Medicinal Garden Herbs For You And The Bees

Natural Remedies

There are many wonderful healing herbs or weeds which you can grow in your garden for the purpose of helping cure many of the common ailments which allay us. They will also help the bees to make good honey and stay healthy.

note – this article was originally posted up around 2010 – mistakenly, it was moved onto another site – now restored to this one

Below I list some of the easiest ones to grow, and some of the most useful, which you can add to your garden, whether it is large or small.

Caution: I do not recommend that people try these remedies without consulting a herbalist. They are recorded here below for interest, and as a resource in the case of circumstances of emergency which might make doctors and conventional medicines unavailable. See your doctor if you are ill.

Medicinal Uses of Aquilega vulgaris, also known as Granny’s Bonnets, or Columbine.
Aquilegia is a Ranunculaceae , commonly known as ‘Granny’s Bonnets’, or ‘Columbine’. These plants have lovely bell-shaped flowers which come in various shades of purple, pink, maroon, white, or yellow.
They look very pretty, rising up a couple of feet or so from the ground, with their delicate flowers hanging most voluptuously from their spindly, slender-stalks. Once you have them in the garden, they will self-seed and give you more of the same the following year. As it is a perennial, the old plant will surprise you. After it has died down, it will come up again in the spring to flower again.

Aquilegia, or Columbine, is an astringent,diuretic, and diaphoretic.
One teaspoon of plant root can be steeped for several hours in cold water: of this, you can take one tablespoon at a time, from three to six times a day for diarrhea, according to John Lust. Personally, I would lower the dose to only a teaspoonful, to be on the safe side.
Dr Lust recommends the flowers be used in wine to promote perspiration. He does not state the recipe for using the flowers, but I would use one teaspoon only, soaked in a glass of wine for three hours, taken a teaspoonful at a time. The dose could be repeated from three to six times a day. Build up the dose to one tablespoonful if need be.
I would not continue this remedy for more than a day or two.

Aquilegia Lotion For Arthritic Pains:
A lotion to help the aches and pains of rheumatism and arthritis can be made from the root of aquilegia. This is a safe remedy to try, as it is only applied externally. Chop or grate a quantity of root and soak for two days in just
enough vodka to cover. Strain and bottle. Rub onto sore joints as needed.

Culpepper says that the Columbine is ‘an herb of Venus’; that Tragus recommended a drachm of the seed to be taken with saffron in wine, for treating conditions of the liver such as yellow jaundice. Culpepper recommends the seed in wine for ‘a speedy delivery of women in childbirth’. You would use even less of the seed: only 5 seeds to a wineglassful of wine,infused for a few hours; the dose – one teaspoon every three hours for up to five doses, in my estimation.
I must say that I did not get around to trying this remedy for an easy childbirth when I had my children. But there you have it.

Golden Rod, Solidago virgaurea:

Otherwise known as European Goldenrod, this is another beautiful, now quite rare, perennial to grow inyour cottage garden. It reaches about three feet tall when it is ready for flowering, taking up about as much room as a maize, or corn plant. Its flowers are golden yellow, as its name implies, and these are formed amidst a furry down, a little like thistle down: this acts as its parachute to carry it off on the breeze.

Medicinal Uses of Golden Rod:

Golden Rod is well known for its therapeutic properties. It is astringent and diuretic. It has been used for the treatment of kidney stones and other kidney ailments; nephritis and arthritis; menorrhagia; whooping cough; and
eczema and psoriasis. It can be used both internally and externally.
Culpeper holds it in high esteem: apart from ridding the body of kidney stones, he recommends it for internal bruising and calls it’a sovereign wound herb, whereby green wounds and old ulcers are speedily cured’. He also
recommends it as a rinse for ulcers in the mouth or throat or ‘privities’, and for firming up loose teeth.
Venus rules this herb, according to Culpeper.
The leaves can be crushed and used as a poultice for insect bites and other skin abrasions.
Dose: Make a tea by simmering one tablespoon of flowers in a cup of water for three minutes. Strain, and drink when cooled. Take one cup a day as needed, for up to three days at a time, and then a break.
Use the same tea for external use.

Ladies’ Mantle, Alchemilia vulgaris.
This is an herb which has a place in every cottage garden because of its attractive foliage, as well as its medicinal qualities. It loves to grow in shady spots, beneath, say, the cover of a linden tree, or a mulberry.
It is ruled by Venus, so Culpeper tells us.
In Sweden, it is a folk-remedy for aiding sleep in restless children, a sprig being put under the pillow. It is a great wound herb, as it helps to coagulate the blood. It is useful for all inflammations and ruptures, and can be taken internally and used externally.
Culpeper says that ‘the Germans, who, in all wounds, inward and outward, drink the decoction thereof, and wash the wounds therewith…’, and that it quickly heals ‘green’ wounds and old sores.

It is a great ladies’ herb, of course. Culpeper claims it aids conception and helps mastitis conditions in breast-feeding mothers. A poultice of the infused leaves can be laid over the breasts, and a tea taken to help painful lumps of mastitis. It can be used in a bath to help prevent miscarriages. It is a traditional remedy for treating infertility.
It can be used both internally and externally for thrush.

Dose: Make a tea using one or two teaspoons of chopped fresh Ladies’ Mantle leaves.
A tea made with one teaspoon each of marigold flowers and Ladies’ Mantle is reputed to be good for period pain.
John Lust uses four teaspoons of dried herb, soaked in a cup of water for ten minutes. A cup a day can be taken for up to one week at a time.
I would prefer to use the milder option of one teaspoon of fresh herb with marigold petals in a tea.

Lemon Balm, Melissa officinalis
A small area in the garden should be given to this very useful and sweet smelling herb. Bees just LOVE it, which alone is a very good reason to grow it.
Medicinal Uses of Lemon Balm:
It may be taken freely as a refreshing and soothing tea. It aids sleep, and helps reduce anxiety.
Dose: Just add a few leaves to your pot of tea, or infuse on its own. Three or four cups a day of tea can be taken.
Take a cup before bed, sweetened with honey to help with attaining a good night’s sleep.

Feverfew, Chrysanthemum parthenium

This is also known as featherfew, or febrifuge plant.
This is a great little cottage garden plant: It is an attractive, small chrysanthemum which, when allowed to, will pop up along the sides of paths and between pavement cracks. It is not a menace by any means, as they pull up easily if you wish to remove some of them.

Medicinal Uses: Feverfew is carminative, an emmenagogue, purgative, stimulant and tonic. It could be of use to the recovering alcoholic, or for people who have drunk to excess.
It is useful to cure migraines,fevers, help colds and flu, and indigestion.
John Lust, in ‘The Herb Book’, suggests it can be used for fixing the alchololic d.t.’s.
Dosage: Make a cupful of tea with one teaspoon of flowers or leaves. Take only one tablespoonful of this
mixture through the day, until the tea is finished.
Two cups per day is the maximum dose per day, taken always just a tablespoonful at a time.
Note: Do not use this tea every day, but only as is necessary, as a medecine.

Hollyhock, Althaea rosea:

Also known as Althea rose, malva flowers, and rose mallow. It is related to the common Marshmallow, which is also a medicinal herb.

This is a lovely tall flowering plant which will add grace and charm to your garden. It comes in colours similar to the Hibiscus: peach, pink, crimson, white, cream, purple, and yellow.

Plant it alongside a wall, or in some sheltered, sunny spot where it will be protected from the wind. ‘The tall hollyhock has the most beautiful flowers which grow all along its upper length, giving the plant a spine of vivid colour’, to quote the eloquence of one herbal. As it is economical on space, even if you have only a small patch of ground, there should be room in your garden for a hollyhock or two, perhaps outside a window.

It is very easy to grow from seed. One plant will last for several years, coming up again from the ground after it has died down.

Medicinal Uses of Hollyhock:
Hollyhock is a demulcent, diuretic and emollient. It is a safe herb to use for helping bronchial complaints and chest infections, as it soothes the mucous membranes. I have used the flowers on many occasions to treat
chest problems in my children, and for myself, in combination with halibut liver oil.

Make a tea of one tablespoonful of flowers and covering with boiling water. Leave to infuse for several minutes. Drink the tea in sips over an hour. Make some more tea if needed. An adult could take 2 or 3 cups per day if necessary, whilst a child would take half this amount or less.
Note- see your doctor if your child is sick. You can safely use hollyhock in combination with any medication you might be given for a chest ailment.
Lavender, Lavandula augustifolia.
Lavender attracts bees into your garden almost all the year round, which makes it a ‘must’ to plant. Every good garden deserves at least one lavender bush.

It can be planted as a small hedge, or as border around areas of the cottage garden. There are many varieties to choose from.

Uses:
Lavender is an antispasmodic, carminative, cholagogue, diuretic, sedative, stimulant, and tonic. But be cautious with using lavender. It is a strong herb, and only a small amount is needed.
It is a calmative which can be helpful for reducing high blood pressure, anxiety and heart palpitations. It can help regulate menstruation.

The vapours of lavender can help to calm a woman during childbirth, and it can aid in expelling the placenta after childbirth if a compress containing lavender oil is laid over the abdomen.
A tea made of equal parts of lavender, chamomile and calendula is said to help restore a new mother to health and aid in the production of milk, so says John Lust.
Lavender oil is a natural insect repellant and a disinfectant. The oil kills head lice, and will deter fleas.
Lavender oil is known as the ‘mother of all essential oils’, as it is so verstile.
Lavender oil can be applied directly to burns, bites and stings, and used as an embrocation for sore joints.
The oil can be burnt in an oil burner, or a few dried lavender heads burnt in an oven-proof dish along with dried rosemary stalks. Just a little of the ensuing smoke will deter mosquitoes and other insects.
It combines well with most other oils, such as bergamot,eucalyptus, rosemary and pine.
The flowers can be dried to use in pot-pouri, and put in lavender bags to deter moths from eating your clothes.

Dose: Use the leaves for an infusion. Steep one teaspoon of chopped leaves in half a cup of water for two hours.
This dose can be safely taken twice a day for several days to help anxiety, sleeplessness, nausea and vomiting, migraines, clogged intestines, and lack of appetite.
Cease taking the decoction once improvement has been noted.

Valerian, Valeriana officinalis
Culpeper gives Mercury as the ruler of Valerian. Merciry rules the intellect and communication.
This herb has attractive red, pink, white, or yellow flowers. It is great to grow on clay banks where little else
will grow. It will spread over time, so the root needs to be divided once in a while.
The white flowered valerian is the one with the highest medicinal value. The root is the part used.
Medicinal Use Of Valerian:
It is used as a mild tranquillizer, and to bring on sleep.
It has also been used as a counter-poison. According to Culpeper, boiled in wine, it can be taken for venomous bites
and stings.It was used, in Culpeper’s time, as a remedy against the plague.
For improving the sight, it was used externally by first boiling a little root in white wine for several minutes.
One drop only of the cooled mixture was used for each eye.
For Wounds and Bruises: It is another great wound herb, both internally and externally. The leaves and root can be crushed and applied to help draw out splinters.

Note: Ask your naturopath or doctor about using Valerian. It can become addictive, so beware. Hitler was said to be a Valerian addict.

More to follow…..

Bibliography
Culpeper, Nicholas. Culpeper’s Complete Herbal. Arcturus Publishing Limited, London, 2009
Lust, John. The Herb Book. Bantam Books, New York, 1974

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Nicotinoid Insecticides Kill Bees And Harm Humans

Bee-Colony-Collapse-Disorder

Photo by Merrilyn on Holly’s camera: Plant Daisies for the Bees and stop using poisonous insecticides and herbicides.

I have just had an important email from the Avaaz people, on the 15th March 2013. I urge you to go to their home page to join the protest against the use of nicotinoid insecticides which have been proven to be deadly to bees.

Bee Colony Collapse Disorder is a very real threat to our civilization. All over the world, whole beehives are being hit by a mysterious virus which kills the whole hive, and this virus has been related specifically to the nicotinoid range of insecticides.

The answer to this problem of dying bees, and one which will help address the rise in cancers, arthritis, and other degenerative disease, is to ban toxic insecticides and herbicides. Plant more flowers to feed the bees, such as the daisies pictured above, and chamomile daisies in your lawn, and avoid all the use of poisonous insecticides and herbicides.

Read Merrilyn’s other posts on the subject of bees and bee colony collapse disorder: ‘Bee Colony Collapse Disorder’, ‘Planting Lawn Flowers For The Bees’, and ‘Bees Killed By Insecticide’.

Without bees happily living in our environments, our crops will fail.

These insecticides are very bad things for the environment overall, and also pose a threat to humans, as well as other animals, bird, and insect life.

Here is an excerpt from the Avaaz warning I received today:

Thanks for joining the campaign to ban the bee killers!

Buzz key EU governments now!Lets make sure the EU leaders hear our call and take bold steps to protect the bees from killer pesticides. Take a moment to call the officers in charge and ask them to support the full bee killer ban now. Call European Ministers of Agriculture now:

Make an urgent call

UK: 08459 33 55 77 or from outside the UK +44 207 238 6951Germany: +49 2 28 / 99 529 – 35 27 Spain: 91 347 53 68 or 91 347 57 24Ireland: +353 1 6072 000 France: 00 33 1 49 55 49 55 Netherlands: 070-456 00 00 or from outside the Netherlands +31 77 465 67 67 Romania: +4 021 307 24 46Belgium: +32 2 552 60 00

Here’s some tips on what to say:

I urge you to support the EU Commission’s proposal to restrict use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
A comprehensive scientific review by the EU Food Safety Agency concluded that neonicotinoid pesticides pose ‘high acute risks’ to honey bees.
The science is clear, now Europe must act to reverse the decline in our bees, before it’s too late.
Caving to corporate pressure on timelines, enforcement or the breadth of this agreement is a blow to our democracy, our food and our environment.

Remember to be polite and patient. If phone lines are busy, keep trying until our buzz breaks through.

Avaaz have invited us to post this info on our social media, so here is more of the email which I received today:

Thanks for taking action to ban the bee killers

Inbox

Avaaz.org <[email protected]>

9:46 AM (3 hours ago)

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Thank you for taking action to ban the bee killers.Send the email below to friends and family, and post this link on your Facebook wall.http://www.avaaz.org/en/bye_bye_bees_global/?tPHMWdbThanks again for your help,The Avaaz team——–Dear friends,In just hours, the European Union will vote on whether to ban toxic pesticides that are killing bees around the world and threatening our food supply. The big corporations profiting from this vile stuff are lobbying furiously to defeat the ban and we’ve just heard that key governments are about to cave — unless they feel the sting of public opinion!Bees are disappearing around the world at alarming rates. Because bees pollinate our crops, experts are warning that these mass deaths pose a catastrophic threat to our food supply. Thankfully, numerous studies have now identified the likely culprit: a certain class of noxious pesticides. An official EU report found that banning them could solve the problem, but pesticide giant Bayer is trying to convince our leaders to ignore the science to protect their profits.Over 2.5 million of us have signed the petition that made this vote possible — and now it’s time to tell EU decision-makers that they must side with science to save the bees this week. Let’s flood the inboxes of key EU Agriculture Ministers, drown out the corporate lobby, and make sure Europe saves the bees and our food — click below to send a message then share this urgent campaign with your friends:http://www.avaaz.org/en/bye_bye_bees_global/?tPHMWdbBees don’t just make honey, they are vital to life on earth, every year pollinating 90% of plants and crops and helping to generate an estimated $40bn value and over one-third of the food supply in many countries. Without immediate action to save bees, many of our favourite fruits, vegetables, and nuts could vanish from our shelves.

Last month the European Food Safety Authority gave the most compelling evidence yet that toxic chemicals called neonicotinoid pesticides could be responsible for the bee deaths. Italy has banned some uses of these bee-killing pesticides and has already seen it’s bee populations come back, but Bayer and Sygenta are lobbying to prevent a Euro-wide ban, for fears it would harm their global business. It seems they’re close to having the support of the UK, Spain, and Germany, who want to protect their biggest chemical corporations.

Now the issue is coming to a boil. Just weeks ago, Avaaz delivered a petition signed by over 2.5 million of us to the European Commission, who proposed a ban days later. EU parliamentarians are stepping up their pressure and several other European governments have announced plans to push ahead with new legislation to ban the deadly pesticides on their own. So we have the power to win this, but we need one final push to overcome the pesticide lobby. Send a message telling EU governments to support the ban now and then share with others:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/bye_bye_bees_global/?tPHMWdb

Our world is beset with threats to what makes it habitable, and to what fills it with wonder. The Avaaz community comes together to defend both — large or small. Whether winning a battle to keep the International Whaling Commission from sanctioning the murder of these giants, or saving bees, the tiny creatures upon which so much depends, we will come together and stand up for the world we all want.

With hope,

Iain, Marie, Pascal, Emma, Ricken, Alaphia, and the Avaaz team

MORE INFORMATION

Plan Bee: Brussels pitches 2 year pesticides ban (EurActiv)
http://www.euractiv.com/science-policymaking/plan-bee-brussels-pitches-year-p-news-517500

EU Proposes ban on bee killer (The Telegraph)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9840497/EU-proposes-ban-on-bee-killer-pesticide.html

Government to ignore European ban on neonicotinoid pesticides (Independent)
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/government-to-ignore-european-ban-on-neonicotinoid-pesticides-8483916.html

The Battle to ban bee killers (Avaaz Daily Briefing)
http://en.avaaz.org/1326/eu-ban-bee-killing-pesticides-bayer

Studies fault Bayer in bee die-off (Christian Science Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0406/Studies-fault-Bayer-in-bee-die-off

Homeopathy And Planting Lawn Flowers For The Bees

Why Are Bees Dying?

This year I have not seen more than a couple of bees at a time in my small garden here at Morrinsville. There are plenty of flowers there of which bees are very fond, but the bees just do not arrive in their numbers as they used to.

Well, we all know about those insecticides and herbicides which kill bees off. If we want to protect our bees so that we still have them around to pollenate our food crops for us, then we all have to stop using toxic chemicals on our soil and plants.

It has been shown that the nicotinoid insecticides spell death to bees, causing the phenomenon known as ‘Bee Colony Collapse Disorder’. Scientists who researched this project found that bees who were exposed to incredibly microscopic amounts of nicotinoid poisons, so small that the nicotinoids could not be detected in the samples they gave to bees, developed a virus which killed the whole hive off. Whereas the bees which the scientists knew had not been exposed to these microscopic amounts of poisons did not succumb to the virus, and their hives lived. See Merrilyn’s post entitled Bees Colony Collapse Disorder from February 2011.

Thus is the power of Homeopathy. For this is how Homeopathy works: Microscopic amounts of the original material are used by diluting the mixture to the required strength. Critics of Homeopathy, such as New Zealand’s doctor Shaun Holt, are adamant that homeopathy is a sham because ‘homeopathic remedies do not have anything in them’. But scientists, in proving how poisons remain potent even when there is no trace left in a dilution, causing the death of bees, have actually proved that the strange phenomena of homeopathy exists.

In Homeopathy, as it works for people and animals, a dilution of the original material, whether it be a poison or a plant, or a mineral, is used to cure the same symptoms that the poison would induce if it was given undiluted to a healthy person. We would not try taking any amount of the deadly Digitalis in its original form, as we would experience a racing heart, delusions, and probable death. But if suddenly, without taking any Digitalis herb, you became sick with a racing heart, delusions, and feared death, then chances are that Homeopathic Digitalis would fix that racing heart and take away the delusions and fear of death. And homeopathic nicotinoids would probably be the very thing to reverse those symptoms which arose from being exposed to nicotinoid poisons, or to reverse the same effects. If the life of a bee were not so short, and their bodies not so fragile, it might be possible to reverse the effects of the poison by spraying their hives with an even stonger dilution of the toxin which made them sick. (A stronger potion results each time it is diluted 1:10, or 1:100)

The other reason that bees are struggling to survive, apart from insecticides killing them off, is the fact that there are few flowering herbs and weeds left around on street verges and in the lawns which are planted about the place. This means that bees are often short of food. They are also short of the medicinal nutrients to be found in all flowers of herbs and weeds and fruiting plants.

Many valuable plants are disappearing from our gardens and from our grassed areas. In the old days, one would see an abundance of pretty little flowers peeking out through the grass, especially if you left the grass to grow for a week or two after getting rain. But people seem to want monocultures of pure grass these days, with none of these valuable medicinal plants and weeds showing their dear little heads.

We need to get planting those old-fashioned components of grass – Things like penny royal, red clover, plaintain, dandelion, prunella vulgaris which is a beautiful little purple flower, also known as ‘self-heal’, daisies, yarrow and chamomile. These plants all grow well in a lawn and will provide nourishment for the bees as well as a feast for the eye of the beholder. Every time you walk across your lawn you will smell the delicious fragrances of these herbs, which has an uplifting result in itself.

Plant plenty of borage, marigolds, lemon balm and fever few amongst your vege patch, and let the seeds self-sow in the corners of the garden. Lemon balm and borage are especially loved by bees, but any of these little flowers will attract honey bees and bumble bees into your vege patch and orchard, which will help produce a good crop through their pollination work. The bonus is that you will end up with medicinal plants at your finger-tips, to use when necessary, as well as keeping the bee population alive and well.

Instead of using those poisons to kill the weeds and insects, let the nature’s natural insecticides, the small weeds, share your lawn with the grass. Plant cottage garden plants around in your vegetable patch, and around the borders of the lawn, and let those beneficial weeds grow.

So throw those poisonous insecticides and herbicides away. They are bad for the bees, bad for your own health, bad for the health of your children, and bad for the health of your pets.

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RoundUp Herbicide Causes Severe Candidiasis

Environmental Poisoning: How Round UP Herbicide Has Caused A Sudden Rampant Yeast Infection.

Gardens and grass verges should never be sprayed with weedkillers such as RoundUp. We are still being exposed to this terrible poison by councils all over the country who spray it around our pathways and parks on a regular basis. There are better, safer methods of weed-control other than using RoundUp. This is a photo of Dunedin Botanic Gardens where, I believe, RoundUp weedkiller is not used.

Curing Candida Infection: Here is how it happened, and here is how I cured it:

I pray that all councils in New Zealand stop using herbicides around our towns. There are safer alternatives, such as steam, and biodynamic methods, and homeopathic methods, which can be adopted instead.

My experience of being subjected to the herbicide RoundUp proves to me that yeast infections are very often the result of environmental poisons on the body. RoundUp weed killer, and other herbicides and insecticides, kill off the beneficial bacteria in the bowel, which means that the candida albicans organism has the opportunity to take over.

Environmental poisons such as RoundUp weaken your immune system drastically, starting with the reduction of the ‘good’ bacteria. The whole system can be affected by poisons such as RoundUp, and very quickly too. The whole nervous system suffers from the use of exposure to RoundUp. Your eyesight, bones, blood pressure, skin, digestive system, hearing, and brain can all be affected. Of course, sensitive people, which category includes children, will suffer more than insensitive people. Which is why this deadly poison should NEVER EVER be sprayed around lawns, houses, and streets where children often walk bare-foot. We got no warning that this spraying was about to be done around our houses, but even with a warning we would not have been spared from the damaging effects of this poison.

It is exactly a week since the council sprayed the herbicide all around the town, and all around the gardens and paths of our residential complex.

A few days after the spraying, I wrote about the immediate effects that this poisoning had had on myself, as well as those which my friend experienced.

The Vitamin C megadoses, plus homeopathic remedies, helped enormously during those first few days following the spraying. But a week later, because of recontamination because of walking along the streets each day, and having the RoundUp still lying about our houses with no rain to dilute it, I have become very sick with an attack of candida. Because the digestive system is affected, I now have to avoid using homeopathic remedies, herbs, cooked vegetables, coffee, etc, until the infection subsides.

Today, suddenly, the stomach pain became very severe and I felt that I would faint any minute. Dizziness, pain in the head, blurry vision, nerve pain and nervous tremors, heart palpitations, and a racing pulse all manifested as a reaction to the RoundUp in our living environment, which we have had to put up with for a week now.

The yeast infection has affected every part of my system and I have had to resume the very strict candida diet, omitting all fruit, grains, potatoes and many other things.

I am taking non-acidic vitamin C in large doses – 1000mg-2000mg several times a day – around 8000mg on the first day. I will reduce the dose by about half tomorrow.

I also took two 500mg tablets of Paracetamol in one dose, to quickly reduce the symptoms of poisoning. A few hours later, I took just one more Paracetamol, with 1000mg non-acidic vitamin C.

These measures have brought the infection under control.

Unless I can persuade the council to stop spraying around our houses, I think I will have to move to a safer place. I have not been exposed to such quantities of herbidice for many years now. This is one hazard of living in a New Zealand country farming community – there is just not the awareness here of the danger of widespread herbicide use, compared to the awareness which is growing in Auckland.

The first time they sprayed here was about six weeks ago, shortly after I arrived. The symptoms were the same, with bone pain, dizziness, nausea, etc. But with this second dose of RoundUp poisoning, six weeks later, I am suffering more severely, and the symptoms are longer-lasting.

My elderly friend did not realize the council had done any spraying around her house, and went out into her garden as usual. She was barefoot, and waded into the area which the council had sprayed profusely, and which now, a week later, is totally brown and dead from the effects of the spray. My friend got a terrible allergic reaction the next day, with swollen legs which were covered with a very angry-looking red rash.

The rash became a little better, but she has been wandering around on the grass near her house, bare-foot, and the rash came back again. I was worried that she might get an infection in the skin, which was beginning to break in parts. At her age, this could have been very dangerous. She eventually went to the doctor to get an antibiotic, just in case septocaemia set in.

Read also Merrilyn’s post: Round Up Poison Causes Sudden Toxic Reactions

Note: The above treatment worked to remedy the sudden attack of candidiasis which had resulted from being exposed to the poisonous herbicide ‘Round Up’. At the end of the first day, after powering into those 1000mg tablets of non-acidic Vitamin C, plus two doses of paracetamol, the attack subsided. The following day I took another couple of doses of paracetamol, just one tablet each time, and took around 6 doses of 1000mg vitamin C tablets through the day. I kept away from all fruits, cooked veges, grains, bread, biscuits, yoghurt, etc, which had the effect of starving out the candida. I ate high protein food – that beautiful steak – for two days, by which time the infection was over. On the third day after the attack, I resumed eating a normal healthy diet, with fruit – and coffee too. But I am avoiding yeast foods such as bread, and amping up the high quality protein and fat foods.

Now I am meticulously avoiding the areas around the town, and around my house, which have been sprayed with Round Up. If it rains this weekend, the residues on the grass will hopefully be washed away.

And, after suffering many distressing symptoms, with much effort put in, and expense too – Vitamin C megadoses are not cheap – I now have recovered from this deluge of Round Up spraying, so my health should be perfect until the council come around to poison us all over again – in around 6 weeks’ time.

Herbicides should never be sprayed in public places.

On-Going Chest Pain Is It Lung Cancer?

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5th July 2013 – Unfortunately it appears as if the council are not going to stop the spray of RoundUp poison around our houses – weedkiller has been sprayed around the town and also about our flats. Yesterday, I smelt the distinctive smell of weedkiller as I walked downtown. It affected my breathing immediately and brought back the flu sumptoms. Today, the weedkiller smell is very strong outside my flat. Best thing is to stay indoors to avoid walking in it and avoid breathing the fumes as much as possible.

Round-Up Poison Causes Sudden Toxic Reactions

Agricultural Poison Causes Sudden Rash, Swollen Legs, Bone Aches, Ear Ache, Kidney Infection, and Dizziness. 29 January 2013.

Our local council has just done its rounds of ‘Round-Up’ weedkiller, an herbicide which is widely used in New Zealand to kill roadside weeds and weeds along footpaths and around parks. Every six weeks or so, this seems to be the routine, and down here in this little country town where I now reside, it seems that nobody objects to this routine poisoning of our parks and streets which is done without warning.

Children and animals are at great risk from the laying of this poison around the park down the road, and around the streets. And people who live in council flats, such as myself, are especially vulnerable to this poison called Round-Up, because the council comes and sprays the stuff within a metre of our houses.

We have been told for years by councils and farmers, who also use the stuff very liberally, that Round-Up is not toxic to humans in the amounts we are exposed to. They believe also that the stuff ‘breaks down within a few weeks’. I am not a scientist, but I can still taste the stuff in dandelion greens and other edibles, growing within a foot or two of the spray-line, even after six weeks or longer.

Of course the idea that Round Up has no bad effect on humans, or bees, or birds, or pets, is a fallacy: This story is a yarn spun by the chemical companies who profit from the selling of it, and adopted by councils, farmers and householders alike, because this herbicide poison is just so convenient, since it saves a lot of work, and a lot of money. The people who use it and profit from its use do not want to think too much about the possible harmful effects of the stuff.

There is plenty of evidence to show that Round-Up is NOT the harmless herbicide that it is claimed to be.

Both times the council have sprayed around our houses, I have had a sudden occurence of ear ache, dizziness, with bone pain which came on the day after the spraying. This was followed a day or so later with terrible back pain which accompanied a sudden kidney infection. My urine smelled strange, and the left kidney area was painful. I felt dizzy and had stomach cramps.

I realized it was the Round Up poison which had brought on these sudden symptoms, and took homeopathic Thuja immediately to counteract the toxic herbicide. I took the Thuja three or four times a day for three days. This helped. When the back pain appeared, I also took 2000 mg of Vitamin C to get rid of the kidney infection el pronto. I also drank copious amounts of boiled water – about a glassful every two hours for the first twelve hours.

The interesting thing was that my friend suffered similar symptoms, as well as a severe rash, at the same time as I had these ailments.

Here is how the recent spraying just five days ago, on Thursday, affected my friend:

The day after the spraying, my elderly friend, who lives in an apartment which she owns, but which is run by the council, went out into her garden to do some gardening. She did not realize that the council had been the day before and sprayed the verges of all the footpaths around the houses, just as they had done at my house, as well as the borders of her gardens, and a corner area which was a little overgrown. She spent the morning tackling the weeds in the corner, unsuspecting of the danger she had put herself in. She was wearing sandals and knee-length trousers, so that her legs were exposed.

The following day, when I called in on her, she was in a bad way. Her legs were considerably swollen with a bright, angry red rash all over the calves. It looked like hives, only much worse. She was complaining of chronic earache and said she felt dizzy. I told her about the spraying, and said that she must avoid doing any gardening for a few days. We bathed her legs and did some healing on them. I suggested that she go down to the doctor’s, in case septocaemia should set in, but she decided not to do this.

Next day, on the Sunday, her legs were better after the treatment we had done. The earache was gone, and the redness of the rash had disappeared, although she still had welts which looked like the remains of hives, like little blisters. On the Monday, she decided that the sprayed areas might be safe, and went back into her garden to clean it up. By this time, the area in the corner was browned off after the spraying. But the stuff was still potent. It brought the rash up again. I visited her in the afternoon and her legs were almost as red as they had been on the Saturday.

I knew it was the Round Up spray again, because I had been out after dark, barefoot, to put out milk for the hedgehog. The soles of my feet burnt so badly after walking on the lawn, I had to wash them again to rid them of the poison. That was four days after the spraying.

Round-Up is NOT a safe poison to be spraying around our gardens, our parks, our footpaths. Auckland City Council, before it became the great amalgamation that it is now, used to use just hot water on the edge of its grass verges. This is the method all councils should adopt, unless they give people more jobs to actually go around and physically manicure the edges of all green areas.

Note: Homeopathic Thuja is invaluable for antidoting environmental poisons, as well as being useful to counteract the bad effects of vaccination. I use it whenever I am exposed to poisons such as Round Up, along with Vitamin C in non-acidic form.

Note: More concentrated spraying was done in and around our town and yards, by the council, on Friday the 1st March, 2013. It was also done 2 weeks before that, as well as the spraying which occurred around 28th January 2013. Of course, it was done before that time, but I have only just begun to record the instances of spraying round-up, or similar herbicides, in our town, from the date of 29th January, 2013.

More Spraying Done Causing Illness At Easter: Spraying was done just prior to Easter, about the Tuesday before Good Friday, as I remember. I was out when they did this, but the evidence was there when I returned. As well, strong insecticide was sprayed to kill a wasps’ nest outside my door on the same day the herbicide was sprayed around. The effect of both these sprays – an herbicide and an insecticide – put me out of action for a few days. Dizziness, depression with much crying, and a piercing headache at the top of my scull on the left side was the result, especially on Good Friday and Saturday. Difficulty breathing, heart palpitations and a soaring temperature with red flushed cheeks were also symptoms of spray exposure. I felt so awful I thought about death and how I could hurry it up. By Sunday the depression was gone, but my energy levels were so incredibly low, and the pains in my heart so intense, I felt I would collapse. I managed to play the pipe organ for Easter Sunday Church, but it was touch and go as to whether I would fall off my seat or not.

It is around two weeks now since the last spraying was done just before Easter, April 2013. I am recovering with the help of vitamins, herbs, and homeopathy. The heart palpitations and pain disappeared within a few days after Easter, as did the breathlessness and feeling as if my diaphragm had ceased its lung action. But energy levels are still chronically low.

These sprays, I believe, have a deleterious effect on the health of almost everyone who comes in contact with them. But few doctors seem to be aware of this, and few are interested in documenting the effects of sprays on people. Most people who are already aware of the toxic effects of sprays, like myself, do not use doctors as a rule, so these spraying ‘incidents’ go unreported. And what is the point, after a spraying ‘incident’ which affects the health dramatically, in paying a doctor in the hope that they will take up the challenge to investigate the devastating effects of toxic sprays on people’s health? Proving the point could be a costly business.

Keeping a record of these spraying dates might give people an idea about how much they are being exposed to these poisons.

Read also my post entitled ‘Round-Up Spray Causes Candidiasis’.

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