1g (gram) = 1000mg (milligram) = 1,000,000µg (microgram)
Nutritional data reproduced by permission of the Copyright holder, Seagreens Ltd, Great Britain.