Month: April 2010

Calcium and Colon Cancer

Calcium Helps Prevent Cancer:

The relationship between Calcium and Colon Cancer has been proven.

People who have an abundant intake of calcium-rich foods in their diets tend to have less colon cancer than those whose intake is less than 800 milligrams per day.

The RDA, or recommended daily allowance of calcium is 800 mg daily, but this amount seems conservative in the light of studies which show that a higher intake of calcium than this does protect against many diseases. It is recommended that you try to have more than 1000 mg daily, half of which should come from your high fiber greens, to help prevent colon cancer. Fiber itself , like calcium, performs a great function in controlling cholesterol levels and helping to prevent colon cancer.

Expectant and breast-feeding mothers, and growing teenagers, need a minimum of 1300 mg daily.

You get 600 mg of calcium per every two cups of whole-milk that you drink – nearly the recommended daily allowance. However, for those who cannot take milk  because of milk allergy, there are many other excellent sources of calcium which rate very well in their content. Dolomite powder is the richest, most concentrated source of calcium, beating milk by far. One teaspoon of dolomite powder contains about 2500 milligrams of calcium. This alone would give you more than the RDA.

The home-made calcium tonic which is listed below is nearly as high as Dolomite for its calcium and magnesium content.

One cup of broccoli yields about 160 milligrams of calcium. If your meal were to include 3/4 cup of baked beans, then you would have another 80 milligrams of calcium. All the brassica family contain high amounts of calcium. These are: broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, and kale. Parsley is also extremely rich in calcium and other minerals and vitamins, including iron. These vegetables also contain amounts of Vitamin C, which is also needed in order to assimilate calcium efficiently. Eating fruit after a meal helps the absorption of many minerals and vitamins, including calcium and iron.

You can see, looking at the high amounts of calcium in some of these foods,  just how easy it is to obtain all your dietary requirements of calcium through eating the RIGHT foods. Eating any of these foods on a regular basis, with the added bit of Dolomite powder, or a teaspoon or two of the calcium tonic, or drinking a cup of two of milk, will keep your calcium levels on the high side.

If your diet is too rich in fats ( but we DO need fats) or proteins, or grains, or cocoa/chocolate, silverbeet/spinach, or soy bean products, then you need to increase your broccoli/brussels sprouts/cabbage intake with your meal to compensate for calcium lost through these foods. Cocoa, spinach,  silverbeet , and yams all contain high amounts of oxalic acid, which latches on to calcium in the body, robbing it of some of the available calcium. However, the effect of oxalic acid in  greens like spinach and silver beet etc can be negated by eating baked beans, or an egg, or oily fish such as sardines or mackerel, with these foods. Or you could follow the meal with a glass of milk to counteract the oxalic acid.

Remember to include vitamin D in the diet if you are relying on vegetable sources for your intake of calcium. Vitamin D is  necessary for the assimilation of calcium in the body.

You can get Vitamin D from the sun’s rays falling directly onto your skin. A daily dose is beneficial. You can also get good amounts of Vitamin D from oily fish, cod liver oil, butter, and eggs. Dolomite powder, which has high concentrations of both calcium and magnesium, is usually enriched with Vitamin D to help the absorption of calcium in the body.

Home made Calcium-rich tonic

This is really simple to make. It provides nearly as much calcium and magnesium as the equivalent amount of Dolomite powder. Crumble the dry egg shells of two free range eggs. Use a mortar and pestle if you have one. Put the macerated egg shells into a glass jar. Cover with apple cider vinegar and leave for about 24 hours. Keep in the fridge. Take a teaspoonful daily, or more often if you have a condition like osteoporosis, where more than a maintenance dose is required. The acid in the vinegar is neutralized by the calcium in the egg shells, so this combination should not upset those delicate stomachs which cannot normally take apple cider vinegar.

This tonic will keep for about a week in the fridge, after which time you should make a fresh mixture up. The egg shell powder is OK to take with the liquid. The cider vinegar begins the break down of the egg shell, softening it considerably, even after only 24 hours. The stomach acids, and your foods, will take care of the rest of the break-down it it hasn’t completely dissolved.

Borage and Silica

Silica Content in Borage

Borage, Borago officinalis, or Bugloss,  is the next best thing to Comfrey for its wondrous healing properties.

Borage, like Comfrey, has an especially high silica content. Silica helps hair, nails, teeth and bone to grow. So drinking a daily cup of weak borage tea, or adding the odd leaf or flowers to your salad will provide extra silicic acid to aid the growth of your hair and nails, and help keep your teeth and bones strong.

Borage Tea Hair Rinse

Borage tea can be used as a hair rinse after shampooing to aid hair growth and give a shine to the hair.  Using borage as a rinse means that your hair roots will benefit immediately from the silica and other minerals in borage: once the rinse is applied to the scalp, the minerals in the tea are absorbed readily into the pores of the scalp where they nourish the hair  and vitalise the blood stream.

For Inflammation Of Internal Organs

Borage tea hs a therapeutic function on the  liver, uterus, lungs, stomach and bowels. It helps form healthy tissue on mucous membranes. It has been used to treat  inflammation resulting from pleurisy, peritonitis, and as a calmative for the nerves. It is also helpful in treating conditions of the bowel such as colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome. For these conditions you would take a therapeutic dose for a period of up to three days only. See dose at bottom of page under ‘Childbirth’.

For Varicose Veins

Borage can be used as a poultice to help  varicose veins. Simply pour boiling water over borage leaves. Use enough water  in a saucepan to cover a cupful of leaves. Simmer for three minutes.  Stand aside until cool, then lightly squeeze the borage leaves and pat out into a shape which will cover the sore area on the legs. Put a piece of plastic over the poultice and lightly bind with a bandage. Leave on for half an hour with the legs raised level with the buttocks.

Borage  tea will help with the problem of haemorrhoids, which are a type of swollen vein. The tea helps reduce inflammation when taken internally. Borage ointment can be applied externally to ease pain and reduce swelling on veins and haemorrhoids.

Recipe For Borage Ointment

To make a Borage ointment for this purpose, use half a cup of tightly packed, chopped borage leaves. Put 100 mls of glycerine into a small heat-proof bowl, put over a small saucepan of boiling water and steam for half an hour. Let cool, then strain. Store in a small corked bottle, or one which has a good screw top lid. Use as an ointment when needed.

Skin Tonic For The Bath

Borage leaves and barley, one cup of each, can be simmered together for an hour. Cool the liquid and add to the bathwater for a soothing, silica-rich soak.  This improves the skin.

For Childbirth and To Increase Milk Flow

Borage tea helps to reduce the pain of childbirth in much the same way as raspberry tea does. Borage tea made from leaves and flowers helps to stimulate the milk flow in nursing mothers. For either of these specific requirements, you would normally take a stronger tea for a three day period.

The dose: One teaspoon of dried flowers and one teaspoon of dried leaves infused in a cupful of boiling water taken twice daily for three days. Stop if milk flow has begun. For childbirth, begin the borage treatment as soon as you think labor has begun. Borage taken during labor will help with milk flow after baby is born.

Note: Do not continue with this dose of borage for longer than three days. Long term use of borage on a daily basis is not advised.

Baking Soda and Maple Syrup Cure for Cancer

What is the baking soda and maple syrup cure for cancer? It would seem to be an alternative method for treating cancer and other disease which is gaining in popularity.

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This is not a recipe which I have tried myself, although I must say that it sounds very appealing because of the maple syrup component of the ‘treatment’: It brings to mind the old-fashioned sweet we used to call ‘hokey-pokey’. This was a delicious caramel-toffee-like sweet made of treacle, or golden syrup, butter, sugar and baking soda. The baking soda, which was added to the other ingredients once they were heated, made the syrup bubble up into a foam, which hardened into an aerated toffee once it had cooled.

Could this delicious sweet be at all related to the baking soda and maple syrup cure for cancer? Perhaps hokey-pokey might serve just as well? On second thoughts, I doubt it.

Nevertheless, baking soda is an extremely alkaline product which can effectively turn the pH of the body from acidic to alkaline. This is an important aspect of healing anyone of a life-threatening disease.

Some writers on the subject claim that half a teaspoon of baking soda should be taken at hourly intervals throughout the day in order to attack advanced cancers.

Whilst baking soda can be used to keep the body alkaline and to prevent an acidic body, it must be remembered that baking soda has a deleterious effect on many vitamins, minerals, and their assimilation into the blood stream. A steady supply of baking soda throughout your digestive system could damage your stomach linings just as readily as an acidic product such as vinegar. It will also upset your intestinal flora in your bowel which will interfere with the normal absorption of vitamins and minerals. So whilst you might be keeping your body alkaline through taking medicinal doses of baking soda or a baking soda and maple syrup mixture, the negative effects might outweigh any positive benefits you may get from taking baking soda, whether or not it is mixed with maple syrup.

If I had cancer, or was helping someone else who had a terminal cancer, I doubt very much whether I would opt for the baking soda/maple syrup treatment. I would prefer to follow the Gerson diet, or a Gerson-type approach, and that which is used by many other famous healers, whereby castor oil is used to reduce the cancer growth. The castor oil treatment is taken every second day. Two tablespoons of castor oil is taken in the morning. This is followed up with a cup of black coffee and then an enema within five hours of taking the castor oil. With this therapy, a cleansing diet of chlorophyll-rich greens and their juices would be used in combination with large doses of calcium ascorbate Vitamin C. These are natural anti-oxidants which help to reduce cancer cells. These natural anti-oxidants would not only nourish the body but help you to keep the body alkaline and prevent it from becoming acidic.

I think that baking soda and maple syrup, or hokey-pokey, might best be left out of your therapeutic regime until you have recovered your health.

Megadoses of Vitamin C, the Gerson system which uses castor oil and much raw food, and herbal and homeopathic remedies are the methods I would prefer to use to treat cancer.

See Merrilyn’s other posts on Homeopathy and Herbal Alternatives to Vaccination.  There are several posts here which discuss some alternative cancer treatments.

Reading these posts might be helpful if you have decided to forfeit those much-promoted and often dubious flu injections.

Jason Vale’s Recovery From Cancer Using Prayer and Vitamin B17, Called Laetrile

No Antibiotics For H7N9 Bird Flu Virus 2013 Human Killer

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Homeopathic Remedy And Herbs For Cholera

http://merrilynhope.com/un-refuses-compensation-to-haiti-for-cholera/

Save Homeopathy – Brief History And A Royal Horse Called Hypericum

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How Homeopaths Cured Some Cancerous Tumours

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Spiritual Healing and the Pendulum

Using Divine Power To Gain Insights:  This is a story about something quite remarkable which recently happened to me. You might call the experience a development in extra-sensory perception.

I have been using the pendulum for many years. In the days when I was bringing up my family and using homeopathic medicine as an alternative to conventional medicine, I found the pendulum extremely useful in deciphering which of the many available remedies were the best choice for any given ailment.

Pendulum Diagnosis:  The pendulum worked miracles – there was rarely a need to go to doctors or even naturopaths, as the pendulum was always reliable in obtaining the correct remedy, often in conjunction with dietary measures and added vitamin and mineral supplements.

In those days, while I accepted that the pendulum worked by some force outside of myself, I did not really understand too much about why or how it worked: it just did. Over the years my perceptions grew as my sensitivity developed. Then, when I lost heart and took to the wine bottle for about three years, the ability to use the pendulum or decipher anything relevant from an astrological chart vanished completely. These abilities did not return until I had physically and mentally recovered my health.

Just before this very disruptive period of my life, I had the extreme good fortune to meet and befriend a very talented psychic and spiritual healer who has influenced my life greatly. This was Gottlieb, from Denmark,who lived on the same island as I did, off the coast of Auckland in New Zealand.

Gottlieb used a pen to divine messages from his friends in spirit. He used this method to pin-point the acupuncture points for massage on  an anatomical chart. Just as my guidance for using homeopathic remedies was apparently flawless, Gottlieb had the same results with his pen diagnosis. His method, though was very speedy, as he didn’t have to wait while a pendulum responded: the pen could pin-point the exact locations to be massaged, perhaps five or six points within about 12 seconds. Sometimes he treated these points immediately, but very often, he gave instructions to the person to massage these specific points for a certain amount of days, or weeks, at a specific time of the day.

Gottlieb was trying to teach me this method of healing. He felt this method was a far better tool for healing than using a pendulum. However, I am still using the pendulum, although I expect that one day I WILL get around to developing the pen diagnosis technique.

My friend left our lovely Waiheke Island about the same time as I did. He went to sunny Queensland where I visited him several times over a period of about six years. Then, a year or so after the last visit, friends told me that he had died. He was well into his 80’s. I have often felt his presence with me, especially to do with spiritual healing, and sometimes when meditating, or whilst musing on a painting which he loved.

Recently, I had a vivid image, just as I closed my eyes, of myself in the company of three or four other people. They were watching me use the pendulum around a small round table which had the letters of the alphabet on it. Now, since I was awake, I was certain that this idea had just been put there by somebody – my friends in spirit. There must be something they want to tell me, I thought, so I’d better just get on and do as they suggest. In the past, I have often turned a blind eye towards spiritual assistance when it has been offered to me, only to realise not too far down the track that my Angels were trying to help me all along. Not so this time:  Right away, I wrote the letters of the alphabet around the edge of a round stool which I had beside the bed, and got my pendulum out.

The results were ASTOUNDING. My dear daughter who passed into spirit thirty odd years ago came through with reassuring advice for me. My dear father-in-law came through, with his typical dry humour. Other friends and relatives gave their names and followed with several sentences of reassurance. But the most persistent of the visitors was my friend Gottlieb. The pendulum swung about ever so strongly whenever he came through. He was just incredibly excited by the possibility that I could teach this method of communication to his dear wife, who is still living in Queensland. Every few days he would ask if I could get onto finding her so that I could tell her that I had communicated with him. “SHE WILL BE SO HAPPY. SHE WILL BE ABLE TO TALK TO ME. SHE FEELS SO HELPLESS AT THE MOMENT, SHE IS VERY SAD AND IS NOT TAKING THIS VERY WELL’

I tried phoning several friends from Waiheke Island who might know her address. No luck. They hadn’t seen either her or Gottlieb for about twelve years. Gottlieb then told me to find her on the computer, on a specific site which details health practitioners in Queensland. I did not have access to a computer at this point, so I put his request temporarily  to the back of my mind.Then, a couple of weeks later, my sons set me up with a computer at my new residence. Hooray – now I can write again. As I sat there about to begin writing, I felt something urgent coming from my Angel friends. I got my alphabet chart and my pendulum out. Straight away, the message came ‘GOTTLIEB SAYS HELLO MY FRIEND. NOW YOU CAN FIND INGRID ON THE COMPUTER’. Then he related a message which he wanted me to send to Ingrid: ‘INGRID – YOU ARE THE HEART OF MY EXISTENCE HERE. I LOVE YOU’. DO NOT BE SAD………… ‘

I went to the computer. The result from the search was equally astounding: Immediately, her name came up on the site where he told me I could find her.So I sent her a message right away to her email address. Very soon, a message came back. She was pleased to hear from me, ‘BUT YOU MUST HAVE YOUR WIRES CROSSED, BECAUSE GOTTLIEB IS STILL ALIVE. I WAS SITTING WITH HIM ONLY AN HOUR AGO’. She went on to say that he has alzheimer’s now, or some similar condition,that he lives in a rest home and that he has lost his power of speech. He cannot speak to her. She was very distressed as he has been ill recently. She said she felt helpless.

I was absolutely blown away: Messages from spirit were expected, but I hadn’t conceived of the idea of someone who is still alive being capable of sending powerful impulses via the pendulum. And these thoughts from across the great water divide. But now it all made sense: it was just as he had described. Ingrid could not communicate with him, and she WAS feeling helpless. He wanted her to know that he was still thinking of her, and that he still was active as a healer, only purely in the spiritual sense, as his physical being has more or less shut down. The essence of it all was that he wanted her to know that he loved her, and that he would still be able to communicate with her just as he had communicated with me, since I would teach her the method.

Over several days Ingrid and I communicated via email. Eventually I persuaded her to try the method I had used. I convinced her that Gottlieb would help her with the use of it, just as he had helped me, and that that was purely the reason he had contacted me in the first place.She drew up a chart with the alphabet on it. Sure enough, she obtained immediate results when she went to visit him with her chart.. He began by spelling his name. The following day he began with his name again. Astounding. I knew they were making a true connection, as I hadn’t filled her in on the details of how he began, but he always began his messages to me by spelling out his name.

Gottlieb had extraordinary powers of healing and of psychic force when he was living on Waiheke. Those powers have obviously not diminished in the slightest, even though he is not capable of physical effort any longer, cannot speak, and presumably has alzheimer’s And even when he is fully in the spirit world, I expect he will communicate with us just as helpfully and effectively as he is doing right now from over the sea.