tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19112461443325560662024-03-29T04:01:58.414-07:00Creators GardenWe are a small business from Manitoulin Island, and now based out of Peterborough Ontario. We are focused, first and foremost, on teaching the legitimacy of plant based medicine. We teach people the intricacies of how to sustainably harvest and use every part of these beautiful plants. If you want to learn more, get in touch with us :) We will be happy to work with you!Creators Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10567065127859002687noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911246144332556066.post-46982395268898806352020-03-18T10:51:00.000-07:002020-03-23T06:16:10.106-07:00Giizhigaa'aandakaabo, Cedar tea <div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="43aaf" data-offset-key="5rluj-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I just wanted to chime in real quick and just say how amazed I am at how quickly knowledge got out there.. my Facebook is FULL of amazing shares.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Three of the knowledge's that best support us through this and why:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mshkikiiwaabo (Medicine Tea) We will talk about Cedar, Labrador and Chaga</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pkwenezagan (Smoke medicine)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chewing different medicines like spruce gum or Wiikeh (sweet flag, ratroot, calamus)</span><br />
<b style="font-family: inherit;">Giizhigaa'aandakaabo, Cedar tea (eastern white cedar, Thuja occidentalis).</b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The most powerful of the three being good ol cedar tea. This is going to stimulate our lymphatic system which is absolutely crucial! Your lymphatic system is what is responsible for transporting important parts of your immune system. When your lymphatic system is stimulated, it is faster, more efficient and juss. rull. deadleh. lol</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">Our bodies are a warzone! </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What eventually kills the virus that will infect us are these little proteins called antibodies (think, bullets.) Obviously it would be nice to have more of these flyin around.. Antibodies are created and delivered by white blood cells called lymphocytes (think, soldier.) We know what happens when we have more soldiers right?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Someone drinking cedar tea will have, on average, 7X more lymphocytes, that's 7X more soldiers! Consequentially they will have much more antibodies, some studies indicate 300% more, thats 300% more bullets!! This in combination with a stimulated super-fast lymphatic transportation system.. Oh man! This is like going from travelling in Ontario in a rusty '04 subaru to 7 of you all having your own fighter jet! lol.. Our little soldiers are going to be able to travel around and cover so much more area, deliver so much more antibodies and severely increase our chances of and speed at which we dominate the virus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">IMO, Giizhigaa'aadakaabo, cedar tea, is the most powerful intervention our great lakes are able to provide.</span><br />
<b style="font-family: inherit;">Mshkiigobagawaabo, Labrador tea (and chaga)</b></div>
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<span data-offset-key="53vha-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Labrador tea is great too, I mean, insulin inhibits, or turns off, so many different aspects of our immune system. Think of it this way, when you have insulin your immune system cant see, like no cell signal in thick fog or snow squall style, when it cant see or communicate but STILL knows you are sick it basically panics and throws out a ton of cytokines attracting neutophils and killer t cells that start killing EVERYthing even normal healthy cells. This is the point where you are so sick your immune system is quite literally killing you. not good. You need to keep things clear, 5 bars of signal and blue skies!
Keeping insulin levels low is going to really increase our recovery time and decrease the severity of the infection. You have an insulin response after eating ANYthing, carbs and sugars will spike the highest levels of insulin, proteins and fats will cause a very minute insulin response. Labrador tea helps keep your immune system stay on and active! It gives you the ability to pee out extra sugar (SGL-1&2 inhibitor) gives your muscles the ability to gobble gobble up a ton of sugar, dramatically lowering the requirement of insulin (stimulating GLUT-3&4, AKT pathways) Labrador tea basically does so so soooo so many different things that leave your body in a state where it requires less insulin. Less insulin means your immune system is not sleeping all the time.. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chaga basically encourages the exact same dealio but through different mechanisms..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are so many other ways to keep insulin levels low though, like you can have all the medicine in the world but if you on the couch still eatin pop, chips and pasta with weiners you gunna be in rough shape. Let me speak from my personal practices for a moment. For my work I have to be travelling and teaching all over the place, if I get sick, I am such a man-flu kinda guy.. I cant work! So what I did was a ton of research learning how to hack the system so I dont get sick, and when I do get sick I get better so fast I don't even feel it, This is how I keep my insulin levels LOW and keep them there: not eating. lol.. but for realz, Fasting, both prolonged and Intermittent fasting, best way to keep insulin levels low and when I do eat its once a day, one small insignificant little insulin spike (not 15) and eating foods that cause the least insulin, either ketogenic or carnivore. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="53vha-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">A day In the life of though goes something like this: Black coffee in the morning, stretches and a 20min cold COLD shower, a ton of water filled with electrolytes, teach all day </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(now its cleaning) till</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> 4 or 5pm break my fast with 45 minutes of intense cardio and a 30minute sauna that has to be 90 degrees Celsius or above have a ketogenic or carnivore meal, sleep 9hrs.
Enough about me though..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mild physical exercise is so important, simply walking and making sure we are moving consistently throughout the day has been keeping us sane, but also really lowering insulin levels keeping our immune system working in tip top shape. FYI our lymphatic system moves when we move, if we do not move our lymphatic system doesn't move. Stay away from intense physical exercise though. Upon infection you are going to want to be partitioning energy and nutrients to your immune system and not tissue repair.. make sense?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So basically just understand your recovery is going to be different if you are eating for health, moving throughout the day, drinking medicine teas. Dont lay around watchin news and netflix all day and slowly eating through a ton of processed apocalypse food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our smoke medicines and chewing medicines are super important as well. They are like CBSA.. barely let anyone through.. lol if there is less enemy in our bodies it is going to be a much easier battle. It is kind of funny how these work as well.. the main mechanism of smoke medicine and chewing medicines like wiikeh and spruce gum is they simply keep your nose, sinuses, throat, mouth and lungs wet! lol.. that is all. Viruses and bacteria have a hard time sticking to (infecting) something when they are wet.. so humidify those houses and mucus membranes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chewing Bigiiw</span><br />
For chewing spruce gum, you gotta know whats up, you can't just go out and slap a big wad in and hope everything will be okay. Chewing bigiiw, spruce gum, spruce resin, is an art. Just like any other art it takes a massive amount of practice. If I could just quickly give a few general rules to follow that will help you get started at least on the right foot I would just say this: only, ONLY chew spruce gum that is crystallized, not soft. When you start chewing the crystallized your first few bites will be bitter spruce dust. Dont panic, or you will be in a world of pain and anger. Listen, if you spit it out now your mouth will be FULL of sticky nastiness that brushing wont take off. Don't spit the dust out. If you have come this far into the world of resin chewing understand that enzymes in your saliva will change certain components and that dust will start connecting back together. Use the spruce gum to grab all the little bits of spruce gum, this is the only way, again, brushing wont help, only trying again will help. After 30 seconds of chewing dust you should, I repeat SHOULD have something that resembles gum that is so satisfyingly hard to chew. Because this virus most effective transmission is via air, this is an amazing strategy to mitigate the potential for the virus to adhere, chewing this stuff you salivate a LOT!</div>
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For chewing Wiikeh, chill. You do not need to grab a massive piece of the dried root and just start munching.. chill. You do not need to have a cucumber sized piece in your mouth 24-7.. all you really need is a small piece, after it has rehydrated and is all swollen it should be about the size of a pea. This size you don't need to be actively chewing either, you can simply just let it sit in there throughout the day, i'll keep the same piece in for 4 hours sometimes!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A little fun fact.. if I had a lab approach me and gave me the opportunity to test ONE plant that is most likely to kill the virus it would have to be Gabaa'aagemish, sweet fern, Comptonia peregrina. Time and time again is has proven to us to be the most effective broad-spectrum virucidal! We have so many experiences with HFMD, viral exanthem, Fifths disease, so so many different respiratory infections.. also noteworthy: Impetigo (bacteria I know, juss sayin)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Making mshkikiiwaabo, medicine tea, is simple but just like everything else takes practice, follow these simple rules and you will have the most powerful intervention our great lakes have to offer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A handful of cedar, labrador tea, goes into a pot of hot water, cover it, remove it from the heat and let it steep all night, let it cool off naturally. Golden rules: NEVER boil, if its too strong, use less, too weak? use more? It should look beautiful and be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">absolutely delicious!! I have had an 18qt pot (Thanks auntie Barbara, lol) on my stove on "keep warm"</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> of cedar tea everyday since this began. It usually stays there for around 3 days, generally by then I have drank most of it and it starts to get pretty strong, this is when I will retire the pot into the bathtub and my wife or daughter will have a nice (weak) cedar bath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Following local harvesting protocols is incredibly valuable and important as well, ie. offerings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What I think deserves less energy are attempts at killing the virus, best to prepare our bodies for the fight. We don't need to be hotboxing our houses so they look like a bingo hall in the 90's.. or be all slobbery chewing cucumber-size pieces of wiikehn.. downing bottles of echinacea, etc.. This is really about enjoying a delicious cup of medicine tea here and there throughout the day, prepping your body for a fight. Eat healthfully, keep insulin and inflammation levels low and stay moving!</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">A word on saftey:</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pregnancy: is an extremely sensitive time, I cannot and will not comment on any traditions engaged with throughout pregnancy. I will say this though my grandmother told me that throughout my wifes entire pregnancy she can </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">NOT </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">have ANYthing, and she is not to lift anything heavier than a textbook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Medications: An extremely complex field and largely scientifically unexplored and therefore unsupported, I cannot and will </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">not </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">comment on any traditions engaged with while on medications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As far as limits, I usually tell everyone to simply enjoy the tea and use your own discretion.. enjoy it! I mean, you will know if you are having a gallon a day for a month.. you know there is a problem, most people do not even drink a gallon of water a day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But you guys know me, I like to push my boundaries a little, so what I will say though is I would definitely be weighing in on the pros and cons of the situation, again speaking from a personal space, given the lung conditions I live with, i'd rather have 'too much' cedar and possibly let my liver take a hit for this (short) amount of time than let this virus leave my lungs in worse condition that may last the rest of my life. hopefully you all know what I mean lol.. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dvumj-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We have to be engaged in a reciprocal relationship with plants. One of our main responsibilities as medicine harvesters is to not only take but to give back.
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<span data-offset-key="d2bka-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Did you know that birds, chipmunks and spiderwebs are actually among the biggest problems when it comes to seed distribution? When they eat the seeds they digest and destroy them, spiderwebs/nests rod entire seed pods!! If we want to help our medicine plants, all we have to do is get there before they do.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cdd2u-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Mice. Almost specifically deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). They rummage through bear poop for seeds that they use for food! They then take the seeds and, get this, bury them 5-10mm deep throughout the forest! Isn't this amazing!!!!! They end up eating the fruit tree seeds because they are massive and simply a better source of food. Seeds from our medicinal species of plants, which are smaller, are left around the forest as "emergency caches." For the most part these caches go untouched or forgotten about. So they literally take all the seeds of our medicine plants directly from the bear poop and plant them! </span></div>
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Now imagine sitting in front of a patch of your favorite species of medicine and knowing the steps that it took to make this possible, the complexity of this relationship is absolutely mindblowing! This deserves a powerful acknowledgement. </div>
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<span data-offset-key="34b0d-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">But you know what? Not just an acknowledgement but a human intervention that can catalyze and foster these relationships.
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<span data-offset-key="v4o4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes we can do a little bit of role-playing, or clan-playing. Play bear and take the seeds the ants tossed out and throw them around. If you look at the base of an anthill, its not just sand, you can clearly see that the anthill is literally a giant pile of medicine seeds! When you pick medicine look around and you will find concentrated patches of medicines are always near a massive ant colony.
By resurrecting the ancient practice of trading medicines, transporting medicines from territory to territory we are literally playing bear! And with the connectedness we possess in this day and age, it will be easy to transport medicine seeds to re-diversifying and re-medicinfying our territories.</span></div>
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Creators Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10567065127859002687noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911246144332556066.post-48489731798738912272017-06-26T07:44:00.000-07:002017-06-26T07:44:18.116-07:00Linguistic significance of plants - Beech and its friend, Canadian Wild-GingerIn all of our work we bring everything we can to the table. We teach about what makes these plants significant to Anishnaabe, and about how Our understanding of their significance can change and has changed the way the everyone looks at the world of plants.<br />
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Each plant is significant because of its name. Today I want to talk about the importance in understanding the linguistic significance of plants.<br />
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I must say first off that I am still learning. I have a long way to go before I would consider myself an expert. I am just beginning! This article is a great example of both of these!<br />
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Beech trees are absolutely beautiful. There are a lot of striking features of this tree, lets look at a few.<br />
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They have this super smooth silvery grey bark that have huge frozen-in-time ripples that are throughout. A lot of people love how they look like massive majestic elephant legs. Beech are also quite skilled at holding onto their dead leaves throughout the winter. What is really special though, is how they produce the most amount of fruit compared to other trees native to this continent. Their massive production of fruit is why its scientific name is Fagus grandiflora. The name fagus means fruit.<br />
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The scientific names of plants is a system that was created to ensure proper identification. Its simple. What is the best way to make sure you are properly identifying? By looking at the feature of the plant that makes it different from every other plant! Fruit you say? Well oh my goodness! The amount of fruit that beech trees produce is more spectacular then any others! Easy <br />
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The system of scientific names is simple and very effective for why it was created! Find the differences and viola, you found the plant. Done.<br />
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Azhaawemish is our name for Beech trees. Our language is a verb based language so the name of this tree is describing an action. Every time you see or hear 'Zhaa' In our language it is describing something very specific. It is talking about something being pierced. Check this out!!<br />
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tree is thee tree that, on your first date, you carve a <br />
giant heart and carve the initials of you and your lover in. So this is the tree you can give tattoos too and it doesn't die. What a perfect name. There is an immediate way to understand the Anishnaabe name of this tree. The tattoo tree can handle you carving tattoos into it without it dying. Azhaawemish<br />
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I was reminded of the fact that the main historical utilitarian use of this tree also has to do with tattoos by a local friend named Caleb Musgrave, founder of Canadian Bushcraft http://www.canadianbushcraft.ca/index.php/instructors/caleb-musgrave/ (coolest guy ever.) He mentioned that beech root bark was used to make dye for tattoos! He seriously knows everything. So the root bark is boiled into a strong tea, that has an amber/orange color. When this tea is mixed with blood it turns pitch black. So we use it to coat/clean our needles in the art of traditional tattooing.<br />
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I was teaching this to a group of botanists and ecologists at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton (or is it Burlington?) They were right into it just loving learning from my language, and one of them said: "Hey, you know what! Beech buds are unique, they are not just a normal bud or duckbill shape!" And a few others piped in and explained that beech buds are long very needle-like. Taking this understanding even further! Wow!<br />
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So Azhaawemish, the tattoo tree is the tree whose buds look like needles it is the tree you can give a tattoo too without killing it and use the root bark to make a permanent black dye for actual tattoos!<br />
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This tree goes from Fagus, the huge fruit producer. To Azhaawemish the tree that teaches us not to say Azhaawemish, you are beech. Instead say Azhaawemish, you are the tattoo tree, you are a historical example of Traditional Tattoos and you are an outstanding example of the Creators signature in the natural world. You teach us how every plant has been created to show us what they have been created for.<br />
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Understanding their names can bring a forest to life!<br />
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Canadian Wild-Ginger, Nmepin.<br />
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This one is really awkward. This one really forced me and forces everyone to ask questions. 'Nme' is a sturgeon, 'Pin' together we have Nmepin, the sturgeon potato. What?!?!<br />
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<br />I want to make something really clear, I believe in challenging tradition, especially oral tradition. An oral tradition survives not only when you listen to it but when you add your voice to it. Even when you disagree with it, especially when you disagree with it. So long as the conversation between our generation and the generations before it remain authentic, oral tradition remains alive and vital. Lets stay authentic.<br /><br />Every creature has a plant that it is connected to. Growing up hearing knowledge keepers say this, really messed me up. To me what they were doing was simply regurgitating even farfetched information in the name of faith and tradition. "My faith is stronger then yours because when my elder speaks I listen." Right? Look what happens when you say I disagree. Remember, when you say I disagree you are saying, "I want my tradition to remain authentic, alive and vital."<br />
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Every creature has a plant that they are connected to. We all know cat-nip right? Its regarded as a pseudo-narcotic, for cats! Its legit too, go try it! When you give a cat, cat-nip it goes super bonkers, eats then chills for the afternoon.<br /><br />All you dog owners, can you recall your dog doing a similar thing to grass? Tearing up a patch of grass, eating a ton and then losing its mind in a field, sprinting back and forth, jumping and rolling, Only to end the psycho session by grabbing a bite to eat and chillin for a few hours.<br /><br />If you read my previous article on water lilys you can understand how water lilys have this same effect on moose! Imagine a moose on ... moose-nip?<br /><br />I have been finding all kinds of plants that are connected with different animals even horses and bears!<br /><br />Nmepin, our canadian wild-ginger has a connection, a special relationship with sturgeon! Yes, this idea of plants and creatures extends to the world of fish!<br />
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I heard of this ancient practice of washing fish nets with different plant teas to attract different species of fish. At first I thought it was ludicrous. Until it was put to the test. Our knowledge holders talk about Nmepin and how if you wash your nets with the roots you will catch sturgeon. I got to tell this to different research groups conducting research on sturgeon, and we have had truly phenomenal results.<br />
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This species of fish faces a huge threat. That is, hydro. Dam's that control the level of the waters is what is mainly responsible for their decline. The species stays too small and vulnerable for too long. The dam raises the water levels and the tiny vulnerable sturgeon are washed out and that's it, that's all. Due to hydro not caring about sturgeon what-so-ever, we have to figure out an alternative. We resort to research to help this species. There is a serious problem to this though, and it is the sad fact that we are just not able to collect enough data to come to any conclusions. We are not catching enough fish to conduct proper research.<br />If only we can just catch more fish! Lucky for sturgeon we have retained some traditional harvesting practices that might actually be responsible, in the near future, for the saving of their species! Is that ironic or what?! I have worked with a research team who used this method and caught more fish in 2 nets than in the last 4 years! My hope is that the relationship that this fish has with this plant will spread to other research organizations, so make sure you share this!<br />
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When you talk to elders about this plant, they all seem to be saying the same thing. It is called sturgeon potato because they eat it! "They crawl up on shore and eat that plant!" especially one elderly lady from Birch Island, she spoke of it as though it just happened a few moments ago, like, you just missed it!<br />
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After a bit of research I realized that sturgeon are actually a prehistoric fish, they have remained basically unchanged since the dinosaur days. Guess what we understand from fossil records, sturgeon lost their ability to crawl five-hundred-thousand years ago! Guess what else we understand from fossil records, when sturgeon used to be able to crawl, their diet was full of vegetation. That means this lady from Birch Island told me a five-hundred-thousand year old history, as if it just happened, like I just missed it! So I went back to her story immediately and it turns out that I was wrong, it did not just happen moments ago. She did not grow up stepping over sturgeon in the middle of the forest and that in fact, they were just stories her parents told her of, get this, "An older time, a long time ago." Not only did she give a five-hundred-thousand year old history, but she gave me an accurate five-hundred-thousand year old informal history. Meaning, this history was not institutionalized, its not an important history that we made or are making making an actual effort to keep, like say our ceremonial tradition. Imagine what happens when it is a history we do want to retain?<br />
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Isn't this idea insane, thank you so much Nmepin, for posing a seriously crazy question and an even more crazy answer.<br /><br />Let me take a little segway and address an issue.<br />
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Have you ever encountered someone who wanted to disprove an oral culture as being a valid way to transmit information? You know, those people who will say things like: "Do you really think that an oral culture is an accurate way to relay information? Have you ever played the telephone game" and they will go on! "You know, where you get a row of 10 people, preferably kindergarten kids and whisper the first people in line a phrase and by the time this phrase gets through the 10 people the message is so skewed that it does not retain the same meaning" as my face reddens with rage, they will continue! "So if that happens with 10 people in one minute, what happens with thousands of people over thousands of years? Oral history has to be acknowledged as inaccurate." <br /><br />Oh boy did these conversations get me upset! Well guess what, I don't get upset anymore. Do you want to know why? All I have to say is, "Have you met the sturgeons potato?"<br />
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This is why our language is important and how, for us plant medicine junkies, their linguistic significance is just that, significant! It helps us to take our history and give it a contemporary application.Creators Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10567065127859002687noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911246144332556066.post-27279205752193162582017-05-08T09:57:00.000-07:002017-05-08T11:15:37.151-07:00Water Lily - Kandamo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We observe relationships in creation and those relationships is where the stories are. Plants are showing us why they are here, all we have to do is listen. This plant tells us quite explicitly by its relationship with </span>amphibians<span style="font-size: 12pt;">, and the </span>majestic<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> moose! Lets listen to Lily pads.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Can you think of anyone who might have a special relationship with lily pads? Yes, of course, the water, sun, wind, waves, dragonflies, but did you think frogs? Mak'kii, is our name for frog.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When we observe a pond we see frogs, and how they have a hard time catching food on the mucky shores, the cool water and in the tall grass. Frogs look out at the water and see tons of food! If they can just get out to the middle of the pond and stay above the cold water, not only would frog be able to warm from the sun so his </span>tongue<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> could move faster but he would literally be inches from a buffet of food flying past! What a dream. Then he notices lily pads, multiple perfect little platforms seemingly made just for his purpose. He thinks, 'Hey, that is a really great place to sit and wait for food to come to me!' and they do just that. </span></span></span></div>
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Remember how moose uses it? It uses the roots as medicine for its muscles, to enable this majestic mammal to be able run super far, super fast engaging in horrific battles along the way! So how do we use it? For our muscles!!</div>
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<span style="color: black;">“<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If
you don't use it, you will lose it.” This phrase has some amazing
truth to it, especially when it comes to your muscles. If you don't
use your muscles, never go to the gym, never exercise, your muscles
lose their ability to use glucose, to use sugar! The energy provided
to them to be able to work, can become useless! When you exercise your liver gives your muscles all the
sugar they need to perform. The liver stores a ton of sugar, this is one of its
main functions. Now what happens when you have all this sugar in your
blood that your muscles didn't use? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now that I demonized insulin, let us realize that the first dose, 90g of lily roots, as medicine increases our glucose uptake by 60%. Our muscles our now 60% more effective at using sugar our livers provide, so bye bye insulin and consequently, diabetes, </span>Alzheimers<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and cancer. Also our livers are storing 60% more glycogen, so hello exercise, speaking of exercise, t</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">hese roots push your bodies ability to stay in aerobic exercise. So muscle fatigue or failure is a longer ways away. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Your muscles only heal themselves in the fourth</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and fifth</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> stages of sleep.This is because in these stages your body is somewhat sedated. Your muscles receive a chemical that removes anxiety from the tissue. When we hold anxiety in different parts of our body they don't get the opportunity to heal, like in our jaws (grinding our teeth) in our calves (calf cramps when you stretch in the morning, or swimming in the summer.) What this plant does is chemically remove anxiety from muscle tissue so they are in a healing position twenty-four hours a day. This plant changes those
priorities and places muscles so high up on this </span>prioritized<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> set list, your body is able to heal muscle tissue all day long, while they are being worked. </span></span></span></div>
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take these roots you are communicating with your body, you are telling your body to focus on muscles because I have a marathon to run and I can't afford to be sore the next day! </span></span></span></div>
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was listening to Lawrence Kelemen who was talking about success. He said that you can turn any human being into a successful one. Every successful person has one thing in common, the drive to keep
going even when they are so tired they fall flat on their faces, they
still keep going. If you want to be successful you
should run marathons. Every wildly
successful person he knew ran marathons. The reason for this is
simple. Every marathon runner is familiar with 'the wall' its when
all the glycogen stores of your liver run out. It occurs, on average,
between 21 and 22 miles. This is why marathons are 25 miles. Every
marathon runner knows what it feels like to push past 'the wall' when
you have zero energy stores left in your body and you have to keep
going for about 3 more miles! Successful people know what its like to push your body past its physiological limits. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Look at this plant that we have been calling muscle medicine for thousands of years. Look at the cross section of those roots, the pattern that is within. I have been harvesting this root for a few years now and I know that this plant invests so much energy into its anchor rootlets. It takes hours to harvest because you have to break/cut the anchor rootlets individually how strong they are. Its no wonder speedboats can cruise next to them and they don't get uprooted. Knowing this plant spends so much energy anchoring itself, and that its an aquatic plant, why would there be all these air tunnels throughout? Why would this plant anchor itself and fill itself with flotation devices? It is completely counter-intuitive!!! The only way that we can make sense of this is that this root has been created to show you that it is muscle medicine by being an exact reflection of our muscles under an electron microscope, one muscle fiber.<br /><br />It would have been enough that this plant tells you a story of relationships with frogs and moose. It would have been enough that this plants intensely dedicated history of use has been as a muscle medicine. It would have been enough given all the linguistic connections between this plant with its uses, but in addition to all of this it has been created to exactly reflect one muscle fiber. A signature to confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt that this plant has is here for our muscles. </span></span></span></div>
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When I first started
learning about medicine, I always heard about labrador tea but never
really pursued it because I figured this is such a redundant
medicine, everyone always talks about it so it will never be lost,
I'll learn about this one later. <br /><br />Elders would even make
remarks like: “Oh, that tea is what we would get when we cannot
afford red rose, because it tastes really good” <br /><br />
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So, all this sort of
lead me to believe or 'realize' that it is not a really significant
medicine. In short, it gave me dandelion vibes.
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Labrador tea is
unreal. <br /><br />Lets start with the utility uses. <br /><br />Remember,
in our traditional wisdom we teach that every plant is showing you
what its good for; “the forest is our greatest teacher.”
“Everything we need is outside.” All you have to do is learn how
to watch the earth and you will learn everything you need to know
about life. Which plants are medicine, what it is medicine for, when
to pick it, how to pick it, if it has a utility use, if you can eat
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learn. <br /><br />With labrador tea, one of our teachers is
Naanokshkaahns, the hummingbird. Not too long ago their population
was declining rapidly. An unusual 50% mortality rate sparked some
research, what made it unusual was of the 50% that died, both babies
died in the nest. There was no “only the stronger of the two
survived” The culprit of all these deaths and the rapid decline was
a devastating mite. These mites would devour both the babies. Their
next question was how and why were the other 50% were surviving,
these hummingbirds must be making their nest with a deterrent.
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the same nest they grew up in. Whatever smells they remember from
their infancy, however soft it was, all the materials their parents
used, they remember. Then they make exact replicas. They survivors of
this mite attack were using the rusty colored fuzz from under the
labrador tea leaf for padding. This fuzz had some anti-mite qualities
that would help keep the environment safe for both babies in the nest
to live. They would then grow up having to make their nest with this
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When I would ask
about labrador tea, everyone always said the same things; 'it tastes
great, and it has brown fuzzy under the leaf, rust colored fuzz' only
a few mentioned that it grows in moss.
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What can we learn
from this? <br /><br />Just like hummingbirds use labrador to keep small
arthropods (mites) and perhaps large arthropods (spiders) away, we
can use labrador tea to keep all small (or maybe large) arthropods
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<br />What else can it
'keep away'
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Inuit people have a
name for us woodlands people, they like to call us lice. Hahaha. We
had one for them, we called them Eskimo (raw meat eaters). We do not
like to be called lice, they do not like to be called raw meat eaters,
we still got along and had a great relationship. I have yet to find
out why we call the Haudenasaunee people The Naadwe (rattlesnakes),
maybe they made boots with them? But it was probably more due to the
demand of the fur trade which temporarily shattered an amazing tribal
relationship by creating a contest for trapping grounds leading us to
start warring each other and creating derogatory terms to call one
another. Maybe. Anyways a modern term for labrador tea is naadwe tea.
A lot of our people know this as Naadwe tea. The reason for this is
because labrador tea is a northern plant and our Haudenasaunee
brothers and sisters are our southern relatives who are an
agricultural society. We used to bring them, literally, boatloads of
labrador tea from the north for their grain stores. Why? If you put a
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'Ojiihns' is a word
that means a little pest. It is used for all sorts of bugs/flies, its
in pesky animal names like 'Waabaganoojiihns', which is a mouse. I
love my language, want to hear something fun: 'mskwa'waabagan' is red
clay 'Waabagan' is clay, 'Ojiihns' is pest, 'waabaganojiihns' is that
clay colored pest.
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tea around your camp and be wowed by the lack of little mouse poops
everywhere. Or in your grains to keep them from eating your food!<br /><br />The older name for labrador tea is Mshkiigabag.
Which literally means swamp/bog leaf. Swamp/bog is 'Mshkiig-aki',
leaf is 'bag' (pronounced 'buck'), Mshkiigabag is the swamp/bog leaf. This leaf smells
fantastic, citrusy, evergreeny, fruity goodness. Its a wonder
how such a delicious smelling leaf can come out of such stinky
places. <br /><br />The colloquial name for this plant in inuit is
Kayaksi. Which means little kayak leaf (please correct me if I am
wrong, this is by memory, all I remember is it means kayak-leaf.. which is super cool). When the leaves of labrador tea are dried
up the edges curl and it looks just like a little kayak. This is
by-far, the cutest name for a plant I have ever heard.
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What I really find
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the significance of different plants and animals
change as you travel north. This is evident even in the creation stories,
where down here we have the muskrat being the animal that is able to
dive and get the handful of earth for the turtles back, as you go
north is changes to geese.<br />
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'Gaagigebag' or, 'the leaf that is forever the same' Down here our
Gaagigebag is Princes Pine (Chimaphila umbellata). We call princes
pine this because this plant in the middle of winter is still dark
green in color, you can dig it out of 2 meters of snow and ice and
its still green. When you travel up north their Gaagigebag or 'leaf
that is always the same' is labrador tea. They have the bogs that do
not freeze, and labrador tea is able to stay in these bogs year round
without changing. I think it is so interesting to observe the changes
in significance.
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Now lets talk for a
bit about the medicinal significance of labrador tea.
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Another thing I find
super interesting is the fact that fasting is incorporated into ever
calendar year of every ancient culture around the world. Some fasting
practices, funnily enough, defy modern scientific models that show
how long a human can survive without food or water. 3 minutes without
air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food. A lot of fasting
practice has people consistently fasting water for 4-7 days, even in
the middle of winter! <br /><br />One of the largest physiological gains
from fasting is the stimulation of your immune system. Fasting cycles
almost always coincide with changes of season. Changes of season
always get us. In these parts the fasting occurs in the spring and
fall. You normally fast just before the seasons change. This is not a
coincidence either. These are in the calendar so you go into the
change of seasons with an immune system that is fully stimulated and
ready to quickly obliterate any invader. Labrador tea stimulates your
immune system just as much as fasting does. If you want a psychotic
immune system, an immune system that tears anything apart before you
even actually feel sick, you need to slam some labrador tea.
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Labrador tea also
has some severely outstanding effects on mercury.
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Okay, so the fact
is, we do not know the long term neurotoxicity effects of mercury.
What we do know is that mercury can be eliminated from all parts of
your body except your brain. It gets a little clogged in your
kidneys, takes some extra time to get eliminated but your brain is a
different story. Organic mercury is methylmercury. Imagine it like
this. Mercury is slippery, like soap in the bathwater its hard to get
a hold of, but methylmercury is like soap in the bathtub but with a
perfect grippy handle attached to it, easy to grab and move about.
Your body is able to grab mercury by the methyl. The problem is as
soon as methylmercury crosses the blood brain barrier your brain
snatches the methyl, that big beautiful grippy handle and BAM, we
cant move mercury, so in your brain, mercury only accumulates. This
is the problem, if only we can change the brain from stealing all the
methyl to giving it, then we can eliminate mercury from the brain! </div>
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Labrador tea has
been in the 'culturally relevant complimentary treatment' spotlight
for over a decade now. Its ability to take mercury our of your body
and brain are what created this spotlight.
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All of the dumping
of mercury into the great lakes by the industry is to blame for
mercury issues in the north. All the mercury we dump gets lifted into
the air and literally rains mercury all over the north. Sorry my
northern friends, its our fault.
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In the north you
find a huge dichotomy of people with extremely high levels of mercury
and people with considerably low levels. Considerably low based on
their exposure, of course. This dichotomy is precisely paralleled by
the individuals level of traditional behavior. Meaning those who
were regathering tradition and drinking the teas-of-old like labrador
tea, had low levels. Those who still neglected tradition and these
remarkable teas had absurdly high levels of mercury.
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Our beautiful
Akwasasne brothers and sisters are suffering a terribly unjust and
overwhelming amount of mercury. It sounds like that old trade of
labrador tea from the north needs to be resurrected.
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Remember that
'culturally relevant complimentary treatment' spotlight I mentioned
earlier. Researchers of the north wanted to find out if labrador tea
can be good for anything else? Wouldn't it be nice if labrador tea
can solve the epidemic of diabetes, obesity, arthritis, etc.
<br /><br />Labrador tea at concentration levels that of a cup a mild
tasting tea improves insulin sensitivity by reducing blood glucose
levels by 13%, reduced the response to oral glucose tolerance test by
18.2% and reduced plasma insulin by 65%. Also induces a 42% reduction
in hepatic triglyceride levels, Stimulates glucose metabolism (akt
pathway) by 55% and increases GLUT4 (skeletal muscle glucose
transporter) expression by 54%. All while improving renal function
and lowering adipogenesis.</div>
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Another stellar note
is that labrador tea, tea, kills lung cancers only 9.7X slower than
conventional chemotherapy with an IC50 of 43 (cisplatin+array IC50 is
4.4), kills colon cancer cells 4.3X slower than conventional
chemotherapy (4-fu IC50 is 15), all without side effects. What is
important to note though, is labrador tea can be administered at
higher doses and it can be taken more frequently making it a much
closer battle against the conventional chemotherapies, especially
since it has no side effects.
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Mshkiki, medicine,
literally means “strength of the earth.” The areas needed for
medicine (Mshkiki) are 'Mshkiig Aki', wetlands or swamps, wetlands
are the strength of the earth. This is the wetland plant,
Mshkiigabag.</div>
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This plant occurs in
everywhere in Canada and even stays available all year. What is the
interpretation? It should be a part of everyday life, in everyone's
cupboards all of the time. Especially the tea cupboard (sorry
RedRose). Chi-Miigwetch Mshkiigabagwaabo!</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One
of the coolest things about alder, other than medicine and pranking
your mothers is how great of an example this tree is at showing just
how effectively trees and plants communicate. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We
are just starting to learn about the plant world, western knowledge
it is really at an infant level of understanding the natural world. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alder
trees have both male and female parts on the same tree, so its almost
always in-between genders. The remarkable thing that alder does
though, is the entire community communicates until they have reached
a perfectly even number of male and female parts. Some trees have
more energy than others, some trees had the pleasure of giant
flubbery moose lips coming by raking all the twigs off (essentially
pruning) and one year it has less energy, but in future years it has
more energy. In the world of alder it takes less energy to be a
female than a male, so when you have more energy you have to have
more male parts, and vice versa, if you have less energy you have
more female parts. All of this communication, we have found out, is
done pheremonally. A ton of cool studies were done in an enclosed
space over a long period of time on only a few trees, they picked and
prodded some trees until they had less energy and saw that it had
more female parts. They got to witness the other trees that had more
sunlight and more energy step up their game and cover for their
buddies and make more man parts. It was really remarkable! All the
trees and plants are talking to one another, making sure they are
doing the best job they can. I love it! </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Smelt
fishing and tapping maple trees for maple syrup is right around the
corner, a long cold corner. So is the hot weather</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You
remember sarsaparilla, the original 'root beer' Do you remember how
it was an adaptogenic herb that has been made to help your body adapt
to the stresses of cold. How it helped your body to be able to handle
the bitter cold days, so you can continue to work?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well,
spring is next and guess what! There is a plant to use around this
time to get your body ready for the heat of the spring/summer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Meet
alder, Mkadewiigwaasehns.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here's
how to do it: <br />Peel the bark, brew a tea. It should be a nice
amber orange color. Let it sit on your table for 3 days, on the third
day it should turn black like coffee, drink it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
will help your body be ready for the summer. Live with the seasons! </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Also
the 'tags' or catkins is the trees way of spreading pollen. Birches
and alders are one of the earliest sources of pollen in the air and
as a result, the earliest causes of allergies. Here is your
remedy:<br />Not too long ago we used to eat tons of these catkins.
They have a unique flavor and are very rich in protein and fiber.
Little did we know that this was a way of preventing the development
of an allergy! Also a treatment.</span></span></span></div>
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twigs make great chewing sticks. This is one thing that I like about
chewing sticks. There is always an endless supply of flavors of
chewing sticks out there! Remember: Any fibrous twig can be used for
a chewing stick! (so many possibilities) Properly using a chewing
stick has had folks in less than a week wake up with no bad breath in
the morning! Challenge yourself! Try this for a week, and see what
happens to you, I have yet to have one person who uses the chewing
stick to have bad breath at the end of the week. For more information
on this read my blog on oral hygiene.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Its
fun to take these catkins; chew on them, let the pollen mix with your
saliva and when you spit on the snow its bright bright reddish orange
(good practical joke (to play on your mother))</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Also,
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</span>bark makes the most brilliant brown and yellow dyes. Ever.
Most like it more than sumac.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So,
take the circadian rhythm to the next level and start to live with
the seasons: when spring is near, brew the bark and eat the
pollen-filled catkins.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alder
bark
among
other plants helps
your body use fat for energy rather than sugar, it
increases lipid metabolization.
So
many plants do this! It makes me really believe that our bodies are
meant to use fat for energy, and not sugar.
Alder
bark also increases insulin sensitivity
all
this makes for alder bark to have
some pretty extreme anti-adipogenic qualities. Its
a must in diabetes medicines.
So
when you are drinking this tea you are more effectivly controling
your blood sugar, not
allowing your body to store fat, and
teaching your body how to use fat for energy. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
plant is not unlike any other plant on the planet. It has been
created to show you what it is good for. One name we have for this
plant is “Mkadewiigwaasehns” Which means little black birch. Now
I would always ask why is there emphasis put on 'little' cant it just
be a normal black birch? Alder really is truly the tree out of all
the birchs that deserve the name 'little black birch'. Why? Because
it never gets big! Simple as that. This tree doesn't get fat like
everyone else out there, so we harness this trees abilities, to
benefit ourselves. Just like this tree is able to control the size of
its waist if we are using this tree for medicine we will be able to
control our waist! Makes sense? </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here
is perhaps another issue I might be able to clear up. The names of
different birches in Anishnaabemowin. I am not fluent, I am not
perfect, this is just what I gather from our expert knowledge
holders: </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Black
birch, Betula lenta is Mkadewiigwaas. Pin cherry is Wiigwaasminaatik,
Paper Birchs is Wiigwaaswaatik, Yellow Birch is Wiinsik, Ironwood is
Maananoohns. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I
harvested alder
bark to harness its abilities to heal skin issues
for my withdrawal symptom management kit. Top 3 complaints folks have
in treatment centers are nausea, itching and headaches. Alder
was there to take care of the itching. It
is one of the most extensively used bark to bathe with. A strong brew
of alder<span style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 0.05cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">
</span>tea
is simply poured into a bathtub and you soak, or the strong brew is
used for a sponge bath. I chose this for the withdrawal symptom
management kit to get rid of the itching clients have to deal with.
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So
there you have it Alder
bark
is a significant help to
the obesity/diabetes epidemic, just about any
skin issue, adapt
your body to the coming hot weather, and it makes great chewing
sticks! It really is a necessity
in every household seeking our
creation for healing.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Cedar
- Giizhigaa'aandak</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cedar
– One of the oldest living trees in the world, known to be over
1700 years old (core samples). Cedar bough tea is used as an immune
system tonic, it contains everything your immune system needs to
repair and strengthen. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One
special feature of cedar bough tea is that it purges the lymphatic
system. When ailed by a virus or sickness, lymph nodes fill up and
swell, causing discomfort, cedar purges the lymph nodes making more
room for them to collect more waste, making your body extremely
effective at getting rid of all this garbage. This is why you get
better so quick when using cedar tea.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You
only get rid of junk 3 ways: poop, pee, sweat. How does your body get
rid of waste via sweat? Lymphatic system. The one system in our
bodies that we know relatively little about. This system weaves in
and around blood capillaries and lives in the 'dead space' collecting waste that it sends through
lymphatic vessels until it is eliminated through your skin via sweat.
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It
truly is one of the most powerful ways to eliminate waste, and we do
not take advantage of it. We wake up in an air conditioned house, we
turn the car on, that already has the AC on HIGH, from inside and
when we think its cold enough inside the car we sprint from inside
and hop in the cold car, drive to our air conditioned work and when
we get there we say: “Woo, thank God I almost started to sweat!”
Then we go from work to our pre-cooled air conditioned car to our air
conditioned home. We don't sweat anymore, at least not the way we
used to. Those farming days where there was no escape from the
blistering 40 degree summers when work still had to be done. We are
doing everything we can these days to force our lymphatic system into
lethargy. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Within
the context of being a lymphatic system medicine, I
don't think that cedar tea ingested is not the intended use, here is
why: Before the industrialization of soaps, we used plant-based
medicine tea to have sponge/basin
baths! What happens when you use cedar tea to bathe? It
purges
your lymph vessles
and
nodes, relieving your skin of this constant slow leech of toxins and
garbage that is slowly secreted onto the surface of your skin which
is
the cause
of
a ton
of problems. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
reason alone is reason enough to adopt this way of bathing and never
turning back, given the
epidemic of
skin conditions.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cedar
also is an extreme diaphoretic, meaning it makes you sweat. What
this means for your skin is that when the cedar tea soaked cloth
grazes by your skin it competely
opens every pore on your skin and sucks out water, sweat, basically
pressure washing each and every pore on your skin, making and keeping
your skin so clean and clear, that it takes days, almost a week to
get dirty enough to have to bathe again, not to mention the lack of
body odor. Versus
soap which closes and even deposits junk into the pore clogging it
and creating a ton of tiny infections.
This would be enough for every woman on the planet to never look
back. Ceder oils have benefits in it that carry into the tea that you
clean yourself with these oils in it are anti-bacterial, anti-septic,
anti-viral, anti-microbial, anti-pruretic, anti-fungal,
anti-anti-anti-everything.
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Body
washs are designed by man, and they are only meant to only get you
through the work day (so by the weeks end you have to buy another
bottle), plant based medicine is designed by the Creator of the
universe, made to heal you, and keep you strong, healthy and cleaner
than ever before!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What
makes cedar different than all of the other trees around it, what
makes it unique, what is its signature? Its an evergreen! What
separates it from evergreens? Its leaves are flat and scaly, they are
not needles. Lets take a closer look at those flat green scaly
looking leaves and see what they have to say.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Talk
to any biologist on the planet and ask him why cedar has all these
grooves in the scaly looking leaves, what purpose do they serve?
None, is a quick honest answer. The only way you can make sense of
this style of leaf is that it has been created to show you that it
looks like the lymphatic vessels in your body. Lymphatic vessels have
the same branching pattern, they are flat, green, scaly and have
valves to prevent back-flow, every vessel always ends 'open' because
its designed to eliminate waste out. Every single cedar leaf has the
same valves and they always end open! This is a signature from the
Creator of the universe to show us and confirm with us that this
plant is meant to heal our lymphatic system. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now
these are not the only amazing things about cedar. When you are under
attack your body first sends guard cells;</span></span></span></div>
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Kurzgesagt - In a NutShell (The Immune-System Explained)<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Macrophages
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">These
are big boogery balls that slowly float around your body engulfing
and consuming bad guys, pretty much exactly like the (horrible) 1988
film, The Blob. These cells also have secondary duties, like to call
in water to the site to immobilize the infection to make their job
easier. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Neutrophils</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">These
are fast living, destructive and extremely aggressive zippy little
cells that basically spray acid everywhere in attempt to kill
invaders. These are actually what create the color of 'infection' the
green color are living neutrophils, the yellow color is dead
neutrophils. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When
these two wondrous parts of your immune system are becoming
overwhelmed by the virus/bacteria they send out signals that are
calling for backup. Dendritic cells hear the plea and jump into
action.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dendritic
cell</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">These
cells go into the warzone and collects intelligence. One of the main
decisions that it has to make is whether infection is a bacteria,
virus or fungi? Once this decision is made it travels into a lymph
node where thousands of helper and killer T cells are sleeping. It
bursts in presents the intelligence it collected from the field. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Killer
T Cells</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thousands
and thousands of these cells are soundly sleeping in their home,
lymph nodes. When a dendritic cell comes into the lymph node it wakes
them all up desperate for help. The dendritic cell teaches them how
to kill the enemy, but the training is to rigorous and sometimes less
than 20% survive. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Helper
T Cells </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Then
dendritic cells scour the lymph node finding all helper T cells that
survived the training as soon as it confirms they are ready for
action the helper T cells start wildly duplicating. Some turn into
memory T cells, they kind of go back to sleep inside the lymph node
until you need this particular set of intelligence yet, AKA immunity.
Some go to the field of battle and some go around the lymph node to B
cells. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">B
Cells </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">T
cells roam around delivering all their intelligence and training to B
cells. B cells take it all in and they know exactly what to do. They
create millions of antibodies that flood the body. They work so hard
shooting these antibodies all over your body that they get really
tired really quick, but helper T cells come and encourage the B cells
to keep going, to keep shooting. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Antibodies</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />The
most powerful part of your immune system. Billions of these clever
little bullets will flood the battlefield connecting to the membrane
and backs of bacterias and viruses. Immobilizing and weakening them,
making them more tasty to the big blubbery macrophages that come and
eat them all. Antibodies create the environment needed to triumph.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Natural
killer cells go around to find infected cells and order them to die. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now
what happens in most of us is we don't sleep enough, we don't eat the
right foods, were too stressed out and everything sucks all of the
time! So our immune system has trouble operating the way that it
should. It becomes rather lethargic, slow and sluggish. We live in a
society today that accepts when our kids get sick in October, its
okay, they will get better in May, thats the way it is, thats what
happens when they are in school, etc etc. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When
we get infected out B cells are collecting improper intelligence,
there is no helper T cells encouraging everyone and improper
antibodies are made which allows the infection to persist for weeks.
What we need is to stimulate our immune system. We need to wake it
up, give it a good shaking and a coffee so it does its job. <br /><br />Cedar
has an amazing compound in it called Thujone that stimulates your
immune system like mad. When you are having cedar tea your immune
system has 30% more macrophages, 7% more lymphocytes (Killer T,
Helper T) and the dendritic cells collect their intelligence needed,
faster, and deliver it to B cells and T cells in half the time,
Thujone also throws B cells into overdrive which administer multiple
times the amount of antibodies. <br /><br />So what happens when you
drink cedar tea everyday? You most often get better before you even
feel sick.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />What
happens when you start to have cedar tea once you already feel sick,
you simply get better in record time. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My
community has a living memory of always having a giant pot of cedar
tea on the stove all the time, the importance of this tree is
immense. The benefits of the bath and the teas influence on your
immune system should be enough for you to be clawing at a cup a day.
But it doesn't end there. <br /><br />First Nations people have a crappy
respiratory tract. You ever wonder why when H1N1 was going around, we
were a priority for the vaccine? I think it was children, elders and
first nations. Could it be because the government and Health Canada
were making sure they were taking care of their first peoples? Well,
that would be nice, and a first, but the real reason why is because
they were legally obligated. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Because
of our terrible respiratory tract. They know this and so, with
knowledge comes responsibility. They had to take care of this. <br /><br />What
do I mean when our respiratory tract is lame? Its because it had an
environmental line of defence against invaders like viruses, bacteria
and fungi. This line of defence was salt. We came from the coast. We
came from an area where breathing was medicine, all that salt water.
Go to the coast and see if you can find someone that has a sinus
infection, it wont happen. They even make commercials to advertise
salt water in aerosol canisters to spray up your nose. </span></span></span>
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respiratory tracts have a simple first line of defense, this is just
being smooth. Too smooth for bacteria, viruses and fungi to adhere
to. Now when we came from the coast with our lumpy bumpy respiratory
tracts we are much more at risk for infection in this part of our
body. </span></span></span>
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there a way to make our respiratory tract smooth like everyone elses?
YES! Its called cedar. Cedar induces somatic genetic mutation
specifically to the lungs, making them smooth again. </span></span></span>
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now we have a plant available for harvest 365 days a year that we can
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always talk about how plants are meant for only a few, but very
specific uses, and how each plant shows you what it can be used for,
and how. These include edible uses, medicinal uses and even utility!
Plants have been created to articulate their purpose perfectly. </span></span>
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its uses beyond the incredible and obvious toothache relief.</span></div>
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Prickly Ash loves the Carolinian forest. What characterizes the
Carolinian are giant broad leaved deciduous trees. It loves these
giants and their big broad leaves because they block the sun with
ease, basically creating a giant greenhouse. Prickly ash is right at
home in any thick canopied wet forest. The forest plants underneath
these thick canopies are forced to live in very rich places where
they are constantly wet!</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc16hCZYBZ1gDaIylK2clrGkFfYQn_7z8sx3cxr6YoqP_mV-PWPNXDrjaUFVvKG_PAI2M4j5XvDlZLDiXYJgEGxLXD-sixPnnCd92jZ3wzbuwV5iucAqYOC_ARjjndufsut-GO4LLubyw/s1600/Prickly-ash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc16hCZYBZ1gDaIylK2clrGkFfYQn_7z8sx3cxr6YoqP_mV-PWPNXDrjaUFVvKG_PAI2M4j5XvDlZLDiXYJgEGxLXD-sixPnnCd92jZ3wzbuwV5iucAqYOC_ARjjndufsut-GO4LLubyw/s320/Prickly-ash.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYAHtsuQeboDq0VGo4M9jSBpvpfm-yDTLZjKwdbpPllQ8i0DPdOXIxQjsBZYO4rjalgo6E0LhW9f-RJdfbbf9xpJ6o1oIL2PDuOijlGlwnSl-fZX8WYBBAXHJwQU0t5xL3fyOFIfYXTBc/s1600/Pricklyash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYAHtsuQeboDq0VGo4M9jSBpvpfm-yDTLZjKwdbpPllQ8i0DPdOXIxQjsBZYO4rjalgo6E0LhW9f-RJdfbbf9xpJ6o1oIL2PDuOijlGlwnSl-fZX8WYBBAXHJwQU0t5xL3fyOFIfYXTBc/s320/Pricklyash.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></div>
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thrives in this situation? Fungus. Obviously, plants in this setting
are always engaged in this </span>grueling<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> war between them and fungus, how
does Prickly Ash prevail? </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Prickley
ash is one of the greatest broad-spectrum anti-fungal plants located in rich
wet shaded forests! Simply because it has to be. Lets take a step
back and take a simple, primitive, child-like look at the forest and
ask a question: Where would we find our anti-fungals?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> We </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">would find anti-fungals in places where the plants themselves are
constantly having to overcome the stress of fungus themselves! Like roots in
earth that is networked with rainbows of different fungus's, in
leaves that are exposed to harsh fungal environments. Now if we look
at Prickly Ash what further exemplifies its anti-fungal action is it
has a peculiarly striking clean cirtusy fragrance to it,
versus everything else and their more common woodsy smells. Not to mention
its aggressive impenetrable thicket of sharp thorns. So with the
environment it thrives in combined with its clean smell and
aggressive appearance we can propose it to be an
anti-fungal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There
are 3 main types of fungus that I am commonly asked about: Candida by
a landslide is number one followed by foot fungus and of course
Aspergillus in those on immunosuppressants. The department of Bio in
Ottawa U did an amazing study showing just how potent Prickley Ash is
at killing 11 different strains of fungus, including of course the 3
mentioned above.</span><br />
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potent anti-fungal action confirms the accurate ancient practice of
using Gaakamish (prickley ash) as our traditional go-to anti-fungal
medicine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To everyone asking about fungus treatment... All you need
is some leaves or bark and soak the affected area in the tea or for
candida, drink tea a tea made from the bark, but watch don't get pricked! The results are so dramatic, you'll be
laughing. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How many of you have been prescribed Prickly Ash for eczema, psoriasis, alopecia and vitiligo? Lets take a look at the traditional remedy for these super common stress/fungal related issues.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While reading about the wonders of prickly ash I found what could be the scientific answer or a lead to the explanation as to the cure for some other famous skin and fungus related skin issues. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In studying Prickly Ash, researchers found that the special anti-fungal qualities correlate with amount of light or amount of light mediated compounds, specifically furanocoumarins. The more furanocoumarins more anti-fungal action. What are furanocoumarins? They are defense mechanisms designed to induce phytophotosensitivity or sensitivity to light, protecting the plant from predators.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prickly Ash is loaded with a beauty called Psoralen, a type of furanocoumorin. Psoralen is a high-class mutagen that, when combined with UVA, is used to treat improper skin mutations like psoriasis, eczema, even alopecia and vitiligo. The medicine is applied to the affected area and is later exposed to the sun to clean up the problem. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vitiligo sufferers are pleased with a 75%-100% repigmentation and with double the treatment length that was used for vitiligo, sufferers of Psoriasis can achieve remission. The same goes for eczema.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkOuNBvqO3eQo8UjWz1egAHJEQyw1luv3YC6XH2abSdOYqRyW106o0qQZmUF66rkWf0FIg6TLK4xqIGOwK3LTgF6BsUE-4ibAQ_EoMh8FUVdxpkqzt-XGhxtTkPqHQMydluzlRHC6Zbbc/s1600/ZanthoxylumAmericanum01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most amazing study I read was in regard to Alopecia. I have been bombarded with questions regarding this issue and today I found some of the most amazing information that I hope can point sufferers in the right direction. Psoralen + UVA (PUVA) or, Prickly Ash and the sun, has been successfully used against Alopecia in some huge and remarkably well done studies in India!</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Know someone battling fungus problems, eczema, psoriasis, alopecia or vitiligo? Share it up my friends, they will be ecstatic to hear the hope this widespread traditional therapy provides.</span></div>
Creators Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10567065127859002687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911246144332556066.post-85532027018171705262016-06-16T08:42:00.000-07:002016-06-17T07:33:01.051-07:00Products The Creators Garden Endorses<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Here is something that I have been wanting to do for quite some time. I want you to know what has worked for me in the past few years of harvesting medicine. I have purchased thousands of dollars worth of equipment over the years in search of what works for a medicine harvester.<br />
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Where I ended up is digging sticks. You have two options. Make digging sticks on site each time, literally the day of, or early in the year you can make a few digging sticks to last you a season or a few years. I personally make another one everywhere I go. I do this because I am notorious for being too excited and breaking everything. Besides, I have been allowing myself to become attached to sticks my whole life, you know when you are a kid and you grab all the sticks that look like guns and knives, but we all know these relationships never work out, they always end in a fire or being too camouflaged in the forest!</div>
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Everyone, save yourselves the expense of shovels, trowels and every other tool you can get at Canadian Tire and learn to love digging sticks. This is the biggest piece of medicine harvesting tool investing advice I can give you. Honestly. </div>
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knives my entire life. Since I have been pursuing plant based
medicinal knowledge I have been through dozens of knives, spending
hundreds of researched dollars trying to find a knife that can handle
digging in gravel, dirt, felling wrist sized trees, scraping bark
etc. I needed a knife that fir for a medicine harvester.<br />
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experienced in bush-craft, I know knife etiquette but knives were
seemingly only able to handle weeks, at best a month before they
break or were a constant struggle to keep sharp, and the blade would
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFtqHawMMp7oZIeYCX3CIdytMWgN9Ed051RpFvO-R8XMAlHNqUoWMNP8NB8u8HCvYA_kfEOcPxoGnLIM78POMtikkglDCKzTbwgxr57r54gi9ONxYHos1a7uJYi5GaDJa3rsqCL6EC0w8/s1600/diamond-whetstone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFtqHawMMp7oZIeYCX3CIdytMWgN9Ed051RpFvO-R8XMAlHNqUoWMNP8NB8u8HCvYA_kfEOcPxoGnLIM78POMtikkglDCKzTbwgxr57r54gi9ONxYHos1a7uJYi5GaDJa3rsqCL6EC0w8/s320/diamond-whetstone.jpg" width="320" /></a>The Swedish Fire
Knife has been with me for 3.5 years, seldom needing to be sharpened.
They are made with a higher quality, more dense steel and can only be
sharpened with more specialized whetstones. The main reason why I
promote this knife over any other is because it has a spine perfect
for shaving bark. We use bark for medicine a lot and this knife
scrapes bark off like no other, it is truly night and day with every
other knife I have tried. <br />
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My first light my fire knife lasted
a good year and a half before it was stolen, I immediately bought a
new one that is still with me 2 years later. My wife has one and she
takes good care of everything so I am guessing she will have it for
quite some time. They are the best knife I have ever used, and
everyone who follows my opinion is always completely satisfied.</div>
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<a href="http://www.lightmyfire.com/products/products/swedish-fireknife.aspx">http://www.lightmyfire.com/products/products/swedish-fireknife.aspx</a> </div>
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Boiling Water</h2>
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medicine that is inside of every leaf, root, bark, seed and stem are
oils, volatile oils. To ingest this medicine you simple brew it up in
some hot water, tea is almost always the most effective and active
way of extracting medicine. Its osmosis, the medicine (oils) move
from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration,
osmosis jones! <br />
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Tea is amazing. To make tea you need to get
water to a boiling temperature. I have always used simple propane
stoves, they are quite reliable, cheap and really easy. That being
said, it definitely has downfalls, propane doesn't work in the cold,
you have to always buy propane, and I'm not going to lie, propane is
kind of scary in hot vehicles for puncture issues and carbon monoxide
whateverness. <br />
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The biolite has been an amazing investment. It
uses any biofuel from twigs to dried moose poo and everything in
between. You never have to buy propane and it always works in the
winter, even giving off a decent amount of heat. It also forces you
to keep on top of your fire lighting skills.
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at the size of a propane canister, in a sleeve that can fit in most
water bottle size holsters, making it very packable, it weighs next
to nothing and is awfully durable. <br />
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Most importantly it gets
water boiling super quickly. This is my number one recommended stove
to get water hot very quickly for making medicinal tea.
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They also offer
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Biolite also runs
amazing charity. They use moneys spent on campstove and basecamp
products, they give a home stove to families in third world countries
alleviating a ton of hazards, and making life that much easier. This
stove is amazing, and also supports a great cause!<br />
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Links: </div>
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<a href="http://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/biolite-campstove">http://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/biolite-campstove</a>
– Biolite Campstove</div>
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<a href="http://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/biolite-basecamp">http://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/biolite-basecamp</a>
– Biolite BaseCamp</div>
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Fire Lighting</h2>
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To get water boiling
you are going to have to know how to make a fire. To light that fire
I recommend the light my fire flint and steel. Very durable and the
amount of strikes you get from one stick is well worth it, especially
if you are doing fire lighting programming with children! Their
eye-catching colors have kids as young as 5 creating fire.
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<a href="http://www.lightmyfire.com/products/products/swedish-firesteel-20.aspx">http://www.lightmyfire.com/products/products/swedish-firesteel-20.aspx</a> </div>
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Bug Jackets</h2>
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Bug Jackets are a
great comfort harvesting medicine as well, any bug jacket will do.
I've learned my lesson constantly buying the less expensive option.
You literally become a slave to it, always having to buy a new one, I
know now that investing in great quality equipment means only doing
it once! This is the only time that I encourage buying the cheaper
option. I get mine from Canadian Tire. The quality bug jackets you
can get for $100 wont do you any better. Until they can make a bug
jacket tough enough to handle trekking through thickets of balsam fir
where all of the bottom branches are dead and constantly snagging the
jackets to shreds, I wont be investing.
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Balsam fir snags are
the deadliest thing for bug jackets and you are always going to be
surrounded by them. They are the transition zone tree, from maple
stands to swamps and fields to rivers, balsam fir is always going to
be there, waiting to shred your brand new bug jacket. Buy cheap ones.</div>
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Pots</h2>
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Pots are important
for making tea, of course! I like GSI pots, I received one as a
wedding gift and its conductivity is dramatically noticeable, it gets
super hot super quick. Cheap pots, for the most part, reflect the
heat! GSI has engineered their cookware to absorb all the heat,
severely cutting fuel consumption. GSI pots are also always very
lightweight and oddly durable (a must for me. I break everything.)
Another neat-o pro about the GSI pots is that the charcoal bottoms
from cooking with coals, the biolite or a fire washes off so easy!</div>
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<a href="http://www.gsioutdoors.com/shop/cooking/pots-pans/halulite-4-7-l-pot.html">http://www.gsioutdoors.com/shop/cooking/pots-pans/halulite-4-7-l-pot.html</a> </div>
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You can easily cheap
out and buy an enamel pot, but with the tiny price difference, it
would be foolish. Get a great pot and you will be laughing how
efficient they are.</div>
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<a href="http://www.gsioutdoors.com/shop/cooking/pots-pans/stock-pot-11-5-qt-blue.html">http://www.gsioutdoors.com/shop/cooking/pots-pans/stock-pot-11-5-qt-blue.html</a> </div>
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Water</h2>
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Lastly, a water
filter. So I make tea for people, I take people out into the
wilderness and find a ton of medicine and the participants debate a
bit as to which tea they would like to sample. Once they know, I make
a huge pot for everyone to try. I usually haul a big 10-20L container
of water to use to make the tea. Simply bringing a water filter is
definitely and infinitely the better option. Lighter, no bulk and way
cooler.
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<a href="http://www.mec.ca/product/5001-239/msr-miniworks-ex-water-filter/?f=10+50467+52299">http://www.mec.ca/product/5001-239/msr-miniworks-ex-water-filter/?f=10+50467+52299</a></div>
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Blender </h2>
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Again, the huge mortar and pestle is the way to go, always. If you do not know anyone capable of creating such an amazing piece of work, than you might want to buy a blender.</div>
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This is another area I have invested hundreds and hundreds of dollars into to find the right one.</div>
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Any blender will NOT do. Blenders are usually designed to 'throw' ingredients up to the lid and smash down into the fast moving blade on the bottom. If you are grinding dried plant matter, most blenders will be so violent with your medicine and create a large enough amount of dust it sets off fire alarms. The issue with this is that the dust escaping contains the most precious parts of the plant, and it is just vanishing!<br /><br />Heat is also a huge issue when it comes to grinding medicine, you want the least amount of heat as possible. Heat forces the medicine, the oils, out of the plant, before it is even brewed! So in all medicine processing the least amount of heat is always recommended, always be mindful my friends! Blenders get awfully hot. </div>
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So for small scale I recommend getting a coffee/spice grinder, which have blades and walls designed to pull the material down, not shoot it up. It grinds virtually dust free, it is very incredible. They do get hot though, and the small amounts of dust that are produced go into the motor and on the belts and they break. They definitely do not last long. The 2 coffee grinders that last me the longest for medicine grinding are one common one by black and decker (smartgrind) and salton one that they no longer make! Now, coffee grinders get quite hot after a few turns so I am always sure to let it cool off to keep all those medicinal oils intact.<br /><br />Time for the coolest part. If you are doing larger scale medicine processing, the large pitcher blender that I really recommend is the Blendtec. They have a pitcher called "wildside" that if it is blended on speeds 5 and below has that sucking action where it brings all the material to the blades. Its magical to watch! Much larger loads of plant matter is able to fit in compared to the coffee grinders and I have found the blendtec to offer less dust than some coffee grinders! Its a really amazing investment. They cost about $400 and do not create the heirloom that the giant mortar and pestle would but makes for quick, simple grinding and easy cleanup! I love my blendtec!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Commute to and from Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation (Grassy Narrows) for me was 3500 total kilometers of medicine country! Every chance we had we were stopping and collecting all the goodies those beautiful bogs had to offer, chaga, black spruce gum, labrador tea etc. In this photo we found Pipsissewa, an excellent treat for us southerners. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pipsissewa is a Cree word for this plant that describes unique ability to crumble into tiny particles when dry. 'Piisapiisaa' is a weather term in my Ojibwe dialect used to describe 'drizzling' and fine snow is 'piispwa' the color purple is 'piisagaandeh' What is the commonality? Small particles. What do small particles have to do with the color purple?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Manitoulin has a island called Strawberry Island which was traditionally known as Piisa-aazhbik-cokning (purple rock island) The reason for this name is this island has a tiny purple rock that crumbles easily into small particles and you boil those small particles to make a brilliant purple dye. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I heard on CBC radio a few years ago that there was no such thing as a natural purple dye, and that all species have been over consumed and are now extinct. Strawberry island still has this rock and a natural purple dye still exists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The plant Pipsissewa is also called Prince's Pine, it is used in nearly every compound medicine as the primary ache reliever, it is my go-to aid for fibromyalgia as well, here why: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CoX2 is an enzyme thrown out of whack when you are fighting different virus's like colds and flu's, this is the cause of 'flu aches' It is just this enzyme eating away at everything causing that pain. This enzyme is also thrown out of whack when you have fibromyalgia which is a gnawing pain in every fiber of your body. Again most advanced theories on this pain point the finger to the enzyme CoX2 eating away at every fiber of your body causing this incredible pain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pipsissewa, natures most effective CoX2 inhibitor. Pain, gone. A lot of really 'innovative' pharmaceuticals ie. Celebrex attempt to mimic natural CoX2 inhibitors but in comparative studies cannot come close. They are still worth around 3 billion/year per brand, there are almost a dozen with that worth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pipsissewa in my language is called Gaagigebagohns, which means 'forever the same' its called this because it is such a gorgeous plant in that it is evergreen, it is available all year, even under 3 meters of snow. This plant is the epitome of a concept that I teach about availability. Evergreens are evergreen for a reason. The reason is that you need them, all year. You cannot live without them. In reverse, this world could not have been created to seasonally starve you of these plants. All evergreens have been created to survive -50 degree weather and wind-chills of -80 just so you can harvest them on a need/want-basis. Even if you forgot to harvest them before snowfall they will always be there for you. This is a very important concept that really needs to be taken advantage of in the most proper way.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a plant that I found on the side of hwy 17, it carpeted the border of every bog. The amount I harvested for my family and friends took a mere 20 minutes. Where I harvested, because of the way I harvested, that area will have double the amount of Pipsissewa next year. I love our Creator for giving us everything that we need to stay healthy, heal and all the knowledge we need to be proper stewards of this land.</span>Creators Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10567065127859002687noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911246144332556066.post-89696463463748412262015-08-01T07:44:00.000-07:002016-03-28T05:02:34.845-07:00Bathing like our ancients<div dir="ltr">
Traditional woodlands life of the Algonquin people was largely absent of soap. Yet most of our elders still alive today do not remember body odor? What are we missing!?</div>
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What many teach is that the woodlands people were historically known as "The Doctors" of, nearly the entire continent. We would trade medicine with the great Iroquoian and Sioux tribes our well known compound medicines for some staple foods.<br />
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How did the woodlands people stay clean? Simple, bark baths and cedar baths. We would simply harvest bark during barking season (cedar can be harvested at anytime), and tap into it all winter by making giant pots of tea and have good ol basin/sponge baths. Today, the original context of use is completely gone! Today, we use bark baths to treat some of the worst of skin conditions. This means that the ancient way of a simple bath is now an intense treatment, how sick are we?!<br />
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Your body only cleans itself three ways: poop, pee and sweat (if your a woman, breast milk, however I do hope a baby is not at the receiving end of this detox.) Most of us are quite familiar with the first two but what about sweating? We dont seem to be doing much sweating these days, so here it is. Our lymphatic system is what our body uses to get rid of waste through sweating. What does cedar and these barks do? Purge it.<br />
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Let me help you understand just how crazy this is. Your lymphatic system is absolutely amazing, it weaves in just about every blood capillary and its job is to collect waste from the blood and eject it via, your skin. These bark baths completely purge the lymphatic system, giving your body the ability to collect even more waste from your blood and the trend of detox continues. A spotless lymphatic system means among other things; no body odor, you heal a million times faster from cuts, colds and leaky guts etc! Our bodies are meant to operate with a clean lymphatic system. Remember how fast infants and toddlers heal? </div>
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To make even more sense of it, all three barks used are extreme - almost uncomfortable - diaphoretics. They make you sweat. What these bark baths do is open every pore as large as they go and draw out the water from inside as fast as it can. This is literally pressure washing every pore on your body.<br />
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The most extensively used barks are Alder, Trembling Aspen and Willow. This combination is a powerhouse for purging the lymphatic system of build-up, relief from lymphatic blockages, studies even suggest that this combination has what your body needs to rebuild lymphatic tissue called lymphoid tissue genesis.</div>
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Some intense studies have been done on these bark baths and their extremely fascinating benefit to sufferers of skin cancers, eczema, worms, lupus, measels, acne, cold sores, psoriasis, rosacea, warts, cellulitis, ageing, carbuncles, ulcers, fungus's, diaper rashs, and last but not least, shingles. </div>
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This is by far one of the most successful baths I have ever seen and am thoroughly thankful that I have been given the knowledge and the resources to be able to harvest and re-create this ancient woodlands way of bathing it and offer it to some of the most wonderful people needlessly suffering these terrible conditions.</div>
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Let's take a deeper look into some of the specifics of each bark bath ingredient.</div>
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Then something amazing happens when you look over at trembling aspen, suddenly its name will make the most sense. The slightest breeze to this sometimes massive tree will send thousands upon thousands of leaves into a fluttering frenzy. The leaves, vibrant with a bright green top and an almost silvery bottom flickering against the bright blue sky, in addition to the sound of the leaves flapping against the branchlets mimicking the sound of waves white capping over a sandy beach. Trembling aspens signature feature is blatantly clear when paid even the slightest of attention. Trembling aspen calms. </div>
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Why is this added to the bark bath? What do warts, rashes, eczema, skin cancer, ulcers, carbuncles, psoriasis and other related skin conditions have in common? Agitation. Poplars job is to come in and calm everything down, rid of inflammation around dermal tissues. With that inflammation gone our bodies can now fix the issues at hand. <br />
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Alder and cedar are one of the most amazing skin medicines. This is what I believe is most responsible for the long term healing. This bark and these leaves I clump together because their mechanism of action is very similar, they can be used together or separate.<br />
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These two powerhouses dilate every pore they touche and draw out water from the deepest depths of your body. Stimulating your lymphatic system. The most incredible system designed to eliminate bodily waste via sweat.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />This
is an out-on-the-field, knowledge based adventure! I will
exhaustively stress the three proofs of plant based medicine:
Traditional, Scientific and The Doctrine of Signatures with wondrous
wild plants - in season - across your nearest wilderness area.
Participants will learn the basics and intricacies of identifying
based on the ancient wisdom that holds deep historical and modern
importance. Participants will be well introduced to the idea and
capable to explore and identify plant based medicines. The Creators
Gardens' half-day adventures a sure: "Foundation for
Investigation" This adventure is available in every season.</span></span></span></div>
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Creators Garden Adventure days will be out on the field exploring
your traditional shorelines, harvesting areas, urban areas and
everything possible that is in between. On the field I will identify
medicines and explain each and every one of their linguistic,
historical, cultural, edible ecological and medicinal significance
through experience. The information given is very thorough.
Throughout the day(s) we will get our harvest on to make teas and
tools. Tactile hands on learning is the best way for most, this will
be the most extensively used teaching method. We will be in our
vehicles as least possible and trekking outside hopefully, rain or
shine with the lovely bugs for a grueling, life changing 8 hour day
full of inspiration and motivation.</span></span></span></div>
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Legitimacy of Plant-Based Medicine Presentation</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Participants
will receive my world renown presentation called: "The
Legitimacy of Plant-Based Medicine." This presentation goes
through common food and traditional plants where I explain in great
detail what are called the 3 proofs. First the traditional
understanding, second the explicit empirical science proving the
traditional wisdom and applications. Third, the ancient method of
interpreting the medicinal use of plants called the Doctrine of
Signatures.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
third is the most important, most significant and most emphasized. It
is simple and easy to grasp for all ages. This will be the most
important concept for participants to grasp and utilize. The Doctrine
of Signatures uniqueness is what will give participants a significant
edge in their identifying and applicable abilities. It is because I
am the first to prove this ancient understanding on an international
scale, why what I offer is different, unique and sought-after. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I
have so much fun delivering this presentation. It is a really great
introduction to the idea that plants is where we derive healing. I
give plant based medicine all the legitimacy it needs for you the
believe in it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Creators Garden Tea Times are a reveled favorite! A single or
multiple pot(s) of a specified or unspecified tea is brewed for large
and small crowds. While it is brewing I take you on an story-telling
adventure through the brewee's linguistic, historical, cultural,
edible, ecological and medicinal significance. Then we drink and
partake in everything the always enjoyable plant has to give us. Tea
times range between 2-4 hours.</span></span></span></div>
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love going into communities and having this little events, they are
usually quite successful! In Six Nations recently, we had 50 people
register, expected 5 but 41. These numbers blew everyone away! This
is pretty normal, and I think there are a few reasons for it. </span></span></span>
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It is the thirst our people have traditional knowledge. </span></span></span>
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It is the dire situation our people are in, we are a very sick
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It feels natural to know plant based medicine, so every opportunity
people just jump on it, it doesn't matter if they have to miss The
Young and the Restless!</span></span></span></div>
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also really appreciate the opportunity I have had with our seniors
centres! I absolutely adore our elders. The best thing that I get to
do at these tea times is take them on a great trip down memory lane.
We get to drink teas and experience different mixtures that they grew
up with, or that they grew up learning about. What is so special
about this is that they are things that a lot of them thought were
consigned to the history books! When they get to experience them
again its always heart warming. I also get to prove to them that
plant based medicine is a legitimate practice. That plant based
medicinal knowledge that they have or grew up hearing stories about
are real, the practice itself is still something that modern science
and billions of dollars worth of research is being dedicated to know
what they knew, what their knowledge holders knew. It is truly an
amazing experience to see our elders realize they have something
special. They are always unforgettable experiences for both me and
the participants. </span></span></span><br />
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at Creators Garden are always available for a medicine walk anywhere
at any time in any season including winter, whatever length, at any
difficulty. We are willing and able to customize your experience with
us, so tailor it to your schedule!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On
our medicine walks we love to show you all the different plants and
which medicine they are. We will show you how to interpret their
medicinal use. <br /><br />The goal of a medicine walk is to make the
forest come alive. We want to introduce you to the stories these
beautiful plants are telling, we want to teach you the names of the
plants in the native language. The names of these plants are
fascinating, they have so many meanings. In just the name you can
understand where the plant grows, what it sounds like, what it tastes
like and even its utility use! When you understand the plants in our
language the forest comes alive. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Let
me help you make sense of this, lets take a redundant plant like
Scouring rush, its just a plant called “scouring rush” goes from
being just a plant that probably doesn't mean much. You might have
some trivial knowledge of this plant like: “Hey that is the plant
that Sid the Sloth uses on Ice Age” or “Spike from land before
time loves that plant!” and “When I was little I used to pretend
were cigarettes.” </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We
will take you from a no or a trivial knowledge to a plant that is the
most amazing medicine for increasing bone density and bringing relief
to arthritis. From a plant called scouring rush to a plant called
Gziibnashk, which means that it grows beside a river, makes a
screaming sound, tastes sour and its used to 'scrub things down'. So
that next time your driving by a forest or walking past this plant it
has more 'life' in it, it has more meaning and you feel more
connected to it. Emotions are what connect human beings to one
another, understanding and experience is what connects human beings
to creation. The more you are connected to something the less likely
you are to hurt it. </span></span></span>
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Teach maximum of 40 participants the basics and intricacies of
identifying traditional medicines based on ancient significance and
importance. This team will be well equipped to explore local and
non-local areas to identify and even use traditional medicine.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Day
one will be theory, done inside. Participants will receive my world
renown presentation called the legitimacy of plant based medicine.
This presentation goes through food and traditional medicines and
explains in detail what are called the 3 proofs. Firstly the
traditional understanding, second the explicit empirical science
proving the ancient knowledge and applications. Third, the method of
interpreting the medicinal use of plants called the Doctrine of
Signatures.</span></span></span></div>
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third is the most important and most significant. It is simple and
easy to grasp for all ages, this will be the most important and most
unique concept for participants to grasp and utilize. The Doctrine of
Signatures uniqueness is what will give this team a significant edge
in their identifying abilities. It is because I am the first to prove
this on an international scale, why what I offer is different, unique
and sought-after.</span></span></span></div>
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rest of the days will be out on the field exploring local areas
including shorelines, harvesting areas, urban areas and everything
possible that is in between. Training programs are a minimum of 4
field days. On the field I will identify medicines and explain each
and every one of their linguistic, historical, cultural, edible and
medicinal significance through experience. The information given is
very thorough. Throughout the week we will get our harvest on and
make several teas and tools. Tactile hands on learning is the best
way for most so, other than the first day this will be the most
extensively used teaching method. We will be in our vehicles as least
possible and trekking outside hopefully, rain or shine with the
lovely bugs for grueling, life changing 8 hour days full of
inspiration and motivation.</span></span></span></div>
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days will be incredibly intensive, the end result will be a team of
individuals that are well introduced to the idea of plant based
medicine. The group will be able to go out into unknown territory and
develop and provide a very unique inventory. The second goal with
this program is to instill enough motivation so further independent
local education is pursued.</span></span></span></div>
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program is intensely tailored to fit the needs of the audience it is
projected to. Tour guides, Traditional ecological knowledge
trainee's, Child and Family Services and Health Care Professionals
across Ontario are just a few examples of happy recipients of this
program.</span></span></span></div>
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of the most fun I have with our business is going into organizations
and teaching about medicine. For most it is an introduction, and for
some of our seasoned knowledge holders it is a 'refreshing more
practical outlook'</span></span></span></div>
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we moved to Peterborough and are now surrounded by what we would
consider 'local opportunity' we have created a program designed to
touch everyone surrounding us.</span></span></span></div>
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are some of the things we have done in the past that were a huge
success! We want to have the greatest impact possible when doing our
work, we want your organization and community to feel transformed!
What we have been doing lately and having wild success is having a
hands on objective. </span></span></span>
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arthritis is the number one disease that affects First Nations
People, the arthritis salve is obviously the activity of choice here.
So we spend a few days together creating this salve, I will come with
all the materials required to complete the salve. </span></span></span>
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will come with the plants: Red oiser dogwood, Willow, Cedar, Spruce
Gum and Poplar buds.</span></span></span></div>
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will come with the tools: slow cookers, knives, jars, jelly bags,
coconut oil, Stir spoons and sieves</span></span></span></div>
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spend the week creating this infamous salve that has had success in
my personal life to every form of arthritis (except JRA) and get a
few jars at the end. It will take some work though, participants will
be responsible for shaving the bark, proper cooking and straining
each ingredient! Thats the fun part, but it doesnt end there!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Its so fun because at the beginning of the week I pass around a salve that I have already completed, so they get a taste of the final product, and so far 100% of the time that I have done this there has been someone who speaks out because the little sample of salve that they put on in the </span>beginning<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> of the day, they have some restored movement, pain gone, numbness gone etc. its really fun to be able to see participants effected like this so quickly, and serves as a great motivation for some hard work throughout the week!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So
while we are making the salve I will go through an adapted
presentation; The Legitimacy of Plant Based Medicine. A presentation
designed for health care professionals like doctors, nurses,
researchers etc. </span></span></span>
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will also bring all of our medicine to teach about all week, so
everyone will receive all of this amazing information and throughout
the week we will be drinking at least 2 different kinds of tea each
day and because I will have all my medicines with me we will be able
to drink the medicine I am lecturing about and you will also be able
to see, touch, smell and hear the sample jars I have. </span></span></span>
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can all be done fairly quickly and easily. One thing that I highly
suggest is a day of consultation. The reason for this is simple. I am
going to be teaching that there is medicine out there to heal any
issue, any sickness. I am going to be talking about all kinds of
crazy stories that happened with me personally and many of these
stories are of sickness that participants are dealing with, or their
partners, children, siblings, parents etc. And at the end of our time
together they want answers and direction. Many times participants are
either too shy to ask their question for privacy sake or they just
did not want to interrupt the teaching that was taking place. So we
can solve all of this by doing a day of private consultations.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I
teach that there is a plant to cure any illness. When I deliver my
teachings I use almost exclusively personal stories of things that
happened to me, and the medicine is plants that I harvested within an
hours drive. I am not here to teach you about plants from a remote
island in the Bermuda Triangle, and I am not going to teach you using
tall-tale stories that I remember reading from an envelope I found on
the streets a decade ago. I use stories that happened to me, and I do
my best to use the most recent, and the most local to wherever I am
teaching. I want to be real. I want people to realize that this can
easily be them. <br /><br />There is never an easier way to get
overwhelmed with questions after a presentation than teaching that
there is medicine to fix every illness using a very real, very
relatable method. Sickness affects everyone. Everyone has their own
illness, or their partner does, children, siblings, parents,
grandparents etc. We all know someone who can use the help and when
you receive real, relatable information about how amazing our
medicine is you are going to want to know how to get on the healing
train. <br /><br />I have a ton of fun going into different organizations
just to go through staff or clients delivering private consultations
regarding medicine and health. It starts a wave in the workplace of
perfect healing and allows happiness to thrive!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My
grandmother remembers one season they had gardening issues and a
failed crop, gardening was their family's sustenance. My great
grandmother had to somehow gather up enough money to buy her food for
the winter, her compromise, a salve. She spent a month making
Minagan, a traditional mixture she resurrected through ancient
inherited wisdom from pre-contact trading days. My gorgeous
grandmother remembers that particular winter was the most luxurious
winter, filled with some of the most lush foods. Her mothers salve
had catapulted her family from famine to fortune for that winter and
she will never forget it. This story is to illustrate just how
valuable this salve was and is/should be today. There are 3 certain
compound medicines that woodlands Algonquins were well known
for:<br /><br />Minagan - the salve, designed to heal anything
topical.<br /><br />Aabziitchagan - powdered tea, Esagamdek -
liquid extract. Both designed to heal anything internal</span></span></span></div>
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- a smoke designed to clean the air, especially of human scent when
hunting</span></span></span></div>
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is an ancient compound medicine that ranges from 6-40 different
plants. This intense olden medicine is extremely important knowledge
to revive and of course, practice once again. Salve making is
definitely one of my most adored passions and as a result most
heavily promoted.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />This
workshop session is a minimum of 4 days and capped at 25 days. A 4
day minimum session will result in our famous six ingredient
concentrated arthritis salve. The yield is dependent on the amount of
participants assisting. A 25 day maximum will result in the rare 35
ingredient, authentic Aanishnaabe Woodlands salve called: 'Minagan'
and any other amount of days in between 4&25 will be just that
much closer to the ancient Minagan.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />These
salve making days are incredibly intense but are absolutely
invaluable. The end of the workshop sessions participants walk away
with detailed instructional handouts and a portion of the salve
created, but most of all, in-depth, hands on tactile experience to be
able to pass down for generations.</span></span></span></div>
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also offer an inventory. If you have a beautiful property, a backyard
or an entire reserve, we will walk every square inch and identify
every medicinal plant and explain each of their linguistic,
historical, cultural, edible and medicinal significance. I have also<br /><br />We have lots
of experience with inventory and are able to offer this program to
just about any land mass.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the end you will get a full report of as many photos from your property. The reports are loaded with stories depicting the significance of each plant whether it is medicinal, edible, utility, cultural, etc. So you will have a written document of all your properties significance. It's very eye opening to see a property you may have known your whole life suddenly come alive with a whole new perspective! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">These reports are also complete with a reference list and have even been through Ontario </span>Municipal<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Board hearings where I was recognized as an expert witness, after going through cross examinations! </span></span></span></div>
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program is effective at delivering ancient knowledge designed to
combat the top issues when going through addiction withdrawal. Here
are a few of the top complaints: Nausea, Headaches, Itchiness, Night
Terrors, Muscle Tension (anxiety) and Bowel Irregularity.</span></span></span></div>
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traditional medicines for treatment centers to implement a natural
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">It
is important to </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">remember</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> that yes, all plants do have a very
significant - some might say - </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">divinely</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> inspired medicinal value, but what about the 'poisonous' ones? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Bloodroot is known for being incredibly toxic and one of North Americas most deadliest of plants. Sanguinarine is an alkaloid that is quite concentrated in the red
juices of this beautiful root making it an unusually powerful arterial sedative, meaning very
effective at stopping your heart. Thats right. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">How can such a toxic
plant possibly have medicinal value? Perhaps Circa Survive said it best when
they named one of my favorite songs: 'The difference between medicine
and poison is the dose.' Yes this plant is dangerous but used
properly it is one of the most amazing women's medicines in
preparation for pregnancy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">First, let me give you an idea of this
plants potency. We all know that image of the woodlands warrior with
a painted red face right? Much a </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">stereotype</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Every culture had a scare tactic
used in warfare to first scare the enemy before having to face or
deliver casualties. The front-line of the ancient Israelite armies
walked carrying the ark which is well known for scaring the pants off
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">some relatively large armies, the Maoris of New Zealand had the
haka-haka which the New Zealand all blacks rugby team adopted and by
the way, have never lost a match. So in a way this scare tactic is still doing its
job! The </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">Scots</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> invented this </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">eerie</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> instrument which the front-liners
squealed in </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">
Ireland's incredibly thick fog and gently creepy rolling
hills. It was called the bagpipe, again they scared off some of the
largest armies with a few hundred freaky bagpipes screaming </span></span><br />
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freaky
songs, some of which that can be heard in recordings online. Let me tell
you, you would not want to take another step toward the foggy
screaming Scottish hills. </span></span></div>
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with pans of </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">macerated</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> bloodroot that we smeared on our faces. </span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 27px;">The red juices of bloodroot are most readily absorbed transdermally, through your skin. If that wasn't enough - in literature - excessive doses of bloodroot produces a high that extends to 'an alarming prostration of strength'! T</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">he stereotypical red painted warrior faces we all know is suddenly
not just paint. It is natures most powerful arterial sedative that
takes 15-20 minutes to stop your heart. Now we understand that these
red faces had to be the scariest thing to see - that is - if your face
is not red. Meaning if you are not literally a dead man walking, you are
fleeing because you are not ready to die, whereas the red faced woodland warriors are
already, dead. This was our war tactic that scared away some of the
largest armies of enemy’s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #141823;">Observing
this plant in nature it becomes alarmingly clear it is to be handled
with severe caution. Squirrels are known for covering every square
inch of the forest floor and canopy, but they will not go anywhere
near any bloodroot. Deer trails seldom go through a patch of bloodroot, the meandering black bear doesn't go near it, and if it does,
it stops as if to panic, turns around and exits the patch in the same
footprints he came in on. </span>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
hope I made it painfully clear that these plants are unique medicines
for our bodies but are not to be handled unless you are with an amazingly accomplished professional. A lot are definitely considered poison but lets see in
much greater detail the medicinal side of this beauty!</span></span></div>
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3 proofs of the medicinal claims of bloodroot:</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Traditional:</span></span><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span></h3>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhikTe2zYABr2KuE-JMwNZhw-DVy5WyPGQFYYolFJm-n9Nj6aPepjtrS6ixOIOHCqlV5h1VcQQt5aJZby2r844jzdUrvZ6rNacwprsPCVTr5GsLGJxCvjzrH2YzJ4iMmDGgiErT6ueAA8/s1600/TYM_Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhikTe2zYABr2KuE-JMwNZhw-DVy5WyPGQFYYolFJm-n9Nj6aPepjtrS6ixOIOHCqlV5h1VcQQt5aJZby2r844jzdUrvZ6rNacwprsPCVTr5GsLGJxCvjzrH2YzJ4iMmDGgiErT6ueAA8/s320/TYM_Logo.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Ancient woodlands midwifery, the way it was explained to me, which is in a traditional sense, is much different today than it was. Back in the day when a couple found each other, they would go to a midwife before getting pregnant. The midwife would give them a load of medicine to take before the couple even attempted reproducing and when the medicine was finished then the couple would then start to try and have a baby. There is a very real reason for this. It is said: the most terrible thing that can ever happen to a woman is a </span><span style="line-height: 36px;">miscarriage</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> or a still born. This medicine has everything needed to prevent this from happening. Bloodroot is a principle ingredient in this compound medicine so, needless to say, bloodroot</span></span></span><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 27px;"> is mainly used as a women's medicine to prepare the uterus for pregnancy, mostly by eliminating fibroids, the leading cause of miscarriages and still borns.</span></span></span></div>
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fibroids are one of the main causes of </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">miscarriages</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">. This is because
the baby can only grow so big until the body realizes that the
fibroid's are taking up to much room and this baby cannot get any
bigger, which prompts its evacuation. If we can find out how to get
rid of fibroids, if we can find out how to stimulate their regression, we are then able to combat the leading cause of a </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">miscarriage</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">/stillborn.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lets
talk about the uterus! Let me first start out by saying that the
cause and exact etiology of Uterine fibroids is not known. I am not
able to refer to direct studies done. What I will do is look at all
causes and contributors to fibroids and show you peripherally. Some
of the main factors involved are very well known. Lets take a look at
the factors that we know are involved in the creation and
proliferation of uterine fibroids:
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
first subgroup we will explore are the different growth factors
involved in their genesis and growth. In the issue of uterine
fibroids,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chelerythrine is the second most prominent compound in
bloodroot, let me give you an idea of one of its most famous action,
A protein Kinase C inhibitor, using the example of one of the most
dangerous cancers out there. Some cancers are more susceptible to
radio therapy than others, also some cancers are more susceptible to
chemo therapy than others, whereas some cancers are resistant to
radio and some are resistant to chemo. There is a cancer out there
that is both chemo and radio-resistant, squamous cell carcinomas.
They are among the deadliest. Many large studies were done one of the
larger ones done on 9 of these deadly cancers brought the result of
bloodroot's compound chelerythrine right into the spotlight. Studies
outlined Chelerythrines unusually 'perfect' activity as a protein
kinase C inhibitor, this action elevated it to be one of the most
promising anti-squamous cell carcinoma killers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Transforming Growth Factor Beta1 (TGF-beta1) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;">Transforming growth factor beta-1 or TGF-beta1 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">is a known factor
in the development of fibroids. To show you; a study done by the Department of Urology in the North Western University Medical School
in Chicago Illinois in 1997 shows that Protein kinase C inhibition
(of which chelerythrine is literally one of the best.) is an event
associated with TGF-beta1 postreceptor signaling. Which means that
chelerythrine mediates suppression of cell proliferation. Which
makes chelerythrine a suppressor of one of the largest factors in the
development of fibroid's. </span><br />
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Kinase C inhibition is bloodroot most amazing advantages in
the expulsion of fibroids. Non-mediated growth factors is one of the
main issues in the most advanced theories in the genesis of fibroids, below we are going to explore
how chelerythrine's protein kinase c inhibition mediates these growth
factors eliminating the main cause and whats needed to stimulate the
beginning of their end, their regression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Keep in
mind that these are mediators not eliminators. Meaning that bloodroot
is not throwing your whole body out of whack, it is simply returning
it back to normal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor or bgfg</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chelerythrine
provided by bloodroot, again, inhibit Protein Kinase C which has been shown to heavily mediate bfgf proliferation. Meaning bloodroot controls the amount of
bfgf being made, which means that bloodroot controls or mediates the
proliferation of another big and necessary factor in the development
of fibroid's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Epidermal
Growth Factor or EGF
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps
the effects of Chelerythrine on EGF are best described using its role
in the deadly Squamous cell carcinoma research we had talked about earlier. EGF is absolutely
necessary for the survival and growth of Squamous Cell carcinoma, but
EGFs survival relies upon PKC production. When Chelerythrine comes
in and inhibits (completely) PKC production, guess whos proliferation
is halted – yes – EGF. Without our friend EGF we have created an
environment that squamous cell carcinoma cannot grow in, and an
environment in which regression can begin. EGF is also necessary for
fibroid development, and again, with PKC completely inhibited, no more
growing fibroids and an environment in which regression can begin is
created!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Platelet
derived growth factor, vascular endothelial growth factor and
insulin-like growth factor are the three remaining growth factors
that are involved in the creation and growth of fibroids and all are
absolutely halted by safely </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">ingestible</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> concentrations of bloodroots chelerythrine.
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has been in the anticancer spotlight in biochemistry for a very long
time, as its specificity and potency is regarded as incredible. All of you
geneticists will love this one. So one of the most active regions in
anticancer research is in telomerase inhibition. Telomerase – the
enzyme - has been observed in around 90% of all human tumors thus its
inhibition can lead to some premium drug discovery. Chelerythrine which is the
second most prominent compound found in bloodroot binds to the
g-quartet (in molecular biology: guanine-rich 4-stranded, nucleic
acids) and to the phosphate backbone of the quadruplex, just like an
antibody attaching itself to invaders like bacteria and virus'!
Chelerythrines binding actions lead to aggregation to inhibit
telomerase activity. Showing us that bloodroot has some incredible and invaluable promise in cancer treatment and prevention. Telomerase is
present and prominent in the formation and necessary for the growth
of uterine fibroids, yet another issue covered by our beloved bloodroot.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sanguinarine,
bloodroot's most famous and most common compound is well known for its
antimicrobial effects but most </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">well known for being a potent
apoptosis inducing, cell-destroyer! Many comparative studies have
been done exploring sanguinarines dose dependent capability of
destroying only abnormal tissues whilst leaving normal tissues alone.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sanguinarine
and chelerythrine were put through numerous comparative studies along
side western medicines go-to steroid therapy, prednisone. Bloodroots
anti-inflammatory actions were either on par or more significant in
decreasing cytokine action than that of prednisone. In the event of
fibroids, bloodroot eliminates just about every inflammatory and
pro-inflammatory marker, allowing our bodies to focus on fixing the
issue. Remember, inflammation keeps our bodies from being able to
heal itself!</span></div>
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the plants ability to eliminate the largest issues in the development
of fibroids with its capability to target cell death in only abnormal tissues. It
urges the mediation of growth factors, a process necessary for their
regression. Lastly, bloodroot shows more significant anti-inflammatory action against cytokines expressed
in fibroids. Inflammation gone, targeted cell death, halted growth
and stimulated regression is the biggest soup of problems that fibroids
have not been able to live through for who knows how many millenia
the midwives of the woodlands have been prescribing, in the
preservation of one of the worst things that can every happen to a
woman, a miscarriage.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bloodroot showed inhibition concentration-50 value of 0.53 against NB4 (leukemia) lines and 1.53 against mkn-45 (gastric cancer) lines which is outstandingly superior to the Standard anticancer inhibition concentrations, cis-platinum, with ic-50 of 2.39. just look at those numbers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bloodroot also has amazing antimicrobial effects against gram negative and gram positive bacterias, with its most outstanding efforts against Staph A.</span></div>
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nature when a plant has 'twin' features horizontal from one another
it usually has something to do with fertility or the reproductive
system of a man or woman, to tell which the plant represents more
features need to be identified. Bloodroot is obviously more connected
to the female reproductive system because of the downward facing
appendage in-between the twin lobes. This appendage is exact and
remarkably familiar to the cervix. </span>
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with this plant we have a perfect cervix and two ovaries, what should
be in the middle of all this is a giant uterus, where is it? In the
middle of all this is the stem holding everything up. At the base of
the stem we have one of the most unique roots in nature, unique due
to the brilliant red fluid that is shed when the root is cracked.
This root is a beautiful representative of the uterus that sheds the
endometrial blood-lining.</span></div>
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we have what my people have called a 'women's medicine' for who knows
how long. A medicine that has been a relief of one of the most
terrible and preventable circumstances that a woman can face, a
miscarriage. We can clearly see now that this plant has been created
to look like a female reproductive system, because that is what it has been created to heal! </span></span><br />
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Creators Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10567065127859002687noreply@blogger.com82tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911246144332556066.post-52839634359180542882015-04-15T17:42:00.001-07:002015-12-04T04:53:57.091-08:00Sweet Fern <div align="left" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0.26cm;">
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fern is an impressive plant, its range stretches from northern Canada
to some of the most southern states. Most blueberry pickers are very fond of this plant, as it is
almost always growing along side blueberries constantly emitting its beautiful fragrance. Traditionally this
plant was actually used to line baskets when harvesting those yummy blueberries to provide a </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">cushion</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> and the oils of the plant prevent the possibility of most food </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 19px;">borne</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> fungus's. Its also known for being 'that' plant to put over a fire
to keep the mosquitoes and </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">black flies</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> away, and also has nuts that
when roasted make fantastic flour for some traditional breads or just
to add to the trail mix. This amazingly abundant herb is an
outstanding </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">incense</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> when dried, its aroma is something you will never
forget!</span></div>
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fern is traditionally called 'nagazhiim mshikiki' Which means
intestine medicine. It is used for </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">diarrhoea</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">, constipation, </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px;">diverticulitis</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">, IBD's like crohns and colitis, to name a few.</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii4d6mA3TXMUb8PxvdOxf6GoQkxckYx4X4_uAHEm2uOBQD2tzuHLSQlWo3Pkzm1nVnygo-qK0YZ46Tb6Tg69JPBMEUJkoDcxnqBckGq66mcm-zUOeQol5DucT_2qBltrZX3sio1F5_ZCA/s1600/detail-colon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii4d6mA3TXMUb8PxvdOxf6GoQkxckYx4X4_uAHEm2uOBQD2tzuHLSQlWo3Pkzm1nVnygo-qK0YZ46Tb6Tg69JPBMEUJkoDcxnqBckGq66mcm-zUOeQol5DucT_2qBltrZX3sio1F5_ZCA/s1600/detail-colon.jpg" height="217" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Lots
of amazing new scientific research to back this bad boy up! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Check
this out! So all I wanted to see is anything that shows me sweet fern
indeed helps the colon, I did not expect to find out that sweet fern
not only helps the colon, but something within these scientific
studies indicates with extreme precision that sweet fern has in
'specifically' helping the colon. So what I did was look at what
compounds are most profound in sweet fern. I then took those
compounds and found a seemingly innumerable amount of studies done on their
'specific' effects on the colon. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Gallic Acid </span></span></span></h4>
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acid is a compound that sweet fern is very rich in and I will
definitely be focusing on this one. Gallic Acid is potently
antimicrobial to 7 types of bacteria; Staph A., e. Coli, V. Cholera,
C. Perfringes, Bacillus cereus, Salmonella and Giardia. These 7
bacteria are the 7 most common bacteria known to infect the GI tract
and cause an infection. When placed in vitro with other gram negative
and gram positive bacteria gallic acid does not have significant
activity but suddenly when place in vitro with these 7, activity is </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px;">remarkably</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> recorded. </span></span></span>
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acid strongly induces apoptosis in stomach cancers and has been
confirmed a very amazing chemo-preventative in GI related cancers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">A
huge factor in measuring colon cancer risk are phase 1 and 2
xenobiotic </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px;">metabolising</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> enzymes which are effectively modulated by
the wondrous gallic acid perfect example of sweet ferns role in
preventing colon cancer. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Beta-Caryophyllene </span></span></span></h4>
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cytotoxic to colon and
lung cancer cells. Also
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anti-inflammatory effects on colon inflammation, specifically. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Severe
IBD causes long term problems, it shortens the colon, causes rapid
weight loss and myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity is increased along
with numerous inflammatory cytokines. Listen to this, Beta-C which
is found in sweet fern
(28%) lengthened
the colon within 5 days, subjects gain
weight back, MPO activity
was totally suppressed
and all inflammatory cytokines specific to colon inflammation were
significantly reduced. </span></span></span>
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enzyme called adenylate cylcase, new studies have found, is very
dominate in people suffering </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px;">diarrhoea</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> with colitis, which is simply inhibited by Beta-C. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">During a bacterial invasion, our bodies
produce something called pro-inflammatory cytokines, Beta-C
immediately inhibits this painful action probably allowing our bodies
to heal and fix infection and inflammation before it is even felt!</span></span></span></div>
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to be quite cytotoxic to colon and lung cancer cells. Along with
being cytotoxic to colon cancer cells it has a pronounced regulating
effect on Il-8 secretion. Il-8 expression is necessary for colon
cancer cell growth. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Stilbene
is a very present compound in all Comptonia species and not only is
it a potent antimicrobial for colon-specific bacteria but it shows
virulent activity against newly developed strains like MRSA,
mycobacterium bovis and even anthrax!</span></span></span></div>
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amazing uses of sweet fern:</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Ancient
woodlands midwives were extremely fond of this beautiful herb to use
as the infants first type of bath, usually for the first few months
this is one of the main ingredients. Its antiseptic and antimicrobial </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px;">qualities</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> will keep the delicate infant squeaky clean with only a a
dunks and a sponge bath a week. The tonic-like effects </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">transfer</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> transdermally to build up the little ones immune system. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Sweet
fern is often used in an amazing compound mixture of smoke medicine,
what we call Pkwenezagan. This addition offers some pretty uplifting
smells, sweet fern has the same ether compounds that sweet grass has.
So much so that sweet fern is often substituted for sweet grass when
it </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">wasn't</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> available. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Sweet
fern is my </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px;">wife's</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">favourite</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> example of how plants show us what they are
good for by looking like the body part. When I was on route to
Sudbury with one of my aunties she would not stop talking about bowel
issues, she is a really 'open' auntie. After I had enough, somewhere
between Espanola and Sudbury I got her to pull over and when she
asked: “why?” I simply and forcefully said: “go find your
colon” As i pointed to the roadside. She made a quick and fearful
gesture with her hand toward her backside in attempt to hold her
colon in and said: “what do you mean!” When she got into the ditch
she screamed: “I found my colon!!” ..It was at this moment when I
hope with all my heart that someone was driving by on the busy
highway with their window rolled down to hear such a thing! Sweet
fern looks identical to your colon, look at the folds of the colon
and the folds of the sweet fern leaves. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">We
had a pretty </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px;">traumatic</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> incident in one of our old houses. It was just
that, old. When we had a heat-wave in mid-July out of seemingly
nowhere we both got the worst cases of </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">diarrhoea</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> ever. She was 4
months pregnant at the time, we only had one bathroom and prego's always win! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Long story short, I remembered some sweet fern
that I had harvested 2 years prior during a moose hunt in Metagami.
It was harvested after weeks of frost and there was even snow on the
leaves. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Sweet fern is pretty volatile and at the time I
thought that it should have been shot out after a year, I feared my
only hope at remedying the </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">diarrhoea</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> would be useless. I made the tea anyway and mine was brewed so strong (I wanted it to work as fast as
possible) My </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">wife's</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> tea, on the other hand, was super weak. See, she
has millions of </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">taste buds</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> per square </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">millimetre</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> and I apparently have
1. After I drank my tea, and the wife drank about 1/4 cup of her
(basically </span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">flavoured</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> water) tea we had a nap and when we woke up we
never had an explosive episode again! Thanks Sweet Fern!! </span></span></span>
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Creators Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10567065127859002687noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911246144332556066.post-30853394524304361502015-03-30T07:21:00.001-07:002015-03-30T08:12:41.078-07:00Introduction to the Legitimacy of Plant-Based-Medicine<div align="left" style="margin-top: 0.26cm;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay here we go! welcome to the Introduction to the legitimacy of plant based medicine.<br /><br />I want to do a few things with you. I want to deliver something very simple, something I call: "Your Foundation for Investigation" Take what I am saying and challenge it to know its true. Take it and apply it to your life and continue to investigate these simple concepts and make them grow.<br /><br />Lets get started:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First,
I want to legitimize plant based medicine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823;">I
will do this using 3 proofs; Traditional, Scientific and the
infamous, ancient method of interpreting the one medicinal use of
plants called The Doctrine of Signatures.<br /><br />Traditional </span>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">This
proof is what is simple. It is what is traditionally said about the
plant and its medicinal use. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />Scientific</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This
proof is most complicated. This is where I take what our elders - and
anyone who has studied medicine - say and have said for hundreds of
years, and prove it with the latest most compelling empirical
science. <br /><br />The Doctrine of Signatures</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This
is an ancient method of interpreting the medicinal use of plants.
This is where the plants signature feature is indicative of its
doctrine. You simple observe a plants signature feature, the part of
the plant that makes it unique, the part that separates it from every
other plant in its family, location or on the planet. Observing that
feature will make it very clear what specific part of the body that
plant has been created to heal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Second,
I want to enrich your connection to nature.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I
will show you that every plant has one specific medicinal use. I will
show you that every single plant has been created to show you what
body part it has been created to heal. I hope that you will feel
umbilically connected to these plants and transform how you connect
to nature</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Third
I want you to be able to take healing into your own hands!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Every
plant has been created for one specific medicinal use, use them! We
teach, most of all, how to </span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 36px;">sustainably</span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;"> harvest each and every one of
these plants. We teach how to harvest in such a way that promotes the
plants ability to reproduce, so that every year, the places we
harvest have more medicine in them than the previous year.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
driving force of this blog is to instill a great appreciation to
nature, via your innate connection to it. I hope that this
appreciation will drive you to do everything you can in your life to
ensure that these very special plants are protected. Not so our
grandchildren can only see them, but touch them, smell them, taste
them and experience their perfect healing qualities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Carrots
are an amazing root we are all extremely familiar with. Its bright
earthy </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">flavour</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> is almost always an addition in the best stews. They
are most known for their vitamin A, C, Calcium and Iron. They are
also full of </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">fibre</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> Vitamin K and potassium. Beta carotene is what gives carrots their bright orange </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">colour</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">All
of us parents out there have all told our kids: “Eat your carrots
because they are good for your eyes” For us kids out there we have
all heard this from our parents. My mother was always really cool and
said: “Eat your carrots, they will help you see at night time!” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Were they right? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We
know that carrots are good for the eyes! They have beta-carotene
which our body converts to vitamin A a nutrient crucial for eye
health.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823;">That same compound we know exhibits rigorous scavenging activity against major oxidative stressers. Also been labelled by the scientific community as a chemopreventative </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Doctrine of Signatures </span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPen9uoC4hSnT_3KhK6AMwAdzVOhzPC9Qstql50tNGmJ9dl0GyBHgqP0rf5NhpDP7rKYHj8UO9fe_WScihE6JmANwSZKe-xQydDeaPsPM5orCdS2vlCokPTdp35QLIQF0pVr9Y2C97i30/s1600/carrot-eye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPen9uoC4hSnT_3KhK6AMwAdzVOhzPC9Qstql50tNGmJ9dl0GyBHgqP0rf5NhpDP7rKYHj8UO9fe_WScihE6JmANwSZKe-xQydDeaPsPM5orCdS2vlCokPTdp35QLIQF0pVr9Y2C97i30/s1600/carrot-eye.jpg" /></a><span style="color: #141823;"><br />For all you beautiful gardeners out
there who have grown carrots, it is incredibly obvious that the
signature feature of a carrot is the root. A cross section of the
root reveals that it looks exactly like an eye.</span></span><br />
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beans</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Next
we have kidney beans, beautiful kidney beans. All the best bean salad
recipes, all the best chili recipes have to have kidney beans! You
haven't lived until you have tried kidney bean hummus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"><br />It is said that kidney beans are good for your kidneys, by
almost everyone that has eaten them! The connection is not hard to
miss seeing as the name of the bean is a kidney bean! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scientific
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="line-height: 150%;">Kidney beans are an excellent source of magnesium and
potassium, we know that a </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">deficiency</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> in any of these two minerals will
result in a kidney stone. Our bodies need to have lots of magnesium
and potassium to be able to use calcium, if those two helpers are not
there our bodies will allow the calcium to build up in your kidneys
and you will get kidney stones. Calcium will also be deposited in you
gall bladder and you will get gall stones. Calcium will also deposit
in your joints and you will get gout! To avoid these common issues,
eat kidney beans and use the calcium you are eating! </span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 150%;">Kidney
beans are also a high source of fiber and protein without all the
saturated fats meats have, giving your kidneys quite a bit of a
filtering break!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">The Doctrine of Signatures </span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF5BV1yKJUb_1wU2_TwUFdVPMoVAJX_gA0S3U0RXnxmLmJ7XNLDRRV6bN3eNaCe1Pt0NdHAfeAnLzNyGUBlsBeuZhlBcmGXtk-GlvfSaKkQRPpXvJVamwB6neVg117mqs7cBAG332sDE4/s1600/kidney-beans.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF5BV1yKJUb_1wU2_TwUFdVPMoVAJX_gA0S3U0RXnxmLmJ7XNLDRRV6bN3eNaCe1Pt0NdHAfeAnLzNyGUBlsBeuZhlBcmGXtk-GlvfSaKkQRPpXvJVamwB6neVg117mqs7cBAG332sDE4/s1600/kidney-beans.jpg" height="169" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #141823;"><br /><span style="line-height: 150%;">The kidney
beans themselves are the signature feature of the plant, and they
look identical to the kidney. This one is extremely clear! So clear
that growing up when I would eat my mommies chili and bean salads I
would pretend that I was a monster eating a ton of kidneys!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi675Z0Lhm46xd77_9zKyX2-sm4fzXoQ7c2lZ-3InDeckV31qN82nwq656GENvNa9YknJaBw2cmbjAaHujmcaDIO0FfE0tHIUFFn77_CGEaUrHfSXCGR9WfFYUEnxaHDwAoMcKE20jFabw/s1600/mushroom-woodear.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi675Z0Lhm46xd77_9zKyX2-sm4fzXoQ7c2lZ-3InDeckV31qN82nwq656GENvNa9YknJaBw2cmbjAaHujmcaDIO0FfE0tHIUFFn77_CGEaUrHfSXCGR9WfFYUEnxaHDwAoMcKE20jFabw/s1600/mushroom-woodear.jpg" height="200" width="188" /></a><span style="color: #141823;">Mushrooms
are a huge part of my daily diet, and should be for all of you!
Mushrooms tend to have some of the most powerful antioxidants. They
provide a true earthy tone to any meal, they are my favourite with
pastas and eggs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823;"><br />There are a lot of people
and groups who have been told that mushrooms are good for your ears.
That if you are eating enough mushrooms you don't have to worry about
developing issues like deafness and earaches! </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823;"><br />The only reason why you are able to hear anything is all
thanks to a bunch of tiny little cartilage-type bones in your ears
that vibrate and your brain registers those vibrations as sound.
<br /><br />Mushrooms have everything that those little bones need to fix
themselves and become healthy. Mushrooms are an amazing source of
bio-available Vitamin d3, Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Silica,
Iron, Copper and even zinc! <br /><br />Mushrooms provide your ears
everything that they need to fix themselves and become stronger. </span></span>
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Doctrine of Signatures </span></span></h3>
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one may be a little abstract for most. This is why I am starting with
food, it is much easier to grasp. A cross section of the mushroom
reveals an ear shape with gills representing the bones in your ears.
Many wild mushrooms look like ears just dangling off of random trees! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Tomatoes
are a staple in my summer diet. My favorite way to eat huge amounts
of tomatoes was introduced to me by my amazing Italian friends, Pico
da gallo. I eat it like a salad, most like to use it as a special a
dip in veggie trays! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Traditional </span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="line-height: 150%;">I know a few genuine
Italians and trust me it is not a </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">stereotype</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">, they like tomatoes. One
friend of mine says: “Lets make a sandwich” to which I gratefully
respond: “sure!” because I know anything he cooks is </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">ridiculously</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> amazing. So his idea of a </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">sandwich</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> was a thin pita bread with </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">ladles</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> of tomatoes poured over top, and </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">that's</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> it. I had to ask: “Wheres the meat! Wheres the lettuce! Is this it?!” If that wasn't enough,
Spain naturally lacks snowballs and it was in their love for tomatoes
that they invented a </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">genius</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> alternative, the La Tomatina, where
literally dump trucks of tomatoes are whipped around in the worlds
largest tomato fight. Canadians </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">don't</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> even have snowball fights that
large and snow is a lot more available than tomatoes! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Tomatoes
have a myriad of nutrients that, when combined, all fight to reduce
the progression and severity of atherosclerosis (artery...failure).
Lycopenes, beta-carotene and vitamin C get together and neutralize
free radicals that destroy arterial tissues and overall efficacy of
the heart, dampening the entire cardiovascular system, Lycopenes
alone have been shown in countless studies to prevent a heart attack!
Tomatoes also have potassium, niacin, Vit B6 and Folate, which the </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">EMPIRICAL</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> side of science knows to all have extremely heart-specific
healthy qualities. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Tomatoes are known to have enough antioxidants and essential nutrients to stop a heart attack! </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Doctrine of Signatures </span></span></h3>
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examples are: “this plant looks exactly like this body part”
sometimes they are a little more abstract. Tomatoes are red and
separated into chambers just as the heart is red and has chambers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walnuts </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently
walnuts are so good for you brain health that the FDA has them listed
as a drug and not a food!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Walnuts
are such a healthy food that even the FDA doesn't regard them as a
food and rather, a drug. Raw organic </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">unpasteurized</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> non-irradiated
walnuts are my favorite go-to snack in the fridge that </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">satisfys</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> sweet
bitter and the </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">satiating</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> oils leave me feeling near full after a cup!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walnuts
in my house growing up were often referred to as brain food.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walnuts
are loaded with omega 3 fatty acids that feed the brain. Our brains
are 60% structural fat, our brains need to maintain this percentage
of fats, constantly. By eating walnuts you are providing your brain
with all the fatty acids your brain needs in order for it to maintain
its structural integrity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">There
are polyphenols in walnuts that scavenge brain-related free radicals,
severely reducing oxidative stress on the brain. The loads of
polyphenols in walnuts reduce the inflammatory load that our brain
deals with on a daily basis, which has numerous benefits, namely
interneurosignaling and neurogenesis. </span><br /><span style="line-height: 150%;">One method of
recording </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">cognitive</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> performance is by measuring the </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">inferential</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> verbal reasoning, which a walnut rich diet scored a good 11.2% in a
United States Study done on young adults.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="line-height: 150%;">Our
brain faces enormous amounts of stress, everyday. When these stresses
are managed – a good way of managing stress is a great diet – our
brains age much more gracefully. </span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 150%;">A huge stresser that is
now linked to all brain aging difficulties is the issue of
polyubiquitinated proteins. These are incredibly toxic proteins that
can accumulate in the brain causing great amounts of stress and
without managing them, an ungracefully aged brain is certain. Human
and animal trials indicated that a mild amount of walnuts
significantly cleared protein </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">aggregates</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> out of the hippocampus, the
part of the brain that </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">chiefly</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> deals with memory.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walnuts
are also a great god-send for our epileptic population. They exhibit
some pretty specific and intense anti-epileptogenic qualities.</span></span></div>
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Doctrine of Signatures</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walnuts
look near identical to the brain. When I was a child (and today) I
pretend that I was a zombie eating a ton of brains!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sweet Potatoes</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Sweet
potatoes are the fuel of </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">Olympians</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> and diabetics – seriously! Sweet
potatoes riddled with ghee is a great lunchtime treat. My wife has
been having a lot of fun growing sweet potatoes in our garden, from
scratch!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Traditional</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Don't
know anyone who said directly that sweet potatoes are good for your
pancreas except maybe for </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">dietitians</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scientific</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="line-height: 150%;">Sweet
potatoes have been labelled as an anti-diabetic! They have some pretty
extreme hypoglycemic effects. Sweet potatoes lower your blood sugar!
Now, this is odd, something about this doesn't make sense. I thought
that the one feature that makes sweet potatoes different than other
potatoes is the </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">presence</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> of sugar! Than why do they lower your blood
sugar, </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">something</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> doesn't make sense here. </span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 150%;">Well, the
reason that this all doesn't make sense is because we like in a very </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">Greek</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">orthodox</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> society, where everything is linear is right and
wrong, left and right, stop and go. Where in the natural world
everything tends to be cyclical. </span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 150%;">This is where i will
introduce you to something really amazing called counter-intuition.
This concept is riddled in nature! Almost everything is counter
intuitive, or goes against the 'normal' way of thinking. Let me just
say, i would have loved to live in a world where the linear mindset
was counter intuitive. </span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 150%;">Sweet potatoes are full of
special fibre and proteins that when eaten with the huge amount of
carbs and sugar, ultimately they lower your blood sugar! </span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 150%;">So
sweet potatoes are an amazing source of energy, I'm sure that every </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">Olympian</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> is very fond of them for this quality. They give a long
lasting constant energy, whereas sugar is a short burst of energy
with a crash, you never crash with sweet potato, you just keep going!
Its amazing. So at the time that I was learning all this my daughter
was about 9 months and we were experimenting giving her different
foods and one evening she was fussy and – after a lot of trial and
error – we found out that she wanted some food! It was 11pm at
night and we thought: “If we give her a nice big snack she will
clonk right out for bed! Perfect!” We gave her sweet potato. I
remember that night looking at the clock at 3:30am with burning hazy
eyes at my daughter screaming at the top of her lungs flailing every
limb she had. As my mother would say: “first time parents”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay,
this one is glaringly obvious: Sweet potatoes simply look identical
to your pancreas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This
is my last food example.<br /><br />My and my family have been on a
low carb high healthy fat diet for quite some time now, which, in
itself alleviated many of our problems. Avocados are so high in
healthy fat, some 30g in a small-medium avacado! And as a result are
one of our staple foods. We eat so much of these bad boys, just
chilled with a knife and spoon, they even come with a perfect bowl,
the shell!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So
this beautiful fruit has been labelled as being good for reproductive
systems.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When
you go to the doctor, midwife, nurse, mother because you are pregnant
want to become pregnant breastfeeding, even post nursing their first
word of advice is to load you up with folic acid via prenatal
vitamins. We know through rigorous science that when a mother
developing a child is deficient in folic acid that baby is extremely susceptible to a huge number of developmental disorders chiefly,
spinabifida.<br /><br />So a diet rich in folic adic, or a diet
full of avocados will be ridding the risk of most developmental
disorders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Doctrine of Signatures</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEvNTEqXHxHXeRlv6ogK8ETR02S0MQgULhFE7gG5qzQYYstJaE0jJjCW7JYHds2X-1zUiTiAXxAX42atR0MIgmVyafD1p83pCgqKmkUI5lS3r8rBysMZHOGmgTwb3DNz1puqnFp1DX5io/s1600/avocado-doctrine-of-similarities.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEvNTEqXHxHXeRlv6ogK8ETR02S0MQgULhFE7gG5qzQYYstJaE0jJjCW7JYHds2X-1zUiTiAXxAX42atR0MIgmVyafD1p83pCgqKmkUI5lS3r8rBysMZHOGmgTwb3DNz1puqnFp1DX5io/s1600/avocado-doctrine-of-similarities.jpg" height="129" width="320" /></a></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
you look in nature to every pear or womb like shaped fruit root leaf
vegetable they are always absolutely loaded with the most
bioavailable folic acid! Coincidence?<br /><br />Pear, Squash, Avocado, Figs, etc.</span></span></span></div>
Creators Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10567065127859002687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911246144332556066.post-20868725316983928882015-03-22T08:21:00.001-07:002015-03-22T10:20:04.135-07:00Tamarack <div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lbr80HqGGURVywfBC92YFq3iP9BXhyphenhyphenG5rx_MOAWLfO7WVRuUqss7DXkd89ycWiaea40uHWULotqC1EP45zvxrJME8znNfmyxNoPY4B0BDh8eWem060T7gcl-EnPCcv5MGlzRxGa11Bs/s1600/_MG_8972.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lbr80HqGGURVywfBC92YFq3iP9BXhyphenhyphenG5rx_MOAWLfO7WVRuUqss7DXkd89ycWiaea40uHWULotqC1EP45zvxrJME8znNfmyxNoPY4B0BDh8eWem060T7gcl-EnPCcv5MGlzRxGa11Bs/s1600/_MG_8972.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a>Tamarack is one
amazing tree. Tamarack is not technically an evergreen – it goes
through one of the most gorgeous deciduous transformations from green
to a bright, almost illuminating golden, and sheds its needles every
fall - it is called a deciduous conifer!
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All conifers, for
the most part, grow bone straight. Tamarack when comparing it to its
conifer counterparts grows with in incredibly beautiful spiral shaped
trunk and 'S' patterned branches.
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When driving along
the highway it is easy and quite fun to spot Tamaracks using this
identification technique as most are crazy dramatic.
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<span style="line-height: 100%;">Tamarack in my
native language is called Mshkiigwaatik, which literally means 'swamp
tree.' I often wondered why tamarack got that name, there are many
trees that grow in a swamp: Ash, Black spruce, Elm, Red maple, Alder,
Willows etc.. Tamaracks are the only tree that when faced with
completely flooded conditions, are able to continue to grow whereas
the others achieve this hibernation-like state and simply maintain
life or slowly begin to die. Tamarack is truly the only tree that is
deserving of the name swamp tree, or Mshkiigwaatik</span></div>
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3 Proofs of the
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Traditional </h2>
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Tamarack is
called nerve medicine.<br />
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Scientific</h2>
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Some
pretty amazing studies have been done on Tamarack and its effect on
the nervous system. Tamarack bark has quite a few different
antioxidant flavonoids that have dramatic effects on nervous traumas.
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Phenols</h4>
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Polyphenols have
been deservingly receiving a great amount of attention these past few
years. They have a seemingly limitless amount of benefits. Strong
evidence shows their amazing protective and regenerative and reversal
effects on the nervous system. The advantage that plant-derived
phenols have over synthetics is their ability to freely cross the
blood brain barrier and express their qualities in diseases in the
brain like Alzheimers. Lets look at a few of these phenols more
closely. These are some of the most present phenols in tamarack bark.</div>
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Dihydroquercetin
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Quercetin is a
flavanoid that has been getting quite the buzz these days with its
unique antihistamic effects, touting it great for treating allergies.
Tamarack bark has a sibling called dihydroquercetin. A
very special phenol flavanoid that has encourages huge nervous
protection action. Very useful in diabetics and simply for ageing. Giving you some peace of mind as you grow older</div>
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Lignans</h4>
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Lignans isolated
from tamarack bark induce nerve growth factor secretion and perfectly
inhibit NO production. Nitric Oxide is essential in the production of
nerves but deadly when it is overproduced. Lignans from tamarack
perfectly inhibit (regulate) the production of Nitric Oxide
protecting the axons and mylien from great damage. Nitric Oxide is
also one of the deepest causes of neuropathic pain, tamarack bark
lignans eliminate it.
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Secoisolariciresinol
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Superb protective
effects on nerves and the nervous system. Seems to be focused on
ordinary issues like ageing. Also regulates Nitric oxide production. </div>
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Isolariciresinol
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<span style="line-height: 100%;">Free radical </span><span style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">DPPH
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">is
an </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">absolutely</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">devastating</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;"> to the nervous system, most nervous
degenerative-specific diseases are heavily linked to this venom. Of
course, the antidote is isolariciresinol! </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">Tamarack</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;"> bark is loaded
with it, regular consumption of </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">tamarack</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;"> bark is amazing to prevent
degeneration caused by </span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">DPPH</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
Also regulates Nitric oxide production.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">High
studies have confirmed that in vivo tamarack bark extracts have
severely increased nervous comeback in every nervous issue
imaginable. Most processes are due to these antioxidants! The Cree of our Canadian North are very fond of this tree, in the aging who are going blind and sufferers of snow blindness burn the green log of tamarack until a thick black tar bubbles out of one end and they smear the resin directly onto the eye to cure blindness!! They sure knew and know what they were doing!</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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lets take a moment to look at some of the other uses of tamarack
bark!</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Additional really amazing information about Tamarack:</span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">Tamarack bark is a conifer, and all conifers play
some extreme role in the immunity of my ancestors. Cedar purges the
lymphatic system, juniper </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">annihilates</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;"> airborne communicable diseases </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">etc.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">.. Tamarack bark has some pretty </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">superb</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;"> immunostimulative
qualities that have been heavily confirmed.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
modulates the immune system, making it incredibly useful in treating
autoimmune diseases across the board. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Increases
properdin by a whopping 21% in some studies!</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Tamarack
bark stimulates Natural Killer cell toxicity making them much more
effective and the sickness taken care of before the effects are even
felt!</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Anticancer
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Its anticancer
effects are felt in all parts of the body but most in the liver. The
bark extract greatly inhibits the metastasis of tumour cells to the
liver.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">llergies</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
really neat compound concentrated in the wood burls of tamarack
called arabinogalactans has been found to oddly and very
significantly reduce the inflammatory response of dust in the upper
respiratory tract. Also found incredibly useful in treating upper
respiratory infections.</span></span></span></span></span></span></h4>
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The Doctrine of
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbUVqxIPAr6F9rkoQsVRZ_Bk2_9BraGkx0ZG-qgIYlOJd7QjfwxQOmW-p2vgb3B_RW4TBWy66MJSIK7E3_GzoeyoCs1lN5sFxQr5LlUL1xmS5ipMtCEPUi8fYNTuX7CL8paOJ3aiAK2h4/s1600/nerve_cell_neurons_567909.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbUVqxIPAr6F9rkoQsVRZ_Bk2_9BraGkx0ZG-qgIYlOJd7QjfwxQOmW-p2vgb3B_RW4TBWy66MJSIK7E3_GzoeyoCs1lN5sFxQr5LlUL1xmS5ipMtCEPUi8fYNTuX7CL8paOJ3aiAK2h4/s1600/nerve_cell_neurons_567909.jpg" /></a>This ancient method
of interpreting the medicinal use of plants is absolutely astonishing
with tamarack. My ancestors walked past tamarack bark and knew that
it was the plant for anything that had to do with electricity, or the
nervous system. They knew that this plant has been created to show
them what it has been created to heal, however did they know what
neurons look like?</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">When
you look at the human body under a microscope and look at all of our
body parts at a molecular level, everything is different, everything
has a shape that is distinguishable! Liver lobules look like
hexagons, lymphatic </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">vessels</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;"> look green and </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">scaly</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">, blood cells are
round etc. </span></span></span>
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you look at everything that has to do with electricity under a
microscope you will find neurons. There are 5 types of neurons and
they all have something in common. All neurons have a smooth
pronounced spiral shape with a distinct wave look to them. They are
meant to cover as much surface area as possible. Dogs </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">instinctively</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;"> hunt in a perfect wave pattern because they know, that is the best
way to cover as much surface area as possible. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">Now look out
at a tamarack tree and see how the trunk has a beautiful</span></span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ly</span></span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
pronounced spiral pattern and the branches have a perfect wave shape
to them. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tamarack
has been created to show you that it was created to heal nerves. </span></span></span>
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This healing salve would be a perfect alternative for topical antibiotics (polysporin, bactroban) and it is super easy to make.<br />
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The best thing is to get to a flea market or any second hand store (I always go to Value Village) and buy a crock pot.<br />
It is important to get a small to medium sized crock, if the crock is too big you run into huge issues, the biggest, being uneven cooking. I want to teach you whats best but it is good to know that in desperate situations any crock will do.<br />
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Making this salve is super easy and I think that it should be in everyone's house, in every cupboard at all times!<br />
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First, around Mid-February to mid-march, find a balsam poplar tree: </div>
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What we do is go to shorelines or not-well-frequented ditches. And look for big oozing sticky buds. </div>
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Timing is key. These buds are on the tree for the majority of the winter but for one week sometime between mid-Feb to mid-March they go from being small to swollen and oozing with resin.<br /><br />After being swollen for about a week the leaves start growing and push the resin out, lowering the amount of resin in the buds everyday.<br /><br />Harvest during the swollen week!</div>
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Please use coconut oil! It alone has seemingly innumerable healing properties. Also, its stability is unmatched and it is the most sustainable option.<br />
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Let the buds cook until they blossom. What happens here is the buds are full of a sticky oleoresin. This is where the medicine is, so this is what you want! It just so happens that when you gently heat the mixture of oil and buds in a crock the buds blossom, yielding the oleoresin into the coconut oil.<br />
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Now your going to want to strain the buds. This is what will make or break your salve. The best and most potent medicine is still in the buds, no amount of cooking will get it out. The only thing that will get this last little bit of medicine out from these buds is some good ol manual labor. I recommend jelly bags. Put the buds in the jelly bags and wring it out like a rag! Its fairly simple. If you watch the color of the liquid coming out you will notice that it is immediately a dark brown, you squeeze a little harder and it turns an dark amber orange, squeeze harder and it turns light orange and if you keep squeezing it will quickly turn bright bright almost fluorescent golden yellow. This is the most potent medicine and what provides the most healing, though all parts are needed.<br />
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Once everything is strained out your left with a beautiful and very simple healing salve. You can end here and jar it.<br />
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What I would suggest is harvesting spruce gum and adding it.<br />
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Adding spruce gum is just so simple and provides so much healing that your not going to want to pass it up.<br /><br />Scrape some oozing resin from a near-by spruce/pine and add it to the heated oil just after you strain the poplar buds and it will quickly dissolve in like Kool-aid (Please don't drink kool-aid) Its. That. Simple.<br />
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This is a dynamite mixture that is incredibly simple! It is called a vulnerary, meaning it substantially promotes the healing of anything topical: Cuts, burns, scrapes, scabs, scars, rashes, etc.<br /><br />It is also used successfully to treat things like arthritis, sore muscles, swelling, ear aches, sinus infections etc.<br />
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Because this salve is Anti-bacterial, anti-septic, anti-viral and anti-microbial it can be stored in a cupboard for quite a number of years before it has the possibility of going bad.Creators Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10567065127859002687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911246144332556066.post-48157603818912226252015-02-02T16:54:00.001-08:002015-02-02T17:05:58.485-08:00Seneca Snakeroot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seneca Snakeroot is a beautiful plant growing in the dry woodlands from northern Saskatchewan to Alberta down into the central and eastern United states. Tea made from this plant is somewhat impalateable and is usually made with an eighth of a teaspoon per mug of hot water, brew with a cover on! Due to the 3-5% methyl salicate these roots have an incredibly gorgeous smell of wintergreen to them. Which is a nice break when you are harvesting roots for a living, most smell like spicy dirt at best. This plant has a lot to teach us. <span style="line-height: 115%;">Lets dive right in</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Traditional/Cultural Proof</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="en" style="font-size: large;">When we walk past this plant, for the last thousands of years it was simply referred to as: "Lung
Medicine"</span></span></div>
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am incredibly stubborn and I couldn't just believe </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">my
elders who would tell me these roots are 'lung medicine.'</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">
</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">S</span></span><span lang="en"><span style="line-height: 115%;">uch
a simple and vague </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">explanation</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">, especially when they insist on not
elaborating (with a smirk </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">of
course</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">!)
What I did, was take what they said and prove, with hard empirical
science, what they said the plant is allegedly good for. </span></span>
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have to back up what my people are saying with science. Lucky for me
there are universities </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">and
institutes</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">
across the globe that have their studies on plant based medicine
available to the public.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Our bodies have
something really cool called the vagus nerve. This is a nerve that
connects different body parts to one another. One of the strongest
connections that we know of is the connection from the lungs to your
stomach. This means that whenever something happens to your lungs,
something happens to your stomach and vice versa.</span></span></div>
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Snakeroot has </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">five kinds of senega-</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">saponins
concentrated in the roots that irritate the lining of the stomach </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">in
a very special way. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">They
</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">stimulate
the vagus nerve </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">which</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">
send</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">s</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="en"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
signals to the lungs to make every part of the lungs secrete mucus,
including the </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">alveoli</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">So
what happens is the mucus mixes with pollutants in your lungs and
because this plant has such a powerful expectorant action the mixture
of pollutants and mucus </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">are</span></span><span lang="en"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
evacuated leaving you, ultimately, with clean lungs and inflated </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">alveoli</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> again.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
plant is also an incredibly effective expectorant, it </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">doesn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> just
make you cough, it purges your lungs. Something only experience can
explain.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">It
is important to note that the most common over the counter
expectorant</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">s
are </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: normal; line-height: 115%;">Sudafed
and </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: normal; line-height: 115%;">Robitussin</span><span lang="en"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
which are made of </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">chilli</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> peppers which irritate the lining of the
stomach, though, in a much more diluted </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: normal; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">action
</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: normal; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">than
senega snakeroot.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">W</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">hen
you smoke, </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">or
live in a very polluted area where air quality is horrible</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">
is, your lungs just cant keep up with flushing the pollutants out and
they accumulate. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">It
continues to build up until chronic lung complaints develop.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">These
effects of </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Seneca</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> snakeroot do not end at simply cleaning lungs,
these roots are a necessary ingredient in </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">all
</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">cough
medicines, used for pneumonia and most extensively used cure for
tuberculosis.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="en" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">This was used to cure TB to such an extent that our indigenous population almost wiped out the entire natural population. A ban was put on harvesting this plant to prevent its extinction. As a result of this ban many thousands of natives died. Also because of this ban why this plant is now extremely plentiful </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">especially</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"> in the dry woodlands of northern </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Saskatchewan</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"> and </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Alberta</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One thing that I have been finding
lately, is that most plants that I study either encourage lipid
metabolization or have a </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">hypoglycaemic</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> effect. Meaning that most
plants help your body revert back to the state it needs to be healthy (</span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">hypoglycaemic</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">) and back to using the source of energy our bodies are
designed to use. Seneca snakeroot has a beautiful </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">hypoglycaemic</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> effect with no increase in insulin which was studied extensively by Suzuka University of Medical Science
and Technology, in conclusion they referred to this root as an antidiabetic.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One thing that we
have been making a great shift towards is more </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">holistic</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> approach to
health and healing. One thing that we promote is something called
ketogenic therapy, or the ketogenic diet. It is a high-fat,
adequate-protein, low-no-carb, no sugar diet designed initially to
remedy epilepsy but its effects on obesity, heart disease, diabetes
and metabolic syndrome were unrivalled. The diet is designed revert
our bodies back to use the proper dietary sources for energy. Hint;
its not sugar/carbs, its fat. Our bodies are designed to use fat for
energy rather than sugar (lipid metabolization). Ever hear of anyone
with a glucose </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">deficiency</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I do as much
research as I possibly can, sometimes for days, before writing
these articles. More often than not I have to scavenge for these
studies. This was not the case for Seneca Snakeroot. </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Universities</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> are just swollen with studies done on the anticancer and
chemo-preventative effects of these senega-saponins, pertaining
exclusively to lung tissue.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A tincture made
from these roots inhibit the growth of, and cause apoptosis to lung
cancer cells. When rats were </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">inoculated</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> with lung cancer, they were
administered Chemotherapy and </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Seneca</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> snakeroot extract, the results
of these studies show that </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Seneca</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">snakeroot's</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> exhibit a – for now - unspecified protecting action to normal lung tissue, but leaving
cancerous tissue totally vulnerable.
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">The
Doctrine of Signatures</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">When
you go outside and watch Seneca Snakeroot and try to find its
signature feature or its most significant feature, you will find that
the roots are quite unique. Most roots, </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">first
of all are bright yellow, which is odd, most are a dirt brown..dark
orange and dark yellow, but Seneca roots, bright yellow. Also most
roots smell like dirt, some, spicy dirt, Seneca roots have a very
clean smell due to their 3% methyl salicate content.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">
</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">Furthermore</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">,
all roots are made </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">quite
</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">smooth
and </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">some
are</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">
even self-lubricated to be able to dig around </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">quickly </span></span><span lang="en"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">and
grab the nutrients the plants needs and to anchor itself but in </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Snakeroot's</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> case the</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">y</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">
are ribbed! These distinctive ribs would seemingly </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">be</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">
nothing but be a hindrance to the plant, there is only one way that I
can make sense of this. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">These
roots have been created in such a way that they would show me what
they are made to heal. T</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">he
roots look identical to the primary and secondary bronchial tubes </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">of
your lungs</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">There is more, check this out! </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcqmXmqE9bDpyiDoheQ308kzO83BRJDTQ5bpMk4YnYolPak-6SslJXLkK0zSzbM7__i9JiA8zZQCRL8EATv4clQmPLHoZXMMpY-R4ewcdAJMac6lZYMqhw4Gx2I60zV5cJQEGQ1oYjHc/s1600/Magic-Magnifying-Glass--53687.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcqmXmqE9bDpyiDoheQ308kzO83BRJDTQ5bpMk4YnYolPak-6SslJXLkK0zSzbM7__i9JiA8zZQCRL8EATv4clQmPLHoZXMMpY-R4ewcdAJMac6lZYMqhw4Gx2I60zV5cJQEGQ1oYjHc/s1600/Magic-Magnifying-Glass--53687.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></span></a><span lang="en" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
Doctrine of Signatures is a proof that many people overlook and pass
off as a </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">coincidence</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">, but it is my job to break these mystic elements
of plant-based-medicine. The thing about this method of </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">interpretation</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> is, people seem to only take it as far as food. As a result of being
'ancient' It has been hindered by the power of the naked eye.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">In
the </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">30</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">'s
the electron microscope was developed, and in the 80's i</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">t</span></span><span lang="en"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
was pretty much perfected. It is still today the most powerful
microscope man has made. The human body has been under that
microscope since its birth. What I do is I </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">analyse</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> different body
parts on a molecular level, and compare those body parts to plants
that exist in nature. The findings are overwhelming! </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">For
a few days of this plants bloom the flowers are purple. Purple is
such a rare </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">colour</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> to find in nature that when I take people out to
harvest these roots I point to the field and say “go get me purple, not blue, not burgundy, not pink but purple”
and its not too long before they realize that, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="en">when
you look hard enough, not much out here is actually purple. When they do find
a true purple it is Seneca snakeroot. These flowers are also
significant because when you look at most other flowers, they have
petals, whereas Seneca snakeroot has empty sacks of air. This feature
is definitely 'out there' and seemingly an anomaly. Using this method
of interpretation I know that there is something about this signature
feature that is indicative of its doctrine. When you look at your
lungs under an electron microscope it will reveal to you that the
flowers of Seneca snakeroot look identical to the alveoli of your
lungs. This is a signature example that is now only visible due to the powerful technology of the electron microscope, such discoveries simply could not be made previous to that innovative invention.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en">Intro
to Salve Making</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en" style="font-size: large;">To
understand how to make a salve the way we do; there are a few things you must know
first.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">You'll be glad you did!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Lets dive right in!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Appropriate sized Crock </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Any bigger and you will have problems</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Start
by purchasing a slow-cooker, as this is the best cooking vessel to
control temperature. This slow-cooker will be absolutely dedicated to
making salves as it will severely alter the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">flavour</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"> of food. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">The slow-cooker should be small to medium size because the middle will not heat, and it will not be cooked evenly and lots will end up wasted.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">volatile plant oil extracts (AKA essential oils)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 115%;">The
medicinal qualities of all plants are found in the oils, often
referred to as </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">volatile</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 115%;"> oils. Tea for example is </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">steeping</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 115%;"> the plant
in water so the oils are released and then drinking the water and
oils together. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Ultimately</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 115%;"> you are just making the tea to drink the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As far as I know, coconut oil is the best!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">When you make a salve you are essentially doing the same thing as making tea, but instead of water you are using a base oil. I personally prefer coconut oil as a base above all other oils. Your base oil is 'empty' and your job is to 'fill' it will all the oils from your chosen plants. Lets learn how this is done!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 115%;">When
you heat the plants in the base oil, the medicinal oil goes from the
plant into the base oil. If you heat it too much the plant oils will
evaporate and go into the air which is the most horrible thing that
can happen to anyone making a salve. What makes or breaks a salve is
the temperature, you must be very watchful as high temperatures can
weaken. This is why we arrange the plant ingredients in order of </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">volatility</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 115%;">, saving the most </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">volatile</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; line-height: 115%;"> for last.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In
regards to </span><span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">volatility</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">, each plant is different, some are extremely </span><span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">volatile</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> like mints which </span><span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">yield</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> their oils extremely easily. Some
mints will loose 100% of their medicinal oils just upon drying. On
the opposite end of the spectrum we have barks and roots. These </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">ingredients</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> need to be cooked at slightly higher temperatures, for
longer periods of time. </span></span></span></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Thick, bulky willow that has almost no smell</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Thin mint leaves that smell fantastic!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en">Hardy Willow Bark is one of the first ingredients which has to be almost simmered for 2
hours, whereas delicate mint leaves on the other hand only need to be placed in the warm-to-touch oil for a few minutes. </span></span></span>
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use dry ingredients, the moisture is needed to force the medicinal
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en">My
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqosXwMyRq0I_wu5zVodToiwrhRrmVDA04o5QOrWb-E_QOkwP5YU6ImT6ryQBLp9bUOAwCRIkP9XzfX6518khbiwSNzT2K2QBAHJhqwq505kEL3edmKWsANJAvoRhq_yvdNtBvkhdetk0/s1600/comfrey0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqosXwMyRq0I_wu5zVodToiwrhRrmVDA04o5QOrWb-E_QOkwP5YU6ImT6ryQBLp9bUOAwCRIkP9XzfX6518khbiwSNzT2K2QBAHJhqwq505kEL3edmKWsANJAvoRhq_yvdNtBvkhdetk0/s1600/comfrey0001.jpg" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en" style="font-size: large;">I
will refer to a 'load' quite often and here is what I am referring
to. After you have harvested a plant, you must take the part of it
that you are going to use for cooking and collect enough of it to
make up a 'load'. Basically this is usually just filling the slow
cooker up with as much of the plant as possible but there are
exceptions.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Properly shaved Willow bark </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en"><span style="line-height: 115%;">For
barks you must shave-fluff the bark, however, if the tree is sapping
and breaks off in chunks it is too late (early spring) and in order to do it absolutely perfect (which is not always necessary) you have to wait until
the next year. Shaving is where you take the blade of the knife and
scrape it along the bark. It will 'fluff' out at the end of the
knife, this is shave-fluff. It needs to be in shaving-fluff because
you are able to pack more of the bark in and you are able to strain
absolutely everything out, this is very important. With all other
ingredients they are pounded, blended and completely </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">macerated</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> into
a </span><span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">unrecognisable</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> pulp, for the same reason. This pulp is placed in
the oil until there is so much of it that excess plant matter is not
immersed on the surface. This is one load. </span></span></span></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wipe off all condensing water droplets</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Cooking
instructions are </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">different</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> for each ingredient. When cooking you must
constantly wipe off the condensing water droplets on top of the lid
as water is what rots a salve regardless of the medicinal qualities
of the ingredients. It also causes overflow because the water will sink and push the oil to overflow. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Straining:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Proper
straining is </span><span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">absolutely</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> essential, this is one of the most important
steps that needs very special attention. In the canning section of
all grocery or department stores you will be able to find jelly bags,
these are necessary for an </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">efficient</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> strain. When the ingredient is
fully steeped and it has cooled off enough for your hands to handle,
fill the jelly bag slightly. Then you wring it out like a wet towel,
remember that it is best to wring it out as hot as possible, because
the oil is more viscus. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
best medicine is still locked inside the plant, you must wring out
not only the base oil but also what is left from the plants own oil.
This is what makes the salves potency different than all other
traditionally cooked salves. If you have any input in this regard it
would be much </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">appreciated</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">, although I have tried a large variety of
different methods and this is what works best for me. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en" style="font-size: large;">Lets
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en" style="font-size: large;">Arthritis
Salve</span></span></span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Willow is everywhere!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en" style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
first ingredient I usually begin with are the willows and I usually
start with bebbs willow. I recommend four loads of bebbs willow and four loads of red </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">osier</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> dogwood. These ingredients need to be slightly
simmered for two hours. A slight simmer is where the edges of the
slow-cooker are barely bubbling and the middle develops a type of
foam. Stir constantly but keep the lid on whenever your not stirring.
Let it cool slightly then strain until all willow pulp is
removed.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Red osier dogwood</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en"><span style="line-height: 115%;">These
willows relieve pain and inflammation like no other plant. True
willows contains salicin, red </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">osier</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> does not as it is not a true
willow. This means we are attacking pain and inflammation two
different ways, with and without salicin. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Next
is one load of </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Tamarack</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"> bark which again you slightly simmered for
two hours. This will bring heat to the applied area which attracts
healing. It also regenerate and stimulate nerve repair.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cedar leaf before complete maceration </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Next
is five to ten loads of cedar depending on how many additional plants
you plan on adding as the oil will fill up. The leaves need to be
pounded to a pulp and simmered for one to two hours depending on how
fine the pulp. Cedar is what does most of the healing. Antibacterial,
anti-fungal, anti-viral, anti-parasitic, antiseptic, antimicrobial,
anti-inflammatory, sheds excess bone, repairs damaged ligaments and
joints, increases bone density... This plant is the star of the
salve.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Crystallized spruce resin</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Non crystallized spruce resin (best smell ever)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Lastly
is your resins as they are the thickest and stickiest. Spruce resin and Balsam
Poplar buds need to be harvested from naturally formed resins. The
amount of resin is dependant on the size of the salve, but for
small-medium size slow cookers I </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">recommend</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"> putting two handfuls of
crystallized and non crystallized resin in. Fill the slow cooker with about 1/4 poplar buds as the olioresins are thick and it goes a long
way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">This
is my favourite part of making the salve. As the poplar buds cook
they blossom just like a flower to release their inner resin and then
the empty </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">blossoms</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"> float to the top of the oil. If you put too many
buds in they will over flow once they begin to rise to the top so be
careful. Finally the spruce resin melts right into the oil and mixes
beautifully.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Once
it is strained pour it into your </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">favourite</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"> jars and enjoy the soothing
and healing effects this salve has on arthritis.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I recommend small jars, 60mL or less</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en">Making
a salve is a huge commitment as it needs constant attention and can
take a while to finish as life gets busy. It is okay to turn off a
salve and leave it alone if you get busy and then return to it again
when things slow down, it won't go bad. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en" style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This
is just one example of a salve recipe but there are many other plants
that can be added for different desired </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">medicinal</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> qualities especially
during the summer months when plant life is in full swing. This
arthritis salve can be made all year round however the poplar buds
must be harvested in early spring around late March and April
depending on your region.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span lang="en" style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is going to be a living-blog. Meaning I will be updating this </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">regularly</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> with my own photos and videos and more text so you have a very clear understanding on how to make this incredible arthritis healing salve.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">Happy salve making!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How do you interpret what willow is made to heal?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">Willow
is a beautiful and very delicate looking tree. Long slender leaves on
thin and extremely flexible stems are its most notable features.
Willow usually grows in poor, wet soils almost always lining a water
source. Willow roots are notorious for reaching as far as 40 feet and
bursting into public water mains to get at the water!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beautiful arctic blue leaved willow </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;">My </span><span style="line-height: 17.00787353515625px;">favorite</span><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;"> feature of this plant are its </span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 0.45cm;">beautiful
stems that are incredibly versatile due to their flexibility. These
amazing trees are </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 17.00787353515625px;">favored</span><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;"> by bees</span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 0.45cm;">
for </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 0.45cm;">m</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 0.45cm;">aking
honey, </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 17.00787353515625px;">favored</span><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;"> by our 'green' artists who find willow sourced charcoal and Sweden's </span><span style="line-height: 17.00787353515625px;">favorite</span><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;"> bio-fuel energy sources! Most noteworthy, willow is one of
the 4 species used to build the Sukka for the fall feast days of
“Sukkot.</span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 0.45cm;">”</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Custom Swedish machinery harvesting willow bio-fuel during winter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">how a medium-strength willow bark tea should look</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Tea
made from willow bark is quite bitter, most people cannot enjoy a
strong brew. However, more often than not a strong brew is not
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is not normal and indicative to a large issue. Dont suppress pain, fix it. </td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">Most
people on this planet 'push through' or 'tough out' an extraordinary
amount of pain every second of everyday. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">P</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">eople
don</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">'</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">t
want to hear of 'pain relievers' because they have </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">'</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">tried
everything</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">'</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">
and nothing works, the only thing that works </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">for
these people is</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">
putting yourself into a place where you can manage the pain on your
own.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When we see willow we should adore its pain reliving abilities. </td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;">I
often make tea for the elders at our local seniors </span><span style="line-height: 17.00787353515625px;">center</span><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;">, on the day
that I made them all willow, it was clear that they did not believe
what I was saying. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">This
plant is so effective at treating pain and inflammation, most
specifically due to arthritis, that a mild tasting cup is often so
overwhelming that you fall asleep. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;">That
is exactly what happened at the seniors </span><span style="line-height: 17.00787353515625px;">center</span><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;">, they all fell fast
asleep! This is because they were living everyday with so much pain
that they had trouble sleeping! Not anymore, they and many people
around the world adore willow for its amazing pain relieving
qualities.</span></span></div>
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Proofs of the medical claims of Willow bark:</span></span></h2>
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extensively </span><span style="color: black;">w</span><span style="color: black;">illow
bark has been used to treat all forms of arthritis. Willow bark is
also used to relieve pain of all types. </span></span><br />
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willow family in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latin</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
is salix. All trees and shrubs in this family have salicin </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">present
in the bark.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In
your body salicin </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is
converted to salicylic acid and when Pharma was able to synthetically
produce Salicylic acid they found that most people were severely
allergic to it so they remedied that by </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">synthetically</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
creating acetyl salicylic acid which is ASA or </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">aspirin</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
sold as an over the counter pain reliever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">We
know </span><span style="color: black;">isolated
salicin (ASA) is a great pain reliever and NSAID, but why do studies
show that Salicates have no effect to back up the '</span><span style="color: black;">incredibly
</span><span style="color: black;">lofty'
and</span><span style="color: black;">
unproven</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">mystical</span><span style="color: black;">
claims of; </span><span style="color: black;">not
only relieving but </span><span style="color: black;">reversing
</span><span style="color: black;">all
types of </span><span style="color: black;">arthritis,
</span><span style="color: black;">effectiveness
as an anti-coagulant</span><span style="color: black;">
and reducing fevers?</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">plenty
</span><span style="color: black;">comparative
studies done on willow bark vs. isolated salicin, it was noted </span><span style="color: black;">in
every study </span><span style="color: black;">that
the presence of polyphenols </span><span style="color: black;">and
flavanoids </span><span style="color: black;">in
the willow bark is the only way to explain willows effect on
arthritis. Salicin alone has no effect </span><span style="color: black;">on
arthritis</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">It
is important to note that when researching you have to first find out
if the study was using a proper extraction method. I found that every
single study done that had negative or neutral results was done using
improper extraction methods. Which render the study completely
invalid. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Lets
see what the medical sciences has to say about properly done willow
bark extracts and their effect on arthritis. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are some of the main contributors to arthritis. Lets go through every
Oxygen free radical that has been labelled as a contributor to
arthritis and see if our trusty medical sciences has found willow to
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Arthritis
sufferers should know about </span><span style="color: black;">a
</span><span style="color: black;">devastating</span><span style="color: black;">
compound called Superoxide. </span><span style="color: black;">Willow
bark extracts </span><span style="color: black;">show
absolutely incredible scavenging activity to </span><span style="color: black;">Superoxide,
drawing it straight out of the joints! </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Another
radical labelled as a contributor to arthritis, destroying not just
joint tissue but all epithelial tissues, the </span><span style="color: black;">hydroxyl
radical </span><span style="color: black;">is
scavenged with ease by our overly abundant willow bark!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">In
recent studies hypochlorous acid </span><span style="color: black;">(HOCL)
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been found the be the culprit for </span><span style="color: black;">devastating</span><span style="color: black;">
the synoval fluid and therefore, overall cartilage degradation. Who
would have thought: willow bark extracts show </span><span style="color: black;">unrivalled</span><span style="color: black;">
scavenging activity against hypochlorous acid. Which means if you are
having willow bark extracts you </span><span style="color: black;">don’t</span><span style="color: black;">
have to worry about hypochlorous acid destroying yo</span><span style="color: black;">ur
cartilage. Another cause of arthritis totally taken care of by our
good friend willow!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hydrogen peroxide is
another radical that when it gets inside your joints it eats away at
them, and needless to day it needs to be taken care of. Well just as
you would expect it Willow is one of the best scavengers for this
radical. Consumption of willow extracts eliminates Hydrogen Peroxide
from ever being a problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wasn’t that fun! We
just discovered that willow is the ultimate arthritis-specific
oxygen-radical scavenger! Thanks Willow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another factor that
cannot be over looked in the development of arthritis is something
called Lipid Perioxidation (MDA). The level of MDA in arthritis
sufferers is substantially higher. You will be comforted to know that
willow is a surefire way to suppress MDA. Yet another major
contributor to arthritis taken care of. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;">Let me reinstate to
you that these harmful radicals and degrading processes are huge
problems solved with deadly accuracy by willow. In other words, it is
not a minor help, it is a major help, </span><span style="line-height: 17.00787353515625px;">unrivaled</span><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;"> even in the natural
realm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the biggest
threats our body has – as far as arthritis is concerned – are
neutrophilic cells (type of white blood cell). We know that they
concentrate in arthritis sufferer's joints. They simply excrete
enzymes that are like acid to your joints.<span style="line-height: 0.45cm;">When the joint is
suffering by infection, physically damaging it or simply by ageing
these cells infiltrate your joints at an alarming rate accelerating
the rate arthritis progresses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neutrophilic cells play
such a large role that many reputable institutes are now saying that
because of their immunoregulatory qualities they are what drive the
autoimmune process that is the cause of Rheumatoid arthritis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What we need to do it
control this influx of neutrophilic cells.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guess what bark extract
perfectly reduces infiltration of <span style="color: black;">neutrophilic
cells, Willow bark! </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;">Osteophytes
are something people with arthritis are very aware of. They are those </span><span style="line-height: 17.00787353515625px;">protruding</span><span style="line-height: 0.45cm;"> parrot-beak-like hunks of bone that stick out seemingly at
random. They can be very debilitating. Extensive invivo studies have
been done usually with rats </span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 0.45cm;">and
sheep </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 0.45cm;">and
their findings are beautiful, and come as great news to some of us.
Willow bark extracts not only stop the formation of osteophytes but
reverse them. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 0.45cm;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.45cm;">The complete mechanism of these actions are still unknown but
the bottom line still remains: Willow works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some
relatively minor but important findings to note:
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Protection
from soft tissue swelling and bone reabsorbtion is very well handled
by willow </span><span style="color: black;">and
in their studies inflammatory mediator levels dropped so
significantly that I want to scream how happy I am that we have
science proving our ancient wisdom!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Willow is called an
antipyretic. It stops fevers by causing the hypothalamus to override
an interleukin-induced fever. The body then works to lower body temp.
This is the exact mechanism that ibuprofen and Acetaminophen use, but
better.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Doctrine of
Signatures: </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Our ancients looked at this beautiful herb as one
that restores flexibility. This method of interpreting the medicinal
use of plants is not redundant, its very different with every plant.
It is not always “this plant looks like this body part”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Willow is different from
every other tree in that it is extremely flexible. If you look at
this signature feature you will find, very easily, what it has been
created to heal. If you are becoming stiff and arthritic you look to
willow as being the plant that has been created to help heal your
arthritis. Then you find a professional to teach you how to use the
herb and make extracts. Its. That. Simple. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.53cm;">Juniper
is a beautifully fragrant evergreen shrub that dominates prairies and
mountains. Uniquely, it is the most offensively prickly of all
evergreens. This berry yielding shrub once extensively used and
absolutely necessary, is now seldom mentioned. Every part of this
plant is and should be used. The wood yields a resin used to purify
and prolong the life of drinking water and offers a delicate
violet-like fragrance and taste. The wood is also used in barbecues
for flavor and to neutralize one of largest dietary sources of
carcinogens we suffer from today, burned meat. The potent berries are
used to flavor all kinds of meats, which reduce meat/fat oxidation up
to 78%! The roots are boiled into a thick dark-fuchsia dye. The
needle/twig tea and berry tea are devastating to </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20.031496047973633px;">bacteria's</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.53cm;">, viruses,
fungus's and parasites. This has got to be one of the most versatile
shrubs I have come across.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Three
proofs of the medical claims of Juniper: </span></i></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>Traditional:</b></span></h3>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNJO9XanJCZdwKueQ6DGbYbwoa8dvOKerMbWyj5rOGxngfRtHUZ8qec9CITl3Sbj_NNTOjwEilx6RvKEPPKEdb_lntHQMCpD2P0W3LYHmjfxQcambcELEWRR-BumYs_JidaW9iA1UHT6s/s1600/bigstock_Bacteria_1257074.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNJO9XanJCZdwKueQ6DGbYbwoa8dvOKerMbWyj5rOGxngfRtHUZ8qec9CITl3Sbj_NNTOjwEilx6RvKEPPKEdb_lntHQMCpD2P0W3LYHmjfxQcambcELEWRR-BumYs_JidaW9iA1UHT6s/s1600/bigstock_Bacteria_1257074.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Juniper
has been used as a type of 'flush' to get rid of accumulated toxins,
but more importantly used in prevention. The presence of juniper is
most used to keep communicable diseases at bay.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;">Scientific:</b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.53cm;">If
you can handle the terribly clever prickly needles you can harvest
the juniper berries. Juniper berries take 3 years to ripen. The first
year they are white and poisonous, they will just obliterate your
kidneys. The second year they are light blue and are still amazingly
harmful to the kidneys but on the third year they are ripe and dark
blue/black in </span><span style="line-height: 20.031496047973633px;">color</span><span style="line-height: 0.53cm;"> and are among the best kidney medicines nature
provides. They are an efficient diuretic, stimulant, and are an
extreme anti-microbial antiseptic. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;">The berry tea is simple. A
teaspoon to tablespoon of dried powdered ripe berries steeped in a cup
of hot water for 20 minutes with a very tight lid. Drunk in the
morning and evening. Though not safe for pregnant women, this tea
works relentlessly on solving kidney issues but its most remarkable
effect for modern days are its anti-fungal action against the
widespread overgrowth of Candida spp. It shows devastating
anti-microbial action against 16 species of bacteria, gram-positive
and gram-negative, 7 fungus's and a variety of viruses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;">Th</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;">ese beautiful attributes are largely due to these main compounds found in the
volatile oil </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;">extract</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;">
of the</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;"> twigs needles and</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;">
berries: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">alpha-pinene
(29.17%) and beta-pinene (17.84%), sabinene (13.55%), limonene
(5.52%), and mircene (0.33%).</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;">
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;">These compounds have
been extensively studied invitro and invivo. Even convincing human
studies using unusually low doses, exhibited effective anti-microbial
antiseptic actions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="line-height: 0.53cm;">Its
effects against antibiotic resistant strains of viruses and </span><span style="line-height: 20.031496047973633px;">bacteria's</span><span style="line-height: 0.53cm;"> are also note-worthy. This quality is attributed only to Alpha and
Beta Pinene. </span></span></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;">Additional
amazing uses of Juniper:</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;">This
plant is so effective at keeping sickness away that there are lofty
claims that have been proven of juniper boughs simply hanging in the
house to keep away the common colds and flues. Pots of the
needle/twig tea be brewed and drunk to be a sufficient substitute for
the flu shot. During the black plague in Europe, physicians were
instructed to hold a minimum of 10 berries in their mouth when near
infected patients, this is what kept the sickness away from them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #141823;">A
compound called Streptozotocin, which is found in </span><span style="color: #141823;">the</span><span style="color: #141823;">
berries is toxic to cells. This one compound belongs to a group of
alkylating agents that are called nitrosoureas, these block the
production of the DNA of cells </span><span style="color: #141823;">but
w</span><span style="color: #141823;">hen
combined with hundreds of other compounds that are found inside
juniper, Streptozotocin is suddenly only toxic to cancer cells </span><span style="color: #141823;">main</span><span style="color: #141823;">ly
of the pancreas</span><span style="color: #141823;">.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.53cm;">Its
anti-microbial antiseptic actions are transferred to water via resin
drops. The resins are extracted from the wood and is dripped onto the
water vessel. They prevent the build-up of a number of
micro-organisms and keep water fresh for an extended period of time.
These resin-drops give the water a nice violet-like </span><span style="line-height: 20.031496047973633px;">flavor</span><span style="line-height: 0.53cm;"> that
makes it go down much easier. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;"><span style="line-height: 0.53cm;">It
has its place in the culinary arts as well! Aside from the fragrant
full </span>flavor<span style="line-height: 0.53cm;"> the berries give meat, they were used extensively to
preserve meats until the mass availability of nitrates. As I
mentioned above they reduce meat oxidation up to 78% and have been
proven to be far superior meat preservative than nitrates. To top it
all off the needle and twig tea is almost always a </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;">favorite</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.53cm;"><span style="line-height: 0.53cm;"> out of
all evergreen </span>flavors<span style="line-height: 0.53cm;">, especially with children.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>The
Doctrine of Signatures:</b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Every
plant has been created so that you know its one specific medicinal
use. The signature feature of juniper, the unique feature that separates this evergreen
from all other evergreens are its prickly needles. </span>
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blatantly obvious, when you observe other evergreens all their
needles are soft and don't cause any amount of harm what-so-ever. On
tamarack they are remarkably soft, balsam fir and hemlocks are a
common bush-bedding, cedars are flat and soft, etc. However, when you
look at juniper they are very uncomfortable and painful. Harvesting
the berries leaves your hands with millions of tiny irritating holes
in them if you don't wear thick gloves. All walking trails go well
around juniper because of this brutal feature. When you observe other
insects, reptiles and animals and how they interact with this plant
you will find that they use it as protection, often making their
homes in the shrub. We are to do the same. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">When we use this
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even anti-biotic resistant strains, and when we do the severity is
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Scouring rush is a eyecatchingly beautiful plant, separate from every other plant I've seen, by only having one limb with no leaves or fringes. Many people mention its resemblance to bamboo though it is much smaller. In order for this plant to survive, it needs to deposit large amounts of calcium and silica into its cambium tissue which provide all of its structural support. Therefore this plant is only capable of growing where there are large amounts of silica and calcium in the soil including areas like beaches, riverbeds, and various waste places (ditches, gravel pits, etc.). Hence the Anishnaabemowin name, Gziib'nushk - Ziibeh meaning river.<br />
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One of my favorite features of this plant, aside from it medicinal use, is when you gather large bundles of it to let them dry as the vertical ribs in conjunction with its hollow core create a very loud, very intense, high pitched ghastly scream. Hence the Anishnaabemowin name Gziib'nashk - Ziinweh, meaning to scream.<br />
Tea made from this absolutely remarkable herb tastes like a mild green tea with a slight sour twist. Its sour tingle makes ingesting therapeutic doses more than desirable. It offering a sour flavor is present in the Anishnaabemowin name: Gziib'nashk - Gziiw, meaning sour.<br />
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Scouring rush has been used around the world as a “bone medicine.” <br />
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Scouring rush contains therapeutic amounts of Vitamins and Minerals; C, A, and E, Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Iron, Zinc and Copper. All of which are absolutely necessary for the hardening and strengthening of bones.<br />
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The plants silicon and silicic acid content is greater than that of any other plant in the entire plant kingdom! These compounds allow your body to be able to store large amounts of calcium in your bones and produce large amounts of collagen and other body tissues. This magnificent creations' silicic acid causes leucocytosis (notable increase in white blood cells) to protect fatty deposits in blood vessels with only a small dose. Its great encouragement of lipid-metabolism makes this plant endlessly useful in treating cardiovascular sicknesses across the board!<br />
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Scouring rush has an array of alkaloids, flavanoids and saponins which relieve what is called specific-inflammation and in scouring rush's case, is inflammation only around bones, ligaments, joints, and skin/hair/nails. The absence of inflammation in these areas allows the body to heal remarkably quick. This array also has some very special effects on healing severely damaged lung tissue from Tuberculosis and smoking.<br />
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Scouring Rush is also great for tissue toning, a local-astringent and surefire diuretic action when combined with large amounts of silica. These actions make for an incredibly speedy kidney and bladder stone expulsion, quick healing of ulcers and cystitis with haematuria (blood in urine), reducing hemorrhage, fast healing of regular external wounds, bleeding from the mouth, nose and bowels, diarrhea, dysentery, chilblains and conjunctivitis.<br />
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Scouring rush is structured the exact same way. It starts out with a hard outer layer which is loaded with silica and calcium, then has a holey or spongy layer and a hollow center.<br />
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This plant has so much silica in it when you hold it up to the sun you can see the shimmer of all the abrasive little crystals. It has so much silica that before the industrial production of steel wool, which happened just before WW1, you would purchase bundles of this plant instead and use it to polish everything from wood to metals and even ivory. Hence the name Gziib'nashk - Ziibii, describing the scouring motion!<br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"> Oral Hygiene</span><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"></span><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"></span><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"></span><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"></span><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"></span><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"></span><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"></span><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"></span></h2>
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cultures around the world have good oral hygiene, woodlands people are
one of those few. We kept our teeth well into 100 years old. Imagine being
one of those first few settlers, coming from a society where a long life
is 30 years of age, and seeing an old native guy or gal, sitting in the
corner of a Wiigwaam in the middle of the forest claiming to be over
100 years old! Man, That would freak anyone <span class="text_exposed_show">out. then
he/she smiles at you, with a full set of white adult teeth! I'd
definitely be interested in how. </span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show"><b>Chewing sticks</b> and<b> Chewing resin gums</b></span></span></h3>
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special woodlands people. You use any tree/shrub branch that is fibrous, then you pound
or chew the tip until the end is frayed and looks like a brush! It is then
nibbled on all day. It is also used as a brush. Now, I said this was a
common addiction because I'm sure a lot of you have this addiction as well. Where you thoroughly enjoy using your fingernail or something else sharp
(toothpicks) to firmly press on your gums just to feel this really
weird, good feeling pain. This is why chewing sticks are addicting,
because of the way you use them to brush. </span></span><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show">The “pain” is from the bristles of the chewing stick that are are very stiff.</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show">Always brush from the top of
your gums down, slowly. Constant brushing this way will
callous your gums tough. Constant brushing this way will assure your
gums stay firmly hugging your teeth very low, to make sure your roots
are never exposed, so your teeth never fall out! </span></span></div>
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sticks, an addiction is fulfilled and a lifelong habit is formed (trust
me it will) Your gums are sure to stay low, firmly hugging your teeth,
and your gums are very tough and hard so you don't have to worry about
your gums getting destroyed when your eating crunchy things. In a
handful of cultures across the planet chewing sticks have been employed, and
it is these and only these cultures that have been known to keep their
teeth into being elderly. Just so you know the World Health Organization just recently publicly announced that oral hygiene is the third (and rising)
leading cause of heart disease in Canada and the U.S. All it takes is a
few good heart healthy habits to prevent this from EVER happening to
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slashing hectares of spruce trees, which yielded resins that he
collected and put in spruce gum boxes to send back overseas to sell to
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show">Chewing this gum was such a fad in Europe, when lumberjacks would
come overseas to work, the most romantic thing that you can
do for your 'honey' back home is send her a spruce gum box. There are
accounts that litter the internet of lumberjacks who died fighting for
the most beautiful piece of resin. Some really are just like
rubies! </span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show">Okay now for another weird question that only some of you will
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show">Does anyone ever just want to bite on something really hard?
(I think this is the only reason why I like steak) I get these
cravings where I just want to chew on something really tough, its like
my jaw muscles are craving a workout! Apparently it is a common desire
for people to have! Much like spicy food. Its such an intense and normal desire for people get addicted to chewing
on things that are not so easy to chew on. Spruce gum is pretty tough,
and its a blast to be able to chew on it all day, if your feeling
stressed just pop a spruce gum, and just crank your jaw and feel the
cortisol fade away. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show">On average 80% of the scent you give off is from
your mouth(I'm sure this number is much higher in the morning), to all
you hunters out there this should perk your ears! </span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show">Spruce gum is anti-viral, anti-microbial,
anti-bacterial, anti-septic, anti-parasitic...I like to sum all of its qualities up in this: anti-EVERYTHING-BAD! Imagine craving to chew on something that will kill anything bad in your
mouth, and leave all the good of your mouth perfectly intact (Probiotics, Prebiotics). When you
chew spruce gum you are also preventing the build up of all bad bacteria's,
and providing a constant supply of juices that will kill all bad
bacteria's that build up throughout your entire digestive tract! Talk
about HEALTHY!! We all should understand that our digestive systems should be
good bacteria's, this is what really breaks all the food down, so much so that we are being coined "bacterio-sapiens." </span></span><br />
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result of a bad diet is bad gut bacteria, the result of taking
anti-biotics is a stripped gut flora, allowing the buildup/infestation
of bad bacteria now imagine swallowing the juices of this resin that
will kill all the bad bacteria and allow the buildup of only the good
bacteria! This should speak volumes to the "probiotic
movement!" </span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show">When your chewing these resins all day when you wake up the
next day your mouth is so clean, scent free. Its outrageous how most of
us will just live day to day waking up with a rancid, sticky, nasty,
smelling mouth. Lets get addicted to some perfect things, lets get
addicted to things that will cause us to be more healthy, lets start to
develop a true appreciation for what has been created for us to heal, us! </span></span><br />
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