These pics were taken early spring in March of 2026 as the new lambs are being born. These are some birthday pics! (birth - day)

IF YOU are interested in some lamb or sheep meat that’s been raised like I described above, we are taking deposit reservations RIGHT NOW for a limited amount of animals that will be harvested this fall. Lamb is under a year old, and Sheep is over a year old in the definitions. Some people prefer the smaller sized tender meat of the lambs. There is less meat and the bone to meat ratio is higher and the fat content is lower. The sheep meat is still quite tender, with more meat and more fat. Some people prefer the fat for flavor or for use as tallow to make additional products.

If you want to make a deposit in March for a lamb or sheep to be received in the fall, DON’T WAIT ~ Do It NOW

please contact me directly at: ChatWithSuzy@gmail.com

Make a Deposit ASAP contact me directly at ChatWithSuzy@gmail.com

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Well that’s a short chat for today, if you have a few minutes more, go check out those other links.

Here’s a quick link for them both again Health Chats and Book Chats.

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Thanks for staying!

We Would Genuinely Appreciate Your Continued Support!

It’s been a dramatic winter with extra costs and lower sales.

Let’s Chat about Big Updates to some of our current projects in rapid succession..

You can choose to get more details on any of them via the links.

If you are reading the email version of this article, click HERE to go to my website for more articles about these topics:

UPDATES LIST

• PMN Studio on Main had a Dramatic Change!

• Skin Salve New Details and a Quick Sale.

• Is Your Laundry Clean? Talc & Fels Naptha.

• Castor Oil and Facial Solutions.

• Essential Oils in DIY Health Collections.

• Weed Identification Walks and Plant Photo Book.

• Pastured Poultry Pens Book Details.

• New Retail Partner Locations.

• Be Our Affiliate.

• Sheep & Lamb Meat ~ grassfed and more

• Herb Plants for your Garden

• PMN Crew Intros Page (you’ll enjoy this)

• THIS Chat With Suzy Substack Site!

PMN Studio on Main Street

We abruptly moved out of our rented studio space last October (Oct 20th, 2025 approx), due to landlord maintenance vs city code issues, and a desire to not be forced to move quickly in the depths of winter. Before thanksgiving the building was labeled with a “failure to comply” notice by the city and the landlord posted a for sale sign instead of making repairs. A sale was completed, the 3 other tenants were evicted, and the new owner has demolished the building as of March 10th, 2026.

We enjoyed our time on Main Street, but for now, we are online, doing hosted classes, and supporting our retail and affiliate partners.

We are happy to do meet-ups with you at convenient locations across MI (ask), and we will see what summer brings.

Skin Salve New Details and a March “We Appreciate You” Sale.

Skin Salve - If you have experienced this amazing product that’s been so well-loved for over 25 years, we would VERY MUCH LOVE to hear your story of using it!

We have created a detailed page about Skin Salve and it’s ingredients and how they work. We think you would enjoy the read. Go to PamperMeNaturally.com and click on the Skin Solutions menu tab or just click:

HERE

You know, our economy has basically inflated on almost everything and many of the Skin Salve ingredients have also significantly increased. PMN simply has to raise the price as ingredients are restocked. It’s still the best salve we have seen on the market and as such, it’s still a great value!

BUT WE WANT TO SHOW OUR APPRECIATION for your support by offering YOU a super excellent price on Skin Salve to Stock Up for the Season. We have temporarily added 4 “Kits” on the skin salve page with a 20+% savings vs separate buys. And If you follow the directions on the page, you can also get an additional 10% off you entire pmn products order coupon and an offer for a free gift with purchase.

Check it out at: Skin Solutions

Clean Laundry? Soap Shreds vs Fels Naptha and Talc.

Have you read my chat about the billion dollar cancer lawsuit over TALC and how it is slowly and partially being removed from skincare products? For a long time, Fels Naptha bar soap, (the most common ingredient in online DIY laundry recipes), has had talc as an ingredient, now the label is suddenly more vague and has a new distributor. Reports say some of the defendants in the talc lawsuit are shuffling products and making bankruptcy claims to avoid paying the injured. Fels naptha seems to be in that shuffle. If you are using Fels Naptha, PLEASE STOP.

PLEASE read your cosmetic labels carefully. If you need a fels naptha replacement, I have an excellent suggestion that’s similar in price, easier to use, and BETTER!

Plus it suppports a small family run business instead of a big corp that legally puts profits above customers.

Go Get It HERE:

Read more details HERE

Castor Oil and Facial Serum.

Castor oil and Castor mixed with Jojoba, Frankincense and other beneficials is a current popular item for healing skin irritations, for detox purposes, and more.

If you are looking for some great quality castor and/or a blend, let me help! Get it:

HERE

New Essential Oil Collections to Help Your Health.

The PMN Crew has been working on an improved system for the Naturally Amazing Essential Oil Blends to help you know which oils to use, in what order, and why, to make your process of Taking Your Health Back easier.

More details are being posted online on our other websites

NaturallyAmazing.info HERE and

PamperMeNaturally.site HERE

Pre-order the books HERE

Weed Identification Walks and Photo Book.

If you are interested at all in herbs, wild herbs, foraging, gardening, or natural health, you’ll want to read the article posted

HERE

And if you follow CHAT WITH SUZY on Facebook, there are some pics posted there.

Pastured Poultry Pen Details.

If you enjoyed the pastured poultry we raised for decades, you might appreciate this! We have written a book on tips for raising grass fed poultry and how to build those super cool pens that protected the birds from predators, gave them access to grass, bugs, air, sunshine, and were so easy to move to new grass, that 2 kids could do it…..

Click HERE

New Retail Partner Locations.

We are always looking for new locations to partner with retail stores and crafters who resell.

We have a couple of new locations posted HERE.

If you have suggestions please tell us! Send New location suggestions via email using the link on

this page HERE

Be Our Affiliate.

Interested in earning via a side hustle? Love sharing our products?

Check out this offer HERE

Sheep & Lamb Meat.

The Farm has BABIES! Check out the pics! If you like knowing your farmer…..

Read this article HERE

Herb Plants.

Like growing and harvesting? You’ll probably enjoy the offer on

this page HERE

PMN Crew Intros (you’ll enjoy this)

Don’t Miss These Pics!!!! HERE

THIS Chat With Suzy Substack Site!

This site has big plans. PLEASE CONSIDER SUBSCRIBING

Learn more about the big plans …start HERE

And don’t miss what’s also being created HERE

WHEW!

I try very intentionally to keep these “Chats” articles to under 6 minutes for a “5 minute chat” to make it easy to fit into your day . But there’s a LOT of links on this page! It’s definitely the “rapid succession” list I promised!

As I said at the top, Thanks for staying! It’s been a dramatic winter with extra costs and lower sales, and…

We Would Genuinely Appreciate Your Continued Support!

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And that my friend, is a few words more than our “5 minute chat time”.

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When I was a young wife and mother, I wanted to make good, healthy, natural choices for my family and my home. The more I searched, the more I became aware that the laws for “wash-off products” like soap, were not even close to what I thought they were! I bet they are not what you think they are either.

Shall We Do Some MYTH BUSTING?

The customer is NOT always a priority. The soap industry is stockholder profit based, and it has a strong ability to influence politics and lawmakers. The soap and skincare product laws have been written primarily to accommodate their lobbying and their marketing style for the benefit of profits, shareholders, and boardrooms. Protection of your health concerns is secondary at best! Class action style lawsuits have repeatedly proven that. If the laws were primarily written to protect your interests - class action lawsuits would be unusual, but instead, we have social media filled with lawyer commercials looking for the injured by the latest class action lawsuit defendent. ( it’s talc currently)

The FDA does not require ingredient labeling for soap. If your favorite smelling, clean sounding, skincare products meet the FDA's definition of “wash-off”, it is exempt from the provisions of the FD&C Act, making any ingredient disclosure totally voluntary. That also means that partial disclosure is also legally valid so long as they say it “right” legally. The profit-motivated, big corporation dominated, soap industry has lobbied to convince lawmakers that since soap is going to be washed off, it has genuinely no impact on your skin or your health, and passing laws to make ingredient disclosure and ingredient regulation unnecessary. They say your skin won’t absorb any toxicity from a wash-off product. That’s the official position.

How do you feel about that? Do you think it’s true in the real world of greasy hands and dirty children? I don’t. And I am not alone. I have talked to many people and heard many stories in the past 30 years of my awareness of this law style, and most people I have talked to with sensitivities say their allergies are indeed impacted by wash-off product ingredients.

Are you feeling confused? What’s wash-off soap got to do with the laundry heading we started with? Does it seem like we changed topics? Well, not really. You needed a brief peek into the laws of this industry called soap.

Those soap rules apply in your washing machine too. You see, that bottle of laundry detergent is under that same law and exempt from ingredient disclosure too. Yeah, it doesn’t directly go on your skin like a liquid hand soap, but does it impact your skin? Why do they sell “baby safe” and “sensitive skin” laundry soaps if it doesn’t matter? (because consumers said it matters)

Go read your favorite big name liquid laundry detergent brand’s ingredient label. Most read something like this: “water, ionic and non-ionic surfactants, color and fragrance”. They might add a vague bleaching or deodorizing agent type word too. What’s actually in it? Did you read the list and actually know? What exactly is an ionic and non-ionic surfactant? Well, a surfactant is something that releases dirt-like substances from your clothes. Ionic and non-ionic are describing the type, but the origin and type of chemical used is not typically disclosed (there are a lot of them that are known skin irritants and worse).

What about that lingering scent? Remember that “fresh up to 12 weeks” slogan, a name brand used on a set of commercials where the actors sniffed stored clothes and bragged about how “fresh” they still smelled weeks later? Trouble is, their definition of fresh is not fresh, but strongly fragranced. (some called it allergenic not fresh)

There’s a growing segment of the population with skin conditions that are persistently painful, yet unconquered with topical or oral drugs (with side effects that require another drug).

Could it be that the chemicals retained in the fabric to make it “brighter and fresher” are also being regularly rubbed onto the skin of the wearer, causing irritations? Evidence says a resounding YES! Yet it is still being defined as “freshness”. It’s not fresh!!! (It’s fragranced and chemicalized and creating a drug customer)

HOW CAN YOU MAKE A HEALTHIER CHOICE FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY?

HERE’S TWO OPTIONS - buy something truly natural OR make it yourself.

1. If you are a DIY kind of person:

there is a good variety of easy to make, washer safe, DIY recipes available online explaining a few different methods of hand crafted laundry cleaners. They use a variety of ingredients, but most have 1 main ingredient in common: grated up bar soap.

BE AWARE: Almost always, the recommended brand of bar soap a DIY recipe uses is the standard bar soap brand, “Fels Naptha”. It’s considered an old fashioned stain remover by many, and the label claims it’s “Grandma’s answer to laundry stains”. Trouble is, this is not your grandmother’s Fels Naptha soap! IF your grandma bought Fels Naptha, hers was not made by a profit motivated large corporation, and the bar in the store today does not have the same ingredients or the same process, and if you want truly natural you don’t want Fels Naptha.

READ MY OTHER LAUNDRY POST ON FELS NAPTHA’s LABEL

Instead of Fels Naptha’s questionable ingredients, please buy a truly natural bar soap made with natural healthy ingredients. Personally, I prefer to not have to grind that bar up with a difficult hand grater because I know that Pamper Me Naturally sells quality soap made from natural ingredients, ALREADY GROUND UP IN FINE BITS for a similar price to Fels Naptha and I am not voting for the big corp with my market dollars. (link below)

2. Buy A Truly Natural Laundry Cleaner

Support a brand who makes a product with the quality ingredients you want and without the greenwashing or skin irritations you don’t want.

You can find my favorite brand of Pamper Me Naturally Soap Shreds OR Ready To Use Pamper Me Naturally Laundry Powder: HERE

All natural items should have simple, easy to read ingredients.

What’s actually in it? Can you read the list and actually know? Do fall into the greenwashing trap.

All natural soap shreds available for a price that’s very comparable to buying Fels Naptha and there’s no talc, no preservatives, no animal fat, and no nonsense in it. Check out Pamper Me Naturally and read the PMN Promise, it’s a long list of ingredient NOs. And you don’t have to grate it up either!

Save time, save the stress of concern of ingredients, and for a similar cost!

You can find my favorite brand of Pamper Me Naturally Soap Shreds OR Ready To Use Pamper Me Naturally Laundry Powder: HERE

Whatever you do, PLEASE read the labels! And avoid the stuff you can’t read!

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“How Can I Help?” “How Can I Help?” “How Can I Help?” “How Can I Serve?” Is a prayer for every morning, every task, and every encounter involving people that can change your life in amazing ways you never dreamed possible!

Ready to Try It? Let’s Chat!

“How Can I Help?” “How Can I Serve?” It’s a motto promoted by teachers in leadership books and seminars and in the most effective trauma recovery rooms. If it were a standard motto taught in classrooms of learning, I believe our culture would be more emotionally and culturally advanced.

Life is a learning experience for the soul is a phrase I have often repeated while raising my kids. It encourages learning and acceptance of the difficulties in the learning process. In the past several years as I have worked at putting the phrase “purposeful living” into practice and started truly evaluating my actions to be in acceptance of life on life’s terms, I have found that the more I apply those 4 phrases, I have more peace in the journey.

1. “How Can I Help?”

2. Life is a learning experience for the soul

3. “purposeful living”

4. life on life’s terms

Life’s journey is always unpredictable and even carefully made plans don’t always turn out as expected. However, it is a joy to watch “peace” and it’s counterpart “freedom” walk together on the journey, when the acceptance of “life as it is, not as we expected it to be” becomes a real and daily “life on life’s terms” motto.

Just like “love isn’t love til you give it away”, so also happiness and peace are not truly present until life has purpose beyond oneself, and service becomes joy instead of effort, and acceptance of “what is” becomes peace instead of grief for “what was expected” to be.

They say change starts with just one soul dancing alone (as the viral challenge so vividly displayed). Since the “tipping point” of crowd acceptance is considered to be a percentage of only 5% to 15%, your voice and your actions really can make a significant difference if it only takes 5 people out af a crowd of 100 to get a crowd to change! Something to remember!

In my own life, the “How Can I Help” motto has taken my life journey into many interesting, inspirational, and learning experiences.

As I continue in my journey of recovery from the trauma, and more importantly the the grief of having expectations of life, of people, and of circumstances, that turned out to be not as expected and not as intended, but definitely learning experiences for the soul, I find that choosing those opportunities for the purposeful living creates the healthy, happy, and free life we started the tagline of this chat with.

HOW CAN I HELP?

Let’s make this personal and into an opportunity for a win/win situation.

Because that’s exactly what those teachers in leadership and recovery tell us is where peace lives - in the win/win encounters.

What’s win/win? It’s any type of exchange or communication or encounter where everyone involved feels like they benefitted the most from their participation. It’s a “red paperclip deal” and a “TEAM” effort (Together Everyone Acheives More).

Maybe YOU are one of those people who can participate with me today.

I started this blog with intent to share knowledge of

1. wild and cultivated herbs/weeds

2. natural and alternative wellness

3. my aromatherapy passion/training/experiences

4. natural farming adventures

5. experiences/training in trauma recovery & life coaching

6. perspectives from leadership and motivational training

7. details about favorite books on these topics, and the

8. morals and values found along the way of discovering God thru my own understandings instead of thru the lense of hurts from religious doctrine.

If you enjoy any of these topics and would like to learn more and chat more….please do me the favor of creating yourself a free email subscription and choosing the topics/newsletters you have interest in so we can communicate via your email instead of that hope of our paths crossing via algorithms on a social media platform.

In my quest for finding purposeful service and a purposeful life well lived with the irreplaceable time I am alotted on this spinning rock we call Earth,

I am also intentionally asking for you to vote with your wallet to show me if this is an effort that I should devote more time towards.

I can use it simply as a free occasional communication to email, and I do indeed intend to do that,

but IF it’s WORTH YOU VOTE OF SUPPORT … I would like to be able to spend time to convert my large stockpile of notes, articles, class books, and other educational information on the above mentioned topics into articles posted on this website for subscribers to benefit from.

In keeping with the Chat With Suzy promise, this chat post is rated for a less then 5 minute read. So ….

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Well in keeping with our 5 Minute Chat Promise,

that’s a wrap for our chat for today, if you have a few minutes more, go check out our other chats and topics.

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Many people I have talked with don’t know the plant names, or they only know a nickname, but they know it’s a weed because it’s not what they planted!

What if were given those plants as a GIFT from God, the Earth or Mother Nature (however you prefer to describe who/how/why). What if those plants you are frustrated with and working up a sweat to remove - are actually a BLESSED GIFT and you are busy throwing it away?

Let Me Help You! Let’s Chat about it for 5 minutes!

Plants that herbalists have written about in books thru history calling them “treasured remedies”, have become weeds to today’s gen who are totally unaware that these plants are beneficial or even a hidden miracle that’s “better than a drug” and instead they are getting called a “despised weed” and yanked from the earth!

We have lost our connection with the earth and the natural remedies we were created to have around us. As wonderful as science and chemistry and advanced medicine can be at times of trauma and crisis, we want to add it to our knowledge, not trade it for what we have already learned thru the ages of time and history and blessed discoveries. Let Me Show You….

This is the cover of my soon to be released book. Coming in 2026 You can pre-order your copy and get a bonus reward gift for your enthusiasm. Pre-order below.

My Kid Crew and I, (they are actually not minors anymore, but they’re still my kids and they did help with this project as kids), we have been working on formatting the hundreds (OK I’ll admit, it’s thousands) of pictures we have taken over the years of common plants growing in the “wild places” and the yards and gardens too. Plants that many call “weeds” or “just flowers” that actually have edible and/or medicinal value.

We have taught many “eat the weeds” classes in the past 25+ years (starting before 2000). They originally were walks thru fields and yards with a small group to ID common edible plants and medicinal plants pre-Y2K. Back then, we just printed simple handouts of names to help with remembering.

In 2010 the first blog was started to go with a large homeschool group event. And since then, we have tried to help you meet the herbs regularly, especially in the spring, and taken loads of pictures along the way.

NOW ~ with a very large amount of pics, we have sorted the files, tagged pics, and tried to narrow the plant list down to 50 and 30 to keep it easy to learn, easy to find, and the most wanted.

This photo sorting project started as a response to repeating questions about plant id apps. “which one should I use?” and “which one is accurate?”. So we started testing them on walks. And well, some of you guessed it, AI and even apps with computer generated and search engine generated answers, were “sometimes correct” or even “often correct” but never totally correct. And since we want these herbs for edible or medicinal uses and to teach our kids….. “mostly” just isn’t quite what we had in mind. It only takes ONE trip to the ER to pay for a whole bookshelf of vetted accurate book information. But in our photo heavy tech world, many books still have only 1 or 2 pics or drawings or not enough detail or not all of the stages of the plant….

SO we decided to take our photo stash and create a 3 option solution for you!

#1 INFO Turning Weeds Into Herbs Mini Book for the Walk.

If you just want a short list of the common weeds and a few pics is enough, we have a class handout that has our top 30 hidden herbs with at least 4 pictures of each herb, plant details, and the basic harvesting practices you need to know. With 30 herbs, it’s not exactly short, but it’s short enough to typically get thru the list during a walk and talk class. And it’s cheap enough to be an easy choice to JUST GRAB IT.

#2 BOOK Turning Weeds Into Herbs the Big Book of Pictures

If you want a more comprehensive list of the top 50 most common plants we’ve seen in the fields, yards, and gardens. This book has double the number of pictures per plant and almost double the number of plants, and a more comprehensive list of plant details and harvesting practices vs “#1 INFO for the Walk” described above. This is the typical “I WANT THAT” when shown off at a class.

#3 SET Are These Herbs in My Yard?

If you want a serious info dump level of information, this is it!!

This is a Digital Set of our 5 associated books about herbs including:

• BOOK Turning Weeds Into Herbs the Big Book of Pictures (#2 above)

• BOOK Herbs for Healing at Home

• BOOK The Salve Maker’s Guide

• INFO Harvesting & Medicinal Preparation of Wild Herbs Mini Book

• INFO Why You Want These Herbs in Your Kitchen

• PLUS ……

• THE BIG MOTHER LODE of PHOTOS Access Link. You get access to a massive folder of our herb photos taken in the past 20+ years. This is NOT resell or MRR or publication rights to them, it is digital viewing rights. On your computer or your phone, on your walks, in your garden, wherever you are you can look at a stackof photos for our list of herbs that grow wild. This will help you positively identify the plants you are looking at with multiple versions of a plant in a variety of locations and ages and stages. We have not seen this available anywhere! We do not claim to have pics of all the common edible or medicinal herbs you’ll see in the wild, we simply claim to have a lot of pictures of various stages of many of the commonly misunderstood plants that grow wild just waiting for you to find them volunteering to feed or heal you.

• AND A Coupon for a FREE with Order, Standard Size Jar of our favorite Skin Solutions Skin Salve that we harvest for and is made by Pamper Me Naturally.

You can pre-order your copy and get an extra bonus reward gift for your enthusiasm!

Pre-order HERE

Get that Skin Salve HERE

Well in keeping with our 5 Minute Chat Promise,

that’s a wrap for our chat for today, if you have a few minutes more, go check out our other chats and topics.

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So I will bid you adieu for this round of tea, with a virtual hug, I will ask you to…

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-Suzy

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In our 2026 American culture where “the store” is the common answer to the question of where your food comes from…..what if we start asking different questions?

I like to promote, encourage, and help empower you to take back your health.

Part of that means a change in the way we think and the questions we ask.

It means being responsible for our own health choices.

Part of that is knowing where your food comes from and how it’s raised.

Taking back your health is a lost art in my generation, but it’s coming back. If you’d like to know more about how to do that and what questions to ask …..join me for today’s chat on the Health tab over HERE.

Back to the pasture!

Why should you want to know? Because there are significant benefits to eating food with more nutrition than the average factory raised American food.

Yes, there has been a LOT of research done on that and the evidence is astounding on the levels of disease prevention that can happen simply by eating nutrient-dense real food.

What’s “real food” and how’s it “nutrient dense”? It’s when you raise plants, herbs, vegetables, fruits, and animal feeds in composted soil, that’s been organically tended, chemical free, and grown in a multi-variety vegetation farming style like the permaculture and sustainability practice promoters have proven makes nutrient density products. It’s animal farming using practices that promote stress-free living for animals who can eat that nutrient-dense pasture filled with a variety of plants and herbs that keep them healthier and more productive.

If you’d like to know more about that research and how to make healthier plants and animals …..join me on the PLANTS tab and the BOOKS tab of this website.

Again, Back to the pasture.

Todays pictures are of sheep on the hillside. The lead pic is late fall when the grass is low and the trees are in full autumn color and it’s time to breed or harvest meat.

The pics below are taken early spring in March of 2026 as the new lambs are being born. These are some birthday pics! (birth - day)

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There is chatter going around again on some social media apps about lavender essential oil being bad for boys and/or men in general and/or being a hormone disruptor or making boys/men feminine.

Please let me give you a little bit of insight before you go avoiding lavender for healing that rash.

This type of negative publicity, bolstered by vague claims or poorly done science, is the way that herbs/plants which were previously well-loved and historically highly acclaimed with loads of empirical records, have been discredited or gone out of favor by those who don't have extensive understanding of plants and instead choose to rely on profit motivated “science” funded by drug companies .

There are people in this world who would rather use synthetic chemicals and profit-making drugs than natural plants that anyone can grow. When you remember this it will cause you to pause and look for real facts stated by people without money manipulators controlling them.

This particular piece of urban legend has been around for nearly 20 years and is still spreading. Pasted below is a well-documented 2013 article by Robert Tisserand, a highly esteemed author of aromatherapy and essential oil books and textbooks including safety reviews.

Please remember that plants are typically going to be safer for you than man-made chemicals and synthetic drugs and synthetic fragrances. When you find articles that are being promoted by government agencies or drug sponsored organizations, please remember that it's these same agencies that gave us Roundup and approved nicotine for pregnancy and approved DDT, Talc, and Agent Orange, and a long list of drugs that have since been recalled after and only after many many people died.

Here’s the article in italics:

Lavender oil is not estrogenic

by Robert Tisserand | Feb 7, 2013 | Myth-busting, Safety | 15 comments

Lavender oil does not mimic estrogen nor does it enhance the body’s own estrogens. It is therefore not a ‘hormone disruptor’, cannot cause breast growth in young boys (or girls of any age), and is safe to use by anyone at risk for estrogen-dependent cancer. The lack of estrogenic action is the conclusion of a new report, which used a novel form of ‘uterotrophic’ assay.

This measures the effect of a test substance on the uterus of immature or estrogen-deprived female rats over three days. Any estrogenic action causes a rapid and measurable increase in uterine weight. The assay has been in use since the 1930s, was adopted by the OECD in 2007, and is now regarded as the “benchmark animal assay for estrogenic effects” (Politano 2013).

A 2007 report by Henley et al found that both lavender and tea tree oils had a weak in vitro estrogenic action. Lavender was suggested as the cause of three cases of prepubertal gynecomastia (breast growth) in boys, and tea tree was suggested in one case. The report was subsequently criticized on a number of grounds. For example it was pointed out that there was no evidence of either essential oil causing the gynecomastia in any of the four cases, and that in vitro estrogenic findings frequently do not extrapolate to a similar action in warm bodies (see Rebuttals, below).

Since 2007 there have been many warnings about lavender and tea tree oils that relate back to this study. Others, including myself, have suggested that such cautions are unnecessary and premature. The new research, in which considerable quantities of lavender oil were used, found that there was no increase in uterine weight, and so no estrogenic action.

The novel aspect of the uterotrophic assay was that the test substance – lavender oil – was applied to the skin, while the most common method is subcutaneous injection. This was changed in order to mimic the circumstances of the Henley et al 2007 case reports, and it also mimics the use of lavender oil in fragrances and personal care products. Lavender oil was used in two concentrations, 4% and 20% in corn oil. According to Politano et al 2013, these concentrations are respectively more than 6,000 and 30,000 times greater than a conservative estimate of human skin exposure from multiple cosmetic products containing lavender oil. They are also 5,000 and 1,000,000 times greater than the estimated exposure to lavender oil experienced by the Henley et al boys.

These calculations may seem exaggerated, but the massive differences are because in the uterotrophic assay, the lavender oil was applied in Hilltop Chambers patches, which do not allow any evaporation, or loss of essential oil by means other than dermal absorption. Examples of the quantities of fragrant substance absorbed from personal care products are shown below. The amount of fragrance absorbed from a shampoo, for instance, is 200 times less than the amount applied to the head. If amounts of dermally-absorbed lavender oil that are at least 5,000 times greater than any normal human exposure are not estrogenic, then we can be confident that this particular safety issue is not a concern.

Data from Cadby et al 2002

Safety in pregnancy is a broader question than hormonal action alone, since affects on the fetus, or even miscarriage, are theoretically possible with any substance. The question of uterine stimulation and miscarriage was thoroughly investigated here, and there is clearly no risk. As for fetal effects we know that linalool, a major constituent of lavender oil, is not fetotoxic to pregnant rats at an oral dose 1 g/kg/day for 16 days (equivalent to a human oral dose of 60 g, or 2 oz per day, and a total dose of 32 oz). The chances of lavender oil being fetotoxic in the amounts used in personal care products are negligible, considering the small amounts both applied to, and subsequently absorbed by human skin (Cadby et al 2002).

The new research findings represent a major development in our knowledge of lavender oil safety, since the possibility of estrogenic action now looks remote. While no single test should be taken as absolutely conclusive, we can expect the volume of noise about lavender being estrogenic to diminish considerably.

Rebuttals
Dean CJ 2007 Prepubertal gynecomastia linked to lavender and tea tree oils. New England Journal of Medicine 356:2543-2544

Kalyan S 2007 Prepubertal gynecomastia linked to lavender and tea tree oils. New England Journal of Medicine 356:2542-2544

Kemper KJ, Romm AJ, Gardiner P 2007 Prepubertal gynecomastia linked to lavender and tea tree oils. New England Journal of Medicine 356:2541-2542

Kurtz JL 2007 Prepubertal gynecomastia linked to lavender and tea tree oils. New England Journal of Medicine 356:2542-2543

Lawrence BM 2007 Estrogenic activity in lavender and tea tree oils: Part I. Perfumer & Flavorist 32:20-25

Lawrence BM 2007 Estrogenic activity in lavender and tea tree oils: Part II. Perfumer Flavorist 32:14-20

Tisserand R Tea tree and lavender not linked to gynecomastia

Other references
Cadby P A, Troy W R, Vey M G 2002 Consumer exposure to fragrance ingredients: providing estimates for safety evaluation. Regulatory Toxicology & Pharmacology 36: 246-252

Henley DV, Lipson N, Korach KS, Bloch CA 2007 Prebubertal gynecomastia linked to lavender and tea tree oils. New England Journal of Medicine 365(5): 479-485

Politano VT, Lewis EM, Hoberman AM et al 2008 Evaluation of the developmental toxicity of linalool in rats. International Journal of Toxicology 27:183-188

Politano VT, McGinty D, Lewis EM et al 2013 Uterotrophic assay of percutaneous lavender oil in immature female rats. International Journal of Toxicology

https://roberttisserand.com/2013/02/lavender-oil-is-not-estrogenic/

Thank Robert Tisserand!

Want more info? Try this article too:

https://salvatorebattaglia.com.au/blog/10-lavender-and-tea-tree-oils-are-not-oestrogenic

Please go forth and Boldly Enjoy the multitude of healthy benefits that truly natural Lavender plants provide to the human race.

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Chicory (Cichorium intybus)

Type: Perennial
Parts: Leaves and Roots are both considered edible and medicinal

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Chickweed (Stellaria media)

Type: Annual

Parts: Leaves, stems, flowers are considered edible and medicinal

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Jewelweed
Impatiens capensis
Parts: Stem, leaves, seeds
A virtual panacea for skin irritation. Jewelweed contains an anti-inflammatory and fungicide that’s an active ingredient of “Preparation H”. It works to prevent poison ivy rash if applied right away. It relieves bee and wasp stings as well as stinging nettle stings. Good for warts, bruises, and fungal skin infections such as athlete’s foot and ringworm. Helpful for minor burns, cuts, eczema, acne, sores and any skin irritations.
When working outside, this is the first herb I look for after accidentally touching a stinging nettle or other similarly irritating plant. It also works well on insect bites too. You can make a jewelweed remedy for poison ivy or insect stings by following the salve directions below or make a tea by harvesting the plant from the ground up. Chop up the whole plant including the stem at the base of the plant that may have a reddish tint. Put your chopped plant into boiling water (roughly 1pint water per oz of plant) and boil until the water is reduced by half. Strain the plant parts out of the tea water. Squeezing them tightly to remove all of the tea. Then use the water as your remedy. This can be stored if frozen. Try using ice cube trays for a nice pre-measured amount.

Very young Jewelweed.  Early May in Michigan

Jewelweed in bloom

Dried Jewelweed that was harvest in bloom

Jewelweed leaves

Jewelweed in Bloom

Jewelweed in bloom

Jewelweed

Horsetail Grass
Shave Grass
Equisetum arvense
Type: Perennial
Part: Whole plant

Horsetail has several stages in it's growth cycle.  It starts as a brown stalk and grows "hair-like" leaves that are segmented.  when the leaves are long enough to become heavy, the segments separate and fall and the plant becomes difficult for the novice forager to locate.  Best picked when the leaves are 1 to 3 inches long, before they start to separate by segments.

Use: Horsetail, also known as Shavegrass, is commonly thought of as the "hair, skin & nails herb".

It is mild in flavor, but somewhat fibrous. This makes it a bit tougher to chew for a salad green. It's a little softer than rosemary herb.  It makes a fair pick for those who want to chew on a plant instead of a toothpick while on a walk.

Horsetail makes an excellent tea herb.  It tastes best when paired with a more flavorful companion like mint or stinging nettle.  

Horsetail is strongly astringent and is therefore used for both internal and external wounds. 

It kills eggs of parasites and dissolves tumors. Studies have shown that fractured bones will heal much faster when horsetail is taken. 

Silica, found in horsetail is helpful in aiding circulation and assimilation of calcium in the body. It is commonly sold in health food stores for strengthening and improving fingernails, skin and hair.

When I was a young wife and mother, I wanted to make good, healthy, natural choices for my family and my home. The more I searched, the more I became aware that the laws for “wash-off products” like soap, were not even close to what I thought they were! I bet they are not what you think they are either.

Shall We Do Some MYTH BUSTING?

The customer is NOT always a priority. The soap industry is stockholder profit based, and it has a strong ability to influence politics and lawmakers. The soap and skincare product laws have been written primarily to accommodate their lobbying and their marketing style for the benefit of profits, shareholders, and boardrooms. Protection of your health concerns is secondary at best! Class action style lawsuits have repeatedly proven that. If the laws were primarily written to protect your interests - class action lawsuits would be unusual, but instead, we have social media filled with lawyer commercials looking for the injured by the latest class action lawsuit defendent. ( it’s talc currently)

The FDA does not require ingredient labeling for soap. If your favorite smelling, clean sounding, skincare products meet the FDA's definition of “wash-off”, it is exempt from the provisions of the FD&C Act, making any ingredient disclosure totally voluntary. That also means that partial disclosure is also legally valid so long as they say it “right” legally. The profit-motivated, big corporation dominated, soap industry has lobbied to convince lawmakers that since soap is going to be washed off, it has genuinely no impact on your skin or your health, and passing laws to make ingredient disclosure and ingredient regulation unnecessary. They say your skin won’t absorb any toxicity from a wash-off product. That’s the official position.

How do you feel about that? Do you think it’s true in the real world of greasy hands and dirty children? I don’t. And I am not alone. I have talked to many people and heard many stories in the past 30 years of my awareness of this law style, and most people I have talked to with sensitivities say their allergies are indeed impacted by wash-off product ingredients.

Are you feeling confused? What’s wash-off soap got to do with the laundry heading we started with? Does it seem like we changed topics? Well, not really. You needed a brief peek into the laws of this industry called soap.

Those soap rules apply in your washing machine too. You see, that bottle of laundry detergent is under that same law and exempt from ingredient disclosure too. Yeah, it doesn’t directly go on your skin like a liquid hand soap, but does it impact your skin? Why do they sell “baby safe” and “sensitive skin” laundry soaps if it doesn’t matter? (because consumers said it matters)

Go read your favorite big name liquid laundry detergent brand’s ingredient label. Most read something like this: “water, ionic and non-ionic surfactants, color and fragrance”. They might add a vague bleaching or deodorizing agent type word too. What’s actually in it? Did you read the list and actually know? What exactly is an ionic and non-ionic surfactant? Well, a surfactant is something that releases dirt-like substances from your clothes. Ionic and non-ionic are describing the type, but the origin and type of chemical used is not typically disclosed (there are a lot of them that are known skin irritants and worse).

What about that lingering scent? Remember that “fresh up to 12 weeks” slogan, a name brand used on a set of commercials where the actors sniffed stored clothes and bragged about how “fresh” they still smelled weeks later? Trouble is, their definition of fresh is not fresh, but strongly fragranced. (some called it allergenic not fresh)

There’s a growing segment of the population with skin conditions that are persistently painful, yet unconquered with topical or oral drugs (with side effects that require another drug).

Could it be that the chemicals retained in the fabric to make it “brighter and fresher” are also being regularly rubbed onto the skin of the wearer, causing irritations? Evidence says a resounding YES! Yet it is still being defined as “freshness”. It’s not fresh!!! (It’s fragranced and chemicalized and creating a drug customer)

HOW CAN YOU MAKE A HEALTHIER CHOICE FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY?

HERE’S TWO OPTIONS - buy something truly natural OR make it yourself.

1. If you are a DIY kind of person:

there is a good variety of easy to make, washer safe, DIY recipes available online explaining a few different methods of hand crafted laundry cleaners. They use a variety of ingredients, but most have 1 main ingredient in common: grated up bar soap.

BE AWARE: Almost always, the recommended brand of bar soap a DIY recipe uses is the standard bar soap brand, “Fels Naptha”. It’s considered an old fashioned stain remover by many, and the label claims it’s “Grandma’s answer to laundry stains”. Trouble is, this is not your grandmother’s Fels Naptha soap! IF your grandma bought Fels Naptha, hers was not made by a profit motivated large corporation, and the bar in the store today does not have the same ingredients or the same process, and if you want truly natural you don’t want Fels Naptha.

READ MY OTHER LAUNDRY POST ON FELS NAPTHA’s LABEL

Instead of Fels Naptha’s questionable ingredients, please buy a truly natural bar soap made with natural healthy ingredients. Personally, I prefer to not have to grind that bar up with a difficult hand grater because I know that Pamper Me Naturally sells quality soap made from natural ingredients, ALREADY GROUND UP IN FINE BITS for a similar price to Fels Naptha and I am not voting for the big corp with my market dollars. (link below)

2. Buy A Truly Natural Laundry Cleaner

Support a brand who makes a product with the quality ingredients you want and without the greenwashing or skin irritations you don’t want.

You can find my favorite brand of Pamper Me Naturally Soap Shreds OR Ready To Use Pamper Me Naturally Laundry Powder: HERE

All natural items should have simple, easy to read ingredients.

What’s actually in it? Can you read the list and actually know? Do fall into the greenwashing trap.

All natural soap shreds available for a price that’s very comparable to buying Fels Naptha and there’s no talc, no preservatives, no animal fat, and no nonsense in it. Check out Pamper Me Naturally and read the PMN Promise, it’s a long list of ingredient NOs. And you don’t have to grate it up either!

Save time, save the stress of concern of ingredients, and for a similar cost!

You can find my favorite brand of Pamper Me Naturally Soap Shreds OR Ready To Use Pamper Me Naturally Laundry Powder: HERE

Whatever you do, PLEASE read the labels! And avoid the stuff you can’t read!

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These are two common ways I tend to greet friends old and new. I hope you will identify as one or the other! There are many things I passionately love to talk about. I have tried to separate them on this blog into tabbed categories to help you easily navigate my chats and find the ones that interest or help you the most.

Anyone who knows very much at all about me knows I have a long standing passion for aromatherapy, natural skin care, herbs, natural medicine, natural health and general chemical-free living and I enjoy encouraging you to DIY projects on these subjects. Those topics are super easy for me to chat enthusiastically about, anytime, anywhere, for as long as you are interested.

Ask my kids and they’ll quickly tell you that I can easily and completely get caught up talking with any adult into what when they were little they called a “talk-trap”. The other tabs here (aka categories or newsletters on this blog) are intended to become filled with posts generally dedicated to those topics.

This tab is intended to be a place to share my thoughts in a more general and candid way. My life has so far, contained a large variety of experiences on a wide range of topics. I will try to share a window into some of those areas and add in here the stuff that doesn’t fit in the other tabs.

For those who don’t yet know me well, let me introduce myself a bit.

I was born in a good sized mid-west city as the firstborn to my mom (a public school teacher) and the second born to my dad (a journeyman carpenter). His firstborn didn’t live with us and so I was raised as a firstborn in most respects (for those who follow traits of birth-order). We lived in a lower middle class inner-city house until I was 5 years old, when they decided they didn’t want to raise children in the city. They bought a rundown, non-functioning, 36 acre farmstead that was rural enough to farm, but close enough to continue to commute to his work in the city for awhile yet. It was all they could afford and they worked hard to finance it. They had big dreams of restoring it, and turning it into a thriving, functioning dairy farm full of children both biological and foster/adopted. But dreams don’t always come true the way we expect.

Back up a 4 years….. I was 11 months old, my mom was 5 months pregnant for her second child, and only 2 weeks away from her 2nd wedding anniversary, when their world of dreams had it’s first big fork in the road. My dad frequently rode a motorcycle as his work transportation. On his way home, one Tuesday afternoon, he was going full speed thru an intersection under a green light when a car driver, not noticing the motorcycle, turned left in front of him. His motorcycle collided with the car and he flew 30 feet thru the air and landed on his helmet. The helmet was severely cracked, but my dad’s head was not. Had it not been for that helmet, he would have been doa on the pavement. He was ambulanced off to the hospital in a coma and it took over a week before he was alert and longer before he could remember anything.

It took the next several years and several surgeries for him to recover almost full function in his arms and legs from that accident. However, the brain trauma would change his life and last a lifetime. Brain injuries in the 70s were not well understood and his went mostly ignored once the initial swelling was gone. Now it’s called Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and the lasting impacts and character changes are better known but still not fully understood. The impacts to his character and psyche were rarely discussed. Having no memory of him before the accident, I only knew the man who coped with an undiagnosed, untreated, unmedicated TBI. The term manic depression was not in my childhood vocabulary, but looking back now, I believe that definition fits well.

The trauma incurred when a spouse has a severe and life threatening injury is quite significant and should be more acknowledged and assisted as it’s own level of injury. In the 70s, it was ignored. Remember those were the years when a woman had to have a man’s co-signature to even open a bank account. Women were still considered “the Mrs” to the Mr and not so much an individual on her own. Consider the significant emotional difficulty in coping with a 1 year old, while 5 to 6 months pregnant, and holding down a full time public middle school teaching position, with a husband in a coma and unknown future function abilities, a mortgaged house and car, and in an era when single parenting was far from an accepted norm. Her plate was full. She ended up quitting her teaching position after the baby was born, and they lived on a tightly budgeted disability income while he recovered from arm and leg surgeries.

Now go back forward 4 years to buying that farm with those big dreams of leaving the city and becoming farming foster parents. The rundown farm was chosen because it fit the budget and allowed them to move. He was a carpenter and had hopes of living soon with less work hours and more farming hours to do all the restoration it needed. The next 5 years were spent doing the most basic restorations of the house to living status, including a full kitchen tear-out and redo, all floors tear-out and redo, and some structural shoring and beam restoration. Plus a pole barn shell. Along the way, they acquired several head of cattle, a few goats, a couple dogs, and a variety of rabbits, chickens, and cats. There are many entertaining stories that can be told of how the city raised dreamers navigated the run down farm and acquired a hodge-podged barn of critters. But the dreamers felt like their dream was being restored and reframed!

Until one day, the doctor called back with test results. My mom had had a mammogram. She had a breast spot she thought felt different. A mammogram was supposed to bring peace of mind. Instead it brought a phone call with a request for a biopsy. An outpatient biopsy became an inpatient surgery. And in the space of less than a month, she went from thinking “this spot might feel a little odd” to a complete mastectomy and a terminal stage 4 diagnosis with immediate chemotherapy. Again, life would never be the same. There are many stories that can be told here about how life with cancer changed us all. The retired public school teacher who was dreaming of helping struggling foster kids, now had to teach her own children to be able to be adults before chronology said they were. The Dr. told dad she had 3 months maybe. Her goal said there was 9 years to go before her youngest would be 18, and she wanted to be there or make sure we were at least prepared! And that is when our home education journey started. At a time when most people had no idea what the word homeschool meant and they thought it weird or bad and were negative instead of the positive responses our culture and even the colleges have now. Another story topic.

Oh God! Forgive me when I whine, I am blessed indeed, the world is mine. With feet to take me where I’d go, with eyes to see the sunset’s glow, with ears to hear what I should know. Oh, God, forgive me when I whine, I’m blessed indeed, the world is mine. That’s the repeated moral refrain from a longer story poem that I memorized and recited as a participant on the Children’s Bible Hour (a radio program for kids that ran from the 40’s to the 90s I believe). Yes, that’s another part of my story. An about 12 year service time in a traveling performing children’s group with a weekly broadcast on several hundred radio stations in the USA and translated into several languages for world wide distribution via missionary ministries. My mom believed that poem’s message and she lived it daily. She defeated that Dr’s sentence and accomplished her 9 year goal. Although it was a difficult road especially the last year. In that 9 years she endured several major surgeries, 3 rounds of difficult chemotherapy, some painful radiation, and an assortment of drugs to help quell the toxic effects of it all. She used as much natural health options as she could find (which was far less than we have now with the www at our fingertips), and her stubbornly optimistic goals.

Today I know that stress and illness go hand in hand and that illness often follows emotional traumas. I also know that mental attitude is way more important than we are typically taught. Oh, there are many other stories I could tell about how things work together to create the path we travel. And how the choices our ancestors made shape our paths more often than we realize. I’ve learned to seek answers. My shelves are full of books on many subjects related to the things mentioned here. I’ll share some with you as the posts here unfold.

I went on as an adult, to create my own life full of it’s own challenges and stories that have shaped me into the passionately chatting person I am today. I will attempt to relay many more life lessons wrapped in stories here, because as the header for this tab describes:

“Life is a learning experience. Sadly, we don't have enough time to learn it all first hand. It's better to collect and contemplate as much info as we can to make the most of the time we have! After all, time IS your most valuable and only irreplaceable asset. Come sit, chat, share, collect, & enjoy!”

And that my friend, is a few words more than our “5 minute chat time”.

So I will bid you ado for this round of tea, with a virtual hug, I will ask you to,

Come Back Soon! As Always, Thanks for taking the time to read!

Suzy

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I found this book to be an encouraging and insightful read! It combines research reports, patient testimonials and the author’s experiences into an explanation of how the emotional and relationship experiences in our lives create causative connections to many diseases, especially those that are typically considered genetic, hard to diagnose, or auto-immune.

I have pondered for a long time the interesting connections that difficult situations appear to have in the lives of those with such disease diagnoses. I have seen it in my life, my relatives, and in many people I have counseled with over the years. This book validates with research studies, those connections as not mere coincidences or simple correlations, but real contributors to causations.

If you struggle with stress.

If there’s any type of major illness in your family history.

If you wish you understood aches, pains, headaches, erratic symptoms, and chronic illness better, especially when doctors are telling you there’s no connection or “it’s all in your head”, Please READ THIS BOOK.

There are 2 versions available a hardcover version and a paperback version. Each has a different cover but the contents seem to be exactly the same. The kindle and audible versions show the newer cover design. I listened to the audible version first. After a first time thru, I knew that I needed to listen to it again to catch more of the deeper meanings. And then I wanted a printed copy for a visual read and some note taking. Then is when I wondered about the cover designs. I wanted a printed copy that would match up to the audible version exactly, so I could listen and note take simultaneously. But I also had a hard cover preference especially since the price was similar. And that is how I learned that the cover design changes did not impact the ability to compare audio and print versions.

If you have struggles with people in your family or important adult relationships, (and almost everyone does) PLEASE READ THIS BOOK.

And I would loooove to hear your experiences with it! Please.

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Top 7 Tips & Tricks. Here’s some favorite ways to combat those achy days!

1. Peppermint: Peppermint essential oil is a common first reach for a headache. When applied at the first sign of pain, it typically works great.  Peppermint is best rubbed neat (no carrier oil added) on the forehead, temples and often most effectively, the back of neck, base of the head, and shoulders. (buy peppermint here)

2. Lavender: Some people prefer lavender essential oil used in the same way that you would use peppermint for headaches. This is most popular for allergy-triggered headaches. (buy lavender here)

3. Muscle Ease: This blend of essential oils includes Lavender, peppermint, sweet birch, wintergreen, and clove. It’s an amazing combination for reducing swelling and easing pain, so it works great for headaches, too. (buy muscle ease here)

4. Migraine B Gone: My all-time favorite for migraines is the Migraine B Gone essential oil blend. I absolutely love this blend. It comes in a straight oil for making your own dilution or neat application, and a ready to use skin rub that is diluted with carrier oils infused with 9 healing herbs. For migraines I can rub this stuff on neat on temples, forehead, back of neck and around eyes (not too close!) to stop the migraine dead before it starts. It is absolutely amazing if I get to it in time. The essential oil ingredients of this wonder blend are basil, peppermint and menthol. The nine healing herbs in the skin rub are arnica, comfrey, chamomile, chickweed, calendula, jewelweed, mullein, plantain, red clover. (massage oils are here) (Migraine essential oil is here)

5. Conquer: This is an awesome blend of anti-inflammatory pain kicking essential oils. Frankincense, Balsam Fir, Copaiba and Marjoram essential oils make a blend that smells good (not like medicine or overpowering) and kicks pain away quickly. This too is available ina skin rub blend with those super blessed 9 healing herbs. (massage oils are here) (Conquer essential oils are here)

6. Total Conquer: This is Conquer blend plus the migraine kicking basil from Migraine B Gone and a bit of Valerian, the herb that valium originated from. If this doesn’t totally conquer what ails you, you should go to bed (the valerian could make you sleepy). (massage oils are here) (Conquer essential oils are here)

7. Excalibur: “conquer’s sword” the ultimate in pain relief with a dose of mobility and flexibility restoration added in. This is Conquer’s 4 ingredients plus Lavender, Helichrysum, Geranium, and Cypress. It’s a huge favorite for ultimate relief. Add in those blessed 9 healing herbs and you’ve got bliss in a bottle! (massage oils are here) (Conquer essential oils are here)

Aromatherapy and essential oils have been recognized for centuries as medicines for treating ailments of various kinds including reducing headache pain. Tinctures and ointments were recognized by the British Pharmacopoeia for more than 200 years and used by physicians until the 1940s, when due to the war efforts, herbs and aroma preparations fell out of favor and were replaced by chemical drugs.

Another way to reduce muscle tension and migraines and headache symptoms is to apply a cold compress on the back of the neck at the base of the head, and the area of muscle pain. Of course, always wrap that cold pack in a thin towel.

Another migraine trick is a hot bath including mineral rich salts. (click HERE) Mineral rich spa salts allow the mineral (including magnesium) to soak into the skin, a lack of proper minerals in the muscles can be a trigger for migraines.

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So when those stressy days hit and you need an answer quick, your cabinet is ready!

Be well. Be blessed. Be a Blessing.

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If you've ever wondered if you are low in iodine, try the iodine patch test.

It's a simple and easy way to find out.

Lugol’s Iodine is an orange colored solution, if you don’t have Lugol’s type iodine liquid on hand, it’s available online Click HERE and use the search bar for Iodine to buy some.

The Iodine Patch Test

The Iodine Skin Patch Test is the layman’s way to self monitor your iodine intake and your body’s ability to use iodine.

Simply put a drop or two of Lugol’s iodine onto clean dry skin. This should be either on your stomach, under your forearm or inner thigh where water washing or material won't rub on it to impact the test. Rub the drop into a quarter sized stain on your skin.

You will notice the color has changed. Make a mental note about how dark it is.

Wait for 24 hours. If the color has completely disappeared, you are iodine deficient.

The body's deficiency is proportionate - the faster the iodine is absorbed by your body, the more deficient you are.

If the stain disappears in less than four hours. This is considered a severe iodine deficiency. If the stain is gone sometime between 4 hours and 24 hours, you need to keep reading!

Treatment

If the color disappears in less than 24 hours, you may begin using the iodine as a supplement for your iodine deficiency. Please note consuming iodine in a form not approved for oral consumption is not recommended! Lugol’s iodine is the standard for oral use.

Iodine should be used on a daily basis until the body no longer absorbs the skin patch iodine quickly.

After that, you may then test at intervals to see if you have become deficient again and treat accordingly.

Always start slow and increase 1 drop at a time no faster than every 3 days. Pay attention to how you feel and adjust accordingly.

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Dr David Brownstein has authored several books on the subject of iodine and glandular health. you can find them on Amazon or DrBrownstein.com

We have occasionally done bulk orders of Lugol’s and these books.

If you are interested in participating, click this link to go to Pamper Me Naturally and search Lugol's Iodine.

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Now how about a few quick testimonials found online:
Testimonial #1
I bought one bottle of this and used it for several months... just 2 drops a day. Next trip to the doctor he lowered the strength of my thyroid pills... (after 5 yrs on the same strength) If I increase the Lugols maybe I can get off the pills altogether. I just decided to take it slow to make sure I don't get too much. To those
who complain about the taste... NOOOO don't take it by itself. You can put a few drops in almost any drink, even water, and you won't taste it. I usually take mine with my morning coffee. As a side benefit, did you know that iodine can be used to make dirty water safe for drinking?+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Testimonial #2
I searched hypothyroidism on the web, and one of the things that popped up was iodine. I read the various articles about it, and decided to order it. I decided to take 5 drops (12.5 mg) each day and see if I noticed any effects. I experienced much more energy and alertness immediately after starting. But the real surprise for me was the vast improvement of some skin conditions I've had for many years that my
dermatologist prescribed medication for, but could only slow the progression. The itching stopped immediately, and the patches of thick and callused skin on one of my palms started showing improvement, as did the eczema patch on one knee.
It's been three weeks now, and the eczema patch on my knee, which had grown to over 5 inches in diameter, is now less than 2 inches. It has changed from a maroon color to a normal skin color, and is still shrinking each day. The problem on my hand also appears to be heading toward full resolution.
I'm dumbfounded! How could my doctors overlook something as
simple as a nutritional deficiency? I've worried about this
condition and spent considerable money over the years trying to
control it since I was told that was the best I could hope for.
Something is terribly wrong with western medicine for something
like this to occur.
Update: For the last 15 years I've had four toenails that looked
terrible due to toenail fungus. Over a year later, you can see in
the nails where I began taking the iodine; new growth looks
healthy and normal. At the present growth rate, the bad part of
the nails should be totally gone within a few months. Iodine
reduces CANDIDA & FUNGUS!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Testimonial #3
I have had symptoms of low thyroid most of my life but the lab
tests were always within "normal" limits, so I was never treated to
relieve the symptoms. I have been taking Lugol’s iodine- 2-3
drops 5-6 days a week for several months. My energy is up, my
skin is clearer, and I am able to keep the 35 lb weight loss
without counting every calorie.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Testimonial #4
I have a number of hypo symptoms but am not interested
in going on conventional medicine. Having taken Lugol's
for about two weeks I find my low basal body
temperature has gone up from mid-96s to 98.6 (what a
cliche!) Also, the ice-cold feet I bothered my husband
with at night have normalized. I also find that insomnia
that was keeping me up until four a.m. or later has abated,
now I'm getting tired around ten p.m. Just know that iodine
requires self-education. There are studies suggesting it
can harm you, and studies suggesting that most of us
are being harmed by iodine deficiency (women in
particular).
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

What about nuclear radiation protection?
What about OD Concerns?
With the Japan tsunami mess still fresh in memory, and
knowledge that the west Michigan lake shore nuclear
reactor is one of the oldest in the region and has been
repeatedly closed for safety concerns, and with nuclear
weapons a regular topic in foreign news, should we think
about some simple, cheap, easy precautions? Maybe. If
it costs $9 per family member – is it cheap peace of mind?
And maybe makes some health improvements too? Is it
money well spent? Maybe.
Are there concerns and is research available? YES!
Concerns are typically expressed by medical doctors
without sufficient knowledge of iodine. But there are
doctors who are very well researched in this area.
One of which is Dr David Brownstein, MD. He has
done extensive research and has lots of case history
study to back up his statements.
He says in his book that 80 to 90% of Americans are
significantly deficient in iodine, and that the
supplementation in salt is woefully inadequate and
that many health conditions can be improved or corrected
with the addition of iodine in the diet. Specifically Lugol’s
iodine (a specific solution that includes Iodine and
potassium Iodide to improve absorbency and
effectiveness). He suggests lab style urine tests to
determine and adjust dosage, but other researchers
suggest a simple skin test that can be done at home by
anyone is easy and sufficient.
Simply put some on you skin, and allow it to soak in (5-10
min) then see how long the amber stain on your skin lasts.
It should last 24 hours, but most find that it is gone in less.
You are deficient.
(A very common symptom in Michigan, which is known to
be part of “the goiter belt region”)
Pills are also available in Lugol’s solution, but the liquid
form allows you the flexibility of oral or topical use, and
use on anyone – even those who don’t easily swallow
pills. And this Lugol’s is sooo much cheaper than the pills!

So, want to try it? Want some today? You can try to find
in at your local pharmacy. It used to be common to find
iodine tincture which is not Lugols and therefore not for
oral consumption and likely less absorbable, but still
usable.
But after trying several pharmacies and asking
pharmacists, I came home zero results for Tincture or Lugols!
That’s right, that tincture that used to be common for a first aid kit has been
replaced with Neosporin and Benadryl (both drugs with
toxicities.) and the trace element so vital to your glandular
system function is missing from the shelf!


Lugol's Solution Contains:
 2% Iodine,
 4% Potassium Iodide,
 94% Distilled Water

You can find it here on our web page in a 2 oz dropper bottle and an 8oz refill bottle.

Colloidal Silver - A Natural Way to Fight Illness

If you have been using natural health options for very long, you quite likely have heard about colloidal silver at least in passing.  Maybe you know someone who uses it.  Maybe you have seen a small bottle for sale at a health food store.  Or maybe you know someone with a Colloidal Silver Generator.  But do you know what it's all about and why people use it? Do you want to know more?
Well, I have been using it for more than 25 years and have shared it with others and helped people get what they need to be able to use this natural powerhouse option economically and conveniently. I would love to share the many ways I have seen it used and the testimonials I have heard about it, but in case you are new to this natural method of treatment, let me first get you started with a research article written by a Master Herbalist, that contains many references to tests, studies, and articles. I made another post about how you can get it way cheaper than a health food store brand.
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The Colloidal Silver Generator

The End of 650 Diseases

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by Truman Berst, Master Herbalist

Imagine having your own doctor on call 24 hours-a-day. Not just any doctor either. After all, the mortality rate generally drops when doctors and hospitals go on strike.(1,2,3,4) Death due to toxic drugs, unnecessary treatment, rampant ignorance and a sea of antibiotic-resistant bacteria make most hospitals the Devil's own playground. No, I'm talking about a doctor that makes people well again. Now, imagine that your new doctor is essentially cost free, works anywhere and is the size of a transistor radio, neatly fitting in your shirt pocket. Impossible? Not at all. The only thing unbelievable about it is that everyone doesn't already have one.

The doctor I am talking about is a Colloidal Silver Generator. Silver is a powerful, natural prophylactic/antibiotic, used for thousands of years. Ancient Greeks lined their eating and drinking vessels with silver, as did many other cultures throughout the world. (5) Pioneers of the American West would put a silver dollar in a jug of milk to keep it fresh without refrigeration. (6) Did you ever wonder why silverware was made from silver? One of the properties of silver is that it kills bacteria on contact in six minutes or less. (7) It may be that gold and silver were first used as valued currency because of their medical properties. Currently, in the United States we are spending $3,700 per person per year to treat our diseases-- the highest amount in the world. Ironically, our health problems are getting worse. As absurd as it may seem, the third leading cause of disease and death in the United States is now infectious disease. These deaths are completely preventable.

EARLY RESEARCH

At the turn of the century, scientists had discovered that the body's most important fluids are colloidal in nature; suspended ultra-fine particles. Blood, for example, carries nutrition and oxygen to the body cells. This led to studies with Colloidal Silver. Prior to 1938, Colloidal Silver was used by physicians as a mainstream antibiotic treatment and was considered quite "high-tech." Production methods, however were costly. The pharmaceutical industry moved in, causing colloidal research to be set aside in favor of fast working, more toxic and potentially dangerous drugs. The Food and Drug Administration today classifies Colloidal Silver as a pre 1938 drug. A letter from the FDA dated 9/13/91 states: "These products may continue to be marketed...as long as they are advertised and labeled for the same use as in 1938 and as long as they are manufactured in the original manner." Some of the manufacturing methods used before 1938 are still used today. An electrocolloidal process, which is known to be the best method is used.

CONTEMPORARY STUDIES

Laboratory tests in 1988 by Larry C. Ford, M.D., UCLA School of Medicine, and other researchers showed that destructive bacteria, virus and fungus organisms are killed within minutes of contact with simple metallic silver. While studying regeneration of limbs, spinal cords and organs in the late 1970’s, Robert O. Becker, M.D., author of The Body Electric, discovered that silver ions promote bone growth and kill surrounding bacteria he recognized a correlation between low silver levels and sickness. He said silver deficiency was responsible for the improper functioning of the immune system. Dr. Becker's experiments conclude that silver works on the full spectrum of pathogens without any side effects or damage to the body. He also states that silver does more than kill disease-causing organisms. It also causes major growth stimulation of injured tissues. Burn patients and even elderly patients notice more rapid healing. And he discovered that all cancer cells can change back to normal cells. All strains of pathogens resistant to other antibiotics are killed by silver. The March 1978 issue of Science Digest, in an article, "Our Mightiest Germ Fighter," reported: "Thanks to eye-opening research, silver is emerging as a wonder of modern medicine. An antibiotic kills perhaps a half-dozen different disease organisms, but silver kills some 650. Resistant strains fail to develop. Moreover, silver is virtually non-toxic. "The article ended with a quote by Dr. Harry Margraf, a biochemist and pioneering silver researcher who worked with the late Carl Moyer, M.D., chairman of Washington University's Department of Surgery in the 1970’s. "Silver is the best all-around germ fighter we have.”

HOW IT W0RKS

The presence of Colloidal Silver near a virus, fungus, bacterium or any other single celled pathogen disables its oxygen metabolism enzyme, its chemical lung, so to say. Within a few minutes, the pathogen suffocates and dies, and is cleared out of the body by the immune, lymphatic and elimination systems. Unlike pharmaceutical antibiotics which destroy beneficial enzymes, Colloidal Silver leaves these tissue-cell enzymes intact, as they are radically different from the enzymes of primitive single-celled life. Thus Colloidal Silver is absolutely safe for humans, reptiles, plants and all multi-celled living matter. Colloidal Silver is the result of an electro-magnetic process that pulls microscopic particles from a larger piece of silver into a liquid, such as water. (8) These microscopic particles can more easily penetrate and travel throughout the body. Colloidal Silver works as a catalyst, disabling the enzyme that all one- celled bacteria, fungi and viruses use for their oxygen metabolism. In short, the bad guys suffocate. Unlike with antibiotics, resistant strains have never been known to develop. In fact, antibiotics are only effective against perhaps a dozen forms of bacteria and fungi, but never viruses. Because no known disease-causing organism can live in the presence of even minute traces of the chemical element of metallic silver, Colloidal Silver is effective against more than 650 different disease- causing pathogens. (9) Since there is not enough room to list all the diseases against which Colloidal Silver has been used successfully, here is a tiny sample: acne, allergies, appendicitis, arthritis, blood parasites, bubonic plague, burns (colloidal silver is one of the few treatments that can keep severe burn patients alive), cancer, (10) cholera, conjunctivitis, diabetes, gonorrhea, hay fever, herpes, leprosy, leukemia, lupus, lymphangitis, Lyme disease, malaria, meningitis, parasitic infections both viral and fungal, pneumonia, rheumatism, ringworm, scarlet fever, septic conditions of the eyes, ears, mouth and throat, shingles, skin cancer, staph infections, strep infections, syphilis, toxemia, trench foot, all forms of viruses, warts and stomach ulcer. In addition it also has veterinary uses, such as for canine parvo virus. You'll also find Colloidal Silver very handy in the garden since it can be used against bacterial, fungal and viral attacks on plants. Simply spray diluted Colloidal Silver on the leaves, and add to soil water.

INGESTING COLLOIDAL SILVER

Taken orally, the silver solution is absorbed from the mouth into the bloodstream, then transported quickly to the body cells. Swishing the solution under the tongue briefly before swallowing ensures fast absorption. In three to four days the silver will have accumulated in the tissues sufficiently for benefits to begin. Since Colloidal Silver is eliminated by the kidneys, lymph system and bowel after three weeks, a regular daily intake is recommended as a protection against dangerous pathogens. In cases of minor burns, an accumulation of Colloidal Silver can hasten healing, reducing scar tissue and infection. The lives of millions of people susceptible to chronic low-grade infections can be enhanced by this powerful preventative health measure.

FOR CHRONIC OR SERIOUS CONDITIONS

Take double or triple the recommended amount for 30 to 45 days, then drop to the maintenance dose. If your body is extremely ill or toxic, do not be in a hurry to clear up everything at once. If pathogens are killed off too quickly, the body's five eliminatory channels, i.e., the liver, kidneys, skin, lungs and bowel, may be temporarily overloaded, causing flu-like conditions, headache, extreme fatigue, dizziness, nausea or aching muscles. Ease off on the Colloidal Silver to the maintenance amount and increase your distilled water intake. Regular bowel movements are a must in order to relieve the discomforts of detoxification. Resolve to reduce sugar and saturated fats from the diet, and exercise more. Given the opportunity, the body's natural ability to heal will amaze you.

TOPICAL USES

Colloidal Silver is painless on cuts, abrasions, in open wounds, in the nostrils for a stuffy nose, and even in a body's eyes because, unlike antiseptics, it does not destroy tissue cells.

TOLERANCE TO DISEASE ORGANISMS

It is impossible for single-celled germs to mutate into silver-resistant forms, as happens with conventional antibiotics. Therefore no tolerance to Colloidal Silver ever develops. Also, Colloidal Silver cannot interact or interfere with other medicine being taken. Inside the body, silver forms no toxic compounds nor reacts with anything other than a germ's oxygen-metabolizing enzyme. Colloidal Silver is truly a safe, natural remedy for many of mankind's ills. It would appear highly unlikely that even germ warfare agents could survive an encounter with Colloidal Silver, since viruses like Ebola and Hanta, or even the dreaded "flesh-eating bacteria" are, in the end, merely hapless viruses and bacteria. To top it off, Colloidal Silver is non-toxic, making it safe for both children and adults, as well as pets. (11, 12) In short, anything bigger than a one-cell animal seems to like it. Nor does one have to worry about that FDA (Food and Drug Administration) fox being put in charge of this home remedy hen house. Colloidal Silver is a pre-193 8 healing modality, making it exempt from FDA jurisdiction under the grandfather clause. (13)

So what doesn't colloidal silver do?

It doesn't interact with any other medications. It doesn't upset the stomach, and, in fact, is a digestion aid. It does not sting in the eyes. Medical journal reports and documented studies spanning the past 100 years indicate no known side effects from oral or I.V. administration of colloidal silver in animal or human testing. Colloidal silver has been used with good results under the most demanding health care circumstances. Without overstating the case, it may be time to recognize colloidal silver as not only the safest medicine on Earth, but also the most powerful!

Questions and Answers About Colloidal Silver

WHAT IS IT? Colloidal Silver is a pure all-natural substance consisting of sub-microscopic clusters of silver, held in a suspension of pure ionized water by a tiny electric charge placed on each particle.

WHAT DOES IT DO? Colloidal Silver is a powerful, natural antibiotic. It is the most usable form of the most effective disease, germ, virus and fungal killers known. It has been found to be both a remedy and a prevention for colds, flu, all infections and all fermentation due to any bacteria, fungus or virus, especially staph, and strep, which are often found in disease conditions. It has been reported to rapidly subdue inflammation and promote faster healing. The body needs Colloidal Silver to fight disease causing organisms and to aid healing. Taken daily, Colloidal Silver provides a second immune system resulting in more energy, vitality, vigor, relaxation, faster healing and reduced bodily toxins. An artificial antibiotic kills, on average, 6 different disease organisms, but Colloidal Silver is known to kill over 650 diseases without any harmful side effects or toxicity.

SILVER IN OUR BODIES? We get silver and all minerals in our bodies through the food we eat. This comes directly from organic soil. This soil is rich in living organisms. These organisms break down the soil so plants are provided minerals in a form assimilable to the plant. Hence, we get silver naturally from the minerals present in organically grown plants. If we eat plants that have been grown on chemical fertilizers, as most plants are grown today; without living organisms in the soil to help provide nutrition to the plant, we do not get the quantity of vitamins and minerals which are available in organically grown foods. Thus deficiencies develop. As we age our ability to assimilate silver decreases. We develop a silver deficiency and an impaired immune system that can lead to cancer and other diseases. Dr. Robert Becker noticed a correlation between low silver levels and sickness. People who had low levels of silver were frequently sick, had innumerable colds, flu, fevers and other sicknesses. He believed a silver deficiency was the reason for the improper functioning of the immune system. He found that silver works on a wide range of bacteria without any side effects or damage to the cells of the body and can stimulate major growth of injured tissues. WHY SILVER? Silver has benefited mankind's health for thousands of years. In ancient Greece and Rome, people used silver containers to keep liquids fresh. American settlers traveling across the West often put a silver dollar in the milk to delay its spoiling. Around the turn of the century, doctors prescribed silver nitrate for stomach ulcers and it has been common practice to put a few drops of a silver solution in the eyes of a newborn baby to kill bacteria that might cause blindness. A silver compound known as silver sulfadiazine has been used in 70 per cent of the burn centers in the U.S. It helps stop the herpes virus. Note: It is not the silver in dental fillings that is harmful but the mercury which is a deadly poison.

WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF COLLOIDAL SILVER? It was widely used 60 to 70 years ago when, among other reasons, the cost became prohibitive - about $100 per ounce in 1930 dollars. The quicker, more specific and fast acting man-made antibiotics became prevalent in the 1940s. High quality Colloidal Silver can now be produced at a low cost.

WHAT ARE THE KEY CHARACTERISTICS? Colloidal Silver is non-toxic, non-addictive and has no side effects. The body develops no tolerance and one cannot overdose. Colloidal Silver cannot cause harm to the liver, kidneys or any other organs in the body. It is safe for pregnant and nursing women and even aids the developing fetus in growth and health, as well as easing the mother's delivery and recovery. Colloidal Silver is odorless, tasteless, non-stinging, harmless to eyes, contains no free-radicals, is harmless to human enzymes and has no reaction with other medications. It improves digestion, aids in the regeneration of damaged cells and tissues, helps prevent colds, flu and organism caused diseases . HAS IT BEEN MEDICALLY TESTED? YES! Colloidal Silver has been successfully tested at the UCLA Medical Labs where it killed every virus on which it was tested.

WHAT DOES THE FDA SAY? According to the FDA Colloidal Silver may continue to be marketed and used as it was originally intended. Colloidal Silver exceeds FDA recognized standards (Sep. 13, 1991 letter written by Consumer Safety Officer, Harold Davies, U.S. Food and Drug Admin.) FDA has no jurisdiction regarding a pure, mineral element.

WHAT ABOUT COLLOIDAL SILVER FOR AIDS? since in active aids, the suppressed immune system of the body is open to all kinds of disease, Colloidal Silver is the perfect non-toxic medicine to use for its wide spectrum antibiotic effect. A researcher at Brigham Young University sent Colloidal Silver to two different labs including UCLA Medical Center, and reported "It not only killed the HIV virus but every virus that was tested in the labs". According to FDA rules, Colloidal Silver cannot be used for treating the HIV virus, but it could be used as an antibiotic for all acquired diseases of active AIDS.

WHAT OTHER USES ARE THERE FOR COLLOIDAL SILVER? Tests prove, due to the high absorption of silver in the small intestine, the friendly bacteria in the large intestine are not affected. All bacterial, viral and fungal organisms are killed within 6 minutes of contact. Higher silver content in the body causes faster and more frequent contact with these organisms. No disease causing organism can live in the presence of simple silver. The following is a partial list of the more than 650 diseases that Colloidal Silver has been successfully used against Acne, Arthritis, Athlete's Foot, Toxemia, Blood Poisoning, Burns, Cancer, Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, Candida, Cholera, Colitis, Conjunctivitis, Dermatitis, Diabetes, Diptheria, Dysentry, Enlarged Prostate, Excema, Fatigue, Fibrositis, Gastritis, Gonorrhea, Herpes, Hepatitis, Infantile Diseases, Impetigo, Keratitis, Leprosy, lesions, leukemia, lupus, lyme disease,Pymphagitis, Malaria, Meningitis, Neurasthenia, Pluerisy, Pheomonia, Prostate, Psoriasis, Pruritis Ani, Ophthalmia, Rheumatism, Ringworm, Rhiritis Rosacea, Scarlet Fever, Seborrhea, Septicemia, Shingles, Skin Cancer, Cystitis, Staph Infection, Strep Infections, Stomach Fu, Stomach Ulcers, Herpes Virus, Ulcers, Strep, Thryroid Conditions, Tonsillitis, Toxemia, Trenchfoot, Tuberculosis, Virus Warts, Whooping Cough, Yeast Infections.

Colloidal Silver vs. Pharmaceutical Antibiotics

Interest in Colloidal Silver has increased most recently, probably because illness causing organisms do not seems to build up a resistance to Colloidal Silver the way they do to pharmaceutical antibiotics. Antibiotics are becoming less effective as resistance to them grows.

The Los Angeles Times states "But in the last decade, a broad resistance to antibiotics has begun to emerge. And because bacteria can transfer genes among themselves, experts only expect the resistance to grow. The potential nightmare is an Andromeda strain, which is immune to all antibiotics and could wreak havoc. ("Arsenal of Antibiotics Failing as Resistant Bacteria Develop," October 23, 1994)

In the early 1900's an antibacterial solution called Colloidal Silver became the choice of medical practitioners. It proved to be enormously effective against infectious organisms and extremely safe to use, without the negative side effects associated with drugs. But Colloidal Silver became increasingly expensive and the pharmaceutical companies developed antibiotics as we know them today. Silver took a back seat. However, as usual, as we deviate from nature, unforeseen problems develop. Forty years after the advent of antibiotics, many types of disease-causing organisms had built an immunity to their action. Over the years the medical establishment has reported on the new strains of “Super Bugs" that cannot be destroyed by antibiotics. Newsweek Magazine reported in March 28, 1994 that in 1992, 13,000 hospital patients died of infections that resisted every drug doctors tried. Also a well known fact is the detrimental effect of antibiotics on the naturally occurring flora in the colon. Colloidal Silver does not disturb this very necessary environment.

Fortunately, the timely re-emergence of Colloidal Silver due to new technology and much reduced costs in production, may prove to be one of the best remedies that the public now has to protect themselves.

In 1834, the German obstetrician F. Crede administered 1% silver nitrate to the eyes of newborn infants, virtually eliminating the incidence of disease causing blindness in newborn babies. However, it was not until the late 1800's that Western scientists were able to prove what had been known in Eastern medicine for thousands of years...that silver was a proven germ fighter! Once the discovery was made that the body's chief fluids were colloidal in nature, the endless possibilities which could occur from the use of colloids in medicine were recognized. As a result, a silver solution known as Colloidal Silver became widely used in medicine as one of the main-stays of anti-microbial treatment, until money became an issue.   "What we actually have done, was rediscover that silver kills bacteria", stated Dr. Robert Becker M. D.  "It is non-toxic in micro-concentrations of 3-5 parts per million." And now it's silver that is finding wholly new uses as a wonder in modern medicine...perhaps it soon will be recognized as OUR MIGHTIEST GERM FIGHTER." (Science Digest, March 1978.)

Silver is considered to be one of the most universal antibiotic substances known. Jim Powell reported in the Science Digest article quoted above, that an antibiotic kills perhaps 7 different disease organisms, but silver kills some 650. Resistant strains fail to develop. Moreover, silver is non-toxic! The comeback of silver in medicine began in the 1970's. The late Dr. Carl Moyer, chairman of Washington University's Department of Surgery, received a grant to develop better treatment for burn victims. Dr. Harry Margraf of St. Louis, as the chief biochemist, worked with Dr. Moyer and other surgeons to find an antiseptic strong enough, yet safe, to use over larger areas of the body. Dr. Margraf reviewed 22 antiseptic compounds and found drawbacks in all of them. (SILVER IS USED IN ALL MAJOR BURN CENTERS TN THE UNITED STATES. UCLA MEDICAL LABS FOUND IT EFFECTIVE ON EVERY BURN)

He noted that many of these antibiotics were ineffective against a number of harmful bacteria, including the biggest killer in burn cases - greenish blue bacterium called Pseudomonas acruginose. Extensive trials proved silver to be the most effective and is currently used in all major burn centers in the United States.

WHAT IS COLLOIDAL SILVER

Colloidal Silver is a tasteless, odorless, non-toxic, pure, natural substance consisting of sub-microscopic clusters of silver particles, suspended by a tiny electric charge placed on each particle, within a suitable liquid. The molecule's size usually ranges from 0.01 to about 0.001 micron in diameter (very small). The particles do not settle but remain suspended since the electric charge exerts more force than gravity on each particle. Colloidal is the form of choice since the body must convert a crystalline solution to colloidal before it can be used. Taken daily, it is a powerful adjunct to our immune systems, by killing harmful disease-causing organisms, and aids healing.

Silver and all minerals are obtained from food we eat. This comes directly from organic soil containing living organisms. These organisms assist in making the minerals available to the vegetation. However, if we eat fruit and vegetables grown on chemical fertilizers, as most plants are grown today, we do not get the necessary quantity of vitamins, minerals and trace elements which occur in organically grown foods. This results in deficiencies which progress over time resulting in an impaired immune function. The results are diseases of aging. Dr. Robert Backer noticed a correlation between low silver levels and sickness; colds, flu, etc. Some Biochemists suspect that a silver deficiency is possibly one of the main reasons cancer exists and is increasing at such a rapid rate today. Dr. Bjorn Nordstrom of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, has used silver in his cancer treatment for many years. He says it has brought on rapid remission in many patients whom other doctors had given up on.

HOW DOES COLLOIDAL SILVER WORK?

According to medical journals from around the world, it disables the particular enzyme that all one-celled bacteria, fungi and viruses use for their oxygen metabolism. Colloidal Silver co-mingles with the blood and enters the cells to seek out and destroy harmful organisms. It suffocates them in six minutes or less, after initial contact. This phenomenon was recently demonstrated in tests at UCLA Medical Lab. Trace amounts protect and strengthen the immune system.

USES OF COLLOIDAL SILVER

Several decades of clinical use of Silver have been proven in the treatment of burns, and for eye, ear, nose, throat, vaginal, rectal and urinary tract infections. Silver has been prescribed in medicine as an aid to the brain, reproductive disorders in women and the circulatory system. It has been used as a remedy for mental imbalances, sleepwalking and anorexia nervosa. Additional uses include the treatment of AIDS, allergies, anthrax bacilli, arthritis, parasites, blood poisoning, boils, wounds of the cornea, chronic

So why haven't you heard of it?

I suspect the user friendly economics of Colloidal Silver may have something to do with its low profile in the media. Colloidal Silver can't help but shine a spotlight on the expensive and deadly nature of our pharmaceutical industries, who are bigger than the Pentagon economically. For example, the pharmaceutical cartel's relentless promotion of dangerous vaccines for humans and animals through government programs have now been linked to everything from increasing crib deaths in infants (who in many documented cases scream for hours before dying), to the increasingly common disease, feline leukemia, in house cats. Colloidal Silver, on the other hand, is a safe and reliable alternative to expensive pharmaceuticals.

It is possible that consuming large amounts over long periods of time may kill some friendly bacteria in your intestines. If taking large amounts, you should supplement your diet with cottage cheese, yogurt or acidophilus, or compensate for possible bacteria loss with  acidophilus powder daily half hour before meals. This is not, however, a serious problem, and unlike antibiotics, Colloidal Silver does not weaken the body's immune system. In fact, it is said to give the body a second immune system, creating a shield against disease of all kinds.

As it is currently marketed through local health food stores, colloidal silver contains anywhere from 1 to 5 parts per million (ppm) and sells for as much as $21.95 for two ounces. An average adult dose might be anywhere from a tablespoon per day to a sixteen ounce tumbler, or more, since no toxic dose is known. Thanks to one physicist's brilliantly simple design, you can now construct your own generator and produce unlimited amounts of high-quality colloidal silver concentrate for the price of water!

APPLICATION OF COLLOIDAL SILVER

Liquid silver as well as new gel formulations, may be applied directly to the skin. A few drops on a q-tip or band-aid may be used to disinfect any wound or sore. Liquid silver is administered orally and can also be injected. It can be used vaginally, anally, atomized or inhaled into the nose or lungs and dropped into the eyes. To start, take one teaspoon per day, for seven days, then reduce to half a teaspoon per day. Children should use proportionally smaller doses. For colds and flu symptoms, up to a tablespoon three times daily. Overdosing should not be of concern even if more than recommended doses are administered. After a few days of use, one might experience a deter effect in the form of feeling sluggish or mild aches. Consumption of water will cause these symptoms to disappear.

It is safe for pregnant and nursing women and is known to aid the developing fetus in growth. It will not generate free radicals or interfere with enzyme activity. It has no reaction with other medications. A person could safely drink several ounces a day of 5 ppm concentration Colloidal Silver indefinitely, as this small concentration of silver is easily flushed from the body.

What Do Health Professionals Say About Silver and Colloidal Silver?

"In 1992, 13,300 hospital patients died of infections that resisted every drug doctors tried. Newsweek Magazine, March 28, 1994

"A 65-year-old diabetic cut himself on the leg. He washed and bandage it but, as often happens with diabetes, the pain persisted, and the cut grew into a sore. Soon it became bigger than the bandage, and he had to apply a dressing. Still, it grew bigger and ugly. In desperation he went to a clinic. His sore was diagnosed as a'stasis ulcer.' For a year, one treatment after another was tried. Nothing, including penicillin and sulfonamide, could heal the ulcer. If his condition had continued unchecked, his leg probably would have been amputated. But finally he was referred to a clinic that treated skin ulcers with a silver compound. This promptly stopped the growth of all bacteria. In less than two months, the ulcer was completely healed." -Science Digest-March 1978

"We have had instant success with Colloidal Silver and immune compromised patients. A few examples are: Pink eye (topical) totally resolved in less than six hours; recurrent sinus infections (oral ingestion) resolved in eight days; acute cuticle infections -(topical) - twenty four hours. Another major area in which we have improved our clinical results is in the area of bowel detoxification and dysbiosis. The Colloidal Silver has provided excellent removal of abnormal intestinal bacteria; also it has proved to be a great adjunct to our Candida albicans, Epstein Barr Virus and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome protocols." Dr. Evan M., Kansas.

"What we have actually done was rediscover the fact that silver kills bacteria, which had been known for centuries... when antibiotics were discovered, clinical uses for silver as an antibiotic were discarded" concludes Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D. Extensive research into the curative properties of silver has been conducted for many years at the Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. under the direction of above mentioned Dr, Becker. The experiments conclude that silver works on a wide range of bacteria, without any known side-effects or damage to the cells of the body. Silver was doing something more than killing disease-causing organisms. It was also causing major growth stimulation of injured tissues. Dr. Becker concludes that the presence of the silver ion may help to regenerate tissue, eliminate old or cancerous cell, and any other diseased or abnormal condition.

Dr. Henry Crooks (Use of Colloids in Health-Disease) found that silver in the colloidal state is highly germicidal, quite harmless to humans and absolutely non-toxic. From his bacteriological experiments with silver he concluded, "I know of no microbe that is not killed in laboratory experiments in six minutes."

Dr. Bjorn Nordenstrom, of the Larolinska Institute, Sweden, has successfully used silver as a component in his cancer treatments for many years.

Dr. Leonard Keene Hirschberg, A. M., M. D. (John Hopkins) states, "Speaking generally, the colloidal metals are especially remarkable for their beneficial action in infective states.

Dr. Richard L. Davies, executive director of the Silver Institute, which monitors silver technology in 37 countries, reports: "In four years we've described 87 important new medical uses for silver. We're just beginning to see to what extent silver can relieve suffering."

More In-depth Information

First some basics. A colloid consists of minute particles that float within a liquid despite the pull of gravity. To stay in suspension for any length of time, these particles must be smaller than 1 micron (1/1000 of an inch). When fresh produce is processed through a juicer, a colloid results in the form of a glass of juice. Drinking fresh juices makes it possible to consume far more nutrients than by eating. Because juice is considered a pre-digested food, the body can process large amounts with minimal effort and correspondingly better health results. As a juice colloid sits, the larger particles begin to fall out of suspension and settle at the bottom of the container. To evenly distribute the contents it is common to shake up a bottle of juice before drinking.

In the case of colloidal silver, silver particles are pulled off of a pure silver electrode that is emersed in water by applying a low voltage electric current, giving each particle an electric charge. This charge, though long lasting, is not permanent, and both daylight and time will cause a colloid to lose its charge. This loss is referred to as "falling out", or "plating out". Note, while colloidal silver is light sensitive, it is not nearly so light sensitive as camera film. If taken to the beach under mid-day California summer sun, colloidal silver can be expected to oxidize in about ten minutes. Indoors, under ambient and artificial light, colloidal silver will oxidize in about three days. This only means that once made, colloidal silver should be stored in tinted or opaque containers.  The container and dropper must be glass, as plastic cannot preserve the silver in liquid suspension for any length of time.

Many colloidal silver manufacturers claim that if the silver particles are "too large," the resulting brew will prove injurious to the public health. The truth can be found in many science text books. When applying current to silver in solution, metallic silver will always break off at the same size, 1.26 angstroms (.00001 microns). This particle is so small that the next stop on the road to smallness is the atom itself.

Colloids are by nature the smallest particles matter can be divided into while still retaining individual characteristics. Reducing a piece of metallic silver into a cloud of microscopic particles greatly extends its total surface area, and so its healing properties, while deepening its penetration into the body.

Because the silver particles are charged, they strive to combine with other elements in the solution. Trace elements exist even in distilled water, and when the charged silver particles combine with a specific trace element, the solution will turn one of a number of colors like gray, yellow, green or brown. Whatever element the silver chooses is largely irrelevant: Once in the body, the silver releases its bond in search of stronger attachments in an effort to stabilize its charge. Therefore, once the silver colloid has entered the body, the original silver particles measuring 1.26 angstroms (about the size of fifteen atoms) quickly pass through the stomach lining and into the blood stream, where they circulate for about a week before elimination.

Yellow Colloidal Silver.

The real reason yellow colored colloidal silver is favored by most manufacturers is not because it is more effective than other types, but because it has a longer shelf life before falling out of solution. This stability in solution doesn't automatically translate into a smaller combined particle size between the silver ion and the trace element which it has attached itself to. It may simply be that the trace element which the silver has combined with is more water soluble. In either case it's a moot point. Simply put, the most effective colloidal silver is not a question of color, but of freshness and highest concentration density.

A disadvantage of the yellow colloidal silver is its bitter taste - unlike the silver colored colloid. Also, the yellow solution is more difficult to make. When using a 27-volt generator, it is helpful to reduce the water volume to mitigate the much longer activation time that the yellow solution requires. I couldn't find any medical evidence that the yellow colloid is more effective than the silver colored colloid. People can always create and compare the effects of the yellow and silver solutions for themselves.

To make the yellow solution, use a tall narrow glass with six to eight ounces of distilled water. Use no saline solution. The water will not gain conductivity as it does when saline is added, so the process will take about forty-five minutes. It will produce a concentration of around 10 parts per million (ppm). Be sure to keep an eye on the color of your solution or it will eventually turn a murky brown and then black. If this happens, just throw it out and start over.

Making High Concentrations of Colloidal Silver.

As more silver ions travel through the water, the current flow increases which alters the physical parameters necessary for colloidal silver production. The result is a process time limit of about fifteen minutes when using distilled water with saline solution.

To create high concentrations of silver, you can heat the water. For every 10 degrees that the water is heated above room temperature (72 degrees), the parts per million (ppm) will be doubled. Therefore, if 5 ppm resulted after seven minutes of activation with sixteen ounces of water at 72 degrees, then 82 degrees would yield 10 ppm, and 92 degrees would deliver 20 ppm, etc. You should not boil the water; however, there is still a great deal of leeway between 72 degrees and 212 degrees (boiling). For heating purposes, do not use a tea pot because of the pot's calcification. Use something cleaner, like a stainless steel cooking pot before pouring water into a glass, or 1 qt Vison Ware glass pan.

The body's ability to process the tiny atoms of colloidal silver makes silver build-up in the body impossible. The Environmental Protection Agency's Poison Control Center reports a No Toxicity listing for colloidal silver. In fact, it appears that harmlessness is one of the attributes of the colloid physiology, regardless of content. For example, when examining a bottle of colloidal minerals from the local health food store I noticed arsenic, nickel and lead among the sixty-five trace minerals listed in the contents.  In other words, if the particles are small enough, you can even drink arsenic. Since the body is known to have a vital need for silver to maintain both the immune system and the production of new healthy cells, and due to the harmonious nature of colloids entering the body (our blood is also a colloid), it stands within reason that colloidal silver may literally be the safest medicine on earth.

Just to prove a point to myself, I made a sixteen-ounce solution of well over 250 ppm and drank it. I repeated this procedure every day for four days in a row. I easily drank the equivalent of fifty sixteen-ounce glasses of 5 ppm colloidal silver every day! I did not eat yogurt, acidophilus, or compensate for friendly bacteria loss in any way. The only side effect was that I just seemed to feel better. This makes sense according to Capitol Drugs pharmacist Ron Barnes, R.Ph.; "Many strains of pathogenic microbes-- viruses, fungi, bacteria or any other single-celled pathogen-- resistant to other antibiotics are killed on contact by colloidal silver, and are unable to mutate. However, it does not harm tissue-cell enzymes and friendly bacteria.

Cutting two flowers in the back yard and leaving one on a shelf without water for twenty-four hours. When picked up the next day it was completely limp. Making a fresh cut at the bottom of the stem, then placing it in a glass of high concentrate colloidal silver. Each day it got better. On the third day, the stem had become firm again, as if it had just been cut. Not a single petal was lost. The second flower that was cut had been placed immediately in ordinary water. Many of its petals had already fallen. Though the flower was in water from the start, it was already dying.

Copyright 1996 Truman Berst. All rights reserved.

References:

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 56th edition, 1975-76, page F209

Healing Spiral /Banishing Disease With Three 9v Batteries -- Perceptions, Nov/Dec 1995

                    1. "Medical malpractice alone kills an estimated 45,000 people annually (in the U.S.), making it the leading cause of accidental injury and death."--Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD

                    2. As many as 14,000 people die in Australian hospitals every year through preventable mistakes, ranging from misdiagnosis to being given the wrong drugs. This makes hospitals the third- largest killer in Australia after heart disease and cancer. For those who survive, between 25,000 and 30,000 patients are left with a serious and permanent disability as a result of such mistakes.--The  Sydney Morning Herald, 6/2/95 and The New Scientist, 6/10/95.

                    3. Using statistics from the 1984 Harvard study, the National Safety Council and other sources, the  Campaign to Protect Consumer Rights says that more people die in the U.S. from medical negligence than any other accidental cause. If these statistics are valid, medical errors kill more people each year than automobiles, falls, drownings, fires, choking, guns and poisons combined.

                    4."Only 10 to 20 percent of all medical procedures currently used in medical practice have been  shown to be efficacious by controlled trial.--U. S. Office of Technology Assessment.

                    5. Encyclopedia Britanica, 1910

                    6. Health  Consciousness Magazine, vol. 15, no. 4

                    7. Colloidal Silver is proven particularly effective in cases of intestinal troubles. Dr. Henry Crooks found that Silver in the colloidal state is highly germicidal, quite harmless to humans and absolutely  non-toxic. Rather than in a chemical compound, the Silver, in the colloidal state, may be applied in a much more concentrated form, with correspondingly better results.  All fungus, virus bacterium, streptococcus, staphylococcus, and other pathogenic organisms are killed in three to four minutes: in fact there is no microbe known that is not killed by Colloidal Silver in six  minutes or less, with a dilution of as little as five parts per million, though there are no side effects whatsoever from huge concentrations.  “Use of Colloids in health and Disease,” quoted in “Report: Colloidal Silver”< Health Consciousness, Vol. 15, No. 4

                    8. “(Colloidal Silver)” is not a chemical compound containing silver, but a pure metallic silver of sub microscopic clusters of just a few atoms, held in suspension in pure water, by the tiny electric charge on each atom.  Health Consciousness, Vol. 15, No. 4

                    9. As an antibiotic, Silver kills over 650 disease causing organisms: Resistant strains fail to develop.  Silver is absolutely non-toxic.  Silver is the best all-around germ fighter we have.  Doctors are reporting that taken internally against syphillis, cholera, and maleria, diabetes, and severe burns. - Bio/Tech News 1995

                    10. Dr. Bjorn Nordstrom, of Karolinska Institute, (Sweden’s equivalent of the USA’s National Institute of Health.)

                    11. Metallic Silver (Colloid) is non-toxic, however, silver nitrate and other compounds of silver are and should not be ingested. - Dr. Bob Beck

                    12. Environmental Protection Agency’s Poison Control Center reports no toxicity listing Colloidal Silver, considering it harmless in any concentration.

                    13. The FDA has stated because Colloidal Silver is (by fifty years) a pre-1938 drug, it may continue to be marketed.  (Sept. 1991, letter received from Consumer Safety Officer Harold Davies, U.S. Food and Drug Administration.) Moreover, the FDA has no jurisdiction over a pure, mineral element.

Reprinted from internet article by Truman Berst, Master Herbalist from American Health & Herbs