HERBALISM
Before you intervene in any first aid situation it is most important to remain calm and think first. Cayenne is one of the greatest herbs used in first aid. Cayenne can be used to internally and externally stop bleeding by adding 1-teaspoon of cayenne powder to a glass of warm water. Homoeostatic is a term for plants, which stop bleeding. If your out in the woods, become injured and need to stop blood loss the most common homoeostatic herbs to look for are horsetail grass, nettle, yarrow, shepherd’s purse and mistletoe.
If you suspect a poisonous snake or insect has bitten you a plantain poultice over the bite area may save your life. Echinacea, black cohosh, plantain, horehound and yarrow tinctures will help you immediately fight the venomous poisons. Tinctures have a quick absorbing rate because the alcohol solvent that holds the medicinal qualities of the herbs is able to pass directly into the blood when ingested.
For burns while in the wild the best herbs to use are comfrey, plantain, and horsetail poultice over the burn with three to four cups tea to drink per day. The thinking herb for first aid is Lobelia, this herb can help someone stop vomiting when given in a small amount and induce vomiting when given in a large amount. Lobelia is excellent nerve food that can help calm seizures and inflammation.
Fomentations or poultices of mullein, plantain and yarrow can help rashes from poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac plants. If you witness someone experiencing symptoms of shock the best aid is nettle and shepherd’s purse tea or cayenne tincture. Getting stuck in the woods with a fever can be a dangerous situation. Yarrow, nettle, sage, camomile, elderflowers and red raspberry tea can help deal with a fever. At least one of these plants can be found almost anywhere in North America. While I rather have formula combinations like bone flesh and cartilage, anti-spasmodic and various ointments for some of these situations these herbs found in the wild can be of most use when caught unequipped. In the colder climates you must be prepared for winter with preparations, tinctures and stored dried herbs. Use a herbal field guide for positive identification while learning.
The fasting cleanses with juiced plants, herbal teas, pure water all are effective on different levels. once every several months you will keep your body and organs clean and working. Purchasing and using a good juicer is helpful to any patient planning to overcome a incurable disease. I recommend you shop around to find a good juicer for you. I have an Omega brand and know that Champion juicers also work well. The importance of using a juicer is the ready to be absorbed organic liquid nutrition from the fruits and vegetables. Leaving mostly just the fiber out of the juice when using a juicer they work very well for malnourished clients. Plants roots take in inorganic minerals and food through osmosis and change them into organic, which are assimilable by your body. Chemicals isolated from plants and animals are called organic and chemicals isolated from minerals and ores are called inorganic. Most organic substances are assimilable while inorganic are not assimilable, assimilation is the conversion of a nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body by the processes of digestion and absorption. To remove any incurable disease from the body get these fresh juices ingested to provide nutrition, even in a constipated body. Try to remember an important part of drinking these fresh juices and eating in general is that you want to mix your drink and food with enough saliva to digest it efficiently. This means chewing your liquids and drinking your solids.
Fixing the body is all about feeding organs to eliminate toxins. Any disease is a malnourishment issue allowing deposits and mutations like tumors, moles, scars, wrinkles, mucus and constipated organ function. The proper liver and bowel, kidneys, lungs and skin function would normally eliminate the toxic waste that causes the disease. The reality is that the organs are barely functioning because they’ve had little to no food to activate them most their life. Every cell in your body produces waste that is toxic and unusable during cellular metabolism. This waste enters your blood stream to get eliminated through the excretory or eliminative organs, which are the bowel, kidneys, lungs and skin. When you allow additional toxins into your body with junk food, car exhaust, tap water, certain soaps or even excess hormones from stress, lots of waste can get accumulated when left un-eliminated. The process of elimination normally keeps your body clean, but when your lifestyle creates more toxins than can be eliminated by your organs. This is when disorders from organ constipation occur by toxic waste getting deposited when compensatory elimination happens. This puts the toxic heavy mineral deposits in body tissues causing symptoms like mucus in the nose, throat and lungs, skin eruptions, headaches, dizziness, slight fever, and aches & pains.
When a fever occurs this is a sign from your body that it has decided it is tired of being full of toxic wastes and wants to cleanse by increasing the temperature to increase circulation and elimination organ function. The best thing you can do for a fever is to feed it; this means giving warm diaphoretic teas and a warm bath. The goal is to simply sweat it out! When you go to the doctor’s office for a fever you will receive a prescription. A prescription means your outcome is pre-scripted in their opinion, and since their goal is suppressing the symptoms of the fever to make you feel better, after taking the medication you wont have a fever. You also will not eliminate the toxic build up from within your body allowing more distress, diseases and mutations to occur inside. Intravenous injections like vaccinations are very unsanitary and dangerous. Vaccinations contain things like mercury, thimerosal and aluminum the effects of these chemicals may not be known for years to come. These contents are still used even in the recent H1N1 vaccine, which has other more insane ingredients. Breaking the skin barrier is never needed for healing. Handing out prescription drugs should hint at the fact that the medical establishments are more driven by income and external health appearance of individuals than the internal health and mentality of a person.
As we age our bodies’ ability to hold water weakens. An Infants body is about 80% composed of water, once you’re an adult the body is about 70% composed of water. I encourage using steam-distilled water because distilled water is as clean and pure as we can easily obtain. Still it can be hard to obtain wholesome steam distilled water as with some bottled drinking water companies that may add heavy minerals. Steam distillers can cost about $100 or more. There are Reverse osmosis sink systems and carbon filters such as Berkey that initially are cheaper but will cost about the same or more money long term. Distilled is the best!
Most any water is somewhat magical as you look at the photos of frozen water droplets magnified by Dr. Emoto, you can see that water is somewhat conscious and retains a memory of how it is acted upon. Dr. Masaru Emoto has a book called The Hidden Messages In Water, This book explains the reality of how conscious our water is in its reactions to our thoughts and verbal actions towards it. In essence we are mostly all water, so try not to forget how real this interaction is with your own mentality toward health. The more positive verbal vibrations and organic medicinal substances we can add to the water the more health we will receive from drinking it. Distilled water is pure so it can hold more medicinal substances that the body can remove. I understand this sounds silly that thinking and talking to your water will change it but it's very real.
Inorganic heavy minerals compose a lot of daily multi-vitamin supplements and fortified foods. Organic, assimilable, usable nutrients are scientifically called micro and macro nutrients micro nutrients are found in vitamins, trace elements and minerals. Macro nutrients include carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and water. Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats are interchangeable as sources of energy and can be used by the body much more efficiently leaving less behind to get eliminated or deposited. Steam distilled water will help remove these deposits left in the body by dissolving and removing calcified deposits out of the kidneys. Hard water, tap water or just dirty water will add waste and deposits in the body. Steam distilled water will remove waste and quench the bodily thirst for good pure water. When making preparations it is important to use distilled water as the less amount of substances in the water the more volume of herbal properties that can get absorbed and held in the water. Adding organic herbal properties to water through tea infusions and decoctions allow the chemicals from the plants to become directly usable when digested.
There are many treatments I can aid you in learning and using to heal yourself, but with anyone you must first change the things that are causing the unhealthy status and start changes that will allow health. This is why I must first ask that you change your food intake to mucusless, which consists of Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Grains and Seeds. The extent that I recommend for processing these foods is slow cooking, pressure-cooking, sprouting and juicing. Forget about cooking though the mucusless diet means raw foods, very large fruit salads, nut mixes and plenty of fruits and veggies. There are several supplements suggested to add to the mucusless diet to ensure complete nutrition for your body is met. Cayenne is used to influence the heart, arteries, capillaries and nerves to circulate blood, aiding in nutrition and elimination. Blackstrap molasses is the juice from the sugar cane that is removed when making processed sugar. Unsulphered Organic Blackstrap molasses is what you want to find at a health foods store. In one tablespoon of molasses there is lots of potassium, iron, calcium and chromium that will help digest and metabolize sugars. Molasses helps with cardiovascular problems; high blood pressure, cramps and can add color to gray hair. Apple cider vinegar helps the stomach digest foods with extra enzymes and acids while also cleaning arteries, calcium deposits and dissolving gallstones. Olive oil has a very high content of monsaturated fatty acids and antioxidative substances. Studies have reported that olive oil protects against heart disease by lowering bad cholesterol levels LDL while raising the good cholesterol HDL. Wheat germ oil is used to supplement vitamin E needs that are used in the body to produce hormones and tissues. Kelp is also a great aid to cleansing the system and a great source of nutrition for proper thyroid function.
This health routine can be a goal for anyone who wants to have a healthy child, remove cancer, aids or mental disorders. For any client I can be given, I suggest the same initial changes. This is assuming you’re the average American, which is nothing too terrible just very common in our society. All that this means is that you have less than three bowel movements a day and you eat mostly processed foods or animal products being meat, dairy, eggs, sugars, flours and dehydrating beverages. These are the types of food I ask you to stay away from while healing. Health and eating lifestyle are very interconnected so you must eliminate unhealthy foods to create youthful health. First things though are opening your elimination organs, which consist of the bowel, kidneys, lungs and skin. The bowel is the best elimination organ for the amount of food you have ingested daily. The first step even if you haven’t changed to a mucusless food routine is to take herbal lower bowel food to activate peristalsis; peristalsis is contractions of the bowel muscle walls moving the fecal matter out of the bowel.
A healthy bowel movement is semi-liquid to soft not compacted, when the colon bowel dehydrates it squeezes the fecal matter to draw out more liquid causing the solid stool. When the bowels are eliminating 3-5 times a day for a period of about six months you can proceed to the cleansing of the kidneys and liver with specific herbal food formulas to feed, cleanse and repair. Combining the mucusless diet with fully functioning organs you can detox each organ. Once the body is capable you gain the ability to clean your entire body through the blood stream. The red clover combination formula cleans the blood stream getting the deep deposits eliminated out of the body, helping to cure diseases that may be called incurable by some people.
Specific herbs used for cleansing the liver are Barberry bark, Oregon Grape root, Dandelion, Blessed Thistle and Agrimony. The Fen LB formula used to clean the bowel or the lower bowel formula consists of Cascara Sagrada which stimulate peristalsis or movement of the bowel wall muscles. Barberry to activate the liver bile production. Lobelia, ginger and cayenne to aid circulation. Goldenseal root, and Red Raspberry leaves for anti-infection and nutrition. Turkey Rhubarb as a gentle purgative and Fennel seed to prevent gas buildup or putrefaction in the colon. Some herbs in the blood purifying formula or the Red Clover Combination formula are only used once the elimination organs are opened. The Red Clover Combination herbs are Red clover blossoms and Burdock Root for cleaning the blood stream, Chaparral which cleanses deep tissue toxins, and also to cleanse the blood. These three are strong blood cleansers and are aided by Licorice, Poke Root, Peach Bark, Oregon Grape, Stillingia, Cascara Sagrada, Sarsaparilla, Prickly Ash, and Buckthorn. Formulas for the kidneys, liver, thyroid, blood pressure, lungs, eyes, glands, stress and calcium are a few of the many very effective herbal combinations.
Natural Treatments consist of helping your body and organ circulation, with herbs and water producing nutrition allowing proper elimination and circulation. Reflexology uses nerve reflex message on the hands and feet to heal corresponding muscles and organs. Dry skin brushing is used to clean and open the skin pores and to activate blood and lymph circulation. The skin can eliminate up to two pounds of waste through gas and oil excretions per day. Iridology is the use of looking into the iris of the eye as a diagnostic tool with certain areas of the iris representing certain organs and areas of the body. Aromatherapy is the use of essential and volatile oils extracted by distillation then used in massage oils or in a neti pot to be inhaled benefiting mental and physical health, essential oils can be used as a blanket term to include all natural, aromatic, volatile, plant oils. C.O.W. massage or castor oil, olive oil, and wheat germ oil massage, a treatment used to activate the skin elimination and healing by alternating the oil messages with two days each resting on the 7th day. I recommend resting on the 7th day weather it is Saturday Monday or Wednesday does not matter as much as resting every 7th day by either eating very healthy foods or simply water fasting.
Tea infusions are made by soaking herb in cold water in the fridge overnight or by pouring boiling water over the herb, covering with a lid and letting sit or steep until moderately cooled. Tea decoctions are made with the harder plant material soaking in the water over night or for a few hours prior to bringing to a boil and then letting steep until cooled. Fomentations are a tea soaked natural fiber cloth covering the skin with plastic and tape holding it on the skin. Use hot and cold packs alternating to increase circulation and allow intake of the tea into the skin. Tinctures are generally vodka and plant material extracted for fourteen days or several weeks, strained and then administered in small amounts. Apple cider vinegar, glycerin and other solvent can be used to make tinctures but 40% vodka alcohol is suitable for most plants and people. I try to only use vodka because most other types of alcohol use sugars to flavor the alcohol while vodka is usually diluted only with distilled water. Ointments are easy to apply most ointments or salves are made with the tea or extracted plant substance being mixed with olive oil and beeswax to form a soft paste which can be applied to skin eruptions, wounds and affected areas. Suppositories are used for internal cases of hemorrhoids and tumors in the vaginal and rectal orifices. The suppositories are made with any specific herb powder mixed with cocoa butter syrup, or slippery elm bark powder. Poultices are made from fresh plant material crushed, bruised or chewed, then placed onto a wound or rash secured with cloth and tape if available. Hot and cold water alternation or hydrotherapy is very effective at activating healing and circulation in any specific location. This can be effectively incorporated even in daily showers by turning the water temp as hot and cold as you can stand as many times as you are willing to endure the temps, the more drastic temperature alteration the more circulation you will achieve. Do not turn the temperatures too far hot or cold so that you damage the skin just to the limit you can handle. Herbal enemas are very useful when needed but really only are needed in emergency cases that elimination needs to happen immediately. Herbal enemas are also used in cases of internal issues like hemorrhoids. Overusing enemas will weaken the bowel muscles from acting properly on their own.
The Cold Sheet Treatment is my most effective water therapy involving the use of feeding a fever with hot to warm diaphoretic herb tea to induce lots of sweating, eliminating heavy mineral waste deposits essentially overnight. First the patient dry skin brushes their entire body to clean the dead skin off and get circulation going. After dry skin brushing a cold catnip enema to clean out old fecal matter in the bowel. After the catnip enema is a garlic injection into the rectum to eliminate bacteria and activate the immune system. Next the patient goes in a hot bath and is given warm diaphoretic tea in excessive amounts. All the tea will be sweat out so don’t worry about needing to exit the bath to urinate. Also mixed in the bath water are circulatory herbs to increase the skins activity. Drink the diaphoretic tea until exhausted then get out of the bath and have a cooler with ice water and a very cold-water soaked natural fiber sheet to throw over the shoulders. Don’t worry it feels very relaxing after the hot bath. The cold sheet step is to start the body’s immune system reaction increasing the fever. Now if all is good you had plastic on the floor leading to the plastic on the bed so you can go right over and lay down with the cold wet sheet in the bed. Use one or two more natural fiber blanket covers to help incubate the fever. Massage olive oil into the feet so the garlic paste doesn’t burn the skin, then apply garlic and Vaseline paste and wrap with gauze. Let the person sleep to allow the fever to build. Upon awakening the next day give a ½ apple cider vinegar ½ water sponge bath to remove all the excess toxins on the skin. Now is an important time when recovering, the drinks and foods you ingest will influence your future health so start with juice therapy and then keep to the mucusless diet and supplements. Learning to eat is a great feat.
Poisonous species
Poisonous plants of North America effect individuals by skin contact, ingestion, absorption or inhalation. The symptoms are painful skin eruptions after contact, internal poisoning when ingested, and coughing or sneezing when inhaled into the lungs. Some edible plants have deadly relatives like the carrot family with hemlocks and cows parsnip. Knowing positive identification of poisonous plants can help eliminate dangers of accidental poisoning. There are only 6 or so species that result in human death for the most part within the northern North American continent. For treatment of these species my best advice is plantain poultices if they can be found immediately use them on the area. Plantain has excellent pulling properties to help remove toxins through the skin. Dock and Mullein are also very soothing. You can be prepared and carry a ointment like ‘stings and bites’ or ‘black ointment’ or plan ahead and package dried herbs. Activated charcoal or bentonite clay pills can be used to absorb the toxins by rubbing externally or ingesting with generous amounts of water.
If you don’t think that this lifestyle sounds agreeable I still strongly encourage you to look into the lower bowel formula which will help you poop more frequently and consistently, giving yourself more energy and comfort. A heart-tonic can increase your resistance of suffering a heart attack or stroke significantly by insuring good circulation. This formula will strengthen and clean your heart to keep it beating it’s best. Great herbs for the heart are Cayenne, Hawthorne, Motherwort, Valerian, Garlic and Ginger.
To be free of discomforts, you must remove the underlying causes, or the disease condition will return. It takes time to clean a body that has been accumulating toxins over a lifetime, but the rewards will be worth the time and effort.
