The Ghost in the Seventh Yes, and I will move you. Yes, and I will see you. Yes, and I will. Yes, and I will see you. Actually occurred May the 27th, 1998 at our annual conference on the Thunder Horse Ranch. So make sure you listen carefully and take plenty of notes. I've had a lot of feedback that they're really enjoying Michael Cottingham's lectures on herbs, nutrition, and botanical medicine. So I hope that this adds to your storehouse of knowledge, and I really sincerely hope it helps you and your family. Thank you. What were we at? Ten herbs. I think we're at five or so. Peppermint. I think peppermint would make it accessible, easily grown, many varieties, and peppermint is nice. What we need now is good stomach herbs, something to improve digestion, dispel stagnation. You know, they've got too much gas, too much flash on, feel bloated, stuck, have an upset stomach due to insulin. So you need a stomach herb. Peppermint. And peppermint. Peppermint. Peppermint is impeccable. You know, it cannot be pecked. And you don't have to lie to people on the earth. It's like we're not meant to be fed. If I say it, I would use myself, basically. But peppermint. I mean, what can you say? It's great for cramps, spasms. Actually, strong cups of peppermint tea. Some women really like it for menstrual cramps. And uterine cramps or spasms are associated with menstrual cramps. Because it's a vasodilator. They have anti-spasmodic action, so that it's really good on the knee. Smooth muscles, not that tightness, but it's a little bit hard. But not that kind of thing. It's really good on the knee. It's really good on the knee. It's really good on the knee. Smooth muscles, not that bad. It's really good on the knee. But in the knee, I'm going to get it. And keep it as good as you know. I'm going to get it. So that I'll get it. We can't get it. the smooth muscles, not necessarily the skeletal muscles, like if you get spathoms or cramps in your skeletal muscle structure, but in your smooth muscles, like your stomach and your intestinal tract, it's relaxing. So peppermint can be used like with children who have colic, babies who have, it's famous in the Mexican herbal tradition for remedying colic. And colic, I don't know if you've had children or been around people with children who have colic, it's like, it's intense. I mean, you can try to massage you, you can try, you know, my son had colic and it was I thought, my God, I've got to develop a form of other words, we're going to, you know, we're going to do something. We weren't, but I mean, you can see how, you know, the madness, I mean, incessant crying and screaming, you feel helpless and it's, you know, it's nerve penetrating and screaming. I mean, colic can be weakened and, you know, it's just screams from hell all of a sudden at three in the morning. I mean, it's just, you know, it's terrifying. So I put catnip fennel together, catnip leaf and fennel seeds because those were really famous anti-spasm models. It's always been used for gas, cramps, stomach spasms and it works just, I made a non-alcohol extract, a glyceride. I used glycerin and catnip for inches like magic, you know, just within five minutes to spasms and cramps and you know something works. It's like, you know a formula works if somebody with shingles comes in and says, hey, that really works. The shingles are excruciating and painful. You know a collar formula is really right on money and really works when the mothers come back and like start to worship you and you know, I want you to bother your children and such because you took away what the worst case, you know, it's an exaggeration. You know, when you get feedback in situations that are basically impenetrable, you know you've got formula that's pretty legitimate and peppermint is in it. I've never used it. It's famous in the Mexican herbal tradition. I chose catnip and fennel because they work better but peppermint is accessible. Catnip can be grown. Fennel seeds can be grown. Those are all three great stomach herbs. So I'll give you herb number six here in the top ten list. Three to choose from for improving digestion, for dispelling the stagnation, for stopping spasms and cramps associated with food poisoning, colic, you know, influenza, cramps and spasms, either catnip leaf, catnip, fennel seeds, or peppermint. All accessible, all easily grown herbs anywhere in the United States. I mean, we all know the history of catnip. Cats love it. You know, I've never been able to validate this, but I read it in two places and I never cited anything of any, you know, dependedness. But they say that the reason why cats freak out over catnip and roll in it is because the scent mimics a female cat in heat. You know, it resembles a hormonal smell or pheromone smell of a female cat in heat. So, but I mean, I've seen female cats, you know, you know, I've seen female cats as well as male cats respond to this, you know. Pheromones are in effect, both male and female, regardless if you want to be homosexual or lesbian. Pheromones cause the body to, you know, to just be, you know, somebody's dumping out pheromones. It's just like, well, men and women are affected, you know. Janet Reno-Cat. What's that? Janet Reno-Cat. Janet Reno-Cat. You know. Yeah. I like to sit there as I want to say, like, people, constitutionally have the right to do whatever they want, you know. I want to go on, imagine, blah, blah, blah. But, and this is an interesting side of cat-nip. That's maybe why cats do that, because there's a pheromonal relationship from a plant. You know, just out of, just out of a side note, keep this in mind that plants do not contain hormones. You may read about this. This has nothing to do with the top ten list, but it has something to do with a question. Some people say, or read, or hear that. I mean, even in some of the top herb magazines that are writing about some latest great discovery, you know, they'll say, for women, this plant contains estrogen, or plants do not contain hormones of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone. They contain compounds that may mimic those. Thus, you get that reaction. But, you know, I've seen it written by some of the top herb list. They just, you know, it's just plants don't contain hormones. They contain substances that mimic that. So, you know, it's just a bit of herbal truth fruit, you know, that I've come upon. Peppermint, catnip, fennel, what else do we need? We need nerve herbs. We need something for pain. We need something for, you know, nervous system. And let's see, what's accessible. Camomile, I'll have to give you several herbs to choose from so you have, you know, some candidates. Camomile is very relaxing, very sedating. And you know why? Because it contains, it's an interesting, it's kind of note, that all the plants I know that work on the nervous system just so happen to have high amounts of calcium. And calcium is like one of the best mineral substances you can give to nourish your nervous system. So if you suffer from sciatica, you suffer from neurological stress, herpes, retrograde viruses, if you're suffering from a spinal injury, where you've damaged the nerve bundles, running up and down the spine, if you've, any neurological stress, if you've, you know, at the end of the nerve endings, you have a sheath, you have a protective sheath. I'll never remember if it was a myon or mylar sheath. I think that's the myon sheath. And it's the protective, you know, protective signal coding. It's like, there's like intelligence in the sheath. And I think stress viruses, like the herpes viruses, they love the nerve ending that sheath. And they impair the growth. When you damage, you get too much stress or you get an illness or you damage your nervous system, especially the nerve endings, you damage the myon sheath. And you can actually, you have to regenerate it. And a lot of illnesses and a lot of neurological stress and damage sets in because you do not regenerate the myon sheath on a regular basis. So you set the stage for herpes viruses to hide in the nerve endings. And this is my theory, an empirical observation. I have no signs to back up. As some of the things I have, there's just no signs on it, you know. But it's, I treat it that way. And I use the herbs that seem appropriate. And boom, I get some response. So here's another doctorate for someone because there's a great concept here. Anyways, we need a nerve herb. And chamomile, because it contains high amounts of calcium, it's safe for children, safe for the elderly folks, safe for people who may be on all kinds of pharmaceutical medicines. And it can be relaxing. You can make a mild cup of tea or you can make a super strong cup of tea. So you can use a teaspoon per cup for children and then you just want a mild sedation. Or you can use a full tablespoon and really relax. And it's, not only does it relax, have a lot of calcium, but chamomile can help you regenerate the myelin sheath of the nerve endings. And that's a big thing. That can actually mean, that means over time you will have a stronger nervous system, you will have less problems with stress, with insomnia. You have an advantage to the herbs that are good for the nervous system is that you're, they're not like the narcotic drugs. You have to keep taking them and keep taking them. Then move to the stronger one and move to the next stronger one. The herbs for the nervous system heal the nervous system. Make it strong. That's an amazing thing. And stress, stress is the ravaging aspect for the nervous system. And as I've mentioned out there, then that ties into the immune system. And if your nervous system is impaired, your immune system is more, you know, the inability of feeling that things is greater if your nervous system. The nervous system is part of the immune system. Just to clarify, what is the immune system? Because I think a lot of people might have a very vague understanding of the immune system. The immune system is everything that you are. The immune system comprises the mind, the body, the spirit. You can write it down. The immune system is the liver, the kidneys, the spleen, the lymph glands, the lungs. The immune system is everything. And to use amino stimulants is to use substances that encourage your body basically to heal naturally. Just to encourage just natural healing. And then refine and focus in on the immune system and get down to the white blood cells, the red blood cells, lung tissue, blah, blah, blah. But the immune system is your innate body's mechanism to fight the world around you and to maintain homeostasis. The prime directive of the immune system is to maintain homeostasis and balance in the body. Plain and simple. And whatever, you can do so many different things to encourage that. Camomile, by regenerating your myelin sheath, by drinking camomile, if you're a stressed out person, having trouble with insomnia, nervous twitching, just hypertensive muscles, you feel tight, tense, worn out, wake up restless, wake up fatigued after you start 10 hours, you might try some calcium-rich nerve herbs. Camomile can be grown anywhere. It's not easily found in the wild. Let's, I'll tell you the one that can be found in the wild and is grown, and there are many different species, is a plant called valerian. I don't know how many people are familiar with that. It has nothing to do with valium. That's a big herbal rumor just for, you know, to squash that. It's a big rule, you know, a commerce rumor that valerian is where valium comes from. Other than having the letter V, there's no similarity between the two entities. Valium is something totally chemically orientated, and valerian root is a plant. The official one is valeriana officinalis, grown anywhere in the world, and is a powerful study of a plant, both skeletal muscles and smooth muscles, and will not keep on your butt if you take too much of it. One of the 50 people who take valerian will get heart palpitations and will feel stimulated instead of sedated. And those people should just not take valerian. I'm one of those people. If I take valerian, I get grouchy, hyperactive, and can't sleep. And it's a powerful study of a plant. And I don't have any thyroid problems. It's just the nature of valerian. And that's the only side effect or contraindication. And speaking of contraindications, if you do any pharmaceutical drugs, the general rule, I've seen 50, 60, I don't know, I've stopped counting, maybe 60,000 clinical people. Not people just buying incense or, you know, just perfumes or, you know, that level stuff. But clinical people, 60,000 people, and two rules of thumb that, the major rule of thumb is never take a pharmaceutical drug and an herbal medicine at the same time. Give them at least an hour apart. And use common sense. I mean, like, if somebody's on a blood thinner, don't give them an herb as a blood coagulant. I mean, and if you follow that common sense contraindications, like, you know, this person needs to be sedated, don't give them speedy herbs. You know, common sense type of, you know, objectives here. And stay an hour apart between pharmaceutical drugs and herbal medicine. Out of 60,000 people, I have never seen a conflict of using herbal medicines with common sense and that rule concerning pharmaceutical drugs. But I still don't believe in the carte blanche thing that herbal medicine is safe, carte blanche. You know, I still have to ask questions. I still want to carve it to the bases. And it always tees me off when people, you know, it's the third visit. They finally say, oh, you know, I forgot to tell you. I'm on digitalis. I'm like, oh, my God. It's like, how did I escape that one? You know, it's like, and you come to realize that herbs are very forgiving. You know, even though you can spend three hours with a person, haven't filled out a questionnaire, and they still just don't, you know. I treat my work as being an herbal detective, as being a detective, a health care detective. And as much information as I can get from you, as much as you want to volunteer, it just helps me construct an empirical world. You know, it's like, it helps me. Sometimes it's two or three hours, but the fact is after three hours, the person says, you know, oh, yeah, I did work with solvents. And in fact, for four or five years, I helped my father load the plane with aerial herbicides. I used to play in stuff. And now I even made a pillow out of the bags that came in. And it's like the missing piece of information that clicks in everything else they told me. It took three hours to get there. But you can never ask enough questions concerning, especially the problems you've gone to the dermatologist. You've gone to all the doctors. You've spent tens of thousands of dollars. And, of course, the amount of time has been five, ten minutes here or there. The questions have been very limited. And to really solve some really simple but bizarre health problems, it doesn't hurt to ask people what their parents did for, where do they live, what kind of water they drink, what was their food like, what they do for recreation, how do their aches and pains affect them, on and on and on and on. And we have a questionnaire that we develop. And if they fill this out, then this questionnaire allows me to ask some more specific questions. But as time goes on and more visits take place, their constitution, their entire constitution of the human body starts to unfold. And I start to get an idea if their liver is deficient or slow or sluggish. Or if it's excessive, hot and fiery, I get to understand if their kidneys are deficient and not filtering, or if their kidneys are excessive. If you're putting too much urine out, there's too many, et cetera, et cetera. And it's like, as time unfolds, you get to get, I'm just going to get a picture of the human body. And then you can really start to match herbs and to actually solve really complex problems. And everyone else has failed. Because allopaths, by nature, do not give enough time to illnesses. It's just, they can't. They have too much overhead. You know, they have to have a five, ten minute visit. They have to get X amount of dollars. And there are good people in allopathic medicine. You never get me wrong on that. I'm actually a defender of many of my doctors, friends, and nurses. I defend them against people who come and attack them. And I hate them. They just do that. It's like, these people were never taught any other alternative. The medical schools are totally controlled by the pharmaceutical trade. They nurture. They cultivate. They used to, you know, golf passes, ski vacations, Bahama trips. I mean, these were what the reps gave doctors for selling the drugs. And I mean, doctors and nurses are not given any tools in this country except that one or two new medical schools, Dr. Weil's School and the University of Arizona. And, in fact, you know, they're always looking for patients with complex histories because they're integrating allopathic medicine and alternative medicine. And it's the School of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. I ended up by Dr. Weil. Very important school. And he's incorporating herbs, acupuncture. And here's a Harvard MD that, for years, used 40 botanical medicines for every pharmaceutical drug that he recommended. A 40 to 1 ratio. And this was a Harvard trade MD that's actually revolutionized medicine in this country just in the last couple of years. I mean, he's phenomenal. And he's a brilliant individual. And that's cool. If you ever have a problem that you can't solve or find help, and you want the help of knowledgeable MDs and alternative, that school is a very good school to consider. If you can get in, if you can make the appointment, and they're taking patients. They're always really booked. But, anyways, we're still in the nerve verbs. Chamomile, discoral hole. What was the other one? I just said valerian. We're still in valerian. Valerian is a powerful sedative. And it's really, you know, it kind of, some people don't like it because valerian root smells somewhere like, it smells like, like if you had taken rotten peaches and stuffed them in dirty socks that were a week old. Cats love the smell. Maybe it's another pheromonal relationship by the moment. But it's like dirty socks with rotten peaches kind of, it's a really, really interesting smell. So when you see valerian root in the wild, it will never forget the plant. Never forget it whatsoever. It's a very distinct smell. And listen, when you go on her blogs, and if you feel confident with the person telling you about the information, I'm always like, kind of like, really trying to taste this plant, touch this plant, smell this plant. Because, I'll tell you, if, you know, if you get the taste down, if you get the smell down, and it's springtime, and you don't have a flower, you know, those are, you know, it's not just sight, it's smell, it's taste that help you in identification of a plant. And the impregnation of the information in the human body. You need to feel it, taste it, smell it, spit it out, you know, make jokes about it. And that is a relationship. And that's what, you can't hide it from the bad taste of herbal medicine. Are there some plants that are many that are really not the same plant? There are plants in the beginning that actually are, that, you know, plants, you know, are there similarities between plants that kind of mimic and could be confusing? Yes, especially in the beginning. I mean, you might not notice that the leaf is as tapered as it should be. It's a little bit, it starts to taper, but then it broadens out and tapers down. You may not see that and immediately think it's that plant. You start thinking that way and you haven't tasted or smelled it or actually really saw it and just kind of thrown in the cat. You could actually say, oh, it's that plant. And you could mention that to someone. And I've even done that. And that's frightening because, I mean, when, you know, it's good to have some of your partner and have somebody kind of say, no, it's not. You know, and you hear, oh, my God, what are you, you know, and I'm excited. But I've never gone past four or five feet without saying, you know what, that wasn't that plant. I mean, I learned to correct myself. And, you know, sometimes it's just you have to really look. And it does take time and it takes confidence in yourself. And another mistake people make is that they know it's the right plant and it's growing amongst a lot of other plants. And they kind of get talking to someone. They reach down and they just start grabbing. They're not watching it. And they end up grabbing the leaves of some poison hemlock in amongst with the peppermint. And I saw somebody do this among the White Mountains here along the river. They were just picking away and chatting. And it was like wild peppermint growing, the peppermint growing right next to the water hemlock. And water hemlock is pretty, pretty big time, toxic. I mean, it's a killer. You know, a piece of the root the size of a marble will kill you, put you in a coma in a couple hours. The leaf would really, you know, be puking your guts up and sweating and, you know, blurred vision and such. And they were just grabbing. They forgot to pay attention to what you're doing. And they were, like, grabbing leaves of the water hemlock right in with the peppermint. And I'm like, hey, look, you know, there's water hemlock leaves with this. What are you doing? You know, it's like, and these people aren't stupid. It's just they just lost their train of participation. Is that your wife grabbing on the symbol? No, it's like somebody on her wall. You know, they've gone off picking clients and I'm keeping the high arm. They say, hey, Mary, pay attention to what you're doing. You know, it's like that'll be puking, you know, instead of stopping stomach cramps. You're getting real stomach cramps. And habits, I mean, it's like you really, you know, you really need to stay focused and learn one time at a time, right? It's not impossible. I mean, it's not that confusing. It's just that if you don't participate, if you don't pay attention, you will make mistakes. And if you participate, pay attention, you'll hardly ever make mistakes, but you'll still make mistakes at some point in time. I mean, just have to, you know, one time, one time it was, I walked out of the shop and I asked a apprentice, and I wasn't staring in my direction, I asked the apprentice to take these two stock bottles and fill them in, and they were two similar plants by smell, and it was the end of the day, and I kind of walked out, and I'm like 30 miles away, and now I'm thinking, my gut, you know, I got to go back there because she put this bottle with that one, and vice versa, and it wouldn't have been lethal, but it's like, you know, it's one, you just don't make mistakes. You don't put the wrong herb in the wrong bottle as a medicine. I mean, it's just, it's a prime directive. You don't break, you work, do your damage, you never make that mistake. As I raised back, I'm instinct, and sure enough, you know, it was just, I just thought, I mean, it was instinct over and over and over that something was wrong, and she had accidentally put, you know, the bottle, switched the bottles, and poured, you know, and it would have been fatal, but it would have been, you know, it wouldn't have been right. And so you have to pay attention. I mean, when you're dealing with, like, for myself, other people's help, it's, the trust that people give you is really frightening and immense. And so you have then the responsibility to, like, do everything in your power to never make a mistake, even though herbs are forgiving, but not absolutely forgiving, and, you know. And I use some toxic plants. I have some very toxic plants around because one drop of this plant, of this particular plant, you know, aconite, don't write this down, don't use it for four or five years from now, but aconite or a monk, so it is a very good killer. It's a toxic plant. But one or two drops of aconite is just phenomenal. There's some types of fevers with neurological pain that's, you know, with morphine-like effects, you know. But more than that, you might aggravate the condition. And, you know, to have this deadly toxin poison around is a major responsibility, but, you know, it's kind of the nature of some herbal medicine. So, the lemon root is another one to research and to consider in your repertoire. What else do we need? We need lung herb. We need a really good, accessible lung herb. I'll tell you, both ginger and yarrow, the circulatory herb, the first herbs that we talked about, ginger and yarrow are both good lung herbs, especially fresh ginger roots and yarrow, fresh yarrow extracts. They're basal-dialating and very lung-orientated. But let's see, if we're going to pick, we're going to pick a lung herb that was available nationwide, that plant right there that you guys brought in, by the grace of God. Lumberjack toilet paper. Lumberjack toilet paper. Lumberjack mullin, a very common plant throughout the entire United States, California, to the East Coast, can be grown in just about any garden situation. Forms a big basil rosette of leaves with a big stalk with yellow flowers at the very top. And mullin itself is one of the plants that has 20 or 30 different possible uses. You could use the root. You could use the leaves. You could use the flowers. Mullen leaf would be our universal accessible lung herb that we can get just about anywhere in the United States while collected or grow in our gardens. And it's a great respiratory sedative and expectant. So it's really good when you have a heavy, mucusy cough or even a dry cough with no mucus. And you have a hectic, raspy, incessant cough that's just endless, nonstop, and spasmodic. It's a respiratory sedative with an expectorating, bronchiodilating aspect. So it will open up your lungs, open up the bronchi so you can breathe it, at the same time stopping spasms and expasmodic action. And it's a great plant. Best done as a tea. Best done as a tea plant. Best done as a tea plant. It's pretty good. There's a question right here in the row coming in. Yeah, it's a very, you know, first-year plants probably make better leaf, fatigue material. The root of mullin, just as a side note, is one of the best muscle strengtheners for the entire urinary tract, especially the tribal muscles. So if you suffer from incontinence or bedwetting or you suffer from frequent urination, you know, you have kind of a weak kidney, weak bladder, get urinary tract infections frequently. Mullen root is, mullin root tea is really good at strengthening the tissue of the urinary tract, which is a good, mullin root is a good admixture to things like small palmetto berry for men who take it for prostate enlargement or prostate health. Women who have interstitial urinary tract infections, especially after antibiotic use, mullin root is really good. And the leaf of the flowers of mullin make one of the premier earache oils. It's an analgesic, pain, sedating medicine that helps to do antifungal, antiseptic, but it's also analgesic. So it helps the pain versus a lot of earaches or fungals are pointed. And in fact, if you take, make mullin flower oil, I don't know if I can describe how to make the mullin flower oil. It's best to see, but you can read about it and, you know, it's a reference point. Mullin flower oil, a couple drops in each ear, two or three times a day, in conjunction with red root, or some echinacea and red root, added to hot ginger. Mullin flower oil, a couple drops in each ear, two or three times a day, in conjunction with red root, or some echinacea and red root, added to hot ginger tea, will effectively almost be able to treat almost any child with an earache infection with that combination. We've seen it, we've used it with our kids, we've seen it with other people's kids, children. You know, and it's, you know, occasionally they have such a super infection that it's just, you know, antibiotics become a choice. Now, I want to mention something here real quick about antibiotics. I'm glad they're invented. I'm glad that they're here because to have antibiotics for some hand green bacterias, gas hand green, the bacteria, some of the staph and strep bacterias, to have them and to also know of herbal medicines that are immunostimulated, make for the best combination in the world. Antibiotic means anti-life. Antibiotics kill everything in the system. They kill funguses, they kill bacteria, they don't kill viruses, but they kill. When you're taking an antibiotic for bacterial infection, you just grow up with the flora and fauna of your intestinal tract for months and months. And if you do a series of antibiotics, you can end up disrupting your intestinal tract flora and fauna for years. And out of that disruption, you can start to develop a history of candida, allergies, digestive problems, liver deficiencies, all trace back to the use of antibiotics. And those antibiotics get impaired. You know, in our intestinal tract, they've identified 400 different types of beneficial bacteria alone. 400. That's just bacteria that live in our gut. 400 species of different types of bacteria. That's bacteria. That's not funguses like the candidas. We have about nine different types of candidas that live in our body. Candida, albicans, etc. I don't know all the species. We have all kinds of different funguses. We have amoebas. A beneficial amoebas. When you take antibiotics, you disrupt that in such a severe way that the body is thrown out of homeostasis on a bacterial, fungal, micro-animal level that a lot of problems arise. Allergy problems. You know, allergy problems really never existed in the medicine scene here in America until the introduction of antibiotics into dairy products and into meat products and into the medicine scene. I mean, there was no doubt some allergic allergy problems, but the prevalent widespread cause of people, you know, encounter with allergies are not traceable prior to the 30s on any significant level. And mother's milk, is one of the stuff in mother's milk, the vegetarian stuff? Absolutely. Absolutely. Mother's milk is the natural delivery of the mother's inherited and acquired immunity to the child. If you take that away, you've actually crippled this. It started off in the world with a crippled immune system because so much has been eliminated. What the gifts delivered, I don't know, but we know the importance of that. And you can see that with how Johnson & Johnson and the big makers of, you know, whatever the formulas are called, moved into the third world countries and watched the correlation of all the different deficiencies and illnesses that arise because they got the people there dependent on the pharmaceutical formulas. And they took them away from the others, you know, because it was the seductive Babylonian way, you know. I mean, everybody wants to do it our way. Everybody wants everything we got, blah, blah, blah. And not everything we have is that good, you know, like our medicine. I mean, so many people throughout the world are ditching their folklore and their native inherited. They're old traditional medicines handed down for thousands of years through this village wine and through this native blood wine. And they want to ditch you from penicillin and Prozac, you know, because it's the Western way. It's more, it's sold. And you know this, and I don't have to elaborate on that. My point is that you can use antibiotics and immunostimulants to get the best of both worlds. Antibiotics kill everything. Antibiotics means anti-like. Immunostimulants stimulate your immune system naturally. Now, remember I was talking about echinacea and how it stimulates the white blood cells to go out and scavenge. If you take antibiotics, make sure of everything, wouldn't it make sense to increase your white blood cells to more garbage men to move out more of this combat debris that's taking place? So red root echinacea in conjunction with penicillin give you the best of both worlds if you have to take antibiotics. It's the best. And then to mop up, it's really good to use things like acidophilus. It's good things to use. I started introducing this practice with people. If you take an apple, cut it in half, leave it on the counter and let bacteria, natural airborne bacteria, settle, not let it rot and become putrid and botulism oriented, but take a banana, lay it, peel it, lay it on a plate on the counter for a few hours. Take an apple, cut it in half, leave it on the counter for a few hours and eat that. You will actually be reestablishing a lot of the different types of bacteria and you'll be amazed at how some of your allergy problems begin to dissipate when you start to bring some of your flora and fauna. I often think this too. I think that not only if we, you know, we do extinct, you know, extinction is a natural occurring thing, but we obviously do extinct large mammals and large things, you know, just by the nature of extinction. You know, some of the premeditated, some of the, you know, some of the, you know, some of the accidental, some of it just natural, you know, extinction is a natural event in life, but, and in all life forms. But we do, through our behavior, purposely, you know, cause extinction of large things. I got thinking one time, what have we done on a microorganism level? What have we, look at nuclear explosions, look at atmospheric testings, look at pollution. I don't know this, it's a theory, it's a hypothesis, but if we macro extinct species, what have we extincted on a micro level that used to live in here and now that it's gone off the face of the earth due to what we've done or what nature's done by whatever reasons. But those organisms that we used to have are gone now, because allergies are really hard to solve. There's missing pieces to the puzzle. A lot of it has to do with digestion, some of these herbs will help in that, but a lot of it has to do with these microorganisms. And we are also a culture that fear, we fear, we overcook things, we sterilize things, we fear bugs. I mean, there's good reason, I mean, you know, not washing your hands, you can transmit hepatitis in organisms, but, you know, we over-bleach your food, chlorinate, preserve, overcook, etc., etc., and what you end up with is, you've reduced the chi and the strength of the food, but you've also eliminated the microorganisms, which, for me, is the frontier. I don't have all the answer, I've really been looking into this, because there's, I've adapted a few things in a broadening of my practice, and I've seen, I've seen them affect people, you know, very positive, just the apple, cutting an apple and leaving it on the counter. If you have too much antibiotics in your stomach, if you had a disruption, if you drink too much chlorinated water, if you've been exposed to solvents and chemicals, you might want to consider getting your hand on some of these little critters and eating them and re-establishing them. And, you know, I don't object to someone going out and pulling a carrot out of the ground with dirt on it, organically grown carrot in organically rich soil that if you were an earthworm, this would be paradise type of soil. Pulling a carrot out of the soil, brushing off the dirt, or right in washing it in the water, and eating it, and not being obsessed with scrubbing it down. You know, you ever seen children eat dirt? Why see children eat dirt after having influenza? You know, there's puking and puking and cracking and diarrhea, and they've been, they've, that activity alone will disrupt flora. Influenza will disrupt flora and the intestinal tract immensely. You see children go out and literally just eat dirt after going through a period of vomiting and diarrhea. What's that all about? I don't really know, but I'm thinking, what is this about? You know, what's going on here? That's empirical medicine. That's collecting. That's a collecting medicine. And that's, that's how, you know, it's another accident. So we've got a lumber, good mullein. You can actually make mullein, ginger root, yarrow, oregano, all those, oregano, any herbs that are good for the circulatory system are really good for the lungs, believe it or not. But just herbs that basal dilate, get blood moving, are really good for stuff sinuses and stuff lung conditions. Almost across the board. What else do we have? I don't know where we're at. And, um, um. Where I have. Number nine. Number nine. You need number nine or that was number nine? I know. I need number nine. Okay. Um. What about garlic? Garlic. Garlic. Um. You know, let's see. Garlic, onions. Any of the alliums. Any of those, uh, without a doubt. Garlic. Garlic is an amazing medicine for lowering cholesterol levels, for building up immunity. It's a powerful antiviral. It's a powerful immunoseptic. A powerful immunosemilator. It's a very powerful antiseptic. The juice of garlic will kill sap immediately in a petri dish. I mean, that's, that's phenomenal enough. I mean, what, you know. I mean, sap is, you know. Remember the flat flesh-eating bacteria that we all heard about? That, you know. I mean, that's sap. That's sap gone wild. That's sap. And there might be some other species, but that's a sap bacteria that's actually mutated due to the abuse of antibiotics. You know, there's some countries in this world that actually prohibit their doctors from overusing antibiotics. Actually have amazing parameters of when they can use antibiotics. Some of those scantivating countries have lowered their infection rates and have kept the same antibiotics for a longer period of time and have never had to progress to the real vicious detrimental because they limited their positions, you know, with legislation. They could not. And in this country, it was like boom, boom, boom. And, you know, if you go for antibiotics, I'm guilty of this, you know. It's like you start feeling better and you stop taking it. What you've done is you've literally helped contribute to the mutation of the virus or the bacteria. You need to do the whole, the whole cycle. You know, you can start feeling better. I don't mean I'll set it for next time or something like that. And your guilt sort of adding to the, you know, to the rise and mutation of the new strains. Garlic is powerful for wounds, for staph-infected wounds and for infections. Again, green line infections. Garlic is in a way of circulation. Garlic will lower blood pressure. So it's good in hypertensive, you know, high blood pressure situations. It could be offshoots of use of garlic. And we're talking about garlic. We're not talking about garlic powder. We're not talking about garlic capsules. We're talking about cloves of fresh garlic. Garlic, either eaten raw or just crushed. After you cooked your food, crushed and put it on the food with no cooking or minimal cooking. You can still cook with it. But if you want the powerful medicine aspects of garlic, you want to do it. When it adds to your food, you just prime the serving in it and don't cook it at all. It destroys many of the powerful chemical constituents through the application of the heat. How quickly are those garlic pains and things that you can use? What's that? Because allicin is the chemical constituent that you think that those pills contain. There's all those pills that contain the constituent allicin. And that's all. I mean, garlic has, you know, I don't know how many chemical compounds, but it's got more than just allicin. It actually has, you know, at least another one. You know, I mean, allicin has been proven for the high blood pressure. But we're talking, this plant, this thing is antiviral. It's antibacterial. You know, it's great for the immune system. It makes better red blood cells. And you don't get that from the odorless luna capsule. You'll get some benefits, but you won't get the immensity of the plant. What happens if you just drink that? Right off the phone, you know, it's good. It could sit in your stomach and really cause your burning and irritation. But the way to do it is to take a clove of garlic, cut it in half, and mash it up. Because allicin actually needs to be oxidized a little bit. If you want that chemical as a constituent, you need to at least cut the piece of garlic in half, crush it. Let it expose to the atmosphere for a few seconds. And then you create that compound. That compound doesn't exist unless it oxidizes. You know, there's oxidization has to take place in order for this compound to exist. Then wrap it up in a piece of bread. Make one of them do that. And they're just kind of arbitrarily taking a piece of bread and pull it apart and make a little ball. Stick a piece of garlic in that ball of bread and swallow it. And it will digest and break the part without irritating your stomach lining. It's a great way to make pills. Herbal pills is pieces of bread and flatten it out and make them so you can swallow it. Or put the herb that may taste nasty or be irritating in the center and wrap it around and make bread pills. Do you have a question in your voice? Do you have a question? Absolutely. Crushed garlic in oil. There's a lot of this. You have a great application. Remember, food is the best medicine. Any lochonomies urge that transcends the border between food slash medicine allows you to use it more. Probably has always a greater medicine, greater vitamins and mineral potential if it's a food slash medicine like garlic is. Garlic oil, when you take crushed garlic and stick it in olive oil at a one to three ratio, one part of crushed garlic to three parts of olive oil, and you left the garlic, crushed garlic, set it in the olive oil for a week or two and then strain it out. Then you have what's called garlic oil. And if you have cats or dogs that get ticks or mites in the ears, it's a really good home veterinarian remedy for putting a few drops of garlic oil. They're not going to like it, but it's inexpensive and as effective as most of the veterinarian mite drops that go into the ear or the tick drops. That's where the vampire that came from. That's where the vampire that came from. That's a good empirical observation. Keeps ticks, blood sucking, you know, fleas away and such. You're basically vampire. And you're basically vampire. You're very great. What about garlic oil? What about garlic oil? Garlic oil has capsules. I mean, you'll get some medicinal benefits, but you're really missing out on, you know, the immediate benefits. I mean, you know, use what works. I'm not saying you have to taste all this bitter, horrible, irritating stuff and, you know, go through all the buphoria and disgust in the mouth and totally, you know, totally revel in these new taste sensations. I mean, you want to use what works. You want to, if something is so horrible that you're not going to drink it, make it weaker or find ways to use it, you know. I mean, remember, a lot of information on the human view is firsthand what I've seen, but I'm an oral herbalist, oral traditionalist, and I pass out information that helps you establish your own herbal oral tradition for yourself, your family, and for whoever else, if anyone else you want to choose to do it with. And so find, take this and this information and make it work for you and tailor it. And what you're essentially doing is creating your own herbal oral tradition. And that's the art of herbal medicine. The information in the books, information like from weirdos like me, information from the grandmas or from wherever. But what you're doing is you're taking this and creating your own herbal tradition for yourself, your family. You can predict your own set of problems, your family's own problems, where you live. And that is the beauty and the art of herbal medicine. It really allows you to do this. You know, little science, little folklore. Create your own tradition to pass on to your children. And that's always pretty exciting. You know those parsley, bread and fresh things, you know, they come like with other Catholics for a while, and they have, I think, heart disease in them, and they have type of freshness. They take away from garlic or whatever it is. Parsley, breath and some parsley. I know parsley itself is really good common to you. It is refreshing. It does have an absorbative aspect to it for absorbing odors. I've never tried them. I don't have any first-hand reality there with them. You see them for sale, and a lot of people like them. So there's probably a little easy to it. I mean, what I heard about parsley, it would make sense that that would be an area that would probably reduce some benefits. Have a parsley plant grown in your kitchen or in your garden, just chewing it would be cheap, easy, and immediately effective, and probably the most optimal. No, thanks. Any other questions? This is important. Because darling is number nine. How about lemons and limes? Lemons and limes. Lemons and limes could definitely be, I mean, especially, it could be in the top ten if you lived in the tropics or if you lived in areas where you could grow them. They are all accessible for us now. Lemons and limes both are totally enhanced septic substance. You know, I mean, lemons and limes squeezed, I mean, they were going to sting a little bit, but they're not, nowhere near as anti-staffed as garlic juice on wounds. But lemon and limes are very acidic. Acidic substances really do have the potential of being good antimicrobial agents. Acidic substances inside, they often say that lemon and lime juice, not only do you get the vitamin C content, let's not give that high-nouncing vitamin C, scorbic acid and such, but lemons and limes taken internally are very powerful acidic astringes. Some lemon and lime combinations, they say, are very beneficial for gallstone formation, breaking down gallstone and kidney stones. I do know that lemon and lime juice taken in water is really good for people who have the need for frequent urination. They have weak kidneys, and what they need to do is tighten up the tissue of the urinary tract with an astringent, an acidic astringent, especially if they have a history of bacterial infections. That's about all I know. Vitamin C, acidic astringent, good for the urinary tract. It doesn't taste good. Let me ask you. I read somewhere, I don't remember where, like, the morning I read, also the nutritional value that is found in the end of the lives are in the peel and not actually in the truth of the cell. Is that the... I think a lot of, you know, the peel of the lemons and limes of nutritional value, I think there's at least, I don't know about nutritional value, but medicinal value. Have you ever, I'll tell you, a concept of the bitters, stomach bitters, if you ever taste lemon peel, lime peel, orange peel, and it's very bitter, those alkaloids that are in that are powerful bitters. Alkaloids by nature are complex chemical structures that are bitter by nature, although I don't know about any alkaloid. Nicotine is an alkaloid. All alkaloids end in I-N-E. Nicotine, anabasine, caffeine, those are all alkaloids, complex chemical structures ending in I-N-E. And they all by nature have a bitter aspect to them. And alkaloids perform many functions. Alkaloids are bitter and they deter insects and funguses. You know, alkaloids are almost always anti- Think about the orange peel or the lime peel, the lemon peel, that it's bitter. If you were a fungus or an insect and knew by nature that alkaloids are antifungal and deterrence for insects, you can understand why the bitter peels are going to be bitter. Alkaloids have developed throughout whatever reasonings have developed on the peel to repel funguses and disease and insects. But we can take those alkaloids and use them medicinally because our body really needs to look at how our body responds to caffeine. Look at how our body responds to nicotine and all the alkaloids. Alkaloids are powerful medicinal structures. They're almost always bitter by nature, anti-fungal, almost always amino-stimulating just by being alkaloids and being irritated and they stimulate the immune system. Alkaloids by nature almost always cause the upper GI, the liver, the gallbladder to become very active, very juicy. Bitter substances contain alkaloids and bitters, I've got to mention this, the Chinese say that there are five tastes. Sweet, sour, acrid, salt, and bitter. Now the Ayurvedic, I think a few other philosophies say seven tastes, but they break those five essential down into six or seven more, eight more, but basically it's five tastes. Sweet, sour, acrid, salt, and bitter. In the American, standard American diet, bitter substances, we don't have them. What are the two most bitter substances that we have? Coffee, chocolate, and what do we do? We sweeten the heck out of it to make it not bitter. Do we have any bitter greens? In my research, in my, you know, talking to old world people, people from Italy or Greece or Germany, you know that classic salads were bitter? They weren't iceberg lettuce with sweet ranch dressing. They were bitter herbs to stimulate, bitters to stimulate gastric secretion, gastric mood. And I'll tell you, without going in depth to the upper and lower GI, without going into all the, what bitters do and such, if you just realize that the Chinese are writing, you know, 5,000, sometimes they've got down 5,000 years in this art form of killing and concepts, that those spiny tastes are really an absolute concept as far as I'm concerned, and that the fact that we're missing bitters, we only have 4, but we do, we have poor digestion in this country. And by bringing our bitter substance back into your diet, you bring in the missing taste. That's it for today, folks. Good night, and God bless each and every single one of you. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. good night. Thank you. Thank you. You've been listening to the Hour of the Time. I'm William Cooper. 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