Winter is coming and it’s time to start thinking about immune boosting natural remedies.   Essiac Brew is a modern name for an ancient healing recipe culled from a small group of  Native Americans living in the South East USA.  They called it Muscogee Tea.

Muscogee tea is purported to have healing qualities, helping with cleansing the colon, liver and blood.  It has been used by many people with cancer seeking alternative remedies.   I love anything that is natural and can help boost my immune system.

Ingredients:  These are gonna be a lot more than you need to make 1 gallon see below!

You can usually find these ingredients online from a reputable herbal supplier

• 6 ½ cups of burdock root (cut)
• 1 pound of sheep sorrel herb   powdered
• 1/4 pound of slippery elm bark   powdered
• 1 ounce of Turkish rhubarb root    powdered

You can buy all the herbs for this tea at Mountain Rose Herbs.    They also sell their own Essiac Tea Blend of organic herbs, ready for making a gallon of tea.  I bought both kinds ready made and ‘put together yourself’  I also bought seeds for all the plants from Mountain Rose as I really want to be self sustaining and grow my own.

The utensils for making this tea can usually be found in your local hardware or grocery store in the canning supplies section.  Do not use any aluminum utensils as aluminum can react with the tea.

Utensils Needed:

Enameled or stainless steel pot with lid.  Quart canning jars, lids & rings.  Strainer and funnel or a glass measuring cup. I also got one of those kits for canning which has a great holder to pull hot jars out of the water and a long stick with a magnet on the end to retrieve the scalding hot lids and rings.  You can get those in most stores that sell canning stuff.

The following recipe is for making one gallon of tea using 1/2 cup of Muscogee tea herbs.  You can make a smaller, two-quart batch by dividing this recipe in half.  It is perferable to make just enough Essiac tea to last about two weeks because Essiac brew is perishable and will eventually spoil, even in the refrigerator.  In winter I keep it in the jars in a closed cardboard box outside.

You can increase the shelf life of Essiac tea by sterilizing all utensils, jars, rings, lids, etc. in a boiling water bath for at least 15 minutes. You can skip the sterilization step to save time abut you will have to make it in small batches and  drink it up quickly before it spoils.  You can also make it double-strength by using 1/4 cup dried herbs to one quart of water.  I usually sterilize all the jars and lids as per the recipe.

What to do

1.  Pour one gallon of unchlorinated water into pot and bring to a boil.  (Optional:  Add extra water to compensate for water boiling off and water absorption of herbs.)

2.  Add 1/2 cup of dried tea herbs to boiling water and boil hard for 10 minutes (making sure it doesn’t boil over).  (To make a two-quart batch use one half of the packet, i.e., ¼ cup of herbs.)

3.  Scrape down the sides of the pot and allow the tea to sit, covered, in a warm place (room temperature) for about 12 hours.

4.  Reheat the tea in the covered pot until steaming hot, but do not boil it twice.

5.  Allow the tea to sit covered and undisturbed for several minutes so that the herbs will settle to the bottom of the pot.

6.  Place funnel and strainer on top of preheated canning jars.  (If you don’t have a funnel and strainer, you can use a glass measuring cup to pour the tea into the jars.)

7.  Carefully pour off (decant) the liquid from the pot into the canning jars so as to keep sediment out.  Screw the lids on, allow to cool and then refrigerate.  The sediment can be used for poultices or can be discarded.

How to drink the brew

Pour 1/4 cup Muscogee tea (about 1 or 2 oz.) into a cup and add hot water according to your taste.  Do not microwave the tea.  Drink the tea on an empty stomach about one half hour before eating.  Take the time to sip your Essiac tea slowly; don’t gulp it down.

For preventive purposes people usually drink 1/4 cup of Essiac tea once or twice daily. The brew is detoxifying so it is very important to drink plenty of pure water during the day and to have regular bowel movements.

Discard Essiac tea if it tastes sour or when white mold appears floating on the surface.  Essiac herbs and tea are light and heat sensitive so it is important to store in a cool, dark place  - cellar or refrigerator is idea.

This tea is not just for cancer patients, although many benefits have been reported. We are not allowed to claim that this is a cancer cure, but we do believe it is good to drink it for overall immune boosting.

© 2010, Sunny Soleil. All rights reserved but relaxed Pierre Soleil We like to pass on the word so YOU are welcome to use this document in accordance with the Creative Commons license. That is, you can tweet, facebook, repost, excerpt and even adapt it so long as you don’t pretend it’s yours for commercial purposes

 by David Jacke  author of Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)

 

Picture yourself in a forest where almost everything around you is food….Mature and maturing fruit and nut trees form an open canopy. If you look carefully, you can see fruits swelling on many branches—pears, apples, persimmons, pecans, and chestnuts. Shrubs fill the gaps in the canopy. They bear raspberries, blueberries, currants, hazelnuts, and other lesser-known fruits, flowers, and nuts at different times of the year.

Assorted native wildflowers, wild edibles, herbs, and perennial vegetables thickly cover the ground. You use many of these plants for food or medicine. Some attract beneficial insects, birds, and butterflies. Others act as soil builders, or simply help keep out weeds. Here and there vines climb on trees, shrubs, or arbors with fruit hanging through the foliage—hardy kiwis, grapes, and passionflower fruits.

What is Edible Forest Gardening?

Edible forest gardening is the art and science of putting plants together in woodlandlike patterns that forge mutually beneficial relationships, creating a garden ecosystem that is more than the sum of its parts. You can grow fruits, nuts, vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, other useful plants, and animals in a way that mimics natural ecosystems.

In many of the world’s temperate-climate regions, your garden would soon start reverting to forest if you were to stop managing it. We humans work hard to hold back succession—mowing, weeding, plowing, and spraying. If the successional process were the wind, we would be constantly motoring against it.

Why Grow an Edible Forest Garden?

While each forest gardener will have unique design goals, forest gardening in general has three primary practical intentions:

•High yields of diverse products such as food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizer, ‘farmaceuticals’ and fun;
•A largely self-maintaining garden and;
•A healthy ecosystem.

These three goals are mutually reinforcing. For example, diverse crops make it easier to design a healthy, self-maintaining ecosystem, and a healthy garden ecosystem should have reduced maintenance requirements. However, forest gardening also has higher aims.

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” Masanobu Fukuoka

Where Can You Grow an Edible Forest Garden?

Anyone with a patch of land can grow a forest garden. They’ve been created in small urban yards and large parks, on suburban lots, and in small plots of rural farms. The smallest we have seen was a 30 by 50 foot (9 by 15 m) embankment behind an urban housing project, and smaller versions are definitely possible. The largest we have seen spanned 2 acres in a rural research garden. Forest gardeners are doing their thing at 7,000 feet (2,100 m) of elevation in the Rocky Mountains, on the coastal plain of the mid-Atlantic, and in chilly New Hampshire and Vermont.

Forest gardening has a long history in the tropics, where there is evidence of the practice extending over 1,500 years. While you can grow a forest garden in almost any climate, it is easiest if you do it in a regions where the native vegetation is forest, especially deciduous forest.

Edible forest gardening is not necessarily gardening in the forest, it is gardening like the forest. You don’t need to have an existing woodland if you want to forest garden, though you can certainly work with one. Forest gardeners use the forest as a design metaphor, a model of structure and function, while adapting the design to focus on meeting human needs in a small space.

While you can forest garden if you have a shady site, it is best if your garden site has good sun if you want the highest yields of fruits, nuts, berries, and most other products. Edible forest gardening is about expanding the horizons of our food gardening across the full range of the successional sequence, from field to forest, and everything in between.

Ecology

Edible forest gardens mimic the structure and function of forest ecosystems—this is how we create the high, diverse yields, self-maintenance, and healthy ecosystem we seek for our garden. It is therefore critical to understand forest ecology and its implications for design. Four aspects of forest ecology are key: community architecture, ecosystem social structure, the structures of the underground economy, and how the community changes through time, also known as succession. Brief discussions of each of these aspects and examples of their influence on garden design and management follow.

Architecture

Contrary to the prevailing wisdom on forest gardening, vegetation layers are only one of the architectural features important in forest garden design. Soil horizon structure, vegetation patterning, vegetation density, and community diversity are also critical. All five of these elements of community architecture influence yields, plant health, pest and disease dynamics, maintenance requirements, and overall community character.

For example, scientific research indicates that structural diversity in forest vegetation, what we call “lumpy texture,” appears to increase bird and insect population diversity and to balance insect pest populations—independent of plant species diversity. Learning how and why plants pattern themselves in nature and about the effects of the diverse kinds of diversity on ecosystem function can add great richness to the tool box of the forest gardener.

Social Structure

The unique inherent needs, yields, physical characteristics, behaviors, and adaptive strategies of an organism govern its interactions with its neighbors and its nonliving environment. They also determine the roles each organism plays within its community. The food web is one key community structure that arises from each species’ characteristics. Organisms also form various kinds of “guilds” that partition resources to minimize competition or create networks of mutual support.

When we design a forest garden, we select plants and animals that will create a food web and guild structure, whether we know it or not. It behooves us to design these structures consciously so we can maximize our chances of creating a healthy, self-maintaining, high-yield garden. For example, the vast majority of solar energy captured by natural forest food webs ends up going to rot. We can capture some of this energy for our own use by growing edible and medicinal mushrooms, most of which prefer shady conditions.

We can design resource-partitioning guilds by including plants with different light tolerances in different vegetation layers, for instance, or mixing taprooted trees such as pecans and other hickories with shallow-rooted species such as apples or pears. We can build mutual-support guilds by ensuring that pollinators and insect predators have nectar sources throughout the growing season. Insights into the guild structure of ecosystems provides clear direction for design as well as research into many aspects of agroecology.

The Underground Economy

The workings of nature’s “underground economy” are a mystery, but the dynamics of this ecosystem are fundamental to the workings of all terrestrial communities. What is the anatomy of self-renewing soil fertility? How do plant roots interact with each other and their environment? What roles do microbes and other soil organisms play in our forest gardens, and how should we interact with them?

Plants are critical components of the structure that creates self-renewing fertility in natural ecosystems. They plug the primary nutrient leaks from the soil and energize a networked system of plants, soil organic matter, soil organisms, and soil particles that gathers, concentrates, and cycles nutrients conservatively. Maintaining perennial plant cover greatly aids this process.

In addition “dynamic accumulator” plants like comfrey (Symphytum officinale) selectively accumulate mineral nutrients to high levels in their leaf tissues, adding them to the topsoil each fall. As we enter the post-oil age, our understanding of the anatomy of self-renewing fertility will become more and more critical to our success in temperate climates.

Understanding the dynamics of woody and herbaceous plant roots is critical to learning how to design and manage forest gardens. In what patterns do plant roots grow, why, and when? While the majority of tree roots grow in the top two to three feet of soil, it turns out that fruit trees that can get even a small percentage of their roots deep into the soil profile produce more fruit more consistently, resist pests and diseases more effectively, and live longer than those that have only shallow root systems. Good pre-planting site preparation is therefore a highly worthwhile endeavor. Root system understanding provides a solid foundation for plant species selection and polyculture design.

Soil organisms perform numerous critical functions in forest and garden ecosystems, and we can easily disrupt these allies and their work with unthinking actions. Luckily, basic forest gardening principles like using mulch and leaving the soil undisturbed provide just the kind of benign neglect our tiny friends need. However, good soil preparation can make all the difference, as well.

For example, compacted or poorly drained soils can severely hamper the development of healthy soil food webs, and hence healthy forest gardens. Understanding the soil food web also provides insight into how to manage for healthy mycorrhizal fungi populations and how to ensure that nitrogen-fixing plants actually do their soil-building work.

Succession

Ecosystems are dynamic, and ever-changing. Plant succession used to be thought of as the directional change of a community over time from “immature” stages toward a “mature” “climax” community typical of a given region and environment, such as a field changing to shrubland and then to, say, oak-hickory forest. However, new models of succession have arisen in recent years that articulate the complex reality of plant community change over time without so blatantly projecting human cultural constructs upon natural phenomena.

Plant succession is nonlinear and occurs patch by patch within the ecosystem, and rarely do ecosystems ever attain a climax or equilibrium state. Disturbances of various kinds are a natural part of every successional process—windstorms, fires, insect attacks, and human intervention.

Nonetheless, linear succession to a “horizon” is a valid model to use when designing forest garden successions, as are various other permutations that mimic garden crop rotations or represent an ever-changing dance responding to the forces, needs, and whims of the moment.

While the practical applications of these new successional theories are of necessity somewhat vague, we do know that the most productive stages of succession are those in the middle—such as shrublands, oldfield mosaics, and woodlands—not necessarily full-fledged forests. In addition, most of our developed tree crops are species adapted to such midsuccession environments.

Our highest yielding forest gardens are therefore most likely to contain, not the dense tree canopies of late succession forests, but lush mixtures of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs all occupying the same space in patches of varying density and character. Succession theory also teaches us many different approaches to directing ecological succession in our gardens.

Design

At its simplest, forest garden design involves choosing what plants to place in your garden in which locations, at which times. However, these seemingly simple acts must generate the forest-like structures and functions we seek, and they must also achieve your design goals. A forest garden design process, then, must be information intensive if it is to achieve even moderately complex objectives. Therefore, begin by articulating your goals and assessing your garden site. Then you can select and apply design patterns, ecological principles, and plants in such a way that you integrate your goals and the site into a coherent whole.

The challenge is to array the available design elements to create a set of ecosystem dynamics that will in turn yield the desired conditions of high yields, maximal self-maintenance, and maximum ecological health as inherent by-products of the ecosystem.

You can use design patterns drawn from natural ecosystem examples or invent your own patterns that solve specific problems your design faces to help you do this. Patterns also arise from the requirements of the goals themselves and from a deep understanding of the site’s characteristics. The goals guide the site analysis and assessment, and the site assessment discovers the design.

We recommend designing on paper, at least initially, so you can make as many mistakes as possible there, and correct them before putting anything into the ground. On-site design techniques can also work well, especially for those who prefer to avoid the mapping process.

Careful design of plant spacing is a critical piece of the puzzle, in any case. Planting too closely together is the most frequent mistake that forest gardeners around the world have made. We hope that a more robust and explicit design process will help us all avoid such common mistakes and make some newer mistakes that are more interesting so we can learn from the experience.

Practice

Good site preparation is a critical precursor to planting your forest garden. Your site analysis and assessment should help you understand your site’s limitations so that you can decide whether or how to alter the site, or how to adapt to the conditions present.

Soil compaction, for example, is exceedingly common in most urban, suburban, and even rural sites, and it can severely restrict root growth, water movement in the soil, and the health of soil organism communities.

Double-digging, chisel plowing, radial trenching, and other techniques can help you deal with severe compaction, while the simple act of mulching the soil and planting deep-rooted perennials will eventually address slight compaction. Other common site preparation challenges include poor soil texture, shallow soil depth, road salt, and persistent weeds.

Proper stock selection, planting, and mulching techniques can also have major long-term effects on plant vigor and productivity. Many woody planting specimens have been transplanted multiple times, and these can have kinked, circling, or damaged roots that will result in plant stress and even an untimely death.

Carefully examine your specimens before you buy to ensure a quality root system, or purchase bare root stock so you can see the whole root system before planting. In fine-textured soils, the edges of the planting hole often become smeared to a smooth, impenetrable surface as a natural part of the digging process. This can severely restrict root growth and cause water to pool in the planting hole.

Breaking up the edges of the hole with a spading fork allows roots and water into the surrounding soil. This needs to become a common planting practice, as do proper planting depth, proper mulch depth, and effective sheet mulching techniques.

Once the garden is in the ground, the longest and most satisfying phase of forest gardening begins: management, harvest, and coevolution. Potentially the hardest part of this phase is learning to do less and let the system take care of itself, as well as knowing when to intervene and how.

These questions are, however, part of the process of shifting from a paradigm of command and control to one of cocreative participation as part of a natural system.

As we observe ourselves and our gardens through the dance of the seasons, we will learn the most effective ways of guiding the garden ecosystem’s evolution, we will select and breed ever more delectable crops for all the niches of the garden ecosystem, and we will begin to realize the full potential of forest gardening as a tool for cultural and personal evolution, not to mention cultural and personal survival in a post oil world. Welcome to the adventure!

Good information on plant, animal, and mushroom species and their ecological characteristics is essential for good forest garden design. You’ll need data on the plant’s size, form, and habit, its rooting patterns, hardiness and other tolerances and preferences, as well as its native habitat, human uses and ecological functions.

Information that helps you design habitat for beneficial wildlife such as insects, frogs, toads, salamanders, and birds is also crucial. Ideally, this information will come in a variety of formats and levels of detail that relate to different parts of the design process. The appendices of Edible Forest Gardens provides this kind of information on over 600 useful plant species and a plethora of beneficial wildlife for your designing and gardening pleasure.

© 2010, Sunny Soleil. All rights reserved but relaxed Pierre Soleil We like to pass on the word so YOU are welcome to use this document in accordance with the Creative Commons license. That is, you can tweet, facebook, repost, excerpt and even adapt it so long as you don’t pretend it’s yours for commercial purposes

Have you been on regimes of pharmaceutical medicine and still aren’t any better  Are you concerned that many medicines have horrendous side effects? 

Do you sometimes question whether you should be putting so many chemicals into your body? 

And like many people, you probably think that if you don’t have healthcare insurance you’re screwed.

You’re NOT!  There are many ways that we can learn to avoid almost all disease and stay well and healthy for a LONG time.

You may be convinced that you need access to conventional healthcare or you may be on the edge of looking elsewhere so we’re here to tell you that you can be perfectly well without any form of conventional pharmaceutically based healthcare. 

We’re here to open you out to exploring the myriad of alternative and natural, low cost-effective remedies that can make you well and NOT break the bank over time.  We’re here to encourage you to take your life and wellness into your own hands and find what works for you.  We’re here to pathfind the road to wellness freedom…

We have been the route of pharmaceutical dependency on everything from reflux drugs to asthma inhalers and pain pills and we’ve stopped.  We’ve got friends who’ve overcome all kinds of medical challenges from being in long term remission from cancer when medicine failed them to regaining their natural healthy weight and wellness, by making small changes in their eating style. We know people we trust who swear by non-medical natural and supplement based wellness products and methods.  

There is another way

We are convinced there is another way and we’re also convinced that it is possible to stay healthy and well without breaking the bank.

So as we’ve changed the data sort and criterial filters about health and wellness, we’ve stopped worrying about the rising cost of healthcare because we’re focusing on something else. Wellness and a well state of being.

We learned that if we are to be well it is up to we!  In fact we’re glad we’re in this situation because it’s forced us to seek out alternative and natural methods and opened the doors to wellness and freedom from pharmaceutical and hospital dependency.

Once we stopped feeling paranoid about every potential disaster that could befall us medically, we asked ourselves the key question.

How can we eliminate existing health weaknesses and build and maintain a state of ongoing wellness without breaking the bank?

Why we think the way we do

How come when you begin to focus on what’s possible rather than what is apparently limiting you, everything changes? The answer is simple. It’s about how our brain works.

There’s a lot of data out there. We can’t take it all in. What we take in is determined by criteria that set up sensory filters.  Like we always see red cars when we’re looking to buy a red car or we seem to lose our hearing when our mother is blathering on.     The brain then takes this selected information in and makes meaning of it.    Most of which is bull!   

It’s like a database sort.  Whether you set your sensory filters to sort for potential pitfalls and illnesses or ‘wellness’ and alternative methods, it will put a kind of highlighter pen effect on the data that fits your ‘sort criteria’.    Those who set up ‘wellness’ as a sort will find wellness.  That’s how it works.

Most of us are programmed to sort for fear and worry.  Advertisers are notorious for playing your emotional strings.. they send you on a search for all the things you fear and then say ‘it’s OK’ we can help.  You get hooked!!!

And then there are associations that we have had imprinted onto us that determine what we believe is good and right.  They come from parents, teachers, friends, and the media. 

 A lot of the time these imprints are at odds with what our intuitive self knows.  The fact is that when we take the time to slow down and stop the mind chatter, we have access to an amazing form of intuitive guidance.

Our body knows what we need

You’ve probably heard people say ‘I listen to my body’ or ‘I know what foods don’t work for me’… These people are using a facility that most of us have put aside because we’ve been hypnotised into thinking that x, y z are right. 

The body is telling us but often we can’t feel, see or hear it.  I’ve often used simple muscle testing on people by having them hold one arm, palm up, out to their side parallel with the shoulder and using the other to hold an item of food.    The test is done by placing pressure on their outstretched arm and telling them to resist as hard as they can.    Sometimes they can and at other times they can’t. 

The actual presence of the food is causing their body to respond with muscle weakness.   And often without even knowing it, they realize that yes, after eating bread they feel bloated or when they eat kale they feel energized.   

Our body knows yet we override it because of the relentless programming we’ve received and the additives that enhance flavor.  I tasted someone’s gummy strips the other day, and my body said ‘these smell and taste like cheap perfume’.  Not surprising as the flavor is totally chemically based as are most cheap perfumes and even some expensive ones!!

People say things like ‘I know it’s bad for me, but it just tastes so good’.  The reason a lot of things ‘taste good’ is because we’ve been hooked on excessive sugar or salt or Mono Sodium Glutamate that is a common ingredient in ready made food, stock cubes and sweet goods.

FACT!  Our bodies know what’s right for us and what’s not  but they’ve been confused by deep programming to want stuff that isn’t

FACT!  We are being addicted to and poisoned by processed food which in turn provides an ongoing clientele for the pharmaceutical industry. 

Awareness is crucial

In our quest for wellness we have to do two basic things.  We need to recognize the way we’ve been hooked by pharma-based healthcare and become more aware of what things we’re addicted to and how they persuade and addict us..

And we need to actively add and subtract things from our diet and explore different wellness methods until we find the combination or way that works for us.

Why they don’t want you to be well

If someone invented a real life ‘beam me up Scottie, transporter system’ then the car companies wouldn’t be very happy.   They’d stand to lose all their income.    In the same way if people start to get well through changing their diet and using some of the amazing natural and alternative remedies on the market, pharma won’t be very happy at all. 

When we all learn how to be well and healthy using the myriad of natural and low cost or home-made remedies and potions that are out there then we won’t need pharmaceuticals.  

Be prepared for an increase in heavy duty fear based programming especially when you watch TV.

Our wish is that in all big corporations there is a deep seated integrity that will rise up and recognize that it is wrong to sell people things that promote dis-ease and they will dedicate their power and funds to exploring wellness in a different way.  

That is our wish and the chances are that right now they’ll start to fight back?   How might they do that?  Being aware of how you are being maniuplated is very important.

As you consider all the ways that we’ve already been hooked into this paradigm of ‘healthcare’ you may begin to get a little pissed and start to ask yourself ‘do I really need all this?’   and…

You might even wonder at how amazing it would be if you were to have no more symptons because there is no more disease in your body rather than knowing that the moment you stop popping the pill you’ll be back in painsville.

So what’s the difference between what we call wellness and the current health paradigm?

Wellness is about pulling out the root of the disease and above all keeping the host in such a state that disease has a hard time penetrating.  

Pharmabased current healthcare is about burning off the shoots of disease whilst leaving the roots intact.  It is about getting rid of symptoms.

The path to wellness

TRUE STORY! My neighbor Cheryl is a 66 year old woman who lives on social security.  Until recently she had widows medical benefits from a large auto company.  She got her doctors visits, her anti depressants and anti spasmodics and all the rest. 

And then, one day, just like that, she found herself, without conventional healthcare.

At first she went into worry mode, imagining what would happen if she got a baceterial infection or cancer, or if her stomach problems came back and so on… and somewhere along the line she realized that SHE was now the chief provider of healthcare in her life. 

She went on a journey to find the appropriate wellness products for her.   As she abandoned the idea of taking antibiotics at $100 a pop, she found Colloidal Silver and Miracle Mineral Solution.  She felt a flu coming on and dosed herselfup with those two and it dissipated in 24 hours.  She heard that Apple Cider Vinegar taken in a glass of water each day got rid of her reflux and it did.

Like Cheryl, we too have no conventional healthcare.  We are living on savings while we build our online businesses which are all devoted to waking people up to what’s going on and what’s possible and  spreading the message of alternative technologies and a more natural way of living.

We started taking MMS on a regular basis as a preventative, pathogen killing device.    My husband noticed, and you can laugh but it’s a big thing for some people, that his foot odor had disappeared. 

From Sweaty to Sweetie Feet

He wears snake boots a lot because he spends a lot of time outdoors and they’re the only thing that allow him to stand for any time on his shattered and pinned left foot.  Before MMS his feet stunk after a day in the boots.  Now he can wear the same socks for two days running.   The foot odor disappeared.

Gastric Disaster Averted

When he got a dose of stomach problems stemming from a history of gastric ulcers as a child through diverticulosis and IBS, I was really concerned.    He was in agony.   I had no idea what to do… so I put out a plea to the friendly folk on many alternative lists that I subscribe to.  One guy in Hawaii called me up and gave me the number of the Executive Director of a VA hospital, who was a personal friend of his. 

She called me.  Amazingly, unlike most doctors, she wasn’t afraid to help diagnose what might be wrong over the phone.  She didn’t say ‘he needs tests’. She simply said, it might be this or that and as I gave her more history she narrowed it down.     ‘Give him MMS and Aloe Vera, stay off the dairy, gluten and meat’  was her recommendation.  I said to her ‘YOU use MMS?’  But..you’re a doctor!!!   She told me that she’d used it for a really bad staff infection that regular medicine had failed to clear.   

It worked. Combined with his own hydro therapy program, hot baths, with spurts of cold shower on his stomach [to restore acidity] he got better.When real live doctors, especially people in positions of power, like my friend at the VA, start investigating and experimenting with natural and alternative remedies, I know there is a big wave of change on the way.

The gentle road to more raw

In 2006 when I had a sucessful coaching and seminar business and plentyof money, I went on a raw food diet.  I spent $2,000 0n equipment, water distillers, state of the art blender, green star juicer, nut milk makers.  You name it I got it.   I sprouted seeds and bought lots of raw food goodies like flax seed biscuits, kelp noodles and whatever local ‘raw delicacies’ the local WholeFoods offered from raw lasagne to cheescakes made from mangoes, avocado, cashew and agave syrup.

I was also getting a monthly shipment of powdered green drinks and mixing it into two bottles of water a day with alkalizing drops. I was also doing yoga 3 to 5 times a week. 

My health went from sluggish, low energy to vibrant, youthful active aliveness.    I lost 22 lbs in weight, I pooped 3 times a day easily and plentifully [sorry but the colon is the place where good health is most easily compromised] and my skin, hair and nails were in peak condition.

Fall down, get up, fall down, get up…

I fell from ‘grace’.  Slowly my lifestyle changed and I returned to a healthy but mostly cooked diet.  I stopped drinking the green drinks and I started smoking again.   It doesn’t matter.  Now I’m starting out on the path to wellness again.. and I’m excited about it and this time I don’t have a lot of money… but I know that whatever I can afford is worth the expense compared to healthcare bills or insurance.    

We regularly take MMS and Colloidal Silver. I spray the silver in my mouth two or three times a day because I had a history of gum problems. Whenever we get a cut or sting, which is rare, we dab MMS onto it.   I mix Oil of Oregano [a powerful antiseptic] with the Silver.

We are growing kale and mustard leaves and sprouting broccoli and alfalfa which we add to our cooked food.  You can just ensure that you have a salad of raw green veg with your meals.   Spinach, Kale, Green Onions, Mustard Leaf, Turnip Greens, Avocado, Tomato, savoy cabbage, raw carrot are all great salad ingredients.   Dress with some sea salt , apple cider vinegar and a little olive oil or Vegenaise. Salads taste great with just olive oil and salt.  Do what works fo YOU

We juice carrots and celery [both cheap veggies] with home grown wheatgrass and apples.   

Fortunately one of the few things we salvaged into our new simpler life was the Greenstar juicer…

BUT if you can’t afford the top of the range equipment, there are some really cool under $50 manual wheatgrass juicers on the market.

Manual Wheatgrass Juicers
Links to Amazon.com search results page for “Manual Wheatgrass Juicers”.

If there's no electricity, you can still stay healthy and drink green juice

available for around $45

We drink half water/half soymilk shakes with a Fruitein shake which we buy in bulk online.    And there’s a lot more that we’ll be reporting on as we make tracks along the path to wellness..

It’s a slow progression for most people and most of us need to be reassured that it’s OK to do it slowly.  Instead of going into a panic and thinking how awful it will be to eat just raw food, start simply with adding in little bits here and there… It’s amazing how easy it is when you go slow…

If you are interested in finding out more about raw food products check out The Raw Food World. They have a really comprehensive list of raw products from raw cocoa and chocolate to chia seeds, sprouting seeds, equipment and other delicious goodies.

You can purchase MMS from here  [be sure to buy the MMS and the Citric Acid Activator Kit] for around $25 for a year’s maintenance supply and if you write to me sunwaterclear@yahoo.com I’ll send you my free information e-book on how MMS works and how to use it and what for.

We’ll be back in this series documenting our path to wellness, exploring different wellness products and techniques as well as alternative forms of body work and healing.

Join us on the path to wellness… and liberation from the old systems…

with love and blessings

sunny and Pierre

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Processed and GE Foods Freak Out Mice

Schools in Wisconsin are showing kids the dangers of genetically engineered (GE) and processed  junk food with some unique science class experiments. Sister Luigi Frigo repeats the experiment every year in her second grade class in Cudahy, Wisconsin.

Students feed one group of mice unprocessed whole foods. A second group of mice are given the same junk foods served at most schools. Within a couple of days, the behavior of the second group of mice develop erratic sleeping schedules and become lazy, nervous and even violent.

It takes the mice about three weeks on unprocessed foods to return to normal. According to Frigo, the second graders tried to do the experiment again a few months later with the same mice, but the animals had learned their lesson. They refused to eat the GE processed food!

(from Comanche County Chronicle, Elgin, OK, September, 2008 www.comanchecountychronicle.com)

Those mice knew a thing or two.    And they learned to automatically REJECT the JUNK and PROCESSED FOODS!

Humans, it appears, are not so bright.  Even though we KNOW that certain things are bad for us we still continue to eat them.   We know, we’re affected too!    And even if you’re leading a semi-healthy lifestyle

Your immune system is seriously overloaded

With the exception of eyes and bones, our body cells recreate themselves every year.

We have the ability to regenerate ourselves from new, so why are we aging and sick?Because we’re regenerating toxic cells that our immune system can’t get rid of.

 When we eat toxic food, breathe toxic air and experience toxic emotions our immune system is overloaded – like one fire truck in a colony of arsonists!  It can’t cope.  The cells store the toxins.

Our system becomes contaminated with the toxic cells that the immune system can’t get rid of and when we regenerate cells we replicate those toxic cells.

Is your immune system overloaded?

Food toxins – If you eat cooked or processed food, drink sodas, coffee, sugar, diet foods, microwaved foods, store bought non-organic veggies and fruit as a few examples, your immune system is overloaded

Emotional Toxins – If you are no stranger to anger, fear, envy, pride, anxiety, passive aggression and stress, your immune system is overloaded

Techno Toxins – If you breathe city air, spend a lot of time in air conditioned environments, are undergoing chemotherapy, sit at a computer screen, watch TV or use a cellphone regularly, smoke, drink alcohol or take pharmaceutical remedies [prescription and non prescription,] your immune system is overloaded

If you don’t live in the countryside, do work you love, spend time outdoors, feel calm and upbeat most of the day, drink only water and home made juices, eat home grown organic vegetables and a large proportion of raw food, your immune system is overloaded. 

And that last category probably includes the majority of the working population of the Western World!

Warning! System Failure Imminent!   Help!

When aliens enter our system, the overloaded immune system is so busy getting rid of the everyday toxins, that it’s unable to cope with a heavy duty virus/infection or any major disease.  Even if we’re making inroads into more healthy living, we still need help.

Half Healthy is not enough

We live in the countryside close to nature and surrounded by forests.  We are moderating our diet to include much more fruit and vegetables, sprouted foods, raw vegetables and much less meat but we still use computers, watch DVD’s, eat candy, meat, use sugar sometimes and sometimes we get stressed, angry and afraid.     And we don’t have healthcare plans.

We know that, like us, you are probably at risk. We know that it is challenging to develop a totally healthy lifestyle whereby our immune system is at 100%.   So we recognise that our immune system needs help as we slowly transition out of our old habits.     And then a friend told us how all her serious food allergies had disappeared after taking MMS.   We were skeptical at first, because like everyone, we’ve been trained to focus on pharma healthcare, but as she said, it’s so inexpensive you might as well try it.    We’re so glad we did.

We’re in awe!  

 The Immune System’s Magic Helper

We have been taking MMS for a year now, not just because it is proven to be the world’s no 1 pathogen killer but because it’s kept us healthy and got rid of any infections we have picked up. We have not taken antibiotics or any pharmaceutical remedies for anything.   

Honestly speaking, my husband had sweaty feet and now even after wearing snake boots for a day they stopped smelling.   I contracted a urinary infection for which I’ve always had to take antibiotics in the past.  In one week of  taking 10 drops of MMS a day, it went.   That was three months ago. It has not returned.     My mother contracted swine flu.  After taking 15 drops of MMS for 3 days, it vanished.

It’s amazing because it’s so simple.   It doesn’t cure diseases, it helps the immune system by taking over the clean-up of our everyday self inflicted toxins!

It  only attacks toxic cells snatching electrons from them so that they dissipate, leaving behind salt which passes out through the waste system easily.  Healthy cells are never touched because they have a different electron composition.   MMS might be of the world’s best kept wellness secrets.  And it’s safe.

And when MMS is pitted against infections, it actually works.   An extra dose over a few days frees up even more of the immune system to do the job it was meant to do!

Hey Presto! Infections begone!

We have witnessed first hand the disappearance of viruses, urinary infections, smelly feet, bloated stomachs, allergies, gum disease and more.    It has been used successfully to dissipate malaria  and swine flu in a  few days or so AND it costs just $25 for a year’s maintenance supply.   MMS can be used for so many purposes and we’re still amazed that it has not been more widely publicized.  

But given that anything that isn’t pharma in origin is always pooh-poohed.   Hmmm wonder why that is?!!

No Healthcare!  Try self-medic-aid!

If you can’t afford mainstream healthcare or want an alternative to pharma based healthcare systems, the answer is to maintain wellness.    We don’t have healthcare.  We stay healthy by helping our immune system do the daily housework so that it is armed, on full power and ready to fight any serious stuff that might try to invade our system.

Trading with Integrity

The guy who re-discovered MMS initially as a malaria cure when he was in Africa, and subsequently promoted it is a philanthropist.  He works for very little and all his income goes towards fulfilling his dream of a malaria-free Africa.     He ensures that the price is kept down and that no one profiteers from the ails of others.  His name is Jim Humble and you’ll find more information on him in the links below

We also believe in ethical trading and organizations that are driven by their mission not simply money.     When you visit project green life, and read about their mission, you will understand why we use them and recommend them to others.  They are truly dedicated to helping people develop wellness and only stock a select range of products.

We write this from personal experience and a desire to turn more people onto MMS especially those who haven’t the means for expensive healthcare plans and those who are affected by serious illness.    

Find out more about this simple miracle and how you can boost your immune system for as little as $25 a year.

NOTE –  MMS comes in two parts, the dormant MMS in one bottle which you need to activate with MM Activator – Citric Acid.  The cost of the two items is around $25 for a year’s supply.  You need to purchase both items

MMS solution and citric acid activator cost less than $25 a year

MMS Solution

 

The amazing story of Jim Humble's experiences with MMS as a miracle immune savior

Learn more about MMS in this comprehensive book by Jim Humble.  Breakthrough – Miracle Mineral of the 21^st Century

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