Remedies

“In African people can’t afford to pay a dollar a day for a malarial drug from a Western corporation, and their infrastructure is not going to support producing the drug themselves. They need to do something else. So in Nigeria, for example, researchers asked local healers what herbs they were using. The researchers ran tests to find the best ones and the most effective methods of preparation. Then they took the seeds to people and told them how to grow and use the plants. That’s not the Star Trek vision of the future that a lot of Americans want, but it’s the most ecologically sound and empowering.

In essence the use of plant medicines is based on a deeper knowledge of our limitations, and on the awareness that death is built into the system. It is irksome to many that something larger than ourselves is putting limits on us. One of the main signs of maturity is coming to accept those kinds of limits — without bitterness, blame, or anger.

Antibiotics have built an artificial wall of defense around the human species. As the bacteria become resistant, the chemical wall must be made stronger, which leads to greater resistance. Every year it takes more and more energy to keep that wall in place. When it comes down, there will be hell to pay, and we will be out of credit.

Bacteria are developing resistance more rapidly every year. It used to take decades for bacteria to develop resistance to a newly introduced antibiotic. Now it takes six months.”

– Stephen Buhner

Before delving into any treatment, it is important to understand how simple vitamin C protocol can provide a foundation for healing.

Another proactive prevention during cold and flu season should be bi-weekly doses of elderberry syrup.  Perhaps 1-2 T per dose for an adult.  I like Wellness Mama’s recipe, but would use up to twice the amount of elderberries.

Of course the first line of defense is our diet and lifestyle.  Half the plate filled with fresh organic vegetables is the place to start.  As much fruit as one wants.  I believe in also eating Weston A Price foods like daily fermented cod liver oil (I use capsules), animal or shellfish offal, grass-fed butter and animal fats, and lots of bone and meat stocks.  We need to change our paradigm about consuming processed sugar and stop consuming it.   Finally, anytime we ingest mold, it could be hindering the healing processes of our body, so it is a good idea to stay away from all processed grain products, nut butters, and syrups that can grow mold, unless they are made fresh at home.

There are so many ways we can care for and heal ourselves and our loved ones at home, but if hospitalization is ever needed, be prepared!  Read my post on how to best prepare and handle these situations. 

 

If someone is sick and hospitalized or can’t prep all the meals themselves, here are some great options to maintain the nutrition they need

If someone is on a feeding tube, here are some options:

Ways to Learn to Help Your Child through Fevers and Infections, such as Whooping Cough, etc.

World Wide Choice – Homeopathic Prophylaxis & Infectious Disease information.

Family Homeopathy Care – Chaska, MN or online.  Offers information on how to properly use homeopathy as prophylaxis (the use of highly diluted substances for the purpose of educating the immune system in a gentle, non-toxic way. These are completely natural; contain no foreign cells, no antibiotics, no preservatives, no adjuvents, and no chemicals of any kind.)  Also teaches how to use homeopathy as a healing aid during infections.

www.sophiami-chaelremedies.com – A website created by Dr. Kelly Sutton, M.D., offering a wide range of resources for holistic support and care of a child.

If you still feel you need something to replace vaccination, watch the film “Real Immunity” for information.

Conditions (and their remedies) listed in Alphabetical Order
  • ADHD –  bakopa (water hyssop).  improves focus.
  • Acne or Other Skin Problems
    • Consider reading former FBI Agent Melissa’s book “The Hidden Cause of Acne: How Toxic Water Is Affecting Your Health and What You Can Do about It”.  The author had severe cystic acne until she eliminated fluoride from her water and diet.
    • mix 1 tsp powdered sodium ascorbate vitamin c (NOT ascorbic acid) into 100mL of water (make fresh every day).  Make a paste and put it on before you go to sleep.  Use a pillowcase that is not white as it can turn the white fabric orange.  Try eliminating seed oils from your diet, such as canola, sunflower, etc.  These oils are damaged, and have gone through deodorization processes to eliminate odors or tastes that would normally alert you to the fact that they are damaged or rancid.  The deodorization and other processes also cause them to contain the dreaded trans fat.
  • Allergies
  • Antibiotic – instead of the pharmaceutical antibiotics that kill all bacteria (good and bad) and drive the most virulent strains of bacteria to survive and mutate (MERSA), try a probiotic formula in tandem with manuka honey (MERSA), berberine, etc. Cryptolepis Sanguinolenta herb can be used to save people from antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection that are extremely serious.
  • Anxiety – theonine amino acid
  • Asthma – lots of real salt (himalayan salt, etc) in water.  Ginkgo herb.
  • Autism (“encephalopathy” – medical term for brain damage or a change in brain functioning) –  according to Dr. Klinghardt, the treatment for autism is the same as for Lyme disease, and other retro-virus diseases, such as ME, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, autoimmune disease, MS, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.   Dr. Klinghardt says that lyme disease is not a bacterial illness it is an activation of retroviruses caused by the bacterial infection.  Dr. Klinghardt says that currently the priorities should be:
    • EMFs – remove them from environment, then
    • Detox aluminum using 1) high-silica rich water like Starky, 2) liposomal silica like Biosil, 3) ionic footbath which increases aluminum excretion over 600% by day three, 4) homeopathic aluminum, and 5) use ideal binders like Ecklonia Cava to extract aluminum from the gut, and it is also an ideal retroviral agent, which has been used in traditional Chinese and Korean medicine.  Dr. Klinghardt says this is the ultimate binder which on its own has fantastic anti-virus effects.  it binds to mercury, aluminum, and glyphosate in the gut.  I also like this article on ionic foot baths.
    • MMS – Keri Rivera’s work with this still stands, though everyone that used it has been severely prosecuted by medical boards and others.
    • Probiotics like Bravo yogurt, and Thrive.  To get glyphosate out of the body, he uses Restore (which is a peet extract with humid and fulvic acid), or a more concentrated version called Matrix Minerals by Biopure.  He says another option for glyphosate is high doses of glycine, which competes with glyphosate in the body. Bone broth is high in proline and glycine.
    • Broccoli sprouts have resulted in great improvements in autistic young men in one study, and that these sprouts are also an effective anti-retrovirus agent.  heaping Tablespoon of chopped sprouts, twice a day is the adult dose.  children take a little less. when sprouts are 2″ tall, they have the optimum amount of all the precursrs of all the empty autism agents that need to be in there.
    • Cistus incanus (Ci) (Mediterranian Rockrose) tea, found in Italy, Greece and Turkey.  It is the only brush that has not only survived years of drought in Sardinia but prospered.  6 cups a day of this tea, there is a transformation in autistic children in a few weeks. this is also a strong anti-lyme agent. when they gave to HIV patients that failed convetional patients, they all recovered, just with the tea.  the sistos tea must come from keysines, whcih is the only truly organic sistus.  you can also grind up and put in food if you don’t drink tea.  Dr. Klinghardt says there is a study done in Germany, showing that dogs that drink this tea have less ticks.  The ticks seem to be repelled when this tea is ingested internally.
    • Sold on the Sophia Institute shop page, Marco Ruggiero developed a cream that has all the bio-active molecules to silence the human andogenous retroviruses: which can be found at sophia nutrition.  Could see changes after 6 weeks of use (neck)
    • Bicholine extract form skullcap  by KiScience – Judy Mikovitz looked into plain derived compounds that treat retroviruses, and found this to be effective.
    • St. john’s wort is completely capable of treating HIV and other rtreoviruses.
    • Green tea, reishi mushrooms, stinging nettle, olive leaf, bitter melon are put together in retro-V from KiScience.
    • Suramin is a way to treat autism, but parents need to band together and get the legislators to approve the use.  Dr. Klinghardt uses Suramin in injection form, usually twice, each one 6 weeks apart.  After that the B-5 and choline are used.
    • Cannabis oil (like the kind Rick Simpson makes) is also an excellent anti-retroviral tool.
    • Pantethine is fat-soluble form of B-5 which is the only vitamin consistently used on all autistic children that is shutting down the retroviruses.
    • Luteolin (Dr. Antonucci) mixed with PEA – powerful retroviral agent and PEA increases anandamide – corrects the end-cannaboid system.  His glial-centered products are helpful to some after 6 weeks.   PEA is simple safe tool that does something we’ve looked for for 30 years.
    •  Licorice is the most meaningful intravenous item.  Ozone has strong antiviral effect, but licorice is effective.  Klinghardt only recommends IVs for adults.
    • Selenium in amino-acid bound form, selenocysteine.
    • Vagal nerve stimulation is an anti-inflammatory strategy / 5 day treatment with headphones.
    • Calamus herb
    • Finally, Klinghardt uses anti-viral drugs (like truvada) in autism and if kids are obstructing treatment and one can’t do the other things.
    • Blogs / Facebook Pages
    • Web Sites
    • Groups
    • Videos
    • Books
  • AutoImmune – Reishi mushroom, Wormwood, Nutrient dense salts like Himalayan.   For Rheumatoid: Andrographis paniculata, Tripterygium (thunder God Vine).  For MS: Andrographis paniculata, rhodora, okra, ashwaganda, gotukola: high-dose, vit. c: high-dose, healthy fats.  For Parkinson’s: ashwaganda, gotukola, Mucuna pruriens (a bean) will increase dopamine, but without the side effects of pharma drug.  To treat the brain’s inability to create dopamine is addressed with herbs for general brain health.
  • Alzheimers – huperzia club moss extract might help as a memory aid, it might not.  Check out Dr. Bredesen’s work to reverse alzheimer’s.
  • Birth – mother should drink fennel tea
  • Blood Pressure
    • Regular fasting will lower blood pressure and keep it low.  check out Stephen Buhner’s book on fasting.
    • Chiropractic – studies that show that one adjustment can lower blood pressure by 17 pointsCertain kinds of simple, focused meditation will lower it.
    • Many herbs, such as hawthorn and garlic too.
    • While most people try to cut back on salt to lower their pressure, a better strategy may be to cut out sugar add these healthy foods to the menu.  
      • 1. ChocolateMany studies prove that cocoa products can lower blood pressure.  In a German meta-analysis of 10 randomized controlled trials the mean drop in blood pressure was 4.5 mmHg for systolic pressure and 2.5 mmHg for diastolic pressure over 2 to 18 weeks.Dark chocolate is particularly effective.  An Australian meta-analysis of 13 randomized studies concluded that dark chocolate is more effective than a placebo in lowering blood pressure.  Among hypertensive or pre-hypertensive patients, eating chocolate dropped systolic pressure as much as 8.0 mmHg and diastolic pressure as much as 4.9 mmHg.And it doesn’t take much dark chocolate to make a difference.  In a randomized, controlled study published in JAMA 44 patients with hypertension or pre-hypertension were given one small square of dark or white chocolate with just 30 calories.  After 18 weeks the dark chocolate reduced mean systolic pressure by 2.9 mmHg and diastolic pressure by 1.9 mmHg.  There were no changes in the white chocolate group.Researchers give credit to flavanols (primarily epicatechin) for the blood pressure lowering effects of chocolate.[i]  In a study in the journal BMJ 21 volunteers were given either a high flavanol (701 mg) or low-flavanol (22 mg) cocoa beverage.  After a 10-minute exercise session, mean blood pressure increases were 14 percent lower for those drinking the high-flavanol chocolate.A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that chocolate also contains procyanidins that increase nitric oxide production and relax blood vessels.Chocolate also saves lives.  A study of 470 elderly men in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that those eating the most chocolate didn’t just lower their blood pressure compared to those eating the least. Chocolate slashed the risk of cardiovascular death in half.2. Olive Oil

        The SUN Project is a prospective cohort study in Spain whose members are all university graduates. Data from 6,863 participants, with at least two years of follow-up, showed that among men, hypertension was up to 75 percent lower for those eating more olive oil compared to those eating the least.

        And in a randomized, single-blinded and placebo-controlled trial from the University of Massachusetts, 41 overweight or obese participants were asked to replace their regular dietary fat with either olive oil or a control mixture of corn, soybean oil and butter.  After three months the olive oil group dropped their diastolic pressure by an average of 3 mmHg and systolic pressure by an average of 6 mmHg.

        3. Beets

        Beets lower blood pressure significantly thanks to high levels of dietary nitrates. The British Heart Foundation funded a study of 68 patients with hypertension.  Half the patients received 250 ml (about a cup) of beetroot juice or a placebo juice containing no nitrates.  Blood pressure in the nitrate group dropped a mean amount of 8.1/3.8 mmHg.  In addition, endothelial function improved by about 20 percent and arterial stiffness was reduced in the nitrate group but not in the placebo group.

        Another recent prospective study of 1546 non-hypertensive subjects, aged 20-70 years, collected data on the amount of nitrate-containing vegetables people ate every day. After three years those who ate the most nitrate-rich veggies cut the risk of hypertension by 37 percent compared to those who ate the least.

         

        4. Garlic

        Adding garlic to your diet can help reduce blood pressure.  In a meta-analysis of seven randomized, placebo-controlled trials researchers found a significant blood pressure effect of garlic.  On average systolic pressure dropped 6.71 mmHg and diastolic pressure dropped 4.79 mmHg.

        Garlic’s effects on blood pressure are dose dependent. An Australian study looked at 79 patients with uncontrolled systolic hypertension.  Patients were divided in four groups and every day received either a placebo, or one, two, or four capsules of aged garlic extract (240, 480, or 960 mg per day).  The dose of 2 capsules per day (480 mg) was most effective, lowering mean systolic blood pressure by 11.8 mmHg.

        In fact, garlic rivals blood pressure medications.  In a study of 210 hypertensive patients, garlic tablets significantly reduced blood pressure compared to the drug atenolol. And unlike drugs, garlic is safe and well tolerated.

         

        5. Watermelon

        Studies show that watermelon lowers blood pressure. A pilot study from The Florida State University gave 9 pre-hypertensive people six grams a day of the amino acid L-citrulline from watermelon extract.  All of the patients showed improved arterial function and lower aortic blood pressure.

        Because it is rich in potassium, watermelon also helps keep salt from raising blood pressure. It also contains lycopene, a powerful antioxidant associated with heart health, healthy arteries and blood flow. Other studies show that watermelon extract improves aortic blood pressure.

        6. Pomegranate Juice

        In an Israeli study 101 kidney disease patients were randomized to receive 100 cc (a little over three ounces) of pomegranate juice or a placebo drink every day.  After one year systolic blood pressure was significantly lower in the pomegranate juice group but not in the placebo group. Researchers concluded that drinking pomegranate juice regularly reduces systolic blood pressure and may reduce atherosclerosis.

        Another Israeli study found that one year of drinking pomegranate juice reduced systolic blood pressure by 12 percent.

        7. Chokeberry Juice

        Studies also prove polyphenols in fruit juices have a positive impact on blood pressure.  In one study drinking 400 ml (about 13 ounces) of chokeberry juice significantly lowered blood pressure after just four weeks.

         

        8. Pistachio Nuts

        A meta-analysis of 21 randomized controlled trial concluded that nuts lower blood pressure. Pistachios had the strongest effect on reducing systolic and diastolic pressure.

        9. Coconut Water

        In a study from the West Indies hypertensive patients who drank coconut water had significant drops in blood pressure in just two weeks. Of those drinking coconut water, 71 percent had significant decreases in systolic pressure, and 29% had significant decreases in diastolic pressure.

        10. Flaxseeds

        Flaxseeds contain omega-3 fats, lignans, and fiber that provide benefits to patients with cardiovascular disease.  A meta-analysis of 11 studies found that eating flaxseed products reduced blood pressure.

        In one prospective, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized trial, 110 patients consumed a variety of foods that contained 30 grams of milled flaxseed or placebo each day.  After six months systolic pressure went down about 10 mmHg and diastolic pressure dropped about 7 mmHg in the flaxseed group.  The effect was even greater in patients with systolic pressure above 140 mmHg at the start of the study. Researchers concluded that flaxseed induced one of the most potent antihypertensive effects achieved by a dietary intervention.

        11. Whole Grains

        Diets rich in fiber may lower blood pressure.  In one study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, people eating three portions of whole-grain foods per day decreased their systolic pressure by 6 mmHg and diastolic pressure by 3 mmHg after just 12 weeks. Researchers estimated that the blood pressure improvement from whole grains could decrease the incidence of coronary artery disease by more than 15 percent and stroke by more than 25 percent.

        12.  Sesame Oil

        In a study of 50 hypertensive patients in India, switching to sesame oil for 45 days brought blood pressure levels back to normal.  And when patients stopped using sesame oil their blood pressure returned to their higher levels in 45 days.

        Another study from Greece found that using 35 grams per day of sesame oil decreased systolic blood pressure in just 15 days.  It decreased central and peripheral diastolic pressures in just one hour following meals.

         

        13. Hibiscus Tea

        In a double-blind randomized controlled trial 60 diabetic patients were assigned to drink two cups of hibiscus tea or black tea a day.  After 30 days the hibiscus tea lowered systolic pressure by a mean of 22 mmHg and pulse pressure by 18 mmHg.  Black tea drinkers saw their pressure increase.

        Many other studies prove the power of fruits and vegetables to improve vascular function as well as to lower blood pressure.  Researchers credit phytochemicals and potassium among other things for the hypertensive benefits of fruits and vegetables.

        A Harvard analysis of data from more than 180,000 people in the two Nurses’ Health Studies and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study compared people who ate four or fewer servings of fruits and vegetables a week with those who ate four or more servings a day.  People eating more whole fruits were eight percent less likely to develop hypertension.  Those who ate more vegetables were five percent less likely to have high blood pressure.

        Fruits and vegetables that have been proven to lower blood pressure include:

        14. Gazpacho Soup

        15. Kiwi Fruit

        16. Blueberries

        17. Concord Grapes

        Spices can also regulate blood pressure.

        18.  Cinnamon.

        In a British study of diabetics, taking two grams of cinnamon significantly reduced blood pressure in just 12 week.

        19. Cardamom

        In a study from India, patients with stage one hypertension were given three grams of cardamom powder a day in two divided doses.  After 12 weeks the cardamom significantly lowered both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Researchers also reported that all of the patients experienced a feeling of well-being without any side-effects.

  • Burn – marigold honey salve?
  • Brain & Cognitive (Memory, etc). 
    • Gotukola – drink as a tea or as a saag or creamed spinach.  To support elders, use 30g daily, but can use up to 60 or 90g for those with severe decline.  Source from Oregon, USA rather than Asia.
    • Rosemary – smaller culinary doses (in foods!) improve memory quite a bit
    • Frankincense –
    • Anything that improves heart health improves brain function.
    • Calamus – memory enhancer – just a couple grams a day
    • Ashwaganda
    • For more serious issues:
  • Cancer

Dr. Cowan’s thoughts on the current theories upon which modern cancer treatments are based Book: Cancer & The New Biology Of Water

  • “Oncogene” or “somatic mutation” theory came to light in 1971
    • Mutation in a somatic chromosome, which drives the cancer
  • Actual results: everyone has different somatic mutations
  • Biotech industry is based on finding problematic mutations, which are impossible to decipher
  • After 40 years of war on cancer, over 95% of treatment has nothing to do with the oncogene theory
  • Oncogenes are not the root cause of cancer when you get right down to it
  • Mutations are a consequenceof an improperly functioning cell, not the cause of it
  • When you transfer the nuclei from a cancerous cell to a healthy cell, the healthy cell will not become cancerous; however, if you transfer the cytoplasm from a cancerous cell, the healthy cell will develop cancer

The form of water while it’s inside the cytoplasm

  • It’s gel-like, not the forms we usually think
  • It’s a mesh that binds to the potassium in the cell, excludes the sodium, and maintains the sodium/potassium gradient
  • Structured water forms similar to Jello
  • ATP molecule acts as the heat that activates the gel (energy currency)
  • Watery matrix the DNA resides in is what determines which part of the DNA will be expressed
  • The DNA is an expression of an “idea” or a creator, and the “idea” is the water
  • Always start with the charge: walk barefoot, swim in the ocean, sunlight, expose to heat and cold, mineral water

 If you have cancer, or think you have cancer, or think you might get cancer, which is basically everybody, then you should drink deuterium-depleted water to get your deuterium levels which are testable down to around 135 (salivary test for deuterium-depletion, PPM, Source Energetix DDW salivary test)  The logistics of it are going to be tricky. But the theory of it and the practice of it is very simple. You can even eat deuterium-depleted diets, which turns out fats have less deuterium than carbohydrates. So, you’re more carbohydrates, the more deuterium. The more you get fuel from fat, the more deuterium-depleted water you generate in your cells.

A guy named Birkmayer whose father developed Cellion Birkmayer NADH (oral) therapy for neurodegenerative disease and Parkinson’s back in Austria in the ’50s, and the effect on Parkinson’s is dramatic. And eventually, they came up with a reduced form of NAD called NADH, which they have number of studies with Parkinson’s, with cancer patients, with prostate hypertrophy, with chronic fatigue, with fibromyalgia. And it’s all very simple. The rate-limiting step–and again, let’s put it in context. If you have the right hydrogen water in your cells, H2O, that’s structured properly, you’re a healthy person. As soon as you put junk in there, as soon as you put electromagnetic fields, as soon as you deteriorate the gels, you get sick.

The other thing you need is ATP, which is formed in the mitochondria, which is why there’s a connection. And the rate-limiting step in the formation of ATP is the hydrogen, and the main hydrogen donor is NADH. Well, NADH lets it get absorbed into the cell, into the mitochondria. It donates the hydrogen and allows the energy generation to go as needed. And therefore, you also form hydrogen water or H2O, which then is able to be structured properly.

You could try:

  • Marine plasma water
  • Shilajit-Mumijo
  • Quinton water from Quicksilver Scientific (use code: GREENFIELD10)
  • Quinton water from Dr. Slovak’s Water And Wellness website (use code: GREENFIELD for a 10% discount)

Mistletoe – helixor.com

Teas

  • For all cancers, drink teas to cleanse the blood: red clover, chaparral, burdock root, dandelion root, and echinacea. Wherever the cancer is causing the biggest problem, add another herb to drive the cleansing herbs to that area. For example, if you have brain cancer, add gingko or gotu kola. If you have liver cancer, add milk thistle. If you have pancreas cancer, add bilberry. If you have cancer in the uterus, add chaste tree berry or dong xua.
    • skin, on the face 
      • “I learned the use of a traditional herb for it from a Mexican curandera many years ago. The root of Swertia radiata — also known as monument plant or green gentian — is finely powdered, then mixed with Vaseline (nothing else will do) and applied to the cancer. It’s left covered for three days. Once the bandage is removed, the cancer generally comes with it or lifts off with minimal effort. I have never had that treatment fail. It is easy, efficient, and noninvasive.” – Stephen Buhner
      • Cannabis Paste (aka Rick Simpson Oil (RSO), also known as FECO) – see below
      • milkweed /penny spurge (euphorbia pleba). break the stem and placed a couple of drops on the skin cancer being careful not to let it get on the healthy skin and cause redness. Let it air dry and didn’t cover it. The process doesn’t work like bs as it blisters and scabs but by memory there’s no oozing or eschar, just a scab that falls off.  important to wash your hands well so you don’t get any in your eyes accidentally rubbing them, as it is with the black salve. Expect to wake up next day with redness which will turn to scabbing, which will eventually fall off. It is effective, but perhaps not as much as Black Salve. Not certain.
      • Join a Black Salve facebook support group
    • Glioma brain tumors – Banerjis at the Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation in Kolkata, India Protocol: Ruta graveolens 6C and Calcarea phosphorica 3X. MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston in 2003, department of molecular genetics published study in the International Journal of Oncology – found that this combo induced cmolete regression of tumors in six ouf ot he seven glioma patients who took part in the study (86%)
    • Liver Cancer –  a study that tested the efficacy of the remedies Carcinosinum and Natrum sulphuricum in protecting mice against the development of liver cancer induced by chronic feeding with the carcinogenic dye p-dimethylaminoazobenzene and phenobarbital found that while each of the remedies had a protective effect, the combination of the two remedies administered together had an even greater beneficial effect.10,11
      • 10. Bhattacharjee N, Banerjee P, Anisur RK. Homeopathic drugs Natrum sulphuricum and Carcinosin prevent azo dye-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in mice. Indian J Biochem Biophys 2009;46(4):307-318.
      • 11. Mueller M. Is homeopathy an effective cancer treatment? The American Homeopath, Vol. 18, 2012.
    • Prostate Cancer – peer-reviewed journal Integrative Cancer Therapies published a study on Copenhagen rats inoculated with prostate cancer cells and subsequently treated for five weeks with homeopathic protocols. This study found that the homeopathic remedies appeared to “significantly slow the progression of cancer and reduce cancer incidence and mortality” in the treated rats.8 The same journal published another article in July 2011 describing a study of the effects of Ruta 200C, Carcinosinum 200C, Hydrastis 200C, Thuja 200C and Thuja 1M on cancer cells in tumor-bearing mice.9 This study concluded that the “ultradiluted” homeopathic medicines produced a variety of effects that contributed to tumor cell apoptosis, thereby reducing tumor size.9
      • 8. Jonas WB, Gaddipati JP, Rajeshkumar NV, et al. Can homeopathic treatment slow prostate cancer growth? Integr Cancer Ther 2006;5(4): 343-349.Prostate Cancer – 
      • 9. Preethi K, Ellanghiyil S, Kuttan G, Kuttan R. Induction of apoptosis of tumor cells by some potentiated homeopathic drugs: implications on mechanism of action. Integr Cancer Ther 2012;11(2): 172-182.
    • Rectal cancer
      • University of Florida, examining 52,519 people under the age of 50 with rectal cancer. The study found that the current recommended treatment of rectal cancer (chemo and radiation) provides ZERO survival benefits.  One key finding of that study is that rectal cancer is biologically different in young people, possibly due to microbiome changes.
      • Colorectal cancer patients have been found to have low levels of a protective bacteria called Lachnospiraceae, and high levels of a cancer-promoting bacteria called Fusobacterium. Fusobacterium is known to elicit an inflammatory immune response, and can invade epithelial cells and change DNA pathways, in a bad way.Lachnospiraceae, the good bacteria, is a type of clostridia that feeds on plant matter (fiber) and produces a short-chain fatty acid called butyrate. Butyrate is known to have substantial anti-tumorigenic properties, including the ability to inhibit tumor cell proliferation.What feeds the good bacteria? Starch and fiber from plant foods, and eugenol, a compound found in cinnamon, basil, and cloves. Some studies indicate that eugenol is the key to thickening the mucosal lining in your gut, so that bad bacteria like Fusobacterium can’t penetrate it.
      • Another study indicates that periodontal disease-causing bacteria (including Fusobacterium) may be connected to CRC, and are found at high levels in tumors.CRC patients with elevated levels of Fusobacterium have especially poor survival rates.So, how do we get rid of cancer-promoting Fusobacterium?Starve it!A diet high in animal products (even the grass-fed, organic kind), and low in starch and fiber, feeds Fusobacterium. Simply eliminating animal foods from your diet and replacing them with plant foods (fruits and vegetables, and especially starches like legumes, tubers, and whole grains), can lead to dramatic decreases in Fusobacterium within days!I also found a study about a single plant food that can KILL Fusobacterium – wild blueberries. Yes!A 2015 study found that there are many plant phytochemicals which have inhibiting effects on different types of periodontal pathogens including Fusobacterium. Curcumin and quercetin were the most potent.
      • Jeff Leach, founder of the Human Food Project and author of Rewild. Leach tested his poop for 365 days on all sorts of diets like paleo, raw vegan, vegetarian, Jenny Craig, high fat/low carb, and more. He even lived with the Hadza tribe and got a fecal transplant from one of them!One thing that stood out was how easily and dramatically he could shift his microbiome with fiber. Leach found that the average paleo dieter eats a measly 19-25 grams of fiber per day. He also found that vegans eat about 43 grams of fiber per day, and an Africans eat up to 130!Leach also found that low carb diets do not include enough fiber to ferment in the gut and produce butyrate and feed the protective gut bacteria Lachnospiraceae.
    • Any cancer
      • watch “The Truth About Cancer” by Ty Bollinger to get the most up to date treatments
      • watch Chris Warck’s “Square One” program
      • read Chris Warck’s “20 questions for your oncologist”.  He also has a new book published in 2018.
      • Seek help from doctors such as Dr. Raymond Hilu in Spain who identifies the imbalances of the cells using a special microscope, Dr. Leigh Erin Conneally,
      • Homeopathy.  Researchers have studied a number of other homeopathic medicines and found them to be effective in the reduction of cancerous cells and tumors. These homeopathic medicines include Lycopodium clavatum, Phosphorus, Chelidonium majus, Gelsemium sempervirens, Natrum sulphuricum, Secale cornutum, Polygala senega and Conium maculata.  Dr. Prasanta Banerji Homoeopathic Research Foundation (PBHRF). Types of cancers treated at PBHRF.  http://www.pbhrfindia.org/cancer-and-the-banerji-protocols/types-of-cancers-treated-at-pbhrf.html
      • Cannabis paste (aka FECO, or RSO) – 100 grams of cannabis plant will yield about = 7-8 grams oil, (would need 800g/1.76 pounds of cannabis plant to yield 60g of paste).  You will need 8-9 liters of solvent for 450 grams of cannabis plant. So, if one is making 60 grams of oil, you will need 15 liters or 3.96 gallons of solvent.  The males should be taken out and the buds shouldn’t be seeded….if the males are taken out and and they aren’t seeded there will be much more resin on them, which is optimum.  1 kg of low quality cannabis plant will yield 70-80 grams, but 1 kg of high quality cannabis plant will yield 175 – 200+ grams. heavy indica strains are the appropriate strains to use.  90%+ THC is good. CBD can be 2 – 4%. CBN can be 2%. most cannabinoids are only there in trace, like 1/100th of a %. and that is fine.  Cost of cannabis plant: use $250/oz as your max price.  It’s good to have a budget, or know the standard rate, when there is no price tag and you have no experience to inform.  If the total 1.5 lbs. of cannabis plant price was haggled to $3K, it would be $125/oz. 
        • Rub or ‘wash’ the cannabis plant in the solvent for at least three minutes both times,then filter the solvent through a cloth, then through a coffee filter.
        • first pour solvent over the plant just to dampen it. then break up the buds with your hands.
        • Pour the solvent  into the rice cooke,r which should never get above 120 C/248 degrees F.   Always run a fan over the top of the rice cooker – always do this outside.  add a few drops of water as the solvent cooks down and mostly disappears. then you’ll see foam.  Then you’ll see steam as the solvent burn off to almost nothing. Then the bubbles will be gone. turn the heat up to make sure all bubbling activity is gone.
        • start consuming a half grain of rice worth of paste, every 8 hours (3x/day).  after 4 days, double the amount. after 4 days, double dose again. Working your way up to 1/3g every 8 hours, so it is 1g/day. Do this until 60 – 180g is consumed. (maintenance 1-2g/month.
        • Solvents people use are alcohol -the highest proof you can find…190 proof, but if you can’t find that 151 will work, it will just take longer to make.  (like everclear?) or benzene.
      • MRET water – device invented by Dr. Smirnov
      • Coffee enemas for detoxification of colon and liver, done while the patient is juicing (Gerson therapy)
      • Laetril (B17) – has to be done in conjunction with hyperthermia.  When done with hyperthermia, the effects of B17 go up 7-10-fold.
      • Greens, fruits, seeds
      • Budwig Protocol – flax oil mixed with cottage cheese so the flax seed is more absorbable.  Flax oil has a negative charge, and so do the cells in the intestine…the cottage cheese has a positive charge.  So when the flax oil is mixed very well with the cottage cheese, the body more easily absorbs the flax oil.
      • Avoid all commercial products on your body.
      • micronutrients as identified by Dr. Rath and Dr. Niedzwiecki, such as vitamin C, lysine, and others
      • dendritic cell ‘vaccine’ as used by Dr. Rashid Buttar and others, including many in Germany and elsewhere in Europe
      • anti-neoplaston treatment by dr. Stanlislaw Burzynski in Texas
  • Cardiomyopathy – Selenium, Zinc and Co-Q-10 – 300 mg/ day.
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  • Colic – rub baby’s belly with dill seed oil.  Nursing mom should avoid cabbage, garlic, onions, hot spices, and should drink fennel seed tea.
  • Constipation – Many people struggle when their children have constipation.  They try prunes, and oil and other things which the children hate.  Try adding vitamin C, 1g for every year of age, and see what effect it has on the constipation.  As Suzanne Humphries teaches, this should be given in installments, over the course of a day, perhaps every 2-4 hours.  When the child begins to feel or hear rumbling in their stomach or experience diarrhea, decrease the total daily amount to 50-90% of what it was.
  • Diabetes
    • nutrition: drink bilberry leaves (also called huckleberry leaves or blue raspberry leaves). Goldenseal makes a chemical called inulin which turns into insulin. String beans from Africa, if juiced, 4oz is equal to 4 units of insulin. Mineral to take is vanadyl sulfate. You have to take more than what is on the label — 4 tablets, 4 times a day, for 4 months. And of course keeping a strict diet of unprocessed foods.
    • breathing: https://www.wimhofmethod.com/blog/breathing-blood-sugar
  • Flu or Cold
    • at the onset take:
      • homeopathic remedies Aconitum 200 mixed with Bryonia 30.  I don’t know how frequent this needs to be used….every 15 min?  every 3 hours?
      • High-Dose vitamin C
      • elderberry syrup – Wellness Mama has a great recipe.  Should decrease period with symptoms, shown in peer-reviewed studies.
      • if patient has sever body aches and pains, Rhus tox 30, or perhaps Eupatorium 30, could also be useful if fever.
      • Astralagus 30 – 45g, taken as a tea, eaten in soups, etc.
    • to prepent cold or flu
      • start putting stralagus in soups in fall and winter.  It activates the immune system through biomimicry, so that the immune system thinks it looks like an invader, and kick into gear, so to speak.
      • forage for your local reishi mushroom in the woods.  In the USA, Asia and other places, you can find Ganoderma tsugae, which is also known as the Hemlock Varnish Shelf.  Put it out in the sun so it will produce vitamin D2 within itself, and then use half of to make a tincture, and use the other half to make a decoction.  The tincture draws out the terpenes, and the decoction draws out different medicinal properties.  You can then use them both.  It is considered a longevity herb.
      • If you take mushrooms like reishi and chaga, daily, the polysaccharides in the mushrooms allow your white blood cell to develop at least seven different immunological ‘weapons’ that they didn’t have before.  On day 100 your immune system will be changed…on day 1,000 you will have transformed immunity.  This is very important for those with dysregulation in autoimmune diseases.
      • All summer-long, eat dandelion leaves.  Dandelion leaves have PREbiotic called inulin, which is food for the good bacteria that we WANT in our microbiome.  If you eat these leaves all spring and summer (hopefully every day), and if you eat burdock root, chicory root, dandelion roots, and sunchokes in fall, your immune system will have a huge population of good bacteria, as you’ve nourished them every day.  I name these things because they grow EVERYWHERE and that means you don’t have to expend any effort, you just have to allow them to grow in your yard or on your land so you can harvest.  Don’t kill the weeds!
  • Headaches/Migraine/Sinus/Mucus Issues – try snorting powdered sodium ascorbate vitamin c (NOT ascorbic acid); this is safe to do 1 or 2 times a day for a couple days….not indefinitely.  Don’t use this route if you have a nasal erosion.   Pinch a little bit between your fingers, lie down, and sniff into the nose.  After a minute the thinned mucus will begin to run.  Try to hold as long as possible, and then blow your nose.  You will experience a gentle burning sensation, especially if your mucus membranes are inflamed.  People say that it works better than a Netti Pot.  I’m happy to have an alternative to Sudafed!
  • Head Trauma / Bleeding / Childbirth – Pain, Bruising, Bleeding – Arnica montana 200.  “It can be used during labor to not only aid in pain management, but to protect against bleeding and bruising.  Taken at the onset of labor and continued every 3-5 hours.  Many homeopaths recommend giving the baby a dose twice daily for a week while the mother can take it every few hours for a few days for any soreness and overall well being.”  
  • Heart Burn – 5 Natural Heartburn Remedies Proven to Beat Drugs
  • Herpes – Reishi mushroom can decrease pain and symptoms, proven in a small clinical trial
  • Inflammation and Anger  – Japanese Knotweed.  the root can be used too.
  • Irregular Menstrual Cycle – Chaste herb in a tea and in tincture every day.  Tincture from the berry, and the leaf for the tea.  Use raspberry leaf in the tea as well.  Or try Angelica tincture.
  • Lyme’s –  first, try to get a good test, from Stonybrook Lab in New York, or Igenix Lab.  Lyme is infiltrating our body in places its not supposed to, because we’ve become weakened in general.  But once the problem is there, it has to be addressed.  But support support support the body in every way.  If you’re lucky to get a bull’s eye rash and you notice the rash in the first 2-3 days, conventional antibiotics might help for 3 – 30 days.  While doing that, use Stephen Buhner’s protocol, and personalize if you can by working with one of Stephen’s colleagues.  Take a raw priobiotic. Give Japanese Knotweed tincture (15 drops for a child), Astralgus tincture (15 drops for a child), and Una De Gato (Cat’s Claw) tincture (15 drops for a child).  In the afternoon, take the three tinctures again.  In the evening, take the three tinctures again.  Only use spring water.  Do this for five months.  You can also try herbs that have an outward, drawing out motion: artemisia annua, Boneset, Elderflower, bitter herbs like andiographis paniculata.  For the Japanese Knotweed, you can also eat it fresh from the plant – it is anti inflammatory, it targets the cytokines.  Consider Atralagus, larch homeopathic remedy, echinacea, which all have immune-modulating properties.  Licorice
  • Pain 
    • Anti Inflammatory/Bacterial/Viral, Pain-Killer Salve: made with fresh turmeric root
    • Powerful Aspirin Alternative: Pine Bark Extract (Pycnogenol)
    • Cooling:
      • White willow bark (can also use fresh as a whole plant with leaves too).  30g in a tea of gruel would equal a couple aspirin.  works in 15 minutes, just like aspirin, but no side effects of aspirin.  Cotton, Poplar and Aspen are in the same family as the willow, but I don’t know if these were used similarly.  You can use it in the bath too to relieve pain.  It does thin the blood.
    • Warming / Natural Opioids
      • California poppy
      • Corydalis (chinese herb).  It is about 40% as effective as morphine, but is not addictive like morphine.  3 – 4 capsules of this usually works well.
      • Red Pepper.  Ground red pepper can help with pain.  Even if you cut yourself, you can put ground red pepper on the wound.  Yes, it will burn for a little bit, but then it relieve the pain and prevent infection.  If you have pain inside the body somewhere, especially nerve pain, you can start with a quarter capsule of red pepper, and work your way up to 4 6- capsules a day to block the ‘substance P’ and block the pain.
      • Noni root – interestingly, if you make a tincture, it will turn to bright red, then to black.
      • Kava – it isn’t really a pain relieve, but a muscle relaxer and generally will help someone to relax.
  • Pink Eye – Raw milk in the eye is often used for pink eye as the beneficial microbes in the milk drown out the pathogenic microbes, resetting the balance. Breast milk is often used, if you have it on tap. The method is simple, put a few drops in the affected eye. It’s soothing and gentle.Manuka honey in the eye is a little more advanced, not for the faint of heart. Manuka honey is sourced from New Zealand, where honey bees pollinate the Manuka bush. Like most other raw honey, it is credited with being anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory and an anti-oxidant but many people rave of its powerful medicinal properties. For pink eye, most folks just scoop a tiny bit onto their finger and smear it into the pink eyeball. It burns like crazy for about 30 seconds or more, but for some, pink eye is then gone. For other forms of pink eye it doesn’t work so well. Click here for Manuka honey, a staple in many medicine cabinets.Coconut oil in the eye is more soothing and gentle. Coconut oil is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory. The method is the same as the Manuka honey, just scoop a tiny bit with the finger and smear it into the eye. It’s not abrasive and calms the area. Click here for appropriate coconut oil.Colloidal silver dropped into the eye is praised by some, saying it’s simple and fast. Colloidal silver is a heavy metal which doesn’t leave the body, even with chelation, and should only be used in emergency situations. Build up of silver particulate in the body is known to turn the skin, conjunctiva and other areas of the body a blue hue. The condition known as argyria is irreversible. Click here for colloidal silver.A warm compress over the eye is the most highly praised support for pink eye, even when all other methods fail. A warm compress for pink eye is done by putting warm water into a to go coffee cup, like this one, then pouring a little of the warm water onto a bath towel and holding it over the eye. With a clean new spot on the towel, the process is done again and again until all areas of the towel are used. This is repeated for three times each day until no signs remain. For milder cases, doing the warm compress once is all it takes. For more advanced cases a few times is needed but each time the eye is remarkably improved.All of these methods of support are natural and do not cause harm if pink eye is not present.
  • Pneumonia & Bronchitis – Intravenous vitamin C: http://injectablevitaminc.com/images/Ch20.pdf, and oral doses.  As always, one needs to find the dose specific to their body needs: http://www.injectablevitaminc.com/images/Ch10.pdf.  Severe damage can be cause in the lungs.  Use a species of Bidens to heal that damage specifically.  Also try the bark of the elm trees and the horehound plants.
  • Measles
  • Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
    • read this full article: http://www.plaguethebook.com/20-million-americans-likely-infected-with-retroviruses-.html
    • can consult with Judy Mikovitz: http://www.marcinc.org/about-us.html
    • Judy’s resources page: http://www.marcinc.org/resources.html
    • like autism, ME has a high association with retroviruses, so follow treatments for autism.
  • Sleep – if you’re having trouble falling or stay asleep, you might try some herbal remedies.
    • start by drinking Ashwaganda tea every morning and night.
    • 4 T of poppy seed might conk you out for 4 hours!  If you take nutmeg as well, you will stay asleep for 8 hours, as nutmeg has a delayed action of 4 hours.  Experiment with the nutmeg alone to find your dose….start by taking 1g at 6pm, and increase the dose until you find yourself conked out at 10pm.  Then combine the poppy seed and the nutmeg together before bed, and you should have a much easier time not only falling sleep, but also staying asleep for at least 8 hours.
    • If you find you can’t sleep at night due to chatter in your head, consider taking Blue Vervain
    • If you have trouble sleeping due to spasms, take skullcap.  Also taking magnesium can help.
    • Valerian root is another herb to try, but it will only last about 4 hours.  start with 1 gram and increase the dose each night until you find yourself conked out!
    • Finally, you might consider eating foods that will naturally boost your melatonin levels as shown in scientific study:
      • Pineapples increased 6-sulfatoxymelatonin (aMT6s) levels by over two-and-a-half times (266%) while banana increased aMT6s levels by 180% – almost double. Meanwhile, oranges increased aMT6s levels by 47%.  Other foods that naturally increase melatonin levels include oats, sweet corn, rice, ginger, tomatoes, bananas, mangosteen and barley.
        REFERENCES:
        Johns NP, Johns J, Porasuphatana S, Plaimee P, Sae-Teaw M. Dietary intake of melatonin from tropical fruit altered urinary excretion of 6-sulfatoxymelatonin in healthy volunteers. J Agric Food Chem. 2013 Jan 30;61(4):913-9.Howatson G, Bell PG, Tallent J, Middleton B, McHugh MP, Ellis J. Effect of tart cherry juice (Prunus cerasus) on melatonin levels and enhanced sleep quality. Eur J Nutr. 2012 Dec;51(8):909-16.
    • Learn more about natural ways to boost melatonin levels and over 200 other natural remedies for getting to sleep.

      Other Foods also Provide Melatonin Safely

      Other research – as reported by Realnatural – has shown that natural melatonin from red tart Montmorency cherries (Prunus cerasus) can increase sleep efficiency and quality. A study from an international group of researchers found that drinking tart cherry juice for seven days increased sleep by an average of 34 minutes a night – by speeding up falling to sleep – and increased sleep efficiency by 5-6%.

      And like the study from Thailand, the research found that drinking cherry juice increased 6-sulfatoxymelatonin levels naturally – without the need of exogenous or synthetic melatonin supplements.

      Other foods that naturally increase melatonin levels include oats, sweet corn, rice, ginger, tomatoes, bananas, mangosteen and barley.

  • Spinal Cord Injury – stem cell therapy: https://www.cellmedicine.com/stem-cell-therapy-for-spinal-cord-injury/
  • Sore Throat – you can take powdered sodium ascorbate vitamin c (NOT ascorbic acid) orally, or gargle with it – hold it as long as you can and then swallow.
  • Staph infection – apply powdered sodium ascorbate vitamin c (NOT ascorbic acid) topically by making a paste with water.  Or apply a salve made with fresh turmeric to the area and ingest at least 2 inches of turmeric root juice per day.
  • Tetanus, prevention, wound care and vitamin C – Suzanne Humpries, M.D.
  • Transverse Myelitis, also known as polio, enterovirus, viral or “aseptic” meningitis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), Chinese Paralytic syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, epidemic cholera, cholera morbus, spinal meningitis, spinal apoplexy, inhibitory palsy, intermittent fever, famine fever, worm fever, bilious remittent fever, ergotism, post-polio syndrome, acute flaccid paralysis(AFP): Dr. Klenner’s high-dose vitamin C.
  • Traveling – we all know that traveling stresses the body.  Personally, I almost always get a sinus infection after flying – hopefully that will change now that I have vitamin C in my back pocket!  Suzanne says that she has taken up to 30 grams of sodium ascorbate vitamin c when traveling with no diarrhea or ill effect.
  • Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) – D-Mannose, Uva Ursi…https://www.nourishingplot.com/2020/10/20/supporting-a-uti-naturally/
  • Viral Infection, virus including coronavirus COVID-19  – see the full post.
  • Vision Issues treated with stem cell therapy at MD Stem Cells
  • Whooping Cough (Pertussis) – Suzanne Humphries, M.D.’s protocol, and success stories. Suzanne points out that whooping cough occurs whether one is vaccinated or not.  86% of whooping cough cases occur in fully vaccinated children.  Suzanne also points out that antibiotics make the cough worse as it impairs the immune system.  Suzanne has treated whooping cough successfully in those of all ages – from infants as young as 2 weeks of age, to the elderly, with no secondary infections occurring.
  • Wounds – make a paste with powdered sodium ascorbate vitamin c (NOT ascorbic acid) and use topically

I don’t know too much about homeopathy, but I’d like to explore these materia medical in the future:

More from Buhner:

“[Bacteria] are highly cooperative. As soon as a bacterium experiences an antibiotic, it begins generating possible solutions to it. Some people assume it’s the few bacteria that are naturally immune that reproduce and create resistance, and in a minor way this might be true, but it’s more accurate to say that the bacteria intentionally rearrange their genome to produce offspring that are resistant — and some of them can spawn a new generation within twenty minutes. Every time a successful resistance mechanism is created, the bacteria then communicate it to all the other bacteria they meet, teaching them how to rearrange their genome to be resistant. They will often drop loops of DNA containing resistance information that are then picked up by other bacteria and woven into their own genome. When two bacteria touch, they can open small portals in their cell walls and share genome strands.

Bacteria’s strategies of resistance are many and varied. They might pump the antibiotic out of their cells as fast as it flows in. They might rearrange their cell wall to make antibiotic penetration impossible. They might alter the target portion of their cell so that it remains unaffected by the antibiotic. Sometimes they learn how to use the antibiotic as food.

James A. Shapiro, a bacterial geneticist at the University of Chicago, says that “bacterial information processing is far more powerful than human technology.” And, of course, the main place that bacteria share information and create resistance is in hospitals. Hospitals are like schools where bacteria learn to resist antibiotics. It’s not unusual now to see hospitals temporarily shut down when resistant strains begin spreading. Eventually they won’t be able to control the outbreaks. Bacteria are even learning how to live in the disinfectant solutions hospitals use to clean. Other places that are likely to experience outbreaks are nursing homes, prisons, schools — anywhere people are warehoused. The hubris of the medical profession will cause all of us to pay a high price. The myth of Icarus is relevant here.

We shouldn’t be creating substances that indiscriminately kill all bacteria they encounter. Very few bacteria cause human diseases. The vast majority of them are maintaining the functioning of the planet. They are, in reality, a global superorganism. We are bacterial organisms ourselves. We are the innovations of bacteria that, through symbiogenesis, created more-complex expressions to fulfill specific ecological functions.

Antibiotics don’t stop working when they leave your body. They continue to kill susceptible bacteria whenever they encounter them. If bacteria didn’t develop resistance, all life on this planet would die. The annual dumping worldwide of more than a hundred thousand tons of antibiotics into the ecosystem is stimulating changes in bacterial behavior not seen since the Earth moved away from methanogens as the dominant form of organism some 2.5 billion years ago. And yet physicians continue to utilize antibiotics without much thought. We focus on the misuse of painkillers, when the most dangerous thing we do is overuse antibiotics. Resistant bacteria are a more severe problem for the survival of this civilization than oil depletion, global warming, topsoil erosion, and water scarcity.

Buhner: Many countries in South America, Asia, and Africa are approaching healing with a better model than ours, usually because they can’t afford the technological model. The Cuban model is, I think, one of the best. I have never been to Cuba, but I have read about it and talked to a number of herbalists who have been there. From what I understand, there are six doctors per thousand people. That’s more than twice what we have in the U.S. Cuban doctors visit their patients’ homes to see the conditions in which they live. Patients who cannot travel are treated at home. The physicians spend a lot of time with each patient. There is a heavy emphasis on preventive medicine. Doctors utilize herbs in their healing. People go to specialists or hospitals only if the general practitioners in their area cannot help them. And every family is experienced to some extent in self-care. The costs in such a system are minor compared to ours, and there is little dependence on pharmaceuticals.

Ahuja: How do the mortality rates in countries that use herbal medicines compare with those in the U.S.?

Buhner: The problem with making such comparisons is that infrastructure differences have to be taken into account — access to clean water, sanitation, food, and so on. Just looking at Cuba, however, what we see is that life expectancy is nearly identical to the U.S. Infant mortality is five per thousand, slightly lower than in the U.S.

Ahuja: How does pollution affect herbs and their healing properties? I was making jelly out of Japanese knotweed the other day and had a moment of anxiety because I’d harvested it next to a potentially polluted drainage ditch.

Buhner: We live in a sea of pollution. It is not really escapable. Many plants do act as soil remediators: they pick up, store, and process toxic compounds. The easiest solution is to pay attention to how a site feels to you. You can actually tell the health of a plant or site this way. With experience you can develop what the writer Bradford Keeney calls a “library of feelings,” a concept he roughly translated from the teachings of the Kalahari Bushmen. As your feeling sense grows more acute with use, you increase the size of your library, and it becomes a more reliable source.

Ahuja: Is that the same as what we might call “intuition”?

Buhner: No, intuition is vague: some deep, unconscious part of ourselves senses something and tries, often unsuccessfully, to get the conscious mind’s attention. The library of feelings is stored in the conscious mind. Everything we encounter has an aesthetic dimension to it that we can feel. You build a library by continually encountering physical objects or places and asking yourself, “How does it feel?” If you do this, you learn to interact not with surface impressions but with the deeper dimensions of a thing, to move consciously through a world of meanings.

Information on conducting and sourcing equipment for coffee enemas

Sources for buckets:

glass equipment: https://www.purelifeenema.com/cart.php

 

How to Prepare a Coffee Enema

 

(photo shows bucket with red rubber catheter – many states require a prescription but there are some

resource to buy it)

 

Combine 3 tablespoons of organic coffee with one quart of distilled, filtered or bottled water. Use a saucepan of at least 1 1/2 quarts.

Bring mixture to a boil. Continue boiling for 3-5 minutes or until the froth has mostly boiled off.

Cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Then filter through a drip-style filter system. Let cool to room temperature.

Fill the bucket (first closing clip around the plastic tubing) to 32 ounces.

The bucket should end up about 3 1/2-4 feet from the ground. When the tube and catheter hang, the catheter should actually be lying on the floor.

Try laying down several towels on the floor for comfort.

Use some sort of lubricant such as coconut oil on the tip of the red catheter you will insert (this is a soft tube and should not hurt at all).

Insert tube and open clip. The coffee will slowly go in as long as you do not have the bucket too high. The higher the bucket, the faster the liquid enters.

Sometimes it is strangely difficult to get the liquid to flow. Practice will show you the best ways to get it moving.

You might lie on my RIGHT side for this type of enema, then roll onto your knees and forearms to hold it in.  Try massaging the abdomen in a clockwise direction, starting at the lower left and going across and up over the right side, across and then down the left. Etc.

Hold it for 12-15 minutes (that is what the timer is for). It may not be easily done in the beginning but it is a learned skill.

Good luck. As you can see from some of the accompanying comments, it is usually very relaxing. Ann Fonfa, founder The Annie Appleseed Project

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Excerpted from Ralph Moss’ Healing newsletter, 1986:

Coffee enemas were an established part of medical practice when Dr. Max Gerson introduced them into cancer therapy in the 1930s. Basing himself on German laboratory work, Gerson believed that caffeine could stimulate the liver and gall bladder to discharge bile. He felt this process could contribute to the health of the cancer patient.

Although the coffee enema has been heaped with scorn, there has been some independent scientific work that gives credence to this concept. In 1981, for instance, Dr. Lee Wattenberg and his colleagues were able to show that substances found in coffee—kahweol and cafestol palmitate—promote the activity of a key enzyme system, glutathione S-transferase, above the norm. This system detoxifies a vast array of electrophiles from the bloodstream and, according to Gar Hildenbrand of the Gerson Institute, “must be regarded as an important mechanism for carcinogen detoxification.” This enzyme group is responsible for neutralizing free radicals, harmful chemicals now commonly implicated in the initiation of cancer. In mice, for example, these systems are enhanced 600 percent in the liver and 700 percent in the bowel when coffee beans are added to the mice’s diet.

Dr. Peter Lechner, who is investigating the Gerson method at the Landeskrankenhaus of Graz, Austria, has reported that “coffee enemas have a definite effect on the colon which can be observed with an endoscope.” F.W. Cope (1977) has postulated the existence of a “tissue damage syndrome.” When cells are challenged by poison, oxygen deprivation, malnutrition or a physical trauma they lose potassium, take on sodium and chloride, and swell up with excess water.

Another scientist (Ling) has suggested that water in a normal cell is contained in an “ice-like” structure. Being alive requires not just the right chemicals but the right chemical structure. Cells normally have a preference for potassium over sodium but when a cell is damaged it begins to prefer sodium. This craving results in a damaged ability of cells to repair themselves and to utilize energy. Further, damaged cells produce toxins; around tumors are zones of “wounded” but still non-malignant tissue, swollen with salt and water.

Gerson believed it axiomatic that cancer could not exist in normal metabolism. He pointed to the fact that scientists often had to damage an animal’s thyroid and adrenals just to get a transplanted tumor to “take.” He directed his efforts toward creating normal metabolism in the tissue surrounding a tumor.

It is the liver and small bowel which neutralize the most common tissue toxins: polyamines, ammonia, toxic-bound nitrogen, and electrophiles. These detoxification systems are probably enhanced by the coffee enema. Physiological Chemistry and Physics has stated that “caffeine enemas cause dilation of bile ducts, which facilitates excretion of toxic cancer breakdown products by the liver and dialysis of toxic products across the colonic wall.”

In addition, theophylline and theobromine (two other chemicals in coffee) dilate blood vessels and counter inflammation of the gut; the palmitates enhance the enzyme system responsible for the removal of toxic free radicals from the serum; and the fluid of the enema then stimulates the visceral nervous system to promote peristalsis and the transit of diluted toxic bile from the duodenum and out the rectum.

Since the enema is generally held for 15 minutes, and all the blood in the body passes through the liver every three minutes, “these enemas represent a form of dialysis of blood across the gut wall” (Healing Newsletter, #13, May- June, 1986).

Homeopathic – Storage Organization (credit to Joette Calabrese)

Decide on a method of storage. Amazon still delivers!! While they might not have any toilet paper, they do have a full assortment of acrylic lipstick holders(like I use):
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Make labels for the top of each cap so you can easily read them!

If you prefer a “horizontal” presentation, you can get fancy and use an arts and crafts cabinet such as one of my team members does. She found them at The Container Store (they deliver, too). Or you could just use the inexpensive insert trays and skip the cabinet.
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There are all kinds of ways to organize your remedies. But the important thing is to have them in proper order — an order that makes sense to you so that you can easily find them when you need them.