BOWEL CLEANSING: The spicy stuff & the black goo

Here is some of what will be covered in the Cleansing & Detox Workshop:


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Another part of getting your health in order, is to have clean & healthy bowels.


When I first transitioned into eating a raw living food diet, I started doing a Dr. Schulze bowel cleanse. I teach my students how to make this formula, it works really well.


I started using the 2 formulas, the spicy Formula 1 that goes into capsules & formula 2, also affectionately know as THE BLACK GOO. This stuff looks amazing to your friends & family as you stir the black stuff into a glass & let it thicken !


I stayed on these formulas for 8 months. Definitely between that & changing my diet to raw & vegan I went through some cleansing periods. My face broke out for 3 months, and has since been more clean & looks better than it has in years. Also some emotional cleansing, as toxins were releasing. 


As I discuss in my classes,  & in my Detox Workshop manual, you can do this as quickly as you want, or can slow the process down.


Dr. Schulze Bowel Cleansing


This is a reprint of patient instructions from Dr. Richard Schulze's clinic. This is intended for educational purposes only . I teach how to make these formulas in my Herbalist Course. I have added his whole manual to my website, I am showing a bit of it here.


I have used the bowel cleansing formulas a lot with clients & students, and the vinegar for the immune system is amazing. I use the greens formula daily. I teach my herbal students how to make all of these.


BOWEL CLEANSING & DETOXIFICATION PROGRAM


Your cleanse needs to include bowel cleansing formulas, in addition to using a cleansing tea & a cleansing tincture. 


INTESTINAL FORMULA #1: 


Type #1: The sluggish bowel type. This formula is for 97 % of my patients. The ones who need a help getting their bowel working frequently enough. 
Therapeutic Action:


This stimulating tonic is both cleansing, healing and strengthening to the entire gastro-intestinal system. It stimulates your peristaltic action ( the muscular movement of the colon ) and over time strengthens the muscles of the large intestine, halts putrefaction and disinfects, soothes and heals the mucous membrane lining of your entire digestive tract. This herbal tonic also improves digestion, relieves gas and cramps, increases the flow of bile which, in turn, cleans the gallbladder, bile ducts and liver, destroys Candida albicans overgrowth and promotes a healthy intestinal flora, destroys and expels intestinal parasites, increases gastrointestinal circulation and is anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal. 
Contra-indications: Do not use during pregnancy without the guidance of a health care professional.




Type #2: The irritated bowel type. This is only a small percentage of my patients. This is the exception to the rule, those with bowels that work too often, more than 3 bowel movements a day. This includes those that have colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, Chrones disease, etc. If your bowels are irritated, hot or are working too frequently, skip this formula and go to the Intestinal Corrective Formula #2.


Dosage:


Take this formula 5 times each day beginning in the morning for 5-6 days consuming a total of 8 ounces of the powdered formula during this period. One hour after your morning nutritional drink mix 1 heaping teaspoon of Intestinal Formula #2 powder with 8 ounces of diluted juice. It mixes best if you shake it in a small jar. Do the same ½ hour before lunch, between lunch and dinner, ½ hour before dinner and 1 hour before bed, so that you are consuming a total of 5 heaping teaspoons each day. During or after dinner, take your Intestinal Formula #1 as usual but increase your regular dosage by 1 additional pill, or more if necessary to have sufficient bowel movements. It is helpful to drink additional liquid after each dose of Intestinal Corrective Formula #2, at least 8 ounces.



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Cleansing and detoxifying the body, part 2

I am offering a workshop on my forum on designing your own Cleanse.

We will be covering:

This is a 17 page manual explaining how to design your own cleanse. It covers:

• What is cleansing?
• Nutritional choices during cleansing.
• What is fasting?
• What type of cleanse is best for me?
• Why health food store cleanses are harmful.
• How long to cleanse, how to break a cleanse.
• Bowel cleansing.
• 3 day outline for food choices during a cleanse.
• Specific food choices for cleansing.
• What NOT to eat.
• Herbs & supplements for cleansing.
• Recipes: shake, raw crackers, almond milk, raw cereal.

If you'd like to learn more about medicinal uses of herbs to use on yourself, friend, family, pets, or clients, take my 8 month distance learning herbalist course. Course work is posted on my forum. Much more info on my website. 
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Or sign up her for the 8 month herbal, other herbal workshops held online, and reiki & chakra healing workshops:


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Cleansing & Detoxifying the Body, part 1 of 2

What is a cleanse/detox?


Eating raw foods, or only specific foods or liquids to give your body a rest from the work of digestion, so it can begin to heal itself.

To tone & cleanse the main organs of elimination: especially bowel, kidneys & liver.  This will address the underlying cause of many health problems.

Being very mindful of what you are eating for a week or so gives your taste buds & your mind time adjust to foods that are nutritious. This can change what you desire to eat, and help you let go of unhealthy food choices.

Different degrees of cleansing will make it safer for anyone regardless of their toxicity levels, & current health.

My thoughts on cleansing the body is that it should be done gradually & gently. From my experience, severely limiting your food intake, fasting, juice fasting, etc. can be dangerous & tends to drop the blood sugar which can lead to shakiness, irritability, headaches, & feeling faint.

Cleansing kits from the health food store often contain strong herbal laxatives which most people do not need. None of this sounds too appealing & most people find it hard enough to want to take some time to restrict their diet to do a cleanse.

If you have health problems, or are on prescription medicine you should consult your doctor before attempting any cleansing. Do not cleanse during pregnancy or nursing.

What I recommend is gentle daily cleansing, which can be done for several months, or years at a time just through the use of a custom blended tincture to cleanse the body systems which are most toxic. This could involve candida cleansing, liver cleansing, bowel cleansing, cleansing the kidneys, lymphatics or any other major organ or body system.

Why should I do a cleanse or fast?

You want to clean toxic materials from your body to improve your health & improve any current ailments at the root cause.

Doing a cleanse, or eating a mainly raw food diet, or even eating a 100% whole food diet, plus bowel cleansing will do a lot to address ANY health problems you may have, whether these are physical or emotional.

More on how to design your own cleanse for safe gently cleansing of the body systems in a few days.

If you'd like to learn more about medicinal uses of herbs to use on yourself, friend, family, pets, or clients, take my 8 month distance learning herbalist course. Course work is posted on my forum. Much more info on my website. 

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Or sign up her for the 8 month herbal, other herbal workshops held online, and reiki & chakra healing workshops:

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THE BASIS FOR GOOD HEALTH

Some aspects of getting yourself healthy that I teach in my herbalist course are: 1. Taking responsibility for your own health. Which is why I TEACH and don't work with clients. CLIENTS COME TO YOU FOR RELIEF OF SYMPTOMS, STUDENTS COME TO YOU TO CHANGE THEIR LIFE. BECAUSE DRAGONFLY BRINGS TRANSFORMATION, THAT IS MY GOAL, TO EMPOWER YOU TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE, TO BRING ABOUT PHYSICAL HEALING, EMOTIONAL HEALING & SPIRITUAL HEALING, TO OPEN YOU UP TO CLARITY ABOUT YOUR PATH IN LIFE & WHAT YOU WISH TO MANIFEST FOR YOURSELF, .......AND WHAT YOU WISH TO LET GO OF. FOR THIS REASON I NO LONGER WORK WITH CLIENTS OR ANSWER HEALTH QUESTIONS, IF YOU TRULY WANT TO MAKE LASTING CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE I OFFER MANY COURSES TO EMPOWER YOU TO MAKE YOUR OWN CHANGES I know this can actually be quite difficult. But during 8 months of the herbalist course I just teach bits of information to do with taking charge of your own health & as you go along you get really comfortable with changes you want to make & what will suit your constitution. 2. Good nutrition Good nutrition is needed for the basis of getting over any ill health & for PREVENTION is illness. I teach a lot about prevention of illness in first place and about using good nutrition as a base for getting your body healthy. Although you can still continue with bad eating habits & bad lifestyles & have the herbs work to assisting your body, if you truly want to feel great & have good energy, a clear mind & clean body you need to eat well too. If you are continually putting poisons (which many people call their food) into your body you will not have good health. I am 90% raw vegan. I teach not only how to move your diet towards raw & vegan, but also the steps in between, everywhere from letting go of junk food & sugar, meat, to leaning towards being vegetarian, to adding more raw food to your diet. As you begin to take steps towards getting non nutritious foods out of your diet & eating good whole living foods you begin to feel better & begin to crave more nutritious foods. 3. Cleansing the body I also believe  in cleansing the body. I do NOT recommend store bought cleanses. In accelerating the removal of toxins from the body you can move towards better health. You need to cleanse the body in order to get your body working correctly tone & build your body systems. You need to have cleaner bowels & a healthy liver & a properly working digestive system in order to feel well. More on this in my next blog. I do have my Cleansing Workshop available in printed form as a download on my website. If you'd like to learn more about medicinal uses of herbs to use on yourself, friend, family, pets, or clients, take my 8 month distance learning herbalist course. Course work is posted on my forum. Much more info on my website.  www.dragonflyherbals.com  Or sign up her for the 8 month herbal, other herbal workshops held online, and reiki & chakra healing workshops: http://dragonflyherbals.proboards.com/index.cgi

Wild harvesting plants, part 4 - last part

Harvesting your own wild herbs and weeds can ensure that your herbs are fresher, richer in nutrients, and best of all, free from cost. By harvesting your own herbs you begin to learn things about the plants that help you to remember what they are useful for and get to know more about each plant. You will get to know the plant’s life cycle, the texture, shape of the leaves, the flowers, the scent of the plant, and where it grows, as you learn when and how to harvest the parts.

I prefer to use wild herbs whenever possible for myself and my animals. I use them for my infusions, tinctures, and raw in juices.

I have lots of the plants growing in my yard, by sprinkling some seeds collected in the fall you can get some plants to establish themselves in an area of your yard that you leave as ‘natural’. They don’t require watering or special soil. Usually once they establish you’ve got them forever.

I have plantain, dandelion, burdock, nettles, douglas fir, alder, aspen, thuja, violets, red clover, chickweed, st. john’s wort, barberry, salal, mullein, hawthorne, horsetail, probably about 40 different local medicinal plants.

HARVESTING HERBS:

These are the 2 most important points:

Be 100% sure of what you are harvesting, it might be best to just observe a plant throughout the growing season, see the flowers & seeds, this will help in identifying it.

Take only what you need, scatter harvesting, leave 80% of plant behind. Learn to harvest ethically, don’t pull up the whole plant if you only need the leaves. Don’t harvest the root if the leaves will do fine. Pick a little bit over a wide range of area.

Learning some basic botany will help too. Botany in a Day is a book that helps you distinguish between groupings of plants, and understand terms used in botany.

Just because you see a bird eating it, it is not safe for human consumption! In Texas I have seen a Mockingbird gobble back a whole bunch of red berries off a Poke plant. We can use Poke medicinally, but this needs to be done with knowledge & safety. Eating the berries in the wrong way can cause death.

Don’t harvest by roadside. Exhaust from vehicles will be on the plants.

I no longer tell others where I harvest because several times people have gone & taken all most all of the herb & it doesn’t grow there any more.

You may notice a difference in latin name between herbs in your herbs books & local ones. Get a local book on edible & medicinal herbs too

In the fall the energy of the plant moves down into the roots, that is the time to harvest roots: dandelion, comfrey. Harvest seeds when ripe.

Dry your plants in loose bundles, in the dark, where air circulates, not in direct heat.

Keep your leaves & plants as whole as possible to store them, crushing or grinding exposes them to air & breaks down constituents.

In the spring the energy of the plant moves up into the leaves, make spring infusions to get vitamins, minerals & chlorophyll after the winter. This is a great time to make spring infusions, either use the plants just in cold water, or in hot to make an infusion.

Tea tumblers like this are great for spring infusions. They are made of glass, and have a strainer in the top, so you can stuff the herbs in, pour hot or cold water over it and sip at it, the herbs stay in the lower part.

If you'd like to learn more about medicinal uses of herbs to use on yourself, friend, family, pets, or clients, take my 8 month distance learning herbalist course. Course work is posted on my forum. Much more info on my website. 

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Or sign up her for the 8 month herbal, other herbal workshops held online, and reiki & chakra healing workshops:

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JANUARY WALK IN THE WOODS, part 4 of 4

This is Oregon Grape, it grows everywhere here. I use the roots for tincturing for liver toning. And the berries are really tart, great for eating if you are on a long walk & thirsty.

Pearly Everlasting. I haven't used this plant too much, it can be useful for allergies, and lung & throat problems. It doesn't smell like much either. Its flowers already feel dried when still on the plant, that's why it is called 'everlasting'. I am just trying some in my herb infusion this morning.

Salal grows everywhere here. I love its zigzag branches. Just discovered it works quite well in infusions for

irritated bladder, or a slight infection of the bladder. Doesn't taste like much. Seems to work really well. The

berries taste really good, they aren't too juicy & tend to dry out after reaching their peak. One of my students 

noticed they have an immediate effect on soothing her kidneys. So I've used the leaves in an infusion for 

soothing the kidneys as well.

Snowberry

Squirrel at the feeder. We have 3 squirrels that come to the feed, which keeps my dogs busy.

St. John's wort in winter.

Tansy flower in winter. This plant has really interesting flat yellow disks for flowers.

Towhee on the cherry tree by the feeder. These guys nest near us every year, so we have had more & more over the years. We still have an Anna's hummingbird a the feeder too.

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Free Sample from my Chakra Course Lesson 2: THE ROOT CHAKRA

My Chakra course is 9 lessons long. 

I am offering 

Lesson 2: THE ROOT CHAKRA 

as a free sample on my forum.

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CHAKRA	FUNCTION
1. Root Chakra	Elimination
2. Sacral Chakra	Assimilation
3. Solar Plexus Chakra	Digestion/metabolism
4. Heart Chakra	Circulation
5. Throat Chakra	Respiration
6. Third Eye Chakra	Inner sound
7. Crown Chakra	Nervous system/inner light

Lesson 1 is an overview of the chakra, how to use a pendulum to determine size, shape & spin & loads of other information.

Lesson 2 - 8 go through each chakra one at a time: ROOT, SACRAL, SOLAR PLEXUS, HEART & HIGH HEART, THROAT, THIRD EYE & CROWN.

Lesson 9 ties it all together by using a medicine wheel to give you an overview of your chakras & what needs working on. It also discusses the chakras above the crown.

Working through the chakras one a time is

A PATH TO SELF HEALING & EMPOWERING YOU TO HEAL YOURSELF ON A PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL & SPIRITUAL LEVEL BY USING REIKI, CHAKRA BALANCING, CRYSTALS,  & JOURNAL WORK.

Although reiki is used, this course could be done without it.


The purpose of the chakra course is to clear ourselves physically, emotionally & spiritually step by step working with one chakra at a time.

I find this to be quite powerful, having worked through this course with my students a number of times.


We do clearing with each level of reiki, but this helps to break it down into clearing each specific chakra & seems to have a huge impact on personal growth & clearing.

You will learn to:

•       Release what no longer serves you

•       Learn to bring about positive change, to learn that you create your own reality

•       Learn to manifest what you wish to bring into your life

•       Empower yourself with tools to bring about your own healing

This will be accomplished by giving you skills for physical, emotional & spiritual growth:

•       SPIRITUAL HEALING: by using your reiki skills & intentions to heal each chakra one by one

•       EMOTIONAL HEALING: with each lesson after that we will focus on one chakra, doing healing & balancing of that chakra & journal work

•       PHYSICAL HEALING: healing the chakra’s also brings about physical healing, we identify physical ailments associated with each chakra so you can focus on them & work towards healing them

I will ask that my students have enough personal time available for each lesson to:

• •             Do reiki on yourself daily
• •             journal work for the chakra we learned about
• ·             Taking time to share information & insights on the forum

In order to bring about change in your life, you must be willing to DO THE WORK, which means making a commitment to do the work involved with each lesson

You will learn to:

•       Release what no longer serves you

•       Learn to bring about positive change, to learn that you create your own reality

•       Learn to manifest what you wish to bring into your life

•       Empower you with tools to bring about your own healing

Access to the Root Chakra lesson is found here:

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