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Dandelions – Helpful to Diabetics

Maria Treben, in her book, “Health from God’s Pharmacy” writes, “While on a cure in Jugoslavia I noticed the guests received a small bowl of dandelion greens besides the fresh salads. Asked why, the physician, a well-known liver specialist, told me that dandelion has a beneficial effect on the liver. Today I know that the fresh stems of the flower, five to six pieces, chewed daily bring swift relief in chronic inflammation of the liver (sharp pain felt in the region of the lower corner of the right shoulder blade). As long as the plant is in flower, diabetics should eat up to 10 fresh stems daily.” She tells us this will stabilize blood sugar levels. Try this, it will not hurt you and it may be helpful.

I would add, chew them very well. They are a bit bitter but you can get accustomed to the flavor and I would rather do that than take drugs, any day! You may wonder why it talks about benefiting the liver, and then mentions diabetes. If you have diabetes you are sure to have an unhealthy liver. When you heal the liver, it helps your sugar levels to improve. Thus your diabetes may be healed.

These herbs help the body to heal while a drug simply masks the symptoms and does not heal. If you start on diabetic drugs, unless you change your diet, you will need more and more drugs. If you learn how to use herbs and diet, you can often heal diabetes and enjoy good health without drugs.

Caution – If you are doing this you must check your sugar levels often so that you can adjust your insulin to your need. If you are pre-diabetic, this may keep you from needing to go on insulin. If it helps just one person like it helped us, I will be glad.

Burdock for Blood Sugar

Matthew Wood, herbalist,tells us that burdock helps to stabilize blood sugar by reducing the amount of sugar picked up in the intestines. Stephen Buhner, author of “Healing Lyme,” states that the inulin contained in the roots “exert a beneficial effect on normalizing blood sugar levels”. This helps reduce elevated blood sugar and benefits both the pancreas and liver. This is a very interesting fact as it also helps with healing the liver. Try it for blood sugar imbalances and see if it will help your sugar levels normalize. You will likely need to take it for a few months if you want to do this. Drink two to three cups of tea daily. If you would like to speed the process, change your diet to many raw veggies and fruits, with one meal a day brown rice and beans and you will watch amazing things happen. Again, it will usually take at least a month to see really stable results. Purchase a blood sugar monitor at Walmart and test your sugar levels daily every morning when you wake up and before eating anything. Watch the numbers stabilize.

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Lichen Planus and maybe other Lichen varieties

A lady who had Lichen Planus, says, “When I first was diagnosed with Lichen Planus I immediately hunted for any advice on how to make this embarrassing skin problem go away. One year later, I found something that works for ME! Hopefully, it will work for someone else. I take Burdock Root, 6 capsules per day. I keep pure Rose Hip oil on the “sores” as much as possible. I put it on throughout the day. I also use Vitamin E oil, once a day, usually at night. This routine took about 4 weeks for me to really see the benefits. The sores heal faster and show up less often. My legs are nearly clear now.”

I suspect that doing this for other varieties of Lichens may help as well. I would also drink two cups of burdock root tea daily for a few weeks to purify the blood. Do not like the taste? Try sweetening it with honey or adding peppermint leaves when the root has been simmered at least 20 minutes.

Appendicitis

Appendicitis and Fiber

The Importance of Fiber in Our Diet
Dr. Dennis Burkitt, a Christian surgeon, was a missionary in Africa for over 20 years. During this time he made some amazing observations and discoveries and even had a disease named after him—Burkitt’s Lymphoma. One of the interesting stories he would tell was how he did not allow his residents to make the diagnosis of appendicitis in native Africans unless the patient spoke English. He had learned that the native Africans just didn’t get appendicitis. However, if they spoke English, they may have been influenced enough by other English traditions that they may have also changed their diet. Dr. Burkitt realized that the English diet was low in overall fiber intake, which could make the native African vulnerable to developing appendicitis.
Throughout his career in Africa, Dr. Burkitt was amazed that in the native population he was treating, not only did his patients not develop appendicitis, but they also did not develop gall bladder disease, diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, or even colon cancer. He noted early on in his career that the native Africans consumed a tremendous amount of fiber in their diet. In fact, they consumed an average of 50 to 60 grams of fiber each and every day and would have three to five bowel movements daily. Now this is in stark contrast to the individuals who lived in England, Canada, and the United States who only consumed an average of 8 to 10 grams of fiber daily (the recommended amount is generally considered 35 grams of fiber daily) and who had an average of one bowel movement daily. In fact, many of these Western individuals felt that it was normal to only have a bowel movement every other day.
After his time in Africa, Dr. Burkitt spent his retirement years promoting the health benefits of consuming adequate amounts of fiber. It is a subject that has not received the attention it should. In this edition of the Healthy for Life Newsletter, we are going to discuss these health benefits and give you a better understanding why adequate fiber in your diet is so important.

Dietary Fiber
Fiber is the indigestible portion of our food. In other words, this is the portion of our food that the body is not able to absorb and it passes directly through the bowels. It is primarily responsible for the size and bulk of our stools. There are basically two kinds of fiber—soluble and insoluble. Soluble fiber will change more to a gel form during its transit through the GI tract; however, insoluble fiber will pass through basically unchanged.

Did you think that an operation was the only way to get rid of appendicitis pain?
Check out the book “Be Your Own Doctor” to see what often works to heal appendicitis.
The author has been helping folks to resolve their abdominal pain without the long wait in the emergency room and the radiation from the CT scan and the surgery afterward. Her method usually works for appendicitis type pain – inside of 2 hours- and if you have no success you can still go to the hospital. If her method works- then you have saved yourself at least $25,000.

Did you know that until the 50′s, if you went to the hospital with appendicitis symptoms, you would first get a large enema to see if that would resolve the problem before you got any surgery. If it did, fine! Then you went home. Today, you can almost not get an enema, no matter what. No one does it anymore! So try that at home first!! My method involves more than an enema but an enema surely will help, since constipation is usually the primary reason for appendicitis.

Anyway – if you do decide to go to the hospital, ask for an x-ray of your abdomen or just have your appendix out. PubMed says,” Routine CT scanning in patients with possible appendicitis is not necessary. History taking and physical examination combined with laboratory tests are still useful and cost-effective methods of diagnosing acute appendicitis.”

CT Scans!!! & Cancer

Check this out!
I remember reading a study a few years back (to most all oncologist’s dismay) that in spite of all of the amazing claims of advancements and cures, the average person with cancer, would live longer, if they simply did nothing at all, outliving those that choose aggressive medical therapy. That’s right, if they do nothing at all they actually live longer! In fact, the study went on to say that they would have a much better quality of life too, be a lot less tortured, not to mention save hundreds of thousands of dollars and avoid giving their house and entire nest egg to doctors, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals.

Back to CT scans… The cat is now out of the bag, pun intended. According to the most recent evidence, many CT Scans are NOT necessary, and that is according to Dr. Rita F. Redburg, editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

In 2007 (the most recent data), it was estimated that 29,000 Americans will develop Cancer because they got a CT scan, and that more than 15,000 will die from Cancer due to CT scans!
This means that CT scans are now one of the highest causes of cancer and DEATH! Doesn’t anyone but me think this is insane?!

Here is a story Dr. Schultz relates:
A while ago I got a call from an old friend, his wife was in severe abdominal pain and distress and he called me asking for advice. After asking a few questions, I suggested that it was probably trapped gas, and suggested one of my Digestive “SHOTS”, which is a powerful carminative that offers strong help for indigestion, heartburn, acid reflux, gas, nausea, etc. He said she was scared, but I even suggested a hot water bottle over the lower abdomen, a few teaspoons of my Intestinal Formula #2 in 16-ounces of water, doing some easy stretches, even an enema, at which point he sounded like I was going way too far, so I didn’t mention putting his finger in her anus and stimulating it.

Regardless of my advice, he rushed her to the hospital emergency room late at night. They waited a few hours to be seen while she was in agonizing pain (as they didn’t take my herbal advice) and then finally the medical doctor suggested a CT scan and they agreed. They called me from the hospital and asked me again, and told me the medical doctors wanted to do a CT scan and had already taken blood and were already injecting chemicals, and I repeated, “Get out of there! It is probably just gas!” I also mentioned to them that a CT scan was dangerous and was equal to hundreds of x-rays in radiation exposure and at this point I could see I lost them, like I was out of my mind.
Anyway, they took more blood, injected more chemicals, did a CT scan and after six hours found nothing, and told her to go home, and that it was probably… just gas.

What they didn’t tell them was the bill that was coming in the mail in a week would be for over $8,000.00 and also that the CT scan they gave her was actually equal in radioactive exposure to 442 chest x-rays!

They called me a few days later and said they felt real stupid. Hey, we all do stupid things, I just hope she isn’t one of the over 50,000 that will get cancer this year because of an unnecessary CT scan.

Chicago SunTmes -4/2011
Soaring numbers of kids are getting CT scans in emergency rooms, a study has found, raising concerns that some of them might be exposed to adult-sized radiation doses and an increased risk of developing cancer.
The number of ER visits nationwide in which children were given CT scans surged from about 330,000 in 1995 to 1.65 million in 2008 — a five-fold increase. The number of kids’ ER visits didn’t increase measurably during the study, but the percentage of visits involving CT scans went from about 1 percent to almost 6 percent, according to the study, reported Tuesday in the journal Radiology.
CT scans in kids require special oversight, including adjusting doses to their smaller size, because they are more sensitive to radiation than adults, with more time for radiation-related cancers to develop.
Dr. Steven Krug, emergency department chief at Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital, said many institutions — including his own — have started using ultrasound rather than CT scans to diagnose appendicitis in some kids with abdominal pain. Ultrasound images aren’t as detailed as CT images, and kids with uncertain results still need CT scans, but he said that trend might help limit radiation exposure.

New Recipes

Here are recipes that were not in the first and second printing of the book.
Hormone Health / Ladies Formula
75% Mix: in a gallon jar.
1 ¾ cups Angelica (DonQuai)
1 ¾ cups Mexican Wild Yam
1 ¾ cups Chaste Tree Berry (Vitex)
25% Mix: in a quart jar.
¾ cup Damniana
2 Tbls. each Licorice Root, Hops, Passion Flower, Valarian Root
This is done in alcohol ONLY Use a gallon jar for the 75% mix, cover with 2 qts of vodka. A qt jar will hold the 25% mix, cover this with almost 3 cups vodka. Shake every few days and let set for at least 1 month. 6 weeks is better. Strain and pour together. Bottle in dark bottles. This makes a large amount but it will be good at least 10 years. Make a batch and share it.

Dental Formula
1.5 qts – Black Walnut
1 cup – White Oak Bark
1 cup – Marshmallow Root
1 cup – Peppermint leaf
1 cup – Comfrey leaf (cannot sell it if you include this because of FDA)
1 cup – Horsetail herb
Cover with a mixture of Glycerin & Alcohol Set for 4 weeks, strain and bottle. Always remember that when you use glycerin you mix it 25% water and 75% glycerin before you mix it with the alcohol.

Deep Tissue Oil
In a 2 qt. jar mix
½ cup habenero (cayenne) peppers (dried)
½ cup ginger root grated
1 cup calendula flowers
1 cup St. Johns Wort flowers
1 cup Arnica flowers
Cover with: 8 oz. – Wintergreen Oil
4 oz – Peppermint oil
8 oz. Olive oil add more oil if this does not cover the herbs.
Let set for at least 4 – 6 weeks shaking often. Strain out the herbs and do the following.
Heat a bit of the oil and add – 2 oz. – Botanical Menthol Crystals (cover container) I heat the oil and pour it into a qt jar- add the crystals and a lid. Shake till dissolved. Heat more if needed. But use a lid so that the menthol does not evaporate.
Bottle tightly in glass jars- Keeps for years. Use for muscle aches, pains, sprains, swollen lymph nodes etc.

Relief from Vertigo (dizziness)

Anna called and told me that she had been doctoring for 4 months for severe dizziness. She had also tried all the natural remedies that she knew of. Was there anything that I could recommend? Her dizziness was not only annoying, but sometimes she got so dizzy that she would have black out spells and find herself on the kitchen floor.

I pondered all I knew about vertigo – and inner ear problems. We tried rosemary, ginko and cayenne in Dr Schultz brain formula and that helped some but she still had severe bouts where she fainted.

My next suggestion was Dr Christopher’s Ear and Nerve Formula.
This is what he recommended so she bought the formula and began to use it and inside of two weeks I received a call from a very happy lady telling me that the problem resolved within a few days of using this formula like he recommended.

Use Ear & Nerve Formula as follows: place four to six drops of oil of garlic in the ear with a dropper and follow this with four to six drops of ear & nerve formula in the ear. Plug the ear with cotton. Turn the other ear up and do the same as with first ear. Plug this one too and leave the drops in all night, (or night and day if desired). Flush the ears on the seventh day. This is done by using a small ear syringe containing warm apple cider vinegar and distilled water (half and half. ) Repeat this procedure, applying garlic oil and ear & nerve tincture this way, until desired effects are acquired.

Drink six to ten drops of the ear & nerve tincture three or more times a day. This could be done hourly in severe cases.
Massage ear and nerve tincture on the cords back of the ears down the neck area and on the base of the skull (medulla area) several times a day.

The program as given above has aided many having problems with their equilibrium and locomotion. When more severe, in addition use the “bone, flesh and cartilage” formula over the skull area above eyes and ears area soaking and sponging out a cap made of flannel, cotton or wool and leave on the head area overnight, as before, six days a week, week after week until results are received. This fomentation should not only cover the skull area front and sides but also down the back to cover the medulla and down over the upper cervicals to cover the motor nerve area.

As always, I was delighted to see results so quickly from something so simple.

Itchy Runny Eyes – And why is My Hair Thinning?

Here is an article that I found while researching eye problems for a friend. I have used these suggestions for more than a few folks and found that she is correct. So if you have problems and maybe even if you do not – you may want to read this. I do not use cosmetics but I discovered that shampoos are doing this for my friends.

I have also discovered that this may be a direct connection to why so many people are having trouble with thinning hair. (besides needing to eat a better diet) So read on and then check your shampoos!

The Bottom Line
If you value your health and life, choose products carefully. Avoiding certain ingredients might be more urgent than you think.

This year has been a year of great discovery to me. I have learned that I have had my first intense reaction to a body care product from a particular company.

I have learned that I can survive for a few months without makeup. I have learned that many people I know have developed eye problems. I have also learned what it is like to be one of them.

WHY I AM WRITING THIS REVIEW

You might be wondering why I am writing this review. Quite frankly, what I have to say is so sobering that I am hoping that I can help some others avoid this horrible problem that many of us out here have been experiencing.

For the last few years, I have been extremely concerned by the majority of women I have known or met talking to me about severe eye problems that they have been having. Watery eyes all day, bone dry eyeballs at night, raw skin around the eyes, mucus in the eyes- the list goes on and on.

My own mother has had to wear colored glasses on and off for a few years because her eyes were getting so bad that she could not wear makeup and the redness of the skin around them made her embarrassed.

I have been increasingly concerned about this trend, but my concern level was raised considerably when I began to develop similar problems that would not go away. For six months, I spent most of my days dabbing my eyes with tissues, rubbing itchy lids, and waking up at night, only to have my lids stick to my eyeballs, making it impossible to see until the liquid would start flowing again.
I knew what all of my friends and mother had been told by the area doctors- wash around the eye lids with baby shampoo- a practice widely recommended, with eye-popping results. PAIN!

I had watched so many people get medicines that would do nothing, go through tons of expense to no avail in the end for their condition. There are many names for this “trend” which most medical people will claim is “incurable”. Blepharitis is one of those names. I did not know what to do, but I knew it had to be different than what all of the others were doing. They were not getting better. I knew that there had to be something we could do.

THE BATH AND BODY CONNECTION

By the time I got into winter, I was beside myself. My eyes would clear up a little bit, but then a few days later, they would be worse than ever. I had not been wearing makeup at all, and I had stopped using the allergy prone eyeshadow which caused my problems months earlier.
To make myself feel better, I decided to step up the skincare regimen. After all, if I could not wear makeup, I would make my hair and skin feel better. Unfortunately, the opposite was happening. My eyes were getting so bad that I could not stand it any more.

I began to do some research. What I found out was so upsetting that I found it hard to fathom at first. When I began to look up eye problems , I began to find all kinds of things that shook me up. You see, I ended up in some journals and articles of a medical nature that talked easily about all of the wonderful things that you can do to heal the eyes.

They would refer to a certain proposed solution or prescription, heralding that animals that had been contaminated with SODIUM LAURYL/LAURETH SULFATES to give them BLEPHARITIS, PSORIASIS, SKIN DISORDERS, EYE PROBLEMS, all had great results when given certain medicines to remedy the problem.
I sat and stared at the words in front of me. Surely, I must be imagining such stupidity could be in medical articles. Sadly, I wasn’t.
I ran into the bathroom and checked all of my shampoo, body washes, shower gels, face washes, and even toothpastes, and was horrified. The first ingredients on the label of most of these products was SODIUM LAURYL/LAURETH SULFATE!! All of them had it at one point or another in the list even if it was later in the list.

As I did further research on this topic, what I found made me so furious that I found it hard to contain myself.

Want to know some symptoms of SODIUM LAURYL/LAURETH SULFATE on human bodies? Eye diseases, skin disorders of all kinds- most of those typical skin diseases fall into this category, falling out of hair, lung damage if inhaled in heated form, inability of skin to replenish its oils, corrosive affect on flesh. Those are just the ones that come to mind as I write this.

The more research I did on this, the angrier I got. The approval of this ingredient in all of our body washes and products is approved by the FDA, but it is cumulative in the body and is listed as hazardous on the data sheets that the US gov. puts out on chemicals. In a study of the human eye, you will see that there are several layers that keep the eyeball working. The first is oil, the second tears, and the third is mucus.

SLS (for the sake of brevity, I will use initials) is a corrosive de-greaser. They use it to clean garage floors. They also use it to give animals all kinds of eye and skin diseases so they can test medicines on them. It has been known to retard growth and development of eyeballs in young children. It has been linked to cancer, cataracts, and baldness.
Know anyone with alopecia? How about that shedding you thought was normal in the winter time of your hair? Rashes that come out only in wintertime? SLS keeps the skin so stripped that it can not maintain its own moisture level from the oils it is supposed to use to keep skin healthy.

WHAT IS SODIUM LAURYL/LAURETH SULFATE FROM?

Just to let you know, SLS is a derivative of coconuts that is married with petroleum by-products that bring forth a caustic by-product that is used in our body washes, shampoos (including baby shampoo, which has numbing agents in it to make kids not feel the damage being done), facial washes, toothpastes, hair mousse, even shaving gels.

WHAT DO WE DO WITH THIS?

As my research progressed, I became more and more upset. I had just purchased shampoos and body washes to last for over a year. Suddenly, I was going to have to start all over. My daughter had been complaining that she had been itching constantly for months, and my husband was upset because he was losing his hair.
I had noticed my hair getting bad in addition to my skin being in horrible condition. For hours after a shower, I would itch terribly.
I began to search for products to use in the shower that did not have these ingredients in them, or anything that resembled them. After a long search, I managed to find several product lines that did not have SLS products in them. We replaced our body washes with non-SLS products, as well as our shampoos, facial washes, and toothpaste.

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE REMOVED SLS FROM OUR SHOWER?

Let me tell you, the change in our family since we eliminated SLS and related products from our shower repertoire has been drastic.

No more itching

Hair loss stopped

Tooth Sensitivity went down. Gums stopped bleeding.

Dry Skin is easily remedied with lotion ONCE a day instead of constantly.
Cracked skin has begun to heal.

Eyes are improving daily.

Bonus- my hair looks and feels better than it did with my beloved, now extinct VS volumizing products. I thought that would NEVER be possible! All of our hair looks amazing with no bad hair days so far!

HOW SHOULD YOU CHOOSE BODY GEL OR WASH?

You can do what I did after reading this essay about SLS and what it does to your body. You can shrug it off and convince yourself that it is just a sensitivity and that you do not have any problem with it. I thought that too. Some years ago I began to find out a little about this kind of thing, but I got lazy and just decided to continue to play russian roulette with my family’s health and well being. I finally got the bullet though. I only wish I had not waited so long until I did something about it.

If you are going to get a body wash or gel you want to avoid all versions of SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE or anything that resembles it.

A WORD OF CAUTION HERE. MANY NATURAL PRODUCT LINES HAVE DECIDED TO SHIRK UNDER THE LINE OF ATTACK AGAINST THESE INGREDIENTS BY USING A NEWLY DEVELOPED VERSION OF SLS CALLED SODIUM MYRETH SULFATE.

When I bought a few of these things after being assured that they were not the same, I was very angry with these well known natural product companies. SODIUM MYRETH SULFATE caused everyone in my family and that I tested it on MORE problems than SLS did. Itching was unbearable. My son who did not even react severely to SLS was in misery with SMS.

If you are concerned about this like I am, you can rest assured that there are a few products out there that are very concerned about customer safety.

One company that I have found to be refreshing in this day of a quick buck at the expense of the health and life of many is AUBREY ORGANICS. They have been around for years, and they have all kinds of body care and hair care products with no damaging chemicals in them.

You can reach them at www.aubrey-organics.com

Our hair has never looked better, or our skin felt better.

Another line of products for shower wash is DR. BRONNER’S CASTILE SOAP. Very nice on the skin, it does not dry it out and smells nice in certain fragrances. I am not sure if they have a web site.

Some bar soap is also excellent. Sallyeanders soaps makes some great shower gel substitues in bar soap. Goat milk soap etc. They can be reached at www.sallyeander.com

CLOSING COMMENTS

I urge you to be very serious when choosing a bath or shower gel. Baby products especially are very rough on small children unless they do not have these serious chemicals in them. There is a reason that most suffers of eye problems like blepharitis are in the late 30′s and early 40′s when they develop it.

Read labels carefully.

I have had several people in the last week ask me about my quest to find out about body washes and gels and when I describe my situation to them, they will look at me like a drink of water in a desert.

They felt so alone and did not know what to do- they were suffering severely like I was. And I am happy to say that every one of them that took my advice seriously have experience dramatic improvement in just a week or so.

I will try to update this essay as I find out more about this topic, but I urge you to do a search online. Until I compose a list of links, here is what you can do a search on….

Look for:
SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE
LAURETH SULFATE
MYRETH SULFATE
SODIUM LAURETH SULFATE
BLEPHARITIS
DERMATITIS

That will be good for a start.

If you happen to be a sufferer like I was, hang on, if you take this step in choosing body products, you will be well on your way to recovery- at least to some degree.

JUST IN CASE YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING

Oh, and in case you are wondering, JASON’S NATURAL PRODUCTS makes a toothpaste without SLS in it, however, they have decided to include SMS in most of their other products, so be cautious.

You will also want to look for a dish liquid that does not have SLS in it, which will be more difficult, but ECOVER has one and there are a few others.

Once we stopped using SLS and related products, we tested them again and could not believe the difference. We can now feel how severely harsh they are, now that we are not using them anymore regularly. Even the toothpaste is a very interesting difference.

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Because several people have asked me, I am including this list at the end of various body washes, and related products that I have tried so far. Some of these have been through sample sizes, and others have been at great introductory rates that were half price or less. Also a couple of companies have small sizes you can purchase for only a dollar or two to try so you are not investing a huge amount in products until you find something you want.

I have included shampoo in this list as many women and men I have talked with about this tell me that they use their shampoos as facial and body washes as well.

I hope to move this list to another location at some time in the future.

LIST OF PRODUCTS I HAVE TRIED SO FAR

SHAMPOO

J.A.Y. DESERT HERB SHAMPOO – Aubrey Organics, the best shampoo I have ever used. Better than VS volumizing, works on ANY type hair from the most frizzy dry and thick to thin and baby fine. Suds very little, but cleans beautifully. Smells like balsam and cedarwood. I find that it works best when I use conditioner only once or twice a month with this shampoo. The more I use this, the better it gets.www.aubrey-oraganics.com

NATURAL BABY & KIDS SHAMPOO- Aubrey Organics, excellent kids shampoo. Remember, no shampoo is no-tears. That was a gimmick for a certain brand which included numbing agents in the shampoo so kids did not feel damage. Makes hair shiny and bouncy. Smells like traditional baby powder. One of the best shampoos we have used. Great for all types of hair. I find that no need for conditioner except on very dry hair.

ALOE ESSENCE – Aubrey Organics, Have tried 3 of the 4 in this line. Oily, Dry, Damaged versions. Excellent cleansers, suds little, shiny hair, not particularly volumizing, which I need. Still great for hot weather use when you just want CLEAN fresh hair. Various fragrances for each type.

RICE PROTEIN VOLUMIZING SHAMPOO Lamas Beauty International, great volumizer, but not as wave inducing as I like. Leaves hair very thick and smells nice, but not one of my favorites. Peach and Sake smell. www.lamasbeauty.com

TRIPLE TREAT SHAMPOO Giovanni Organic Hair Care, Excellent cleanser, smells invigorating, strong minty-tea tree scent. Makes hair shiny and clean, not thickening, but volumizing slightly. Also works beautifully if your family is afflicted with lice. ( Use with full strength vinegar rinse for that problem.) One of my favorites for summer when I have to wash my hair often and do not care about demanding style. www.giovannicosmetics.com

GOLDEN WHEAT SHAMPOO Giovanni Organic Hair Care. For oily hair. Great cleanser, leaves hair shiny and clean, not volumizing. Light Minty smell, more like spearmint.

50:50 Shampooo Giovanni Organic Hair Care. For normal to dry hair. Excellent cleansing shampoo. Not volumizing. Does not build up on fine hair, but does not make it look fuller either. Leaves very clean and full as it naturally is.

MAGNETIC SHAMPOO Giovanni Organic Hair Care. Not a fantastic shampoo, but interesting and fun. Liquid silver color and is a good shampoo. I would not say it was anything extravagant like the advertising suggests. Still a good cleanser.

THIN TO THICK Jason Natural Cosmetics. I am including this only so that you will keep an eye on this stuff. The best thickening shampoo out there, but has SODIUM MYRETH SULFATE in it. Jason’s will probably change ingredients if enough people complain (which I did LOUD AND CLEAR). If you are interested in this shampoo or want to make your voice heard, call Jasons and ask for Serena. She told me that they are interested in knowing what customers want. 1-877-JASON-01

FACIAL WASHES AND SHOWER GELS

Avalon Facial Cleansing Milk AVALON ORGANIC BOTANICALS. Best facial cleanser out there for me. Can use with care around eyes, but not in them. No suds, which irritates when my lids have an itchy spell. Lavender base.

WATCH OUT FOR AVALON’S OTHER PRODUCTS. THEY HAVE INDICATED TO ME THAT THEY ARE NOT CONCERNED WITH OUR REACTIONS TO SMS AND THEIR RESPONSE TO MY UPSETNESS WITH THEIR COMPANY IN INCLUDING IT IN THEIR NEW PRODUCTS WAS A 20% DISCOUNT ON MORE PRODUCTS!!!! I orginally wrote them furious because they have recently changed to using SMS without telling anyone so my order based on their ingredient list ended up coming with their new ingredients which includes SMS.

www.avalonnaturalproducts.com

FACE AND BODY WASH -Lamas Beauty International- www.lamasbeauty.com. Excellent facial wash. Cleans makeup off beautifully, including eye makeup that is waterproof. Better than any other makeup remover I have tried. However, on days of itchy lids, I have to follow up with using this to remove makeup by using the AVALON FACIAL CLEANSING MILK to calm my skin down. Does not happen as often now as my eyes improve. Also excellent for body use. Very concentrated.

AVALON LAVENDER BATH & SHOWER GEL Avalon Organic Botanicals. Great shower gels- all of the fragrances of these are the same except for the fragrance. Unfortunately, after dealing with the company and their disregard for me as a consumer, I have to warn you to read their labels constantly. They are changing many of their products to include SMS without warning. So far, this green bottle version is excellent, but WATCH THEM LIKE A HAWK.

TOOTHPASTE

SEA FRESH PLUS Jason Natural Cosmetics. Spearmint flavor, excellent cleansing without stripping. CoQ10 and Fluoride in it also. Gums stopped bleeding when using this for a while. Great stuff. Taste surprisingly good! They have won awards for three years for this stuff and how it tastes.

NUTRISMILE PLUS Jason Natural Cosmetics. ORange Cinnamint flavor. Youngsters like this better. Same wonderful cleaning, flavor is great. They have won awards for this flavor against 10 top national brands according to their web site. www.jason-natural.com

That is a good list to start with. There are reasons why some of the well known natural brands of shampoos and body washes are not up there. Most of them are using the SLS or SMS chemicals in them now.

Cancer – Low Or No Cost Treatment Starters

Overcoming cancer is a process of reversing the conditions that allowed the cancer to develop, and going after and killing cancerous cells. What you need to do is to strongly and dramatically interrupt and reverse the cancer-causing conditions in your body so that it becomes healthier, and stops breeding cancer.
Hit cancer hard. This is one fight you don’t want to lose.

1.Stop eating processed, refined, sugary foods. Eat simply, whole grains, beans, lots of vegetables and fruit. Cut out animal protein – Replace it with legumes. Cut out all sugars, cookies, chips, etc. Diets loaded with sugar and refined carbohydrates speed cancer’s growth. Refined carbohydrates digest so fast they act like sugar, and cancer cells love sugar. They have about 15 times more receptor cells for capturing sugar than healthy cells. So clean up your diet!

2.Eat mostly fresh food with the enzymes intact. This includes LOTS of fresh greens. These help you to fight the cancer.

3.Drink Lots of pure water. NO chlorinated water. You will need about 1 gallon of water and ½ teaspoon of sea salt. This will help to maintain cell health and flush out the toxins in your body.

4.Exercise at least three times daily on a mini trampoline to move the lymph in your body. Also walk at least ½ hour daily. This is especially important for breast cancer. Bounce at least 3 -5 minutes each time.

5.Adjust pH levels using the baking soda and water protocol. At least 1 teaspoon half an hour before meals to as much as 2 teaspoons per quart of water, and drink 5 quarts a day. Test with ph strips.

6.Do hydrotherapy – Raising the body temperature to 102 – 104 daily and keeping it there for an hour or more, will kill cancer cells – Find someone who is qualified to help you with this. Call Wildwood Lifestyle Clinic in GA. They do this for less than most centers. They also administer Vitamin C therapy which is proven to reverse cancer. Check them out

7.Get enough restful sleep. DID YOU KNOW? Research shows that the immune system needs 9 1/2 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.

8.Clean up your bowel. This is so incredibly important that it cannot be missed.

9. Lymphatic drainage massage. This helps eliminate the toxins you are flushing.

10.Have a good attitude. Lovingly forgive and release all of the past. Remember to choose to fill your world with joy. Remember to love and approve of yourself. God made you and He loves you.

This is simply a place to begin. If you do these things your body will become more healthy and cancer cannot live in healthy bodies.

Need help in doing this – try a clinic that specializes in helping you.
C.J. Patton Clinic in Millersburg, PA is a helpful place. Call 717-362-2067 to find out if a clinic is located close to you.
Or go to herbdoc.com and order their 30 day kit that will aid you in cleaning up your body.

You need ALL the help you can get. Do NOT let doctors poison you and cut up your body! Cancer cells only grow in an unhealthy body and cutting out a few of them will NOT change the health of your body. Changing the way you eat and live will make you feel better and will give you much more quality of life!

Mullein – A Respiratory Aid

Mullein leaf tea is helpful when there is a tight, hacking cough especially if you need to loosen the cough.

Fresh is always best – but you need it most in the winter so you may need to buy it or dry it.

When you combine mullein leaf with marshmallow root it is especially helpful. (it will work alone, too) This mixture makes an excellent expectorant. An expectorant helps to loosen the phlegm and mucous from the lungs and bronchial tubes and allow it to be coughed up. Jim McDonald says, “Mullein will stimulate coughing, even though that’s the symptom being treated. What Mullein is really doing is assisting the body’s natural response to congestion, coughing, to be more effective. .”

Drinking mullein tea also helps to keep infection from settling in the lungs and the bronchi. It is soothing to these delicate tissues and helps them fight off the bacteria.
My father, who is 76, came home from a mission’s trip with a very congested cough. He begged me for something to help him feel better. Since I was studying the use of mullein and nettle we went out and gathered some fresh plants and proceeded to make a strong quart of tea for him to drink. He drank two quarts the first day and began to cough up phlegm like Jim Mc Donald said he would. He continued to drink a quart of the tea for the next few days. And his cough really cleared up. But he had another interesting benefit. The demulcent action (soothing, slippery) of the plant allowed him to pass a good sized kidney stone, and some gravel without pain. These had been giving him some discomfort for the last while and now they are gone. You will read farther on in the chapter that the root is good for the bladder and kidneys, but I am sure that the leaf must also do some of the same things.

Mullein Tea
Ingredients:
6 large Mullein leaves 5 cups water Honey if desired
Gather mullein leaves from healthy plants. Use the leaves green or dry. Break the leaves into small pieces. Put them into a teapot and add boiling water. Let the tea steep for 5 -10 minutes. Serve. This tea is helpful for any respiratory problem and also to get the lymphatic system working properly. Drink up to 3 cups a day. I like to add peppermint for flavor..