For more information, visit www.fema.org The End Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome once again to the Hour of the Time. I'm William Cooper. Today we continue with the Michael Cottingham lecture on herbal remedies, herbal nutrition, how to identify and use the plants that are all around you, most of which you believe are no good. Probably would dig them up and throw them away, not realizing the tremendous nutritional and medicinal value contained therein. This lecture took place on May the 27th, 1998, at our annual conference at the Thunder Horse Ranch. Please pay attention, take notes, and you'll be amazed at what you're going to learn. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you want to see a look at poison ivy remedies, some of the, half the poison ivy remedies out there contain tannic acid, 40% tannic acid. And it was the heaviest units will dry, first of all, to destroy the oils of poison ivy and it'll help to dry them up. So you can use oak bark tea to make poison ivy infections and totally destroy the poison ivy. And jewelry, for those who know jewelry, jewelry is famous for poison ivy. It's like, back on the east coast, jewelweed is the most well known for, almost wherever poison ivy grows back east, there's always jewelweed nearby. It's like, it works really quick. It's like, that's probably the best of all the poison ivy remedies. And then oak bark, botanic acid, cleavers or bed straw, and sometimes even cactus, prickly pear cactus. The inner juice of the cactus, cactus juice itself. I kind of, there's a, we'll talk about prickly pear on the outside, but prickly pear, if you take a pad and cut it in half and then lay it on inflammation, burns or insect bites, things of that nature. And cactus juice is hypotonic, it sucks, it draws, it is a great poultice, it will draw out infection, it will draw out and break down oils and irritants of the skin. So that's to answer her poison ivy question. Before we go into the garden, we were talking about the kind of the melon, the elephant, the elephant, the elephant, the elephant, the elephant. We have a junk tea that we take, for example, a kettle of cold or something like that. And it's one melon, one grapefruit and one large, not teothee, but the beauty of everything that we cut up. And we put in half an onion, it's a little bit of garlic, and it's two drops of pepper oil. It's terrible, but it's really good. Oh, that's a powerhouse recipe. Yeah, that's a, and we can kill or not have just about anything. You've got alcohol, you've got essential oils, you've got nauseation, and you've got lots of stuff going on. I'm eating garlic. I'm eating garlic. I'm eating garlic. I'm eating garlic. Okay. I've seen friends just take onions and just think, coming down with a cold, eat an onion and go for a run. I mean, that's pretty, you know, just sweat and just the onions themselves are antibacterial and really good at causing stimulation. And they have, well, they're allian, so they have stuff very similar to garlic, not as potent as garlic, but, you know, very close to some of the antibacterial. You know, onions are good, you know, if you can understand the taste and the aspect of it. But the last, you know, we started talking about bitters and bitterness, even though we have a digestive herb in there, the catnip and the fennel and peppermint, bitters. Just bringing bitters back into your life, the bitter taste, the missing taste. I'll tell you some of the problems that you can affect positively by taking bitters. By bringing that missing taste back into your life, you can improve digestion. You can improve upper GI function, which means you automatically improve lower intestinal tract function, which means you can affect the skin. You can help to clear up skin problems, which means you can really, really, by bringing, I've seen of all the substances to affect allergies, by bringing bitters back into one's diet, you can affect upper respiratory allergy-related congestive problems more than anything else. Because you improve the burner, you improve the furnace, and you also improve the elimination of waste, you know, the ashes, the aftermath of the burner. The Dutch upper GI is like a big furnace. But if you only partially burn the material and you don't eliminate it and it sits there, you essentially congest everything. And as a result, a lot of peripheral problems begin. I would consider cilantro slightly bitter, not a heavy bitter, but I would consider cilantro in a, if you're going to do light, medium, and heavy bitters, cilantro would be kind of on the light to medium side. Not a heavy bitter, not even a real powerful bitter, but it has bitter aspects. The Chinese are really good at classifying foods and medicines they give them in a week. Not only can a plant have a sour and a bitter aspect, like limes or lemons, they both can be sour, sweet, and bitter. And I can't think of any plants out there. I know there was one, I had just forgotten at the moment, but there was only one plant out there that had five, all five of the tastes. And to me, I thought that this was a plant to start to look more into in research because it met all the criteria of the five tastes. The Chinese are very good at saying, like, ginger, ginger is classified as salty, slightly bitter, acrid. It has the acrid, the sour, acrid, bitter, and sour, and sweet. I think ginger had four of the five. It didn't have salt. It didn't have the aspect of salt of the five tastes. Ginger was the one, I think they had four of the five. But anyways, the Chinese are really good at breaking down plants and foods and giving them the bitter, salty, sour, sweet, acrid attributes that give them an understanding to practitioners. Ginger or ginseng? What is the ginseng? Ginseng is a totally different plant than ginger. The question was, what's the difference between ginger or ginseng? Ginseng is an entire different genus, entire different species than ginger. The root is, people use both the root, ginger root, and the root of ginseng. Ginseng is classified, there's a whole classification of herbs called adaptogens. And the adaptogens are sometimes very hard to get a handle on. To give you an idea of what an adaptogen, how ambiguous it is, but yet what it can't do. Adaptogens, for people who are, say, hot, fiery, super excess, and this hot, fiery, super excess constitution is driving them out of balance, a ginseng will pull them back to the balance point. If another person is cold, sluggish, slow metabolism, ginseng will fire them up and bring them back to the balance point. Very mysterious, hard to get a handle. That's why they call them adaptogens. You're extreme in this area, but they pull you back to the balance point. And if you're excess or deficient, they pull you back to the balance point. They adapt you back to homeostasis. And how they work is a great mystery. The Chinese probably have the best understanding of adaptogens. Licorice is considered an adaptogen. All the ginsengs are considered adaptogenic. They're balancing. It doesn't matter if you're excess or if you're deficient. They will pull you back. They will strengthen you by curtailing your excessiveness or your deficiency. That's what a kind of adaptogen. Ginseng is an adaptogen. Ginger is not. Ginger is a straightforward, aromatic, circulatory, chemically, you know, it's a very mechanical, straightforward herbal medicine. You take ginger root because it has aromatic oils. It dilates. It irritates. It stimulates. Herbal irritation is not necessarily detrimental. It's stimulating. You know, the fact that you drink ginger tea and it makes you hot and sweaty could be called an irritant, but it's also a white cake ginger root tea. A ginseng doesn't do that. Ginger will work immediately. Ginsengs take time. Weeks, months, years. And you may never notice the fact, or you may one day say, you know, I haven't been sick in three or four years. And it could be the ginseng, you know. And that's how adaptogens work. Sometimes, you know, there is an adaptogen. It's called Eleuthero caucuses. It's Siberian ginseng. It's not a true ginseng. Eleuthero is the genus, or Eleuthero caucuses is the genus. And it's really good for people who, I would say like my constitution, thin, hot, fiery. They eat, their food is digested instantly. They just burn, process, and they just, they're adrenaline excess constitutions. And they tend to be like Roman candles. Bing, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, collapse. When they get sick, they collapse for, and they have to rebuild their energy supply. And that's an adrenaline excess constitution. Siberian ginseng and all those ginsengs actually cool down the adrenal glands and bring them down, you know, to more stable points. They're not burning as hot. And that's a really good tool for Siberian ginseng. It's really good for a majority of the people in here who may be running hot, active, reading, working, doing those teaching, you know, and just their adrenaline excess. They're fiery, they're moving. And when they get sick, they collapse. They just break. And they have to rebuild, and they come back and do it all cyclic. And adrenaline excess people usually gravitate towards corn, or coffee, nicotine. They like stimulation. They like work. They like to keep busy. They love to keep growing. They don't like to go to sleep until they lay down and they pass out. They just, that's adrenaline excess type. Stop talking about eating. All right. That's a good one. So bitters. Bitter plants will be the number 10 herb because bitters are missing taste. They provide a stimulation for the upper and lower GI. They can do more for so many different peripheral problems, like skin problems. Eczema and psoriasis can be clearer. Because a lot of eczema and psoriasis is distinctly dietary related. If you're congested and stuck down here and not burning and metabolizing and eliminating, you'll see it in the skin because the liver governs the skin, and the liver is the main organ up here in the upper GI. So if the liver is deficient, cold, sluggish, you'll see problems in the skin. The skin is the largest organ system in the body, but it doesn't do anything. It's not self-government. It needs to be governed by the kidneys and the liver. Would that help you ever think of that? Absolutely. People often come into the herb store and they say, what do you have for weight loss? What do you have for, and I say, bitters. Bitters, they're the most important. They will improve your metabolism. They will improve your usage of fuel. They will really improve your elimination of waste. They can clear up sinus problems. They can clear up respiratory problems. They can help with gallstone formations. They can touch upon all of the standard American, affluent, just the standard American diet that we all have actually come out of. Some of us, you know, at 27, I was a McDonald's Twinkie coming out of that world. You know, it's now 37. It's like I eat so much better than I am at 27. At 47, hopefully I've curtailed many of the habits and eaten even better. I mean, it's a progressive thing, but running away from the standard American diet as much as possible, occasionally going back to reminisce. And, you know, I mean, I mean, how can you totally change your personal constitution and eliminate those flavors and cravings? It's not easy unless you go to some Zen monastery somewhere and totally reorganize your site or structure from the top down. It's probably if you're down, though, you never really know what to eat. Oh, I mean, yeah. I mean, more than the calories, the food content, and the nutritional value, I worry about it. I mean, hepatitis is too prevalent to be eating out all the time. You travel, we compromise. I always think when we travel or we go to restaurants, immediately the moment you walk into a restaurant, you have to compromise. You've accepted the compromise. You can demand, you know, at certain restaurants, you can demand a certain protocol and standards to be raised a little bit. But I always feel bad when I met some friend who turns out to be, you know, trying to revolutionize. You want to see this food cooked this way and this way? Please tell me you're not on this G and all this. And I'm like, you know, okay, some of them will listen to you, some of them will respect you. But, you know, the bottom line is you've walked into the restaurant, you've accepted the compromise. Because unless you cook your own food, unless you control that 100%, anything less than that, you know, anything less than growing all your own food and controlling it is a compromise. And so we have to accept those compromisers when we have a, you know, a food exception. How often would you recommend a certain K hot dog, slowly dosed for many hours, so they're blistering with, they have cancer sores on the skin of the hot dog from being in that rotisserie thing. How often should you ever do? In that case, the compromise is great. Maybe once every five years or so. You're better off going to find some real, 100% all beef hot dogs and cooking them up at your own home and using whole-lead organic buns and organic. I mean, you can tailor the compromise. No tofu, please. No tofu, I'm pups. You're going to eat a hot dog, eat a real freaking hot dog, 100% beef, you're going to eat tofu, get a block of tofu, cut it up, and don't try to pretend turtish dogs, chicken dogs, I mean, this is, I'm talking for myself. I'm talking to Ren here. We have this, tofu is really, you know, a communist thing, I think. Kind of long that humor, driving across the inn as you're pulling into a gas station, they have a thing, yeah, please come in for a blicky pie. Get your blicky pie here. Thank you. Oh, the doors are getting go, they call those places. Get go. Stop and get. I want you to learn some more bitters for me. Absolutely. More bitter substances. Hots. You know, actually, it's not a good question to drink a little bit of beer before you eat a dark, Guinness, stout, really bitter, bitter beer. Medicinal. I'm not talking about a six-pack, I'm talking about a darkest hot. I'm talking about the darkest, I mean, we're not a six-pack before you sit down to eat, but let me tell you, if you need bitters before you eat, sit down to eat, you will be ravenously hungry, you will digest your food, you will eliminate your waste, you will actually feel, you can eat a ten-course meal, but if you did a nice dose of bitters beforehand, you won't feel that congestive, bloated state. And as a result, hops, beer, you know, dark beer can be, or hops, the herb, can be another one of the bitters. Is it still a kind of a bathroom that I could do like? I think so. I mean, well, it's not that quick. Unless you have what's called an excessive upper gas, most people have a deficiency. There are occasionally some people who eat and immediately, I mean, they just step down the fork, they finish eating, and they have to go and evacuate. Those people don't have the standard American deficient upper GI. They have the excessive, they are just too juicy, too quick, and too, they evacuate, and they usually don't have hard stools, they usually have stools of maple or oak, and they usually have more of a diarrhea type of constitution. They're quick, they eat their food, they digest it, they dump it, they also have the problem of not absorbing enough nutrients, and they have malabsorption problems. They need to cool down. They can go eat a whole tray of some. What do they do? They need to use more of the cooling herbs, more of a slippery elm, or the mallows, the marshmallows. They just need to slow down their juices, their gastric secretions, work, but that's just one of 10,000 people. Occasionally, we all get that. Oh, this is very important. Remember, I mean, when I teach, we're not going in depth on constitutional medicine, but when I teach constitutional medicine, I also reinforce more than ever before that we can have and we can bounce back and forth between different types of constitutional profiles depending on what we're doing. We can be predominantly deficient, cold, sluggish, but occasionally we can be excess. You can make some stress for a week or two as our constitution shifts a little bit, but it usually comes back to that same constant pattern. And also, so our constitution can vary a little bit, so you might have to tell your formulas. And remember, by the age of 30, for sure, and even the age of 40 for some people, you know where you're sick. You know what ails you. You know your patterns of illness. And a very key concept, a secret, a secret to longevity, is by the age of 30, we know our patterns of illness. It really behooves us to recognize them and find the tools to support our weaknesses. Those are inherited and our environmentally acquired weaknesses. By the age of 30, the virus is going around. You know where it's going to hit you. You know your patterns of illness. So when you start to look for answers, say, my pattern, I need to find tools to strengthen these weaknesses, you will help yourself to become less diseased. These weak, inherited, environmentally acquired weak areas will become less troublesome. And you will live longer as a result of that. So the constitutions can vary. You know your patterns of illness. It's really, you know, this information they've given you, much, a lot of this can help to strengthen. You know, each one of us out here has weak livers, strong livers, weak kidneys, strong kidneys. We have excesses, deficiencies, strong points, and weak points. We know it by now, all of us. And, uh, how about parasites flutes? Or things that you never get into that site? Parasites, which one, absolutely, I mean, it's a whole, it's a whole other area that, like we talked about black walnut being good as an amoeba, good for some parasites. Um, you know, actually there's a plant where we go out here after dinner, uh, some of the wormwood I'll mention about being a really good anti-parasitic amoeba orientated plant. And when I'm talking about that, I may mention, mention a few more plants along those lines. Um, bitters, I want to get back to bitters and get into the viruses. Um, the bitters, hops, organ grapefruit, organ grapefruit is a real famous bitter, uh, and a real famous bitter in, in European herbal medicine is a plant called gentian, G-E-N-T-I-A-N, purple gentian, or just gentian. It's one of the major components of Swedish bitters. uh, gentian is very bitter, very, you know, secreting orientated, very stimulating to the, you know, to the, to the upper GI. Well, you were talking about having a beer before dinner or something like that, as, as a bitter. beer. A beer called the dark beers, because they contain hops, and they contain generous amounts of dark, rich, bitter hops. I think the distinction should be made between dark American beers and dark foreign beers, or dark beers that stick to the old tradition of beer making, because most, for the most part, American beer is not beer, and you're not going to get any help out of that. Absolutely. It's a small brewery like Anchor Steam in San Francisco or something that sticks to the, to the real tradition of really making real beer. And in fact, the only dark beer I can think of, I would consider medicinal, is Guinness dark. I mean, that, I mean, just, you know, that's dust on my back, you know, it's, it's a dark, horrible, bitter tasting, but medicinal-wise, it's perfect, for it has a bitter quartile before meals to stimulate digestion. You know, half a bottle, lean a whole beer before you sit down and eat. I mean, the dark ale, I don't know of any American dark ale similar to Guinness at all. I mean, that's, when it comes to beer, there's no American in the bar, it's all in the church. You know, I have a friend who's doing a book, actually, he's, and it's fascinating, he got into some of the libraries, the libraries in Europe looking at the 15th and 16th century herbals, and we were talking about, herbal beers, and he found some hidden and suppressed information that it looked like at one time during the Reformation and the Great Schism and all, so the herbal beers became suppressed, but they were making beers with things like yarrow and hops, and they were not making them as beverages for intoxication, even though they were beers, they were making them medicinal, because they were, in a sense, making extracts, some of the first herbal extracts, but using the alcohol beer format, and he was coming across incredible information and usages and how these medicinal beers were actually impacting illness for a long time until the great religious suppressions took place in Europe, and a lot of the herbals disappeared, unless they were saved in libraries. A key thing, some people like bitters after meals, it's really, I think, the majority of herbalists and clinical herbs would suggest that bitters are best done 20 to 30 minutes before you eat, to really get secretions going, to really set the stage, so that when you sit down, your mouth is moist, your stomach has been waiting, and is ready, and gastric secretions have taken place, so in about 15 to 30 minutes, I think, is realistic, to take a shot of bitters extract, or to chew on some bitter plants, or make a cup of bitter tea, or drink a Guinness stout, and I really, I mean, think about it in terms of the importance of the fact that it's a missing taste, it really, when I stumbled upon this little Chinese book and was reading this, and I thought, my God, this is like, this is another missing piece of the great puzzle, it's like, absolutely, the standard American diet does not consist of any bitter substances, and boom, you bring bitters in, and after thousands of people, you start to see what this little taste that's been missing really can mean, it's phenomenal, I mean, if any of you either suffer from upper respiratory or allergy-related problems, try bitters, if you've got extra weight and you have a slow metabolism and you feel constipated and congested in your upper and lower GI, try bitters, if you have hemorrhoids or varicose veins or slow, sluggish lymph system, and it's all because of your digestion, try bitters. Most bartenders have little bottles of stuff called bitters, and I don't know anything about it because I don't know if I could drink anything that they used to do. What is that? Absolutely, I want to call it Angus, Angus Astora or Angus, I guess, I guess, the store of bitters. In New Mexico, it was real famous to make Osha bitters or take some of the bitter herbs. In Chaparral, bitters, take some of the bitter herbs and stick them in a little whiskey so that in the bars when you drank your 10 shot of whiskey and you're complaining and feeling nauseous that the bartenders used to give out bitters to clear that stagnation or that liver stress. Bitters, and actually, believe it or not, I don't know if it really happens much but people used to come in after a restaurant if the restaurant doesn't serve it or coming off of work and actually drink bitters before they went home. Not drink beer or not drink whiskey. They'd go into a bar and ask for a shot of bitters, sit and talk, drink the bitters and go home and by the time they got home they were really hungry and that was really big with some of the Italian communities and some of the rural. Bitters were real big coming out of Europe and they came and somehow people just lost interest in bitters. You know, bitters are ugly tasting. Bitters are bad but there's a lot of bitter. You can go to good liquor stores and buy bitters from all over the world and they're meant to be used before meals or people sit around and drink some bitters afterwards because some people don't like bitters before meals, they like them after meals. It's maybe one out of ten people respond better to bitters afterwards but most of them were done beforehand just like the bitter salads of traditional green salads didn't have salad dressings. They were dandelion greens. They were bitter greens. They were eaten before the big, you know, sour crab and sausage and big loaves of rye bread and the big heavy meals. Always were, you know, bitter salads preceded the big heavy meals in a lot of cultures and bitters are very important. Do you mean it? Can you keep in mind somewhere in the discussion the concept of the oscillators or the zappers concept of electrocrestral stimulus to kill off zappers in your mouth? What do you want to send it out? In addition to maybe the zappers and continue to start them. I'm not sure. You mean we're talking electrolytes or actual electrocrestral stimulus or external or external or external using electricity and He's talking about these guys that some of these new age and other type shows where you go and you hold these two things and they give you a certain charge and it's supposed to kill all parasites in your body. I don't think there's any substantiations to that. Ian, I've never had any first. I do remember some of the old material medicos mentioning they broke rainwater and they broke water down into 20, 30 different categories. Pond water, rainwater, river water, swamp water, water hitting a tin roof falling into an oak barrel and I also noticed I've never really read or studied it but electricity was a big electrical therapy and they had it broken down for a whole variety of illnesses and I think what worries me, I don't know the validity, I don't really know anything about that. I think what really worries me about electricity is the electromagnetic fields that surround us through, you know, through, in cities, just the power lines. I mean, there's the obvious studies that show power lines really do some weird activity and tumors and neurological stress and, and I wouldn't be surprised that some small amounts of electricity do some beneficial things but I don't know anything about bacterial, but the concept, the concept was a certain frequency that affects certain types of parasites. you know, talking about radio frequencies. Yeah, oh, I know exactly what you're showing right now. I'm a friend, a friend who had gone to Germany and says the humans really have affected this to the point that it's really, and in fact, they use these, these radio waves, these frequencies in conjunction with acupuncture are being phenomenal as a result of viruses and bacterias and this is what he says. He's like, he always brings me information on ultraviolet or ozone work and, you know, I listen and I read the stuff and I'm just, you know, I'm just a country, I'm just a herbalist in a small town. I like plants. There are people more qualified to do those really desire and I'm glad they're doing it because plants do have the limitations. The guy who started doing that, they threw in a curtain, they got a guy that you threw in the jail and he, he was like, yeah. I've been hearing shadow sources, you know, people who bring back inside information to me about, you know, trips and travels and so there might be, I mean, the Germans are really, I mean, they developed unique, they developed ozone, they developed some major stuff and, you know, I mean, it's a different country that allows for, you know, more progressive experimentation and legitimacy. So I don't know on this, by the way, I know I've been hearing stuff about it. Be a little more precise when you ask a question because, I don't know what you talked about, he asked about electricity, that person. Yes, I never heard from the royal right. I know that I do a great consolation, but I wouldn't share it with it. I've been hearing radio frequency or anything. I don't know what it's right. Yeah. I did a lot of research on it. And, and, I guess I really, I don't get really back because he had a lot of other issues. But he had different frequencies. I didn't hear about that. He was a good guy. Well, there's a lot of, I mean, I'm going to get back to bitters, but the shamans who sing songs, they're in, you know, you take ayahuasca and there's chemical compounds that cause neural opening. But in order to actually induce visions and hallucinations, historical ones, that everybody participates in the same vision, they've got the chemical openings there. But what happens is the shamans are singing these thousands of year old songs at a jajita-like frequency. And there's been a lot of research showing that the songs, once you're taking the chemicals that are doing the neurological manipulation, that the frequency causes the same group of people to see and see the same, you know, vision. And it's a very similar, coming in from the jungles, but a very similar concept. But those frequencies definitely, definitely affect, you know, the universe is kind of very frequency-oriented, you know, I mean, this is, and we're part of the universe, you know, from the molecules on up. Hop's organ rate, chaparral is a bitter, but it's very heavy-duty, it's so powerful. You might have to put a small little bit of chaparral in a formula. Argentian, hops, organ grape, there's a lot of bitters. Dandelion greens, a lot of plants with medium bitters, you taste them and you can deal with it, but they don't say bitter, you know, they just kind of say, ah, slightly bitter, and you drink it. Bitter is a gentian, organ grape, and hops say bitter, and you go bitter, and that's real medicinal bitters, I mean, they really, you know, they are extreme medicinal taste. Golden seal is always a classic bitter, but golden seal I don't recommend because it's endangered, threatened, overused, overpriced, and a little hard on the liver. Oh, what's that bitter? Gentian brewer, there's so many, I mean, just, um, orange, peel, grapefruit, actually not, grapefruit is a good bitter if it's unsweetened, and grapefruit fruit rind is extremely bitter, and very good, very, like, gentian oriented, and just a little slide down, I found, for people who are forming gallstones, a little thing to consider is maybe eating an unsweetened grapefruit first thing in the morning when you wake up. It's bitter, it's acidic, it's very stimulating to the break down and evacuating, breaking down and then helping the gallbladder evacuate the formation of the precipitates that end up actually forming the gallstones themselves. And the reason why it's working is it's bitter. Bitter substances actually also, here's another side thing of bitters, bitter substances can help people with adult onset diabetes, because adult onset diabetes actually can be, can originate because their upper GI is gone now, shot, in a ham vest or whatever, cliche, is stagnant, stuck. And by taking bitters back in and getting gallbladder, liver, pancreas, juicy, formating, breaking down sugars, eliminating, they can start to get a dietary, bitter control over their diabetes. Phenomenal. Most of the good diabetic medicines out of the Mexican herbal tradition, which the rest of the world really doesn't know, but they're phenomenal, is a plant called Brukelia California. And this plant actually is so bitter, I mean, it's really hard for most people, nauseating and bitter, but it's one of the great gallbladder, diabetic, bitter digestive stimulating medicines that there is. And sometimes people have gallbladder problems and diabetes because originally peeling back the problems, their digestion slowed down, slowed down, slowed down, metabolism became non-existent, waste elimination, and their gallbladder problems, their diabetes originated because they didn't have the bitters in their diet. I mean, their bitters can touch upon the lower GI colitis, diverticulitis, irritable bile syndrome, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, prostate congestion, a lot of prostate problems are really a dietary problem, especially for a lot of sedentary, standard American diet, males, no exercise, very sedentary, I mean, turning the TV knob or reaching over, looking for the remote is the greatest exercise that they do, you know, on their hands and knees looking for the remote, whereas if they start to break sweat every minute after five minutes, I'm sorry, you know, it's just good. But, just bring the bitters back in, be amazed, be really amazed, you can lose weight, you can improve breathing, you can improve skin quality, you can improve, and if you have more of the more serious problems with diabetes and gallstones and you can actually approach them with something that's been missing from the standard American diet for decades now. They need a remote that beats too, by the way. Remote that beats or, you know, they probably have that, you know, they probably have a remote that, you need a remote that when you let go, it goes, just floats over to a hole, a home in place on the wall or something, and no matter where you set it down, it just goes back to the same place. But that's about the top ten reference points for you to go back to, read about, learn on your own and such, and research a little bit. If you spend an hour learning a little bit more about those top ten, it's ten hours, but if you do it over a year's time, you'll be phenomenal. Those top ten herbs will address hundreds of different problems. And I tell you, the bitter thing is really amazing. Bitter is really phenomenal. It doesn't take much bitters to stimulate. I mean, it could be just small amounts, or you could literally make an extract from orange peel or grapefruit rind. Make an extract and then take five, ten drops of it in some water, and don't try to hide bitters. Don't try to put it in crou-l-e or put it in other teas. Bitters require that you taste them. The medicine value, the explosion, is right here. There's no way around it. You can't put it in capsules and get the benefit. You can't put it in enemas. You have to taste it. It has to be bitter. It's got to be bitter, and you've got to experience it. Here's one thing that I noticed. Not everyone is like this, but a lot of people who really need bitters actually say, that's not bitter. It's interesting. They end up saying, I love that taste. They crave it. It just neatly comes as they want that. It's not bitter to them. In time, when they've taken it long enough, it becomes bitter. It's like a balance thing starts to take place. The taste changes. It doesn't happen all the time. It's something, just bring some bitters. Bitters back. You know what they are. You don't find them at the grocery store. You have to pick them or make them. You will in the peels, the rinds, like the oranges and citrus. Those things are pretty bitter. Those are pretty good. You want something that's bitter that causes you to salivate. If you do that on a regular basis, at least 15 to 30 minutes before your real big meals, you don't have to do it all the time. If you're a bacon, eggs, pancakes, grid, coffee type of breakfast person, you might want to do bitters. If you're the steak and potato two servings of steak type of person for dinner, you definitely want to do bitters before. Heavy foods require bitters. Especially when we get older. Let's be honest, our digestion falls apart. Things don't digest. metabolism. Bitters can become one of the great companions for aging digestive problems. Of all the things that rest in the standard American diet, bitters have done more help, more beneficial things for people than anything else. Anybody have the time? 5.30. Okay, let's start. I want to talk about some more and we'll talk about more of them after dinner, the same ones we can continue and carry it on outside, which is real nice as we're walking around. It'll be really nice out there. Let's talk about viruses. Let's talk about, let's talk about, I mean, we know antibiotics work for bacterial problems. We know, you know, we just share more and more. We've got this big fat book in the car about emerging viruses and I create any you can write down knowledge. Some of you may have read it. I haven't read it in its entirety. I've skimmed through it and read a little bit. And, you know, it just confirms, I mean, I think we all can agree that some viruses have been made and released and there's some evil aspects behind some viruses. I mean, I think, I don't have to bring it in. I read excerpts from, you know, the World Health Organization and how they have said that they should make viruses to curtail the world's population. I think we all know that, you know, so the way elaborate is to talk about plants that are important for viruses. I personally have seen viruses in my patients and in my community change. I've seen viruses go to the point where they are mutating in the human body. No longer do they just hit a weak area that's your inherited and environmentally acquired weak area, your stomachs. Most people, you know, catch a virus in the stomach. Some people catch it in the lungs, sinuses, lower intestinal tract. Viruses, classically, from what I have saw, I've heard, is that they hit your weak area and you continuously acquired it in this weak area. I've watched the viruses, the last virus that hit the West Coast, work its way through and, you know, talk to people all over, you know, saw enough people in town, talk to the medical profession, people, you know, correlate this and builds up and I saw a virus for the first time act like two or three viruses at the same time. Go in, hit the head, hit the lungs, hit the stomach, hit the intestinal tract, stop working for two or three days, clear it up, and come right back and do the same thing. Now, is it another virus that's floating around and the person just maybe, but when it's the 12, the 13, the 14, the 15, the 15 person in the small community that almost verbatia, explained their symptoms. I'm like, wait a minute, something's going on here. They had the same rundown, they cleared up for the two to three day period, and it came right back and over. I mean, I don't know what that means. I thought, it's the first time I've ever seen it. And I'm also watching some of these people, it hasn't left since January. And that's me, and these aren't people that catch colds, and these are people that just, these are people that are eating organic foods, these are people that are diligent, these are people that know a lot of this, what we're talking about, and they still, you know, five months later, still have that virus bouncing back and forth in their body. I have to wonder, with all the, you know, tidbits of conspiratorial, it's not even a conspiracy, I mean, it's a plan. You know, it's a distinct plan. I think it's a mixture of three things. It's a distinct plan to curtail the world's population, I think it's inadequate buffoons who don't know how to deal with science, and the element of greed by the big pharmaceutical companies. So you have a distinct plan that's mismanaged, and the main motive for some of them is a greed factor, a vaccine factor, and what you end up is with chaos, and what you end up with is virus, and I don't care, you know, I don't care if they're being made in a lab somewhere, I believe there's an element of truth to that, a distinct element of truth, there's enough evidence to support that. What fears mean is that viruses are uncontrollable, have a mind of their own, have an agenda of their own, to perpetuate, reproduce, survive, mutate, adapt, and to use the human body as their source of, as the flavor, as their perpetual energy factory to, you know, cultivate, so they kill the organism, and then they move on, so they kill you, and they move on. So, if there's manipulation, and genetic engineering, on killer viruses, I mean, really get out of control, what in the world are we going to do? I mean, there are global medicines, and I'll tell you, vaccines have a dismal history of success. I mean, contamination, purposely contaminated, accidentally contaminated, side effects, unknown risks, even today, of what vaccines are doing in our body, from the initial polio to the initial smallpox, et cetera, et cetera. When do we know? We won't know. We don't know what vaccines are doing. There are really, I think they used to take lives initially, obviously, on the surface, but in the long run, I really have a fear that vaccines are really compromising the immune system, and really, if you've got just some evil aspects to it, it wouldn't be hard to compromise the immune system through vaccines. So you think about it. You see viruses, and you may even experience illness yourself, getting sicker for longer periods of time, just getting over it, and getting sick again. You may start to notice that this is reoccurring more frequently. You may notice people, but you hear more words like hospitalization, death, strep, staph, mutation, antibiotics not working, viruses mutating, you know, all these different clandestine black ops, the stuff about AIDS, Ebola, green monkeys, all this adds up to something like there's some viral activity to be very wary of and fearful of, and I don't, you know, without being distressed, paranoid, you know, excessively, how are Jews orientating, washing hands and putting yourself in an isolated situation, it's not, you know, it's not feasible for us. I think we have to find and develop tools. I gave you a lot of tools already. I told you about water, staying away from chlorinated water. I told you about organic food, and these are kind of some foundational things. You know, believe it or not, bringing bitters back into your life will improve your immune system immensely. That in itself is a roundabout tool to fight viruses. I told you about the foundational, one of the foundational herbs that it was red root for the lymph system. You've got to learn this plant. You've got to understand the importance of red root and its electrically recharging of the cell walls and how it can be the pivotal center, the heart of any formula, especially an antiviral formula. Some of the herbs to consider, some of them you're not going to know, some of them you may want to learn, I would suggest that you write them down as reference points as well. These are plants that I have seen work for very serious viruses. There's no other place to turn. Where are you going to turn? Allopathic medicine has no medicine for you when you get a virus. When I call it hepatitis, hepatitis A, I went down, I told some of you the story, I went down, I got my blood work down to see what hepatitis I had. And you know what the doctor recommended to me, the head nurse practitioner, Dr. Dorothy said, now don't look at your milk thistle. That's all they had to offer. What I thought in four years earlier is that you treat hepatitis with milk thistle because it's a very distinct antiviral, anti-inflammatory formula, specifically for hepatitis. It was great. It felt good for the head nurse practitioner to say, now take your milk thistle. They don't have anything for viral hepatitis. They don't have anything for viruses and the consequence. It really behooves you and really, I can't stress the importance of all the things in the herb world, of all the things that I fear that are emerging, all the tidbits and things I've heard, I do believe viruses are going to come and they're going to ravage and they're going to be a detriment to millions and millions of people. In 19, I think it's 1917, 1918, here's a great illustration. The great influenza epidemic killed 20 million people worldwide, mostly because World War II was going on, they were transporting people all over the planet. World War I really pushed people all over the planet for the first time in a major way. I mean, people from all over the world were bringing things back. In New Mexico, this is what first dawned to me. It dawned to me the importance of viruses and herbal medicine. There was no doctors of any consequence in the state of New Mexico at the turn of the century. Maybe a half dozen in the entire state. The population wasn't that immense, very few doctors. The influenza, you can go to most cemeteries and look, 1917, 1918, the height of the influenza epidemic that killed 20 million people worldwide. You can go to small villages and see entire cemeteries with that date. Entire villages of people, small little hamlets, small towns around town, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, entire towns died from that influenza virus. Do any of you remember that they just went to Alaska not too long ago and dug up a threat and corpse in the tunnel and went into the chest to retrieve that 1918 virus that killed 20 million people? They went to Alaska to a cemetery, dug up a frozen corpse and found the active influenza virus from the turn of the century and brought it back out because they wanted to develop a vaccine. This was about three months at the most, two to three months ago. I'm like, it was right about the bird flu time. What a coincidence. But anyways, you know what saved a lot of villages? They had no doctors, was a plant called Osho. Like Ustakum Portoroy, Osho, powerful antiviral and really has an emphasis on viruses that affect the lungs. So I'm not making this up. They used this at the turn of the century to save their families. The Mexican people in New Mexico used two words. They used Osho root because it was a powerful antiviral and a very good bronchial dilator. and they used another plant called Inmortal. I'm in M-O-R-N-T-A-L. Inmortal. It's as sleepy as Ascorilla. It's a milkweed family member. And they used that plant because it is one of the best medicines for pumping the lungs dry when you have fluid that's building up. So they used Inmortal and they used Osho root together to keep the influenza fluids from building up in the lungs, keeping the heart, the kidneys, and the lungs pumping and filtering. And they used the Osho root as antiviral. And that was the only thing that saved many towns and villages in New Mexico. The 90 year old people can tell you the story in New Mexico and the small rural areas. This took place. They used herbal medicine to save their towns and villages against the most ravaging virus to ever hit the world. 20 million people died worldwide in a very short couple years. Not like the 80s that may kill millions of people over God knows how long. This killed 20 million people over a two to three year period. And I mean, they used two herbs in New Mexico and probably used herbs elsewhere if you got used to the herbal traditions. You know, if you looked in China, if you looked in South America, if you looked in Europe, you probably would find that they had antiviral herbs that the folk people treated to their soldiers, treated their villages with herbs that were antiviral because there was no other medicine on the face of the earth. You either used herbs or you immediately survived because you were just lucky, you had a strong immune system, and you didn't get the full force of the virus before you died. virus. And, um, have they used immortality on the hunter virus? I don't think so. Have they used immortality for the hunter virus? I would. If I was, there's no doubt, it's a very pulmonary oriented virus. I would use some of these virus, I would use my antiviral formula, I would use, but if I saw a virus hitting a specific area, there's one thing about an antiviral formula or using antiviral herbs, they're great antiviral by nature, but if you notice the virus starting to hit a certain organisms, like the lungs, you've got to bring in pulmonary herbs. And immortality, which is a milkweed plant, is a very important plant because, I mean, immortality in the Mexican herbal tradition and in my tradition and those who know of it, is known as one of the great medicines of congestive heart failure. Some of the early signs of congestive heart failure is edema, shortness of breath, fatigue. By one or two o'clock in the afternoon, you've got to take a nap. Your lungs always have some fluid in it, you have swelling, you're not urinating properly. What you end up with is you're retaining fluids, you're literally beginning to drown, fill up with fluids because you have congestive heart, your heart is not pumping and meaning respiration and sorry right to you. And that's it for today, folks. Good night, and God bless each and every single one of you. love is on the western plain, and it's on a coat, you can't look up, love is on the love is everywhere tonight, you're never looking for the ethnic honey. Each station throughout the nation, whatever's all coming through, so you can't just wait for me, do that work, we're still no home for you. You, you have a thing for her, and it's on the side of your alley. You might sound like green to her, but suppose she likes Rudy's alley. It's so rude, it's so much that's enough to kill her better than you. Why don't you care, and all this love is on the edge tonight. little continued over again. I love you, though. 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