MAGICAL, BLUE SKULLCAP, BEST SEDATIVE

MAGICAL, BLUE SKULLCAP, BEST SEDATIVE

Nv-wo-ti  Ga-go-ti means Medicine Herb in Phonetic Cherokee Language

Blue Skullcap is a Native American herb and a member of the mint family. It is best known for its sedative and antispasmodic properties. The Cherokee and other indigenous tribes made use of the herb for the purpose of female comforts. It was often used to promote menstruation and to relieve menstrual cramps. Young girls were often given an infusion of Blue skullcap to help ease the child into her first season and into “womanhood.”

Today we are using Blue skullcap for the treatment of muscle spasms, jangled nerves, tension headaches, anxiety, insomnia and seizure disorders. A diagnosis of ADHD does not mean you are doomed to treat your child with harsh pharmaceutical drugs. Now studies show that Blue skullcap is a natural treatment for ADHD, it increases the ability to focus and reduces hyperactivity. Commercially, you will find dried Blue Skullcap in teas, capsules, tablets and as a tincture.

MILK THISTLE THWARTS LIVER DIS-EASE!

 Blessed Milk Thistle for Liver Dis-Ease

Traditional Medicine

Traditionally, milk thistle is known to be useful in gallbladder diseases, gallstones, fatty liver and as a liver protectant.  It is the only known treatment for Amanita phalloides (Death cap) mushroom poisoning.  

True Preventive Medicine

In Europe, Milk Thistle is often added as extra protection when patients are given medications known to cause liver problems. Numerous medications can injure or inflame the liver. Evidence strongly suggests that Milk Thistle might protect against liver toxicity caused by drugs such as acetaminophen, alcohol, phenothiazines and phenytoin (Dilantin).

Intensive research into the liver-protecting properties of the Milk Thistle plant began over 50 years ago in Germany.

About Worms__Tapeworms, Roundworms, Pin Worms, Hookworms...

Intestinal worms; this subject was whispered about when Shebolith Says...was a young child because everyone knew you had to be a dirty little kid to get infected with worms!  However, the truth is that it is quite common for humans (especially children) to host these parasites. The most common of these parasites are roundworms, pin worms, thread worms, hookworms and tapeworms.

HOW WORMS INVADE OUR BODIES

DANDELION - NATURAL DIURETIC

Dandelion - Natural Diuretic

Opinions differ on whether the Dandelion is a wild and tenured herb with nutritional and therapeutic value or an obnoxious weed. The very word Dandelion finds its origins in Medieval Latin. This tells us the Dandelion is a very old plant indeed and endowed with an excellent reputation in the concerns of well-being and good health.

In the United States and Europe dandelion plants are grown commercially, the leaves and roots are used in the herbal supplement industry. At the same time, the herbicide industry would have us believe that the dandelion is simply an obnoxious weed that needs extermination from the farmed fields, as well as, the family yard. In truth, the lowly dandelion is loaded with vitamins and minerals.

 

PEPPERMINT & PEPPERMINT ESSENTIAL OIL

Peppermint & Peppermint Essential Oil

Common Sense Home Treatments for Everyday Aches & Pains

Peppermint, Mentha x piperita, is another of excellent home remedies fallen from favor in the current market place.  Indeed, they have fallen from common knowledge, no longer handed down from one generation to another, as has been the fate of most common-sense home treatments for everyday aches and pains.

ECHINACEA FOR ALLERGIES & CANDIDA

ECHINACEA FOR ALLERGIES & CANDIDA

In 1987, Humbart Santillo, MH, N.D. stated, “Echinacea is an herb that is a specific lymphatic cleanser.  It is an excellent herb to use to combat allergies in combination with enzymes because it stimulates the production of white blood cells, and is used to treat inflammations, lymphatic swellings and infections.”

Echinacea angustifolia is known to have been used by at least 14 North American Tribes for a variety of maladies, including coughs, colds, sore throats and infections.  Echinacea is reported to have been used by the Dakotas as a veterinary medicine for their horses. Archeology reports indicate that Native Americans may have used Echinacea for more than 400 years to treat infections and wounds and as a general "cure-all”

NICOTINE DERIVED FROM TOBACCO PLANT HELPS SOME

NICOTINE DERIVED FROM TOBACCO PLANT HELPS SOME

Tobacco was “discovered” in the Americas along with the indigenous peoples.  Columbus and other sailors carried the tobacco seed along with dried tobacco leaves back to Europe.  In Europe, it became all the rage to smoke dried tobacco in pipes newly manufactured just for that purpose.  A new industry had begun.  Later on, the upper class of society in Europe began dipping snuff as an alternative to smoking tobacco through a pipe.  Americans in the United States became enamored with cigars, especially Cuban Cigars in the nineteenth century.  The years between 1900 and 1950 cigarettes became popular.  When Shebolith began smoking in the mid 60s, ‘decent’ women were not allowed by society to smoke in public.  We hid behind closed doors to feed our newly found friend, called addiction.

Big Pharma claimed nicotine, the psychoactive ingredient found in the Tobacco Plant, in the 1980s.  It was known even then that nicotine played a big role in the stimulation of release of neurotransmitters, serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain.  Low levels of these neurotransmitters cause symptoms of depression.  Dr. Christopher Dattan confided in us in the mid 80s that smoking cigarettes would interfere with his prescribed medication protocol and its ability to regulate these neurotransmitters.  We have long since learned that manipulation of these neurotransmitters controls behavior in the human research subject.

Research on mice (and humans, Shebolith suspects), indicates nicotine is especially protective of the neurotransmitter, dopamine.  A lack of dopamine causes expression of the symptoms of Parkinson disease.  In our experience, some of the anti-depressants used in the 80s and still in use today cause Pseudo-Parkinson disease.  When the uncontrollable shaking began, we were terrified.  Doctors tried to control these symptoms with Ativan, the drug used by emergency technicians for gran mal seizure.  We believe our smoking addiction saved us from a lifetime of tremors caused by prescription drugs that manipulate neurotransmitters.

BLACK SALVE DEMONIZED BY FDA

Black Salve Demonized by Food & Drug Administration

Shebolith has discovered an excessive glut of discussion either vulgarly dismissing or highly acclaiming Black Salve.  In this instance, we speak of Bloodroot with zinc chloride incorporated.  It is alleged to be a highly sought after alternative treatment for skin cancers. 

POISON IVY & HOME REMEDIES

Poison Ivy & Home Remedies

All and sundry have a home remedy for a case of Poison Ivy.  Do not believe everything you hear and do not use every remedy you hear about.  These home cooked remedies usually come from friends and acquaintances as well as co-workers, with all the best intentions.  The remedies are often their notions of personal family tradition.  Remember, what works for someone else may not work for you, and in severe cases may not work at all.  Do your own research and be very careful.  See your doctor if you are unsure of what to do after the rash begins. 

Our first advice is to avoid Poison Ivy altogether.  Usually, the vines of these plants have groups of three shiny leaves, the source of the couplet “Leaves of three - let it be.”  Other regions of the country, however, may have different varieties.  In the winter, there are no leaves to let be, but the poison lies in wait in roots and stems, waiting to seize upon the first hapless soul to walk by...

William L. Epstein, M.D., chairman emeritus and professor of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco, School of medicine suggested in 1990 to spray your favorite deodorant or antiperspirant  on your arms, legs, clothes, and pets before venturing out. He says antiperspirants and deodorants work because they contain two ingredients, aluminum chlorohydrate.  and organoclay. Both of these have been found by Dr. Epstein to be highly effective at neutralizing the toxic urushiol oil. 

From Constipation to Cancer

From Constipation to Cancer

Chronic constipation, along with its attending stranded travelers of undigested food, fungi, bacteria , viruses and parasites cause inflammation of the lining in the digestive tract.  Constant inflammation causes deterioration of the intestinal walls, allowing food to get absorbed into the blood before it is completely digested; this is also known as intestinal permeability (leaky gut).  It seems that holistic physicians have known that “leaky gut” is a significant problem in fibromyalgia and CFS.  When large chunks of proteins are absorbed into your blood before they are fully digested, it triggers allergic reactions to those proteins.  This is why food allergies are common in CFS and fibromyalgia.  Digestive enzymes as found in pineapple and papaya can help break down the proteins before they are absorbed.

The immune system must finish the job of protein digestion.  After an extended time, this can overwhelm and exhaust the immune system.  Add a little fungus to an exhausted immune system to be diagnosed with Lupus.  Altered intestinal permeability is a key element in the pathogenesis of many different diseases.

The digestive system is a series of organs making up the digestive tract.  It begins with the mouth and ends with the anus.  Between you, have the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and the rectum.  All these are a series of hollow organs joined in a long and twisting tube.  There are two solid digestive organs, the liver and the pancreas.  These produce digestive juices that reach the intestine through small ducts.  Finally, the gallbladder is an organ of the digestive system.  It stores the liver’s digestive juices until they are needed in the intestine.

Grapefruit Seed Extract --Natural Medicine--Kills Bacteria, Virus, Fungus and Parasites

Grapefruit Seed Extract--Natural Medicine--Kills Bacteria, Virus, Fungus and Parasites

Grapefruit Seed Extract (GSE) is refined from the grapefruit (Citrus x paradise), a hybrid citrus of Pomelo (C. maxima) and sweet orange (c. x sinensis.)  Stories abound explaining the journey of the Pomelo to the Barbados.  Pomelo is known as Chinese grapefruit and is native to South-East Asia, whereas, the sweet orange is native to the Barbados.  Hybridized in a natural marriage or given help by (man) using early horticulture, regardless, we are blessed with a panacea of goodness that is derived from the fruit of the Grapefruit tree.

Grapefruit is so named because it grows in clusters on the tree as grapes grow in clusters on the vine.  Popular varieties grown in Florida include:  Marsh White - white to amber colored flesh and almost seedless, Ruby Red - pink to reddish colored flesh with few seeds and Flame - red flesh and mostly seedless.

Research Began Accidentally

Research on Grapefruit seed extract began per chance when a Yugoslavian born physicist/immunologist named Dr. Jacob Harich (1919 - 1996) accidentally bit into one of the seeds.  It was extremely bitter this intrigued the young scientist.  In 1963 while residing in Florida, he was able to expand his research.  In 1990, holistic health care practitioners began recommending GSE to their patients for its powerful anti-microbial properties.

Anti-Parasite

At one time doctors believed all diseases were due to bacteria or viruses.  It is now known that a large proportion is actually due to fungal infections and parasites.  Many conditions such as allergies, circulatory disease and some forms of arthritis are to due to fungal infections that weaken the immune system.

Name it Bouncing Bette, Soap Wort, Wild Sweet William or Fuller’s Herb…

Soap wort Herb, Bouncing Bet, Bruise wort, Crow-Soap, Fuller's Herb, Lather wort, Soap Root, Sweet Betty and Wild Sweet William are some familiar names associated with my Bouncing Bette.

Soapwort has many uses and is most commonly used in making commercially available herbal shampoos.  Textile factories once used soap wort in the cleaning and sizing of textiles. 

My grandmother used the root of soap wort swished around in water to shampoo our hair and she was known to use the soap wort to wash clothes.  She also used soap wort in preparing herbal baths.  Soapwort has been used as a healing herb for thousands of years.

A decoction of the herb, when applied externally, eases the discomfort of itchy skin.  Specifically, soap wort may help with acne, boils, constipation, gout, jaundice, rheumatism and skin problems, including psoriasis and eczema.

If you are not lucky enough to have some growing in your home garden as an ornamental, you can find it growing in moist ditches along side the roads and highways of the contiguous states of the USA.  It can also be found at old dump-sites, near old home sites and even in meadow-lands.

It is an aggressive plant and can become an obnoxious weed.  As an ornamental, soap wort has beautiful pink or white blossoms and blooms from July through August.  Mine is pink and I cut mine back vigorously and often to keep it under control. If let go to seed the new crop will be explosive.  I cut mine back before it goes to seed in the fall.

Test tube studies show that purified components of soap wort called saponins have harmed cancer cells.  However, authors of these tests results claim there is no evidence that the herb helps cure cancer in people.

Possible side effects of using soap wort include nausea, upset stomach and vomiting.  Using too much of this herb internally can cause problems such as, digestive tract ulcers, kidney damage, liver damage and nerve damage.

Personal experience proves that excessive internal use of soap wort causes painful and intense evacuation of the bowels.  That is all I have to say about this most useful plant brought to the United States by the early pioneers.   

Shebolith says...use any herb in moderation.