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Blood Thinners And Foods That Thin Your Blood

So you are on blood thinners. You are not the only one. I started looking into the subject and was amazed to find so many people in the U.S. are prescribed these drugs. 

The reason I started looking into this was because my Mother just came home from the hospital after she had heart atrial  fibrillation. That’s when the upper heart chamber sort of goes haywire and sends too many signals for the heart to beat. The heart ends up doing fast beats with sort of quivers in between.

So she ends up having what they call “a conversion” (no that has nothing to do with religion) by shocking her heart back into rhythm. That was scary, but it worked and now she’s back home, but with 4 brand new prescription meds. Everybody at the hospital found it pretty amazing that she has not been on any meds up to this point. She’s 85 years old. 

One of the meds is Coumadin a blood thinner. Warfarin is the generic name for the drug. Another name for it is rat poison. You think I’m kidding but I’m not. Rats are pretty smart they must be poisoned subtly and long-term, like patients. A cumulative moderate overdose of Coumadin causes their blood to be too thin, and the little buggers hemorrhage and die. 

The doctors mentioned that Mom should not eat too much leafy greens because they have vitamin K. (Vitamin K plays an important role in the body’s blood clotting processes.) They conveniently forgot to mention what other foods naturally cause the blood to thin. 

Here is a list of foods that contain salicylates, which are known to help thin the blood.

• Curry powder
• Cayenne pepper
• Ginger
• Paprika
• Cinnamon
• Dill
• Oregano
• Peppermint 

In traditional Indian medicine, these spices are known as the warming herbs. This would make sense since these herbs would cause increased circulation as the blood is thinned and a person would feel warmer. 

Another herb that would help keep your blood thinner and circulating is aged garlic extract. Many studies have been done on Kyolic, which is an aged form of garlic. A personal testimonial of mine is that this extract has lowered the blood pressure of my husband, when so many other things he has tried did not work. 

One other thing I need to mention that has shown benefit to keep blood clots from forming and that is Miracle Mineral Supplement.  Live blood analysis pictures were taken of blood before taking MMS, which showed the blood clumping together. After taking MMS another sample of blood reveled the blood to be much less clumped together. MMS has other benefits, see my other blog post about this supplement.