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Thanks!

Our main trees here are oaks and "cedar" which are really 
Juniperus asheii. I used to take shots for four years 
which was expensive, painful, and time consuming. Now I 
just swallow one fresh berry each week with a glass of 
water just like a pill from September through cedar fever 
season, sometime around February and I am absolutely fine. 
Although I don't chew them they seem to taste sweeter as 
the months go by. I had a friend that chewed one up each 
week and had the same effective response. I do not know if 
it will work with dried berries. My thought is this is not 
much different than homeopathics, or the shots, where you 
introducing a small amount of the culprit and are giving 
your body a way to build up antigens.

Also, for arthritis pain...do you have Broomweed available 
to you? It grows like a weed around here and I make a tea 
and bath with it to alleviate muscle pain. It helps about 
80% of all people and is rather pleasant tasting. The 
Hispanics cal it Escoba de la Vibora or Snake weed 
(Gutierrezia spp.) I pick the entire plant while blooming 
and hang it upside down to dry, then chop it up in an old 
food processor.

As for mosquitos, we have one of the biggest bat 
populations in the world. But we have native Horsemint 
(Monarda or Bee Balm) blooming in the summer and just 
break off a piece and rub that on our skin and they stay 
away.

--Sage

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:40:50 -0700 (PDT)
 Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Really? I did not realize you could just eat them like 
> that.
> I have all kinds of allergies, and they are just getting 
> worse.
> There is a hotel in town that is landscaped with 
> junipers.  Everytime I
> pass by there, I park and collect berries.  I have about 
> a quart of
> dried berries.   People think I am nuts.  I actually 
> have never used
> them, but I know they are potent medicine.  I had a 
> cream once, made of
> cucumbers and juniper berries that kept mosquitoes 
> away.  No one knows
> what is in Skin So Soft, but my guess would be juniper 
> berries.
> If this in any way might help my allergies, I'll do it 
> in a heartbeat.
> I'll check the bushes while I am in town.   Who knows, 
> perhaps it will
> help with my swollen fingers, too.  Thanks Sage, and 
> although I did not
> say it in the other thread, I am amazed at what you guys 
> are doing out
> there.  Great going...
>
> Akka
>
> eureka AT hctc.net wrote:
> > That's probably it. I start about now swallowing whole 
> > juniper
> > berries once a week so that I don't get "cedar fever" in 
> > the winter.
> > It sure beats shots and is absolutely free. Only they 
> > are harder to
> > find after a drought.
>
>
>
>      
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