Herbs, nature and healing with nature has always been my
"thing". I'm always excited to
hear when someone else "gets it" too.
I recently read an article by Bonnie L Grant about antidepressant
microbes in soil. It's called "How
Dirt Makes You Happy". I believe
it's on the website called gardening know how.com. When you are done reading my blog, please
look this up, it's very interesting.
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| Some of my dirt that makes me happy :) |
It's great that we can now re-enforce what our grandparents
(or great grandparents) used to live by with a few studies and some science to
back it up. Even though I need no
research backing the way I feel when I'm digging in my beautiful dirt in the
piece of heaven in my back yard.
However, everyday, I'm disillusioned and even a little
shocked at how the pharmaceutical industry brainwashes people into thinking
they need a pill to fix them. I'm not
talking about serious illnesses of the body and mind. There is a place for certain medications, but
if "big Pharm" had their way, we would all be drugged up. And they are winning. They've got it now, so that if a patient
doesn't leave the doctor's office with a prescription written to them, they
feel they didn't get their money's worth.
And doctors are more than happy to abide. Sometimes, even if you don't ask for medication,
they give it to you anyway.
I was watching a rerun of an 80's TV show, and the doctor on
the TV prescribed fresh air,
exercise, and carrot juice for
what was ailing the character. I thought it funny at the time. It is drastically different now. What is the difference in a doctor's advice
in 30 plus years? You guessed it, MONEY.
Now disease is rampant in our society. They are even calling things diseases that
were never diseases. "Dry eye"
is a disease all of a sudden. You've all
seen the commercials. (Unless you don't
have a TV, bless you Elizabeth!) Well,
let me set you straight, people. Dry eye
is a symptom of something else. Not a
disease. And I can guess that dry eye is
probably a symptom of one or more prescription medications. This crazy thinking would also make "dry
mouth" a disease. Well, it soon
will be if they can come up with a medication to cure it. Maybe they already have. When there is something abnormal happening
to your body, it is a sign that something is wrong. Not that there is a deficiency in
prescription drugs. Your body is trying
to tell you something, and you're covering up a symptom. If you have cancer, do you just want to take
a pill to cover up the symptoms, or do you want to cure the cancer? Does that make sense?
The next time you see a commercial about a new pill, listen
to the language. Start thinking for
yourself. Use common sense. Are all the side effects worth it? Are you blindly believing what they say?
Taking care of yourself naturally with fresh healthy food,
most herbs, grounding yourself in the soil, taking in exercise and fresh
air... all things with no negative side
effects. Healthy living is more
difficult, but pills never cure. That's
why you have to keep taking them. Pills
will never cure anything.
Luckily, I am not the only one who can see through the
lies. If you go to doctors, instead of
filling whatever prescription they give you, ask if there's an alternative to
pills. It may even surprise your
doctor. The more we say no to pill
popping, the better job the doctors can do.
It's just like farmers. They will
grow what you buy. If you choose organic
food, they will grow more organic food, putting chemicals out of our
environment. (that is a very simplified
example, the best food is the stuff you grow yourself, or purchase locally,
etc)
I, myself, have a little bit of pain from standing on my
legs all day at the shop, maybe some arthritis, minor aches and pains. I have less now because I cut sugar out of my
diet completely. But, I have had
tremendous results from taking turmeric.
In fact, my pain went away and it didn't come back. I started taking turmeric and cinnamon, which
are both great for inflammation, which is what arthritis is. I do not take the concentrated capsules at
the health food store, because they are often overpriced, processed and I
cannot be sure they are not selling me ground up lightning bugs or something,
as there is no regulations in these kind of supplements.
I do not grow this myself, but at least I can taste it and
know it's the real thing. Plus,
sometimes the concentrated forms of these spices are very strong. I'd rather help my body heal itself, not be dependent
on something to make me feel better.
Sometimes, I think, those concentrated, processed derivatives of certain
medicinal herbs are more harmful than the real thing because they're messed
with. People have been healing
themselves with whole herbs for hundreds of years. People now think they're smart and have to
have everything strong to be effective.
It is just not the case. Plus,
the more you take something out of its natural form, the more side effects you
could have from it, especially if it's a synthetic form of itself. People always have to mess with
everything in nature. I don't understand this. I take that back, I do understand that it
makes some people lots of money...
So anyway, I mix my cinnamon and turmeric together and put
them in my own empty gel caps. (You can
buy these online, or I will start carrying them for people in the shop) I hear that ginger is great too. I'll let you know how that works. Turmeric also has anti cancer properties when
combined with black pepper so I add that too.
The nice thing about using real
food to heal, is that you don't have to measure. Just get it into you somehow. If you're not a fan of taking capsules, use
turmeric and cinnamon on food. I figure
I use about 1/2 to a full teaspoon of each herb per day for about 3 days on,
three days off. But this isn't set in
stone. I'm busy and I don't like
nonsense. When I get to it, I take
it... That's the great thing about
herbs. You just get it in your system
and let your body and nature do the work.
No stress.
Remember, nothing takes the place of eating really fresh,
healthy food, but this can be used as an alternative to anti-inflammatory drugs
or if you have a poor diet with little exercise.
And... I take this
myself with zero side effects, but I am not a doctor. If you are on medications, check with your
doctor to see how these herbs/spices interact with your meds.
Thanks for reading my ramblings.
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| Nigella flowers and pods |
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