Low salt diets are highly controversial in real food circles, and have been proven again and again to be harmful to overall health, and deadly in many instances. Modern medicine still clings to it though, because it is easier to recommend a low salt diet than to address the actual issues.

Excess salt in the diet is sort of irrelevant anyway, since the human body simply flushes excess salt, and hypernatremia (high blood salt) really doesn't happen except in cases of dehydration. So why anyone ever thought that salt was the issue is beyond me! (Of course, salt substitutes are a lucrative industry, so that may be the issue.)

People now feel guilty for every bit of salt they add to their food, and this is just plain NUTS! If you cook from scratch, you HAVE to add salt to your food. If you do not, you end up with too little salt, which is more dangerous than too much. Hyponatremia is no joking matter

No need to feel guilty - your body will crave salt when you need it, but not when you do not. You can trust your taste buds to know when you need it and when you do not. It is pretty much impossible to over-consume salt, because you just can't get it down! It will taste TOO BAD.

Low salt is recommended for high blood pressure and certain types of heart disease, but high blood pressure is not affected by salt intake. What is clear is that a diet with severely restricted salt, over time, is more harmful than the high blood pressure.

Low salt has been linked to higher cholesterol and higher triglicerides.

Low salt in the diet is a PRIMARY cause of Constrictive Heart Failure, not proceeded by progressive heart disease. This is SUDDEN DEATH from Heart Failure.

In cases of PINCHING HEART PAIN (very sharp and very focused), treatment with SALT AND WATER has proven effective. Just a pinch of salt, and a half glass of water, relieved the pain within 2 minutes in 100% of participants in a study involving 22 individuals experiencing unfamiliar pinching chest pain, none of whom had ANY indication of heart abnormality in diagnostic imaging (all had X-ray, MRI, Light Stress Echocardiogram, and Holter testing).

Salt is a PRIMARY FLUSHING AGENT In the body. Ample fluids and generous salt are REQUIRED if you are detoxing from exposure to airborne or foodborne contaminants. Your body just USES a lot of salt to move fluids through, this is HOW it flushes toxins from your body (pee is salty, remember? Every time you flush WATER, you also flush SALT). This means if you've been burning trash, breathing air fresheners, or if you have a metabolic or mitochondrial dysfunction that causes toxins to build, or if you have Kidney dysfunction, YOU NEED SALT. It is ALWAYS salt to taste - as much as makes your FOOD TASTE GOOD.

Sea salt is recommended over refined salt, and it may be an excellent option for people who are afraid of salt. The thing is, the minerals in sea salt help you to feel satisfied with a lower amount of salt. You pretty much CANNOT eat too much salt without it gagging you - your body will simply turn away from it. If you CRAVE it, you NEED it. But you feel satisfied FASTER with sea salt because it has more additional minerals in it that help you USE the salt more easily. This means, with sea salt, you can SALT TO TASTE, and you will get the amount your body NEEDS, and you don't have to worry about overdoing it.

We've been taught to believe that our taste buds may not be trusted, that they'll just make us fat and unhealthy, but that isn't true. When you feed your body fresh foods as much as you can, and make foods from scratch, you'll find that things balance out - but you will STILL crave a bag of potato chips, or a greasy cheeseburger sometimes, just not all that often. When my body is in balance, I go weeks without craving chocolate (that is a completely astonishing thing, believe me!).

I get asked a lot about salt amounts in pickled foods, because I sell a lacto-fermentation product (http://fermentacap.com), and I've researched this for that reason. High salt foods are self-limiting. You won't crave them unless you need them, and the flavors are so strong that you will stop eating them before they become harmful.

Low salt diets are the same as so many other trendy food patterns... They are recommended based on myth.

Testing that showed benefits from a low salt diet were skewed. This is how it goes:

Group of people with specific health problem are selected from a pool of people who largely eat refined foods.

Low salt diet is recommended - now at this time in history there are ABSOLUTELY NO "low salt" convenience foods. NONE. No refined foods that are low in salt either.

In an effort to meet the diet requirements, the participants increase their intake of foods prepared at home from scratch, and increase their intake of fresh foods.

ASTONISHMENT!!! The low salt diet has proven effective in reducing risks of heart disease! Wow! Who knew?

Food manufacturers RUSH to produce low salt versions of all the refined and convenience foods available.

All the participants gain weight, decline in health, and go back to their previous state, and then decline more rapidly. But no matter, the study is over, and nobody is watching.

Subsequent studies FAIL to produce the same results. Low Salt instead proves deadly.

Because it NEVER WAS THE SALT. It always was the FOOD QUALITY.

Many subsequent studies have shown that salt is NECESSARY to heart health, and that a low salt diet is not only not helpful, but actually harmful to heart health. They consistently show that a diet containing high amounts of FOOD, instead of food like substances, promotes health in every respect, and that the body is fully capable of regulating salt levels, craving it when it is low, and flushing excess.


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This is not a comprehensive herb list, it is just some that I've used and know enough to write about.

Most of these have OTHER uses also, this is just what I have used them for.

I do what I do because I understand the science behind it, and I've researched worldwide sources to verify the safety of my practices to my own satisfaction. Please do your own research, and proceed AT YOUR OWN RISK

 

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A Bit About These Herbs

This list includes a lot of familiar herbs, and many unfamiliar ones. I've put in everything I have used, for myself or my family, and a few that I am otherwise very familiar with.

Many are those that I've grown in my own garden. I have dried them, made them into syrup, and I've filled capsules with them. I've used my blender to powder them (it isn't perfect, but it works), made tea with them, and some of the edibles I've used in soup when we needed them.

Some are weeds, some are common garden plants. I prefer to start with edible plants and derive herbals from them, but some are purely medicinal and used in smaller amounts. Most of these are ancient traditional.

 

If You Are Scared Of Using New Herbs

Start with edible herbs. These are herbs that are also used as foods, or are known to be edible, though they may not always be tasty or easily chewable. This is the safest class of herbs to begin using when you are uncertain of all the conflicting (or missing) information regarding them.

Most of the herbs listed as "edible" are not consumed in large quantities, or frequently, and there is usually a reason why people do not love to eat them. A good many are just more suitable as medicine than as food. Some of the ones listed as Inedible are in fact edible, but not palatable, or have to be used so carefully that it is not worth the bother to list them as edible. It is still a reasonable guideline though, to start with the Edible list if you are hesitant about trying new herbs.

 

Herbs Work Differently From Person To Person, For Verifiable Scientific Reasons

The major reason is that they require digestion, and no two people ever seem to digest them the same. Pharma drugs are all one thing, and you have to absorb and metabolize them, but the digestion process is simplified. Herbs have a complex carbohydrate digestion requirement, so one person may use it effectively, and another just pass it through unprocessed, with no effect (though you usually at least get a "tea" effect!). Tea is more effective for people with digestive disorders, but again, not all people digest or metabolize them the same. Metabolization of the herbal elements is also different from person to person, so even those who digest it fully may utilize it differently.

 

There's A Difference Between Raw And Cooked, Processed And Unprocessed

Some of these herbs are used in cooking, or as side dishes. There is a difference in them between their use as food, and their use as herbs, in many instances, just due to how they are processed. Generally though, the safer they are as food, the weaker they are as low dose medicine.

 

Herb List In Alphabetical Order!

 

Edible Herbs

Acai Berry - Mitochondrial healer, can be used in conjunction with Coffee Berry or Green Tea Extract, though it balances and supports healing of different mitochondrial issues. Traditionally used as a helpful herb in the healing of polio damage. Best with berry and seed (so juice is NOT as effective as tea or capsules).

Alfalfa - Should avoid overuse during pregnancy, this can help with hormone stabilization for women otherwise.

Aloe (Aloe Gel) - Skin and hair health, and useful for cuts and burns. Can be used internally, for intestinal health, and some other uses, but best with NONE of the green of the leaf in the preparation. Aloe is associated with risk of miscarriage if the green parts of the leaf are consumed during pregnancy. Has antibiotic properties, but should be used in combination with other antibiotics.

Allysum - Nice antiviral, can be used synergistically with many mild antivirals such as burdock. Antibiotic in combination with Apricot, Passion Flower, or Creeping Charlie. May help with tuberculin lesions and some kinds of slow growing cancers.

Apple Blossom - Broad spectrum antimicrobial (antifungal, antiviral, antibiotic). Healing tonic herb. Best as whole herb, but makes a nice tea. Apple Leaf may be used instead, but is not as tonic. May help heal the immune system but should NOT be used if you are under treatment for, or at high risk for blood cancers.

Aronia Berry - Similar uses to blueberry, but also has anti-fungal and antiviral benefits. Useful for healing eyes and ears.

Bee Pollen - Antihistimine in effect. Traditionally used for bee sting reactions, or pollen allergies, but for some reason this seems to work on all kinds of allergies. I've used it to back off anaphylaxis (slow building reaction) when I was hypersensitive to chlorine and got overdosed - could NOT go to the hospital, because their medications ALL contain chlorine, and even benadryl or zyrtec would make the reaction WORSE (I was allergic to both at the time - medical help would have killed me). But bee pollen came to my rescue quite a few times, using 1-2 capsules, and obtaining slow relief within half an hour, needing another dose generally in 24 hours, more or less. The effect of bee pollen as an antihistimine declines with regular (especially daily) use, so it is NOT a substitute for simply removing the irritants from your life as far as possible.

Begonia Blossom - Mitochondrial healer, should not be used frequently for this purpose. Also a good antiviral when combined with chamomile or burdock. We do not use Begonia Leaf.

Bilberry - Used by the military in studies to improve night eyesight, with reported good effect. Bilberry leaf may be used in the same manner as Elderberry leaf. Also has antifungal properties.

Blessed Thistle - Useful in the same way as Milk Thistle, but also as a gentle antibiotic, best used in combination with other antibiotics. Flush detoxer.

Blueberry - Blueberry is known for having similar benefits for kidney health, but also provides elements that support liver function. High bush blueberries are the least effective, and low bush are the most effective. Saskatoons are a crossover that contains strengths from both types of blueberries, in lower amounts, and some other elements that support general organ health and endocrine health. A blending of all three is particularly helpful.

Bromelain (Pineapple Enzyme) - Ok, so there's this thing running around online about how this is the world's most powerful cough suppressant. NOT, NOT, NOT!!! It is a wonderful digestive enzyme for people who are low on them, and Pineapple Juice or Fruit is a terrific addition to many meat and protein recipes to help digest or metabolize them. But it is not a cough suppressant. Yes, we cough a lot, and we tested. Bromelain IS an effective anti-fungal, and if you have issues with absorbing herbs, it can help with that. You can make a digestive aid by using the stems, cores, and even the skin (remove the dried bract ends) and green leaves of fresh pineapple. Dry them, and powder them and encapsulate the powder in large capsules. May help with tuberculin lesions and some kinds of cancers, and IS a traditional remedy for Pertussis (Whooping Cough), which might explain the myths. Best NOT taken on an empty stomach.

Burdock - Excellent mild anti-viral, with many other historic uses. This is a FLUSH detoxer, which helps flush out unwanted chemicals from the body, and as such may be harmful or helpful when used by people with low kidney function. Also considered to be a good anti-bacterial, and has synergistic benefits with many antibiotics or anitivirals. This works excellently with Olive Leaf Extract as an antiviral blend.

Calendula - MOST VERSATILE antibiotic, good anti-viral. Useful internally (tea), and externally (wash, salve, etc). I have seen this heal a pressure infection on an amputee stump literally overnight, when medications and other treatments had failed - worsening sore - for days. It is both healing and cleansing. Works for SOME fungal infections, not all. One of my go-to herbs. I have used this in capsule form, both petals, and entire flower, and it has successfully treated an abscessed tooth. The entire flower is DIFFICULT to digest and metabolize, but is highly effective once your body gets used to it (taking it with juice can help). This is also my go-to for gastroenteritis (intestinal infection with vomiting). We got food poisoning from a local restaurant, and it was particularly vicious. Calendula tea took it down immediately, though it took several doses to conquer fully. Not every antibactierial agent can do that, some require metabolization, or they need to get into the bloodstream to work, but this one is a contact antibiotic which also goes bloodborne when consumed. Hops can do this also, but is not quite as broad spectrum. Works well with Black Walnut Hull as an antiviral, and with Linden in the same way.

Candied Orange Peel - Antibiotic, antifungal, antiviral. Chew on a bit for an easy way to treat internal infections, toothache or mouth sores. Orange peel can be used without being sugared, but it metabolizes easier with sugar. Lemon, Lime, or Kumquat peel can substitute. Works synergistically with Yerba Mate or other Ilex (holly), or Mahonia species. Yes, the sugar does help. May help with tuberculin lesions and some kinds of slow growing cancers, in combination with Cooked Ginger. Candied Orange Peel, in combination with Candied Ginger, is a traditional treatment for mumps and polio, and was used by sailors for African Haemorrhagic Fever, and Elephantitis.

Chamomile - Calming tea, often used in sleepy time blends, and tummy ache remedies. Traditional lore says do not use heavily when pregnant, as it was once used as an emenogogue. Makes a nice hair wash, and may be healing for some scalp conditions. Chamomile combines as a buffer to minimize toxic side effects of many antibiotic herbs also. Helpful in healing the immune system, and is NOT a risk for people at high risk for blood or lymph cancers.

Chickweed - Lovely crunchy salad green, which has a chemical in it which reputedly aids in weight loss. I would not use this as an extract or tea for weight loss, it is so good in salads, and it should not be used long term anyway, it is just a seasonal green. The manner in which it works does lead to fat breakdown, but if you have chemical sensitivity, or metabolic or mitochondrial problems, rapid fat breakdown can cause severe reactions from chemicals stored in the fat cells - your body will often trap unwanted chemicals in fat cells, and then it is not able to break them down properly, so use of this herb may cause idiopathic allergic reactions, random rashes or skin outbreaks, digestive problems, brain fog, or other really weird side effects, that are from the elements stored in your fat cells, and not from the herb itself. It is still a delicious vegetable though, and it is hard to get enough in the occasional salad to cause problems. My only complaint is that the growing season for it is so short, and it does not want to grow in my area. I have ordered this dried, and it can be either encapsulated, or used as a nourishing tea. It can cause problems if used daily for more than a few weeks. Can be used as an effective anti-fungal, either as a wash, or internally. Combines well with anti-cancer herbs to increase effectiveness and reduce harm. Traditionally used for treatment of polio in combination with Prostrate Knotweed, but never as a sole remedy, and it can only be shown that results were improved, not that these herbs cured polio. Also used with mumps, but does not help if immune system is suppressed (mumps will suppress the immune system since it acts on the lymph system, if you have it for more than a few weeks, so Chickweed is only effective early in the course of the illness).

Chinese Knotweed (Fo-ti) - This herb has all manner of reputed benefits. I use it as a metabolic balancer, and as an antimicrobial booster in combination with other antibiotics or antivirals. Interchangeable with Prostrate Knotweed, though the balance of the properties is a little different. Both Knotweeds are traditional healers of endocrine glands and some types of nerve damage (removal of scar tissue), but they are both nutritionally supportive of healing, and they MAY be mutanogenic in people who have poor nutrition (if diet is restricted in animal fats and proteins, specifically). Caution when using in people with tuberculosis, especially where lesions or tumors are known to be present, or where lung damage is visible or audible, as this type of healer may aggravate tuberculin growths.

Chrysanthemum Petals - Antibiotic, fairly effective. WARNING! Do not take if you have heart disease, or if you are experiencing chest pains. WARNING! Not advised during pregnancy. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Cinnamon - Useful for diabetic blood sugar control. I've used this, recommended dosage produced a measurable drop in blood sugar with use over several days. Problem is that it is harsh on the digestive system, and many people cannot tolerate the necessary doses to produce long term results. Also considered to be antibiotic, mildly anti-viral, but has blood thinning effects if overused, so use with caution.

Cranberry - Excellent for kidneys. Someone out there is circulating a rumor that cranberry is not helpful for kidney function. Ignore them, it is actually very effective for kidney and bladder infections. Yes. I've used it. Yes, it stopped the infection. Yes, I lived through it. I have family members who use this also, under direction from a nephrologist. Blueberry and lingonberry are effective alternatives. Helpful for flushing harmful toxins.

Dandelion - High in iron, sometimes used for diarrhea for that reason. More effective as a vegetable than as an herb in most cases. May be diuretic, and dandelion blossoms make a popular salve for eczema. Has some anti-microbial effect if combined with Burdock or Blessed Thistle. Also a Flush Detoxer, so use with care if kidneys are compromised.

Dandelion Blossom - High in vitamin A precursors and niacin metabolites (helps the body USE niacin). This is a gentle antibiotic, which is highly effective for some conditions, but not for others, and we generally use it as a supportive antibiotic in conjunction with stronger antibiotics. Supportive of mitochondrial repair. Tonic and healing in general. Best prepared WITHOUT the green calyx on the blossom, but can be used with it. Helpful in combination with anti-cancer herbs, helps heal incidental tissue damage.

Daylily Blossom, or Root - Antimicrobial, suitable for internal use, Daylily is fairly gentle and works best in combination with other antimicrobial herbs. The Blossom is more highly antiviral, the root more strongly antifungal. Contains elements that encourage the repair of bone, cartilage, skin, and nerve tissue - this is NOT a mutative regenerative, but it is a regenerative stimulant, and should be used with caution in that application.

Dianthus Petal - Metabolic healer, which is NOT mutative.

Dill Weed - Useful for clotting disorders - only where too much clotting is a problem. Can be taken regularly as a preventive, and while I can't prove it worked, it did seem to help. Fennel leaf will also help with this in a similar manner.

Elderberry - Popular anti-viral, but also antibiotic. Leaf is most effective. Not good to take this on a daily basis, it is like most anti-microbials, either the microbes get resistant, or it depletes your body of the good microbes. Best if taken with either Passion Flower or Burdock. Some people do have a reaction to this (I had random itching), but it will either diminish or get worse with the second or third dose, and you'll know if you can overcome the reaction, or if you should not use it.

Fernbush - Mitochondrial healer, for acquired mitochondrial damage. Heavily antibiotic, but only as tea, we don't break this down well. Spectacularly foul tasting! Read About the Taste of Fernbush. Excellent anti-tuberculin herb.

Garlic - Antibiotic in function, though rumored to be anti-viral (many are both, but stronger on one form of microbes than another). This is also a blood thinner, and this is where I've found it to be most useful, and where I need to be cautious. You don't want to be crunching the toast with baked garlic spread on it if you are having bleeding issues. Can be useful for treating blood clots or phlebitis, but has a rebound effect if you use it too long, so should only be used for short term situations. (For the record, I DID go to the doctor, but the ER was an hour away, and driving there resolved the clot, but did not resolve the problem that caused it, so I used garlic for the next few years at the first sign of vein pain to stay OUT of the ER, and it worked marvelously.) Should not be used for more than a few days in a row, though if you regularly consume large amounts of garlic your body does adjust to the higher amounts.

Geranium Blossom or Leaf - USE WITH CAUTION, this contains regenerative elements which may be mutative with overuse, very like comfrey. Helpful for healing soft tissues in the body, including neural tissue. The leaf is antibiotic, and antifungal. Contrary to historic advice, this should NOT be used to combat TB, due to its regenerative properties which will stimulate cellular growth. Do not take on empty stomach.

Ginger (COOKED ONLY) - Reputed to settle an upset stomach or morning sickness, and ginger snap cookies, or candied ginger were sometimes used in that capacity historically. I can attest that for many people though, raw ginger can give you a glorious case of heartburn! There's a reason for the conflicting results. RAW ginger is a different thing than COOKED ginger. Raw ginger is more potent and will cause more burning sensation. Cooked ginger is gentled down. So if you are using ginger for digestive issues, use COOKED ginger, either in your meals, or in a small cookie or candied form. Ginger syrup is also a very useful choice for treating digestive issues. Ginger has antibiotic and antiviral effects as well, which DOES work right in the stomach, so if you have contracted a stomach virus, or have encountered a case of food poisoning, it is a great choice to treat the symptoms and the cause with a single herb (except with MRSA... MRSA feeds on sugar, so candied ginger is not recommended, but cooked ginger is excellent). I've used it for this purpose, and it is effective for me. I have also ground up candied ginger and put it into capsules, and this is a good antibiotic, and does not generally cause heartburn. Ginger can be combined with pretty much any other antibiotic or antiviral herb, when you need a one-two punch. Cooked Ginger is also an immune balancer, which helps to restore bone marrow function, it is NOT a regenerative stimulant, it is nutritive.

Ginseng Syrup - Fairly sour, but Ginseng syrup can be used as a fast administration of Ginseng for a person in a metabolic crisis. Unless you ferment this for alcohol (or leave it too long after opening and it volunteers), you cannot get high on it. It is just a metabolic agent that helps your body USE resources better. This gets in quickly, and is helpful for Inverse Angina.

Gladiolus Blossom - An edible Blossom, which also has good antibiotic properties. We combine this with Motherwort, which enhances the antibiotic properties, and also makes it effective as an antiviral. Helpful with tuberculin ulcers. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Hawthorn - Used for heart health, should be used with caution, as it can conflict with some heart medications. May be used as a booster with some anti-microbial herbs and mushrooms. Helpful for healing chemo damage.

Hemp Seed - Used as a protein supplement. Unfortunately, it is VERY hard on the digestive tract, and causes kidney stones with prolonged use, so whatever benefit it has, gets lost to intestinal damage and nutritional deficiency secondary to malabsorption issues, or to kidney malfunction. This one is one I've encountered personally, so I know for myself that it isn't something that does what it is promoted for. The effects are slow, and insidious, so many people using this do not notice that it is associated with the use of hemp seed. I was carefully controlling my diet at the time though, and when I added the hemp seed, I monitored carefully. After 3 days, I found myself in a slow decline, and my digestive health and appetite diminished gradually until I pinpointed the cause, removed the hemp seed, and promptly recovered.

Henbit - Gentle antibiotic, tonic healer. Helpful for healing tuberculin ulcers.

Hops - Very effective antibiotic if used as a tea or taken as capsule, and an acceptable antiviral, but the problem is that it is very hard on the intestinal tract, and will cause irritation and pain within a few doses. Should ONLY be alternated with other antibiotics, and not used by itself, works best with Calendula, or alternated with Calendula, because the Calendula can help to heal the digestive tract if not overused (it does strip out useful microbials, the same as ANY antibiotic will do, so be careful!). And an added bonus if you use Hops as a tea - seldom will you ever find a more vile and wretched concoction to try to force past your taste buds, it is worse even than Yarrow. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Hosta and Plantain - These two herbs are better used as foods in most cases, sauteed with butter and garlic or butter and Redmond Real Salt Seasoning Salt. Still, they are useful as a buffer for Pumpkin Leaf, or Black Walnut Hulls, and they have mild metabolic balancing effects. They are generally easy to digest if you get the younger tender leaves. Broad and Narrow leaved varieties of both are equivalent, but the smaller varieties of Hosta are better than the giant ones. Both can be used as a poultice to sooth rashes, stings, and fungal infections (this is one way BOTH were used traditionally). Not effective for anti-cancer use. Good vegetables when you are in healing mode though.

Hyssop - Mild flavored tea, I am not sure about capsules, never used them. But I can attest that hyssop is a gentle cough relief herb. It does not quiet it all, but takes the edge off, and may be useful for pneumonia, and bronchitis, where you CAN'T suppress the cough completely without worsening the infection (since mucus stays in the lungs), but where you need to give just enough relief to allow some sleep (if they sit up, and use hyssop, they might be able to get some rest without drowning or coughing themselves to a vomitous state). Hyssop is NOT sedative, and does not seem to depress the central nervous system like many cough relief remedies, so it is safer for those with apnea. Has a gentle healing effect on lung tissues as well. Should not be used with Olive Leaf Extract or Golden Seal. Most effective when combined with Motherwort, but this blend IS sedative for some people.

Impatiens Blossom - A mild healing antibiotic similar to Calendula but not as strong or as broad spectrum. Good against Perfringens and some kinds of E. coli  infections though. Good skin healer if used as a wash.

Iris Leaf and Blossom - Iris blossom is healing and mildly antiviral and antibiotic. It was traditionally used in the treatment of tuberculosis. Iris leaf is not edible, but is antibiotic and antiviral, and is one of the milder ones, considered to be safer for use with children. Useful in helping heal the immune system, but should not be used by people with active blood cancers.

Juniper Berry - Highly antimicrobial, may be harsh though, and it is recommended that you take it with burdock, chamomile, or milk thistle. Historically used to treat polio and mumps. Also used historically for some kinds of chronic degerative heart conditions, but we think this may be that it is useful (with other herbs) in the treatment of polio and strep. Makes a good antifungal wash. Avoid combining this one with forsythia blossom or gladiolus blossom. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Lamb's Quarter, Goosefoot, Good King Henry - All of the plants by these names are metabolic detoxers, and can be used in place of Moringa to remove the serious effects from chemical toxins (such as air fresheners or burning plastics, though NOTHING will remove enough of the toxins to stop all the effects, and it WON'T make it safe to burn plastic).

Lilac Blossom - Mitochondrial balancer and healer, provides elements that help the body balance for mitochondrial dysfunction. Somewhat antibiotic and antiviral, combines well with Petunia leaf for this purpose. Helpful in healing the digestive system but should NOT be used if bowel cancers are present. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Lemon Balm - Lovely lemony tea, and reputed to help with depression, and calming to an anxious stomach. Wonderful when planted along walkways, the smell just wafts up! Not recommended during pregnancy. Dried Lemon Balm has antibiotic properties, and works synergistically with mint. Good intestinal healer, may be used to heal from cancer damage. Also good for healing other fast growing cells in the body, including bone marrow.

Lemon Thyme - Helps to restore pancreatic and liver function. Mildly antibiotic and antiviral. Very good aromatic to put into potpourri burners, or for use in poultices. Lemon tends to diminish when it dries, so this is best used fresh.

Maca - Reputed to help with reproductive issues, and issues of intimacy, which means you get funny looks if you buy this for reproductive issues. Does increase blood flow to the pelvic region (and internal organs) so caution is advised if any uterine bleeding is present. Low doses generally considered safe for pregnancy. May be helpful for polio, to improve blood flow.

Milk Thistle - Renowned liver healer. May also help with kidney health to a lesser degree. Good Flush Detoxer if your kidneys and liver are functional.

Mint - Mildly to moderately sedative or relaxing, depending on the type of mint. Mama's Curly Mint could put you to sleep in half an hour, and peppermint tea was her go to for kids with an upset stomach. Not useful for acid reflux or acid indigestion, can make it worse. Not useful for treatment of emotional disregulation, except as an occasional recreational tea to relax and reduce episodic stress. Recommended for healing intestinal damage from auto-immune disease, but large doses are more harmful than helpful. Peppermint is one of the stronger mints, and has antibiotic properties, but when overused may burn or cause damage. Strong mints in high amounts are not recommended during pregnancy. The milder the mint, the more healing it is.

Mustards - Wild Rough Mustard, Tansy Mustard, Blue Mustard, or cultivated Mustards, plus Broccoli Raab and Radish Leaf, are all interchangeable, though some are stronger than others. Stalks, leaves, buds, and blossoms are all equally powerful, so you can dry and use the parts you don't cook, even if they are overgrown. Gently antibiotic and antifungal, and work well as metabolic balancers. Many people do not tolerate these well, or they do not enjoy them as food, but if they are prepared cooked in butter, with garlic, it can help to make them palatable and more digestible. Often people who do not tolerate them well on first exposure will do so better after the third to fifth exposure to them. If you have metabolic or mitochondrial dysfunction, occasional consumption of small amounts of Mustards can be helpful. More is not better. This is both a food for healing, and an herb which can be dried, ground, and encapsulated for use. Works best as a synergystic antimicrobial, combined with other antimicrobials.

Nasturtium Blossom and Leaf (Bud is more concentrated) - Antimicrobial (viral, bacterial, fungal), taken internally may aid healing of soft tissues, and particularly the sclera and other tissues of the eye. Very useful in aiding in recovery from chemotherapy or radiation treatment, as this herb contains many nutritive elements that support healing in a very specific way, without being a regenerative with mutative risks. The Leaf is the more powerful antimicrobial, and the blossom is more powerful for healing. May help with healing tuberculin lesions.

Pansy Blossom - Mitochondrial balancer and healer, provides elements that help the body balance for mitochondrial dysfunction. Somewhat antibiotic and antiviral. Works well with Lilac Leaf and Petunia Leaf for anti-viral. Not helpful for end stage viral disease where the digestive tract is dysfunctional.

Pansy Leaf - Antibiotic, antiviral, helps with healing nerves, and red fibers in muscles.

Passion Flower - Same as Linden flower, but not as tasty. Exactly the same - recommended as a relaxant when it is not, and same repurposed use as an anti-microbial, with good effect. Works well as an antiviral when combined with Elderberry leaf or flower.

Petunia Flower - A tonic healer and balancer, aids in repairing and improving bodily functions. The Leaf is a good antiviral and antibiotic, depending on what you combine it with.

Pumpkin Leaf - Edible but must be boiled and drained, then pan cooked. Antibiotic, antiviral, and a metabolic balancer. Can be very harsh for some people since it is hard to digest, so we blend it with Hosta, with 2 parts pumpkin leaf to 1 part hosta. Works well against tuberculin lesions and nodules, and some types of slow growing cancers. Considered historically to be one of the best all around antimicrobials. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Purple Dead Nettle - Metabolic balancer, adjuster. Tonic healer, and a gentle antiviral.

Purslane - Substitutes directly for Jade, with the same properties, but it is only half the strength. Purslane is used DRIED as a medicinal, which concentrates it. It takes a LOT, since it shrivels up so much when it is dried. Narrow Leaf Purslane (Halogeton), is a direct substitute for Purslane, but it takes twice as much Narrow Leaf as it does ordinary Purslane. NOTE: Narrow Leaf Purslane is mistakenly listed as a noxious weed, and a non-native invasive. It is native to the desert southwest, in the US, and it is just a high oxylate plant, the same as Purslane. Rabbits like it in small amounts, and it is not harmful to them. It is edible in the same manner as Purslane, but it is not as tasty, the leaves can be picked and sprinkled on a salad.

Rose Hips - Red seed pods left after the roses die, these are found most easily on wild roses. VERY high in vitamin C, not recommended for people who do not clear vitamin C well (if oranges give you raging headaches). These are a good source of natural vitamin C, but they are also antibiotic, and antiviral in effect, and contains some antifungal elements.

Rose Petal (or leaf) - Flush detoxer. Helps the body flush out harmful chemicals or excess nutrients. Best used with sugar, and with lots of water, either as a syrup or sweet tea - the sugar helps draw out fluids from the body, and carries some things with it. High in Vitamin C, so people with Vitamin C processing disorders should use with caution - high heat preparations have reduced vitamin C. Rose petal and leaf also has antiviral and antibiotic properties, and can help with healing of bone and marrow. The petal is nicest for tea, but the leaf works well in capsules and is more strongly antibiotic than the petal, and the petal is more antiviral than the leaf. Flush detoxers should be used with caution for people with kidney or liver dysfunction, because the flushing of toxins from the body causes strain on the kidneys and liver.

Royal Jelly - Surprisingly, this has some benefit. It is mildly neuroregenerative, and mildly endocrine regenerative and stimulative (it stimulates some types of growth in bees), and can cause abnormal hair growth if you are cavalier with it! Not the kind of hair growth you want, either - random asymmetrical whiskers and heavier leg hair are not always appreciated. Should NOT be taken daily, should be used with caution.

Saffron - A general healer, and a gentle anti-fungal, Saffron is pretty darned expensive unless you can find a source of encapsulated. This is low quality, too low for cooking, but it has the medicinal benefits you want, and it is not cheap, but it can be fairly affordable if this is the herb you need. Sometimes Turmeric is substituted for Saffron in cooking, but you cannot do that with medicinal, they are not the same, even though they do some of the same things. They heal in different ways.

Sage - Culinary sage works as an excellent antibiotic, but it can be harsh on the digestive system when it is not cooked. Doses of dried, powdered, and encapsulated sage are low compared to what you think they'd need to be. 1 to 3 size 1 capsules are sufficient to have an effect as an antibiotic, and to cause bowel irritation in people who are sensitive to it. Cooked sage (or sage tea) are better tolerated for people who may have irritation from it.

Sarsparilla - Can be substituted for Linden or Sassafrass for antiviral benefits, or used along with apricot leaf or mulberry leaf if treating a viral and bacterial infection at the same time.

Snow On The Mountain (Bishop's Weed) - Mitochondrial healer, should not be used daily. Also has antibiotic properties, and antiviral properties, which are enhanced if it is blended with burdock. Some evidence showing effectiveness against neural tumors, when used in very LOW dose. Most people will get raging headaches from therapeutic dosages though (one size 1 capsule per day). Research shows that this is an effective chemotherapeutic herb but it is so harsh that the side effects are unendurable. Do NOT take on empty stomach. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Spotted Dead Nettle, Dead Nettle - Gentle antiviral, tonic and healing.

Spruce or Pine Bud - I make a syrup from these, using a pressure extraction process. I use them for healing progressive damage from mitochondrial disorders, and in a preventive blend to help reduce symptoms from chemical exposure. They are both powerful antiviral and antibiotic agents, both internally and externally, but MUST be used with caution, as they can be very harsh. Spruce bud (NOT Pine) can be helpful for soft tissue tumors, but must be used in very low doses (less than a single size 1 capsule per day).

Squash or Cucumber Leaf or Blossom - Mitochondrial compensator, should not be used daily. Antibiotic or antiviral kicker, when combined with mild antibiotics or antivirals, Also makes an effective antifungal wash. Good blended with Sunflower Petal or Safflower Petal, and Moringa, to balance a reactive immune system. Pumpkin blossom also works, but watermelon blossom does not. Blossom may be used for treatment of inverse (resting) angina. Ineffective with neural tumors, tuberculin tumors (squash leaf shows some results, cucumber does not), and endocrine cancers. Has shown some promise with bone cancer, and intramuscular tumors. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Sunflower Leaf or Petal or Safflower Petal - Both are edible, but they are also bitter in flavor. I've used both as antivirals, and as antibiotics to a lesser extent, and they do work. Sunflower leaf works well as both, if combined with Chinese Knotweed or Prostrate Knotweed. Safflower leaf should NOT be used as a substitute for Sunflower leaf. Do NOT take Sunflower Leaf on empty stomach.

Sweet Potato Vine - Antiviral by itself, antibiotic if combined with Motherwort or Burdock, also works as a mitochondrial balancer to help prevent certain kinds of mitochondrial damage in the presence of intolerable substances. Morning Glory is related to Sweet Potato, and can substitute, in equal quantities.

Thyme - Historically used to treat Asthma, but not as a relief agent. Used as a preventive and general healer to improve the condition long term. Anti-microbial, especially anti-fungal.

Turmeric - A double edged sword if there ever was one! Turmeric is actually a good healer for intestinal issues, I've used it. Recommended dose is about a tsp a day, which is hard to get into your diet, and capsules are the easiest method. I don't recommend using it daily - I used it every day and got about half a tsp of it into a meal, using it with a sweet and sour marinade for vegetables or meat, but could not use it long term. Turmeric, you see, is stored a long time, so producers and packers treat it with a sprout inhibitor which kills surface cells in the intestines. So unless you can get TRULY organic Turmeric (most organic is still treated), it has limited benefit - the backlash is often worse than the original condition.

Wild Lettuce - No sedative or pain relief effect at all. Just so you know. But it does have some mild metabolic compensator effects. The best use for this is to feed it to your rabbits. It makes delicious meat.

Whitetop Buds, Flowers - Antibiotic, superior parasite deterrent (animal and human both), the open blossoms are useful in the treatment of TB lesions and tumors. Tonic healer, metabolic detoxer, gente antibiotic which is especially good for use with other antibiotics for TB. Dry, powder, and encapsulate, this one does not work well cooked. On the other hand, it is reputed to be a tasty edible, though it is a semi-bitter mustard.

 

 

Strictly Medicinal Herbs

CBD, Payote, Datura, Nicotania, and other similar substances are NOT listed here. They are NOT MEDICINAL HERBS. They are intensely addictive (proven by the need for rapidly increasing dosages to maintain the same effect - that results in dependency), and they are especially destructive to brain tissues, organ tissues, and endocrine tissues specifically. If a substance gets you high, it IS destructive... Duuuuuhhh.

These substances do not provide actual pain relief, they only cause sedation (which only dulls pain somewhat) and psychiatric effects while the pain continues. You cannot take ENOUGH of them to suppress the pain entirely, without killing yourself. They are INEFFECTIVE for seizure relief, and this has been shown by many studies, as they are not autonomic neural depressants, and most will make seizure disorders WORSE since they cause damage to the regulatory functions of neurotransmitters not only in the brain, but in the entire body.

Those claiming chemo relief, pain relief, or nausea relief from any of these are without exception, substance abusers PRIOR to their claimed use of these substances. Medicinal marijuana permits are NEVER issued to first time users, or to non-substance abusing patients in mainstream health, for treatment of any condition. They are all destructive to kidney and liver tissues, CBD especially, and reports to the contrary are false. Any time you put a toxin (classified as toxin by it's destructive effects) into the body which requires filtering out, it will cause damage to the kidneys, liver, and generally to the circulatory, pulmonary, and lymph systems as well. This is another irrefutable scientific cause and effect that just IS.

We have found that only ONE kind of person defends these substances as medicinal, and those are substance abusers who are fairly deeply into drug culture, and already heavily addicted. They repeat a backward lie they've been told, in the attempt to justify their substance abuse, but the cleverness is gone, the intellect that helps them excel is destroyed, and they slide down into a state of really stupid increasing criminal activity and uselessness. Not exactly a healthful or desirable "medicinally beneficial" outcome. Studies list this as "decreasing ambition and motivation". All righty then.

Claims that specific substances are being persecuted and kept from being used medicinally due to a conspiracy by the government are absurd. The pharmacological industries have more than enough power to steamroller the release of these substances as genuinely medicinally benefical, and you better believe there's so much money in it, that they'd grab them, refine them, and release high priced drugs to the medical community in a heartbeat, just as they have with Opium. The problem is, once you cross that line, if they DON'T actually provide the claimed benefit, people sue. If they have serious side effects or long term destructive effects, people sue. No pharmacy company in the world will take the risk of THAT as legit medicine. Only drug addicts claim benefit, and they aren't after the actual benefit, only a plausable excuse for their addiction. For these substances, the money is NOT in the truth, it is in the myth that they are actually good for something, or it is in the addictions.

There are, in fact, drugs on the market made from those plants, refined and renamed. They are rarely hallucinogenic, they are USUALLY sedative in effect, and sometimes used as vasodilators, or even neurotransmitter disruptors. They are still HIGHLY addictive. Once you take out the psychiatric effects (the part that gets you high, as opposed to just sedating you), no one is interested anymore in the fact that it is marijuana, datura, or payote, or nicotania or whatever else it started out as. Proponents of these abused substances claim that if it does not get you high, it no longer has the "full benefit" of the substance. Like we can't see through that one.

Don't get all warped out. If you are a drug user who just wants to get high, go get high. But let's be honest about it. (Oh, right. Dishonesty, especially with self, and especially ABOUT the addiction is one of the characteristics of addiction.) Whatever. Just quit claiming it is in the interest of your health, because it isn't.

 

Aloe, Green (Whole Aloe Leaf) - Green aloe is the entire aloe leaf, OR, the green leaf skin after the gel has been extracted. Used traditionally for small, non-malignant tumor reduction (including tuberculin nodules), but does have a side effect, it will cause mild infectious pockets to form in the tumor, even when used in low doses. Every other day antibiotic is needed to reduce this side effect. Do NOT use during pregnancy, it is reputedly an abortifacient. If you dry your own, be aware that a LOT of healthy fresh leaf makes a TINY TINY amount of powdered dry leaf. Use sparingly, it takes very little to obtain an effect - size 1 capsules, and no more than 3 per day (one per day is standard starting dose). Aloe does grow fairly rapidly if it is watered moderately once a week - this is the best method we have found of increasing production. This is NOT an effective substitute for chemotherapy for malignant cancers. Dried aloe leaf may be used to make a tea to use as an external fungal wash.

Aloe, Yellow (Aloe Stem) - Yellow aloe is the stem of the aloe, that goes into the ground, but does NOT include the roots. It is yellow, and woody, and covered in papery leaf remains. This is a solid antibiotic, and a healer. It is sometimes used in companion with Green Aloe, and is a reasonable preventive, but you still may need a periodic heavy duty antibiotic. To prepare your own Aloe Stem, you need to process the entire plant (a great thing to do with all those baby aloes!). The top goes to gel or green leaf, and the long tapered stem (sometimes called "Aloe Trumpets), is cleaned, with the roots being chopped off, and the papery skins removed. It is then sliced or chopped and dried, and ground to use in capsules. This also is something that takes a LOT of fresh aloe to produce a very little amount of herb.

Apple Leaf - Like Apple Blossom, broad spectrum gentle antimicrobial (antibiotic, antiviral, antifungal), one of the safer ones for children, but generally NOT effective on MRSA or Strep. May be used as a booster with other tier one antibiotics (Calendula, Hops, Bacopa) for treatment of harsher infections. Does not hamper the immune system like harsher antimicrobials can do (pharmacological antibiotics do that also). Has healing properties for chemo and environmental damage.

Apricot Leaf EXTRACT - Antibiotic and antiviral, use with caution. Apricot Leaf should NEVER be used unless it is prepared as an extract, which removes certain toxins. We prepare this by making a pressure cooked tea, or a boiled tea (20 min). It is drained, and the leaves are dried, then powdered and encapsulated, half and half with chamomile in #1 size capsules (Chamomile acts as an extra safety buffer for Apricot Leaf). Apricot Leaf syrup is also useful, and does not need the chamomile with it - you can take the tea from the extract preparation, and add 2 cups sugar for every 1 cup of tea, and boil it just long enough to dissolve the sugar, then waterbath can it in small jars. Apricot leaf contains toxins that are cooked and leached out when the leaves are boiled, and the leaf is rendered safer to use. If you combine it with Chamomile it can buffer the leaf. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Arnica - Healing and antiseptic and antifungal herb. Not generally recommended for internal use, dosage is low if used internally, at 1/3 tsp crushed herb. Traditionally used as a salve, but works as a wash also. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Aspen, Cottonwood, Leaf or Bud, Bark, Catkins, etc. - Used to make salve or ointment for wound dressing, all three of these are fairly powerful antibiotic, and good anti-virals. I make syrup from these for internal use, using a pressure extraction method that reduces toxicity. All three may be used as a boiled tea, boiling for 15 minutes (the extended heat does destroy some of the harsher elements in them), but you want the tea to be fairly weak, using only 1/2 tsp herb per cup of water, rather than 1 tsp. USE WITH CAUTION, not recommended during pregnancy, and not recommended to use as a capsulated herb without processing it to reduce toxicity. Bark is mildest. Leaf tea can be used as an external wash for localized viral lesions (Herpes).

Aspen Cone - Historically useful for treating TB, antibiotic. Low dose works best.

Bacopa - This herb is a harsh bitters, and is NOT recommended for the treatment of bowel disease. It is antibiotic though, but works best with a buffer, such as moringa, to reduce the side effects. It has been studied for neural effects, and there is some evidence to suggest it can affect neurotransmitter use in the brain and body. It does not react well with other harsh antibiotics, and it is recommended that it be used with care. Also has antiviral effects, and works for resistant viruses. A good option when a virus has not responded to a more common herbal combination (such as Elderberry and Passionflower, or Olive Leaf Extract and Burdock, or Black Walnut Hull and Calendula, or Apricot Leaf Extract and Cooked Ginger). Some sources list this as an edible, but it is so bitter that I cannot see anyone choosing to eat it. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Bitterbrush (Sometimes called Bitterbrush Hawthorn) - Antibiotic and healing. Traditionally used for Pleursy and Pneumonia, and other internal organ infections. Helps carry other substances into internal organs, so it works well with other antibiotics when they need to penetrate protected organs in the body. Helps with healing nerves in internal organs including the heart, and helps with healing the vascular system. Has some anti-cancer effect, when combined with other bitter antibiotics.

Black Cohosh - Used for recovery from miscarriage, affects both hormones and uterine bleeding.

Blue Cohosh - Used to induce labor contractions. It can really work, if the pregnancy is ready for it, otherwise just makes your stomach sore. Sometimes recommended to reduce uterine bleeding, by contracting the uterus - and it CAN help with that, but overdose is a real risk because it may affect other smooth muscles. Can cause hemorrhoids if overused. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Black Haw - Relaxer - this one is addictive if used regularly. Used historically to stop uterine contractions to prevent premature labor. WARNING!!! Black Haw relaxes the uterus, so MUST NOT be used if uterine bleeding is present, because it WILL make it worse! It can increase blood flow to the uterus by relaxing the muscles also. Can be used as an emergency medication for petit mal or focal seizures, the relaxant effect of this herb has a mild suppressant effect on seizure activity - it takes 2 hours for tincture to take effect though. This herb DOES slow intestinal motility - which means it can give you constipation. Should not be used for stress relief, too addictive.

Black Walnut Hull - Fairly strong antibiotic, and antiviral use with caution. Many people cannot tolerate this. Do not use more than a few capsules of this, and it is not recommended for long term use. Works synergistically with Oregon Grape Root for antibiotic. Ineffective for people with digestive problems that prevent the full breakdown of the hull. Also strongly antifungal. Works best as an antiviral with Calendula. Avoid high doses. Ok, so traditionally this is recommended as something you can use to make a wash (from tea), for external fungal infections, but it stains your pan, your washcloth, your hands, and your skin (Black Walnut Hull is also used to make INK!). If you're desperate, maybe, but otherwise, NOT attractive! Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Borage Oil - Light mood lifter, known historically as "the herb of happiness". The oil works synergistically with St. John's Wort for mood stabilization. Used as a healer for skin, and can strengthen hair formation in the folicles, which can, over time, reduce split ends as the stronger hair grows out. Kinda odd to see this, if you use it intermittently, you can tell which hair formed with it, and which did without it, and you get a band of breakage at a certain grow-out point. Can help reduce chilblains, and sceborrhetic dermatitis, also recommended for heart health in place of Evening Primrose Oil, both are high in gamma linoleic acid.

Brigham Tea - Useful as a metabolic compensator, like ginseng, though the effect is somewhat different. CAUTION!!! If you use this wrong, you'll end up with a marvelously effective purgative (diarrhea anyone?), and you won't be able to get the benefits that are most useful. To reduce negative side effects, this is prepared as a weak tea, using a pressure pot. 12 branches, 3" or so long, for 6 cups of water. Pressure on high 10 minutes, then add 6 TBSP sugar (sugar substitutes do NOT work!), and pressure on low for 5 minutes. End result is a pleasant flavored PINK tea. Should not have more than 1 cup a day, and should not be consumed daily for more than 2-3 days. Cans well! Has been shown to have inhibitory effects on uterine cancers.

Cascara - I never licked the bark when we were peeling cascara trees when I was a kid, but I was assured that the experience would be motivating and unforgetable if I did. Strong laxative. Overuse will produce such painful cramps that it will bring a grown man to tears, and can cause astonishingly painful hemorrhoids. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Chanca Piedra - This has been shown in studies to help dissolve kidney stones, but should NOT be used on a daily basis. It is spectacularly foul tasting also. Has been shown to be useful in overcoming some kinds of organ cancers. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Chrysanthemum Leaf and Flower - WARNING! Dosage of Chrysanthemum is SMALL. Use 1/8 tsp crushed flower. Severe side effects if over used. Strong antibiotic, moderate antiviral. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Comfrey - Controversy, controversy! Yeah, it can cause cancer. Yeah, it can aid healing. We find that when something has a cellular regenerative effect, it also has potential carcinogenic and mutanogenic effects, because when you stimulate the body to reproduce cells at a rapid rate, errors in DNA replication are more common. So if it WORKS, it DOES have a natural, and reasonably provable side effect. Just the cost of having it do the job. NOT recommended for inclusion in products that are used repeatedly in the same place on the body. Not recommended for use as a recreational tea. If you take those warnings, it IS useful for occasional emergency or first aid use. Most often used as a healing salve - do NOT apply this when dirt or infection may be present in a wound, use Calendula instead until the wound is clean - Comfrey may cause the wound to heal over with debris or infection sealed in. It DOES work internally as well as externally though, and people who have high cancer risks should absolutely avoid use of this tea for healing. There are other healing options which are supportive of healing, rather than regenerative, which are more appropriate. This herb also constricts skin, so you do NOT want to use it to try to treat new stretch marks... Trust me... Misery does not BEGIN to define the discomfort it causes on a pregnant belly!

Coffee Berry Extract - Metabolic compensator, similar to ginseng, BUT.... Coffee beverages, brewed hot, tend to concentrate some components, and lose others, so it is NOT the same! Green Coffee Berry is also whole herb, and contains many things that are not helpful for health, so when we say Coffee Berry Extract, we mean just that - Extract. The immune depressive effects of coffee are well documented, and totally unhelpful for healing the body since it is so addictive that it is difficult to use it properly even if you DID need immunosuppressive properties! Extract is recommended, since it has much of the caffeine and tannins removed, but still retains the elements needed for medicinal use. This should not be taken on a daily basis, but for me, I have needed it less and less as time goes on, it seems to compensate, and heal, both. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Creeping Charlie - CAUTION - Use only in capsules, dosage is 1/16 tsp powder. It has several medicinal elements, and contains its own buffer that is lost if you make a tea or other extraction. Use low dose until you know whether you can tolerate it, reactions are common. Dry the leaves and vine, powder them, and encapsulate in #1 or smaller capsules. More than 2 capsules not recommended. This is a historic remedy, and it is strongly antibiotic, but does not work well for some strains of strep. Should not be used for more than a few doses in a row unless combined with a mild antibiotic herb (there are many, and it works with pretty much any GENTLE antibiotic). May be useful in treating slow growing cancers, if used in low doses. Do NOT take on empty stomach. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Curl Leaf Mountain Mahogany - Subs for Linden, antibiotic, antiviral, tonic (weak tea), attacks both TB and lesions. Helpful for healing of heart damage, and to help prevent damage during or following episodes of heart pain.

Dianthus Leaf - Antibiotic, and useful as a metabolic healer and balancer. Best combined with other antibiotics for that use.

Dong Quai - A hormone stimulator which is believed to help increase growth hormone levels. Not to be used on a daily basis for extended periods of time.

Echinacea - I love this herb, but it does not love me. It is a good antibiotic for me, but not a good antiviral. And it is not an enjoyable tea, so I take it as an herb when I need it. Best used with Golden Seal, or Burdock, or Blessed Thistle. Echinacea has received a lot of press being recommended as an antiviral, but historically it was used as an antibiotic. It is a good herb for preventing secondary bacterial infections which tend to develop on top of many viral illnesses, which has lead to confusion about what it should be used for, and just what it is doing. It CAN be useful as a mild anti-viral booster, if it is used WITH mint, or oregano. Its real strength though, is as an antibiotic. Echinacea petals are an excellent healer, especially for soft tissue. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Eleuthero - CAUTION! The minute we state the use for this, people run out and try to get high on it, and it DOES NOT DO THAT. This is very like Ginseng in usage, it improves metabolic and mitochondrial function, and should be used in LOW doses. It does not work like caffeine in giving you a rush, it just helps muscles sustain a little longer in activity. It is also VERY useful in situations of high body pain, because it contains components that enable the body to naturally reduce pain. IT IS NOT A PAIN SUPPRESSOR. It has no sedative or depressive effect. It simply supplies the body NUTRITIONALLY to be able to sustain nerve health, repair nerves, and reduce pain signals. It contains fragments of neurotransmitters that help reduce pain. Non-mutative healer.

Evening Primrose Oil - Recommended for heart health, but often used for female hormonal regulation. Sometimes used as a vaginal suppository for labor preparation as a natural alternative to prostin gel.

Forsythia Blossom - WARNING! Low dose herb - 1/4 tsp crushed blossom. Antibiotic and Antiviral, depending partly on what it is used with. Works best with a buffer such as Milk Thistle, Chamomile, Red Raspberry Leaf, Strawberry Leaf, or Blackberry Leaf, and may be used synergistically with cucumber leaf. Can be used in the treatment of tuberculin or slow growing cancers, but should be combined with a buffer, such as Ginger, or Chamomile. May be used to make a wash (from tea) for external application on localized viral lesions (Herpes). Do NOT take on empty stomach. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Gemnema Sylvestre - Usually gives you a headache, but has been reported to aid with blood sugar balancing. If taken with Cinnamon and Mullberry, chances of side effects are reduced, and the blend rounds out the treatment for blood sugar imbalance. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Ginkgo Leaf - Considered to be good for improving brain function, specifically memory and organizational functions. May be helpful for some types of ADHD. While it is not recommended (medical sources list a warning) for individuals with seizure disorders (there is a suggestion that it may be countereffective for some types of seizures), but may be useful for some kinds of brain healing, even where episodic (predictable) seizure disorders are concerned - use with extreme caution and careful monitoring under this circumstance. I have about three types of focal seizures which I treat with herbs, and one of them responds to Ginkgo, and one to GABA, the other to Black Haw and Cramp Bark, but all of my seizures are due to inhibitory neurotransmitter deficiencies, not due to trauma or disease processes.

Ginseng - NOTE: AVOID Ginseng with added Vitamin C, it just gives you a headache. Metabolic compensator, which is why it is known for increasing energy. It signals the body to release more energy to the cells, reducing feelings of fatigue. It also provides some partial amino and acid chains that work to help form complete nutrient molecules, and to replace missing metabolic transport enzymes. May help with some types of depression, but only where the depression is a result of either situational inability to accomplish things due to low energy (metabolic dysfunction), or where the depression is caused/aggravated by metabolic dysfunction. Works nicely as an antibiotic or antiviral booster with some herbs also, it provides complementary nutritional elements to aid in the metabolization of antimicrobial defense in the body. This is the only herb I know of that can be used in treatment of Pre-eclampsia, and it works by helping the body USE resources that are already present MORE IS NOT BETTER, 1-3 capsules a day MAXIMUM (reports that it can damage a fetus were from far higher doses, and the amount listed here has not been shown to have adverse effects). Increase protein in the diet if you use it this way. (Knock it off, people, modern medicine has NO treatment for pre-eclampsia that is effective, and this is.)
NOTE!!! YOU CANNOT GET HIGH ON GINSENG! Some idiots who are drug seekers, will steal Ginseng, thinking they'll at least get a Caffeine type high from it. You don't. No matter how much you use, the most you'll get is a headache. It just helps your body use the nutritional resources better.

Golden Seal - Reputed to lower blood sugar in sensitive individuals, I think in part because people tend to take it when they are not eating well. If you are up and eating, and don't already have blood sugar problems, it does not seem to be an issue. Anyway, I use it in rotation with other antibiotics, they seem to work best that way, and herbal lore suggests that it has less of a chance of causing blood sugar issues if used in conjunction with Echinacea. DO NOT USE this with Olive Leaf Extract, it causes a nasty immune suppressive reaction. This is the only negative side effect we have found, though it is reported to us that other herbs may have the same effect with it as Olive Leaf Extract. We also use it ONLY in companion with Echinacea, since that holds off other nasty reactions from it. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Green Tea Extract - Exactly the same as Coffee Berry, but may have benefits for kidney health if used with moderation. Heals as it compensates, so long term, need for it may taper off. NOTE: Green Tea, and Green Tea Extract are NOT the same thing, and they do NOT have the same benefits! Green tea contains elements that are drawn off of green tea leaves, and Green Tea Extract is what is LEFT OVER after this process is completed. Many of the harmful elements are drawn off, and concentrated in the tea. What is left behind is what you want for metabolic healing, or for kidney healing, and when the extract is used, VERY LITTLE is needed (typically 1 capsule a day for a few days, rarely 2 capsules followed by one capsule a day for a few days at a time). Some studies show that green tea does have healing effects for kidneys, but the caffeine and tannins have reciprocal harmful effects, and if you have kidney problems, the LAST thing you need is the immune depressive effects of the caffeine!

Heather Blossom - Tonic and healing, especially useful for healing the digestive tract and the immune system.

Honeybush - Similar to Red Rooibos, but generally considered to be milder, with broader spectrum healing properties. Has more antibacterial effect, and is a more effective healer for nerves and endocrine tissues.. Flavor is also similar when used as a tea. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Horse Chestnut - Smooth muscle healer, helps with healing eye and ear functions also. Must be boiled for 2 hours, then dried and ground for herbal use. Antimicrobial, dosage is fairly small. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Impatiens Leaf - A robust healing antibiotic similar to Calendula but not as broad spectrum. Good against Perfringens and E. coli  infections, and some kinds of Salmonella but not all. Do NOT take on empty stomach. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Jade - Mildly antibiotic, traditionally used to combat tuberculin growths. Jade leaves need to be filleted to dry them, otherwise they take far too long to dry. Stems may also be dried, but must be cut open to do so. Jade is not a practical treatment for long term use, as it takes about 42 (that IS the answer to everything, isn't it?) large jade plants to get about 100 size 1 capsules of jade powder. Seriously though, we stripped the plant above, down to about 1/3 of the amount of leaf left, and out of all that leaf we got literally 48 size 1 capsules. Jade is about half the strength of aloe.

Kava-Kava - Sedative, and relaxant, avoid overuse. May be hard on the liver, but relatively safe for the general population if not overused. This IS addictive, and you notice by the third night if you use it every night as a sedative, it will be less effective within that time. Sometimes used in a blend with Ginkgo, St. John's Wort, Lemon Balm, Ginseng, or other similar herbs, for ADD/ADHD. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Lady's Mantle - (This herb is common in lawns and the edge of driveways, characterized by ruffled or broadly serrated leaf edges, and an accordion fold to the round leaf. It is often identified as Common Mallow, but this is an INCORRECT IDENTIFICATION. Common Mallow is actually Marsh Mallow, and has entirely different uses and cautions.) This herb is historically used as an abortifacient, and has been used as an effective alternative to methotrexate for the termination of ectopic (tubal or abdominal) pregnancies. We list it here as a warning, it is HIGHLY DANGEROUS to a pregnancy, and UNSAFE for consumption at table. It should NEVER be used as a maintenance herb, and if used in excess it can cause severe damage to endocrine tissues in men and women both. It will cause runny green diarrhea. Do NOT take on empty stomach. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Lilac Bark or Leaf - IMPORTANT! Use NOT MORE THAN 1/4 tsp per cup of water. Lilac is VERY STRONG, and is toxic in higher doses. Antibiotic, especially useful for TB and bacterial pneumonias. Antiviral, traditionally used for polio. Fairly strong antifungal, used internally for severe skin fungus in the folds of skin, and used as a wash externally. CAUTION. Lilac reacts differently when combined with various herbs. Traditionally used in combination with Red Raspberry to stabilize menstruation, or with Chamomile to stimulate ovulation. May be used with Fennel to buffer. NOT recommended during pregnancy. WARNING - Lilac bark or leaf is NOT SAFE when used with Linden, it can induce intermittent tachycardia (rapid irregular heartbeat) to the point of nausea. Lilac is currently under study, for efficacy and safety, and additional information will be posted here as it is available. Do NOT take on empty stomach. NEVER take if you have heart disease. THIS IS NOT A BEGINNER'S HERB!!! WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Linden Leaf and Flower - Lovely herb, has a delightful tea flavor, and is recommended as a sedative or pain reliever, but this is something I cannot attest to because I have never been able to get it to produce that effect! I use it for an anti-viral or antibiotic, and it HAS been helpful for that, shortening the length of infectious flares. This tea tastes so good that you can drink it without sugar, and still enjoy it.

Lobelia - Not useful for nerve pain, I can tell you that! But works as a sedative and does relieve types of pain that are not severe enough to break through sleep. This needs to be used with caution, it IS addictive, and it is harmful in pregnancy, and it IS depressive to the central nervous system and not recommended for use as a sedative by those with sleep apnea. Used with Black Haw or Wild Plum Bark, and with Valerian in a combination, Lobelia can completely short circuit a reaction I get from airborne toxins that causes several days of insomnia followed by seizures. 1 full dropper of Black Haw or Wild Plum Bark Tincture, 1/3 dropperful of Valerian tincture, and 1/4 dropperful of Lobelia stops the cycle cold (it requires all three). I'm not sure of the mechanism here, but this has allowed me to function without a week of misery following each exposure.

Moringa - There are all sorts of claims for this herb, but we have found ONE that is so awesome it has to be shared. For chemically intolerant people, Moringa can help to avoid some of the symptoms. For me, this prevents the insomnia, seizures, restless legs, anxiety, and angina that comes following an exposure of air freshener, scented laundry soap, dryer sheets, and other similar nasty chemicals. I take it BEFORE hand any time I KNOW I just cannot avoid exposure (otherwise I avoid places I know that have these things), and it helps head off the effects. If I am exposed unexpectedly, I take the Moringa as soon as I return home. It does not work if I am exposed DAILY. It only works if I AVOID the chemicals as much as I can, and then it is enough to MINIMIZE the effects, though it never removes ALL of them. If I am exposed HEAVILY, or DAILY, it not longer helps enough for me to notice. It is a metabolic detoxer, and it binds with certail chemicals to chelate and remove them from the body. It has other functional effects also. It has no special nutritional effects, but has a few minor effects similar to Ginseng, in that it provides some metabolic (molecular) elements that help complete various nutritional molecules or metabolic agents in the body. Yes, food does this. But food sometimes does not have a concentration of specific metabolic agents or fragments that are EASY for the body to use.

Motherwort - High in GABA, this is a relaxant, and has sedative action for some people. Blends nicely with many antibiotics and antivirals for a kicker effect.

Mulberry Leaf - Moderately antimicrobial (highly so for some specific conditions), and recommended in some sources for blood sugar control. This can be substituted for Apricot Leaf for antiviral use. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Myrrh - Good for making salve, for some types of skin irritations. Best not used internally.

Oak Bark or Leaf - The leaf is generally more broad spectrum, and more potent. Even scrub oak is useful medicinally. Antimicrobial, useful as an antifungal wash. Substitutes for Passion Flower for use with Elderberry. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Olive Leaf Extract - Anti-viral. This really works, I have used it in rotation with other anti-virals, and sometimes by itself, and it has minimal side effects, and good medicinal effect. CAUTION! Do NOT use this with Golden Seal, together they have an immune depressive effect if you do.

Oregon Grape Blossom - Broad spectrum antimicrobial. Non-caffeine mild stimulant, use with caution. May be used as a mild substitute for foxglove, though it works differently, and is more effective with congestive heart disease than with constrictive.

Oregon Grape Leaf or Root - Broad spectrum antimicrobial. Combines well with most antimicrobials, and works synergistically with Black Walnut Hull.

Papaya Leaf - Used as a digestive enzyme replacement. It works ok, but I found that dried mango, dried pineapple, or dried kiwi was just as effective, and easier to obtain (besides which, I do not LIKE papaya!). About a 1" square, by 1/8" thick piece of dried enzymatic fruit works pretty well, and replaces about 3 tablets of Payaya Leaf Extract. Otherwise about three of these are needed for a meal, and they did help me to digest certain foods without so much heartburn and indigestion. If you need this, or any enzyme replacement, you should not need them long term. 1-2 months should allow your digestive system to heal sufficient to taper them off.

Peppermint Balsam Flower - Antibiotic. Use with caution, may cause headaches if you use too much. We use #1 capsules with this, and dosage is 1-2 capsules per day, plus other antibiotics, for acute infection. Some evidence for effectiveness as an anticancer herb, but AVOID, as it has side effects that are too risky. Do NOT take on empty stomach. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Petunia Leaf - Straight up antibiotic, and antiviral. Does not kill anything in vitro, but aids the body in taking out harmful bacteria. This cannot be used as a topical wash like Calendula, it is ineffective for that. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Plum (or Prune) Bark Extract (Cherry Bark can do this also) - Now THIS one will make you drowsy. Don't use it unless you are staying home, and it is presumed addictive so avoid regular use. Peel out the inner bark, and throw it in your pressure pot. A good handful of inner bark strips about 6" long. Add 2 cups water. Pressure for 15 minutes on high pressure. Add 4 cups sugar, and pressure for 5 minutes on high. Strain out the bark. Pour into canning jars while molten hot, and put the lids on snug. You can waterbath it if you want, but I don't. Refrigerate after opening. 1-2 tablespoons per dose.

Pomegranate Seed - Same uses as Blueberry, but also anti-fungal. Good for eye and ear healing also. Has antiviral properties.

Queen of the Meadow - Controversial, may aid in healing specific reproductive issues, though nobody has quantified exactly WHICH reproductive issues so they just kind of use it for all of them. I have read that there have been successes with healing repeat miscarriage, though I don't know how well documented it was, and I do not know the mechanism by which this may have occurred. Also helps with the healing of nerve tissue.

Red Raspberry Leaf - The quintessential feminine herb, makes a fairly safe recreational replacement for iced tea. Used for reduction of menstrual cramps, and reduction of heavy bleeding. Those two things are usually mutually exclusive, but this herb really does this. Side effect that gets you is that too much encapsulated herb is harsh on the digestive system, and will give you intestinal pain. Good nutritive healer if you have good digestion. Capsules are taken about every 6 hours, and take about 4 hours to take effect. Tea takes effect far faster, but only lasts about 4 hours, and it is REALLY hard to keep making tea, and eliminating it, around the clock. But you CAN bottle this in used fruit juice bottles - just stuff about 4 full compound leaves into a quart jar, add water, put the lid on, and pressure can for 15 minutes. The leaves sink to the bottom, and you can just pour off the tea when you open the bottle. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Red Rooibos - A healing tea with mild antimicrobial effects, and has healing properties for mitochondrial damage. Gentle enough for use as a recreational tea, but not recommended on a daily basis.

River Birch, Bark, Leaf, Catkin - Antibiotic, helpful for MRSA (with other antibiotics), and strep (again, with other antibiotics).

Saw Palmetto - Male hormonal regulation and prostate health, typically, but has some other effects also, and should not be used long term.

Scrub Oak Leaf - Substitute for Comfrey for internal use, with the same serious cautions. Antiseptic wash for external use, antimicrobial for internal use. Do NOT take on empty stomach. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Skullcap - Antiviral and antibiotic, as well as antifungal. Straight up antimicrobial. Skullcap may be used as a topical antibiotic or made into a paste (apply only for 10 minutes). It is not the most effective topical, but is especially useful for ringworm, impetigo, and minor topical infections. Calendula is generally better for major infections, candida fungal species, and staph infections. Skullcap is also a general healer, but should not be used daily.

St. John's Wort - Used as an anti-depressant, and has a gentle mood stabilizing effect. Does NOT produce a HIGH. Works best in conjunction with Borage Oil. St. John's Wort should be used with caution, especially for those who are sun sensitive, as it increases your likelihood of sunburn. Trust me on this, I've burned in the shade while using this!

Tamarisk Blossom - Foxglove substitute, gentler, easier to administer, harder to overdose. USE WITH CAUTION. Best used as a weak tea, in small amounts. Recommended with fennel leaf. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Uva Ursi - One of the historic "stone breaker" herbs. Generally used for urinary tract health, and it can be harsh if used in high doses.

Valerian - Mother's Little Helper right in the garden. Valerian does have a mild relaxant and sedative effect, but I've never used enough of it to knock me out. Does not help with nerve pain. I tend to use this in a preparation with a small amount of lobelia, a little bit of valerian, and a larger amount of black haw, for seizures, and the mixture is effective on somnolent focal seizures, but I don't use it daily, and all are addictive, so it isn't a recommended treatment for constant seizure suppression. This IS known to be addictive, not recommended for regular use.

Willow Bud - blood thinning antibiotic. Do NOT take on empty stomach.

Witch Hazel - Skin tonic and cleansing herb, best made into a wash or tincture (for use in a wash), or sometimes as an ointment.

Wormwood or Southernwood, or Big Sage Leaf - Ok, so all these are interchangeable. They are usually used for skin infestations, or to treat worms in animals. If you stuff a pint jar about half full of the soft fuzzy leaves, and then pour in any kind of cooking oil, and then set it in water in a crock pot on WARM for several days, you get a skin or hair oil that is nasty to use, but which WILL wash out with shampoo - this has been effective for me at times, for sceborrhetic dermatitis. If you put some of this into alcohol, and let set COLD you get something similar that you can dab onto ringworm or other NON OPEN irritations caused by either fungus, mites, or other little crawly things. If you use a mixture of honey and water instead of the oil or alcohol, you get something that smells so much like especially repulsive turpentine that you'll never think it can be used for ANYTHING!!! But it can be used at a rate of 1 tablespoon of this to 1 gallon of water, for treating worms or other intestinal parasites IN ANIMALS ONLY. At least, this is what they say... Some hoo-hah every now and then about this as chemo, but it is far too toxic to use internally in people.

Yarrow - Bah, Ptooey, Nasty! This is the classic vile tincture, and tea, but people swear by it. So far I've taken it for heart issues (low dose), uterine hemorrhage (with Naproxin Sodium, and Red Raspberry Tea), and once for an infection. I can't swear that it worked for any of them. But I lived, contrary to the desire I had when I could not get the flavor out of my mouth fast enough. As a capsule, it works, but the onset of effect is so slow that it is not usually used this way except for internal infections. Do NOT take on empty stomach. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Yohimbe - Aids in nerve repair, and can increase blood flow to internal organs. May reduce blood pressure in a way that is NOT recommended for treatment of Pre-Eclampsia (blood pressure reduction agents are usually counterproductive with Pre-Eclampsia or Eclampsia). When used together with Plum Leaf (tea or syrup), this can help move kidney stones through more quickly.

 

Medicinal Mushrooms - These WILL NOT WORK if you do not digest mushrooms well.

There are many more medicinal mushrooms, I'll get a few more listed eventually. Many of these are mushrooms I've grown or foraged wild myself, some were given to me, and just three were suggested for this list by a nationally known mycologist.

Halucinogenics are NOT listed here. They are NOT MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS. They are metabolically destructive to neural and endocrine and organ tissues. If it gets you high, it is destroying brain and other body cells, and there is NO EXCEPTION to this rule.

 

*Almond Agaricus - Agaricus species with an almond scent - Studied for anti-cancer activity, these mushrooms have it, but it varies species to species for types of cancer it works best with. Excellent mitochondrial detoxers also.

Artist Conk - Ganoderma applanatum - Grind and brew as a tea for coffee substitute, which will reduce cravings for coffee. Reputedly works well with Postum.

*Aspen Bolete - Leccinum insigne - Helps with containing growth of tuberculin lesions and nodules. USE COOKED.

*Blewit - Historic Lepsita species, NOT funnel shaped Clytocybe species (Lepsita nuda IS a true Lepista), including Lepista nuda, Lepista irina, Lepista glacialis, Lepista glaucocauna, Lepista persici, Lepista personata, Lepista praenagna, Lepista saeva, Lepista sclerotoidea, Lepista subconexa, Lepista tarda, and other thick capped Lepista with umbo. - Can help regulate auto-immune disease. USE COOKED.

*Boletus Species - King, Bay, Bicolor, Barrows, etc - All have similar medicinal effects, though they can vary some between species. They are antiviral, and have immune benefits. All have metabolic benefit, and they help convert and metabolize fats.

Common Funnel - Clitocybe gibba, subalpina - Flush detoxer and metabolic detoxer.

*Common White Mushrooms - Puffballs, White Buttons, etc - Useful chemical and metabolic detoxers.

Dryad's Saddle - Polyporus squamosus - Helps balance metabolism, and is a good anti-fungal.

*Fuzzy Turkey Tail - Trametes hirsuita - Helps reduce tuberculin lesions and nodules.

*Giant Sawgill - Neolentinus ponderosus - Fresh or frozen has neuroregenerative properties, dried does not. Use with caution, may be harmful to those with a tendency to develop cancers or tumors. We use this one in season, but it is not advised to be used daily.

*Hawk's Wing - Sarcodon imbricatus - Tumor reducer for non-metastatic tumors. Good antifungal in combination with Moringa. This mushroom also helps reduce flares of reactive bone marrow.

Maitake - Grifola frondosa - Some nerve repair benefits, and immune system support.

*Pioppino - Agrocybe agerita - Antiviral effects, works best with other antivirals. Also suspected to help with endocrine healing.

*Portobello or Crimini Gills - Agaricus bisporus, brunnescens - Antiviral. Can be used in your meals (just toss the mushrooms in), or in capsules. I use 1-2 #00 capsules, once a day, with other antivirals, when treating a virus. Also useful as a chemical and metabolic detoxer. Traditional use as a treatment for polio in combination with other anti-virals, where it acts as a booster.

*Reishi - Ganoderma lucidum, resinaceus - This one is suspected to be useful in the treatment of autoimmune disease, and to help support survival of cancer treatment.

Rooted Polypore - Polyporus radicatus - Make a tea of about 1/4 tsp shredded mushroom to calm nausea. Some people may need to cook this one to tolerate it, even as tea.

*Russula - Russula species - Metabolic healing benefits, and may have benefits with female reproductive cancers, and other endocrine cancers.

Shiitake - Lentinus edodes - Mitochondrial detoxer, with many health benefits from this function.

*Spotted Yellowcap - Pholiota adiposa - Strongly antibiotic, USE WITH CAUTION. We use #1 capsules for this, and blend it with Red Raspberry Leaf, or Chamomile. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS Mushroom!

Straw Mushroom - Volvariella volvicea - Antiviral and antibiotic, and is a good booster to herbal antivirals and antibiotics. This is also a good metabolic and mitochondrial detoxer.

*Turkey Tail - Trametes versicolor - Widely studied, useful in cancer treatment recovery, and useful in combatting certain kinds of cancers, but is contra-indicated for small bowel cancers.

*Yellow Shaggy - Floccularia luteovirens - Raw mushroom has chemotherapeutic benefits (which means that it may kill cancer cells faster than healthy cells but will give you significant side effects in the process). When cooked, this is a mitochondrial detoxer, and immune system balancer.

Zhuling - Pollyporus umbellatus - Metabolic detoxer, and a nice kicker and buffer for Black Walnut Hulls, Golden Seal, and Hops.

 

 

Other Medicinals

B-12 Adenosylcobalamin - B-12 is a known problem for many people, because they KNOW they are low on it, but if they take a supplement, it works for a week or two, then causes side effects that are intolerable! B-12 is generally available as Cyanocobalamin, which segments in the body and forms into Cyanide, and cobalamin. Not good! It is only a tiny amount of cyanide, but over time, your body becomes sensitive or it builds up, and you end up with some very unpleasant side effects. Heart arrythmias are one of the most common side effects, and probably the most noticeable. You can also buy Methycobalamin, but this segments and forms into Methylene and cobalamin, with similar side effects if you use it regularly. So this brings us to Adenosylcobalamin, which I can only find in ONE store online, under ONE brand name. But this stuff WORKS like nobody's business! This is also somewhat of a miracle for me. Why? Because B-12 is a necessary element for neurological health! If you are low on B-12, pain signals in the body are magnified unilaterally, and you will feel as much as 10 times the amount of pain you would normally feel. A mild twinge will become a screaming lightening bolt. A little sciatica that disappears when you change positions becomes a severe flare that leaves you crying because it won't stop. The RIGHT KIND of B-12 is truly miraculous in reducing pain levels, IF you happen to be low on B-12. Many people are, because B-12 is extracted in the bowel low in the ileum, and this is the most frequently damaged portion of the bowel for people with IBS, IBD, and other bowel disorders. Useful for people who are weaning off painkillers also.

Caffeine - Ok, so it is not an herb. And Coffee and Tea are NOT good options. But when you need a solid immune suppressant to get an auto-immune disease under control, it works nicely. About 1 month of caffeine therapy, combined with healing herbs, so the auto-immune attack drops sufficient to get some healers in there, and then you stop the caffeine treatment, and keep on with the healing herbs for another few months, tapering them off. Usually there are environmental effects, so those are addressed at the same time (chlorine, chemicals in air fresheners and dryer sheets, sprout inhibitors in foods, are the three biggies). Caffeine therapy is 1 tablet, twice a week for 1 week, 1/2 tablet twice a week for three weeks. This protocol is what I used to treat Crohn's when I was down to only being able to eat about 13 specific foods (like butter, peeled zucchini, banana, hard white wheat, organic bison, lactose free organic milk, peeled organic potatoes, etc). Anyway, caffeine IS an immune suppressant, and that can be verified. Works for auto-immune miscarriage also, but you MUST NOT use sugarfree soft drinks for the caffeine source. The caffeine may react with the aspartame, and cause catastrophic birth defects. Someone who is addicted to coffee or tea will already have significant immune suppression, and caffeine treatment should NEVER be used with them.

GABA - Ok, so GABA is useful in treating neurotransmitter deficient seizures, insomnia, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, and several other similar issues. We use Now Brand, and it is one of the best, since it has good natural glutamate in it. GABA supplements are typically just good glutamate, which is NOT an evil thing. Glutamate is the primary substance that your body takes in from food to use as a neurotransmitter. It will convert into pretty much ANY needed neurotransmitter, or inhibitory neurotransmitter. GABA is the reciprocal of glutamate, glutamate being an excitatory neurotransmitter, and GABA being an inhibitory neurotransmitter. Good natural glutamate converts easily, but industrial waste glutamate does not, and it is what causes allergic reactions. So use the right brand, because "multi-spectrum" just means "we added industrial waste", and it is LOWER quality, not higher! Your other option is Maruchan Ramen Noodles (no, they are NOT more expensive, just buy them by the case at WalMart). Other brands DO NOT have the good stuff in them. Redmond Real Salt Natural Seasoning Salt also has a really good Glutamate in it. Good natural sources are celery, beet tops, and meats, among others.

JELLO!!! With PINEAPPLE!!! - (I am forced to say, Jello WITHOUT PIneapple is NOT helpful.) This one is just so good... Calcium is not the only thing needed for bone health. A large percentage of people with osteoporosis are NOT suffering from low calcium, they have a PROTEIN deficiency. I have compression fractures throughout my spine due to protein deficient osteoporosis, and have discovered that the easiest way to treat this is with Jello. Jello is just animal based collagen, rendered from cartilage and bones. I use Jello brand, and prefer to mix lime and raspberry together - this is what TASTES best to me, and it is important that you PAY ATTENTION to what tastes good here, because gelatins are made from different types of animal collagen, and you may not digest or metabolize pork the same way you do beef, or chicken the way you do fish. Anyway, I cannot break down collagen proteins well, and I cannot metabolize them well either - this is WHY I have a deficiency. If I put Pineapple juice, or pineapple pieces into my Jello, I metabolize it very well, and it also tastes better to me this way (the body is a smart thing, taste really does matter, it is how your body tells you it needs more). So I mix two flavors of Jello powder in a jar, and store the jar in the cupboard. I buy those individual 8 oz cans of Dole Pineapple Juice (this is the cheapest way to get small cans - less expensive than the 6 pack of 6 oz cans). I heat 1/2 cup of water in the microwave, in a mug. I add 1-4 TBSP of Jello powder and stir to dissolve it. The amount I use depends on what is going on - usually I know I'm low because I've done something that broke a rib or caused another fracture in my back, but sometimes in my foot, or hand. Anyway, I then add half a can of pineapple juice (store the rest in a jar in the fridge - don't store pineapple juice in the can, it gets nasty). Sometimes I add a squirt of lime juice also. I drink it warm - because I don't need this every day, and mixing it as a drink is just more convenient for occasional need. You can buy collagen supplements, but Jello is just about the most economical thing you can do, so I just deal with the sugar and other ingredients, and overall it has been a positive thing.

Inositol - Helps with the use of phosphorus in the body. Some metabolic conditions cause low phosphorus (not all the time, but during dysfunctional flares). Low phosphorus is NOT good, it leaves the bones brittle. Inositol can help you make better use of the added phosphorus in commercial baked goods, so it is a positive thing, not a negative thing.

Niacinamide - Niacin can cause a severe reaction in some people - they call this "flushing", because it causes a sensation of heat in the skin, or prickling, or itching. So they also make "flush free" niacin, which many people tolerate better - I don't. Even flush free causes me to have a reaction. I discovered Niacinamide, and it has been a minor miracle. Niacin is essential for kidney function and repair. I have an inherited condition which causes my kidneys to deteriorate due to certain kinds of chemical exposure, or due to excess vitamin C (I don't flush it out normally). Niacin helps reverse the damage if I use it following exposure to the things that damage my kidneys.

Sodium Benzoate - You find this in SODA POP. But if you use Sugar Free soda, it will HARM you, and won't help you! So some people build up ammonia in their system, as a result of overexposure to certain chemicals (this can cause mitochondrial damage), or as a result of an inborn mitochondrial disorder. Excess ammonia leads to an Alzheimer's like condition, or other forms of dementia and neurological dysfunction. You need 1-2 cans of soda per day if you have this problem and it MUST NOT be sugarfree! If you stay active, your body will just use the sugar for energy. Caffeinated sodas tend to backfire with this also, because caffeine does its own damage over time if used improperly. Look this one up folks, sodium benzoate is THE medical treatment for excess ammonia in the body. I find that if I am exposed to airborne toxins, that my body tends to get dysfunctional in a range of ways, but I also have a lack of concentration, trouble with complex calculations, and my executive function declines. Two cans of soda per day for about 3-5 days corrects this, and otherwise it will continue for several weeks.

SALT! A low salt diet results in MORE heart disease, not less (newer studies show that this is UNIVERSAL, not an occasional result). Pinching heart pain may be relieved by consumption of salt (that is a key diagnostic symptom of hyponatremia, which has recently disappeared from symptom lists online). Salt does NOT raise blood pressure or increase symptoms from congestive or constrictive heart disease. Salt is NECESSARY to a healthy body, and this is why old recipes ALWAYS add salt, even to sweets. I learned the hard way not to reduce salt, but to add it to everything it tastes good in. After a serious bout with kidney stones, the hospital handed me a treatment sheet and it recommended reduction of salt to avoid kidney stones. I have learned this is entirely BACKWARD. I INCREASED the salt (with much prayerful consideration), and the bladder stones that followed the kidney stones have consistently resolved, and I have had no more kidney stones. Salt is used to dissolve and FLUSH mineral deposits by the body, so low salt GUARANTEES you will have more stones. Adequate salt in the diet is more than we think it is, your food SHOULD taste savory. This also reduces gallstones, and helps to heal the immune system.

AVOID - Aspartame - This causes problems with many people, but the measurable effect that most people CAN see is impotence in men, frigidity in women. Interferes with your sex life like you would not believe until you quit using it. Studies show that diabetic men have far higher rates of impotence than non-diabetic men. Any guesses as to why? This one we tested out. Cause did indeed equal effect! This is neurotoxic, and causes damage to nerves throughout the body, and not just in the reproductive region. Also believed to be mutanogenic and a potential cause of a large range of birth defects.

AVOID - Multivitamins and Prenatal Vitamins - These are more likely to make you sick than to help you. We'd all like to believe that there is an insurance policy for diet and health, but there is not. Multivitamins can cause headaches, heart palpitations, depression, nausea and indigestion, kidney dysfunction, eczema, fatigue, and a range of other symptoms. They contain a form of Vitamin C that does not flush easily, and which can cause severe sinus headaches (behind the eyes), or eczema, and which can damage the kidneys (many people do not flush vitamin C easily, and it can cause these problems - my daughters and I are reactive to C supplements, and to high vitamin C foods, and we are not that unusual). They have a form of B12 (usually cyanocobalamin) that causes heart palpitations, and can cause heart damage. They contain many forms of isolated nutrients that are difficult for the body to metabolize, which can cause a range of metabolic dysfunctions. Your "enriched" foods generally contain everything they do, and in high enough amounts that you do not need to add anymore anyway. Those same foods do NOT contain the things you DO need, and neither do the multi-vitamins. In short, you OD on the things you do NOT need, and are still left deficient in the things you DO need. Only use single supplements that you KNOW you need, and avoid multi-vitamins. One size does not fit all! Heal your digestive system, and you'll absorb enough nutrients from your foods. SYMPTOMS ASSOCIATED WITH MULTI-VITAMIN OVERDOSE: Headaches (All day but worsening in evening, usually behind the eyes. Due to Vitamin C overdose, from a form that does not clear easily through the kidneys, and which causes kidney damage over time.). Clinical Depression (May be very severe. Specific cause not fully isolated, but that it is caused by the Multi-Vitamins is established.). Nausea and Indigestion (Cause partially isolated to forms of B vitamins that are damaging to the digestive system. Feels like morning sickness that lasts all day.). Heart Palpitations and Angina Chest Pain (Cause is overdose on Cyanocobalamin or Methycobalamin, which are unhealthy forms of B-12. Symptoms generally disappear within 1-2 days of discontinuing use of Multi-vitamins.). High Blood Pressure (Several vitamins and minerals are implicated in raising blood pressure, including Methycobalamin, poor forms of Magnesium, and certain B vitamins are named.). High Blood Sugar (High doses of certain B Vitamins can cause high blood sugar. Niacin is named as one, but Niacinamide does NOT do this. Niacin also causes other symptoms. There are other vitamins which can also cause high blood sugar, both Vitamin C and Vitamin D are implicated.). Kidney Stones (Multi-vitamins contain mineral forms that are difficult for your body to filter out and remove. They built up in the kidneys, gallbladder, liver, and spleen instead of flushing out safely.) Chlorine is found in Multi-vitamins, as they are generally made with talc as a filler, which contains high amounts of Chlorine. Chlorine is responsible for system wide organ damage. Additional symptoms that have been shown to disappear when Multi-vitamin use is stopped, are skin irritations (psoriasis, sceborrhetic dermatitis, eczema, etc), generalized fatigue, standing exhaustion, kidney damage, liver damage, progressive intestinal malabsorption, progressive nerve damage. We wish there was some kind of insurance for diet, but we find the more we learn, the more we discover the best insurance for dietary needs, is FOOD - solid, nutrient dense, FOOD.

 

A Note About Heat

Ok, so it isn't an herb, and it isn't a supplement, and it isn't food. But HEAT is a time honored treatment for both infection and injury.

A heating pad, hot water bottle, or other source of very warm heat, has been proven effective since antiquity, for treating infections.

This is the reason poultices were effective. They held heat close to the body. Hot towels were also used in the same eras.

Today, we use a heating pad most often. It is hard to find a good one, but I've used this for the following:

1. A reddened infection where I had a puncture wound in my calf. Kept a heating pad on it for a few hours, it was gone by the next day.

2. Bronchitis, and Pleursy (separate infections). It worked, but heat on your back with lung infections will produce a dryer cough.

3. Pneumonia. Also worked. Same cough issue.

4. Strep, which went into my lungs. Same as pneumonia. Have used it on my neck with strep, and it did help.

5. An abcessed tooth. Heating pad was not warm enough, no result. Should have worked though.

6. A DVT. Traditional treatment for phlebitis and small blood clots. WARNING! This has been shown to be COUNTERPRODUCTIVE for blood clots and phlebitis! It enlarges the veins, and the clot enlarges and becomes worse, not better. Movement is recommended instead.

WARNING!!! Some heating pads are NOT hot enough for this. When you use something that is just barely warm, and not verging on hot, it will INCUBATE the bacteria, instead of killing it. So make sure you get a heating pad with more than one temp setting, the ones with a single setting DO NOT WORK, they don't get hot enough.

This is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to treat an infection that is close enough to the surface to benefit from the heat.

Be careful of using heat on small children, they burn easily, and use care with older heating pads also. Old heating pads may develop hot spots that can leave mild first degree burns.

Heat MUST be used Wisely.

 

A short description of some of the forms in which herbs are found.

Tea - Usual is 1 tsp herb to 1 cup of water, boil the water, steep for tea. Tea is usually the safest way to introduce new herbs to your body.

Decoction - Usual is 1 tsp herb to 1 cup of water, boil the herb in the water for decoction (roots, barks, and other thick stuff does best with this). Some herbal preparations with leaves, flowers, and berries require a decoction for best strength. Dosage of decoctions are typically 2 TBSP to 1/2 cup rather than the whole cup. Decoctions boil for 2-12 minutes, depending on the herbs, a few take longer periods, and some require extraction under pressure.

Tincture - Herbs are soaked cold in high proof alcohol for anywhere between 2 weeks and several months, depending on the coarseness of the herb, and the desired strength. Used by the drop or dropperful, depending. Tinctures are considered to be stronger than tea, but they still do not have all of the herb extracted in them. The alcohol is controversial, if you put them into warm water and let them evaporate, the alcohol content will be diminished. Use extreme caution when giving these to children or pregnant women.

Capsule - Takes longer to take effect than tea or tincture, but is easier and more pleasant. You get the whole herb - helpful sometimes, not so helpful other times. Some are EXTRACTS, meaning they've been processed some, and some are whole herb. Capsules take an average of 8 hours to process through your digestive tract sufficient to notice the effect. If you have digestive disorders you may not be able to use them, or they may have only a single benefit instead of several. This makes them unpredictable. Some require cooking to be safe to use, others need to be used in low doses, so if you make your own, use small capsules for the stronger or more risky herbs. Oddly, even 1 capsule of an herb may have a significant effect, you'd think it would take more, but it usually doesn't take more than 1-3 capsules.

Wash - Either a tea, or tincture mixed with water, used to wash a wound, infection, or irritation. Tea is recommended as the most effective option for this.

Salve, Ointment - Made by heating an oil or solid fat, and steeping the herb in it, at a low temperature. Too hot, and you have fried herb. Used for skin treatments.

Oil - Long slow, low heat steep results in a strong oil. Sometimes a cold steep is used but it takes months to do. Useful for scalp treatments, or a hot washcloth with the oil on it, laid on a skin irritation. Can also be rubbed into the skin.

Syrup - An old form of preservation, a syrup is made with 1 cup water, and 2 cups sugar. Extraction may occur in one of several methods, including water only, water and sugar, high pressure extraction, or a combination of methods. Many herbs are extracted using a water only extraction followed by a water and sugar extraction, and some use a high pressure water extraction followed by a low pressure sugar extraction. The purpose of the combination is to extract certain elements while destroying some that would be harmful if extracted intact with a sugar extraction (which tends to be more efficient). So the first run destroys as well as extracts, and the second run with sugar helps to fully extract the elements you do want. I can't prove WHAT is destroyed and preserved, I can only prove that some things considered unsafe are able to be used without side effect when extracted in a combination extraction. CAUTION!! Syrups should be stored, water bath canned, in SMALL jars (we mean 1-2 oz jars), because they WILL ferment if kept too long after opening. Not all do ferment, but some do, and once it goes to alcohol, you are dealing with a destructive substance rather than a healing substance - you use more of them than you do of a tincture, the amount of sugar means a LOT of alcohol can build up, and it is a little harder to evaporate the alcohol from them. On the other hand, if you make a HIGHLY concentrated syrup, with half the sugar, you can ferment that, and it will convert into a tincture in a few months if left open, but you'll also likely get mold on it if you are not careful of the method - this is similar to a cordial.

Cordial - This is an ALCOHOLIC fermentation of an herbal formula, generally with some kind of fruit juice as the base. This is an OLD form of herbal preservation, and if not used right, a HARMFUL one. Be sure to HEAT the cordial before use, or let it sit to EVAPORATE the alcohol (stirring helps). Cordials are fermented in the same way that wines are fermented. If this is made of highly concentrated herbal extractions, it can be used as a tincture.

Extract - Extracts can be made in many ways. A tincture is technically an extract, but there are other extracts which generally refer to an herb that has been processed in such a way that part of it has been removed. Green tea, Apricot leaf, Olive leaf, Tamarisk bark, Coffee berry or Coffee leaf extracts are all made by boiling the herb or berry, and discarding the resulting tea, then drying the leaf or berry, and using that as the extract. This is the simplest extract to make, and works for many herbs.

Sugar extracts, extracting the herb in sugar water, are an alternative to tinctures if done properly. If you let it extract COLD, you get alcohol, and the result is a weak tincture. If you extract it WARM, in a heat source such as in jars, in a crock pot with water in it, set on WARM for 2-3 days, you have a non-alcoholic extract, but you must STORE it, so it will not ferment. If you extract it HOT, you get a sweet tea, which may be pressure canned to store, or it will keep in the fridge for about 2 weeks. Dosage is reduced and is NOT the same as tea, usually half a cup or less per dose. Some things should be decocted prior to boiling with sugar, Ephedra is one such, the boiled decoction removes the toxins, and then the sugar extraction pulls out other elements that a water decoction cannot. Boiled sugar extracts generally take 10 minutes or less to boil.

Vinegar extractions may also be done warm or cold, and have some of the same properties as alcohol tinctures without the alcohol. Full strength vinegar is used for some, and half strength for others (half vinegar half water). This is how you make a non-alcoholic alternative to Fire Cider. Vinegar extractions MUST NOT have sugar added when doing cold extractions, OR when storing them long term without heat sealing the jars, it DOES build alcohol, even when in the fridge (some pickles do this also). Add sugar or honey when serving. Put 1-2 TBSP of the extraction in a cup, and add 1 to 1 1/2 cups water, heat, and add the sugar or honey into the hot drink. Flavor is VERY STRONG, even so.

 

Terms We Used Just To Confuse You

Buffer - A companion herb that helps minimize some negative side effects, which may or may not enhance the desired effect.

Booster - A companion herb that works synergistically with an herb, which enhances the effects of both herbs.

Kicker - A companion herb that enhances the effect of an herb but does not work synergistically.

Antimicrobial - Means it is useful as antifungal, antiviral, and antibiotic.

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For Doctors and Alternative Medicine Practitioners - If you are using herbal alternatives to treat angina or CHF, or myocardial infarction, or to treat patients in recovery from heart damage or surgery, the following may be of use.

Capsules may be used for maintenance or delayed effect dosages.

Tea, Tincture, or Syrup is necessary for rapid effect doses.

MOST (if not all) of these metabolize better if sugar is added to a tea.

Some of these herbs have other effects, so be sure that you know the side effects as well as may be before you use them.

Foxglove - Natural source of digitalis, use extreme caution, as doses are not standardized. Typically administered as a weak tea (1 blossom to 1 cup of water, 2 minute steep, do not add blossoms while water is heating), by sips, waiting 15 minutes between sips, to watch for response. This is a historic use, which is documented. Not recommended for constrictive heart symptoms. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Tamarisk Blossom - May substitute for foxglove, standard 1 tsp to make tea, administer the same as foxglove. Gentler. Not as risky with constrictive heart symptoms. WARNING! If you are on a low salt diet, DO NOT USE THIS HERB!

Squash, Pumpkin, Cucumber Blossom - Pumpkin is strongest, and leaf may be substituted for all of these, but the blossoms have more supportive nutritive and healing elements so they are gentler. These have elements in them that make them effective in treating some kinds of angina, and they do not have the same side effects as foxglove, you can use half a cup of tea as a dose. If you are sensitive to the harsher elements in them, you can add Hosta, which buffers some kinds of reactions. Pumpkin reputedly works equally well with constrictive or congestive heart symptoms.

White Aloe (Aloe Gel) - 1/2 tsp can help for some individuals for treatment of angina. Fresh is best, make sure there is no green in the aloe gel. More effective with constrictive than congestive heart symptoms.

Oregon Grape Blossom - Non-caffeine mild stimulant, use with caution. May be used as a mild substitute for foxglove, though it works differently, and is more effective with congestive heart disease than with constrictive, using leaf and blossom together improves effect with constrictive symptoms.

Hawthorn Berry - Healing to the heart, helps to repair damage to veins, helps reduce arterial and veinous plaques, helps to repair damage to the nerves of the heart. This does not help in an emergency situation, but helps repair causes of heart disease.

Red Rooibos Tea Blend - Supportive herb, works well in an equal blend of Pumpkin Leaf or Blossom, Elder Flower, Curl Leaf Mountain Mahogany (can substitute a combination of Mahonia and Skullcap), and Red Rooibos, to reduce symptoms of angina, and aid in repair.

Healing Blend - Lemon Balm, Scullcap, Juniper Berry, Geranium Blossom, Petunia Flower. This can be used for other than heart, but is balanced to heal fibrous muscle and nerve, and to help heal cardiovascular system.

GABA - Helpful with flash nerve pains in the heart (often very fast radiating prickly pains in the heart, sometimes centered at the bottom of the heart, sometimes accompanied by arrythmia). GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter, which converts easily to other inhibitory neurotransmitters, and to exitotory neurotransmitters (both are needed for proper nerve function). It can help when the heart pain has characteristics of being caused by nerve dysfunction. This has been tested, and found effective in small clinical trials. It is a safe option to try, if the form of GABA is one that people do not have overdose problems with (we recommend NOW brand, or other celery based forms, AVOID multispectrum, as they have more crude forms that do not convert well), and it is non-addictive. It generally begins to take effect within 15-20 minutes of swallowing the capsule. It is also highly effective for anxiety attacks that cause a clutching feeling in the region of the heart.

B-12 - Cyanocobalamin and Methylcobalamin will CAUSE heart palpitations, and can cause severe arrythmia, to the point of death. On the other hand, Adenosylcobalamin is very effective for use in the treatment of heart arrythmias, and some types of angina. It is rarely effective alone, but often effective in combination with juice and protein, or with a detox combination such as Niacinamide, Moringa, and Ginseng.

Ginseng - WARNING! AVOID Ginseng with Vitamin C added, it invariably causes headaches in people who actually NEED Ginseng, and can cause kidney damage in a significant percentage of them. This is a nutritive metabolic balancer. It contains many partial molecule chains which the body uses to construct transport enzymes, catalysts, and to complete neurotransmitters, nutrient molecules, and other necessary elements for functional metabolism. For some reason, many people who do not extract these things well from their diet, can do so from Ginseng. It is not a stimulant, rather, it provides resources so the body can release energy and support to muscle and nerve cells. If a person has exercise intolerance, where exercise induces a WITHDRAWAL of resources from major muscle groups (veins will constrict instead of dilating, and lungs will constrict), then Ginseng may help to prevent this effect, or to reduce it. It does the same with heart and lungs in some kinds of angina crises, and may help with congestive heart symptoms, though it is not alone enough to treat any heart crisis. It is one of the best supportive herbs, and does have some long term healing effect for metabolic and mitochondrial conditions which are often a factor (acquired or inborn) in some presentations of angina or constrictive heart conditions. Dosage is actually surprisingly low, 1-4 capsules daily, in two doses if it is more than 1 capsule. People in clinical trials who take this and are not told what to expect all report the same effect, which is that they did not have any kind of "upper" effect, rather, their muscles just had more endurance and less discomfort with activity.

 

Inverse (Variant) Angina (Resting Angina) responds to the following emergency treatment if caught early: Get half a cup of juice, and drink it while preparing a high protein snack. MUST BE ANIMAL PROTEIN, vegetable proteins are not sufficient for this (may have short term benefit but won't last, they'll go right back into crisis). When angina is caused by metabolic dysfunction, low protein is the #1 trigger for angina at rest. If angina at rest is not treated it WILL progress to active angina, which is far harder to head off, and this may then progress to full constrictive heart involvement. Inverse Angina is the Early Warning, and should NEVER be ignored or left untreated.

Constrictive Chest Pain (pinching, small spot in the chest usually over the heart, may radiate, but feels sharp and focused) - Have successfully used Red Rooibos Tea Blend, successfully used GABA, and we have reduced this using Ginseng combined with Moringa, Niacinamide, and Elder Flower. Typically this happens after some kind of stressor, such as strep, chemical toxin exposure (Food Club Orange Juice [has something in it that makes you sick within 3-4 days if used daily], Hair Dye, Dryer Sheets, Air Fresheners, immunizations (contain a chemical cocktail of adjuvants and preservatives), ammonia tainted meat [very common now], or excessive chlorine).

Recent experiences with toxicity caused by fumes from burning plastics (from nearby fireplaces where homeowners are burning plastic), indicate that pinching chest pain (localized to the heart, and radiating toward either arm), caused by toxicity may be treated with fluids and salt. Flushing of plastic fumes from the body USES high amounts of water and salt, and the symptoms of LOW SALT (hyponatremia), include chest pain, though medical sources online have scrubbed this symptom and you can only find it in older textbooks - they do still admit to MUSCLE symptoms, and NERVE symptoms, and the heart is a strong muscle controlled by complex nerves. Heaven forbid that salt should actually be proven NECESSARY to heart patients, though recent studies have shown conclusively that low salt diets tend to higher heat attack death rates, AND all online sources admit that hyponatremia is MOST common among heart patients who have been placed on a salt restricted diet. Medical politics aside though, we have seen almost immediate results in stoppage of pinching chest pain following toxic smoke exposure, by administering salt (a pinch at a time, until it tastes bad), and a small glass of water with each pinch of salt, repeated as needed. It usually takes less than 10 minutes to stop the chest pain, but it may return again, and need repeat salt and water over the next 6-8 hours to stop the return. Increased salt (to taste, not more) in the diet over the next few days will generally prevent the return of the chest pain.

Dull Chest Pain with Shortness of Breath, may have persistent radiating ache into either arm. Go to the ER NOW, or call an ambulance. If you can drink fluids while waiting, do so, this has been shown to help (filtered water is best, chlorine is not exactly helpful right now, but good quality juice may also be useful, AVOID sodas, they have too much potential to complicate issues). YOU CANNOT PRACTICALLY TREAT THIS IN TIME WITH CAPSULATED HERBS. (Early on, before shortness of breath is present, it may be able to be treated with capsulated herbs at home, but I am not familiar with the treatment, and will not make a recommendation. Tea or tincture gets into the blood stream faster.)

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NOTE REGARDING ANTIBIOTIC USE OF HERBS

I have had to treat strep when I could not tolerate an antibiotic, and I would NEVER recommend this course for anyone unless it were their only choice. It WAS my only choice, as I was just too sensitive to antibiotic medications at the time.

I used a combination of heavy duty antibiotic herbs, in rotation (helps avoid microbial resistance, which is a BIG deal with strep), and it was so terrible. It took 2 weeks for the sore throat to subside, and another month or more for me to feel like I was over it. I would never subject a child to such torture, when a medication can knock it out in 1-3 days (depending on the type). I've done it both ways, with more than one type of strep, and there is just no comparison.

UPDATE: Here I am again, unable to use an antibiotic. This time I caught it early, and the fight was still pretty harsh, but not so abjectly miserable. I dropped from 3 to 2 doses per day too soon (after just 6 days, when I had no more sore throat), and it flared right back up, and was FAR harder to reduce again the second time.

We have THREE issues with strep treatment.

One is that the herbs are hard to digest and metabolize, so they work differently person to person, and they get into the system slowly, taking an average of about 8 hours to really work in the bloodstream. This also makes the effect unpredictable from person to person, as to the strength of the effect, and the types of effects a single herb may provide. TIP: Take with juice to help break them down if you have trouble digesting them.

The second is that strep gets resistant pretty fast, so by the fourth day, your big guns start getting knocked out. This is why a rotation is more effective, and why we change the blends somewhat day to day. Strep is nasty stuff, and will play games with you.

The third thing is that strep grows REALLY fast, and you go from a little sick to VERY sick within hours. If you are not sure it is strep, then you may delay getting medical care, or beginning an herbal treatment. When you start on an antibiotic, it takes an hour or so to begin to really get into your system, and you can be really feeling better by the time you take your second dose. With herbal capsules, they take time to digest and break apart, and then metabolize, so it can take 6-10 hours to really get a significant benefit after you take the first dose.

It is VITAL that you TAKE THAT FIRST DOSE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, but that you ALSO take a FIRST DOSE OF TEA OR TINCTURE, or other rapid acting herbal preparation (syrup, cordial, vinegar, etc). The fast acting will get into your system quickly, followed by the capsuled herbs.

You have to hit it hard, and not let up, if you want to conquer strep.

If strep gets away with you, you can feel worse again within a few hours, and it can take quite a while to regain lost ground.

Anyway, THIS is what I have done, and I don't RECOMMEND it, I an just SHARING it,  in case someone else HAS to do it. DON'T DO THIS unless you have no other choice, it IS RISKY, and the RISKS ARE YOURS ALONE.

If you have to combine it WITH antibiotics (there's a REALLY nasty strain of strep going around that laughs at antibiotics), then PLEASE use them cautiously, and DO NOT use this entire routine with antibiotics. Tea is the safest option, capsules are more unpredictable.

Three doses per day, variety of herbs each time. Generally 2-4 caps of each for strep. (Please don't just use 6 of one thing instead of 2 each of 3 herbs. The side effects ARE serious if you try that, and it is not nearly as effective.)

These are somewhat interchangeable, but some things do not work well with others. The wider variety you can get, the less likely it is to build resistance. I have listed a wide variety so that you can USE WHAT YOU CAN GET.

WE HAVE CHANGED THIS TO MAKE IT MORE EFFECTIVE!

We want this to be simpler, but have not
found a way yet to knock out strep with a
simpler course of herbs. It is just HARD to
get a strong enough dose without severe
digestive or immune side effects, and herbs
DO NOT work well at all, once your digestive
tract is compromised significantly.

Take about 3-6 types per dose, and rotate the herbs in each group from day to day except the double starred ones.

• Take ALL of the double starred herbs.
• Take 2 of the single starred herbs. Rotate these.
• Take 2 or 3 of the unstarred ones. Rotate these

You may need either 1, or 2 capsules of each, MORE IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER!

Optional TEA, or JUICE, use only 1 tea, and/or 1 juice with each dose. We included a variety, use what you have or can get easily. Juice is especially useful if you have digestive issues that make it difficult to digest vegetables - this WILL cause issues with the use of herbs. IMPORTANT: The tea and juice is NOT there as an antibiotic, so much as a supportive herb, or a tonic or rejuvenating herb. The juice is there to help metabolize the herbs, if you have digestive discomfort from them.

DIGESTIVE HEALTH NOTE: We have found that yogurt is essential with this for some people. We recommend a good homemade yogurt, or a multi-bacterial yogurt such as Oikos, Oak Glen Smoothie, or DanActive (don't eat DanActive if it does not have a classic sour yogurt flavor, sometimes it goes off). You can also use LifeWay Kefir (That's "keh-feer" for you cretins who think it is "keefer".) This herbal regimen is HARD to do, and harsh on your gut just like pharma antibiotics, but even Hops is not so hard on your gut if you have yogurt daily or every other day.

 

Morning Options

• **Black Walnut Hull PLUS Oregon Grape
• **Bacopa OR Nasturtium Leaf
• *Juniper Berry
• *Dried Candied Ginger (#00 size capsules)
• *Elm Seed (#00 size capsules)
• Sunflower Petal or Rose Petal (#00 size capsules)
• Peppermint Stick Balsam Flower (#1 size capsules)
• Paddy Straw Mushroom (#00 size capsules)
• Red Rooibos (#3 size capsules)
• Elder Flower (#00 size capsules)
• Chickweed (#00 size capsules)
• + Chamomile Tea
• + Herba Mate OR Yaupon Tea
• + Sarsparilla OR Sassafrass Tea
• + Clove OR Anise Tea
• + Licorice Root Tea
• + Linden or Curl Leaf Mountain Mahogany Tea (Use only once per day)
• + Hyssop Tea
• + Pomegranate Juice

 

Afternoon Options

• **Echinacea AND Golden Seal
• **Calendula (#1 size capsules)
• *Forsythia Blossom (DO NOT TAKE WITH HOPS) (#1 size capsules)
• *Pholiota adiposa & Red Raspberry Leaf Blend (#1 size capsules)
• *Pumpkin Leaf and Hosta Blend (3-1 blend, #00 size capsules)
• *Candied Orange Peel
• Lilac Bark (# 1 size capsules)
• Sage
• Burdock
• Purple or Black Sweet Potato Leaf and Motherwort blend (#1 size capsules)
• River Birch OR other Birch
• Wild Mustard (#00 size capsules)
• + Linden Tea (Use only once per day)
• + Dandelion LEAF Tea
• + Rose Petal Tea
• + Mint Tea
• + Moringa Tea
• + Turmeric Tea
• + Hyssop Tea
• + Rooibos Tea (If you have not used Rooibos capsules this day)
• + Elderberry Juice

 

Evening Options

• **Hops
• **Geranium Leaf OR **Siberian Elm Leaf or Inner Bark (#00 size capsules) OR **Apricot Leaf Extract and Chamomile Blend (#1 size caps)
• *Sunflower Leaf and Chinese Knotweed, OR Rose Leaf (#00 size capsules)
• *Gladiolus and Motherwort (#1 size capsules)
• Ginseng
• Chuling Mushroom
• Mint and Lemon Balm Blend (#00 size capsules)
• Snow On the Mountain (varigated Bishop's Weed) - DO NOT USE WITH ECHINACEA & GOLDEN SEAL! (#1 size capsules)
• Red Rooibos (#3 size capsules)
• Hyssop (#00 size capsule)
• + Red Raspberry Tea
• + Chaga Tea
• + Fennel Tea
• + Rose Hip Tea
• + Nettle Tea
• + Linden Tea (Use only once per day)
• + Hibiscus Tea
• + Tart Cherry Juice

 

Additional Dose (If you do not respond within 24 hours with symptom reduction, add in a 4th dose in the night. Those that have AND/OR should be used carefully. 2-3 caps of one of them, or 1-2 caps of 2 of them.)

• **Skullcap AND/OR **Creeping Charlie plus any GENTLE antibiotic
• **Bacopa AND/OR **Calendula
• *Pansy Leaf
• *Dianthus Leaf
• Petunia Leaf
• Rosemary Leaf
• Geranium Blossom
• Pansy Blossom
• Thyme
• Apple Blossom or Leaf
• Dandelion Blossom
  
  

Supportive Dose (use this every 2-4 days if you have to treat longer than two weeks)

• Black Cumin Seed Oil (1-3 capsules)

+ Healing tea that can help mitigate side effects of antibiotic herbs.

If companion anti-viral is needed, olive leaf extract not recommended. Linden tea is a great option, as is Elderberry and Passion Flower.

*This herb works well by itself as an antibiotic for mild infections, but works best with additional herbs, and for train wreck infections it needs other herbs with it.

A NOTE ABOUT STREP

I've had three distinct presentations of strep.

One hits you like a Mac truck, and the diagnostic on it (if you cannot get a strep test) is that you go from feeling good, to feeling like you've been run over, within about 8 hours. You'll have a slightly scratchy throat that goes to swollen and VERY SORE within that time. You may or may not SEE white spots on the tonsils, but you WILL KNOW this is a BAD sore throat, and usually you have body aches, nausea, headache, and other symptoms along with it. This kind gets SO BAD, SO FAST, that you generally begin treatment fairly quickly, and it responds fast to antibiotics. You get better as fast as you got worse, and you feel pretty much over it within 24-48 hours.

One sneaks up on you, and starts as a mild sore throat, without much of any other symptoms. It takes 3-5 days, gradually worsening, before you know it is bad enough to need the doctor. By the time you KNOW you have to get medical help, it is well entrenched, and it responds SLOWLY to antibiotics. It takes about 2-3 days just to know if the antibiotic is working, and several more to conquer the sore throat. This one is more likely to go into the ears and cause ruptured ear drums, it is more likely to cause secondary infections elsewhere, and it is more likely to cause pneumonia. This kind is VERY DIFFICULT to treat with herbs, and it requires a LONG treatment.

The third type sneaks up also, and is often the result of an incomplete treatment of strep. It presents with a sore throat and malaise, and never seems to get bad, but it WEARS YOU OUT. This one also is VERY HARD to treat with either antibiotics or with herbs. The treatment will also wear you out, because it takes an average course of treatment of 3 weeks, but may take 6, and EVERY TIME you stop the antibiotics and it comes back, it is HARDER to get rid of, because it is that much more resistant. The longer you've had it, the harder it is to get rid of.

Strep in general follows that rule - the longer you've had it, the harder it is to treat and get rid of it. So if you SUSPECT strep, get help RIGHT NOW. Don't make an appointment for tomorrow, go to an urgent care clinic NOW, or if you cannot get medical help, or cannot tolerate it, start with calendula or hops (or both if you know you can tolerate that) RIGHT NOW.

REMEMBER, herbs take longer to get into the blood stream because you don't just have to absorb them, you have to break them down and digest them first, so when time is of the essence, TEA may be the most effective method of getting them into you, and we always recommend Tea AND Capsules at the same time with strep, so you get the tea into you immediately, and 6-12 hours later the capsule is fully kicked in.

We don't play around with this illness, mortal danger aside, it is just TOO MISERABLE to be playing games with it.

 

 

For THIS, you might try THIS
(if you are brave and assume all risk for yourself!)

 

I Just Don't Feel Good, Or I Think I Am Coming Down With Something

Mommy I Don't Feel Good Tea

2 cups water
2 whole calendula blossoms
2 tsp crushed Linden leaf
1/2 tsp granulated ginger
2-4 tbsp honey or sugar

Put ALL ingredients into a pot, boil for 3-4 minutes, strain, and serve 1 cup per person, per dose, up to 2 doses per day (use HALF a dose for children under 12, and QUARTER a dose for children under 4, or 2 TBSP for infants). This WILL help a cold be less severe, but it will NOT do any more than BARELY slow down strep. Works for stomach bugs, aches and fevers, pneumonia or bronchitis, and for both bacterial and viral infections.

Stomach Calming

Mint
Chamomile
Lemon Balm
Ginger (Cooked)

And don't forget, hard candies can sooth an upset stomach, and calm morning sickness.

Antidepressant

St. John's Wort
Borage Oil
Lemon Balm

Sedative

Kava-Kava
Black Haw
Wild Plum Bark
Lobelia
Valerian

Laxative

Brigham Tea (Ephedra) (short prep)
Cascara

Cough Suppressant

Hyssop
Black Haw
Plum Bark

Antibiotic - Antibiotics work best in combinations, and if you rotate through more than one combination. We use 4-6 combinations, rotated each dose. This reduces side effects, and reduces potentials for resistance by the pathogen we are battling.

Mint (Use with pinch of Columbine flower, or Apricot Leaf)
Linden Flower (Use with Hops, Bacopa, or Calendula for Antibiotic)
Cinnamon (Use with Elm Leaf or Seed, Aspen or Birch Leaf)
Hops (Use with Elm Seed, Burdock, or Chamomile)
Elderberry Leaf (Use with Elm Seed, Sweet Potato Vine, or Calendula)
Ginger (Partners well with just about anything, and NEEDS other things for full potency)
Forsythia Blossom (Use with Blessed Thistle or Milk Thistle)
Yarrow (Use with Echinacea, Geranium Leaf, Spruce or Pine Bud, or Aspen Leaf)
Echinacea & Golden Seal (This is just how we use these two most of the time)
Aspen, Cottonwood, Alder, Beech, Birch, Poplar, Ash Leaf (Use with Ginger, Orange Peel, or Cinnamon)
Apricot Leaf EXTRACT (Use with Ginger, Elm Seed, Honeybush or Red Rooibos, Pansy Leaf, Oregon Grape)
Elm Seed, Oak Leaf, Spruce or Pine Bud (Use with Chamomile, Daylily, or Strawberry Leaf)
Candied Orange Peel (Do not use with other resinous antibiotics, but combines easly with most things)
Gladiolus Blossom (Use with Blessed Thistle or Milk Thistle)
Juniper Berry (Caution with green berries. Combine with Ginger, Chamomile, or Blackberry Leaf)
Nasturtium Leaf (Combines with most things, works really well with mushrooms)
Bacopa (Elm Seed, Pholiota Adiposa, Portobello Gills)
Black Walnut (Use with Oregon Grape)
Geranium Leaf (Use with Sunflower Leaf or Petal)
Petunia Leaf (Use with Red Raspberry, or Elm Seed)
Rosemary Leaf (Use with Dandelion Leaf, or Wild Lettuce)
Sage Leaf (Use with Ginger, Elm Seed, or Sunflower Petal, AND use with yogurt)
Sunflower Leaf or Bud (Use with Ginger, Apple Leaf, or Birch)
Pumpkin Leaf (Use with Hosta, Chamomile, or Strawberry Leaf)

Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster Tea (Non-Alcoholic, just bitter) – 1 qt water plus 1/4 to 1/2 cup Honey (or sugar) - PUT IT IN BEFORE YOU BOIL IT, and 1 tsp of each thing, BOILED for 8 min. This is a STRONG tea, and you only need ½ cup.

IMPORTANT! You cannot make this as a weak and wussy tea. This has to be a STRONG EXTRACTION to work for Strep, or Pertussis, Diptheria, or other raging infectious bacterial illnesses. Strep takes twice as strong as Pertussis or Diptheria, but they still require an Extraction. You HAVE to put the honey or sugar in BEFORE you boil it, and you HAVE to boil it for 8 minutes. This is the power punch. It is strong, bitter, and unpleasant. But this stuff WORKS if you make it right.

(I have used this kind of tea to beat strep, and it was the EASIEST treatment yet, and the most effective, but I COMBINED it with the herbal capsule treatment. I used TWO doses per day of the capsule treatment, and TWO doses of tea per day, and I took them at the same time, so the tea took immediate effect, and the capsules kicked in 6-10 hours later for a "time release" type dose. It was easier to take, and VERY effective. If the sore throat got WORSE during the day, I took another dose, but only had to do that two or three times. The tea takes LITERALLY 2-3 hours to start reducing the inflammation in your throat, and within 6-8 hours you feel MUCH better. You take it for about 5 days, and if it has not flared again, you can reduce to TWO doses of Tea, and ONE dose of capsules, and if that holds for another 4 days you can reduce to Two doses of tea, and a single antibiotic herbal (Calendula, Hops, and Bacopa are the best to rotate, 2 caps each), and then if you stay stable for 3 days you can reduce to one cup of tea, and one antibiotic herbal, then drop one of them, then drop the other. We just don't know how well the body picks up and carries on without strep relapsing, sometimes, and we don't have standardized treatments here, so we just kind of feel our way through.)

NOTE! This tea can cause some people to experience angina. Scroll on down for Heart Relief Tea, and if you blend THAT with THIS, from the start, it will help to prevent and relieve angina caused by herbal side effects.

WARNING! Do NOT use Golden Seal or Olive Leaf in ANY of these, they have serious side effects if you do!

Tea: Calendula Blossom and Leaf, Geranium Leaf, Orange Peel, Linden, Elm Seed

Tea: Sunflower Blossom and Leaf, Geranium Leaf, Strawberry Leaf, Linden, Orange Peel, Pumpkin Leaf

Tea: Elm Leaf or Bark, Oak Leaf or Bark, Mint Leaf, Echinacea, Ginger, Petunia or Sage

Tea: Apple Leaf, Birch or Aspen Leaf, Burdock, Rosemary, Nasturtium, Yarrow, Heather Blossom OR Pansy Blossom OR Apple Blossom

 

TB-T - This tea is DIFFERENT than Pan Galactic, because it is a long term for a more chronic type illness. You can combine various herbs, and it does not need to be the same each time, you just use what you have. I do feel it is better to rotate the various herbs, to reduce some of the side effects, and to reduce the tendency for resistance. This is a WEAKER tea than Pan Galactic, and IT SHOULD BE. WARNING, do not use two from the same category without researching well, some can conflict.

We have SEVEN parts to this tea. Choose one item from each list and add them to 1 qt of water. Add 4 TBSP honey or sugar, and then boil for 5 minutes. Measurements are for CRUSHED herb, if you have powder, it takes 1/8 as much.

Part 1 - Primary antibiotics which have been historically used for the treatment of TB and some other chronic infections.

• Bacopa - 1 tsp
• Calendula - 1 full blossom
• Hops - 1/2 flower or 1 tsp
• Echinacea - 1/2 tsp
• Sage - 1/2 tsp
• Oregano - 3/4 tsp
• Rosemary - 1 tsp for leafy, 3/4 tsp for piney
• Summer Savory - 3/4 tsp
• Winter Savory - 1/2 tsp
• Geranium Leaf - 1 tsp
• Impatiens Leaf - 1 tsp (may cause allergies in some people)

Part 2 - Secondary antibiotics which combine with primary antibiotics to strengthen the effect without doubling side effects.

• Elm Seed - 2 tbsp whole seed (can sub Elm Leaf, but Seed is better)
• Pomegranate Seed (broken) - 1 tsp
• Pumpkin Leaf - 1 tsp
• Sunflower Leaf - 1 tsp
• Mulberry Leaf - 1 tsp
• Magnolia Leaf - 1 tsp
• Aspen or Birch Leaf - 1 tsp
• Cottonwood Leaf - 1 tsp
• Alder Leaf - 1 tsp
• French Marigold Leaf and Blossom - 1 tsp
• Thyme - 1 tsp
• Orange Peel (may be candied) - 1 tsp
• Nasturtium Leaf - 1 tsp (CAUTION, do not combine with Neem Leaf)
• Petunia Leaf - 1 tsp

Part 3 - Strong antibiotics, but these each have a risk, and some people can tolerate them, some people cannot. They SHOULD be rotated according to your tolerance. This Part CAN be omitted if necessary.

• Forsythia - 1 tsp
• Gladiolus Blossom - 3/4 tsp
• Columbine Flower - 1/8 tsp
• Chrysanthemum Blossom - 1/4 tsp, do not overmeasure. Should not be combined with Calendula or any Marigold.
• Dahlia Blossom - 1 tsp
• Peony Leaf and Blossom - 1 1/2 tsp
• Tall Phlox Leaf and Blossom - 1 tsp
• Creeping Phlox Leaf - 1/2 tsp
• Crushed Juniper Berry - 6 berries
• Oak Leaf - 1 tsp (Should not be used for repeat doses if you have brittle bones)

Part 4 - Helps reverse damaged done to the body by Tuberculosis, and can help to reduce occurrence of nodules and lesions. CAUTION with these herbs, some are fairly harsh. Do NOT increase amounts or over-measure. DO NOT use MORE THAN ONE in a batch of tea. (NOTE: A few of these are used as chemotherapeutic agents, but others SHOULD NOT BE used that way. They just happen to have an inhibitory effect on TB.)

• Neem Leaf - 1/2 tsp
• Celery Seed - 1 tsp
• African Mango Seed - 1 tsp
• Maqui Berry - 2 tsp
• Bayberry Root - 2 tsp
• Devil's Claw - 1 tsp
• Rhodiola Root - 1 tsp
• Coleus - 1 tsp
• Licorice Root - 1 tsp
• Allysum - 2 tsp
• Creosote Bush Leaf - 1/2 tsp
• Chinchona - 1/2 tsp
• Galangal - 1/4 tsp
• Jasmine Flower - 1 1/2 tsp
• Lavender Flower - 2 tsp
• Canadian Snake Root - 1 tsp
• Codonopsis - 1/2 tsp
• Coltsfoot - 1 tsp
• Cranesbill - 1/2 tsp
• Dragon's Blood - 1/2 tsp (quality varies)
• Chaparral - 1 tsp (quality varies)
• Bosweillia - 1 tsp
• Horse Chestnut - 1/2 tsp
• Horehound - 1/4 tsp
• Honeysuckle - 1 tsp
• Lily of the Valley - 1/2 tsp
• Mistletoe - 1/4 tsp
• Poke Root - 1/8 tsp
• Wood Betony - 1/4 tsp
• Wormwood - 1/4 tsp

Part 5 - Non-mutative healers which help to reverse damage from TB and from TB treatment.

• Heather Blossom - 1 tsp
• Daylily Blossom - 1 tsp
• Pansy Blossom - 1 tsp
• Catauba Bark - 1 1/2 tsp
• Dianthus Blossom - 1 1/2 tsp

Part 6 - Put ALL of these in, they are Protective in nature.

• Ginger - 1 tsp
• Red Rooibos or Honeybush - 2 tsp
• Elder Flower or Currant Flower, or Chokecherry Flower, or Apple Blossom, or Cherry Blossom - 2 tsp
• Yerba Mate, or Santa Yerba, or Holly Leaf, or Oregon Grape Leaf - 2 tsp

 

Additional Help: If you take these teas for very long, some people will develop a reaction, and it can cause pinching heart pain. This may be felt within the region of the heart, or radiating outward to the left or the right. It is not severe, but IS an ALARM. Adenosylcobalamin can help with this, but the following TEA can also relieve the symptoms. You can use it by itself, 1/2 cup at a time, OR you can blend it with your Antibiotic Tea, half and half.

NOTE: We find that if you know you are likely to develop heart pains from use of heavy antibotic herbs, that using 1/4 cup of this tea with every dose of AB tea can PREVENT the heart symptoms.

Heart Relief Tea: 1 Qt water, to 4 tsps of each of the following: Yerba Mate, RED Rooibos, Elder Flower.

You can use Possumhaw, Daylily Blossom, Pansy Blossom, or Squash Blossom instead of Yerba Mate - Yerba Santa or Mahonia will work also but are not preferred if you can get Yerba Mate. You may use Oregon Grape Blossom, Burdock, Heather Blossom, or Honeybush instead of Red Rooibos, but again, they are not quite as effective. Green Rooibos is NOT suitable for this purpose. You may substitute Aronia Leaf, Mullberries, Chokecherry Blossom, Apple Blossom, or Turmeric in place of the Elder Flower, but they work differently, and should not be subbed unless necessary.

Antiviral - Antivirals work best in combinations, and if you rotate through more than one combination. We use 4-6 combinations, rotated each dose. This reduces side effects, and reduces potentials for resistance by the pathogen we are battling.

Linden Flower (use with Red Rooibos)
Passion Flower (Use with Elderberry)
Olive Leaf Extract (Use with Burdock, DO NOT take at the same time as other antivirals)
Calendula (Use with Ginger, Elm Leaf or Seed, or Burdock)
Hops (Use with Ginger, Oregon Grape, or Sunflower Leaf)
Brigham Tea (short prep, laxative) (Use with Chamomile, or Heather Blossom)
Elderberry Leaf (Use with Passion Flower)
Ginger (Combines with anything else, use it where things are trickier)
Burdock (Combines with MOST things)
Spruce or Pine Bud (Combines with Pansy Leaf)
Apricot Leaf EXTRACT (Combines with Pear Leaf, Apple Leaf, Elm Leaf)
Juniper Berry (Use with care if they are not fully ripe, combine with Daylily, Sweet Potato Vine, or other mild antibiotics or antivirals)
Sunflower Petal, Bud, or Leaf (Use with Ginger, Burdock, Elm Seed, or Bacopa)
Mulberry Leaf (Use the same as Elderberry Leaf)
Morning Glory Blossom (Combines with Chinese or Prostrate knotweed)

Traditional Anti-viral Tea (used for Polio, Mumps, Chicken Pox, Colds, and Measles)

OR... Pan Galactic Gargle Buster Tea

1 tsp (unless otherwise listed) of each of the herbs, plus 1/4-1/2 cup honey or sugar (put it in before you boil it), and boil the tea for 8 minutes. Dosage is 1/2 cup, 1-2 times daily. (You may take 2 capsules each of 2 anti-virals at the same time, which will get into your system about 8 hours later, and if you take tea plus capsules twice a day, it keeps enough in your system to knock ouit the toughies.)

WARNING! Do NOT use Golden Seal or Olive Leaf in ANY of these, they have serious side effects if you do!

Tea: Linden, Sunflower or Safflower Petal, Pansy Leaf, Calendula, Elm Leaf, Dianthus Blossom

Tea: Linden, Rosemary, Apricot or Mulberry Leaf, Apple Leaf, Hops, Petunia Leaf, Orange Peel

Tea: Elm Leaf or Bark, Mint Leaf, Elderberry Leaf, Ginger, Yarrow, Juniper berry or leaf, Rose Leaf

Tea: Birch or Cottonwood or Aspen Leaf, Burdock, Morning Glory Blossom, Sassafrass, Heather Blossom OR Pansy Blossom OR Apple Blossom

REMEMBER... You can make up your own, just use 2-3 major antivirals, and 2-3 moderate anti-virals, 1 antibiotic, and 1 tonic healer. You can mix and match with these. We tried to put the most powerful ones first, and the tonic healer last. Many of these are not for sale, but they are often in your back yard.

Antifungal

Geranium Leaf
Dryad's Saddle Mushroom
Pumpkin Leaf
Black Walnut Hull
Calendula (orally, or as a wash)
Juniper Berry
Juniper Pollen Cone (as a wash)
Pomegranate Seed
Mulberry Leaf
Thyme Leaf
Bacopa

Skin Conditions

Myrrh
Borage Oil
Aloe
Chamomile
Comfrey
Wormwood or Southernwood, or Big Sage Leaf
Witch Hazel
Cottonwood or Aspen Leaf or Bud

Antihistimine

Bee Pollen
Nettle
Goldenrod

Wound Healing

Aloe
Calendula
Comfrey (use sparingly)
Arnica

Hormonal/Reproductive Health

Alfalfa
Black Cohosh
Blue Cohosh
Black Haw
Evening Primrose Oil
Saw Palmetto
Chamomile
Maca
Queen of the Meadow
Red Raspberry Leaf
Yarrow
Fenugreek

AVOID aspartame

Neurologic Health

Ginkgo
Kava-Kava
Royal Jelly
Sodium Benzoate (chelates ammonia)
Geranium Blossom
Pansy Leaf

AVOID aspartame

Kidney and Liver Health

Cranberry
Blueberry
Elderberry Juice
Chanca Piedra
Blessed Thistle
Milk Thistle
Burdock
Rose Petal (with caution)
Niacinamide
Geranium Blossom

Heart Health

Evening Primrose Oil
Hawthorn
Yarrow
Pumpkin, Squash, or Cucumber Blossom
Oregon Grape Blossom

Eyesight

Bilberry
Nasturtium Blossom

Metabolic or Mitochondrial Health

Ginseng
Brigham Tea (Ephedra)
Coffee Berry Extract
Green Tea Extract
Wild Lettuce
Rose Petal
Dianthus Blossom
Lilac Blossom
Moringa
Spruce or Pine Bud
Acai Berry
Chickweed

Chemical Sensitivity (compensators)

Rose Petal
Burdock
Wild Mustard
Moringa
Neem Leaf
Spruce or Pine Bud
Ginkgo
Niacinamide

Pain Relief

Willow Bark (Extreme Caution)
B-12

Seizure Relief

Ginkgo (Read warnings!!)
Black Haw
Wild Plum Bark
Lobelia (with other herbs)
Valerian (with other herbs)
GABA

Digestive Health

Mint
Papaya Leaf
Bromelain (Pineapple)
Kiwi
Mango
Turmeric
Condiments (seriously, great digestive aids)

Weight Loss

Chickweed

Diabetes

Cinnamon

Blood Thinner

Cinnamon
Garlic

Circulatory Health

Dill Weed
Fennel
Maca
Bitterbush

Immune Suppressant

Caffeine

Bone and Joint

Protein
Phosphorus
Jello with Pineapple (seriously... collagen, folks!)
Daylily Leaf, Blossom, or Root
Rose Petal or Leaf

Tonic for Nutritional Health

Dandelion
Alfalfa
Rose Petal or Hips
Hibiscus
Nettle
Moringa
Red Rooibos
Linden (use with caution)

 

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