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Essential oils

I read your blog on liver and kidney and was surprised to read “avoid essential oils” because they can impair liver function? Are you mistakenly meaning Frangrance oils vs plant essential oils?
I found this very odd as it very much contradicts publish research and well and naturopathic studies. Compounds in essential oils, certain ones and within reason can be very beneficial. Just wanted to ask why you might suggest otherwise?

Thank you
Breann

 

Hello Breann,

Yes, this is quite shocking for many people to hear. Based on research that is being done essential oils destroy mitochondria in the body. Essential oils are more effective at killing bacteria in the body than antibiotics. Yes, just as drugs impair liver and kidney function essential oils do to. Essential oils are extremely concentrated and are made by extracting and concentrating the volatile oils from the plant. Why do you feel you need to use them? One drop of peppermint essential oil is equal to the amount of volatile oils you would get from 25-30 cups of peppermint tea. Does this seem safe to you? Then there is the way the plants are treated when they do harvesting for essential oils and how much plant material is used.

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Yarrow

Yarrow

(Achellia millefolium)

This lovely perennial weed is grown in many herb gardens for it has a multitude of uses. Cut the flowering tops (use only white-flowering yarrow) and use your alcohol to make a strongly-scented tincture that you can take internally to prevent colds and the flu. (A dose is 10-20 drops, or up to 1 ml).
I carry a little spray bottle of yarrow tincture with me when I'm outside and wet my skin every hour or so. A study showed Yarrow tincture to be more effective than DEET at repelling ticks, mosquitoes, and sand flies.
You can also make a healing ointment with yarrow flower tops and your oil or fat. Yarrow oil is antibacterial, pain-relieving, and incredibly helpful in healing all types of wounds.

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Red Clover Conference: May 2024

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The Red Clover Conference: Lets Make Sense of Phytoestrogens

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Join fifteen deeply green herbalists as we share our decades of personal and clinical experiences, thoughts, visions, and uses of red clover — and her sisters, white clover, crimson clover, and sweet clover (Melilotus). Discover an herb cherished for thousands of years by farmers and folks, feared by modern doctors, and deeply misunderstood. Learn the many ways red clover nourishes us from the soil to our microbiome, and why it may be one of the best choices for women with a breast cancer diagnosis or fertility problems, and for everyone who wants to live long and thrive.

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Red clover Infusion

Red clover Infusion

Susun makes red clover nourishing herbal infusion. Red clover blossom infusion is one of the world's best remedies for infertility. It is highly regarded as an anti-cancer remedy. It is considered safe for consumption by pregnant and lactating women. The high vitamin content of red clover blossoms, combined with the folic acid in the leaves is especially helpful to sperm and egg production and helps prevent birth defects. Red clover's high mineral and trace mineral content helps restore and maintain good production of hormones. Its profuse and exceedingly absorbable calcium and magnesium help rejuvenate and repair the delicate tissues of reproduction.

 

 

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Linden Infusion

Linden Infusion

 

Linden is the world’s leading anti-cold and anti-flu herb. It prevents and heals all respiratory distresses (but is not an anti-infective). It is a cooling and strengthening herb. Linden is considered safe for children and elders.

 

 

Linden is primarily used as a tea, though I prefer the curative powers of a strong infusion.

* One-half ounce of linden blossoms

* One quart of water

Steep for four hours. I strain off the first brew and refrigerate it, then rebrew the wet linden flowers by adding two cups of cold water to them in a saucepan. I bring this rebrew to a boil, cover, and let sit for four hours to extract the healing mucilage that is triggered by the cold water.

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Winter Allies - eat more garlic

I make sure I have plenty of winter allies on hand as the cold and flu season blossoms into coughs, runny noses, fevers, and viral infections.
I give myself the benefit of simple, safe green blessings that prevent -- and deal with -- viral (and bacterial) infections. Remedies made from the abundance around me, not bought at a drugstore. This is people's medicine. Mama Medicine. You can easily make you own winter remedies. Here's how.

🧄 Eat More Garlic

One of the best immune-system helpers is garlic. Dr. James Duke says it contains at least 17 different factors that nourish and support powerful immune system functioning. Herbalists in the middle ages relied on it to prevent infection from the plague, so it might keep us safe from the flu. Garlic is anti-bacterial, too. If you don't like fresh raw garlic, powdered garlic is just as good. The dose is 1 or more cloves of raw garlic per day, or up to a teaspoon of garlic powder.

To get the most medicine (allicin) from your garlic, mince it and let it oxidize for a few minutes.

Here are a few of my favorite ways to eat raw garlic:
Top scrambled eggs with minced raw garlic.
Put chopped raw garlic on pasta and cover with tomato sauce.
Try minced raw garlic on a piece of hot buttered toast. Delicious!
Add minced raw garlic to your baked potato.
Mix chopped raw garlic and olive oil with hot cooked greens like kale or spinach.

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Instead of Antibiotics

Instead of Antibiotics

There are good reasons to use antibiotic drugs. That said, itis agreed that they are often overused. If the infection is not life threatening, you may wish to try herbs instead of, or in addition to, regular antibiotics.
Of the most-often used herbal anti-infectives - calendula, chaparral, echinacea, goldenseal, myrrh, poke, usnea, and yarrow - it is the lovely purple coneflower that I most often turn to.

I find echinacea as effective as antibiotics (dare I say sometimes better than!) if E. angustifolia/augustifolia), not E. purperea, is used; tincture, not capsules or teas is used; the root, and only the root, is used; and very large doses are taken very frequently.

To figure your dose of echinacea, divide your body weight (in pounds) by 2; take that many drops per dose. There are about 25 drops in a dropperful; round up to full droppers. If you weigh 180 pounds, take 90 drops/4 dropperfuls. There is no known overdose of echinacea tincture.
With acute infection I take a full dose every 2-3 hours. When chronic, a full dose every 4-6 hours.

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Horseradish tincture

Horseradish tincture

Makes your eyes water and clears your sinuses. Intense!

Slice horseradish root into thin even disks. Cut disks into thin even strips. Chop strips into a small dice.

Fill jar to the top with diced horseradish.

Add 100 proof vodka and label.

While it is typical to wait six weeks before using a tincture, if the horseradish is finely chopped, this tincture can be used within 24 hours after preparation.

The longer it sits, the stronger it gets.

Start with 5-10 drops doses (orally) and increase as needed to clear nasal and sinus congestion.
(do not use in nasal passage)*
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Herbed Burdock

Herbed Burdock

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Preparation time: With precooked burdock, 15 minutes at the most.
Add another 45 minutes to soak and cook burdock. Serves 6-8.

4 cups/1 liter burdock root
3 tablespoons/45ml olive oil
3 tablespoons/45ml butter
4 oz/125ml fresh herbs
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 Tbs/30ml lemon juice
2 tablespoons/30ml tamari

Soak and parboil burdock root or stalk. If you use chilled, already cooked burdock, warm it. Heat oil and butter. Add burdock, then garlic and herbs. Stir and heat together for a minute, then add tamari and lemon juice. Serve hot.

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Herbed Burdock

Herbed Burdock

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Preparation time: With precooked burdock, 15 minutes at the most.
Add another 45 minutes to soak and cook burdock. Serves 6-8.

4 cups/1 liter burdock root
3 tablespoons/45ml olive oil
3 tablespoons/45ml butter
4 oz/125ml fresh herbs
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 Tbs/30ml lemon juice
2 tablespoons/30ml tamari

Soak and parboil burdock root or stalk. If you use chilled, already cooked burdock, warm it. Heat oil and butter. Add burdock, then garlic and herbs. Stir and heat together for a minute, then add tamari and lemon juice. Serve hot.

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