Preface: I didn't believe in it. I thought I was being scientific and basing my opinion on well researched medical facts. I was wrong.
Starting with the forced vaccination campaigns is when I started to distrust the medical industry. I was ignorant about herbal medicine and I thought it was a bunch of ineffective wives tails and confirmation bias. I thought "Of course you got better, you just had to wait, but now you think your cream healed you because you put it on and didn't die while you healed like normal"
Holy hell was I wrong.
So it turns out that your doctor is still pretty damn good resource, however, like most people, he's also completely ignorant about pharmacy.
Ever hear of these plants?:
- Comfrey, also known as knit-bone
- Horsetail
- Yarrow
- Plantain
- St. John's Wort
- Lungwort
- Stinging Nettle
- thistle
I heard the names of some, I even read about some, but fuck me this stuff belongs in every single yard in existence.
Comfrey had been used as medicine for over 2000 years. Know what it does? The Roman army certainly did.
So it turns out that it's called knit-bone for a reason. It contains allantoin and rosmarinic acid. It's the most powerful healing thing I have ever read about in my entire life. 2000 years of observational evidence backed by dozens of of double blind, multicenter, randomised control trials.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491633/
Literally the gold standard of science. Grow this fucking plant. The FDA desperately doesn't want you to have it despite the medical evidence and had been trying to scare people away from using it because if you abuse it you could hurt your liver.... Sounds like most medicines to me.
Horsetail is nutritious and will stop you from bleeding out in an emergency.
Pharmaceutical grade bleed stop, like what you get for your dog to stop their mail bleeding if you accidentally cut into the quick, is made out of yarrow. It's a traditional remedy, dried and powdered yarrow will stop the bleeding and help block infection because it's also antibacterial. WTF, why isn't it in the camping section at Wal-mart?
Plantain is anti-bacterial, anti-septic and anti-fungal. It's so effective you don't need it to be sterile to work and keep your wound clean. You can chew the stuff into a poultice to put on your wound from your dirty ass mouth and it still works.
St. John's Wort will relieve anxiety, depression, insomnia and psychosis. It's undisputed and medically accepted. It just has a lot of drug interactions.
Lungwort is great medicine when you are sick and congested. As the name suggests, it helps your breathing and lungs. My two daughters were sick, my wife decided to test it on them. It worked just like our herbal medicine books said it would.
Singing nettle is extremely nutritious and will help you get a good night's sleep for real if you make a tea with the fresh stuff. Just be prepared to either have extremely vivid dreams and/or lucid dreams.
Thistle: you're not ready to hear this lol. You should grow Thistles on purpose in your own yard...on purpose, like intentionally, without planning on getting rid of it....for real...
There are a lot of things that we eat and a lot of waste metabolites that are fat soluble. Or modern life is placed with herbacides and pesticides as well, some of those are also fat soluble. Lots of us have abused our livers as well.
Guess what? Thistle forces that shit out of your fat and into your blood, simulated your liver, improves liver function and helps you get all that shit out.
Are you unallergic to certain foods, but "break out" when you eat them or get joint issues? That's because your liver sucks. Go eat some thistle, especially the roots. The stalk can be cleaned up with a vegetable peeler, its like celery, the roots are where most of the good stuff is though.
There's more plants and more proven effects of them.
Most of them you were misguided to think of as weeds or poison.
God is trying to take care of us.
This is exactly why I work so hard to share info about essential oils! And even with essential oils you have to be very careful. Someone in the comments mentioned "oregano oil is pretty cheap at the store", but they don't realize that its cheap because it's either synthetic (which your body doesn't know what to do with and cause side effects) or it's diluted.
Essential oils are not regulated and you get what you pay for so make sure you're sure the company you buy from is making 100% pure oils. And there are very few companies who do.
I actually said that oregano is pretty cheap and I meant it in relationship to the price of other oils. I actually use Young Living and some other top brands and I have paid over $100 for 5 ml of some of the more expensive oils. Yes, there is a terrible influx of synthetic (ie. Lavender) or diluted oils, (ie. Frankincense). And on the other hand it does not mean that cheaper oils are cheaply made. There is great profit to be made and multi-levels are higher than others selling oils but you really need to be educated and aware! So good warning overall.
Some of my favorite oil companies are: Plant Therapy - Robert Tisserand, who wrote the definitive book on EO safety helps formulate and consults...reasonble.
Now - reasonable and excellent in house testing.
Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy - Dr. Schnaubelt Ph.D in Aromatherapy.
Healthy Traditions - sells Florihana EO's from France
Rocky Mountain Oils Mountain Rose Herbs
Since you are into oils you might enjoy books by Dr. Scott Johnson..such as "Evidence-based Essential Oil Thrapy: The Ultimate Guide to the Therapeutic and Clinical Application of Essential Oils." This is a terrific book! There are so many great ones in reality. This is my go to for internal dosing and topical blends and protocol and safety for ALL things essential oils.
Thank you very much for the book recommendations! I've heard of Dr Scott Johnson and will definitely look for that book!