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June 8, 1998 - Bill Cooper
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Conference '98 – Michael Cottingham #1
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Yes, I am good at movies, but no one sees my...
I'm not a good actor.
You're listening to a live broadcast of the Hour of the Time. I'm William Cooper. Ladies
and gentlemen, today you're going to hear the lecture by Michael Cottingham which occurred
on the 27th of May, 1998, at our 1998 annual conference.
So, get ready to really hear some amazing nutritional and medicinal information concerning what you might think are just weeds growing in your backyard.
It's a very important hour.
Michael has been a featured speaker at most of our conferences.
Not all of them, but certainly most.
He's a dear friend.
He's like the little Lorraine of our family.
And Michael will never tell you this, but in my estimation, he is.
The preeminent herbologist and botanical nutritionist in this country.
Now, you'll say a whole bunch of baloney about some guy named Moore.
Don't believe it.
It's Michael.
I'm kidding.
But Michael took everything that Moore taught him.
Picked his brain and learned some things about it.
He could know he knew, but then he would learn a whole bunch of stuff on his own.
So, that makes him the best in my book.
Michael's going to talk to you about an hour this morning.
And then he's going to take everybody out for a walk, and it's all going to be totally different.
So if you've been to Michael's talks before and been on a dirt walk with him before, you're not going to do anything that's the same this year.
It's all going to be different.
Different plans, different preparations, and the whole bit.
And you've got Michael all day long, so it's going to be really interesting.
If you want to say when you knock on bells and you want to provide some nutrition for your family that doesn't cost you a fortune down at the store, you'd be amazed at what you can find just walking around your neighborhood.
Never mind if you drove a little way and went out into the little bit of wilderness somewhere.
You can really take care of your family and take care of your nutritional needs by paying attention to what Michael's going to teach you today.
And you can do away with an awful lot of very expensive medical bills by paying attention
to what Michael said to tell you today.
He can save you an awful lot of money.
And your health will be better because most of the medicinal plants that he's going to
teach you about don't have any of the bad side effects of drugs and things that medical
doctors give you.
So without any further ado, Mr. Michael Cunningham.
Okay.
Well, like I said, I thought we'd start outside, but we're going to do about an hour inside
and then we'll do another walk-in.
It's pretty forlorn looking outside.
I mean, when you look out, the terrain is lava rock, and scrappy sand, and soil, and no, Well, I just had a fantastic idea.
And there's 32 plants out there, which would be amazing when we walk the perimeter of the
property here, you know, that this empty bit of land is just rich with weeds and...
Well, I just had a fantastic idea.
Within about 40 or 45 minutes drive of here, there is a mountain trout stream spread by
the snow, filthy.
you.
And all along this stream are the most incredible proliferation of plants that you could ever imagine.
If you want to, and everybody else wants to, we can all buy lots of cars and drive up there, and I bet you that you would find that probably more in line with what you really want to do.
If you want to do that.
Okay.
I just want to see if we can do some time in here, go outside, walk around the property, lunch, and then we'll do some more stuff inside, and then somewhere between the end of that talk and dinner time, or maybe even after dinner when we still have a couple hours of daylight left.
We won't be able to make it up there after dinner because it's going to get dark.
Sure, go ahead.
It doesn't bother me.
I think it would be nice to start off with, I mean, there's so many topics and they cover some immense amount of information, and it's such overwhelming information that what I find is that I just put out as much material as I can in a short period of time.
New stuff I've learned, old stuff to reinforce, new plants.
I mean herbal information, maybe when I'm 80 or 90 years old I'll feel like I have a handle on this.
But the information is so overwhelming that a lot of questions arise and I thought this would be totally different if I started the day with answering your questions.
The herbal questions you've had for a long time are things that have plagued you or personal health problems.
Because that helps to get things going.
It also helps to answer these questions in a way that, you know, may benefit you as an individual and may give you a very valuable thing to take away from my information.
That's very pertinent to you.
And so, you know, I'd like you to use me in that way for, you know, for coming to the conference and gleaning something from me that God knows how long, you know, it benefits and improves your health.
It's so much more than just saving money.
I mean, that's an aspect of it.
To me, herbal medicine reconnects us to the natural world, and by reconnecting back to nature, you get back into the natural laws, back into the natural way of relating to the world and the basic good concepts And you get something by learning a few herbal medicines, whether they grow in your yard or you grow them yourself, you get an aspect, a small percentage of self-sufficiency that's priceless.
I mean, it's, to me, freedom is not about learning, you know, there are many aspects of freedom.
You can spend a lot of time learning to walk out of the tax system, you can learn a lot of, you know, so much peripheral information to increase The increments of freedom, but when you look at how much time do we have?
Learning to grow some of your own food or learning about the concepts of organic food will give you 10% more self-sufficiency and real, true freedom.
People aren't enslaved, in my opinion, when they are no longer self-sufficient.
not only in governing, but in the daily activities, like the production of their food, the control
of their water, the ability to make things for themselves, to take control of their lives.
To be able to reclaim some of this in small percentages, that's what herbal medicine is.
It's 10% of the freedom pot, and that's achievable.
You can get that 10% self-sufficiency and freedom back in their life.
To me, that means you're 10% freer in a real, true, natural world, legitimate sense.
I mean, you can take care of your own health problems 90% of the time.
That's freedom.
That's self-sufficiency.
To me, that's a universal, absolute freedom that has been stolen from us.
I often think, and it's me I relate to, the conquistadors came from the New World, and
somehow people sometimes think they disappeared.
To me, the conquistadors never left, and one of the things the conquistadors did very effectively
was drive a wedge between the native people and their relationship to nature, because
by doing that, they were able to enslave them.
They destroyed the medicine people, they destroyed the traditions, and made these people codependent
on their lifestyles, and thus they controlled them.
I think some legitimate freedom, the only way to approach it is to increase self-sufficiency
in your daily life, in increments, a little bit at a time.
You don't need to grow a small garden where you're growing 2% of your own food.
That's 2% less that you have to buy.
That's probably 2% less food, less carcinogenic and polluted food.
It's like, anybody that's 40, 50, 60 years old, you have 50% pure freedom, because you're
producing and you're self-sufficient and you're self-reliant.
That's what I feel herbal medicine can contribute to, you know, to all of us.
And that was my original concept when I approached Bill many years ago, was that I looked at
the patriot community, and I looked at the people who were providing me with interesting
concepts about government and law and trust and the monetary system.
But what I saw that was really absent from the great movement of legitimate freedom was
like organic food growing and herbal medicine.
And so, it seemed natural that I would involve myself with the people who were requesting
like myself, who were all on the same quest.
And I had a little piece of the puzzle that I felt that could benefit all of us.
Because I truly believe the more people that have a relationship to nature, the better
things will be.
Because if you look around us, at the people in the cities, the people in the government,
the people who produce our food, there is an amazing lack of a relationship to the natural
world.
And out of that is madness, disease, chaos.
The Cherokee have a great saying that you have to nurture the material world as well as the spiritual world equally, and if you do not, you end up with a ghost sickness.
And the ghost sickness is very prevalent in our society.
It is the ... it is not only a stasis, it is a total imbalance.
They pursued the material world to the point of madness, and thus they're walking the walk undead for the most part.
And I see that from a verbal point of view that many parts of this country are verbally illiterate or there are verbal boys and the tradition was wiped out.
There are no herbalists.
There are no herb stores.
There is no place to go for information about herbal medicine in so much of the United States.
It's just the conquistadors are alive and well, and they're very effective in their
relationship with the Severian peoples of nature, you know, in their job.
They've been very effective.
The conquistadors have just changed names and hats, but they never left.
They came to the New World and they remain.
But anyways, questions, just herbal questions that have been, you know, since last year
or just this is the time.
In your opinion, have you come across any herbal remedies that can help in prevention
of cancer?
Meow.
Well, food is the foundation of all medicine and cancer.
The AMA even gave me this statistic.
They said 60% of all cancer in this country.
Now, in statistics like this, we're bogus and have very little meaning.
STP means a little, a little something.
They said 60% of all cancer is dietary related.
And I always translate that to, and this is an AMA, American Journal of Medicine statement.
I translate that to, where do most people shop for their food?
You know, the average grocery store Albertsons, Furze, Safeway, whatever.
If 60% of our cancers are dietary related, most people shop at the main grocery store,
8 a.m. at the supermarket, to the World's, at the thing.
And that's monoculture food.
Pesticides, herbicides, fatigues, there's no life force in that food.
And if 60% of the cancer in this country is dietary-related, to me that translates as 60% of what's at the supermarkets is carcinogenic.
I mean, I don't see any other way to translate that.
If that's what everybody's eating, you know, and that seems to be the case.
The standard American diet, and if you take the initials of those three words, which to me translates to sad, you know, standard American diet.
I mean, and 60% of what we buy at the grocery store now, to me that's very conservative.
I feel, with what I know, and I use some ice in my stuff as well.
I'm not immune to that.
And that's kind of realism, you know.
I mean, none of us are saints.
You may be on a quest trying to pursue sainthood or some higher enlightenment, but we're all in the same boat, you know.
We all have the same habits.
The Constitution, we're all been lied to.
We're all coming out of the dark, kind of, you know, some sort of insect breaking its cocoon, you know.
But I think that at the grocery store, and I can honestly say that I think 90% of what's
at the average grocery store is unfit to eat, does lead to cancer.
So to answer your question, there are a lot of herbs, there's a lot of supplements,
but the real approach to cancer is really looking at our food chain.
You know, the great social worker, not in a bad sense I think, the great farm worker,
Senator Chavez, you know, for years looked for a slogan and he came up with a slogan
that was basically, all we need or all we want is a safe and just food chain.
Because if you have that, then you have great concepts.
If you have a safe and just food chain, that means that farm workers will be treated well, are being treated well, it means there's pesticides and herbicides at very low amounts, that means people are being paid well, that care is taken to produce high-quality, energy-driven food.
So it was a good slogan they came up with for the, you know, the farm workers.
You know, it was just a safe and just food chain, and I truly believe that, I think.
But that only would come about through a relationship to nature.
Instead of a dominator culture, we need to be a steward-orientated culture.
That's the only way to survive.
That's the only way to pass on a planet that's worth living on, you know, for our children and grandchildren, is not to dominate.
We have been nothing but a dominator breed for so long, and we haven't been surpassed
by the majority of people, and that's what we have to gravitate towards.
It is amazing, we're all on these individual quests, and we all bring a tidbit of information,
a stream of information, but it always amazes me the similarity, whether it's urban medicine
or trust formation, there's a really rich, common denominator.
And it's not freedom, it's about stewardship, it's about a relationship to nature, and it's
all, people on these quests come from different walks of life, bringing their information,
but a common denominator is there.
And some herbs that are really good for cancer are herbs that fall under a category that are food-slash-medicines.
There, you know, like somebody may have heard of goldenseal, or acaricia, or chaparral.
These are hard core plants with chemical constituents, or chemical compounds,
that when you take them, they cause change, distinct physiological change.
And there's very little nutritional value.
Since cancer is a very dietary-orientated problem, arises out of malnutrition, arises out of oxidation because there's a lack of antioxidants in the body, and rich foods, foods that are rich, the dark green vegetables, Andrew Wiles says that broccoli is probably the greatest
vegetable as an anti-cancer food.
It's a great, rich, antioxidant vegetable.
And so eating broccoli two times, three times a week is a great ally in the fight against cancer,
a great antioxidant, which has great potential of keeping the tissue from breaking down.
Antioxidants, basically, for those who might not know, are just substances that keep oxidization,
that ban oxidization.
There's nothing more you can do.
I mean, a piece of metal oxidizes, the human body oxidizes, cells break down, decay, and then out of that, if you have too much oxidization going on, cancer can come out of that, disease can come out of that.
Antioxidants, which are found in foods and in plant medicines, prevent the rust of the body, prevent cell cellular breakdown in abnormal situations.
Water I consider is an antioxidant, perhaps the most important antioxidant.
Cancer touches upon dozens of concepts that can be used in other therapies, so that's why I'm kind of elaborating on this.
Water, if you drink chlorinated water, they have all this other information on, you know, how to, you know, make your own bullets, and can your own food, and you've got, you know, two years worth of food, and a pile of gold coins, But if you're drinking chlorinated water, you're a loser.
You're going to have to learn something.
Not to be mean or such, but that is one of the most... If you smoke tobacco and drink chlorinated water, you nurture cancer, because chlorine and tobacco bind together to form one of the most carcinogenic molecules on the face of the earth.
Chlorine, of course, is a relative of mustard gas.
What did they do with that?
There are many countries in the world that do not use pollinated water.
It's a by-product of our chemical industry, and it's cheaper, will not be better, and instead of having to pay for this toxic waste, why not just sell it to the municipal?
Absolutely.
And it's an evil, evil, evil substance, and will cause cancer, will cause oxidization, will cause you more harm than almost anything I know that we come in contact with on a daily basis.
It is truly evil, and it's cheap out there.
Um, so, if you're not sorting out, if you're starting to eat raw food, um, you know, start drinking more un-chlorinated good water, um, and that's always hard to define, but, you know, at least take the chlorine, take the chlorine, um, those are two suspect entities that I would, you know, would not want my water whenever possible.
And even if you don't, don't compromise, you know, just learn, like, when you travel, I try not to drink the water here, Not because the well water is bad, but because the ice cubes that they use come from the plant where there's chlorine.
And so, and they put high amounts in ice cubes.
So, we bring our own water.
It's a pain in the butt to carry on five gallons of extra water, or ten gallons, and to go to the truck, and to always try to... But, to me, it will keep me stronger.
is a major, you know, you cultivate this bit by bit. Maybe start with taking some vitamin
A, vitamin C, vitamin E, eating broccoli a couple more times, getting the chlorine out
of your life by getting a filter on the water supply. Those are major foundational things
that will help you not to get cancer. And if you have cancer in the infancy, maybe keep
it from spreading as rapidly. Chlorine and cancer, they love each other. They feed and
it's really, you know, I would say that medicine is best done simply. Simple is best. What handful
of things can you do to cause the greatest impact? And it's often not what you take as
much as what you stop taking. Just stop taking chlorinated water and you improve homeostasis
and balance in the body. In many respects, more than most herbal medicines. And all you've
done in the equation was to take away chlorinated water.
You didn't have to add anything to it.
It's not that complex.
So taking away, as well as adding, we're always looking to take more supplements, more herbs, more this, more that.
And we forget that taking away from the equation is equally as important when you're talking about balance.
And the body is always striving for balance.
Round and clock, homeostasis, balance with or without your health.
I mean that's an amazing creation.
Wizard Without Your Health is trying to keep you going.
So just take some of these things away from New Year's and Cancer, the diet, look at the
foundational things, water, food, basic antioxidants, those are going to help you infect some of
the more serious problems that are, you know, there are no magic pills, there are no, you
know, general therapies, there is a go-to-pharm stance where you actually decide to take charge
of your life, to take responsibility for your life.
And that's not to say even if you're doing that that you end up with cancer because cancer is so prevalent that you can be doing all the right things and still it's your time to fight this problem.
And that's okay.
I always tell people who have been diagnosed with cancer is never buy into the fear concept.
You know, I always fantasize that a study that I would love to do, or see someone else
do, because I don't really have the time, but it would be when someone's diagnosed with
cancer, that because of the power of the word that's been cultivated in society, and the
fear, the terror that's associated with this word, when the doctor, the great authority
here tells you you have cancer, it would be interesting to somehow watch the physiology
of the human body for the next two weeks, and watch the great percentage of how that
cancer spreads.
If you buy into the fear and the terror of the word, that society has bred it.
You know, outside of the military industrial complex, the medical world is the second,
probably almost now, you know, the greatest, largest revenue.
Cancer is a mega-billion dollar industry, and let me tell you, healthy people don't
make money.
Sick people make money for this sick industry, for this, you know, allopathy, cancer institute, and that's not to say there's not good and great researchers and people in there, but it's a very ugly system, and frankly, these research institutes would not be in existence if they Heal people.
If they cure cancer, if they help people cure cancer for themselves by giving them and empowering them with the information that's necessary.
You know, if people realized how, seriously realized how important it is to really address the polluted food chain that we have, we'd have a revolution if people understood the importance because they would understand That 90% of all of our illnesses are dietary-related, and they're there because our food chain is totally polluted, in the sense of pesticides, herbicides, in the sense that we don't have any regional growers.
Sit down next time and look at your plate of food and describe it.
We don't have enough information to know where rice in this country is grown and where the apples come from.
Sit down and look at your plate of food and calculate the miles that it took for that
food, the caloric energy involved to get that food to your plate.
And then ask yourself if food coming from 5,000 miles away would have as much energy
as food grown in your county or the next county.
And the Chinese call it qi.
They call it white horse.
They call it energy.
And I guarantee you food that travels thousands of miles in cans and packages and planes and
trucks and in warehouses and different temperatures and grown by people who could care less and
grown with chemical compounds and they're growing it for monoculture, greed, money,
Is there life force in that food?
Is there gene?
Is there energy?
And then people wonder where cancer comes from.
If you eat food that is white, I mean it looks good, it tastes good, it's vibrant, it's alive, it has a white force in it.
That's a mess.
That's what we were meant to eat.
And that's what's been stolen from us.
It's that type of food.
It's another aspect that most of us never thought about in many respects.
Right now it's constant battle and compromise.
But there's water in there, there's fields with chlorinated, chlorine, city water.
Sure, right now it's constant battle and compromise.
Repeat the question.
The question was, what if the local folks who are growing your produce are using pesticides,
herbicides, and chlorinated water?
It's a constant series of compromises and little battles for your health.
Because it's almost financially impossible to be that diligent 24 hours a day with the
food, the water, the air.
And so, you know, and how many of us have the time to ask the farmer who's growing our
produce, what kind of water do you use?
What are the minerals and what are the things in the food?
I mean, you can only use so much and you can only control so much and you have to put some
faith out there to start with.
Many of us, is this organically grown?
Is this organically grown under the California Organic Food Act of 1990 or so?
Because those folks, still at this time, even though that word is going to be masterdized and stolen from us, that word, but we fought hard to get that word organic to mean something, and now the great supermarkets and great monoculture food chains What's that word?
Because it means more cash, and they've got people dupe them.
You know, we work hard to establish what organic means.
Untornated water.
Unfertilized by unnatural means.
No pesticides.
You know, food that's... So, at this time, you may always have to demand that the food is organic.
You may have to pay a little bit more, but you go to support, usually small family farms, you go to support techniques It's like some people in the herb world, they say, well, what are your herbs?
You know, my bald herbs, right?
And I said, you know, I drive 200 miles, climb this canyon, pick these herbs, and then they ask me why it's $10 a pound, you know, some of these people.
And I said, well, you folks in the great herb scene talk about ethical wildcrafting.
I said, you know, that costs money.
you know, to ethically wildcraft for me to constantly find new canyons and new mountains,
to not come back to places, to rotate my stands, to pick slowly, to pick in a way that is finding
an existence for me, not just taking time to plant seeds, so that I know that my visit
was a benefit, was a stewardship, and not a rape, you know.
And so, you have a lot of people who talk about organic food or ethical wildcrafts
and plants, but they just want the word, because it means money, and they don't really
understand the concept, so they pay a little bit more. But, you know, maybe the tomatoes
are $2 a pound, but the safe way tomatoes are 69 cents a pound, but I guarantee you the
$2 a pound tomatoes worth every single penny, because it has a key, and it's life force, it doesn't
have cancer causing chemicals in it, and everything that, but a safe way tomato, most of
the time, I think it's just, you know, what is evil? It doesn't taste the same. I always
translate evil into these little things, like overpackaging, like styrofoam cups, like, you
know, like consuming and throwing away, and like, you know, like safe way tomatoes. I
translate evil, I translate the little tangible things, because evil is a mixed concept, just because
sometimes it's easier for me to understand on a smaller level.
Because it's unnatural, and it gets back to the nature of the human being.
I translate evil, I translate the little tangible things, because evil is a mixed concept, just
because sometimes it's easier for me to understand on a smaller level. Because it's unnatural,
and it gets back to the nature of the human being.
The more you relate to nature, the more self-sufficiency you have, the more strength, the more health you have, and that's the greatest concept, way behind normalism, and even behind organic food and clean water.
Once upon a time, we had a better relationship to nature than we do now.
You know, we had more family bonds, we had a greater understanding, and thus we had better health, and we had more freedom back in those times.
And someone over there in the hierarchies saw that, hey, if we take nature away from people, we've got them.
Got them.
Right word counts.
So, little battles, little stands, organic food, no corn, no water, some vitamins, vitamin
A, vitamin C, vitamin E. There's hundreds of supplements out there with vitamin A, vitamin
C, vitamin E, they're all antioxidants.
They're all in high demand and we live in a very stressful stress and pollution and
food additives and poisons in our food actually demand that we take those three vitamins because
they are depleted and sucked from our body by so many different factors.
Stress alone will destroy vitamin A and vitamin E and vitamin C. Stress causes a lot of vitamin
consumption.
And with those three vitamins, of all the hundreds of supplements are the three to learn more about and to focus in on.
So, cancer, no chlorinated water, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, organic food, those The real approach.
I know some people want, what's the magic word for cancer?
Well, there are a couple that would be, you know, chaparral.
Larea tridentata.
Our daughters named after the genus of the plant Larea.
L-A-R-R-E-A.
Tridentata, Tridentata, like trident, you know, means three-leafed.
And Lorea Tridentata grows in the Sonoran Chihuahua deserts, the deserts just a little
bit south of us down here on the, in the forest.
And it governs great vast areas of Mexico and the southwestern United States.
It's a very common shrub, extremely common.
And in the Mexican herbal tradition it's called Gobernadora, or the Goberness.
It's also called Jete India, which means the little stinker, because it smells like creosote.
It's very, you know, it tastes bad, it smells bad, but it's a powerful plant because it
contains over 260 chemical constituents, dozens of volatile oils and resins.
And there is such a great pharmacy, a chemical factory in this plant that when you have a
medicinal plant that has a lot of chemicals, what you essentially have is a plant that
has a lot of medicinal possibilities.
I kind of look at the human body as a big fleshy bag that has a lot of chemicals in it.
And there's chemical change and chemical activity constantly going on.
And when you take chemicals from the outside and put them in the body, you essentially cause change.
And always remember a definition of herbal medicine is herbs cause change.
And what kind of change do you want is what you're really asking about this herb.
What kind of change does peppermint cause in the body?
What kind of change does chamomile cause?
What kind of change does chaparral or creosote bush cause in the body?
And the answer is, chaparral or creosote bush causes immense chemical change in the body because it contains hundreds of chemical compounds and alkaloids, some of which, like NDGA, an organohydrochloric acid, dissolves tumors, benign and malignant tumors.
There's a lot of science and research associated with chaparral and cancer research.
They also found that if you take 4 or 5 pounds of chaparral a day, you might end up with cancer.
Duh!
You know, I mean, you know, I mean, sometimes, you know, the research they do is just, you know,
they're not looking for answers, you know, they're kind of trying to validate their existence
through a lot of bogus paperwork.
Obviously, chaparral is a chemically complex plant, if you were to eat 4 or 5 pounds a day,
it makes you sick, probably kill you.
But the amount necessary for dissolving tumors, both topically and internally, is small amounts.
Maybe for an adult who has a benign tumor, a seed growth of some sort, you might want to get a chaparral salve and actually apply that topically or take chaparral leaves and make a tea and then bathe your ulcer or your tumor or your growth or your work with the tea if you do that, and maybe take some capsules
two or three times a day internally.
And if it makes your stomach upset, take less.
Don't take it with food.
Herbs often require us to participate.
As when we do the walk and answer to unload information about specific plants that we're actually seeing,
remember herbal medicine requires an intelligence of use.
Some people really love, they love ten drops or two tablets, two tablets three times a day and that's it.
That's all they want, to know.
Herbal medicine, you know, if you have an option, ten to sixty drops, depending on what time of day, or how much you need, or maybe you're a sensitive person and you only need five, ten drops of that medicine.
somebody who's really concrete and hard to reach chemically, you know, like myself, it
takes me 60 drops, because I need hardcore chemical change in my body, to get a good
mind-body balance, a thought process going.
I want to taste ugly so I feel the objects.
Some people are super sensitive.
Five drops and actually, you know, so herbal medicine requires us to participate in our
health more than almost any other form of medicine.
Requires you to make teas, requires you to strain them, requires you to eat them a long
time, requires you to taste the ugliness of some of them, requires you to participate.
But in that is an awakening, and in that is what healing's all about.
Participate.
It's a big part of it.
You can have the answers in one hand, and if the person doesn't like the taste, and
doesn't want to participate in their health, what can you do?
And I can see that in my own family.
You know, mother with health problems, son, famous herbalist, well-known, everybody from
around our area comes to the shop and to us, and it's like, if mom just doesn't want to
hear anything now, I mean, so that's hard to accept.
But you realize, you know, you can't make everybody do it.
You know, you have to deliver the information, let them choose, and that is enough, because
that's kind of what, that's one of the jobs of the quest is, is all you can do.
So Chakra Well does many things.
It's a cancer herb.
It really helps dissolve tumors and growths, both benign and malignant.
It's one I would personally rely on if I had a skin cancer or tumor going on.
Internally, I would blood work.
I would kind of monitor my blood work, and I actually probably would do besides monitor my blood work.
If I took it internally, it gave me nausea, it gave me headaches, it gave me diarrhea,
it would probably tell me that it was inappropriate somewhat, or maybe I need to take much less
of it internally for cancer.
Any conjecture of the blood work?
In blood work, what you're looking for is just a too great increase in white blood cells,
which you could, you know, if you increase white blood cells for too long, you can just
fatigue the body out to, you know, the two main blood cells in the human body are the
red blood cells and the white blood cells, and the white blood cells really are nothing
more than garbage bin, garbage trucks.
And the white blood cells are responsible for fighting viruses, removing toxins, and
things that the body doesn't need, and they scavenge, and they multiply, and they go out.
If you have too many white blood cells and there is no viruses, there are no bacteria,
you could get problems like leukemia, autoimmune arthritis, or a whole variety of problems
where the problem is that you're making too many white blood cells, and the white blood
cells start attacking healthy tissue.
So herbs do cause white blood cells to increase.
A lot of herbs do this and that's why they're so effective against viruses and bacteria.
And chaparral, remember, it tastes really bitter, tastes chemically complex, it's oily
and resin.
This probably will cause a lot of change in your body, which means you're going to need
very small amounts and you're going to have to mentally participate with this.
Plants like peppermint or chamomile or, you know, they're not chemically complex.
They don't really have chemical factory violence.
They're gentle, they're safe.
You can use them as children.
You don't have to worry about toxicity or this chemical complexity.
And what I'd like to do, instead of just rattling off sometimes about, you know, Abramin is good for stomach aches, Chamomile is good for this.
I'd like to leave these concepts, you know, to talk to you about a plant.
But these other concepts, which always come back to the plant, really maximizes our time.
You know, miracle, I haven't gotten to the other questions.
They were still on cancer, but I touched upon a lot of it.
If you ask me about pneumonia, or Diabetes, or if you ask me about it, what we talked about is applicable in all these other problems.
So, chaparral, to end this question here, no chlorinated water, organic food, exercise, if you're looking for one herb, if you have tumor-orientated growth or benign or malignant, then chaparral is a possible herb to bring in for cancer.
Let's get it started in place.
Dr. Kressler stated once that a lot of the herbs and vitamins in the health food stores are basically inadequate or impotent.
Would you comment on that?
Your question is, are most of the herbs or vitamins inadequate, impotent?
Boy do they like horseradish.
And the answer used to be yes.
There are a lot of good companies now that they use wild crafted herbs.
They use organically grown stuff.
They use freeze dried techniques.
They make really good herbal extracts.
But there's no substitute for you knowing 5 or 10 plants that grow around you.
And you taking the time to pick them.
Or you finding the local herbalist who does this daily.
It's kind of like the food chain.
The rice from 5,000 miles away will not be nowhere near as good as the rice if you could grow it in your bioregion or in your, you know, in your county or the tri-county area.
Herbs are like that.
Herbs are often picked and ground up, stored away.
By the time you reach them in castles or a tea farm, they're a couple years old.
In some cases, a year old, probably, on the average, which means when you take a plant A plant medicine from the wild, grind it up into a powder, store it away in a warehouse, order it, ship it, it's lost, God knows how much, 60-70% of it.
Just chemistry-wise, the chemicals have broken down.
The oils have evaporated.
And to answer your question, if you're counting on herbal medicine for extremely serious things, I would recommend you seek out people who are real herbalists.
Now, you know, herbal cowboys are kind of, you know, they took a correspondence course and now call themselves master herbalists.
And they don't pick plants in the wild.
To me, here's my definition of what I feel is an herbalist that I would go to if I had a question.
It's somebody who spends a lot of time in the field.
and has studied the eclectic physicians.
The eclectic physicians were regular MDs who chose to use botanical medicine.
Eclectic physicians of the 1800s in this country often had degrees
in theology, philosophy, botany, geology, medicine.
The average physician's desk reference book in the 1800s, which was called the United States Expensatory,
or was called the National Formulary, or the Interior Medicus, contained 90% herbal medicine.
That's what the MDs, especially the eclectic physicians, used in this country.
90% of their medicines were plant medicines.
So, maybe looking for an herbalist who picks their own plants, makes their own extracts.
Know about the eclectic physician tradition.
They spend a lot of time in nature, which means they pick their plants, they give good, high quality medicines.
In herbal medicine, it's called the oral tradition.
In herbal medicine right now, they have a great movement called vital therapy.
And that's going from the oral tradition, that's going from real clinical herbal medicine, to Merck, and Johnson & Johnson, and I forget if it's Farben or whatever, all these great pharmaceutical companies, chemicals, patented, owned, phytotherapy, which means plant medicine for the most part.
But it's not herbal medicine in the ancient oral tradition.
I think that's the kind of people you want to deal with.
I think that's the kind of people I'm going to deal with when I hear herb questions.
I want herbalists with pixies on herbal plants because that is what the heart of herbal medicine is about.
They pick the plants, and when they do that, they understand them as medicine in a different way.
They understand them in a way that commerce can never touch upon.
And there are many herbalists and people who practice in this country, and all they do is they buy their herbs, and they never pick them.
And they are missing the heart of the art of herbal medicine.
So, most herbs in commerce are very suspect, and I hope that answered your question.
Where do you get your water?
From the hot springs coming off the canyon.
We get our water from a well.
Where do we get our water?
Sorry, I'm just never good at repeating the questions.
With well water, and if you're choosing well water, you would like to choose well water Yeah, I mean, a filter's even better.
Always have a filter, even if it's groundwater or spring water, unless the source you're getting it from is just absolutely pure.
Do not believe.
But well water, I feel, is okay if the well is at 6,000 feet deep.
I mean, personally, I feel we were never meant to drink deep water.
We're service creatures.
We always drink out of ponds.
We always drink out of streams.
We always drink out of rain puddles.
I mean, we drink surface water up until the last hundred years, give or take a few exceptions throughout the world.
You know, in the Middle East where they had deep wells, you know, historic thousand-year-old wells that are deep by maybe a hundred feet, you know.
So if you have wells, it's kind of nice to have wells in areas where there's not a lot of agriculture, where there's a lot of herbicides and surface pesticides and such.
And if you're in an area like that, even with good tasting water, you might want to consider a water filter.
And, uh... What do you think of bottled water?
I think it's a multi-billion dollar industry of major suspect.
When you've got a gallon of water with a beautiful picture of a crystal clear spring, bottled water, what do you think of bottled water?
Well, here's it.
It's called Glacier Springs water.
If you look at the fine print, it's bottled in Miami, Florida.
Out of the tap?
Out of the tap.
Reverse osmosis to run through a charcoal filter just to remove the chlorine taste, and that's all.
And removing chlorine taste doesn't mean they remove the chlorine in large amounts.
And also, I cannot remember the whole chemical steps, but boiling chlorinated water doesn't remove all the chlorine.
In fact, heat and chlorine create a new chlorine type of molecule that's even more carcinogenic than chlorine water coming straight out of the tap.
Now there is a time to boil it and let it stand.
I mean, chlorine, just if it's suspected, bottled water, I don't trust.
I really don't.
I mean, it's a multi-billion dollar industry, and when you have that going on, I mean, you know they're just not going.
There's gonna be some brands out there that taste great and are good, but most of them are just out for the buck, and they're not going.
They could care less about your health.
They're going along with the bandwagon.
I mean, So it's so much better whenever you can, by the way, to filter your own water and learn to carry your own water where you go, because you'll do two things.
You'll have a sure source of water that's filtered and coming, and it's also water that you're used to.
And when I talk this afternoon about viruses and delivery systems and things to really start to watch out for, information I feel is more important than ever before, stuff that I've been very focused on for my own self, My family and my community is watching viruses and the explosion of viruses and the use of viruses to destroy us because they're not going to come with us.
I don't feel they're going to come for me with guns.
They don't need, they got viruses.
Viruses are wicked because they may be created by an evil entity in this corporation.
Once those viruses are created, they become their own entity.
And aren't necessarily working for the people who designed them anymore.
They are the wickedest of creatures to deal with.
And very much, they're here, they're now, they're mutating.
They are here.
They have been released.
They are with us.
And they're very, very dangerous.
So this afternoon when we talk about viruses, it'll be even more important why you would
want to start to carry your own water supply.
Water that you know is safe.
Because as time goes on, that'll be another avenue of approach.
It was really interesting that, about a hundred and forty days ago, I was at a ride in Arizona.
It was just on the sticks of the land.
And to show how mineral rich the land was, they put some mercury in a tray, and the well
water just started running into mercury.
And a little after about five minutes or so, the platinum and gold in the water started
separating.
You could actually see it on the water, eliciting.
And to me, it was really just, it blew my mind, because here's this well water coming out of the ground, and all of a sudden you can actually see these minerals that are separating and doing weird things.
It's like an oil spill on the water, even though it looks like a rainbow.
When you pick a plant, a herb or a tomato or whatever, that one is going to have the most energy in it.
or a tomato or whatever, that's what's going to have the most energy in it.
Over a period of time, like a day, this is where, like when does it start getting to
that 50% or 75%?
So like you're thinking the best time to consume it would be immediately or within an hour
or two hours before you.
When's the best time to pick plants as far as your energy and life force?
As far as consuming them.
Right.
And what that comes down to, you'll see it, we'll come to that when we walk outside and give you examples of root material, of aerial material.
Each plant dictates something a little bit different.
It's not like you have to memorize what each plant is, but fresh is always best.
Eating it as a food would be optimal.
Recently dried material as a shelf life, say like leaf and flower as a shelf life for a good six months, especially if you went out and picked it, or you grew it, and you dried it, not in direct sun, but you dried it on a little cardboard flag that you see in the spot in your kitchen or on the back porch, that dried leaf and flower material would probably be good for good medicinal Medicine to count on for a good six months.
If you learn how to make extracts, then you can preserve all those chemical constituents from them.
Harvest a fresh peppermint leaf, and then extract it in alcohol.
Either vodka, or some rum, or pure Britannia, or ever cleaner than 96%.
You know, we can, you know, blind these stuff.
But, it's salt.
Alcohol dehydrates.
Alcohol is a great plant preservative and solvent.
Most plants do really well.
As you can see, we make a lot of extracts.
Alcohol does two things.
It dehydrates and pulls all the chemical constituents out of the plant, stabilizes them, suspends them, and preserves them for the most part.
Most herbal extracts are good for many years.
The chemicals are there.
a lot of the energy is there.
And while some of the pure tea of fresh material, but the chemistry of that plant, the tea chemistry is still
there.
And when you take an herbal extract, it goes into the bloodstream instantly.
And so for like some of the super viruses that will be coming up,
you may not have time to drink 10 cups of tea a day.
You may have to resort to concentrated herbal alcohol extracts
because when alcohol, when you take an herbal extract that's alcohol,
60-70% alcohol and 30% water, the moment it touches the cell,
it's absorbed into the bloodstream and converted out.
Most alcohol in small amounts is converted over to sugar.
And in that conversion, you're driving all those chemical constituents with the plant.
In the conversion process, absorption is instantaneous.
And often that is a good way to do it.
You can preserve some plant material in several years through herbal extracts.
Roots last longer because root material, like dandelion root,
which we'll see out here, dandelion root, because it's a root, it's molecularly tight.
It's a strong, fibrous, solid substance that in order to make a tea farm you have to chop it up and coke it for a long time to break it down.
But, it has an advantage.
Root material can last two or three years if stored properly.
If you grow your own herbs or harvest your own herbs, it's good to store them in glass mason jars or cur jars if you don't like the word mason.
Well, that's all the time we have, folks.
I hope you learned something, and I'm sorry you missed our annual conference, because it was five days of the most incredible information that you just can't get anywhere else.
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