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The Neem tree, which is a botanical cousin of mahogany, is well established in 30 countries but is native to India and Burma. It has an almost magical effect on chronic skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, scabies, acne, wrinkles, skin cancer, herpes and dermatitis. As well as doing wonders for chronic skin conditions, it is just as beneficial in the treatment of burns, diaper rash, sunburns as well as helping to heal simple cuts and abrasions. It has the ability to increase vascular permeability and increase blood flow around a wound and helps the body rapidly create collagen fibers to close the wound. The seeds, bark and leaves contain compounds with proven antiseptic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal and immune enhancing properties among others.

Neem has been a major ingredient in skin care products of India for over 4,000 years. Its skin healing properties are outlined in some of the earliest Sanskrit writings. It aids in reducing fine lines and wrinkles by providing a natural moisturizer. Neem Oil is absorbed quickly and is beneficial in recovering the natural balance to dry skin. Applied to the scalp; extracts and oils can be used in the control of dandruff. Neem contains some of the most powerful anti-fungal plant extracts that are available for the control of fungal skin diseases that affect humans, including those that cause athletes foot, ringworm and Candida. Even today, India's Neem tree is known as the "Village Pharmacy" because of its miraculous healing powers. Neem can be found in a variety of products such as Vegicapsules, toothpaste, certain varieties of hand soaps, as well as an extract or a cold pressed oil.

Entomologists have seen remarkable results in the control of more than 200 species of insects using this natural pesticide. It has been used safely for centuries to repel and disrupt their growth and reproduction. Neem is an effective and desirable alternative to synthetic insect repellents because it is a natural vegetable oil; it has been proven to repel annoying and dangerous insects including the mosquito for up to twelve hours.

 

Many university studies including Harvard have show that eating chocolate is good for you. Researchers have found that raw and / or minimally processed cocoa contains flavonoids similar to those found in green tea. Cacao nibs are the center of the cacao bean, found within the large pod of fruit of the Theobroma cacao tree. Nibs are small pieces of raw organic cacao or chocolate, which come from the cacao tree. High nutritional value and many health claims, 300 chemical compounds, more antioxidants and magnesium than any other food per gram.

Cacao contains more than 300 phytonutrients, including high levels of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and amino acids. There are two different kinds of flavonoids called catechin and epicatechins. Catechins, which have recently been found to be abundant in cocoa and minimally processed chocolate could guard against heart disease and cancer, as well as boosting the immune system. Chocolate is also a good source of copper and magnesium, which helps to regulate heartbeat and blood pressure, benefiting the circulatory system, brain function and memory.

Dark chocolate has a high concentration of flavonoids and it is these flavonoids that are thought to reduce blood pressure by increasing the production of nitric oxide, a substance that causes blood vessels to widen and relax. Cacao contains a wide array of unique properties and minerals, including high levels of sulfur and magnesium. It may increase your focus and alertness and contains nutrients to keep you happy. Chocolate and cacao are often associated with love. All this is due to phenylethylamine contained in the cacao. Anandamide can be produced in the brain when we are feeling great; cacao makes anandamide stick around longer.

Cacao may seem to diminish your appetite, perhaps due to its MAO inhibitors (monoamine oxidase enzyme inhibitors). Cacao’s rare MAO inhibitors may allow serotonin and additional neurotransmitters to circulate in the brain. Think of chocolate as nature’s antidepressant and include it in your diet. It is a divinely, smooth and delicious gift of health, happines, longevity and love.

 

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The Therapeutic potential of honey

Researchers believe that the therapeutic potential of honey is grossly underutilized. With increasing interest in the use of alternative therapies and as the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria spreads, honey may finally have its due recognition as a wound healer.

Raw honey makes a sterile, painless and effective wound dressing. Only unfiltered, unheated, unprocessed raw honey should be used as any processing destroys its healing qualities. It should be stored at room temperature. Honey has the ability to kill bacteria. Apply it directly to abrasions, and burns and cover with a piece of gauze. The results will occur quicker than with conventional salves and creams.

A bacteriologist at the Agriculture College in Colorado tried to grow certain diseases in honey as an experiment. The honey killed all the microorganisms. Typhoid, A and B typhosus, bowel bacteria, broncho-pneumonia bacteria, peritonitis, pleuritis, and suppurative abscesses bacteria all died as did the dysentery-pneumonia bacteria. These tests were duplicated in Canada and Washington, D.C. producing the same results. BURNS-apply freely over burns. It cools, removes pain and aids fast healing without scarring. Bacteria simply cannot survive in honey.

  • INSOMNIA: a teaspoon on honey in a mug of warm milk aids sleep and works wonders.
  • NASAL CONGESTION: place a teaspoon of raw honey in a basin of water cover your head with a towel and inhale the fumes.
  • FATIGUE: dissolve a teaspoon of honey in warm water. Honey is a unique stabilizer.
  • DEEP FACIAL CLEANSER: mix honey with equal parts oatmeal and apply as face pack, leave on 1/2 hr. Then wash it off. Great for acne & other blemishes.
  • POOR DIGESTION: Mix honey with an equal quantity of apple cider vinegar and dilute to taste with water. Also promotes weight loss.
  • HAIR CONDITIONER: Mix honey with equal amount of olive oil, cover head with warm towel for 1/2 hr. then shampoo off. Feeds hair and scalp. Hair will look & feel better.
  • OSTEOPOROSIS: Research has shown that a teaspoon of honey per day aids in calcium utilization.

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Cancer treatment is about making money...provoking thoughts

I posted this article, which may have some provoking thoughts:

The below is absolutely 100% true and as a doctor I have been telling people this for 15 years now. No one wants to listen. Folks need to wake up. Cancer treatment is about making money. It is a 120 billion dollar a year industry in the United States alone and estimated to be a 600 billion dollar a year industry worldwide.

A successful cancer case according to the American Cancer Society and the American College of Oncology and Haematology means that the person survives for 5 years. Both the American Cancer Society and the American College of Oncology and Haematology admit that a person is likely to survive cancer for 7 to 10 years even if they do absolutely NOTHING. Of course, only the doctors get those magazines - not you, the cancer patient.

  • Alternative medicine's track record of curing cancer is 10 times higher than that of conventional medicine. Note that I say CURE.
  • Remember another thing. A TUMOUR is just a symptom. It is not the cause of cancer.
  • Science is cause and effect. Remove the cause and the effect disappears.

I am in my third battle with cancer right now. I have not done any chemotherapy or radiation or surgery for any of my bouts with cancer. I survived leukaemia, I survived Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and now I have Glioblastoma which is supposedly an incurable form of brain cancer. I was given two months to live 5 months ago.

I have been using Chinese herbs, high doses of vitamin C, acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy and nutritional changes. Yes, at first it got worse. It had metastasized to my lymph nodes, my lungs and my bones. As of this week, I am happy to say that there is no evidence now of any cancer in my lymph system or my bones. I had 6 tumours in my lungs, now there are only two. The tumours in my brain have shrunken tremendously. I never did any of their chemo, radiation or surgery.

Here is a very interesting statistic that you can only have access to by being a doctor. Every year more than 1,000 doctors oncologists (cancer doctors) are diagnosed with cancer. Less than 10% of them choose to do the treatment that they have been giving to their patients. Sort of like the fact that less than 25% of all paediatricians vaccinate their own children because of the fact that the risk of sudden death or serious side effects from the vaccination is higher than the risk of catching the disease one is being vaccinated for. This is not bullshit people - it is truth.

Medicine is about money, not about your health and the system traps people, especially the elderly, disabled and poor into a deadly treatment regime that puts them in an early grave. Meanwhile, all the jet set billionaires are flying off to Europe and paying big bucks for alternative treatments and getting cured.

Does alternative medicine work all the time? No. Of course not. Nothing works all the time. But there is a reason for that. You don't die until it's your time to die. Nothing can make you live longer than that time.

However quality of life comes into play. Those cancer patients who use alternative therapies for their cancer, yet still die from the illness, suffer a much higher quality of life. They die able to spend time with their families and even recognize their family members. They don't become emaciated like those who do chemotherapy or radiation do and rarely is a person who goes under the treatment of chemotherapy able to recognize anyone for the last few days of their lives. Their bodies become ravaged to the point that you can't even recognize them either. They suffer at a much much higher rate and they have one let down after another as doctors tell them, ahhh - it's looking good, only to tell them on the next visit it's looking worse, you need more chemo and radiation.

What is criminal about this is that YOUR DOCTORS KNOW THIS.

I took an oath as a physician. I have always followed it. That has certainly not made me successful financially as a doctor because I have consistently refused to go along with conventional medicine's bullshit.

Read the below carefully. It may indeed make a difference in your life.
Rick Cantrell, PhD, MD, PsyD

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day and by including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7.. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumour size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumour destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:-

a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses , but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little other meat, like chicken. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C)..

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body’s own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave..

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

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