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June 9, 1998 - Bill Cooper
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Conference '98 – Michael Cottingham #2
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Good afternoon on the West Coast and good evening on the East Coast.
You're listening once again to the Hour of the Time.
I'm William Cooper.
Today, ladies and gentlemen, is Part 2 of Michael Cottingham's fantastic series of lectures, which occurred on May the 27th, 1998, at our 1998 Annual Conference.
So please get ready for some astounding, fantastic, and informative Educational, nutritional, and medicinal herbal information.
And make sure you take plenty of notes.
Someone asked me about the top ten herbs.
And it's such a linear thing, but actually it's very, I've decided that I'll compromise a little bit.
More and more.
Instead of elaborating on, you know, symptoms and concepts and such, I think it's a good idea.
I think that was a really good suggestion, and I've actually been thinking about it.
If I can tell you top 10 herbs and why I think you might want to know these top 10, then I could do a year-long research project.
And here's your focal point, or reference point.
I'm really big into this year, what I call concepts or, you know,
things that are related to my students in a way that, and reference points were always a place to come back to.
You know, so there's so much information, you know, about the internet and the books.
And if you don't have reference points, if you don't know what you're looking at or what you're
researching or why you're researching, if you don't have reference points, you just get lost.
You get disinterested.
And so if I give you the top 10 herbs, then maybe you'll have 10 reference points to look
at over the next year and places to come back to if you get sick.
You say, oh, that was one of the top 10 herbs.
Maybe I'll try it for this.
And I think it's a good idea.
It'll help you on a practical.
It'll actually be, you know, might help you out more over the year than anything else that I give you.
What would make the top ten herbs?
I often think there's like three or four, maybe five factors of what actually dictates an herb to be in the top ten category.
Number one is accessibility.
Can you either buy it everywhere in the country?
Because what we have here is people from California to New England and everywhere in between.
So I have to make a top ten list different for all of us here today than I would say for people living just in New Mexico.
Their top ten herbs would be, you know, they might be half of yours, but they would have five herbs that you would probably never see or know unless you live in New Mexico.
And that makes sense.
So, accessibility.
Can you buy it?
Can you find it growing within, you know, a hundred miles?
Or is it in your yard?
Is it within a short distance?
Can you get the seeds to grow it?
Can you find it growing wild?
Or can you purchase it?
Accessibility, actually, is one of the top ten herbs in the category.
How about the other ones?
I have four just in... Multiple uses.
Now, you know, there are so many plants in the world.
There are, you know, thousands and thousands of medicinal plants.
Some of them, you know, just due to my lack of understanding or knowledge, I just view them as they have one distinct use.
And they're so toxic that you can't use them for multiple variety uses.
You can only use them for one distinct thing, and that's good enough.
And I'm sure there's more to that, but, you know, there's just so much to learn in so little time.
So, herbs that make it in the top ten categories, as far as I'm concerned, are herbs that do a variety of different things.
So, instead of having ten herbs that only do ten things, the herbs that make it in this category would do a thousand things.
because each one of those herbs would have the ability to be, you know, to be astringent,
to be circulatory, or to be an astringent, to be a nerve herb.
But the problems that you could use it with would amount to hundreds and hundreds
of different problems.
That's another thing that's been seen in the top 10 was the herb has to have multiple uses,
has to be versatile, has to have some, you know, an understanding that would allow you
to apply it from, you know, athlete's foot to cold, chest colds, the same plant,
just, you know, changing the application.
So you've got multiple uses, you've got accessibility, and...
That could be, you know, picking top 10 herbs that, for my use, or for my idea,
if I could use 10 herbs that were versatile, accessible, and had little to no toxicity, that would be the best.
That would be very, you know, I wouldn't have to lay awake at night saying, oh my god, I forgot to tell them about it.
If they do that on a full moon, that herb is going to cause them to break out in a rash, Not likely, but nerves are very forgiving, and if you're paying attention to the mind-body relationship, if they're not appropriate, remember, most nerves are not speaking, are not achievable in their toxicity, and if they're not right, they're going to tell you within the first few times of use, they're going to give you a headache, they're going to give you diarrhea, they're going to give you a stomach ache, they're going to just kind of, and if you're paying attention, they're going to say, basically, don't be taking me.
I'm going to make you vomit every time I make a cup of my tea.
Um, herbs are pretty straightforward, unlike steroidal drugs, which eventually destroy your liver, but, you know, you don't know it until a few years down the road.
You know, the accumulative seeds and toxicity of both.
Pharmaceuticals are, uh, you know, are legendary.
Herbs are pretty straightforward.
Don't underestimate them.
Don't ever fall into the concept that herbs are safe, and leave that as a cart wash type of concept, because that's not true.
Herbs cause change, and you take them, cause change in the body and that change is a stimulator,
natural healing.
The herbs are doing nothing but encouraging spontaneous or natural healing to take place.
And as long as you remember that, they do cause change and watch out for all these side effects.
So toxicity, the herbs that I have are pretty, they're like that.
And well, I'm sure there's some other parameters, but parameters are kind of, you know, hot winds.
I think it's important.
One of the top ten verbs should be a circulatory verb.
Because remember what I said outside.
Illness has a lot to do with stagnation.
In fact, I can't think of anything.
Chest cold.
Arthritis.
Gout.
Cancer.
Tumors.
Times.
Lashes.
Poison ivy.
The common denominator there is a stagnation.
It's a lie.
Homeostasis, that meant you would have movement, and that means you wouldn't have the problem.
So, I can't think of one illness where congestion or a stomach condition isn't part of the illness.
And so, circulatory herbs are vitally important.
They provide movement.
They provide movement back towards homeostasis or balance.
So, you know, I'll mention this here, but I'll mention other ones that are circulatory herbs, so it's not like I'm spending time with ginger herbs.
You know I'm a big fan of ginger root tea.
Ginger is a vasodilator.
Opens the arteries, capillaries, and veins.
Medium sized arteries and veins, all capillaries for the most part, except for the various tiny, tiniest ones.
Opens them up, dilates.
It's a vasodilator.
So it moves blood, it moves stagnation, it moves the stock condition.
Ginger root tea you can use in chest colds, sinus infections, stomach aches, you know,
the list is endless.
One of your research projects or your reference points is to know that ginger root tea is
in the top ten and is a great premier, very little so no toxicity.
If you drink too much ginger root tea you may get a headache because you overbasal dilated,
you're sweating and you're hot.
Because you drink five cups of ginger root tea and now you're sweating and you feel woozy
and your blood is just flowing like Niagara Falls through your system.
But that's the discipline.
If you have a fever, you know, drinking hot cups of ginger root tea will make you get
two ways to bring a fever down is either to sweat or to urinate.
Most people who get fevers, they're not sweating and they sit down, urinate, you know, they
sit down their kidneys for the most part, so their herbs.
When you want to use herbs for fevers, bring the fevers down.
Basically, you're trying to find herbs that either cause sweating, or herbs that cause a diuretic action.
And that's how you come up with gazebos open again.
You know, if you sweat or urinate, you'll be encouraged to drink water, and that will cause circulation and bring the fever down.
Now, you may not... Here's your routine.
If you live in the tropics, or if you live in a very humid area and have a greenhouse, you could probably grow ginger root.
But it doesn't, it's a great plant.
Right now it's accessible because you can buy them anywhere.
It's a marginal accessibility.
I don't, you know, if commerce dissipated, ginger root tea, I'm going to revise it because ginger root tea wouldn't be in the top ten because unless you lived in Hawaii or Southern California and greenhouses or hothouses, you wouldn't have ginger root.
It's not very easy to grow in North America unless you have humidity and keen teeth.
Uh, Florida would be fine if you lived in Florida.
You could grow all the ginger if you wanted.
So, two other plants have come very close that would be interesting.
They're not, like, in the top ten, but they're next to ginger.
They're ginger slash yarrow.
Y-A-R-R-O-W.
We'll see that plant outside.
And oregano.
Especially the wild oregano.
Which, wild oregano grows from California to Maine.
and you can grow oregano in your garden.
Oregano is domestically edible, grows in the house, grows in pots, grows outside.
So you have ginger slash yarrow slash oregano.
They occupy the first plant space.
There are not three plants in the top ten.
There are three possible substitutes depending on where you live.
I would prefer to be right now because we have commerce.
Ginger root would be in the top ten, would be one of the greatest herbs you could learn about.
And you have the other two.
Ginger root tea is a great vehicle for making a hot cup of tea and then adding your extracts to that tea.
It is so important if you like to deal with immune system or you're dealing with trying to heal the body, is that you have a circulatory herb delivering the other healing herbs.
If you have immunostimulants, it's always good to put immunostimulating herbs into circulatory
keys so that you get them through the body.
So you move them through the system.
And that would be more sensitive to explaining in the immune system aspect here in the next
hour or whenever it appears.
But yarrow found throughout the world for the most part.
Yarrow, since they don't see it outside, they don't identify it.
They see it in flower state, but it will be, you know, you'll be able to taste it.
Most of you will recognize it.
Yarrow is a circulatory herb.
It's a sweat herb.
It makes you sweat.
It makes you move.
It makes you push through the blood through the body.
It does much of what ginger does, but it has other aspects.
In fact, yarrow would rival ginger in the top ten, really, when I think about it.
Yarrow has the ability of being antibacterial.
Yarrow has the ability of not only being circulatory and moving, but it's antibacterial.
It's also a bitter.
So you can use it as a bitter digestive tonic.
It's antifungal.
And yarrow is antiviral.
So there are other aspects.
Ginger has some of those aspects, but yarrow has, they're more distinct than yarrow.
But the unfortunate thing with yarrow is it's a horrible taster for most people.
So that's why ginger comes up a little bit again, you know, in public.
It's just that more people were drinking ginger root tea for circulation than they were yarrow root tea.
And they'll do it more on a regular basis.
The other one is oregano.
and oregano because when you crush oregano and you smell it, it has all these aromatic
oils and resins and such.
Any plant that you crush and smell or any plant that you smell that is powerful, has
a, you know, aromatherapy oils and resins coming off will always be basal dilating.
That is the nature of essential oils.
Plain is something.
It's often overlooked.
It's always listed as a part of what the plant does, but you know, any plant that has powerful
aromatic resining type oils will by nature be basal dilating.
It's how the body responds to those volatile and essential oils.
So oregano, hot touch of oregano can make you sweat your brains out.
And plants, once again, is another common denominator thing to allow you to use more
plants.
Plants that have oils and resins will always be antibacterial and are most likely antiviral.
And this makes importance when you're trying to find substitutes and you don't have books on hand.
You find a plant in the wild, let's say a plant that we haven't talked about, but something that might pop up in your garden somewhere.
Oh, onions!
Peppermint!
I haven't really elaborated about peppermint.
Probably won't in too much depth as most of us know it.
But if you smell peppermint, the oils, the resins, even though I don't mention that it's antibacterial, it will be.
It's the nature of oils and essential oils and resins.
And because the oils and resins are there, peppermint is a basal dilator.
And even though you may read in a book, peppermint, good for stomach aches, and that's all they say, keep in mind that you can go beyond that linear description And when you smell that plant, you say, hey, it has oils and resins, very fragrant, very aromatic.
Ah, it's got to be antibacterial.
It's got to be mesozoic.
I don't have ginger.
I don't have yarrow.
I've got to use peppermints for everything that those other plants were used for.
And you can't.
So that's how you start to find substitutes and adapting.
And when you start to think like that, then all you need is 25 plants.
You don't need a lot of plants.
You just need to know concepts about the plants.
If you know that essential oils, no matter on what plant they're on, are always vasodilating, that allows you to use plants, all plants that have essential oils, a little bit differently.
I'm teasing my tail a little bit over and over, but there's certain concepts, and it's just, you know, they help us.
They help us a lot in breaking away from, um, don't memorize what plants are good for.
try to learn what the plants are about, the intuitive aspect.
If you've pressed the plants, now it's very strong and aromatic, and you've never read
anything about it, and even if you don't know its name, you can almost be sure that it's
a basal dilator, antibacterial, antifungal, just by having a search of oils.
And you may not never know its name, and you never know what it is, but, you know, I'm
not saying use it, because it might be toxic.
But, you know, it is possible.
You could use it if you have some parameters to eliminate it as being a toxic plant.
Anyways, ginger, yarrow, oregano, all aphrodilators, all stimulate circulation, all have antimicrobial action, all are accessible, for the most part.
And you need a circulatory herb, plain and simple.
Another herb, we talked about in the past, and I don't want to raise Bill's temper or anything by elaborating on these same topics, again, but nettles.
Nettles, steaming nettles have to be in the top ten.
The plainest of them.
They're next to coca leaf.
Remember when we were outside talking about high calcium content, vitamins and minerals,
and how cocoa we had the greatest amount of vitamins and minerals, you know, it's a food
slash medicine plant.
Nettles comes in almost second place as far as I know to this day.
I don't know of any plants that actually surpass it.
Nettles will stop osteoporosis, nettles will stop anemia, and if you never hear anything
else about nettles, that's amazing, you can stop an anemia condition in one's body with
a plant by just drinking a simple tea.
That's a powerful mineral and vitamin rich plant.
And that's nettles.
Just remember when you go to use nettles, nettles can be found from California to Maine,
British Columbia, Alaska down to South America.
You know, most of it carried us way early on in Southern Chile.
It's found worldwide.
The genus is Urtica.
U-R-T-I-C-A.
You could live off of metals.
Maybe you have to catch a little squirrel or eat frogs or some grubs occasionally for a little protein.
There's so many vitamins and minerals in your petals that you could literally live off the plant.
And it is a very common plant in the forest.
You'll find it growing along streams, streams, in forested areas, along river areas, in the back area, not right next
to it.
Sometimes on the river bank, but mostly it likes quiet, kind of woody, swampy areas.
Most of you know steamy nettles?
Methyl plant, dust stone, wearing shorts, you know, you can find it easily in books or just walk along.
And it's a dumb little plant. You can easily find it growing anywhere you live.
And this plant, Postopaminium, is very important for women's noting because it can stop osteoporosis.
And nettles is really good for the prostate. It's really good for the urinary tract.
It's a liquid vitamin, and that's why it's in the top ten.
Because it rebuilds red blood cells. You can use it in cancer.
You can use it in any immune system deficiencies whatsoever.
It can rebuild the immune system, to rebuild not only the quantity of red blood cells, but the quality.
Making them stronger, making them actually, and white blood cells, making them stronger.
Making them able to go out and scavenge waste more effectively.
You can make, people don't realize this, but you can make blood cells white and red.
And you can make them weak due to your diet, lack of exercise, and lack of, well you can make them weak.
Or you can make strong blood cells.
You can make strong white blood cells and red blood cells that do their jobs distinctly.
And herbal medicine really helped to encourage not only the quality of blood cells, but often, in many cases, especially when we talk about the antiviral herbs, the quality.
Not just quantity, but the quality.
Making white blood cells stronger, so that they actually are more aggressive against viruses.
They're not just unionized, like a vase of gold garbage.
fighters, they're warriors. They're not detrimentals of the body, they're just strong, distinct,
well-formed and well-programmed in their innate jobs. So, Nettles, Campylobacillus, it's a
very important plant. Great for women who are breastfeeding, women who are pregnant,
people who are malnourished, people who are recovering from debility and illnesses, surgery.
Because it is a liquid vitamin, because nature has proportioned it in a way of absorbability,
you get calcium, you get iron, you get amines, you get phosphorous, etc., etc., you get all
this absorbed.
Not just taken and excreted, but you take and drink the plant, and it's best in tea plant, as a tea plant, done as a tea.
And, uh, or you can take dried nettles and grind them up in the soups, or stir-frys, things of that nature.
Now this plant, the next plant, I'm going to elaborate a lot on it because it really is one of the important aspects of the antiviral segment, and it's called Red Root.
It's Ceanothus.
Ceanothus is a genus, and that's spelled C-E-A-N-O-T-H-U-S, Ceanothus, and there are many species throughout America.
In California, it's called Ceanothus.
California or California lilac?
California's familiar with the city of California.
Lilac growing along the highways.
It's big purple flowers, very fragrant.
That's Red Rouge.
In New Jersey and New England it's called New Jersey Tea.
And Red Rouge is called Cianothus.
That's the genus Americana.
In the Southwest they have Cianothus, Grapevine, Edinburgh, et cetera, et cetera.
I think both you can pick that up.
I don't need to accuse them out of my name.
This is a phenomenal key here.
This is a Ph.D.
same, and weather is one of the most important plants, period, because it electrically recharges
cell walls.
Specifically, this is a phenomenal key area, this is a PhD, this is a doctorate right here,
if you were into research, or knew someone who wanted to research and get their doctorate,
this is a major research project.
This is a phenomenal plant, this is a plant that is a lifesaver, it does something very
few other plants do.
Remember I talked about cell wall, positive negative charge, positive on one side, negative
on another.
When you get congestion, when you get sick, when you get virally infected or bacterially
infected in the lymph glands specifically, you lose one of the charges, one of the positive
or negative, you lose the charge on the wall.
Thus, you get congestion.
And by taking red root, you, I don't know how it works, and why it works, but when the
active constituent C-anodin actually encourages the electrical charge to re-establish itself.
So if you have a strong positive charge, a strong negative charge, a cell wall in the
middle, and now congestion, viral debris, dead cells, structures can move through and
be eliminated in normal waste channels.
Now if you think about that, you could use red root in any situation.
Cancer, immune system, I can't do without red root in my formulas, I can't do without
red root in serious acute situations, because there's no other herb that I have that is
so effective in re-establishing the charge of the cell walls of the lymph glands, and
I have a feeling that it, I'm certain that it does it for other parts of the body as
well.
But if you can remove congestion out of the lymph system, you can keep your immune system
from becoming backed up and fatigued.
In the 1800s, red root was real famous with the eclectic physicians for the ultimate cure
of prefrontal lymphitis.
Tonsils are nothing more than the main, the main line, the first entry lymph system in
I mean, they're one of the biggest... I mean, think about it.
The tonsils right there match the nasal passage.
They're a major organ, a major player in fighting infections and keeping... and remember how they used to just remove them?
How many people had their tonsils removed?
You know, it's like...
Red Root can become a great ally if you're not healthy, and you find that you always have low-grade infections that are boggy, and when you get sick, maybe you get over it because you're still strong and have a strong immune system, but you find that, you know, you have low-grade infections that linger on, and you always feel slightly congested in your lymph glands, especially people that are tonsils removed, which find the Red Root liberating.
I mean, it's, for tonsillitis, I don't know if you can see it or get the picture together of how lead root could fit into just about any herbal formula whatsoever.
From a minor cold, a minor bacterial infection, to a major viral problem.
I'll tell you, as we talk about the viruses and such, viruses are very ravaging to the lymph glands.
I don't know if they like the area or that's just the nature of the body.
Viruses do very well by destroying lymphatic movements and sort of hanging out there causing a breeding ground of food to develop.
Viruses live off of dead cells and tissue cells, skin cells or tissue cells that are just regenerate and are just sloughing off and you know the
garbage of the body. Viruses and bacteria feed off of this stuff and
replicate and energize themselves off of your body and especially off of the garbage and debris that's in the
lymph fluid.
And so that's a place they probably choose to hang out because it's a very good feeding ground. And side void of
some of the super viruses you may have powerful antiviral herbs or
powerful antiviral medicines like ozone or union light.
There are other non-herbal approaches that are very powerful but there's
nothing quite like encouraging Redbird, encouraging the lymph
system through the use of Redbird to clean and remove all the debris from the lymph glands. I mean I feel whether
they drop viruses on us or not our lymph system due to our food,
water, air, etc. etc. Our lymphatic system is overloaded over time.
And if you have problems with environmental illness, environmental sensitivity, or you
have problems with chronic fatigue syndrome or HIV, or if you have one of the herpes viruses,
red root plays a role in all of those.
Red root is also really famous for women with fibrocystic breast disease, where you try
all the medicines, you try all the therapies, you try cutting back on chocolate and coffee,
and you still have the lymphatically congested heart and nodules.
It may take a while, the average woman who may have fibrocystic breast disease might
have these dirty drops of fresh red root extract three or four times a day for three or four
months for the worst.
It's one of the few things out there, some dietary changes, cutting back on sugar, caffeine,
chocolate, and encouraging lymphatic movement through the use of red root.
Especially red root put in ginger root tea, ginger root tea is very circulatory, very
promising.
Um, um, ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids, redwoods, varicose veins, lymphatic congestion in the pelvis area like prostate enlargement, um, constipation.
Here's a sign of somebody who's lymphatically congested.
Um, lymphatically impaired, and they may have, they may feel swollen, they may feel the lymph system, they may feel, when they get an infection, it gets into the lymph glands, they get swollen, lingers on for a long time, um, they may have hemorrhoids, they may have constipation, they may have varicose veins, um, they have a tendency to feel stuck or plugged.
Those, those are people who you could call lymphatically impaired or lymphatically congested.
They have problems with irregular bowel movements.
And when they have bowel movements, it's constipated and painful to watch, dehydrated.
They have hemorrhoids.
They have varicose veins.
They have poor circulation in the legs.
They have prostate congestion.
Red meat can affect all of those by improving lymphatic movement.
The lymph gland is just a visualization.
You know, I'm not an MD.
I can't deliver the exact anatomy and physiology of the lymph system.
But I'm very good at visualization and I like to think of the lymph glands throughout the body as little sponges about this big.
A couple little sponges in the back of the throat, some under the arms, some in the breast, in the groin.
Little sponges, little yellow sponges that absorb and release and absorb and release and deal with a lot of waste and the fatter foods and do a lot of cleansing.
And when they no longer can absorb, and they no longer can release, all those little sponges in the body are stuck and filled up, and a whole variety of problems can unfold as a result.
So one plan, whether taken, can encourage lymphatic movement everywhere in the body, and that is a revolutionary, you know, aspect that can cause every illness, especially the terminal, hard-to-reach problems.
Some people I've worked with in the trust, chemo...
...
you know, an aspect that can touch every illness, especially the terminal, hard to reach problems.
Some people I've worked with in the trust, chemotherapy over alternative medicine,
or integrated medicine, or whatever, because listen, chemotherapy is easy for some people.
Chemo, they're not diligent.
They're not going to choose dietary changes, exercises, life, they're not going to quit their job,
they're not going to do these T's.
They're just not that type of people, and that's okay.
So they choose chemo.
Now, chemo of course is really...
I mean, it is what it is.
Maybe I live some time, you know, but in the time it's going to make you terribly...
it's going to stress the lung glands, it's going to stress the liver.
And believe it or not, people may choose chemotherapy,
but there are herbs that you can use to keep chemo from ravaging the body a lot less,
red root being one of them.
And we had a friend who actually...
her lymphatic cancer was so spread, and I actually wrote her an email,
red root has no known toxicity, and it's a wild card.
I don't know what it would do in lymphatic cancer to me.
My gut feeling is that it's okay, and that I think it would be a benefit.
She chose chemo anyways, and I said, well, that makes my choice easier.
We're not going to rely on Red Root totally.
So let's use Red Root if you're willing to keep the chemo focused on the lymph system She was terminal.
She had lymphatic cancer nodules throughout the entire system.
They had ridden her off.
She's alive today and I could not believe she chose chemo.
We did two of them.
We did milk thistles for the liver to protect the liver and keep her digestion going.
And we did red root.
We did mega amounts of red root because she was doing mega amounts of chemotherapy.
And the doctors were just like constantly amazed, constantly amazed.
It kept clearing out, she kept getting better, and they were just like, like, humoring her with the chemo in reality because it was just like, they told her, you know, what's your 20% chance, 30% chance that this will work?
She's alive well today, I mean feeling better than ever before.
And I've known her constitution, I've known her and worked with her for years and years
of her variety of different problems.
So I was very familiar with her body, her anatomy and physiology,
especially her overall constitution.
I know what she's been taking for many years.
So you may choose allopathic medicine, you may choose something like chemotherapy,
but there are, maybe you can integrate.
Maybe you want to choose that, but there are some tools like Redroot and Milk Thistle
that you can actually incorporate into allopathic medicine if that's your choice.
Again, I'm trying to keep coming into Redroot to really just hammer it.
It's an important plant.
I'll tell you, here's a scenario.
They sprayed us with viruses, put it in the water, put it in the dog food, or whatever, and people were dying left and right.
Red Root would be one of the baseline herbs for all my other antivirals that I would use for myself, for my family, for anyone else who was open to it, because it would get those killer antiviral herbs through the lymph system, but clockwork.
And we'll keep the lymphatic system from becoming over congested.
And I think that will be the secret.
Lots of, you know, viral activity takes place, takes lots of water.
But don't let the, drinking lots of water, but do not let the water accumulate and cause a tumor and let the lungs fill up.
That's a risk, you know, in some of the killer viruses.
People die, not from the virus per se, but from their lungs shutting down.
From their lungs shutting down from pneumonia.
You know, they died from the virus, but the real mechanics of it was they couldn't breathe anymore, they suffocated or drowned in their own fluids.
And I think Red Root is really good for people who have congestive heart failure, people who actually are quick to retain their fluids.
They have swelling in their feet, their heart isn't pumping, their kidneys aren't filtering, so their fluids tend to fill up, retain, and They need lymphatic congestion and need their edema moved out of their body.
That's a reckless policy.
I mean, there's no known toxicity.
It's a medium to stringent, so maybe if you did it in mega amounts, you know, a hundred drops, three or four times a day, it might get some over-extension, tighten up the tissue, but for the most part, I've never seen that to happen.
And it can form the basis of A majority of your lesson approaches to be, you know, your formula approaches.
What others you might think are in the top ten?
Or what others might you want to see in the top ten?
Urge for... Cayenne.
What's that?
Cayenne.
Cayenne.
Cayenne under normal conditions absolutely could be in the top ten.
It doesn't need to... It doesn't need, like, uh, accessibility.
As far as, you know, I mean, right now it does.
You can buy cayenne pepper anywhere in America and buy a whole variety of different... It doesn't grow really... It grows fairly well, not too bad, outside of the arid southwest or arid climates.
I think cayenne is struggles in humidity and climates.
And cayenne would kind of run right next to ginger, yarrow, and oregano, and cayenne.
It would fall under that circulatory category.
So cayenne, you know, if you like it, if you have it, if you can grow it, it could be in
the top ten.
And it could be your circulatory herb.
And it could also, you know, you can take, you know, you take cayenne and on the open
wound, sprinkle it in there, and it's hemostatic.
It stops the bleeding.
Cayenne actually is extremely antibacterial.
It's famous for healing stomach ulcers, even though it seems crazy to use something hot
to heal an ulcer.
But it stimulates circulation, so that it moves stagnation out, and it stimulates or
kills bacteria, which is a big cause of a lot of stomach ulcers.
So in a sense, cayenne could be in the top ten.
I guess I'm thinking in terms of like another, I would choose in the top ten would be something
that's antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, maybe anti-parasitic for amoebas like Giardia or
Montezuma's Revenge or a protozoa that gets into your gut.
of the world.
And I'm thinking Black Walnut, because I guess you've seen Black Walnut in California.
I'm not sure how far Black Walnut grows east.
Anybody know?
Who knows?
Pennsylvania?
And I know it grows in Minnesota, it's going to grow in North Florida.
So black water, its availability is fairly predominant across the United States.
Black water, you want to use the leaf and you want to use maybe the branches.
Some people use the green hulls, they're real strong and they're powerful.
So it's a powerful, so whether you use the green hulls, the leaf, or the branches,
black water is a very powerful anti-aminic herb.
It's also very good for anti-fungal.
It's really good for candida, candidiasis, yeast infections.
And so it's very versatile.
You can use black walnut topically to kill funguses, to help treat wounds that are infected.
You can use black walnut internally in small amounts, maybe 10 to 30 drops of the extract or a couple times a day.
Or you can use black walnut tea to treat giardia, a meeting dysentery.
Giardia is a big killer.
If you were paying for yourself living up at the mountain, drinking out of the spring water, you'd probably end up
with giardia.
You'd probably end up with dysentery and...
That's one of the main points.
No water is safe in the country anymore.
What used to be part of the natural water system, preferably just a mountain stream or a waterfall,
now it doesn't exist.
It's been drained, but not anymore.
And the argument is essentially that the landless, the cattle country, are facing a little problem.
It's a great thing, especially a few years ago.
Bill's absolutely right.
No water in America.
Springs, lakes.
Spring's, you know, maybe just kind of closed over and coming right out of the rocks with a little pipe.
You know, I mean, even the pipe could become infected.
You know, you can pick giardia up and not ever drink water.
You can get it in your fingernails and eat your sandwich and transfer the egg casings, the cysts, right into your system and never drink any water.
Since you kind of didn't wash your hands and were in a long screen bag picking plants or playing, you know, fishing.
And never even drink, drink the water and infect yourself with Giardia.
So you might keep that in mind.
And I think it's an important thing, having an anti-protozoa type of plant on hand.
Because, number one, even if you never get Giardia, especially if you're a woman or even a man and you have to take large amounts of antibodies for some reason, A topical, or a vaginal, or an anal, or a thrush-around-the-mouth type of yeast infection.
That's what candida is.
It's a yeast.
It often surfaces if you go on sugar binges, or drink too much coffee, or go through too much stress.
But most of Candidiasis problems in Eastern Europeans surface because of antibiotic use.
Candida is a, it is Candida albicans.
Candida is a genus, albicans is a species.
It's a natural occurring fungus in the human body.
It aids in digestion.
And, uh, sometimes in the intestinal tract, this is in the incus membranes.
Children who get Candida is called flush around the mouth.
Kind of an itchy, flaky yeast infection.
Uh, men can get it and sometimes it's called, um, jock itch.
Women get it and it's called vasomyeast infection.
And it's often triggered because you want to stress the body out
to use the antibiotics, sugar, coffee, etc.
And, um, black walnut is a very powerful anti-Candida herb.
So that alone makes it very valuable.
So many millions of folks are infected through, you know, through yeast infections and have this major problem.
It's probably the optimum use of black walnuts.
What part you would use would be a little bit of the leaf, a little bit of the fresh
young branch tips, and maybe even a couple of the green hulls, kind of the whole end
You know, part of the end branch of a black walnut tree, there'll be some leaves, there'll be some young branches, there may be one or two green hulls.
You can incorporate all of that.
chopped up, dried for tea, or chopped up and done as a fresh plant extract, one to two,
and you can put it in a little vodka, like I described, outside and make a fresh plant
extract.
Yeah, but that's a different thing, because if you've got a green hull, that's...
You want the green hull, the inside, no, the inner meat is really, I've never seen it used,
I've never used that myself, but you could just kind of classify it as a green hull of
the Dutch, it would be just what people would prefer.
It'll really save, I know that, true, very, you know, black walnut stains very, very significantly.
So yeah, your hands will get totally stained, you're close, you might want to keep that
in mind.
.
How about half of the, uh, whole, uh, not that whole?
Can you use that whole?
Can you use all of them until they dry up?
Um, yeah, you might want to chop them up into fairly manageable sized pieces while they're green.
So, because when they dry, they get really hard and if you try to fill them in a blender or try to cut them up, it might be more difficult.
So, when you harvest, So you have black walnut branches, you know, big branch of
black walnut.
I might even cut it up into segments.
It's not going to totalize it down, but just cut the hull in half, maybe in quarters, so
that it's manageable.
You know, get the middle part, get the seed out of there, and scrape off the green hull
in smaller pieces.
It's a strong plant.
It doesn't lose much of its medicine upon drying, so you don't have to worry about chopping
up too small. It's a powerful plant, you know, so...
It doesn't lose the majority of its medicinal properties upon drawing for years and years.
And it's a fungal infection.
I mean, if you've got something you brought back from Nong or from Panama or from the jungles, a fungal infection that occurs occasionally due to stress or some dietary trigger mechanism, and you have it on your feet or in your legs or in your crotch, and it's a fungus that you have for 10, 20 years, Sometimes black walnut has been very beneficial for some of those non-funguses that people got that have had some success.
Sometimes taking tea tree oil and black walnut extract and combining the two together actually is very effective for some of those really stubborn funguses, those jungle funguses.
So in general, antifungal is a good approach for most funguses, and believe it or not, having a good antifungal is really important, because there's hardly any pharmaceutical drugs out there that are good, effective antifungals.
Some of you guys know that he brought funguses back and he had them with him for a long time
and he tries to have this work, but you know, even allopathic medicine admits that they
just don't have great antifungals available.
And herbs can be powerful, powerful antifungals, but I don't want to be more salivary.
You use it as an antifungal, anti-candida, you can use it topically to treat wounds,
it'll stain a little bit, but it's anti-staph, so it's really good for staph, possible staph
prone wounds or if staph infection is running around, you've got it right there, it'll be
good to paint down the wound, it'll stain your skin a little bit, but that's much better
than getting a staph infection.
So, it's good to have an anti-micro, anti-amoebic, anti-propozole herb.
I think black walnut.
I have some from the southwest that are real powerful, maybe a little bit more powerful than black walnut, but they're only found in the southwest.
I was thinking earlier that black walnut could be in the top ten list because it's accessible and it's a strong herb.
anti-protozoa type plant. You also need in the top 10 list, you need a basic amino stimulant.
You need something that stimulates the immune system to produce extra white blood cells
so you can go out and scavenge waste more effectively. And I think a lot of you know
this plant and it is it is accessible because you can either find it, grow it, or buy it right now.
You can grow it from California all the way up into England, Canada, and in central Florida.
It's called purple coneflower, also known as Echinacea.
E-C-H-I-N-A-C-E-A.
Echinacea.
That's the genus.
And there are different species.
is the strongest of the three species.
Papyria are a little bit easier to grow.
It's a real broad leaf one.
It's purple coneflower, prairie coneflower, big purple sunflower type of flower found
in gardens, ornamental gardens, medicinal plant gardens throughout the world now.
It is one of the most researched amino stimulants on the face of the earth.
In Germany alone, there's over 200 scientific papers on its amino stimulating ability.
And this is one country that's one, you know, Germans are very effective in monograms, plant
monograms, and very good at plant research and developing type of therapy.
They're also the ones that are really buying into the control of the entire world of commerce
of medicinal plants through the, what's that term, it doesn't matter.
Yeah, you got to codex alimentarius.
Yeah, I kind of guess I'll have to wait for a little while.
It's still there.
You know, the agenda is to control herbal medicines, patent them, and eliminate your accessibility to them by making them prescription orientated and making them phyto-therapies instead of, you know, to take your self-sufficiency and your relationship away.
And that's just because then it's mega millions, billions of dollars that you're able to own and control it.
But echinacea, a great necessity.
It's great for colds, it's great for flus, it's great for viruses, sinus infections.
It stimulates the immune system to just push a little harder.
And one of the active ingredients, to give you an idea of how a plant may be an immunostimulant, just if you're curious, echinacea contains a chemical compound called echinacean.
Echinacean, when you drink this tea or take the extract, when you drink echinacea, it That chemical constituent goes into the body and mimics a virus.
And it kind of goes in and kind of, you know, antagonizes your body as a viral entity.
It's not a viral, it's a chemical compound called echinacea, but your body thinks it's a virus.
So a crewman cranks out a bunch of white blood cells to go out and meet this intruder at the gate.
And when these white blood cells get out there, they're like, what the hell's going on?
This is a chemical compound.
This is not a virus.
So they've already been made.
They've already been stimulated and proliferated.
Recognition of the chemical constituent is of no consequence, but the white blood cells have been encouraged to be produced.
So now, they turn around and they actually go after the viruses that may be already in your body.
And it does it very, very well.
The downside of using echinacea for a long period of time, or trying to use echinacea as a preventative to catch a cold or a flu, is your body is brilliant, and it'll eventually stop responding to the intruder, because it'll be like, you know, your immune system has memory capability.
That's how you naturally immunize yourself.
You know, you catch a virus, you catch a bacteria, and your body builds a library on this encounter.
And next time it learns how to respond quicker and builds up a response program, so that particular virus is really never of a major consequence again.
You know, it's natural, it's a natural immunization process that the body is immediately given.
You know, that's what the immune system does.
The memory cells are responsible for remembering the encounters with foreign bodies.
And so eventually you stop getting the benefits of echinacea.
You'll still get some, but you won't get that crisp, powerful...
I don't know if you've ever tried some of these amino synonyms or some of the things like echinacea.
But when you get sick, you have a window of opportunity.
You know what I mean?
It's like, you often say to yourself, I'm coming down with a cold.
I feel achy.
That's the perfect time to take a big glass of water.
perfect time to take some Echinacea or some ginger tea. It's the window of opportunity
of approaching your virus or your bacteria. And you immediately notice, you say to yourself,
oh, everyone's catching a cold, you know, and it's like, oh, I feel 18, oh my god.
There's the windows of opportunity of our life, acknowledgeable.
And all you have to do is learn to recognize them and say, hey, that's the time
to do the Immunostim Life because you take it and you bring your immune system up and
you push the illness right out of the body. And that's the benefit of using Echinacea. It's
safe, it's a simple one, it's accessible, it's growable, it's harvestable in the
wild.
Some areas it's a little bit, you know, some areas it's more endangered or stressed out because it's so popular but you can grow it and there's a lot of it being grown throughout the United States and it's probably one to consider as if you're, you know, this is good money, this is livelihoods to be made.
Some of you who may have farms in the Ozarks or Missouri or Pennsylvania and have ever
thought about growing herbs for a living, you know, it's a big business and there's
always room.
I mean, there's people that make $200,000 on 5 acres of herbal medicines, lavender or some really exotic specialty things.
But, I mean, there are possibilities of making a livelihood by growing something like echinacea for those who have the right soil, the right conditions.
the other aspect of this whole thing, not just as the information to save you money
and give you self-sufficiency in relation back to nature, but believe it or not, it
could be someone who could give you a livelihood and even a greater percentage of self-sufficiency
if that's what you want to do.
Are these seeds of Earth, are they open pollinated, non-hybrid seeds?
Absolutely.
I mean, there's some that might be patented and hybrid now, but there's not very few,
like yarrow.
Yarrow, for a while, was mostly white flowers, but in the garden you find yellow, you find
pink, and some of the yarrow flowers are now only patented and hybrid.
But I would never consider using them.
That is, when I have all the wild stuff and all that, I wonder, I have non-hybrid stuff that I can grow.
It might still be a good medicine, but most herbal medicines are non-hybrid over pollinated plants.
So I can easily place it in the top ten.
That's good.
Thanks for taking the time.
If you want to grow early, and I do grow a lot, but you can have unlimited success, good enough, would it be better if you just let them grow in a while, or to actually inculcate a garden of folks?
Is there, you know, is there a problem?
The problem with the concept of permaculture, your question is, Is it better to grow herbs or to let them grow wild?
And actually, the answer in this cultivation is to do both.
Absolutely.
If you have a piece of land that has a hillside, some trees, a little creek, some shaded areas, some open areas, some of it are going to be more favorable to planting.
I mean, I'm a wildcrafter.
I go into nature, go into the wild, and I prefer to steward, harvest properly, plant seeds in the wild.
And that's it for today, folks.
I hope you enjoyed this broadcast.
And more than that, I hope you really learned something.
for thousands of years and very few herbals really grow their own plants because they
prefer wild harvest.
And that's it for today folks. I hope you enjoyed this broadcast.
More than that, I hope you really learned something.
Good night and God bless each and every single one of you.
Thank you.
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