Raw Food Herbs

There are some foods such as garlic, parsley, cayenne pepper etc that are considered both as foods and herbs as well. For instance garlic is a well known for its antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties. The benefit of these raw food herbs is that they can be taken as any normal food. Just like other herbs they have both nutritional value and also have curative powers as well and can be taken daily as food. As for pure herbs, they should only be taken when one is ill as they can be toxic and should only be taken under instructions of an experienced herbalist or by following the instructions on the pack in the case of factory prepared herbs. The raw food herbs can be taken without following any instructions just like any food.

One of the many benefits of eating raw food is that one will have access to a whole array of essential nutrients such as amino acids, vitamins etc that can be lost when food is cooked. Factory prepared herbs may in most cases lose some of their efficacy due to the heat and various processes they go.

Heal Yourself From Diziness or Vertigo

To cure or heal yourself from Dizziness or Vertigo Dr Richard Schulze promotes the use of his brain tincture or tea formula which you can make at home or buy. The formula works by increasing blood supply to the brains thereby bringing nourishment to the brain and helping in ridding the brain of toxins that may build due to poor blood circulation to the brain. The ingredients in the Brain formula are also helpful for someone who has suffered from stroke or to prevent stroke and also for Alzheimer's disease. Some studies have also shown that some of the ingredients such as ginkgo biloba leaf,  improve memory.

Ingredients of Brain Tincture or Tea based on Volume

• 1 part comprising Cayenne Pepper, go for the hottest you can get
• 3 parts - Ginkgo Biloba Leaf
• 1 part - Rosemary Flowers
• 1 part - Gotu Kola Herb
• 1 part - Calamus Root
• 1 part - Kola Nut

Dosage

2 dropperfuls of the brain tincture three times a day. 2 teaspoons in a cup when used as a tea taken 6 times a day.

Heal Yourself From Hemorrhoids

Hemorrhoids in the Anus

This article will show ways that help in treating or curing yourself from hemorrhoids.

Hemorrhoids are caused by increased abdominal pressure. This pressure may be due to production of gas, being overweight, overeating, tight clothing (even a tight band on panties can interfere with circulation), or the habit of slumping the shoulders or crossing the arms over the abdomen. Hemorrhoids are dilated and congested veins from the meshwork of veins that surround the rectum and anus. The vein walls become weakened and thinned when they remain widely dilated due to long-sustained pressure which blocks the return of blood to the heart. The dilated veins press on the skin and lining of the rectum and eventually push a "hemorrhoid" into the skin or rectal lining. To treat the hemorrhoids, first reduce the pressure, then heal any irritation on the skin or rectal lining caused by stretching, infection, or thrombosis.

If someone is suffering from hemorrhoids advise him to use the following remedies to heal or cure himself from hemorrhoids :-

• Give a hot bath or Shower or a sitz bath.
• Sitz Bath: There are a number of differing opinions on sitz baths. The common sitz bath is merely sitting in a tub, wherein just the buttocks, the lower back into the sacroiliac and the upper thighs are immersed, though the feet should be in another tub; or where the buttocks would be in cold water, the feet should be in hot water; or vice versa. The most important part of the sitz bath, of course, is soaking the anal area in herbal aids to give relief. This is used for itching, piles, hemorrhoids, acid burning from urine and rectal discharges, or toxic conditions wherein the flesh is raw. If you are suffering from hemorrhoids, a sitz bath of strong oak bark tea will help, as well a Sitz of witch hazel tea. 
• Thoroughly rub one or more dropperfuls of cayenne pepper oil, or cayenne powder into the affected area of the body.
• Alternate very hot , then very cold water over the affected area for 1 minute each for 7 - 10 times.
• If pain persists, give 5 - 60 drops 3 - 4 times daily of an equal amount of Valerian Root Tincture to the Lobelia Seed Pod Tincture.
• Use your common sense on the hot and cold shower and do what you can afford until you are able to take the hottest and coldest water. If the water is not cold enough you can use ice cubes from your freezer.
• Use a very mild laxative or a bulb of cold water to stimulate easy bowel movement. The laxative may be prune juice, mild senna tea, or very mild licorice tea.
• Avoid standing for long periods.

Testimony on the Use of Cayenne to Treat Hemorrhoids or Piles and High Blood Pressure From the Famous Medical Herbalist  Late Dr Christopher

Dr. Christopher tells this story. I traveled with a man younger than myself several years ago all over the western part of the United States on business. He marveled at the stamina that an older man could have on long drives without displaying the usual fatigue. Each morning I would get up and have my cayenne and my wheat germ oil (I don't pay attention to anyone else, I just take them, regardless). Finally he got curious and said, "What's that stuff?" So I gave him an illustrative lecture, and he responded, "Well, I have hemorrhoids; my mother died of high blood pressure, and I have high blood pressure; and with the hemorrhoids I have to wear a belt, as you probably noticed, to keep my hemorrhoids up in place. Do you think that (meaning cayenne) will help?" "Not unless you take it," I replied. "Well, I will start taking it." Then I added, "I don't think you're man enough; I don't think you are brave enough," and I turned and walked away. Now, he was well-proportioned and a weight lifter, so after I left, he went over and got into my can and started using the cayenne along with the wheat germ oil, and by spring he did not have to wear a
belt any longer as his hemorrhoids were cleared. Then he had an amazing surprise when he went to his doctor for a regular check-up; the doctor took his blood pressure three or four times and said, "This is supposed to be progressively worse. I don't know what has happened; your systolic and diastolic are near perfect. You don't need to come back any longer --I don't know what happened!" Well, he did not have to go back, and today this gentleman who lives in the Salt Lake City area has no high blood pressure, for he kept on taking his cayenne.



Dr Christopher was a famous medical remedies expert who assisted many people with incurable diseases and and there is a book on the formulas he used to treat his patients, Herbal Home Health Care . Dr Christopher is someone who for a number of years treated his patients with these formula and therefore speaks from experience. He is not like any other author who write on the basis of some theories and not realities on the ground.

Echinacea Benefits

Echinacea is a perennial herb endemic to the Eastern and Central  North America. It is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae. Echinacea was widely used by North American Indians for its many known healing properties. Echinacea can be taken in the form of teas, tincture, tablets and capsules. It is mostly known for its immunity stimulation and boosting abilities. 

It has tall stems, bears single pink or purple flowers, and has a central cone that is usually purple or brown in color. The large cone is actually a seed head with sharp spines that resemble a stiff comb. There about nice species of Echinacea  and its generic name is derived from the Greek word echino meaning 'hedgehog, due to the spiny central disk

The species of Echinacea are

• Echinacea angustifolia – Narrow-leaf Coneflower
• Echinacea atrorubens – Topeka Purple Coneflower
• Echinacea laevigata – Smooth Coneflower, Smooth Purple Coneflower
• Echinacea pallida – Pale Purple Coneflower
• Echinacea paradoxa – Yellow Coneflower, Bush's Purple Coneflower
• Echinacea purpurea – Purple Coneflower, Eastern Purple Coneflower
• Echinacea sanguinea – Sanguine purple Coneflower
• Echinacea simulata – Wavyleaf Purple Coneflower
• Echinacea tennesseensis – Tennessee Coneflower

There are several chemicals in echinacea that have healing properties and these include polysaccharides, glycoproteins, alkamides, volatile oils, and flavonoids. The combination of all these chemicals is responsible for the effectiveness of echinacea.

Echinacea is one of the strongest known immunity boosters and stimulators. It has been known to triple the number of T-Cells and microphages in the blood system within a few days. It can also increase the number interferon, interlekin, immunoglobulin. These have  been known to fight cancer.

Due to its immunity stimulation  benefits the taking of echinacea has been known to reduce the duration of colds and flus and to initiate and speed up recovery of immune-related depression illnesses, diseases and degeneration. Most herbalist recommend the taking of strongly concentrated forms of echinacea if it is to be of much benefit. It is also recommended to take echinacea with garlic and cayenne pepper. Cayenne is known for its ability to improve blood circulation and therefore helps in making sure that the herbs that we take are taken to the areas in need quickly and efficiently.

Dosage 

The dosage for one of the most powerful echinacea tinctures, Dr Schulze Echinacea Plus is two dropperfuls 5 times a day. 

Cure yourself With Cayenne Pepper: Cayenne Pepper Healing Benefits

Dr Richard Schulze, medical herbalist of 'there are no incurable diseases' fame says, "If you master only one herb in your life, master cayenne pepper. It is more powerful than any other." The same belief is shared by his mentor the Late Dr Christopher. When you consider the testimonies of cancer patients and other 'incurables' who have been healed by natural remedies prescribed by these natural remedies experts, you cannot but take notice when they beat the drum for cayenne pepper.

We therefore need to learn more about this herb as it may one day save our life or the life of our loved ones. Let us therefore master this herb by learning from the experts themselves.

Dr Richard Schulze tells students who ask him on What are the ten most important herbs to have in the home that, "At the top of the list is cayenne pepper, because it will make the other nine work better."

Dr Richard Schulze says that "If you take cayenne pepper in capsules, you may be wasting your time and never getting the cures I got with my patients." Cayenne pepper has to be taken orally if we are to experience its maximum healing benefits. Other forms might be helpful but not as helpful as taking it orally.

What happens is that much of cayenne's healing action occurs right in your mouth. As cayenne touches your tongue, the cayenne absorbs in seconds and nerve endings send signals throughout the body - sending waves of fresh blood to wherever you are sick. New healing begins in seconds. Let us rememember that inorder for healing to take place fresh blood has to reach the diseased part to cleanse and bring food in the form of enzymes etc to the cells. These surges of fresh blood do not occur when you bypass the mouth by taking capsules.

Therefore treatment such as hydrotherapy and taking cayenne assist the body in making sure that fresh blood reaches those areas that are diseased. To make sure that blood goes in and out of those diseased parts we need treatments such as the hot and cold treatments so that the fresh blood is able to remove the toxins and bring them down to the body's lungs and kidneys for purification. It works as a pump, heat bringing blood to the surface and the cold constricting the vessels pushing the blood down to be purified in the cleaning organs of the body such as the lungs and kidneys.

As most herbalists say all diseases is the result of blockage and any treatment if it is to be long lasting has to treat that blockage. This requires that we stop taking the things that caused the blockage and do things that bring healing and avoids such blockages.

Cayenne helps all these healing processes by making sure the herbs that we take are able to reach the diseased parts by increasing the speed of the flow of blood in the body.

Even scientist are now recognising the benefits of cayenne pepper. In a recent letter to the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine, three Italian doctors describe how they were able to reduce patients' reported dyspepsia symptoms by more than half -  by prescribing red pepper powder. In a study of 30 patients with  functional dyspepsia, half of the participants received a placebo, while the other half took 2.5 grams of red pepper powder each day (divided into capsules taken before each of three meals). Both groups took their respective treatments for five weeks, and rated their symptoms each day on a scale of zero  to three (higher scores indicated more severe symptoms). By the third week, the red pepper group showed a significant advantage over the control group. And by week five, the pepper group's symptoms had declined 60 percent from their baseline scores - while the control group's scores had only decreased about half as much. The symptom scores included ratings for pain, a feeling of fullness, nausea, and an overall score. The red pepper powder produced significant gains in all four areas.

Cayenne pepper is also a very high source of Vitamins A and C, has the complete B complexes, and is very rich in organic calcium and potassium, which is one of the reasons it is good for the heart

Dr Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute also says cayenne can be used against migraines. She says, 'Just at the start of a migraine, put five to ten drops of a cayenne extract in the nostril on the side of the headache. Hold the medicine in the nostril. The headache is usually gone in about 10 minutes. Even after headaches are well established the cayenne extract will work fairly well. In these cases it may need to be used on both sides. Interestingly enough, the pain in the nostrils is not as intense as one would think it could be. The way to make the tincture is a quarter of a teaspoon of cayenne pepper in one cup of pure grain alcohol from a liquor store at 80 - 95% concentration, the best solvent range for cayenne. Let is set for a day or two and it is then ready for use. It can be filtered to get rid of the solid portion, or merely allowed to settle and the top portion poured off.

Cayenne pepper has also been known to treat heart attacks. A drop in the mouth of cayenne tincture in the mouth has been known to stop heart attacks in minutes.


For more details and how to use cayenne for various ailments I would urge to buy Sam Biser's book, Curing With Cayenne: The untold , Unknown and Unpublished Facts About How To Cure with the Greatest Herb of All Time!.It is based on the interview Sam Biser had with Dr Richard Schulze, a foremost medical herbalist who has assisted scores of patients to cure themselves of incurable diseases such as cancer.

MIGRAINE HEADACHES - NATURAL REMEDIES

Migraines

Headaches are certainly among the most frequent and perplexing of problems seen by physicians.  Headache is the ninth most common cause of physician visits.  Migraine affects about 20% of the adult population, with more women affected than men.  One hundred and twenty children with migraines had an average onset of 5 to 15 years with about equal sex ratio under the age of nine. Family history was positive in 79%.  Eye symptoms occurred in 43%.  People with migraine often have a family history of “sick headaches,” or a history of digestive upsets, travel sickness, asthma, eczema, or hay fever.

Symptoms

The symptoms of migraine include headaches that last from three hours to three days, with an average of about 12-18 hours.  They usually occur no more often than one per week, and one or two per month is a about average.  The onset of pain is usually gradual and on one side, but may switch sides or involve the entire head.  The pain is throbbing and moderate to severe.  There are often symptoms which precede the attack by several hours or days manifested generally by emotional or mental disturbances, digestive upsets, and fluid imbalances.  Neurologic manifestations may occur of a visual nature such as rainbows around lights, streaks or pings of light, but may also include loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and other neurologic features.

What Causes the Pain?

Migraine can be most easily explained as an allergy, the pain being caused by the release of chemical substances in the brain and other tissues following an allergic reaction.  Foods responsible for the antigen:antibody reactions account for the presence in the tissues of the body of chemicals that cause the headache — noradrenaline, histamine, and other substances capable of irritating blood vessels.

Triggering Agents

A migraine headache may be caused by foods to whichone is allergic, but then precipitated by different triggering agents.  As an example: the cause of a migraine may be cheese or perfume allergy, whereas the trigger may be an emotional upset.  Other triggers may be various foods in addition to the cause (see below) such as chocolate or apples.  Tyramine-containing foods such as cheese and wine may either cause or act as triggers for recurrent headaches.   Sometimes a food will trigger a migraine within a few hours, but the next time the food is taken a headache is not developed at all.  The person then wrongly thinks that food is not involved after all.  It takes most people about two months to learn how to get the maximum benefit from a migraine-preventive diet.

Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), tension, depression, alcohol, tobacco, birth control pills, vasodilator drugs, salt, food additives, water retention, menstruation, wind exposure, and sun exposure are other triggering agents.  There may also be multiple aggravating factors which may neither cause nor trigger an attack but make it worse once it occurs.  The aggravating factors include poor air, constipation, chilling, noise, etc.

Of 263 patients, 30% of the patients with migraines reported an exposure to the sun as an trigger, whereas only 17% of patients with non-migraine headaches and 7% of patients with muscle contraction headaches observed this relationship.  Probably these persons dilate their blood vessels too much in response to the sunshine.  Sun exposure is a more frequent triggering factor in migraine than diet.  Pain-sensitive structures outside the head that may be involved with migraines include the skin, scalp, fascia, muscles and arteries.  Also, the lining of the sinuses, mouth, pharynx, and nose are all pain sensitive.  Headache of any type is derived from one or more stretched blood vessels.  In migraine, an artery, most commonly the superficial temporal artery, becomes constricted at first, then the same segment of the artery becomes widely dilated, and overstretched.  The pressure of the blood carried in the artery increases the pain, whereas compression of the artery with the hands on the side of the head over the dilated segment will cause relief of pain.  The control of blood vessel tone is through the autonomic nervous system.  Thus many natural treatments are directed at the nervous system and blood vessels.

Foods

Foods implicated as causes of migraines in one survey were dairy products (especially cheese), citrus fruits, avocados, alcoholic drinks, plums, raspberries, fatty or fried foods, onions, tea and coffee, meat (especially pork), and sea food.  In another survey the commonest foods causing migraines were wheat (78%), oranges (65%), eggs (45%), tea and coffee (40% each), chocolate and milk (37%), beef (35%), and corn, cane sugar, and yeast (33% each).  When an average of 10 common foods were avoided there was a dramatic fall in the number of headaches per month, 85% of patients becoming headache free.  The 25% of migraine patients also having high blood pressure became normal in blood pressure.

Eating too many varieties of foods at one meal is a common cause of headache.  The many chemicals from the various foods, even though naturally produced, still make war inside the system. For people with headaches it is wise to take two dishes at a meal of very simple foods such as baked potatoes and string beans along with bread and spread and a raw dish such as sliced tomatoes, lettuce wedges, simple coleslaw, etc., instead of a complex salad.

The Rebound Effect of Medications for Migraines

Migraine headaches can actually be caused by medication given for migraines.  Persons who take pain medication on a regular basis can have what is called the rebound effect that happens after the medication for the acute headache begins to wear off.  Medications that cause vasoconstriction such as Midrin eventually cause blood vessels to swell out bigger when the drug wears off, requiring higher doses to get the same effect. Caffeine may do the same thing.

Objectives of Treatments

The objectives of natural treatment are twofold: to reduce the number of headaches or to stop them entirely, and to treat the acute attack without the injurious medications usually used.  The medications that migraine patients sometimes take often become as troublesome as the symptoms themselves.  The patient can learn that he can exert some control over the pain by things done himself, and can therefore gradually reduce or omit medications.

Treatments

- When the headache is first coming on, take advantage of the blood vessel reflexes to break the constriction-dilation cycle by making changes in the temperature of the body.  It is known that a hot shower or bath followed by a cold shower at the onset of pain can bring relief.  The exposure to the hot water needs to be long enough to cause reddening of the skin, and the cold should be long enough to bring shivering.  Cracked ice in the mouth or throat can sometimes bring tightening up of the overstretched blood vessels and relief of the headache.

- Just at the start of a migraine, put five to ten drops of a cayenne extract in the nostril on the side of the headache.  Hold the medicine in the nostril.  The headache is usually gone in about 10 minutes.  Even after headaches are well established the cayenne extract will work fairly well.  In these cases it may need to be used on both sides.  Interestingly enough, the pain in the nostrils is not as intense as one would think it could be.  The way to make the tincture is a quarter of a teaspoon of cayenne pepper in one cup of pure grain alcohol from a liquor store at 80 - 95% concentration, the best solvent range for cayenne.  Let is set for a day or two and it is then ready for use.  It can be filtered to get rid of the solid portion, or merely allowed to settle and the top portion poured off.

- A quart of ice water poured for one minute on the scalp at the nape of the neck and allowed to flow under the hair to the forehead to drip off the bowed head into a pan or bucket is helpful. Follow this by a second quart of ice water poured for one minute over the soles of the feet.  Dry both the scalp and the feet briefly and return to bed.

- Hot foot baths may sometimes be helpful.  Make the water so hot it is painful  (Do not use for insulin dependant diabetics).  Put both feet in the water for 1-2 minutes only.  Dry the feet quickly and return to bed.

- A sock wet in one spot with vinegar, the spot positioned over the painful area and the sock pinned around the head has been used as an old-fashioned remedy.  It often helps.

- A cold compress to the head with small chips of ice still in the cold towel, or an actual ice pack to the forehead can bring great relief.

- A hot foot bath with a cold compress or ice pack over the painful area can also be helpful.

- Aromatherapy using essential oils of lavendar, sage, peppermint or catnip can also be curative or greatly relieving for many types of headaches including migraines.

- Rebreathing into a paper bag for as many breaths as can be tolerated can stop migraines in many individuals.  May be repeated in five minutes as needed.

- A quickly done enema lasting one or two minutes can sometimes be quite helpful.  Plain water at about 112 to 114 degrees and quickly expelled can be curative for some persons a few minutes or an hour or so after the enema.  The hot water should not be held longer than three minutes as it could make the headache worse.  An enema can be given at body temperature also and repeated until the water comes back clear.

- Wrapping a band about two inches wide, such as from that made folding a towel, around the head quite tightly, and putting a dowel in the tied knot and twisting it to increase the pressure from the tight bandage, can give almost immediate relief to some people.

- Pressure on both temples by the heels of the hands can bring immediate relief, sometimes temporary, and sometimes long-lasting.  Apply the pressure with about as much force as you can give, and maintain it as long as you can continue holding it, slowly releasing when the pressure can no longer be maintained.

Exercise

Exercise has been found to reduce the frequency of migraine headaches.

Source :Uchee Pines Institute, 30 Uchee Pines Road

Seale, Alabama 36875-5702. Phone: (334) 855-4764. Fax: (334) 855-4780. Email: ucheepines@msn.com.