Local Herbs

The real Hydrangia Flower Bush has white flowers. Not so easy to find anymore, seems they have modified the plant to produce colored flowers, etc....



My Grandmother's house was surrounded by the very old bushes and I planted a start from hers 12 years ago. I also discovered if you jus break off a branch and stick it in wet dirt and keep it wet for a month, it will also start a new bush, so very easy to grow and once started produces hundreds of huge white flowers.



Tradionally they use the roots for kidney cleanse type formulas. I used the flowers for years with the same type results with out hurting the original plants... I don't realy like killing plants for their roots when there is no need to, or I don't have allot of the plants, etc... As fate would have it, 12 years ago I planted this Hydrangia Bush where we wanted to someday in the future put a side walk; so I dug it up and the bush had a bushel basket of roots under it. No doubt you could break the roots into hundreds of pieces and replant them and have all the bushes you could ever want...



Digging the bush after the top has died for winter, makes it the ideal time of year to harvest the roots. These should be enough to last us a lifetime; along with a similar amount of wild Gravel Root I dug out of my mother's swamp land earlier this Fall. Junipher Berry is another potent herb used for Kidney Formulas, they often can be found on the low growing evergreen bushes around older houses as well, my brother's house next door is a very old farm house that has plenty of such bushes.



Marshmallow Rt is another fine Kidney herb, we acquired one of these plants years ago from a herbalist that specialized in the medical type herbs and once started, it has spread around the property and more than plenty to harvest, but also easy to re-plant the top sprouts of the roots and make 1 plant turn into 10 new plants.



One of Dr. Christopher's Kidney formulas used these herbs:

Juniper Berries, Parsley Root,

PARSLEY IS EASY TO RAISE IN THE GARDEN EACH YEAR.



Uva Ursi Leaves,

THIS PLANT DOES NOT GROW HERE, SO I DO HAVE TO BUY IT.



Marshmallow Root, Lobelia Herb,

I HAVE RAISED LOBELIA, IT IS VERY LOW GROWING, BUT CAN BE RAISED HERE.



Ginger Root

CAN BE RAISED ONLY IN THE SUMMER, SO IT IS BETTER TO JUST BUY IT

& Golden Seal Root.

THE LOCAL WOODS HAVE PLENTIFUL PATCHES OF GOLDEN SEAL,EVEN THOUGH IN SOME STATES THEY CLAIM IT IS RARE.



Dr. Christopher alwyas suggested if you could only finda couple of the herbs he used in formulas, that was enough....



Naturally those into herbs, try to find as many of the old herbs locally as they can; just for the fun of messing with herbs. Those taking inorganic stone accumulations serious, seek them all, also acquire the Cedar Berries and then seek the best kidney herbs from other countries like south america, china, etc...



Then the REALLY exotic self experimenters end up making not only tinctures and syrups of such herbs, but also external herbal sprays....and naturally; those into extreme self-experimentation keep adding herbs, such as spices to increase the absorbtion, assimulation and elimination via increasef blood circulation..



Do herbalist do such things? NOT REALLY, in general, they just make old formulas from books and normally maybe, a very small batch of say, 1 quart jar. They never acquire large enough amounts and varieties of herbs to experiment very far. In theory, the herbalist makes formulas and the master herbalist is more of the teacher or author of books. Most likely anyone going to a school to become what is called a master herbalist, will discover the tital is really just a joke and no one takes the time to actually learn about each herb or even learn how to identify properly the unknown herbs...IN FACT, my guess is, most herb companies just buy bulk herbs that mostly came from over sea sources for very little $$$ and these sources are known to use all sorts of herbs and often not only have odd herbs blended in, but also often not even the correct herbs.

Once dried and powdered or even a tea cut, herbs look pretty much the same.



Back when Dr. John R. Christopher trained Master Herbalist, the students had to identify 100 herbs by taste...Those days are long gone, the students of today do not have that kind of patients and desire to actually become real master herbalist, capable of walking into any woods in the world and able to identify the plants based on family/specie with out getting out the books and studying for hours or days to try to identify just 1 unknown plant.



Dr. Christopher's son grew up knowing herbs, teaches master herbalist, etc...his entire life...yet, when doing the traditional master herbalist walk, he is quick to point out, DON'T ASK what all the herbs are that he is not pointing out; because he does not know their names....The Herbalist only identifies the herbs he uses and ignores the rest...while in my theory to be a real master of herbs, you would be able to quickly point out the family of any herb a person could ask of you and by taste know if that plant was friendly or toxic and as well have an understanding of spiritual / Indian beliefs/uses, etc...and I doubt such herbalist exist in today's hurry up world.



The doctors of today search the world over for herbs they can SELL and they have done this so many times, no one trust them...as each new herb comes, it goes as fast as it came..The consumer hascame to realise these doctors lie about each herb and even if they did find a good one, no one would use it long enough to make it successful very long; because the doctors don't care about the herb, because they are looking for next months SPECIAL HERB they can make millions off of, proving to the public they didn't believe anything they said about last years special herbs.



Dr. Christopher believed strongly that all the herbs you need are just the weeds, bushes and trees that grow in your general area. No need for out of state or out of country herbs....So the more exotic herbs are not required, unless a person wants to do it for fun.



Does anyone go to the woods today and collect Golden seal, Gravel Rt. , locate the junipher bushes and Hydrangia bushes around old farm houses? Take the time to grow Marshmallow rt. etc.....or do you suspect they simply look on line and buy the herbs already in 1# bags from unknown sources and they never know how many years those herbs set in a bag on a shelf in a foriegn country bedfore it was ever shipped to their country for sale...



IF the herbs come from commercial / factory sources, that pretty much confirms they are not growing or wild crafting herbs and using fresh...but instead are stock piling and making sure the herbs are very sterile for long storage, so their customers never have a spoiled product.



Even the companies that grow herbs, often need to dry them fast and only sell dry herbs. Dry herbs are know to be up to 80% less potent than fresh picked. Fresh picked and chewed in the mouth would be the closest way known as Traditional / Indian. Real herbalist back in the days when herbs were your only sources of medicine used whole herbs, mostly just chewed by mouth and spit out the rt when your done. If you were a very rich person, you had a home that you could have a fire and the capabilty to make a tea. Further back in history they often burned the herbs and smelled the smoke. After all, back when it was "REAL", there was no storage, no elctric, no preservitives, YOU just knew where your herbs (weeds) were located and when sick, you made your way there and dug them up, even if you had to dig through the snow....because you KNEW the location of each.



The ONE THING I wish I had:

As a child, my grandmother was looking at an old house for sale...she showed me on the inside of a CLOSET DOOR A FULL LIST OF HERBS...naturally I had no clue what a herb was back then; but I remember the door and my grandmother explained that every old farm house owner did this, so all future residents of that house would know those herbs grew near the home...this was REAL COUNTRY MEDICINE! So if you ever find such a door with a list of herbs on it, you have found a real true historical collectors item. I have only seen one such door and it was nearly 45 years ago; I doubt many are in existance today...women probably painted over the list.



The europeans brought with them many of the herbs we know of today in AMERICA, these flowers and weeds have spread from coast to coast for 200 years. We have these rich brat doctors climbing the mountains and valleys of South America, while many of the American Native plants, trees and bushes really are still un discovered.



KEEP IN MIND

Humans are breathairians

They eat fruits to cleanse their constipated bodies.

Herbs are stronger and more purging...



In these advanced late stages of this earth cycle, humans have became cannibles of mammals, fish, insects, reptiles and even humans. They have became water and salt aholics.....IN FACT, all humans today are in a state of starvation and being eaten alive by parasites...their bones riddled with thousands of tunneling worms...their livers are like a restaurant for worms.



Humans are predators of each other everytime in history when a few desire to own and control the world. We are in such times in the past 2,000 years and highly excellerated since the invention of the jet planes and electronic age.



This past 100 years has done more damage to this earth than has been done by all humans ever before in world history. No one can deny that these college educated scientist are the destroyers of planet earth. The more a human thinks he/she is smart, the more they show how against God they really are. They do not trust God, they trust their college / $$$ systems that drives them to do evil as a way to get ahead.



AIR and SUN supplies LIFE

Fruits cleanse the dirty body.

Herbs as medicines when the body is too dirty.



This simplistic Natural Approach explains HERBS are going to be the most demanded product on earth as humans become more and more sick from their accumulated toxins and worms...because NOTHING ELSE was designed by Nature to aid the unhealthy humans.



If the perfect fruit diet is not enough to keep the toxins out and the worms killed, then daily herbs is the only option. Humans and Plants have a relationship. Most humans do not respect plants or seek to understand them, yet PLANTS are born into war and fight for survival from day 1 of their life. Plants are more sensitive than humans to the sun's accumulated radiation....because of this, governments sample plants every year as a way to see the future for human life on earth...when the plants die, ALL humans will die.





MH