A New Resource; http://debrasnaturalgourmet.blogspot.com/

http://debrasnaturalgourmet.blogspot.com/

Bach Flower Questionaire and other resources

"Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality." Dr. Edward Bach - The Original Writings

http://www.bachflower.com/questionnaire.htm

there are 38 remedies and


7 groups; ( 7 emotional states that need our attention, the essence can help you help yourself through your emotive needs. I believe with work through your intellects and emotions; learning how these work together and becoming aware of what they are telling you can be very beneficial.) And along your way, your journey; these wonderful flowers of the fields and glades are here to help us. I see my journey just as we would before motorized transportation and most walked. Some had horses, but even then walking and leading your horse who, wise as he/she was, would want to stop and graze motherearth's mighty plains of delectable flowers and grasses. In our journey I see those blessed habitats. Our flowers of the fields and glades are still there for us. Even sticking out through the cracks of our old bridges and roads. One way or another we need to stop and be with our mother and her bounty. It is still there for us. but I've gone too far. Anyone reading this most likely already knows their own journey, this era, it's journey. With all my respect, here's a bit of info the doctor suggested where flowers help with seven emotional upsets(grandios upsets as it were). I have also known some of these and do work on mine all of the time. I am feeling stuck and remose. Walked with intent and will go check my flowers and fields here in a minute. Caio!

http://www.bachflower.com/7_Groups.htm
1. Fear.
2. Uncertainty.
3. Insufficient interest in present circumstances.
4. Loneliness.
5. Over-sensitivity to influences and ideas.
6. Despondency or Despair.
7. Over-care for welfare of others.

Turmeric; My Favorite!

http://www.wisewomantradition.com/wisewomanweb/2011/04/golden-milk-an-ancient-healing-remedy.html

Divine Nourishment

All I can say is, Aloha!
Openminded and honoring the Divine!
The link is attached to the title which goes to the book site.
It will take you to Amazon, if you like, where you can read
MANY MANY pages of this magnificiant document of one woman's journey!
She is amazing!
 Thank you for visiting~~~

Common Elderberry identification

Here is the link to an identification site
for a book excerpt on the matter;
here's the link:
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/Elderberry.html



"...The tiny, black, globular berries grow on branching, umbrella-like clusters..."



A Cautionary note;
Avoid elderberries species with red fruit growing in rounded, instead of flat clusters.

Honey and Elderberry; a couple of my favorite things~~~

Here are a couple of sites I wanted to hold on to and to share with others.

Apitherapy Raw Honey
Honey Gardens link;
http://www.honeygardens.com/letters.htm

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How to make Elderberry syrup link
You Tube Video;

Free Water Spirit

Let it flow? Let it go? Always the answer;
You know you'll know.
Daily Nourishment for a Woman's Spirit by Nancy Blair, 2002.

From Me for my interpretation for me and you, if you like it. Won't hurt, but it can be a long road if you wait for authority to approve of you or to allow you. Don't wait.

New cycles
Permiss yourself
Be
Sacred
Whole
Empowered

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Gratitude and Lofn walked throughout the world one day.
Lofn asked of Graditude, "what is on the way?"
Graditude told Lofn, "you know this for yourself!"
Lofn smiled remembering she had the answer right!
Happy Graditude!
Good Morning World!
©Allisonians

The Daffodil Narcissus

William Wordsworth probably did more for the daffodil than any other in his enchanting verse:
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of the bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

John Gerard sets the scene ideally for this chapter. The fair Lady Europa, entering with her Nymphs into the meadows, did gather the sweet smelling daffodils:

But when the Girles were come into
The medowes flouring all in sight, That Wench with these, this Wench with those
Trim floures, themselves did all delight: She with the Narcisse good in sent,
And she with Hyacinths content.

Gerard in his Herbal (Woodward, 1990) says “It is not greatly to our purpose, particularly to seek out their places of growing wild, seeing we have them all and every one of them in our London gardens, in great abundance. The common wild Daffodil groweth wild in fields and sides of woods in the West parts of England.”
Today, the daffodil or narcissus is a very popular garden plant and an important commercial crop, with a large number of species, hybrids and varieties in cultivation. Gerard’s Herbal lists 37 different types that were already in cultivation by the end of the l6th century, which demonstrates the popularity of the plant from the early days of horticulture. Many different daffodils are now found naturalised in grassland, hedge-banks, woodland margins, roadsides and waste ground throughout the British Isles, especially in the south.

THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

In the Middle Ages, when the art of reading and writing was known only by a privileged few, there grew up a tradition of the language of flowers, whereby every flower had a meaning. It was a tradition that was revived by the early Victorians, who took great delight in this fanciful idea and collected together much of the information that survives to this day. The example that most of us would recognise is the giving of red roses as a sign of love. In this tradition, the daffodil is for rebuttal in domestic situations: “I do not share your feelings”. However, in battle emblems the daffodil is for regard and chivalry (Greenaway and Marsh, 1978; Pickles, 1990).

MYTHOLOGY AND LEGEND

According to Culpeper's Herbal (Potterton, 1983), yellow daffodils are under the dominion of Mars.
Daffodil flowers, though beautiful to the sight, leave a feeling of sadness when the history and folklore of the plant is examined. In classical mythology there was a handsome Greek shepherd boy named Narcissus. Though he was loved by all the wood nymphs, there was one called Echo who loved him more than the rest. Unfortunately she could not tell him of her love, because she was only able to repeat his last words. It comes as no surprise to learn that Narcissus was totally unaware of Echo's love and adoration for him. He was equally unaware of the pain and suffering that his ignorance of her love was causing her. Echo became thinner and thinner as her love robbed her of her appetite, until she slowly pined away to nothing more than a spirit who took sanctuary in the mountains. Only her soft voice remained. Venus, the goddess of love, came to hear of Echo's hopeless devotion and immediately assigned the blame for her condition on Narcissus, who she decided should be punished. One day Narcissus was hunting in the forest. Little did he know that Venus had arranged with Cupid to set a magic spell on him so that he would fall in love with the first person that he saw. Coming to a crystal clear pool he stopped for a cooling drink to assuage his thirst and there in the water he saw another face rise up to meet his own as he leant over. Narcissus immediately succumbed to Cupid's spell and fell in love. Again and again he tried to catch the face of the spirit who appeared to live in the water. In vain he called out to this vision, but all that could be heard was the faint and sad echo coming from the mountains. Narcissus had fallen in love with his own reflection. Every day he returned to the pool in the hope of capturing the face that he saw there, and every day his tears added to the water in the pool. Slowly, like Echo, he began to waste away with unrequited love. The Immortals were not totally heartless and turned him into a delicate white papery flower, which would grow forever by the pool in memory of the egotistical youth. Another story continues by saying that when the nymphs came to look for him, they only found “A rising stalk with yellow blossoms crown'd”, and that the cup in the flower’s centre of all varieties contains the tears of Narcissus (Pickles, 1990).

The flower has another legend, which is even more gruesome than the former! Earth first put forth the flowers to lure the lovely Prosperine for Pluto, god of the underworld. The maid was so taken with the beauty of the daffodil that she stopped to admire it and as she stooped to pick it, the very worst happened. Pluto looking out from his hiding place took advantage of this momentary lack of attention and pounced out from his lair and seized her. It was, therefore, quite understandable why the ancients labelled the narcissus the flower of deceit. (MacFadyen, 1992).
Another version of this story is told by Perdita in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, where it was Proserpina who was picking lilies and was subsequently captured by Pluto. However, in this story, as she dropped the lilies in her fear, they turned into daffodils as they touched the ground.

HERBAL MEDICINES

Considering that narcissus are a rich source of alkaloids, it is not surprising that the genus has figured in herbal medicine. This has been vindicated by recent developments. The Daily Mail (28 September 1996) carried a headline “Shire says it with snowdrops”. “Flower power could soon be helping sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome. Shire Pharmaceuticals is testing galanthamine, a compound found in daffodils and snowdrops, on victims of ‘yuppie flu’. The drug already has improved the mental performance of Alzheimer's patients.”
However, narcissus are not recommended for domestic use. A homoeopathic medicine is made from the bulbs and used for respiratory disease, particularly bronchitis and whooping cough. According to Culpeper's Herbal (Potterton, 1983):
The roots boiled and taken in posset drink cause vomiting and are used with good success at the appearance of approaching agues, especially the tertian ague, which is frequently caught in the springtime. A plaster made of the roots with parched barley meal dissolves hard swellings and imposthumes, being applied thereto; the juice mingled with honey, frankincense wine, and myrrh, and dropped into the ears is good against the corrupt and running matter of the ears, the roots made hollow and boiled in oil help raw ribed heels; the juice of the root is good for the morphew and the discolouring of the skin.
Galen saith: That the roots of Narcissus have such wonderfull qualities in drying, that they consound and glew together very great wounds, yea and such gashes or cuts as happen about the veins, sinues, and tendons. They have also a certaine clensing facultie. The root of Narcissus stamped with hony and applied plaisterwise, helpeth them that are burned with fire, and joineth together sinues that are cut in sunder. Being used in manner aforesaid it helpeth the great wrenches of the ancles, the aches and pains of the joints. The same applied with hony and nettle seed helpeth Sun burning. Being stamped with the meale of Darnel and hony, it draweth forth thorns and stubs out of any part of the body.
Narcissus are also referred to in John K'Eogh's Irish Herbal (Scott, 1986). Narcissus was said to have a hot and dry nature. The roots, pounded with honey were good against burns, bruised sinews, dislocations and old aches. They take away freckles and heal abscesses and sores, and they draw out thorns and splinters. A decoction of the roots is a great emetic.
It has also been used as an application to wounds. For hard imposthumes, for strained sinews, stiff or painful joints, and other local ailments. The narcissus was the basis of an ancient ointment called Narcissimum. The powdered flowers have been used as an emetic in place of the bulbs, and in the form of a syrup or infusions for pulmonary catarrh. A decoction of the dried flowers acts as an emetic, and has been considered useful for relieving the congestive bronchial catarrh of children, and also useful for epidemic dysentery. In France, narcissus flowers have been used as an antispasmodic. A spirit has been distilled from the bulb, used as an embrocation and also given as a medicine and a yellow volatile oil, of disagreeable odour and a brown colouring matter has been extracted from the flowers, the pigment being quercetin, also present in the outer scales of the onion. The Arabians commended the oil to be applied for curing baldness and as an aphrodisiac (Grieve, 1998). The influence of daffodil on the nervous system has led to giving its flowers and bulb for hysterical affections and even epilepsy, with benefit. It entered into the books as a purge and a vomitive and a cure for erysipelas and the palsy (Grigson, 1996).

FOOD USE

On the upper Nile, Grant found a narcissus about 20 cm high, with white flowers having a waxy, yellow corona and with leaves tasting of onions. The leaves, cooked with mashed groundnuts, he reported, make a delicious spinach (Sturtevant, 1972).

by G Hanks

REFERENCES

Anon. (1997) Daffodils and cancer. Medical Journal of Australia, 167, 180-181.
Britten, J. and Holland, R. (1886) A Dictionary of English Plant Names. PUBLISHER, London.
Coombes, A.J. (1994) Dictionary of Plant Names. Hamlyn, PLACE OF PUBLICATION.
Cooper, M.R. and Johnson, A.W. (1991) Poisonous Plants and Fungi - an Illustrated Guide. Second impression, HMSO, London.
Davison, G.C. and Neale, J.M. (1998) Abnormal Psychology. 7th edition, John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York, pp. 340-341.
Dony, J.G., Jury, S.L. and Perring, F.H. (1986) English Names of Wild Flowers. 2nd edition, The Botanical Society of the British Isles, PLACE OF PUBLICATION.
Genders, R. (1985) Natural Beauty - the Practical Guide to Wildflower Cosmetics. Webb and Bower, PLACE OF PUBLICATION.
Greenaway, K. and Marsh, J. (1978) The Language of Flowers. Holt, Rinehart and Winsher, PLACE.
Grieve, M. (1998) A Modern Herbal – the Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folklore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs and Trees with all their Modern Scientific Uses. Tiger Books International, London.
Grigson, G. (1996) The Englishman's Flora. Helicon Publishing Ltd., PLACE.
Hedrick, U.P. (editor) (1972) Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World. Dover edition, PUBLISHER, New York.
Kohut, H. (1971) The Analysis of the Self. International University Press, NewYork.
Kohut, H. (1977) The Restoration of the Self. International University Press, New York.
Kohut, H. and Wolf, E.S. (1978) The disorders of the self and their treatment: an outline. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 59, 413-425.
Koopowitz, H. and Kaye, H. (1990) Plant Extinction - a Global Crisis. 2nd edition, Christopher Helm Ltd., PLACE.
MacFadyen, D. (1992) A Cottage Flora. Select editions, PUBLISHER, PLACE.
Manning, S.A. (1965) Systematic Guide to Flowering Plants of the World. Museum Press, PLACE.
Pickles, S. (1990) The Language of Flowers. PUBLISHER, London
Potterton, D. (editor) (1983). Culpeper's Colour Herbal. W.Foulsham, PLACE OF PUBLICATION.
Tyler, V.E., Brady L.R. and Robbers, J.E. (1988) Pharmacognosy. 9th edition. Lea and Febiger, PLACE.
Vickery, R. (1995) A Dictionary of Plant Lore. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Woodward, M. (editor) (1990) Gerard's Herbal. Studio edition. PUBLISHER, PLACE.



©Allisonians (I sketched this for fun and it was)
Please ask me for permission to use my drawings, which are my attempt to play. I sketched this from the print of the woodcuts of the 1601 Raiotum Plantarum Historia(account of the rare plants) by Clusius, father of descriptive botany. Given free use of the prints which is aloud with mention of the book, Plant and Floral Woodcuts for Designers & Crafts(wo)men,©1974 dover Publications, Inc. Dover Pictorial Archive Series. Above is my sketch of #8 narcissus/daffodil,silly silly

On[un] ~ Syrup and other Wild Concoctions

I woke up this morning with that feeling in my throat that I had recently heard (throat clearingly) in others nearby and thought, My un~syrup, I went to the fridge and poured out the last of it, then made some fresh.
On Syrup
I use 1/3 roughly cubed onion (I use what I need, or what I have and adjust accordingly) and enough sugar to cover it, prepare it in the ½ pint to pint jar I store it in. I leave it out for a half an hour then put it in the fridge. In a hurry, I warm it slightly so the sugar dissolves quickly, but I think the quality is slightly effected as well. You can strain the liquid and store in a dropper bottle, or just store with the onion. I do both depending on time and such
(it's the same idea as when you prepare strawberries for strawberry shortcake if you use sugar.) If you do not use sugar, it can be prepared by cubing the onion and boiling it.
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I have heard of using honey, but have not done that myself. I have soaked garlic cloves in honey as Susun Weed explained in one of her videos on You Tube. I didn't like taking by spoonful(but this could be the quality of honey I had). She recommended it for preventative and oncoming ills. I used it as a facial when I started getting a break out and it worked exceptionally well! I also used it on the souls of my feet and it softened them very nicely.
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There are also some great teas. Breath Easy by Traditional Medicinal [caution, it's strong], but the ingredients can be found easily. I also found an interesting homemade throat lozenge on You Tube by Herb Mentor or Mountain Rose Herbs. It had the same kind of ingredients.
The following are ingredient in the Breathe Easy Tea;
Licorice root
eucalyptus
bitter fennel fruit
Bi Yan Pian dry Aqueous extract(I don't use when I make my own)
peppermint leaf
Calendula flower
Pleurisy root {Asclepias tuberosa, common from Canada southwards, growing from Ontario to Minnesota, most abundantly southward and southwestward, is known popularly as Pleurisy Root, from its medicinal use. Its stem forms an exception to Asclepias in general, by being almost or entirely devoid of the acrid milky juice containing caoutchouc, that distinguishes the rest of the genus and has gained them the name of Milkweeds.
---Description---It is a handsome, fleshy rooted, perennial plant, growing 1 to 1 1/2foot high and bearing corymbs of deep yellow and orange flowers in September. When cultivated, it does not like being disturbed, and prefers good peat soil.
The rootstock, the part used medicinally, is spindle-shaped and has a knotty crown, slightly but distinctly annulate, the remainder longitudinally wrinkled.
The dried root as found in commerce is usually in cut or broken pieces of variable size, 1 to 6 inches long and about 3/4 inch in thickness, externally pale orange-brown, becoming greyish-brown when kept long, internally whitish. It is tough and has an uneven fracture; the broken surface is granular; that of the bark is short and brittle. The wood is yellowish, with large white medullary rays. The drug is almost inodorous, but has a bitterish and disagreeable, somewhat acrid taste.}
&
ginger rhizome(root)
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I also love French Onion Soup. I cut the onion longwise in rings, fry them in a splash of olive oil until soft, pour just enough brags liquid aminios (about a liberal tablespoon) add a clove of garlic, let cook just a few moments, add enough water to cover, (as you do for potatoes for mashing), and let cook 20 minutes. I make crutons as I am waiting, toast with parmesan for dipping. YUM~~~
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My other task this morning was infusing my dandelion leaves. I can't wait for the end of the day to have some. I am a lover of the little lions since I was a small child. There was a fable about the lion of the dandelion that I don't remember lucidly, but tacitly. I want to research it, but I kind of like the childhood fables from my life that are remembered like a dream. It makes it fantastic!
Happy things and what a glorious day!

Disclaimer; this is my blog for referencing. I am not a professional obviously and am only referencing and sharing some of the wonders I have found in the garden. They help me, but I still see my doctor when I feel ill. She gets a giggle and a gaggle when she listens to my medicine cupboard inventory.

I also like cherry bark syrup when I need it.

Namesta!

Lu Yu Biography

Lu Yu (Chinese: 陆羽; pinyin: Lù Yǔ; 733–804) is respected as the Sage of Tea for his contribution to Chinese tea culture. He is best known for his monumental book The Classic of Tea (茶经), the first definitive work on cultivating, making and drinking tea. (In researching this; Ebay had the modern translation for $63 to $716.13 US dollars. I am sure with some industry one could find a better deal.)

According to popular legend, Lu Yu was an orphan of Jinling county (now Tianmen county in Hubei province) who was adopted by a Buddhist monk of the Dragon Cloud Monastery. He refused to take up the monastic robes and was assigned menial jobs by his stepfather. Lu Yu ran away and joined the circus as a clown. At age 14, Lu Yu was discovered by the local governor Li Qiwu who offered Lu Yu the use of his library and the opportunity to study with a teacher. During the An Lushan and Shi Siming rebellion period, Lu Yu retired to Shaoqi (now Wuxing county, Zhejiang). During this period, Lu Yu made friends with many literati, including the calligrapher Yan Zhenqing and the poet Huang Pu Zheng and wrote his magnum opus: Cha jing.

For Lu Yu, tea symbolized the harmony and mysterious unity of the Universe. "He invested the Cha jing with the concept that dominated the religious thought of his age, whether Buddhist, Taoist, or Confucian: to see in the particular an expression of the universal".

Romantic Period (690-1279 A.D., Sung Dynasty)

During this period, every aspect of tea was further refined. Harvests became carefully regulated affairs. Before the harvest began, sacrifices were made to mountain deities. After a specific day was chosen to harvest the leaves at their peak, the tea pickers picked leaves to the rhythm of a drum or cymbal. The tea pickers were usually young girls who had to keep their fingernails a certain length in order to pick the leaves without touching their skin. The freshly harvested leaves were sorted by grades with the best grades sent to the emperor as tribute. A cake of high grade tea could be worth several pieces of gold while one of the highest grade would be priceless. Tea during this time was made by breaking a piece off a tea brick and grinding it into a powder. This powder was then added to hot water and whipped with a bamboo whisk.

Tea rooms and houses were built in order to enjoy tea at a social and spiritual level. There were even competitions among tea connoisseurs who were judged on the way they conducted their ceremony and on the quality of the tea leaves, water, and brewed tea. The art of making ceramic tea equipment was developed a great deal during this period. Tea bowls became deeper and wider to aid in the whipping. Since the prepared tea had a very light green hue, black and deep blue glazes were used on the bowls to enhance the tea’s color. The most famous style of these bowls was a black bowl with lines running down the bowl called rabbits fur. Zen philosophy dominated this period and tea preparation became less complicated and more peaceful. The Japanese art of tea has its roots from this era.

A couple of quotes or so;
“The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly”
Lu Yu
Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
Lu Yu

Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.
Lu Yu

Water, Agua, H2O

Today I'm sharing the true story of what is probably the
least-understood health secret in the Western world. It's something
your doctor never told you and health authorities never learned. And
yet it could be the key to solving the very health problems you may be
suffering from right now, including high blood pressure, asthma and
even arthritis.

This secret isn't patented. It's not available by prescription and it
costs almost nothing. In fact, from time to time, it falls out of the
sky and collects in huge pools on the Earth.

What is it? Water.

Water may someday be recognized as the single most important healing
medicine we could possibly consume, and our special report, "The
Healing Power of Water," explains why. You can read it right now at:

http://www.naturalnews.com/Report_water_cure_0.html.

Physicians rarely promote the curative properties of H2O, but Dr. Batmanghelidj, M.D. has studied water's effect on the human body and has found it to be one of the best pain relievers and preventative therapies in existence. I was one of the last people to interview the late Dr. Batmanghelidj, and I listened in awe as he shared his research and stories about "The Healing Power of Water."

In a fascinating one-hour phone conversation, Dr. B. shares:

• Which common ailments and "diseases" are actually caused by dehydration

• Why many doctors use water-regulating antihistamines to alleviate pain

• How Dr. Batmanghelidj unintentionally discovered water's healing properties

• Why most people are chronically dehydrated and suffer from symptoms of dehydration that are labeled "diseases"

• Which ingredients in soft drinks deplete the body's water reserves

• Why thirst is not a reliable indicator of dehydration

• Why the body produces cholesterol and how water keeps it in balance

• Why Dr. Batmanghelidj believes the public is being mislead about AIDS

• How dehydration impairs mental functioning

• Why some organizations want to withhold alternative health information from the public

• How lack of water causes depression

• Why popular beverages are no substitute for water

• How dehydration causes the vascular system to constrict, leading to hypertension

• How to recognize signs that your body is starting to dehydrate

• Why restaurants push you to drink disease-promoting soft drinks

• Why and how water effectively treats pain and inflammation

Discovery of the water cure
Mike: Welcome everyone, this is Mike Adams with Truth Publishing, and today I’m very excited to be welcoming Dr. Batmanghelidj, author of Water For Health, For Healing, For Life. Welcome, Dr. Batmanghelidj.

Dr. B: Thank you very much for inviting me to be on the air with you and giving me the opportunity of sharing my thoughts on the future of medicine in this country.

Mike: I think there are many, many people who have read your books. People are intrigued by the idea that water can be a therapy, a healing substance for the human body. What is it about water? How did you first become aware of these healing properties of water?

Dr. B: Well, it’s very bizarre. As you know, I’m a regular doctor, an M.D. I had the honor and the privilege of being selected as one of the house doctors, and I had the extreme honor of being one of the last students of Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. I mention his name so that you know I was immersed in medical school and research. And some years later, I had to give two glasses of water to a person who was doubled up in abdominal pain from his disease, because I had no other medication to give him at that moment. And he was in excruciating pain, and water performed miraculous relief for him. It gave him relief -- within three minutes his pain diminished, and within eight minutes it disappeared completely, whereas he was doubled up eight minutes before and he couldn’t even walk, he completely recovered from that situation. And he started beaming from ear to ear, very happy, asked me what happens if the pain comes back? I said, “Well, drink more water.” Then I decided to instruct him to drink two glasses of water every three hours. Which he did, and that was the end of his ulcer pains for the rest of the duration that he was with me.

Mike: And from that episode then, what happened next?

Dr. B: That woke me up, because in medical school I’d never heard that water could cure pain, that kind of pain, in fact. And so I had the occasion to test water as a medication in subsequently over 3,000 similar cases. And water proved every time to be an effective medication. I came away from that experience with the understanding that these people were all thirsty, and that thirst in the body can manifest itself in the form of abdominal pain to the level that the person can even become semi-conscious, because that’s the experience I had. And water picks them up every time.

So when I came to America in 1982, I went to the University of Pennsylvania, where I was invited to continue my research, and did research in the pain-relieving properties of water. I asked myself, why does the pharmaceutical industry insist on using antihistamines for this kind of pain medication? So I started researching the role of histamine in the body, and the answer was there -- histamine is a neurotransmitter in charge of water regulation and the drought management programs of the body. When it manifests pain, in fact, it is indicating dehydration.

So, the body does manifest dehydration in the form of pain. Now, depending on where dehydration is settled, you feel pain there. Very simple, and I presented this concept at the international conference as the guest lecturer of a conference on cancer, explaining that the human body manifests dehydration by producing pain, and pain is a sign of water shortage in the body, and water shortage is actually the background to most of the health problems in our society.

Because if you look at what the pharmaceutical industry is doing, they’re producing so many different antihistamines as medication. Antidepressant drugs are antihistamines, pain medication are antihistamines, other medications are directly and indirectly antihistamines. So, that is when my work was published, the scientific secretariat of the 3rd Interscience Board Conference of Inflammation invited me to make this presentation on histamine at their conference in 1989, in Monte Carlo. And I did that, and so it became a regular understanding that histamine is a water regulator in the body. But unfortunately, this information is not reaching the public through the medical community because it’s not a money-maker.

So that’s when I began to consider writing for the public, so that the public could become aware of the problem directly without the interference of a doctor, and that’s how I have generated all my medical information for the public. Of course, I have published extensively for the scientific community, but no one is picking up. In fact, the NIH, the Office of Alternative Medicine, had its first conference when the office was created, and I was asked to make my presentation, but when the proceedings of the conference came out, my presentation was censored after the proceedings. So there is a movement afoot within the NIH group of people to keep a closed lid on my information so that it doesn’t get out, because obviously they are more in favor of the drug industry, because it is now obvious that they are getting paid by them.

Mike: I think it is, first of all, that is an amazing account of what has been happening, and I think it is fair to say, too, that the pharmaceutical industry and organized medicine in general, really doesn’t want to promote anything that is free or near-free to the average patient. Sunlight is available at no charge, water is available at nearly no charge -- would you agree that their thinking is if people can cure their diseases, and achieve a high state of health on their own with these free substances, then that diminishes their profits and their importance?

Dr. B: Absolutely. That’s why I’ve created an organization now called National Association for Honesty in Medicine. Because I think it’s totally dishonest, in fact, criminal, to treat a person who is just thirsty, and give them toxic medication so that he gets sick and dies earlier than normal.

Mike: Can you give out the web address to that organization, by the way?

Dr. B: My website is http://www.watercure.com -- it gives you the option of going to one site or the other -- either Water Cure.com, or you can go the National Association for Honesty in Medicine. Or you can go to the information side of my website, http://www.watercure.com, because I have posted all of my scientific articles on dehydration on the website, and lots of other free information that people can have.
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Their post today has an amazing article with one of my favorite salads. It is made by an amazing little lady on GT's blog video there. The little lady, Clara, on this video garners from her depression experiences with much ambition, and a beautiful soulful manner to inform of her unusual boundy and outlook in such times.

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Cheer's to Mother Nature's boundy and the simple pleasure found there!

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Dick Greggory and a Yummy receipe.....

Dick Gregory was the subject of my last blog. I have his book;
Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' with Mother Nature;

Here's my favorite receipe from this book

Dick Gregorys' Always in the Soup Health Power Uplift
2 Tomatoes
1 cucumber
1 small squash
1 bell pepper
1 avocado
1/2 a small onion
1 clove garlic
enough pure water to blender the ingredients (1/2 to 1 cup)
Cut them up and blend them in a blender.
Add 2 tablespoons of honey
You can serve this delicious cold oR heat in a double boiler and serve warm

I, personally, like it warm, but it's delicious cold, with whole wheat crackers.
I don't use green pepper, and usually don't use the cucumber. You can use what part of the list you like.


There is a world of information in his book. I will add more down the road a bit.
Good food, good health
Check out more of Dick Gregory's wisdom on his website. He's very interesting indeed
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