Ulcers and Dairy
Saturday March 18th 2006, 8:54 am
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By Djehuty Ma’at-Ra
What is an ulcer? Basically, an ulcer is an external or internal sore or lesion that is a sign of necrosis (death of the tissues at a cellular level). Most ulcers that plague people are called “gastric” ulcers which are internal in
nature. However, there are several kinds of ulcers and they include: decubitus ulcer, peptic ulcer, serpent ulcer, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcers, ulcerative colitis, bed sore, and canker sore (herpes).
Internal ulcers usually occur on the mucous membranes (the internal skin) in the gastrointestinal tract.
Peptic ulcers occur where the lining of the stomach have been eroded away due to extreme acidosis. Like peptic ulcers, duodenal ulcers, gastric ulcers, and ulcerative colitis occur in the digestive tract or gastrointestinal tract. However, gastric ulcers in the stomach are the most common ulcers.
The symptoms of internal ulcers include inflammation (chronic burning), stomach pain, and bleeding (from the rectum). Internal ulcers are the result of ACID, too much acid in the body. And where does this acid come from? Answer: degenerate diet and lifestyle!
Eating meat, dairy, and starches all contribute to acidosis, for meat converts into URIC ACID, dairy converts into LACTIC ACID, and STARCH converts into CARBONIC ACID.
And lets not forget about the acidic beverages Americans greatly consume which plays a major role in acidosis – soda pop (which has a pH of 2 – GREATLY ACIDIC!), orange juice (processed and boxed); milk, Kool Aid; coffee and hot cocoa, various fruit punches, beer (devil’s brew), wine and other spirits to name a few.
And then there’s stress! Stress makes the body acidic. Stress is very detrimental to human health, but many people are under it due to being misaligned or disconnected with God, Nature and the Universe predicated upon finances (the lack thereof), job insecurity and/or unhappiness, marital/relationship problems, living a lie or chronic lying; debt (credit cards, behind on the home mortgage or car note, etc.); living unrighteous (fornicating, adultery, scheming, stealing, etc.), legal situations and litigation (usually as the defendant); and unemployment to list just a few of the things that causes stress.
You see, when you have to digest or process so much stuff in life, it usually results in digestive problems, that’s why gastric ulcers are the most common form of ulcers.
Stress creates too much acid in the body. Stress and a very poor diet will undoubtedly lead to stomach or digestive problems and many times this will lead to headaches, bilious or migraine headaches. And what do most people take for headaches? Answer: drugs in the form of aspirin. Aspirin converts into ascetic acid and literally eats up your red blood corpuscles (just like white vinegar does). Aspirin is so caustic on the internal lining in the stomach and digestive tract that it literally burns a hole in the lining of the digestive tract causing gastric ulcers which eventually leads to internal bleeding which many times is manifested in blood in the stools.
And eating and drinking acidic things does not help the situation, but only exacerbates the situation. This is why people with “acid reflux” usually are prescribed “antacids.” An antacid is an “anti” acid or that which counteracts acid. And what counteracts acid? Answer: ALKALINITY! Although the antacids are alkaline in nature, they break down into the body as acids and further the problem. Antacids only “mask” the problem (acidosis, ulcers), but does not heal the problem.
So now we have an idea of what causes ulcers, what can be used to heal ulcers?
Healing ulcers naturally
The best remedy for healing ulcers, especially gastric (stomach) ulcers is a diet rich in natural green foods – eating plenty of green cruciferous vegetables and drinking vegetable juice daily or as often as possible. Green foods are very healing! Parsley, kale, spinach, broccoli, cilantro, Roamine and green lettuce, watercress, asparagus, etc. are some of the best green foods available. And remember, green foods are naturally antacid without any adverse or negative side effects such as Tums or Rolaids and other OTC (over the counter) drugs.
Cabbage juice is probably the best instant healing remedy for ulcers. I usually tell people suffering from ulcers to drink 2-4 ounces of cabbage juice daily.
One day Stevie Wonder called me and asked me to help a friend in dire need of help and healing from ulcers. Stevie’s friend was in Philadelphia, PA, a very long distance from California and needed help right away. I told the person to overdose on cabbage juice and watch the instant results. Two weeks went by and then I received a call from this person who was so elated and grateful and who told me the cabbage juice regimen worked wonders. His ulcer problem was gone! I told him to stay on that drink for preventative measures and to keep eating raw and green as long as he could.
Aloe vera juice is also excellent for healing of ulcers. Two ounces of aloe vera juice should be added to each glass of drinking water. Aloe vera is very soothing to internal sores (ulcers) and also helps to stop internal bleeding.
The herbs White Oak Bark, Witch Hazel Bark, Goldenseal Root, Cranesbill (Alum Root), Shepherd’s Purse, Solomon’s Seal, Dragon’s Blood, Cayenne Pepper, and Manjistha help to stop internal bleeding, especially when used in combination with each other. However, Cayenne may cause irritation due to its natural heating effect and therefore should be used sparingly.
The herbs White and Black Willow Bark, Meadowsweet, Birch, Peppermint, Wintergreen, Spearmint, and Balm of Gilead can be used (as a tea) in place of anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin.
Stress reduction and elimination are mandatory in healing ulcers. The herbs Kava Kava, Valerian Root, Chamomile, Jatamansi, Blue Vervain, Lavender Flower and Passionflower are great nervine herbs that help in stress reduction and elimination.
Yoga/deep breathing exercises, transcendental meditation, crystal therapy, positive thinking, aromatherapy (essential oils of Lavender, Bergamot, Neroli, Valerian, and Davana); Tai Chi, massage therapy, colon therapy, relaxation, deep sleep, living righteously and standing on and for truth can all help to reduce or eliminate stress – Guaranteed!
DHERBS.Com provides five formulas that can physically help an ulcer sufferer. Our Ulcer Buster formula, Nervine formula, Bio-Salicin (Headache & Pain) formula, Digest-Aid, and Electric Greens Cell Food formula used during a short duration (in conjunction with a green foods diet and cabbage juice therapy) can help an ulcer sufferer rid him/her self of ulcers in a matter of days.
Ulcers are a degenerative disease which means they are a preventable and reversible disease and can be prevented or reversed through proper diet and lifestyle.
This health article is compliments of www.DHERBS.Com and Djehuty Ma’at-Ra, The People’s Herbalist
Migraines Retreat With Diet Modifications
Friday March 17th 2006, 8:00 am
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Disease
By Alisa Fleming
The research is clear, food intolerance, allergies, and hypersensitivities are key triggers of headaches and migraines. Although each migraine sufferer may react to a different food or group of foods, there are a few which seem to pop up as frequent offenders: dairy (including milk, cheeses, and yogurt), wheat, eggs, soy, corn, citrus, chocolate, coffee, beef, yeast, red wine, and processed foods with additives and preservatives.
In the pursuit to identify these top offenders, scientists and physicians have enlisted the oligoantigenic diet. This is a hypoallergenic “elimination” diet, consisting of a selection of foods that are presumably well tolerated. During their studies, patients are told to eat only the “safe” foods outlined on their version of the oligonantigenic diet in an effort to eliminate any symptoms. Once the symptoms have gone into remission, the “high risk” foods are re-introduced into the diet one at a time to assess their potential trigger effect on symptoms. This type of diet should be undertaken with the assistance of a physician, in order to ensure adequate nutritional intake. In each of the 3 case studies listed below, some form of an oligoantigenic diet was used:
- 60 migraine patients followed an elimination diet after a 5-day withdrawal from their normal diet. Upon reintroduction, specific foods elicited migraine reactions in a significant percentage of patients: wheat (78%), oranges (65%), eggs (45%), tea and coffee (40% each), chocolate and milk (37% each), beef (35%), and corn, cane sugar, and yeast (33% each). When an average of ten common trigger foods were avoided, there was a dramatic decline in the number of headaches per month and 85% of patients actually became headache-free! As science would have it, an added benefit was welcomed by the 25% of these patients who also had hypertension – their blood pressure returned to normal levels.
- In a clinical trial 93% of 88 children who suffered frequent and severe migraines recovered on oligoantigentic diets. Most of the patients responded to several foods, which suggested the probability of an allergic rather than a metabolic cause. An added bonus… abdominal pain, behavior disorder, fits, asthma, and eczema also improved in several of these patients.
- A research study trialed an oligoantigenic diet on 63 children with epilepsy, 45 of which also suffered from migraines, hyperkinetic behavior, or both. The 18 children who had epilepsy alone saw no improvement on the oligoantigenic diet. However, of the 45 children with additional symptoms, 25 ceased to have seizures and 11 had fewer seizures while on this diet. Migraines, abdominal pain, and hyperkinetic behavior halted in the 25 children who stopped having seizures, and also in some of those who did not stop having seizures. Reintroduction of foods one by one confirmed that the seizures, migraines, hyperkinetic activity, and abdominal pain these children were experiencing related to 42 different “trigger” foods.
So why do so many people suffer from migraines and other headaches when they consume these foods? The medical community is getting closer to an answer. Researchers in Germany have discovered a genetic mutation responsible for the “faulty wiring” and the subsequent pain. Although clinical scientists have known for a while that migraines are hereditary, the exact “defect” being passed on was previously unknown.
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Hepatitis and the Dairy Link
Thursday March 16th 2006, 8:00 am
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By Djehuty Ma’at-Ra
Hepatitis is an inflammatory condition of the liver. Hepa is Latin for “liver” and the English suffix “itis” means inflammation. Hepatitis is characterized by other pathologies such as jaundice, abdominal and gastric discomfort, hepatomegaly, and dark urine (which is a sign of severe acidosis).
What causes hepatitis? Answer: Toxemia! When an organ like the liver becomes overly toxic, it becomes inflamed and the inflammation causes the organ to enlarge.
The liver is one of the body’s five eliminative channels (or six eliminative channels if you’re a woman). It is the major filtering organ in the body and performs over 500 functions. And because the liver secretes certain substances, it is also a gland. All toxins are first counteracted or attacked by the liver. The liver does a great job of fighting toxicity until it gets overwhelmed and allows less toxic substances to slip through into the body via the blood while it fights the most deadly toxins in a Divine gesture to save the host body.
Certain toxins such as cigarette smoke, alcohol/beer/wine, pharmaceutical drugs, so-called Vitamin C, illegal drugs (cocaine, heroin, PCP, etc.), birth control pills, car exhaust and fumes, carbon monoxide, household cleaning supplies chemicals, and cosmetic and hygiene product chemicals greatly sabotage the health of the liver. These things make the liver work harder and overtime.
And let’s not forget about the toxins from the SAD (Standard American Diet). Meats are heavily saturated with toxins including cancer causing sodium nitrate and nitrites, synthetic female hormones, and chemical dyes. Dairy products contain cow feces and synthetic female hormones.
Meat (slaughtered animal flesh), dairy (cow snot/mucus/pus), and starch (stiffening agent) create acids that cause inflammation throughout the body and which in turn causes the excess production of mucus in the body.
The liver is the body’s first line of defense. This is why it is imperative that the liver remain healthy. You cannot live and experience optimal health without a clean and well functioning liver. In fact, if you remove the letter “R” from the word “liver”, what new word do you now have? Answer: L-I-V-E!!!
Hepatitis is nothing but a man-made medical term to describe a problem of the liver. And nowadays, there are variations of this disease with alphabets attached to the ending of the word, such as hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C, all of which are alleged viruses. And what does the word “virus” really mean? Answer: poison! So to Djehuty, hepatitis is nothing but a joke, for I know that hepatitis means that there is mucus obstructing the liver and at the same time there is plethora of toxins saturated in the liver. In a nutshell, this is what hepatitis is.
And God forbid a person is that naïve or ignorant to accept a hepatitis vaccine shot in order to allegedly help fight hepatitis because the hepatitis vaccine itself is laced with toxins or poisons. Therefore, a hepatitis vaccination or inoculation defeats the whole purpose.
It is also important that I mention that a toxic liver can play a role in depression (bipolar disorder) if not outright be the cause of depression. Ever heard of the term “melancholy”? Melancholy is two words: “melan” and “choly.” Melan = “black” and “choly” = bile. Melancholy means black bile. Bile is originally green and very alkaline and is produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder and released into the digestive tract to neutralize acids. However, black bile is acidic and is stored in the Fourth Brain of the body which is located at the Third Chakra (sometimes referred to as the Fourth Chakra) called the Solar Plexus located at the belly above the belly button (navel). The Fourth Brain (Solar Plexus) is your “feeling” brain, which explains that “gut” feeling or “butterflies in the stomach” sensation/feeling you experience from time to time. If the Fourth Brain is impaired, so are the other three brains located in the head where the nervous system headquarters is located. The human body is truly interconnected and wholistic.
An important note on bile – dark-green colored stools/feces sunk at the bottom of the toilet is not a good or healthy sign. People suffering from depression are very acidic (toxic) individuals.
Liver transplants? Why you would have to be out of your mind to even consider such process and operation. How is removing one person’s toxic liver and giving it to another person going to help a person? Outright insanity! Removing one toxic liver and then replacing it with another toxic liver! Sheer medical insanity! Poor former NFL player and Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton! He didn’t have to die. Payton allegedly died of a unique liver disease. However, in all actuality, Payton died of ignorance to the truth (there’s healing for every disease known to man).
Liver transplanting is big business nowadays. They are totally unnecessary when you have knowledge of the voluminous amounts of natural hepatic (pertaining to the liver) herbs in Nature.
Liver transplanting is big business nowadays. They are totally unnecessary when you have knowledge of the voluminous amounts of natural hepatic (pertaining to the liver) herbs in Nature.
Healing hepatitis naturally
Excellent hepatic or liver herbs include: Milk Thistle seeds, Dandelion Root, Boldo leaves, Artichoke, Turmeric, Oregon Grape, Barberry, Goldenseal root, Bupleurem, Gentian, Fenugreek seed, Chanca Piedra, Fringetree bark, Wahoo bark, Liverwort, Blue Flag, White Peony, Celadine, Agrimony, and Quassia Chips to name a few. By far, the three (3) best herbs for the liver are Milk Thistle seeds, Dandelion root, and Boldo leaves. Milk Thistle seeds is the equivalent of taking the liver out of the body and washing it in a washing machine.
Many individuals are consuming synthetic Vitamin C today which provides absolutely NO Vitamin C or other nutrients. In fact, most Vitamin C sold commercially and conventionally is nothing but ascorbic acid made in a laboratory and consuming this particular Vitamin C will greatly toxify and tax your liver. Real Vitamin C is found in Nature (Rose Hip seeds, Hibiscus flower, Acerola cherry, Camu fruit, Alma fruit, Capsicum fruit, etc.).
Question: if your Vitamin C is derived from Ascorbic Acid, where is the Ascorbic Acid derived from? God does not make pure mono-structured ascorbic acid. But man does and here lies your problem.
Coffee enema
The coffee enema works wonders for the liver. It can be performed once a month. Coffee (organic, of course) makes the liver dump off toxins like a dump trunk. This process is one of the best healing methods for a toxic liver. Worried about caffeine? Well, when coffee is administered through the rectum, caffeine is not absorbed in the body. Caffeine is only absorbed when coffee is drunk via the mouth. Singer Janet Jackson performs coffee enemas. Janet knows something very beneficial about coffee enemas. Also, coffee enemas are great for overcoming hangovers and migraine headaches.
Castor oil pack
The castor oil pack process is one of my favorite liver cleansing methods. You apply castor oil on your liver (externally, of course) and then put a piece of plastic over it (gets very sticky) and then you place a hot pack over it and let it sit for about two (2) hours. This process is performed lying down and under a towel or some newspaper as the oil will slide down on the side of the body. The castor oil pack process can also be performed monthly or every 3-4 months.
Activated Charcoal (Carbon)
Carbon or Activated Charcoal is the best substance on Planet Earth that we have right now that cleanses the body in general and the liver in particular of toxins. Carbon is some very powerful stuff! It is very alkaline and neutralizes toxins, heavy metals, and harmful gases 2,000 times its own weight. This is why we include Carbon in our Full Body Detoxification Kit. The Kit would be incomplete without it.
Olive and Castor Oil
Olive oil lubricates and purifies the liver and helps dissolve hardened calculi (stones) such as kidney, bladder, and gallstones. A tablespoon of olive oil can be consumed daily or as needed. Castor oil performs the same function as olive oil but is also anthelmintic (anti-parasitic) in nature as castor oil suffocates worms and parasite in the colon and liver.
Fasting
Fasting is also a good choice and method for cleansing the liver. Fasting purifies the bloodstream which in turn purifies all the organs in the body, especially the eliminative organs (colon, liver, kidneys, lungs and skin).
In closing, the liver is an organ that is naturally saturated with toxins due to the voluminous amounts of poison/toxins we consume daily. The liver always contains filth. Mothers, do you understand now why children don’t or didn’t like eating liver for dinner? As a little boy, I hated eating liver and really never ate it. When you eat an animal’s liver, you’re eating the most toxic part of the animal.
And beware of all these liver products on the market at health food stores. My little brother was taking some liver cleansing pills back in the mid 1990s that were derived from bovine (cow, ox). He didn’t have a clue until I read the bottle. The major ingredient of this particular liver product was “bovine liver.” Now how can consuming a cow’s liver clean your human liver? Sheer insanity and asininity! And my little brother paid more than $60 dollars for that crap.
There are plenty of natural things and processes that can help a person to heal 100% from hepatitis, mainly herbs. My good friend Bro. Sheik Mamoud Bey told me a few months ago how a good friend of his who had hepatitis whom he gave a Full Body Detox to and who completed the three week process and regimen and went back to the doctor for a checkup and was told by the doctor that his hepatitis was gone. I have helped many people with so-called hepatitis with either the Full Body Detox or our Liver-Gallbladder-Spleen formula and Vitamin C Combo formula. So I’m saying on the record and to the American public that hepatitis (A, B, and C) is easy to be healed from with herbs and diet modification.
Do you know why actor/comedian George Burns could smoke cigars and drink alcohol and still live to be 100 years of age? Answer: because in addition to laughing (which is great medicine), he cleaned his liver and colon almost every single weekend with liver cleansing herbs and by performing high colonics (now called “colonics”) and enemas. The man was smart (in this respect) and knew something the average person didn’t know. However, what George Burns knew and applied, I just divulged in this brief article.
Thank you for reading!
This article is compliments of www.DHERBS.Com and Djehuty Ma’at-Ra, the People’s Herbalist