Initiating our novice friends into the rewards of cleansing and healing naturally can be a bit intimidating.  We all faithfully spread the word just by showing up and being who we are.  Nothing is more validating than someone asking intelligent questions and waiting to hear the answers. 

Now is not the time to unload too much information onto your trusting friend.  Resist the temptation to plunge your friend or loved one into a heavy detoxing program.  

Stop thinking what you will say to them and just listen for a bit.  Why now?  What is happening in their life to cause them to want more information?  How can their issue be herbally supported?

Here are a few basic guides for beginners. 

• Bowel Cleansing: The Bowels must be open and working well.  There is no way one can start a detoxing program in a constipated body. 
• Boosting the Immune System: Use an ounce a day of Echinacea extract, four days each week, during any detox or cleansing program.
• Nutrition: Stop putting junk into your body and begin to feed your cells.  This is done with fresh juices and Superfood. 

Beginning to use herbal tonics for specific issues such as Female complaints, Diabetes or Heart issues can be added right from the start with excellent results. 

Following these suggestions will keep the detoxing backlash to a minimum while building a good foundation for the more intense detoxing programs to follow.  

Healthy body systems and Normal Blood Pressure is achieved by maintaining a healthy emotional life along with a balanced lifestyle of healthy food and daily work, rest, exercise, and play. 

Foundation for Emotional Health
We cannot control the emotional ups and downs life throws at us but we can control our reaction to them.  Building up a healthy spiritual foundation based on a belief that you are known completely and loved without reserve by the most powerful being in the universe is a perfect place to start. 

Many people do not worship a God of Love, their God is wrathful, waiting for any reason or weakness on their part to punish or destroy.  This perception of God is not only unhealthy but can actually affect the way you value and deal with yourself and others.  We humans are blessed with an innate law of worship.  We assimilate to, or become like that which we worship, and we all worship something.  The health of the body, mind and soul depend to a large degree on what we are modeling ourselves after.  If you would like a better science based understanding of the spiritual mind & body connection the “God and the Brain” seminar by Dr. Tim Jennings is an excellent resource.
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Foundation for Physical Health
Our bodies need a daily supply of nutrition or they will shut down and stop working.  The best nourishment would be to follow the original food plan provided for our first parents; vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains and seeds.
 
The Question is asked: Don't I Need Animal Products to Be Healthy?
 
Properly planned vegan diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases….are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.— American Dietetic Association Volume 109, Issue 7, Pages 1266-1282 (July 2009)
 
Not only are animal products unnecessary for optimal health, an increasing number of nutritionists and health professionals are acknowledging animal products are harmful to our health. Meanwhile, a healthy vegan diet helps reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes. 
 
The China Study: by T. Colin Campbell is arguably the most comprehensive study on nutrition ever done. Campbell provides compelling evidence linking animal products to disease, including cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, etc. 

As humans most of us have little understanding beyond what we have experienced and feel is normal.   I believed it was normal and healthy to have only one bowel movement each morning.  This is how it had always been for me.  The healing journey I had begun that year was going to teach me many things I did not even know to question.  The Father and I were to take this journey together joined from time to time by other also on this path.  Looking back at the beginning of what is not yet finished, I have been privileged to know so many who have shared freely with me from their own experience. 

My First Bowel Cleansing
My introduction to Bowel Cleansing and the LBF #1’s was pretty normal.  My bottle of Capsules arrived with detailed instructions from my friend who had introduced me to all things natural healing.  As I unloaded the box I put all the items away one at a time.  She had sent Superfood, the #2 formula, Echinacea extract and the LBF #1’s.  I quickly started the Superfood and Echinacea but never touched the Bowel Cleansing products.  Two weeks later when it was time to begin the liver cleanse I still had not taken my first #1 capsule.  Why?  I figured my bowels were doing just fine and the bowel cleanse was optional.  Wrong! 

I’d been walking around for years with a roll of poop setting right under my bust line.  I looked five months pregnant.  Of course I didn’t know that roll around my middle was a stuffed bowel. 

Two weeks after receiving my package I was scheduled to fly to my friend’s clinic for a month’s stay.  When I arrived she wisely started me on the bowel cleanse routine.   Fourteen days into the program and my bowels were still not working well.  The thirteen capsules I swallowed each night had started something moving but it was not enough to clear thirty eight years of constipation.  My friend arrived in my room that evening with a castor oil pack.  She placed it over my colon, covered it with a towel and said good night. 

The next morning I could not believe how much poop was still in me after fourteen days of juice fasting and an enema in the morning and evening.   Under my breast I had been carrying a roll for years, now half the roll was gone.  That’s right; half my stomach was flat the other half looked five months pregnant.  Another castor oil pack was placed over my colon again that night with similar results the next morning.  My stomach was now flat.  The roll I had assumed was fat all those years was my colon filled with poop.
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Staying open and willing to be taught can be the hardest part of healing.  All the answers do not lie within us, we must be willing to continue to learn and grow.  As long as there is life there is learning to be done.

Red Raspberry is a great agent for cleansing a canker condition of the mucous membranes in the alimentary tract, leaving the tissue toned.

In pregnancy the infusion, when taken regularly, will quiet premature pains, and will produce a safe, speedy and easy delivery. Raspberry leaves stimulate, tone and regulate (both the leaves and fruit are high in citrate of iron which is the active alterative, blood-making, astringent and contractive agent for the reproductive area) before and during childbearing, assisting contractions and checking hemorrhage during labor, relieving after-pains, then strengthening, cleansing, and enriching the milk of the mother in the post-delivery period.

Dr. Christopher recommended taking at least a daily cup of Red Raspberry tea throughout pregnancy.
He said that in addition to Red Raspberry’s good effects on the uterus it is also anti-nausea.
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A woman who was expecting her ninth child often experienced nausea during pregnancy. When she suspected that she might be pregnant again she began taking the tea even before she began to feel morning sickness. She never experienced any discomfort so she wondered if it might just be an unusual or unhealthy pregnancy, so she discontinued the tea. Not long after she began to feel nausea! She quickly began to take the tea again and felt no discomfort since then.

Alfalfa: Many people consider Alfalfa an important herb to take throughout pregnancy.

If an expectant mother is suffering from morning sickness, she can eat Alfalfa sprouts in her diet, until the condition is under control.

Many people consider that a daily green drink consisting of Alfalfa, comfrey and fresh red-raspberry leaves is an excellent pregnancy drink; it is preferred to a tea made of the same substances.

After the birth, Alfalfa is sometimes taken to prevent hemorrhages. Some women have eaten Alfalfa after their births like candy in order to shorten the postpartum bleeding time.

Alfalfa is also thought to dramatically help bring the milk in for the nursing mother. It certainly enriches the quality of the milk and is much preferable to other hot beverages, such as regular tea, which can pollute the breast milk.
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Alfalfa tea can be flavored with mint, orange peel, and honey.

​Kelp and Toxemia: Kelp, as might be expected, is also of use in the female organs. It will tone up a weak uterus and help produce a healthier baby, as the balanced minerals will be supplied fully with the use of Kelp. Some women who had lost babies in childbirth and others who had not been able to carry babies were helped by the use of Kelp by Dr. Powell's prescription of Kelp to carry healthy baby’s full term. Especially when toxemia threatens during the last stages of the pregnancy, Kelp, being a carrier of important minerals and a toner and an antiseptic, can help clear up an otherwise dangerous condition.

A research project done in the 1950’s by the American Cancer Society shows how it is cancer and tumors are able to develop in a body. Over a period of several years a large group of rabbits were swabbed daily on the ears with nicotine.   Every few months they checked several of the rabbits to see what was happening inside.  Here is what they found.

No tumors or cancer appeared until the eliminative organs were degraded to the point they were unable to properly remove waste from the system.  The real key here is the fact that before any form of cancer or tumors appeared in any rabbit it was observed that the internal elimination organs were greatly compromised. 

Try to get your mind around this proven fact: Developing tumors or cancer is only a symptom pointing to the need to rebuild the eliminative organs in the body.  The liver, kidneys, digestive system ect… are all in need of serious rebuilding. The cancer or tumor is not the issue, only a symptom of a degraded internal system.
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Cutting out the cancer or tumor will not clear the issue from the body.  Not until the internal elimination organs have been rebuilt and are able once again to properly remove waste can a body be truly free from cancer.   One of the Late Dr. Christopher’s favorite sayings was, “cleanse & feed”. You must cleanse out the waste while feeding and rebuilding the system. This is where the entire Incurables Program proves valuable.

Trying to pass on the understanding of how to heal the body can be a daunting task.  When someone is dealing with a terminal condition the window of opportunity for healing can close very quickly in some cases.  While others with conditions may linger for years without showing much impact on their overall health. 

What make the difference?
One factor is, of course, the condition impacting the body.  Among the most serious and fast moving are Pancreatic Cancer and Lung Cancer.  The window of opportunity for clearing these conditions is often very narrow to nonexistent.  Even with the most aggressive natural healing programs often the diagnosis comes too late. By the time the condition has been discovered the disease has progressed beyond the body’s ability to deal. 

Another factor would be the individual’s constitution; the vitality within the person.  Someone with a strong body, mind and spirit will likely have a much easier time clearing the disease from his system. 

The Natural Healing Programs will vary little regardless the condition.   An example would be a case of hives or cancers; both are cleared through the same channels.  In most cases Hives are cleared quickly while cancer will take many months. 

What is it the body does?  One of the best explanations available is posted as a pdf file on the front of our website.  It is called “Health through Nutrition” by Dr. Joel Robbins

DISEASE AND ITS CAUSE
Disease or "dis-ease" is defined as a lack of health. Disease results when any cell is not functioning 100% of its designed duty whether due to trauma, toxicity, lack of communication or a combination thereof.  Disease is due to stress.

Whether due to ignorance or laziness, exposing the body to stress will produce a diseased state of the body. Stress is the only means of tearing down health resulting in disease, our bodies paying the price for violating the laws of nature (our wrong doings). We do not "catch" a disease or illness, we earn it.  We must "work" for disease.

Disease is nothing more than the body responding to the wrong we have done to it. It is the body’s attempt at keeping us alive in response to the wrongs we have inflicted on our bodies.

Pathological changes are the cell's response to stress. These changes or compensations allow the body to survive -maintain homeostasis- as long as the stress continues. These tissue changes which result in disease are the outward manifestation of internal compensation to stress. Until the cause is removed, the condition will remain in one form or another.

Read entire article: “Health through Nutrition” by Dr. Joel Robbins

Treating Warts with Apple Cider Vinegar

I had a really stubborn wart that wouldn't go away even when my doctor tried to freeze it off a couple of times so I went to earthclinic.com and found a treatment that worked really well using ACV, so I decided to give it a try.

If possible, based on the location of the wart, get a small piece of cotton and soak it in some Bragg's or Spectrum ACV and place the soaked cotton ball over the wart with a band aid or some medical tape on top of it to keep it in place. You want to do this a total of 3 times throughout the day with a fresh cotton ball and ACV applied over the wart.  

If the wart is located in a place where a band aid or medical tape won’t keep it in place, which I have had happen before, then what you can do is carry around some apple cider vinegar in a small bottle with a dropper (like the one’s tinctures come in). Whenever you think about it or have a chance just pull out the bottle and place a drop of the ACV directly on the wart.
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I have used this treatment 3 times both with and without the tape and it usually takes about 4-7 days and the wart will eventually turn black, shortly before falling off. It takes a little bit of persistence but any time I have used this method the wart has never returned.
HEAL Member: Albuquerque, NM

Simply stated Hydrotherapy is using water in a therapeutic way.  The power of any healing remedy is enhanced with the use of hydrotherapy. 

It is important to flush the body internally with plenty of clear fresh water.  Drinking the nutritionally rich juices aid in rebuilding a sick body but they do not do the work of flushing waste from the system.  Drinking a good amount of water each day is as important to the health of the body as breathing clean air or eating healthy nourishing foods.

Using water externally to cleanse and open our skin is also an important part of healing.  Taking a detoxing herbal bath can revitalize the entire system simulating the removal of waste through the skin as well as the liver and kidneys. 

Anytime there is disease or injury there is blockage.  A strong therapeutic form of hydrotherapy is commonly called doing “Hot’s and Cold’s”.  Alternating the hot and cold water over an affected area will effectively blast through blockage, allowing the body to flood the diseased or injured part with fresh nutrient rich blood.  It does no good taking in all the great healing herbs and juices if the nutrition is blocked form the injured or diseased areas of the body. 

Consider you want to fire a blood bullet through to blockage around a diseased or injured area.  The Hot water loads the gun.  Use water as hot as can be tolerated.  Do not scald your skin.  Turn the water as hot as you can tolerate without injury.  With your hand wand concentrate the heat over the affected area until the skin is pink with fresh blood.  When heat is applied to the body the blood in pushed to the surface to cool the area. Fresh cooling blood in brought to the area.

Now it is time to fire the blood bullet as deeply as possible through the blockage and into the affected area. The more dramatic the change between hot and cold the more power behind the blood forcing it deeper into the blocked up areas. This can be done in one of two ways. 

1) Turn the flow of water away from the body.  Now make the water completely cold.  IT will take a few seconds for the flow to change to cold.  As soon as the water is good and cold apply the flow back over the affected area.  Allow the flow to remain for a good 60 seconds before changing back to the hot.  Do at least seven “hots” and seven “colds”.

2) Before beginning fill a bucket or tub with ice and water.   After the affected area is well heated and filled with blood plunge the area into the ice water for a good 60 seconds. Do at least seven “hots” and seven “colds”.
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When healing any major disease or injury the “Hots &Colds” should be done three times a day.  Failing to do the hydrotherapy often means the body does not have the ability to heal properly or clear the disease.  

The solidifying effect the LBF #2 has on the bowel is the gift this formula brings to the medicine cabinet. One teaspoon shaken in a glass of water puts an end to any episode of lose uncomfortable bowels regardless of the reason. The effect is normally felt in two or three minutes. It is hard to believe the formula can reach the bowel that quickly, even so, it will clear that upset crampy feeling in minutes. When the bowels have turned to water a rounded tablespoon shaken in 12 ounces of water will normally solidify the bowel within one or two doses. The LBF #2 is to be taken episodically, as needed to solidify a crampy, lose bowel.

Anyone living with Crohn’s disease or any inflammatory bowel condition will find healing answers inside this jar of herbs & clay. The clay and charcoal provide gentle yet unsurpassed drawing power. The LBF #2 pulls inflammation and infection from the bowel allowing the body to quickly heal this most important organ. When beginning to heal these conditions most members discover their bowels are solid after only a day or two using the formula.

As part of the Bowel Cleansing program LBF #2 is considered a “bowel vacuum” as it draws the toxins from the bowel walls knocking out inflammation while solidifying the loose stool. Because of this LBF #2 is the best herbal remedy available for diarrhea & vomiting. It is also a healing gift for any of the inflamed bowel conditions. If your bowels are moving too much or too lose LBF #2 will provide quick relief.

What to do when you can’t decide whether to bend over or sit down.
Ok, so you got it really bad, you can’t decide whether to bend over (vomit) or sit down (diarrhea). Mix 1 rounded tablespoon of the LBF #2 in at least 12 ounces of water and drink all at once. Just gulp it down. Very likely it will come back up, that is OK. Keep it down as long as possible. When it does reappear it will be something like applesauce. While in your stomach it is absorbing the bacteria and acidity that is causing your stomach to vomit.
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Once the poisons have been absorbed and are either passing out through normal channels or you vomit it back up the stomach can be settled easily with an ounce of ginger root juice or a strong cup of peppermint tea. A quick fix is a teaspoon of digestive Tonic in a warm cup of water. Don’t Sip, drink it all at once. This will allow the chemistry to settle your stomach.

Question: My German shepherd likes Superfood in her water. Is there anything in it that is not good for dogs? And, if it’s good for dogs how much might I want to feed an 80 pound dog per day?

Answer: Superfood is great for dogs, all our pets love it.  For an 80 lb. dog, I’d sprinkle two tablespoons over their food each day.
 
BF&C Oil for Pets
When dealing with an older pet the BF&C oil will restore old worn joints. This is a high calcium formula and is as useful for our four legged friends as it is for their two legged masters. The comfrey herb effectively knits the body back together, while other support herbs in this great formula clear arthritic conditions from the entire system. So many of our members have discovered the blessings of BF&C oil for their pets we have begun keeping a supply of the oil on hand.

Depending on the weight of the animal a good dose added to the food dish is:
§  Under 15 lbs. ½ tsp. daily;
§  15-40 lbs. 1 tsp. daily;
§  40-75lbs. Two teaspoons daily;
§  75 lbs. & Up 1 tablespoon daily

BF&C oil is also excellent for the breeding female pet. Providing the pregnant dog with a daily supply of Superfood and BF&C oil will ensure a healthy litter of bouncy puppy power.

The First year of growth in the large breed dog can be phenomenal. My husband’s dog, a Great Pyrenees, gained from 18 lbs. at 8 weeks when we got him to 98 lbs. on his first birthday.  This is a huge amount of growth.  I believe the BF&C along with the Superfood he received every day contributed in a large way to his overall health, great temperament, and beauty. During that first year I had to hide my BF&C salve making sure I securely fastened the lid each morning. If I failed to the jar would be all but empty by the time King was done with his preferred dose. After that first year of growth was finished he stopped craving the BF&C oil and salve, he no longer shows any interest in my salve. He will still lick my fingers clean but does not want the jar.

Support for the Injured Pet
Treating an injured pet is done pretty much like we would do ourselves. If they are bleeding, dripping liquid cayenne into the wound will instantly stop the bleeding. For Infection & wound care the Infection salve, & healing poultice are excellent aids. Several years ago, King took off into the woods behind our place late in the evening. He came hobbling back with his front paw all tore up. He had managed several deep cuts all over his front left paw pad. (Still makes me cringe to think of it.)After cleaning his wound we gooped on a generous amount of Infection salve. We then cut up a cushy kotex pad to cushion his paw which we wrapped with a roll of gauze. To keep him from removing all our hard work we then wrapped the entire leg with duct tape. This worked fairly well as long as we kept him with us, when left alone he would perform his version of bandage demolition. He was also given a tablespoon of the Infection Salve to eat twice each day for the next week.

Yes, the collar could have been useful if he were not so big. King became a one dog demolition service when fitted in that upside down lampshade. He could not see where he was going and really did not care much what happened until that crazy contraption was removed. It was funny in its own sorry way.

The good news is he healed very quickly. On day three we noticed the pad was completely sealed back up and appeared to be healing nicely. We left the bandage off and kept him inside with us for a couple more days. He healed nicely without issues of any kind.

Seizures
If you pet has seizures I would get a diagnosis from a good vet just to know for sure what was happening. Once you know it is possible to apply an herbal approach to control or clear the issue. To instantly stop a seizure in your pet use the Lobelia Tincture. We have found Lobelia to work quickly when smeared around the pet’s mouth. For a small pet drip several drops onto your finger and smear it around his little foamy mouth. He will normally absorb enough using this method to stop the episode. A larger animal can have a dropperful drizzled into, and around the mouth, smearing it in with your hand.

When dealing with any chronic issue in your pet it is possible to apply an herbal approach.
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Note: The only Foundational herbal support that is not recommended for dogs & cats of any kind is the LBF #1. They have a short digestive tract and do not need this support to get the waste out. These creatures can eat and pass just about anything. For diarrhea issues the LBF #2 can be used alone without creating a problem. This formula will quickly solidify a runny bowel. Again it is NEVER OK to give a dog or cat the LBF #1, it will truly rip their little insides up.