Alternative Medicine: The Real Deal
Rick London
I "had it all" in 1978. I was handsome, I worked out. I ran marathons, I was mastering the martial arts. I owned my own health food store in a part of the country that didn't have many of them (rural Mississippi); and I could pass for a movie star. Women were all over me. My life was a disaster.
I ran five to ten miles a day. I had a successful business. I read all the books on vitamins, minerals, herbs, became a vegetarian, and everything one can do to be "superhuman". I was in a deep depression and after each marathon would become very ill for months; a feeling that could only be described as to how I've heard mononucleosis described.
I learned from whom I thought were the best literary health masters in the world, from top health food salespersons, and any workshop I could attend. I drank only spring water. I was dying inside.
Many years went by before I suffered a major heart attack and was at death's door. This time, I had an extra tool. The Internet. I told myself (in the hospital) "Rick, if you recover from this, you are really going to discover what is real and what is not about health foods and nutrition."
What I would discover in my research astounds me until this day. How could I have been so wrong? How could I have been a misled lemming on my way off a cliff? If it could happen to me, it could happen to anyone. Even a so-called "master".
I found that most "health experts" are no more expert than you or me. They go with what is popular and what sells. There are but a very few, and they are not well-known who really know the score.
One bit of relief is that the raw foods part was a good thing early on. And still is.
As far as herbs. I might as well have been eating junk. I had no idea most of them derived from third world countries, sprayed with dysentery-infected water, causing more harm than good.
Many were not even wildcrafted much less certified organic (though the company names had the word "organic" and "natural" on them as a ploy. And the ploy works.
Buying herbs in tablet or capsule form is a total waste of money and is unethical to sell. The seller doesn't know that because he/she has been educated to think it is doing someone some good. It is not helping anyone but the grower.
Tinctures are the real medicinal herbs; at least 1:2 ratio but preferably 1:1; that means one part herb to one part of whatever else is in the potion. And it is best that they are grown in western countries, or at least countries that have regulatory rules and regulations as to how the herbs are raised. Otherwise, one is bound to get something that has been infected with something in the growth process.
And as this was not information-overload, even the finest herbal tincture cannot get to the diseased organ(s) without the help of cayenne tincture (the hotter the better...I take 200,000 heat units mixed with every other herb). Cayenne, in addition to having healing powers of its own, acts as "a taxi herb" taking other herbs immediately to the diseased organ or organs, so very little is wasted.
Enough about herbs. How about vitamins and minerals. For the most part, a waste of time, whether organic or Flintstones.
Flash dried fruits and vegetables with live enzymes is what the body craves, what "sparks" life. There are only a few companies out there that use a process called "flash glancing". This leaves us with a live food enzyme that is the "spark of life". Without it, your toilet wins out in the vitamin mineral game.
I'm bound to make enemies, create naysayers, and other ill-will. But if this valuable information sinks in to just one person, does it really matter what someone else thinks of me and my discoveries? As long as one person who was misguided like me now has a chance at a healthy life, why not take the chance and say it. There, I just did.
People often ask which tinctures I prefer. If I had to pick any two they would be cayenne and cat's claw (una de gato) which I take daily. There is a rare form of Cat's Claw known as Samento that is 1000 times stronger than regular cat's claw. I prefer it. It is also known as TOA-Free Cat's Claw. I think you'll see the difference. As an immune booster, Echinicea, Ginseng, Pau D' Arco, and the rest don't hold a candle to cat's claw or it's more potent form Samento. I like a lot of the medicinal mushroom tinctures, hawthorn berry (for the heart) and ginkgo (which is amazing when taken with cayenne), only mediocre at best when taken alone.
May you live in great health.
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