HERB TONIC FOR HEALTHY PLANTS

1 1/2 teaspoon dried plantain herb
1/2 teaspoon dried horsetail herb
1/2 teaspoon dried nettle
1/2 teaspoon dried yarrow
1 clove garlic
1 kelp tablet (about 150 micrograms) crushed
6 cups boiling water

Combine all ingredients, pour on the water, and let steep, covered, for 5 minutes. Strain and use to water herbs. Or make a sun tea, letting the herbs steep all day. This tonic provides nutrients that herbs needs, and helps keeps pests away

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Calendula—also known as pot marigold—is a plant with brilliant yellow flowers that bloom almost continuously from spring through fall. The flowers are antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antifungal, and antiviral. When the flowers are crushed and blended with olive oil, the resulting ointment is powerfully healing for sores, cuts, eczema, psoriasis and other rashes.

• 1 cup olive oil
• liberal handful of dried calendula flowers (commonly available in health food stores)
• 1/4 teaspoon grapefruit seed extract
  

What is an oil infusion?

What is a tincture?

2. Poison Ivy (oak, sumac, etc). Make a paste from fels naptha soap and apply. Do not cover. Let it dry and flake off by itself. One application usually does the job. This from the 1930's.

3. Eat 3 almonds a day and you will not die from cancer. An Edgar Cayce reading.

4. Burns. Apply ice wrapped in damp washcloth until pain stops. No scaring will occur.

5. Bee sting. Remove stinger without squeezing poison sac. Apply moist baking soda to neutralize the formic acid poison.

6. Warts. Make a paste of baking soda and spirits of camphor and apply every night. Cover with a bandage. Remove in morning. Removes all kinds of warts, even stubborn planter's warts that resist every and all "medical" treatments. This is from another Edgar Cayce reading.

7. Insomnia? Try a small bowl of warm tomato soup (made with milk), just before bedtime and avoid eating protein.

8. Protecting your eyes. In a study of beer drinkers from England, Germany and Holland; people who drank DARK beer had fewer eye problems in their old age. "To your health," takes on a new meaning. Your eyes need LUTEIN daily. Found in green and yellow fruits and vegetables. You need to eat bushels to get the proper amount. Supplement with 6 to 20 mg every day.

9. Reduce HEART ATTACKS. Eating tomato (in any form) is twice as effective as taking a lycopene supplement. Eating tomato with olive oil improves your protection many fold.

10. Eating PECANS reduces CHOLESTEROL, but Chinese medicine warns not to eat too many.

11. Many suspect that many diseases start in the mouth, and that good dental hygiene is very important to good health. Every day, use a stimulator, floss between teeth, rinse with a plaque remover, and brush your teeth. Then, rinse with one of three washes:

• A. salt water.
• B. baking soda solution.
• C. a splash of hydrogen peroxide in water.

12. Beets beat cancer. Alexander Ferenczi, MD a Hungarian doctor, claims that he has cured every type of cancer by having the patients eat beets. He reported this in 1974, in the Hungarian Journal of Medicine. The article has been translated and reprinted in many journals since then. The treatment works with raw, cooked, baked, or pickled beets. The juice is good too. One warning from the doctor. Overdoing the treatment can lead to overloading the liver with demolished cancer cells, so take it easy.

13. Walking is the best exercise you can do. Every time you lift a foot, blood fills the bottom. Every time you put the foot down, you force blood back up to the heart. So, walking is like having 3 hearts pumping your blood. Dancing works too, and is more fun, as two people are exercising. Walking, running or jogging the same distance uses the same energy. Walking takes more time, but old people have plenty of that; and walking is less strenuous for old and/or overweight people.

14. Peel potatoes before cooking them. Potatoes are sprayed with a poison that stops sprouting. Cooking potatoes with the skin on forces this poison into the potato. Also, never eat the green part of a potato. It too is poisonous.

15. Wash all vegetables and fruits that you buy to remove oils, waxes and sprays on them. Use cold water with vinegar, and a very small dash of bleach to clean them.

16. Food going through the distribution system is exposed to insecticide spray and dust through the entire system, even in your grocery store. Wash the lid on any can you open, wipe off the lid on any jar or bottle you open. Clean fruits and vegetables as described above.

17. Diarehhia. Eat two coconut cookies. Some say it cures Chrones disease.

18. Control cholesterol. Make a mix of 4 cups of apple juice, 3 cups of white grape juice and 1/2 cup of apple cider vinegar. Drink 3/4 cup of mix every morning.

19. Stop food poisoning with vinegar, a strong medicine. It kills e. coli bacterium. A world traveler carried a flask of vinegar, and would put some in his drinking glass at the start of every meal. He would sip from the glass during the meal. He never got sick with food poisoning. Maybe first eating a salad with vinegar dressing would also work. During the black plague, a group of thieves robbed the sick, dying and dead with impunity. When captured, the were offered a full pardon if they would reveal how they avoided the plague. They said they washed themselves with vinegar that had bay leaf and other spices steep in it.

Controlling Bad Critters

1. Put Oasge oranges in the corners of the house to keep out spiders and bugs. They last for a couple of years.

2. Kill ants with a can (or bottle) of regular Coke (R). It's supposed to be really good at eliminating fire ants.

Attracting "Good" Critters

1. Wash pulp from melon seeds and bake in 350f oven for 15 minutes. Then put out for the birds.

2. Birds will eat fat in the winter time, but will not touch it in the other seasons. I soak cheap bread in the fat and the birds eat it up. Why wash grease, fats and oil down the drain or bury it with the garbage? This method recycles at the highest level. You have happy birds and a cleaner environment. Also, put out fried skins from chicken or turkey. They will gobble it up. Better fat birds than fat people.

Avoiding Colds And Flu: A virus coated with grease is totally immune from everything. strip away the grease coating, and it can be killed or washed away. People get colds and/or flu from repeated infection from their dishes, cups and silverware. When you wash them is soapy water, soap washes away the virus. When you put that utensil into a sink full of clean rinse water, the soap disperses into the clean water, leaving the virus again coated with protective grease, and it sticks to the utensil. You keep re-infecting people when they use that utensil. The cure is to rinse each utensil separately in running water. This was taught to me by the late Dr. Albert J. Lewin, MD. of Cleveland, Ohio. He was a man who truly deserved the title of "Doctor". Note! Adding a splash of bleach to the wash water helps also.

When you wash underwear in the washing machine, bacteria found in them contaminates everything in that wash; dish towels, wash cloths, handkerchiefs, etc. There is a danger of E. Coli infecting you through everthing in the wash. Not only that, but some of it remains in the botton water of the machine. This water then contaminates the next load of clothes, and on and on it goes. The cure? Add bleach to the wash water to kill the germs

HEAL SORES OR CRACKS IN THE SKIN OF MAN OR BEAST: Use pine tar to Coat the sore area well to keep off insects and promote healing.

SLACKED LIME: dust on animal cuts to seal injured area and promote healing.

FOREIGN OBJECT IN THE EYE: Drop a flax seed into the eye. The particle in the eye will stick to the flax seed and the flax seed is easy to see and remove.

COUGH REMEDY: 2-3 drops of kerosene on a tsp of sugar.

COUGH REMEDY: Equal parts of oil of peppermint, friars balsam and tincture of red lavender. Mix and use drop by drop on a tsp. of sugar to alleviate the condition.

COUGH SYRUP:

Mix well and use when needed.

CANKER AND COLD SORES: Collect the berries from wild rose bushes and make a tea from them. (These berries may be picked and dried for winter use.) Drink a little of this when you feel a canker or cold sore coming and it should clear up. (This is nothing more than vitamin C.) A little pot ash daubed on a cold sore will also clear it away.

SUNBURN AND STEAM BURNS: Sprinkle area with vinegar.

DYSENTERY AND DIARRHEA:

1. Take a liberal amount of black pepper on a tsp and cover this with thick cream and take this to relieve the situation.
2. Toast bread until almost burned pour boiling water over this. Drink the brown water for diarrhea.

PIONEER LINIMENT: Beat one egg slightly and measure the beaten egg. Add to the egg the exact amount of turpentine as egg and the exact amount of apple cider vinegar as the egg. Mix altogether well and store in a covered jar. This is very good for Arthritic and Rheumatic pain.

HONEY: Honey has been used through the years to cure many things. Taken internally, it has been known to relieve arthritis. Externally it is good first aid for wounds and burns. Bacteria will not live in honey.

Burn Salve

This recipe has been passed down through the Hovey, Clark, and Hardy families since the 1860's. This salve is reported to be very effective in healing of burns. [Editor note: I've heard personal testimonials from the old timers about how well this recipe works - bad burns - no scars!]

• 1 tea cupful lard
• 1 tea cupful mutton tallow
• 1 tea cupful olive oil
• beeswax the size of an egg
• resin the size of an egg
• 2 tsp carbolic acid

Dissolve all ingredients on the stove except the olive oil and carbolic acid, which you add upon removing from the heat. Mix well and store in covered jar.

Flu Ointment

An early Lethbridge druggist, J.D. Higgenbotham, made this ointment for the flu epidemic of 1918.

• 2 large jars white Vaseline
• 2 oz. turpentine
• 1/4 oz. menthol crystals
• 2 cakes of camphor gum
• 1/3 oz. oil of peppermint
• 1/4 oz. eucalyptus
• 1/4 oz. oil of wintergreen

Melt and mix well over low heat and store in covered jars.

Black Currant Tea

(An infallible remedy for a sore throat)

• 1 Tbsp black currant jam or jelly
• juice of half a lemon
• 1 pint boiling water
• sugar to taste

Simmer altogether for 15 min. the hotter you are able to drink the tea the better.

Mustard Plaster

[Editor Note: You have to be careful with mustard plasters. A woman E-mailed me several months ago after trying a different mustard plaster saying it gave her a very bad burn. This is powerful stuff!]
Good for chest colds

Use the white of an egg instead of water with the dry mustard. The egg will prevent blistering of the skin. Mix egg white with half dry mustard half flour, cover the mustard mix on a cloth or paper. Cover the plaster with gauze or soft cloth and hold in place on chest with tape.

Mustard Plaster Recipe #2

• 4 T. flour
• 2 tsp. oil
• 1 T. dry mustard

Mix in lukewarm water to form a paste. Spread on a thin clean cloth and cover. Place on chest for 20 minutes (You may want to put a layer of cloth on the skin before applying this ) (shorter time for small children). Be careful not to burn the skin. Remove the plaster and cover the chest with camphorated oil or Vicks. Then cover with warm fabric such as flannel or a towel. Repeat in 4 hours.

Hi, My mom used to put Vaseline on my skin before placing the Mustard Plaster on it. She said this would protect my skin from burning. Even though she would put fabric between it and my skin, she also used the Vaseline as well. She also made sure there was Vaseline on the skin around the edges of the Mustard Plaster. Also, she checked it often and as soon as my skin was red, she would remove it. If you go much longer than that, you'll get blisters. Hope this helps

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Rufus (my aging dog), my wife, and I all take our antiaging herbs on a daily basis, and I am firmly convinced that they are helpful. Judging by the comments from my many human clients who are using the herbs I've recommended for their older dogs, herbs are truly one of the very best treatments available for an aging body - whether you are a human or a dog!

The following herbs are beneficial for both humans and dogs.

Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
Ginkgo is our primary antiaging herb. It acts on two major systems of the body: the nervous system and the cardiovascular system. Ginkgo has proved effective in treating Alzheimer's disease, depression, and senile dementia. (In animals, senile dementia associated with Alzheimer's-like symptoms is referred to as cognitive dysfunction or dimming mind syndrome.) Ginkgo enhances both long-term and short-term memory in puppies and old critters alike. This popular herb improves circulation and has good antioxidant activity. Studies also indicate that ginkgo is often effective as a treatment for age-related hearing and vision loss, dizziness and vertigo, and tinnitus (ringing in the ear).

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) Rosemary contains bioactive ingredients that help prevent the breakdown of the chemical acetylcholine in the brain. A deficiency in acetylcholine is believed to be a contributing factor in senility in general and Alzheimer's disease in particular. Rosemary is also an important antioxidant.

Flaxseed Oil (Linum usitatissimum) Flaxseed oil is an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids, the good fats that reduce triglycerides and cholesterol (the prime fatty arterial blockers) and prevent blood clots.

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) Turmeric is the yellow component of curry powder, and it stimulates the liver's bile production. This herb is a potent antioxidant. Turmeric is also heart healthy, acting as a blood thinner (which prevents clots) and helping to prevent excess cholesterol accumulation.

Green Tea (Camellia sinensis) The green variety of tea contains flavonoids and polyphenols, which are a type of flavonoid that may be a more powerful antioxidant than vitamins C and E. Green tea is oxidized for a shorter period of time that black tea; practitioners don't think the black variety has the same health benefits.

Gotu Kola (Centella asiatica) A traditional herb of both Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, gotu kola has antioxidant activity that protects the body from damage by free radicals. The herb is particularly useful for stress-related disorders and memory problems