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June 10, 1998 - Bill Cooper
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Conference '98 – Michael Cottingham #3
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Once upon a time there lived a roofer.
The world is a better place, if you think about it.
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I'm William Cooper.
You're listening to the Hour of the Time.
I'm William Cooper.
Ladies and gentlemen...
Oops, wrong pot.
Today we're going to continue with Michael Cottingham's lectures, which actually occurred May the 27th, 1998, at our annual conference on the Thunder Horse Ranch.
So make sure you listen carefully and take plenty of notes.
I've had a lot of feedback that they're really enjoying Michael Cottingham's lectures on herbs, nutrition, and botanical medicine.
I hope that this adds to your storehouse of knowledge, and I really sincerely hope it
helps you and your family.
Ten herbs?
I think we were at five or so.
Peppermint.
I think peppermint would make an accessible, easily grown, many varieties And peppermint is nice.
What we need now is a good stomach herb.
Something to improve digestion, dispel stagnation, you know, get too much gas, too much flatulence, feel bloated, stuck, have an upset stomach due to insulin.
So you need a stomach herb.
And peppermint.
You know, peppermint is impeccable, you know?
Cannot be pecked.
You know, I've laughed at my jokes, and it's like, they're not meant to be funny.
I say them to amuse myself, basically.
But, uh, peppermint.
I mean, what can you say?
It's great for cramps, spasms.
Actually, strong cups of peppermint tea, uh, some women really like it for menstrual cramps.
And, uh, you know when cramps or spasms are associated with menstrual cramps, because It's a vasodilator to have anti-spasmodic action, so that it's really good on the smooth muscles, not necessarily the skeletal muscles, like the spasms or cramps in your skeletal muscle structure, but in your smooth muscles, like your stomach and your intestinal tract.
It's relaxing.
So peppermint can be used like with children who have colic, babies who are famous in the
Mexican herbal tradition for remedying colic.
I've never had children or been around people who have children who have colic.
It's like, it's intense.
I mean, you can throw in the sage, you can throw in, you know, my son had colic and I
said, I just thought, my God, I've got to develop a family, otherwise we're going to
have to do something, and that we weren't, but I mean, you can see how, you know, the
madness, I mean, incessant crying and screaming, you feel helpless and it's just, you know,
it's nerve penetrating screaming.
College can be wicked.
And, uh, you know, it's just screams from hell all of a sudden at three in the morning.
I mean, it's just, you know, it's terrifying.
So I put catnip, fennel together.
Catnip leaf and fennel seeds because those were world-famous antispasmodics.
Always been used for gas, cramps, stomach spasms.
And, uh, It works.
I made a non-alcohol extract, a glyceride, and I used glycerin in 10 minutes, and it's just like magic, you know, just within 5 minutes the spasms can crash, and you know something works.
It's just like, you know a formula works if somebody with shingles comes in and says, hey, that really worked, because shingles are excruciating and painful.
you know a college formula is really right on money, in other words, when the money's
come back, you like, start to worship you, you know, and worship all of your children,
etc. because you took away what the worst case scenario, and it's exaggeration, but
you know, when you get feedback in situations that are basically impenetrable, you know
you've got a formula that's pretty legitimate.
And peppermint is, I've used it with, it's famous in the Mexican herbal tradition, I
chose catnip and fennel because they work better, but peppermint is accessible.
Catnip can be grown.
Fennel seeds can be grown.
Those are all three great stomach herbs.
I'll give you an overview of herb number six here in the top ten list.
Three to choose from for improving digestion, for dispelling stagnation, for stopping spasms and cramps associated with food poisoning, colic, influenza, cramps and spasms.
Either catnip leaf, catnip, fennel seeds, or peppermint, all accessible, all easily grown herbs anywhere in the United States.
I mean, we all know the history of catnip.
Cats love it.
You know, so I've never been able to validate this, but I read it in two places and they
never cited anything of any, you know, hinting to this.
But they say that the reason why cats freak out over catnip and roll in it is because
the scent mimics a female cat in heat.
You know, it resembles a hormonal smell, a pheromone smell of a female cat in heat.
So, but I've seen female cats, you know, I've seen female cats as well as male cats respond
to this.
Pheromones have an effect both male and female regardless of whether you're homosexual or
lesbian.
Pheromones cause the body to, you know, to just be, you know, somebody's dumping out
pheromones.
It's like both men and women are affected, you know.
So, can it be you cats, can you not?
Yeah, I'd like to assume there is an austerity.
People, the Constitution has the right to do whatever they want.
It's not like they don't pass a gun, blah, blah, blah.
But, and this is the interesting side of catnip.
That's maybe why cats do that, because there's a pheromonal relationship from a plant.
Just out of a side note, keep this in mind that plants do not contain hormones.
You may read about this.
This has nothing to do with the top ten list, but it has something to do with your question.
Some people say, or read, or hear that.
I mean, even in some of the top herb magazines that are writing about some latest great discovery, You know, they'll say, for women, this plant contains estrogen.
Or, plants do not contain hormones of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone.
They contain compounds that may mimic those, thus you get that reaction.
But, you know, I've seen it written by some top herbalists.
They just, you know, it's just plants don't contain hormones.
They contain substances that mimic that.
of herbal foods that I've come upon.
Peppermint, catnip, fennel, what else do we need?
We need nerve herbs.
We need something for pain.
We need something for nervous system.
And let's see what's accessible.
Chamomile, I'll have to give you several herbs to choose from.
Chamomile is very relaxing, very sedating.
And you know why?
Because it contains, it's an interesting side note, that all the plants I know that work on the nervous system just so happen to have high amounts of calcium.
And calcium is like one of the best mineral substances you can give to nourish your nervous system.
So if you suffer from sciatica, you suffer from neurological stress, herpes, retrograde
viruses, if you're suffering from a spinal injury, when you damage the nerve bundles
running up and down the spine, any neurological stress if you've, you know at the end of the
nerve endings you have a sheath, you have a protective sheath, you call it, I never
remember if it's a myeloma or a myeloma sheath, but it's the myeloma sheath, and it's the
protective, you know, protective signal coating, it's like, there's like an intelligence in
the sheath, and I think stress, viruses like the herpes viruses, they love the nerve ending
that sheath, and they impair the growth.
When you get too much stress or you get an illness and you damage your nervous system, especially the nerve endings, you damage the myelin sheath and you can actually, you have to regenerate it.
And a lot of illnesses and a lot of neurological stress and damage sets in because you do not regenerate the myelin sheath on a regular basis, so you set the stage for herpesviruses to hide in the nerve endings.
And this is my theory, a empirical observation, I have no signs to back it up.
As some of the things I have, there's no signs on them, you know, but I treat it that way, and I use the herbs that seem appropriate, and boom, I get some response.
There's a great concept here.
Anyways, we need a nerve herb, and chamomile, because it contains high amounts of calcium, is safe for children, safe for the elderly folks, safe for people who may be on all kinds of pharmaceutical medicines, and can be laxative.
You can make a mild cup of tea, or you can make a super strong cup of tea.
So you can use a teaspoon per cup for children, and you just want a mild sedation.
Or you can use a full tablespoon and really relax.
And it's...
Not only does it relax and have a lot of adjustment, but chamomile can help you regenerate the myelin sheath of
the nerve endings.
And that's a big thing.
That can actually mean that over time you will have a stronger nervous system,
you will have less problems with stress, with insomnia.
An advantage to the herbs that are good for the nervous system
is that you're not like the narcotic drugs where you have to keep taking them,
and keep taking them, and move to the stronger one, and move to the next stronger one.
The herbs for the nervous system heal the nervous system, make it strong.
That's an amazing thing.
And stress, again, is stress is a de-ravaging aspect for the nervous system.
And as I mentioned out there, that ties into the immune system.
If your nervous system is impaired, your immune system is more...
You know, the inability of dealing with things is greater if your nervous system...
The nervous system is part of the immune system.
Just to clarify, what is the immune system?
Because I think a lot of people might have a very vague understanding of the immune system.
The immune system is everything that you are.
The immune system comprises the mind, the body, the spirit.
You can write it down.
The immune system is the liver.
The kidneys, the spleen, the lymph glands, the lungs, the immune system, it's everything.
And to use immunostimulants is to use substances that encourage your body basically to heal naturally, just to encourage just natural healing.
And then refine and focus in on the immune system and get down to the white blood cells and red blood cells, lung tissue, blah blah blah.
The immune system is your innate body's mechanism to fight the world around you, to maintain homeostasis.
The prime directive of the immune system is to maintain homeostasis and balance in the body.
Plain and simple.
And whatever you can do, so many different things to encourage that.
Chamomile, by regenerating your myelin sheath, by drinking chamomile if you're a stressed out person having trouble with insomnia, nervous twitching, just hypertensive Muscles, you feel tight, tense, worn out, wake up restless, wake up fatigued after you've slept 10 hours, you might try some Calcium Rich Nerve Herbs.
Chamomile can be grown anywhere.
It's not easy to find in the wild.
Let's... I think one that can be found in the wild and is grown, and there are many different species, is a plant called Valerian.
I don't know how many people are familiar with that.
It had nothing to do with Valium.
That's a big urban rumor.
Just watch that.
It's a big rural, you know, big commerce rumor that Valerian is where Valium comes from.
Other than having the letter V, there's no similarity between the two entities.
Valium is something totally chemically orientated, and Valerian root is a plant.
The official one is Valeriana, a fish analyst from anywhere in the world, and here's a powerful side effect on both skeletal muscles and smooth muscles, and will knock you out of your butt if you take too much of it.
One out of 50 people who take Valerian will get heart palpitations and will feel stimulated instead of sedated.
And those people should just not take Valerian.
I'm one of those people.
If I take Valerian, I get grouchy, hyperactive, and can't sleep.
And it's a powerful side effect.
And I don't have any thyroid problems.
It's just the nature of malaria.
And that's the only side effect of contraindication.
And speaking of contraindications, if you do any pharmaceutical drugs, the general rule,
I've seen 50, 60, I don't know, I go out and stop counting, maybe 60,000 clinical people,
not people just buying incense or, you know, just perfumes or, you know, that level stuff.
Clinical people, 60,000 people.
And two rules of thumb that, the major rule of thumb is never take a pharmaceutical drug
and an herbal medicine at the same time.
Give them at least an hour apart.
And use common sense.
I mean, like, if somebody's on a blood thinner, don't give them an herb as a blood coagulant.
I mean, and if you follow that common sense contraindications, like, you know, like this
thing needs to be sedated, don't give them speedy herbs, you know, common sense type
of, you know, objectives here.
And say an hour apart between pharmaceutical drugs and herbal medicine, out of 60,000 people,
I have never seen a conflict of using herbal medicines with common sense and that rule
concerning pharmaceutical drugs.
But I still don't believe in the cart launch thing that herbal medicines save cart launch.
You know, I still have to ask questions.
I still want to cover the basics.
And always tease me off when people, you know, it's their third visit and they finally say,
oh, you know, I forgot to tell you, I'm on Digitalis.
I'm like, oh my God, it's like, how did I escape that one?
You know, it's like, and you come to realize that herbs are very forgiving.
You know, even though you like, you spent three hours with a person, haven't filled
out a questionnaire, and they still just don't, you know.
I treat my work as being an herbal detective, as being a detective, a healthcare detective.
And as much information as I can get from you, as much as you want to volunteer, it
just helps me construct an empirical world.
You know, it's like, it helped me.
It's just sometimes it's two or three hours, but the fact is, after three hours, the person says, you know, oh yeah, I did work with solvents.
Yeah, in fact, for four or five years, I helped my father load the plane with aerial herbicides.
I used to play it and stuff, and now I even made a pillow out of the bag that it came in, and it's like the missing piece of information that clips in everything else they told me.
It took three hours to get there, but you can never ask enough questions concerning, especially your problems.
You go on to the dermatologist, you go on to all the doctors, you spend tens of thousands of dollars, and of course the amount of time has been five, ten minutes here or there, the questions have been very limited, and to really solve some really It's simple, but bizarre health problems.
You know, it doesn't hurt to ask people what their parents did, where did they live, what kind of water did they drink, what was their food like, what did they do for recreation, how did their aches and pains affect them, on and on and on.
If they fill this out, then this questionnaire allows me to ask more specific questions,
but as time goes on, more business takes place, their constitution, their entire constitution
of the human body starts to unfold and I start to get an idea if their liver is deficient
or slow or sluggish, if that is excessive hot and fiery.
I need to understand if their kidneys are deficient and not filtering or if their kidneys
are excessive, if they're putting too much urine out and there's too many, etc., etc.
and it's like, as time unfolds...
you can give Anderson a picture of the human body and then you can really start to match
herbs and to actually solve really complex problems that everyone else has failed.
Allopaths by nature do not give enough time to illnesses.
It's just, they can't.
They have too much overhead.
They have to buy a 10 minute visit, they have to give X amount of dollars.
And there are good people in allopathic medicine who never get involved in that.
I'm actually a defender of many of my doctors, friends, and nurses.
I defend them against people who come and attack them, and I hate them.
These people were never taught any other alternative.
The medical school is totally controlled by the pharmaceutical trade.
They nurture, they cultivate, they used to, you know, Golf passes, ski vacations, the Bahama trips.
I mean, these are what the reps gave doctors for selling the drugs.
And I mean, doctors and nurses are not given any tools in this country except at one or two new medical schools, Dr. Weill's School at the University of Arizona.
And in fact, you know, they're always looking for patients with complex histories because they're integrating allopathic medicine and Alternative medicine is the School of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.
I ended up at Dr. Wah, a very important school.
And he's incorporating herbs, acupuncture.
And here's the Harvard MD that for years used 40 botanical medicines for every pharmaceutical drug that he recommended.
A 40 to 1 ratio.
And this was a Harvard MD, and it's actually revolutionized medicine in this country just in the last couple of years.
I mean, he's phenomenal, and he's a brilliant individual, and that school, if you ever have a problem that you can't solve with plain health, and you want the help of knowledgeable entities and alternatives, that school is a very good school to consider, if you can get in, and you make good poor medicine, and dedicated patients, there is a good book.
But, anyways, we're still in the nerverse.
Most of y'all just said Valerian.
We're still on Valerian.
Valerian is a powerful sedative and it's really, you know, it kind of, some people don't like it because Valerian root smells somewhere like, it smells like, like if you've taken rotten peaches and stuffed them in a dirty sauce that were a week old.
Cats love the smell.
And I think it's another pheromonal relationship by them.
But it's like dirty socks with rotten peaches, kind of, it's a really, really interesting
smell.
So when you see Hilarion Root in the wild, never forget the plant.
Never forget it whatsoever.
It's a very distinct smell.
And listen, when you go on herb walks and you feel confident, and you hear people telling
you about the information, on average, like, kind of like, really taste this plant, touch
this plant, smell this plant, because I'll tell you, if you get the taste down, you get
the smell down, in the springtime, and you don't have a flower, you know, those are,
you know, it's not just sight, it's smell, it's taste that help you in identification
of a plant.
And the information of the, the information in the human body.
You need to feel it, taste it, smell it, spit it out, you know, make jokes about it, and that is a relationship.
And that's what, you can't hide it from the bad taste of herbal medicine.
I have some plants that are mimicked that are really not the same length, and they're just like, it looks like the lemon, but it doesn't quite look like any of them.
There were plants in the beginning that actually are, that, you know, plants, you know, are there similarities between plants that kind of mimic and could be confusing?
Yes, especially in the beginning.
I mean, you might not notice, but the lean is as tapered as it should be, it's a little
bit, it starts to taper, but then it broadens out and tapers down.
You may not see that and immediately think it's that plant, but you start thinking that
way, and you haven't tasted or smelled it or actually really saw it, and just kind of
throw them in the cat, and you could actually say, oh, it's that plant.
And you can mention that to someone, and I've even done that, and it's frightening, because
I mean, it's good to ask some of your partner, and ask somebody, and kind of say, no, it's
not.
And you hear, oh, my God, what are they doing?
But I've never gone past four or five feet without saying, you know what?
That wasn't that plant.
I mean, I learned to correct myself.
And I, you know, sometimes it's just, you have to really look.
And it does take time, and it takes confidence in yourself.
And another mistake people make is that they know it's the right plant, and it's growing amongst a lot of other plants, and they kind of get caught in this, and when you reach down, they just start grabbing it.
They're not watching, and they end up grabbing the leaves of some poison hemlock amongst the peppermint.
And I saw somebody do this among the white mountains here along the river.
They were just peeking away, chatting, and it was like a wild peppermint growing, the peppermint growing right next to the water hemlock.
The water hemlock's pretty, pretty big time toxic.
I mean, it's a killer.
You know, a piece of the root the size of a marble will kill you.
in a coma in a couple hours, the leaf would really be puking your guts out and sweating
and blurred vision and such.
And they were just grabbing it and forgot to pay attention to what they were doing.
They were grabbing the ease of the water handlock right in the middle of the peppermint.
I'm like, hey, there's water handlock leaves with this.
What are you doing?
And these people aren't stupid.
It's just they just lost their train of participation.
Was that your wife grabbing it on the sidewalk?
No, it was like somebody on her walk.
You know, they've gone off picking plants, and I'm keeping my eye on them, and I'm saying, man, I'm going to pay attention to what you're doing.
You know, it's like, that'll give you tuning, you know, instead of stopping stomach cramps, you'll be getting real stomach cramps.
And, uh, and it happens.
I mean, it's like, you really, you know, you really need to stay focused and learn one time at a time.
You know, it's not, and it's not impossible, it's like, I mean, it's not that confusing.
It's just that if you don't participate, if you don't pay attention, you will make mistakes.
And if you participate, pay attention, you'll hardly ever make mistakes, but you'll still make mistakes at some point in time, and you just have to... You know, one time, it was... I walked out of the shop, and I asked a princess, and I wasn't staring in my direction, and I asked the princess, They were too similar at times by smell, and it was the end of the day, and I kind of walked out, and I'm like 30 miles away, and I'm thinking, my gosh, you know, I gotta go back there, because she put this bottle in there, and vice versa, and it wouldn't have been lethal, but it's like, you know, you just don't make mistakes.
You don't put the wrong herb in the wrong bottle as a medicine.
It's just, it's a controversy.
You don't break, and you do your damnedest to never make that mistake.
Because I raced back on instinct, and sure enough, you know, it was just, I just thought, I mean, it was instinct over and over and over that something was wrong.
And she had accidentally put, you know, the bottle, squeezed the bottle, or, you know, and it would have been failed, but it would have been, you know, it wouldn't have been right.
It was just, and so you have to pay attention.
I mean, what dealing with, like, for myself, other people's health is, the trust that people
give you is really frightening and immense, since if you have then the responsibility
to, like, do everything in your power to never make a mistake, even though others are forgiving,
but not absolutely forgiving, and, you know, and I used to toss plants.
I used to very toss plants around, because one got this plant, or this particular plant,
and now aconite, don't let this down, don't use it to multiply the age now, but aconite
or mung soot is a very killer, it's a toxic plant, but one or two drops of aconite is
just phenomenal for some types of fevers.
It's neurological pain that's, you know, with morphine-like effects, you know.
But more than that, you might aggravate the condition.
And, you know, to have this deadly toxin porting around is a major responsibility.
But, you know, it's kind of the nature of some herbal medicine.
It's another one to research and to consider in your repertoire.
What else do we need?
We need a lung herb.
We need a really good, accessible lung herb.
I'll tell you, both ginger and yarrow, the circulatory herb, the first herbs that we talked about, ginger and yarrow are both good lung herbs, especially fresh ginger roots and fresh yarrow extracts.
They're basal dieting and very lung orientated.
But let's see, we're going to pick, we're going to pick a lumber that was available nationwide.
And that plant right there that you guys brought in, by the grace of God.
Plumber Jack's toilet paper.
Plumber Jack's toilet paper, a very common plant throughout the entire United States,
California to the East Coast, can be grown in just about any garden situation.
Forms a big basil rosette of leaves with a big stalk with yellow flowers at the very top.
And mullein itself is one of the plants that has 20 to 30 different possible uses.
You can use the root, you can use the leaves, you can use the flowers.
Mulleen leaf would be our universal, accessible, long herb that we can get to supply anywhere in the United States, wild collected, or grow in our gardens.
And it's a great respiratory incentive and expectant.
So, it's really good if you have a heavy mucusy cough, or even a dry cough with no mucus, and you have a hectic, raspy, incessant cough that's just endless, non-stop, and spasmodic.
It's a respiratory sedative with an expectorating bronchial dilating aspect, so it will open up your lungs, open up the bronchus, so you can breathe at the same time, stopping spasms and ex-spasmodic action.
It's a great plant.
Best known as a tea.
Best known as a tea plant.
It's very humid.
There's a mushroom right there in the road coming in.
Yeah, it's a very, um, you know, it's, uh, first year plants probably make better than leaf tea material.
The root of Mullin, just as a side note, is one of the best muscle strengtheners for the
entire urinary tract, especially the triglycerid muscle.
So if you suffer from incontinence or bed-wetting or you suffer from frequent urination, you
have kind of a weak teeth, a weak bladder, you get urinary tract infections frequently,
Mullin root tea is really good at strengthening the tissue of the urinary tract, which is
a good, Mullin root is a good admixture to things like salmonella berry for men who take
it for prostate enlargement or prostate health, women who have an interest in urinary tract
infections, especially after antibiotic use, Mullin root is really good.
And the leaves of the flowers of Mullin make one of the premier ear acoids.
It's an analgesic pain sedating medicine that helps to banish a hormone and a septic, but
it's also analgesic, so it helps the pain, works as a lot of your aces of fungal, point
and tinnitus.
And in fact, you can make Mullin flower oil, I'm not going to describe how to make the
Mullin flower oil, it's best to see, but you can read about it, and it's a reference point.
So, Mullin flower oil, a couple of drops in each ear, two or three times a day in conjunction
with red root or some echinacea and red root, added to hot tea can...
It works as a lot of your aces of fungal, point and tinnitus.
And in fact, you can make Mullin flower oil, I'm not going to describe how to make the
Mullin flower oil, it's best to see, but you can read about it, and it's a reference point.
Mullin flower oil, a couple of drops in each ear, two or three times a day in conjunction
with red root or some echinacea and red root, added to hot ginger tea will effectively almost
be able to treat almost any type of ear infection with that combination.
We've seen it, we've used it with our kids, we've seen it with other people's kids, children,
and occasionally they have such a super infection that it's just, you know, antibiotics become
a choice.
Now, I want to mention something here real quick about antibiotics.
I'm glad they're invented, I'm glad that they're here, because to have antibiotics for some
hand green bacteria, gas hand green bacteria, some of the staph and strep bacteria, to have
them and to also know of herbal medicines that are immunostimulating, made for the best
combination in the world.
Antibiotic means anti-life.
Antibiotics kill everything in the system.
They kill viruses, they kill bacteria, they don't kill viruses, but they kill...
When you're taking antibiotics for bacterial infection, you disrupt the flora and fauna
of your intestinal tract for months and months, and if you do a series of antibiotics, you
can end up disrupting your intestinal tract flora and fauna for years.
And out of that disruption, you can have a...
It starts to develop a history of candida, allergies, digestive problems, liver deficiencies,
all traced back to the use of antibiotics, and that is antibiotics imperative.
We know that in our intestinal tract, they've identified 400 different types of bacteria,
beneficial bacteria, along.
400.
That's just bacteria that live in our gut.
Four hundred species of different types of bacteria.
That's not funguses like Candidas.
We have nine different types of Candidas that live in our body.
Candida albicans, et cetera.
I don't know all the species.
We have all kinds of different funguses.
We have amoebas, beneficial amoebas.
When you take antibiotics, you disrupt that in such a severe way that the body is thrown out of homeostasis.
Bacterial, fungal, micro-animal level that has caused a lot of problems, a lot of allergy problems.
You know, allergy problems have really never existed in the medicine scene here in America until the introduction of antibiotics into dairy products, into meat products, and into the medicine scene.
I mean, there was no doubt some average allergy problems But the prevalent, widespread calls of people, you know, encounter with allergies are not traceable prior to the 30s on any significant level.
So mother's milk, is that what it's called?
Mother's milk?
They're saying that's what it is.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
They're saying that's what it is.
Absolutely.
mother's milk is the natural delivery of the mother's inherited and acquired immunity to
the child.
You take that away, you've actually crippled, started off in the world with a crippled immune
system.
There's so much that's been eliminated.
What's against the liver, I don't know, but we know the importance of that.
You can see that with how Johnson & Johnson and the big makers of, you know, whatever
the formula's called, moved into the third world countries and that's the correlation
of all the different deficiencies and illnesses that arise because they got the people there
dependent on the pharmaceutical formulas and they took them away from Venezuela because
it was the seductive Babylonian way, you know, and everybody wants to do it our way.
Everybody wants everything we've got, every blah, blah, blah, and not everything we have
is that good, you know, like our medicine.
I mean, so many people throughout the world are ditching their folklore and their native
inherited, all traditional medicines handed down for thousands of years through this village
line and through this native bloodline and they want to ditch it from Venezuela and Prozac
and, you know, because it's the western way, it's sold and, you know, you know this and
I don't have to elaborate on that.
My point is that you can use antibodies and immunostimulants to get the best of both worlds.
Kill everything, antibiotic in antibiotic.
Immunostimulants stimulate your immune system naturally.
Now, Merrill was talking about echinacea and how it stimulates the white blood cells to
go out and scavenge.
If you take antibiotics and make sure of everything, wouldn't it make sense to increase your white blood cells to more garbage bin to move out more of this combat debris that's taking place?
So whether echinacea in conjunction with penicillin give you the best of both worlds, if you have to take antibiotics, it's the best.
And then to mop up, it's really good to use things like acidophilus.
I started introducing this practice with people, was to take an apple, cut it in half, leave it on the counter, and let bacteria, natural airborne bacteria, so not let it rot and become putrid and botulism-oriented, but take a banana, peel it, lay it on a plate, on the counter for a few hours, take an apple, cut it in half, leave it on the counter for a few hours, and eat that.
You will actually be re-establishing a lot of the different types of bacteria And you'd be amazed at how some of your allergen problems begin to dissipate when you start to bring some of your flora and fauna.
I often think this, too.
I think that now that we, you know, we do extinct, you know, extinction is a natural occurring thing, but we obviously do extinct large mammals and large things, you know, just by the nature of it.
Extinction is, you know, Some of it premeditated, some of it accidental, some of it just natural.
Extinction is a natural event in life, and in all life.
But we do, through our behavior, purposely cause extinction of large things.
I got thinking one time, what have we done on a microorganism level?
Look at nuclear explosions, look at atmospheric tests, look at pollution.
I don't know if this is a theory, it's a hypothesis, but if a macro-extincted species wouldn't be extincted on a micro-level that used to live in here, and now that it's gone off the face of the earth due to what we've done, or what nature's done by whatever reasons, but those organisms that we used to have are gone now, because allergies are really hard to solve.
There's missing pieces to the puzzle.
A lot of it has to do with digestion.
Some of these herbs are helping that.
But a lot of it has to do with the microorganisms.
And we are also a culture that fear.
We fear.
We overcook things.
We sterilize things.
We fear bugs.
I mean, there's good reason, I mean, you know, not washing your hands.
You can transmit hepatitis to organisms.
You know, we over-bleach our food, chlorinate, preserve, over-cook, etc., etc., and what you end up with is you've reduced the chi and the strength of the food, but you've also eliminated the microorganisms, which, for me, is the frontier.
I don't have all the answers.
I've adapted a few things and brought them into my practice and I've seen them affect
people and become very positive.
Just the apple, cutting an apple and leaving it on the counter.
If you have too much antibiotics in your stomach, if you've had a disruption, if you drink too
much chlorinated water, if you've been exposed to solvents and chemicals, you might want
to consider getting your hand on some little critters and eating them and reestablishing
that.
I don't object to someone going out and holding a carrot out of their grandmother's jewelry
Organically grown carrot in organically rich soil.
That if you were an earthworm, this would be paradise type of soil.
Pulling a carrot out of the soil, brushing off the dirt or rubbing it, washing it in the water, and eating it.
And not being obsessed with scrubbing it down.
You know, you ever see children eat dirt?
I see children eat dirt after having influenza.
You know, there's puking, and puking, and coughing, and diarrhea, and that activity alone will disrupt flora.
Influenza will disrupt flora and the intestinal tract immensely.
You see children go out and literally just eat dirt after going through a period of vomiting and diarrhea.
What's that all about?
I don't really know, but I'm thinking, what is this about?
You know, what's going on here?
That's empirical medicine.
That's clunking.
That's clunking medicine.
And that's another answer.
So we've got Balambra, good mullein.
You can actually make mullein, ginger root, yarrow, oregano, olives, oregano.
Any herbs that are good for the circulatory system are really good for the lungs, believe it or not.
They're just herbs that vasodilate, get blood moving, are really good for stuffed sinuses and stuffed lung conditions, almost across the board.
What else do we got?
I don't know where we're at.
Number 9.
You need number 9?
Oh, that was number 9.
What about garlic?
Garlic.
You know, garlic, onions.
Any of the alliums, any of those, we got it out, garlic.
Garlic is an amazing medicine for lowering cholesterol levels, for building up immunity.
It's a powerful antiviral.
It's a powerful antiseptic.
It's a very powerful antiseptic.
The juice of garlic will kill staph immediately in a petri dish.
I mean, that's phenomenal enough.
Remember that flat-fleshed bacteria that we all heard about that made me numb?
I mean, that's staph.
That's staph gone wild.
That's staph.
And it might be some other species, but that's a staph bacteria that's actually mutated due to the abuse of antibiotics.
Now, there are some countries in this world that actually prohibited their doctors from overusing antibiotics.
Actually, you have an amazing parameter of when they can use antibiotics.
Some of those Scandinavian countries have lowered their infection rates and have kept the same antibodies for a longer period of time and have never had to progress to the real vicious detrimental because they limited their positions with, you know, with legislation.
They could not.
And in this country, it was like boom, boom, boom.
And, you know, if you go for antibodies, I'm guilty of this, you know, it's like start feeling better and stop taking.
What you've done is you've literally helped contribute to the mutation of the virus, or the bacteria.
You need to do the whole cycle.
You know, a lot of them, you know, you can start doing better, or I don't know, I'll set it for next time, or something like that.
And your guilt sort of adds to the, you know, to the rise and mutation of the new strains.
Garlic is powerful for wounds, for staph-infected wounds.
And for infections, gangrene-like infections, or garlic steno-circulation, garlic with lower blood pressure, associated with hyper-intensive, high blood pressure situations, which would be an off-use of garlic.
And we're talking about garlic.
We're not talking about garlic powder.
We're not talking about garlic capsules.
we're talking about cloves of fresh garlic, either eaten raw or just crushed.
After you've cooked your food, crush and put it on the food with no cooking or minimal cooking.
You can still cook with it, but as one of the powerful medicine aspects of garlic,
you want to do it when it adds to the food, just prior to serving it, and don't cook it at all.
It destroys many of the powerful chemical constituents to the application of heat.
What are those chemical constituents?
Well, it's the chemical constituents of allicin.
Those pills contain, the over-use pills contain the constituent allicin.
And that's all.
Garlic has, I don't know how many chemical compounds, but it's got more than just allicin.
It actually has, at least another one.
I mean, there's thousands of groups with a high blood pressure aspect, but we're talking,
this plant, this thing is antiviral, it's antibacterial, it's great for the immune system,
it makes better red blood cells, and you don't get that from the odorless little capsules.
You'll get some benefits, but you won't get the immensity of the plant.
What happens if you just drink that?
It could sting your stomach and really cause your burning and irritation.
Uh, but the way you do it is to take a clove of garlic, cut it in half, and mash it up, because applesauce actually needs to be oxidized a little bit.
If you want that chemical consistency, you need to at least cut the piece of garlic in half, crush it, let it expose to the atmosphere for a few seconds, and then you create that compound.
That compound doesn't exist unless it oxidizes it, or you know, there's, oxidization has to take place in order for this compound to exist.
and wrap it up in a piece of bread.
Make one of them.
You never do that.
You know, just kind of arbitrarily take a piece of bread and pull it apart and make
a little ball.
Stick a piece of garlic in that ball of bread and swallow it.
And it will digest and break apart without irritating your stomach.
One, it's a great way to make pills.
Herbal pills is pieces of bread and flatten it out and make them so you can swallow them
or put pre-herb that may taste nasty or be irritating in the center and wrap it around
and make great pills.
It's a great way to make pills.
Crushed garlic in oil for salad dressing is a great application.
Remember, food is the best medicine.
Any Guadalupe's urge that transcends the border between food-slash-medicine allows you to use it more probably is always greater medicine, greater vitamins and mineral potential, if it's a food-slash-medicine like garlic is.
Garlic oil, when you take crushed garlic and stick it in olive oil at a one to three ratio, one part of crushed garlic to three parts of olive oil, and you let the garlic, crushed garlic, sit in the olive oil for a week or two and then strain it out, then you have this whole garlic oil.
And if you have cats or dogs that get ticks or bites in the ears, it's a really good This is a really good home veterinarian remedy for putting a few drops of garlic oil.
They're not going to like it, but it's inexpensive and as effective as most of the veterinarian mite drops that go into the ear, or the tick drops.
That's what an emperor became from.
That's a good empirical observation.
It keeps ticks, blood-sucking, you know, fiends away and such.
And your basic fan party.
Go to oral A.S.
capsules.
I mean, you'll get some medicinal benefits, but you're really missing out on, you know, the immediate benefits.
I mean, you know, here's what works.
So I'm not saying you have to taste all this bitter, horrible, irritating stuff and eat
it.
Go to all the euphoria and disgust in the mouth and totally revel in these new taste
sensations.
I mean, you want to use what works.
You want to...
If something is so horrible that you're not going to drink it, make it weaker or find
ways to use it.
Remember, a lot of the information I'm giving you is first-hand what I've seen, but I'm
an oral verbalist, oral traditionalist, and I pass out information that helps you establish
your own verbal oral tradition for yourself, your family, and for whoever else, if anyone
else you want to choose to do it with.
And so find, take this information and make it work for you and tailor it.
And what you're essentially doing is creating your own verbal oral tradition.
That's the art of verbal medicine.
The information in the books, information like from weirdos like me, information from the grandmas or from wherever, but what you're doing is you're taking this and creating your own verbal tradition for yourself, your family, your particular own set of problems, your family's own problems, where you live, and that is the beauty and the art of verbal medicine.
really allows you to do this, you know, a little science, a little folklore, create your own tradition to pass on to
your children. And that's always pretty exciting.
You know the parsley, reddish, reddish thing, you know, they come like fellow Catholics for a while, and I think it's
a heart disease in there.
And they have high depression. It's quite common. They take away the smell of garlic or whatever.
Parsley, redness of parsley, I know parsley itself is really good carnativity. It is refreshing. It does have an
absorptive aspect to it, for absorbing odors.
I've never tried it. I don't have any Christian reality there with them. I've seen them for sale, and a lot of
people like them.
So, there's a possibility to it. I mean, what I know about parsley, it would make sense that that would be an area
that would probably reduce its benefits.
Have a parsley plant growing in your kitchen or in your garden just tuning it would be cheap, easy, and immediately
effective.
And probably the most optimal. No thanks to me.
Any other questions?
Lemons and limes. Lemons and limes could definitely be, especially, it could be in the top ten if you live in the
tropics or if you live in areas where you could grow them.
They are all accessible for us now. Lemons and limes both are totally antiseptic substance.
Lemons and limes squeezed, I mean they are going to sting a little bit, but they're not, nowhere near as anti-staph as
garlic juice on wounds.
But lemon and limes are very acidic.
Acidic substances really do have the potential of being good antimicrobial agents.
Acidic substances inside, they often say that lemon and lime juice, not only do you get
the vitamin C content, let's not forget that, high amounts of vitamin C, folic acid and
such, but lemons and limes taken internally are very powerful acidic astringents.
Some lemon and lime combinations, they say, are very beneficial for gallstone formation,
breaks down gallstone and kidney stones.
I do know that lemon and lime juice taken in water is really good for people who have
the need for frequent urination, they have weak kidneys, and what they need to do is
tighten up the tissue of the urinary tract with an astringent, an acidic astringent,
especially if they've had a history of bacterial infections.
So, let's not forget that, lemon and lime juice, it's got a lot of vitamin C, acidic,
astringent, good for the urinary tract.
Who's used to it?
I read somewhere, I haven't heard somewhere in a long time, but also the nutritional value,
that's found in the limes, or in the peanuts, or in the lime juice, that I've heard.
I think a lot of the appeal of the lemons and limes, the nutritional value, I think,
is at least, I don't know about nutritional value, but medicinal value, if you ever, I'll
tell you, a concept of the bitters, stomach bitters.
If you ever taste lemon peel, lime peel, orange peel, and it's very bitter, those alkaloids that are in that are powerful bitters.
Alkaloids by nature are complex chemical structures that are bitter by nature.
I don't know of any alkaloid.
Nicotine is an alkaloid.
All alkaloids end in I-N-E.
Nicotine, anabasine, caffeine, those are all alkaloids.
complex chemical structures, amine, ion, and e, and they all by nature have a bitter aspect
to them. And alkaloids perform many functions. Alkaloids are bitter and they deter insects
and funguses. You know, alkaloids are almost always anti-fungal.
Think about the orange peel or the lime peel or the lemon peel. It is bitter. If
you were a fungus or an insect and knew by nature that alkaloids are anti-fungal and deterrents
for insects, you can understand why the bitter peel is going to be bitter.
Alkaloids have developed, through whatever reasonings have developed on the peel, to repel funguses and disease and insects.
But we can take those alkaloids and use them medicinally.
Because our body really needs to look at how our body responds to caffeine.
Look at how our body responds to nicotine.
All the alkaloids.
Alkaloids are powerful medicinal structures.
They are almost always bitter by nature, anti-fungal, almost always amino-stimulating, just by being alkaloids and being irritating, they stimulate the immune system.
Alkaloids by nature almost always cause the upper GI, the liver, the gallbladder, to become very active, very juicy.
Bitter substances contain alkaloids, and bitters, I gotta mention this, the Chinese say that there are five tastes.
Sweet, sour, acrid, salt, and bitter.
Now the Ayurvedic, I think a few Ayurvedic philosophies say seven tastes, but they break those five essentials down into six or seven more, or eight more, but basically it's five tastes.
Sweet, sour, acrid, salt, and bitter.
In the American, standard American diet, bitter substances, we don't have them.
What are the two most bitter substances that we have?
Coffee, chocolate, and what do we do?
sweeten the heck out of it to make it not bitter. Do we have any bitter greens? In my research,
in my, you know, talking to old world people, people from Italy or Greece or Germany, you know
that classic salads were bitter? They weren't iceberg lettuce with sweet ranch dressing. They
were bitter herbs to stimulate, bitters to stimulate gastric secretion, gastric movement.
And I'll tell you, without going in depth to the upper and lower GI, without going into all the
what bitters do and such, if you just realize that the Chinese are right, you know,
five thousand, some things they've got now, five thousand years in this art form of tuning
and concepts, that those fine tastes are really an absolute concept as far as I'm concerned.
And that the fact that we're missing bitters, we only have four, we do, we have poor digestion in this country.
And by bringing a bitter substance back into your diet, you bring in the missing taste That's it for today, folks.
Good night, and God bless each and every single one of you.
God bless you.
Amen.
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