Herbs for calming nerves, insomnia, neuralgia, pain, shock, die-off and depression of the down cycles, for tea, baths or capsulating: Borage, Burdock leaves, Chamomile, Catnip, Gorse flowers, California poppy flowers, Comfrey, Cowslip, Evening primrose, Gelsemium, Ginger root, Goldenrod, Hop flowers, Juniper berries, Kava kava, Lemon balm, Linden flowers, Lobelia. Peppermint, Plantain, Meadowsweet, Motherwort, Mullein, Nettle, Oatstraw, Passion flower, Red clover flowers, Rosemary leaf, Skullcap, St John’s Wort, Valerian, Yarrow, Yellow dock. White willow can be used as an anti-inflammatory for nerve pain and headaches. Wood Betony is good for all head, neck and face pain including headaches. For migraine headaches: Fenugreek, Thyme and Feverfew. Fever: Dandelion, Elder flowers, Parsley seeds, Nettle, Sage, Yarrow.
SPASMS~TICKS
Black cohosh, Black haw, Blue cohosh root, Chaste berry fruit, Dong quai, Feverfew, Hops, Kava kava, Lobelia, Motherwort, Passion flower, Peppermint, Skullcap, Valerian, Wild Yam. B6, Magnesium.
TINNITUS (Ringing in the Ears)
Dong Quai, Feverfew, Ginkgo, Gotu Kola, Ginger root, Ginseng, Hawthorne Berry, Horsetail, Kudzu root, Neem Leaf, Propolis. Don’t forget to add the Ginger root because this helps with Vertigo (dizziness) aspect of tinnitus. Inflammation can have a significant effect on tinnitus: Goldenseal, echinacea, garlic, peppermint, calendula, plantain and turmeric. Flax oil/fish oil along with Vinpocetine in a small dosage, acting as a cerebral vasodilator, may be effective in reducing tinnitus. Patients with tinnitus may have low blood zinc levels; other vitamins & minerals include: Magnesium, Potassium, Maganese, Vitamins A & C, bioflavonoids, pantothenic acid.
VERTIGO AND NAUSEA
Basil, Butcher's broom, Cayenne, Chaparral, Chickweed, Cloves, Cramp bark, Dandelion root, Fennel, Ginger, Gingko, Hawthorne Berry, Lavender, Lemon balm, Licorice, Mullein, Pepperment, Wild Yam.
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
Drink the full water requirement (2 times body weight (lbs) in ounces per day) and take a few hypertension herbs like Ashwagandha, Basil, Black cohosh, Calamus, Cayenne, Celery seeds, Garlic, Ginger, Gotu kola, Hawthorne berry, Kelp, Maitake Mushroom, Mistletoe, Neem, Passion Flower, Papaya enzymes, Skullcap and Valerian. L-Theamine in green tea is also used for regulating blood pressure and may reduce glutamate induced excitotoxic damage in the brain. For high blood pressure consider taking the anticortisol measures in the Exhaustion Protocol and relaxation practices in the Kundalini Skills List. Regular exercise will lower blood pressure, resting heart rate and increase lung capacity.
ANXIETY AND HYPERTENSION TEA FORMULA
Gotu Kola, Hop flowers, Skullcap, Wild Oat leaf, Raspberry leaf, Tulsi-holy basil, Alfalfa leaf, Passion flower, Valerian leaf, Green tea, Chamomile flowers, Ginkgo leaf, Olive leaf, Nettle leaf and Violet leaves (you can harvest and dry yourself.) Cardamom seeds and Hawthorn berries crushed with a hammer. Cut-and-sift of Cinnamon sticks, Ginger root, Dong quai, Ashwagandha, Licorice Root; you may have to crush these yourself with a hammer.
I suggest you make a tea formula that you can take throughout the day to calm the nervous system, open the blood vessels and reduce hypertension. Use any or all of the following to make up a tea...you can brew it at home and take to work in a thermos...
You can buy most of the ingredients here www.mountainroseherbs.com/
ENERGIZERS
Wheatgrass juice gives the most immediate pick-me-up. Spirulina (bluegreen algae) gives substantial energy and is a complete food. Kelp provides the iodine to fire up the thyroid and metabolism. Green tea or yerba mate is good for energy also and it is not over stimulating like coffee.
Nori rolls are perhaps the most energizing high enzyme food there is: grind up slightly sprouted “hulled” sunflower or buckwheat seeds, add tahini, garlic, miso, Tom Yum Thai paste, lemon juice and mix this into a paste. Then put several tablespoons of this onto a nori sheet and cover with tomatoes, avocado, cilantro and cucumber, then roll up.
ADRENALS
Chronic inflammation and infection exhausts the adrenal glands. To build up your adrenals to recover from fatigue take 6-8 gms per day of buffered vitamin C//Vitamin C ‘Ester’ with plenty of water between meals. This high dosage will reduce symptoms when withdrawing from any addictive substance whether it be food and food allergens, drugs, coffee or nicotine. The adrenals are the site of the highest concentration of vitamin C in the body. Pantothenic acid or B5, vitamin B1 and vitamin B6 work synergistically to nourish and strengthen the adrenals. Herbs to rebuild the adrenals are: Suma, ginseng, licorice, chaparral, Ma huang and ashwagandha.
IMMUNITY
Echinacea, Garlic, Aloe, Shitake mushroom, Sarsaparilla, Suma, Barberry, Basil, Boneset, Chamomile, Ginger, Goldenseal, Licorice, Marshmallow, Mistletoe, St Johns Wort, Astragalus, Ligustrum, Chaparral, Pau D Arco.
Herbs that help neutralize toxins: Echinacea, Elecampane, Garlic, Fennel, Neem, Plantain.
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY
Angelica, Avocado leaves, Basil, Black haw, bone set, Chamomile, Chaparral, Echinacea, Fenugreek, Flaxseed, Gentian, Ginger, Goldenseal, Grapeseed extract, Horsetail, Juniper, Larch, Licorice, Marshmallow, Meadowsweet, Mistletoe, St John’s wort, Tumeric.
RADIATION PROTECTION
Olive leaf, Neem, Ginkgo, Ashitaba, Aloe Vera, Chamomile, Chaparral, Uva Ursi, Yucca Root, Bladderwrack, Noni Fruit & Seed, Jojoba, Tumeric, Graviola. Bentonite, zeolite, Pyrophyllite clay, kelp, algae, goji berry and all colorful berry foods.
ANTIBACTERIAL/FUNGAL
Antibacterial herbs: Elecampane, garlic, olive leaf, lobelia, mullein, thyme, and cayenne.
Candida Yeast: Pau D'Arco, oregano, gentian, Sodium Caprylate, grapefruit seed, barberry, goldenseal, chamomile, Biotin, Colloidal Silver, olive leaf, black walnut, probiotics, echinacea, suma, chaparral, graviola, siberian ginseng, aloe and garlic. Assisting: cardamom, ginger, fennel seeds, and fenugreek seeds.
Take a stress multivitamin and a chelated mineral supplement daily. Plus vitamin C 1000mg, vitamin B6 200Ð600 mg, vitamin E 800iu, Propolis 500 mg 3 times per day, take Garlic pills or fresh, and Primrose, Borage or Linseed oil. Use digestive enzymes or raw food with every meal. Take at least one teaspoon per day of Bentonite clay in a glass of water.
Colloidal silver: As a general antibacterial solution colloidal silver tends to reduce the intestinal bacteria populations. Alternatively colloidal silver made by using your own battery setup with wires of these pure precious metals can be sprayed onto sprouts grown in trays of soil. In this way the plant uptakes the metal and it chelates it for you. The colloidal silver kills fungal growth on the sprouts also.
SPLEEN
Astragalus root, Atractylodes rhizome, bupleurum root, black cohosh, Barberry bark, cardamon, Codonopsis, Cinnamon bark, Chaenomeles (quince) fruit, Citrus peel, dandelion root or yellow dock root, Dolichos seed, Dong Quai, Fennel seeds, Galanga rhizome, ginger root, Ginseng, Horseradish root, Jujube Fruit licorice root, magnolia bark, milk thistle, parsley, Prickly Ash fruit, Poriae cocos, red beet root, rose hips, Costus Root (saw-wort), wild yam,
DIGESTION
Irritable bowel syndrome and leaky gut syndrome is most often caused by or associated with candida.
Cleansers: Bentonite clay powder + Psyllium husk powder—mix
together and take one heap teaspoon in juice, per evening. Or put into
000 capsules and take 3 with a pint of water 2 hours after your last
meal. Bentonite will ionically remove the biproducts of free radical
decay. It is said that “regular” internal use of clay should be avoided
in leaky gut conditions to avoid the assimilation of excess aluminum.
However one is more likely to get brain damage from the toxins produced
during maldigestion than contracting Alzheimer’s from aluminum.
Bentonite is very soothing and antiputrifying in the digestive tract.
¦The most effective colon cleansing system is Arise and Shine
Rich Andersons book Cleanse and Purify Yourself, is the best place to start for ultimate cleansing. Toxic Relief: Restore Health and Energy Through Fasting and Detoxification, by Don Colbert M.D. is also great.
Repair and Rebuild: To rebuild the function and tone of the digestive tract after a kundalini awakening: White Oak Bark, cranesbill root, black cohosh, licorice root, peppermint.
Two parts each of kelp powder, spirulina and one part slippery elm put into capsules will help ease digestive problems that arise with kundalini.
Soothers: Herbs that have mucilage properties that soothe the digestive tract are--Mullen, chickweed, comfrey, borage, couch grass, chamomile, Marshmallow, Slippery elm and ground flax seed.
Things to avoid: Coffee, Salt, Sugar, Alcohol. Avoid cooked food in general, especially breads, pastries, flour products, meats, processed, preserved, pickled and frozen foods...ie: avoid all foods that are not raw as much as possible. Foods dehydrated or warm to around 110¡F are better, for this preserves the enzymes.
Things To Adopt: GREEN! GREEN! GREEN! Green leafy vegetables and cabbage. Cabbage is so affective I would recommend daily carrot/cabbage/celery juices with wheat grass. Dandelion greens are as potent as cabbage and can be incorporated in carrot juice.
- You might have to grind nuts and seeds in a coffee grinder depending on your digestive power. Soak all nuts and seeds up to 8 hours before consumption to make digestion easier. Almonds are the safest nuts, the rest are questionable due to their tendency to go rancid (free radicals). Nuts brought from Jaffe Brothers are fresher than those one finds in the store. Soaked/sprouted sunflower seeds are one the best protein and iron sources. But find a source of "fresh" seeds, those in the shops are usually pretty old...Jaffe Brothers is a great catalog company.
- Eat daily raw salads, especially cabbage/caulslaw...chew well. Buckwheat greens are a sweet gentle easily digestible green to include in salads.
- Buckwheat is the grain par excellence for irritated GI, is soothing and alkalinizing. Soak hulled buckwheat 4 hours and sprout it in the fridge in a colander over a bowl covered with plastic. Ground up these sprouted seeds can be made into humus. Buckwheat sprouts can be used in salads, as a rice raw-substitute, and as a breakfast cereal over chopped fruit and soaked nuts with Kefir or yogurt. Kefir can also be made out of raw seed or nut milks.
Antacids: Apple, Caraway, Catnip, Cloves, Parsley, Peppermint, Lemon balm, yucca root.
Probiotics: Friendly intestinal bacteria are one of the body's first lines of immune defense. The type of bacteria that inhabit the colon depends not only on the kind of food digested but also on the over all health and emotional state. Our health is dependent on the quantity and quality of the bacterial activity in both our soil and our intestines and these microbes are fed by vital organic material not from chemical fertilizers and inorganic vitamins and minerals.
Arise and Shine sells a product called Flora Grow which contains Bacillus subtilus...which produces a large amount of catalase, an important enzyme for the neutralization of harmful free radicals of hydrogen peroxide produced from inadequate fat metabolism.
After the shock phase of the initial awakening, when the digestive system has finished purging, then probiotics will help the GI tract return faster to normal function. I would suggest several forms of probiotic including Kefir. This needs to be researched so that you do not take supplements such as Acidophilus which will produce excessive amounts of lactic acid therefore producing an acid environment in the bowel. And acid bowel will inhibit enzyme function, decrease alkaline reserves, deplete electrolytes etc...
SKIN
Exfoliant--ground rolled oats; chemical exfoliant--papaya juice; face pack and lymphatic gland pack--wheat grass juice mixed with bentonite clay and spirulina. Crude lanolin is the most effective skin treatment out there. I starting using it on my chapped feet, and it was the only thing that worked. But it has to be the sticky yellowish crude stuff, you don't want the white refined version that is mixed with mineral oil and God knows what.
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