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March 21, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
12:11
Plants synthesize miraculous medicines at the molecular level
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Do not spill nitric acid on your ranch pants.
Just a word of advice, if you're sitting in a chair and you're preparing lab samples and you have your favorite pair of ranch pants on and you accidentally splash 69% ultra-pure ICP-MS grade nitric acid onto your ranch pants, at first you think it's okay because you wipe it off and you're wearing latex gloves and everything.
No problem.
But then the next time you wash those pants, you have holes in them everywhere that the nitric acid...
Dropped onto.
So you have holy pants, which is not a religious type of situation.
You actually have peekaboo pants, you might say.
If the holes are in the right spot, then you're just getting a fresh breeze going there.
I'm not going to go into any more detail, but laboratory hazards do exist.
And there's a reason...
Why we wear goggles and why we wear latex gloves and why we wear long sleeves, by the way.
There was a time when I was first getting into the laboratory analysis, heavy metals analysis and preparatory digestion of food samples, that I would wear short sleeves.
And very quickly it came to find out that, you know, you have acid burns all over your forearms if you do that.
So, not such a good thing.
You wear long sleeves, basically, to protect your arms.
Now, here's what's interesting.
When we're doing laboratory analysis of foods, and this is about clean foods and the contaminants that are found in foods, What we're trying to do is break those foods down or we are extracting certain components using certain types of solvents.
Now, a solvent, of course, is some kind of usually a liquid, but it could be a gas that is able to dissolve certain chemicals in the food sample or the liquid sample and transport those out of that sample.
Or capture them or isolate them chemically so that they can be tested quantitatively so you can find out the concentration of those chemicals that were in the original food.
And a solvent could be something as simple as water.
Water is a solvent.
Your body uses water as a solvent through all of your cellular processes.
But there are other stronger solvents, of course, such as methanol.
Sorry, I was just thinking about the methane gas leak in California.
That was on my screen here.
Methanol, hexane, of course, that's a very common solvent used in soy protein extraction.
You can also use just like regular alcohol.
Vodka is a solvent, and a lot of people who make their own medicinal herbs use vodka as a solvent.
It's like a grain alcohol, essentially, to pull chemical constituents out of the herbs and into the alcohol and make a tincture.
Glycerin is also used in some tinctures as something of a solvent, although it's not very aggressive or very strong as a solvent.
And that's what's interesting, too.
You can make a water tincture out of herbs, and water will pull out very different chemical constituents compared to grain alcohol, for example, or methanol, which you wouldn't want to drink, obviously, but every different solvent pulls out a different complement of chemicals.
Now, these chemicals that come out of the plants and the foods and the herbs, these chemicals are really Mother Nature's medicine.
And what's miraculous about Mother Nature is that plants are pharmaceutical laboratories, you might say.
And they synthesize molecules by themselves.
Molecules that serve the purposes of the plant's self-interest, which is to protect the plant, to synthesize the nutrients that the plant needs to generate the tissue and to regenerate tissue.
You know, the plant needs to build stems and leaves and flowers and seeds and pollen, perhaps, if it's that kind of a plant.
And the plant also has a circulatory system and it has a nutrient absorption system known as the root system.
The root system has to have, by the way, antibacterial chemicals.
Otherwise, all the roots of all the plants would be eaten by the bacteria in the soil.
So every plant that survives, or virtually every plant, creates its own antibiotics.
Have you ever thought about that?
Really?
Have you ever thought of...
I mean, seriously.
Every plant has...
I mean, trees make their own antibiotics.
Otherwise, tree roots would be eaten by the soil microbes.
So every tree is an antibiotic pharmaceutical factory.
And if you look at Chinese medicine, for example, you notice that many of the so-called medicines are actually various tree barks.
Because trees build medicine, they synthesize it, they actually create the molecules like Mother Nature's little pharmaceutical factories, and they put the molecules into the bark of the tree.
Or the leaves or the nuts or the seeds or what have you.
Fruit, you know, you name it.
Or the avocados, one of my favorite types of trees.
So plants are able to do this because they have to do it in order to survive.
They can't run down to the corner pharmacy and buy antibiotics.
So if you look at antibiotics that are available in nature, you find that they're extremely widespread.
You find that almost every type of plant has some kind of antiseptic or antibacterial property in some of the tissues of the plant, whether it be the roots or the stems or the leaves or the bark or the fruit or the seeds or whatever, what have you.
There are antibacterial properties.
And this is why, of course, you can derive essential oils from certain types of plants or herbs, such as basil or peppermint or oregano, for example, one of my favorites, because what you're doing is you are concentrating or distilling, in essence, I guess that's literal, isn't it?
In essence, you're distilling the essential oil, the oregano, and And concentrating it into a liquid that is many times more concentrated than how it is found naturally in the plant leaves itself.
But you are taking advantage of the fact that plant is producing that nutrient on its own.
Now think about this.
Mother Nature doesn't charge you any royalties.
Mother Nature doesn't have an intellectual property attorney on staff To try to sue you if you're extracting from its plants or if you are cloning its plants or planting them from seeds and keeping the seeds and so on and so forth.
Everything created by man, and I use man in a generic term, it includes women, but everything created by man is artificial.
It is driven usually by greed.
It is inferior to the molecules created by nature.
And it is backed by profiteering agendas and intellectual property claims and so on and so forth.
So when man synthesizes molecules, it's all for greed.
When Mother Nature synthesizes molecules, they're given away freely.
So when you grow plants and you use the miracle of Mother Nature...
What you're doing is you are sharing in the abundance of life that our planet has been blessed with by the forces of life in the universe.
I mean, you are connecting with the divine when you grow your own plants and when you extract your own medicine from herbs.
And when you use an alcohol extraction and you make a tincture or you use a distillation system and you distill oregano oil out of oregano plants, any of these things that you do, you are in effect participating in the cycle of life and healing and medicine that is provided free by Mother Nature.
And it's not a system like Obamacare where the government puts a gun to your head and says you must pay money for this whether you want it or not.
It's nothing like that.
You're not forced into it.
There's no coercion in the system.
It is a system that is available to you if you voluntarily wish to invoke it.
And that's why natural plant-based medicine and nutritional interventions that prevent disease Are efficacious.
In other words, they work, they're safer, and they are available at a fraction of the cost of synthetic pharmaceuticals that are patented.
And this is why, of course, the FDA says there's no such thing as natural plant-based medicine and that they criminalize it because they don't want everybody to realize that there are probably weeds growing in your backyard right now that can cure type 2 diabetes, reverse cancer, prevent heart disease, reverse Alzheimer's and dementia, support kidney health and stamina.
What else?
Support liver function and liver enzyme function as verified by blood tests.
Improve skin health and healing.
Reduce stress through adaptogenic properties of phytonutrient molecules.
All kinds of medicines in your backyard.
And if you count other people's backyards at different regions of the world, you have really a network of amazing phytochemical healing miracles all over the world.
Some of them grow in different climates.
Some of them have different properties.
But they all have in common the idea that they can help prevent disease, accelerate your healing, and keep you healthy.
And that is the miracle of nature.
And The more you get into the science of this, like I do with laboratory analysis, the more amazing you realize Mother Nature really is.
That man can't even begin to compete with the genius of plants synthesizing their own medicines, their own protections, their own defenses, their own healing nutrients, their own detoxification molecules.
Their own oxygen or CO2 transport systems, cellular metabolism, energy conversion, photosynthesis, all of these things that these plants do for free without you even having to try to make it happen.
They do it on their own.
Pomegranates grow anti-cancer nutrients to protect prostate tissue, for example.
Why do they do that?
Because that's in their nature.
And they give it to you freely.
If you go to a cancer clinic, probably walking into the clinic, you're passing by weeds on the ground that would cure the cancer that you're going into the clinic to pay to have not cured.
Think about that.
How crazy is that situation?
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
So invoke these miracles of Mother Nature.
Learn how to grow food.
Learn how to extract medicine.
And learn the science of it, if you're like me.
I'm kind of geeky about that.
I love the science of natural medicine and nutritional therapy.
So keep reading naturalnews.com.
We'll have...
Thank you for listening.
My name is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
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